Diablo IV · DIGIT-ARC

Hi guys !

Hope everyone is doing good. Just watched an album and couldn’t resist to come here after a long time.

Diablo 4 - all artbook pages

Looking at it , blizzard is really moving to this art style that Diablo series needed badly. So excited right now

Hyped again !!!!!

Free to watch blizzcon opening ceremony tonight 11:30 pm , it will be announced. Tomorrow more diablo panels are also free to watch.

Join Us At BlizzCon 2019

Looks dope.

Any news about estimate release date?

Watch blizzcon at 11:30 pm tonight, it will be annouced tonight itself.

Edit: link added to main post.

>blizzcon

Free Hong Kong.

Desmond David said:
>blizzcon

Free Hong Kong.

Yes they deserve all the hate and criticism but it's my beloved franchise, I'll see what they have to offer.

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What I was implying is that there is a very high probability that at least some form of protest will happen.

Lol I would love to see someone gives them a lesson like that Red guy last year. Though this time things are serious.

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Alok said:
Red guy last year

The "Off season April's fools joke" guy? I doubt anything like this will happen again, they probably will disallow any audience interaction. Especially because of the Free Hong Kong movement going on.

Check out the website, turn on the music, environment section gives me D2 vibes.

Diablo IV
Going open world this time

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Desmond David said:
The "Off season April's fools joke" guy? I doubt anything like this will happen again, they probably will disallow any audience interaction. Especially because of the Free Hong Kong movement going on.

First things on the stage was an apology. Good gesture.

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Only three characters? Perhaps there will be more in DLC. I also hope they don't do the always online bullshit that Diablo 3 did.

I doubt they'll let people ask questions. Maybe they'll send their own people to pose as crowd and ask. Risk is too high for them.

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Desmond David said:
Only three characters? Perhaps there will be more in DLC. I also hope they don't do the always online bullshit that Diablo 3 did.

Im sure game director said there are 5 classes to begin with. Three basic are being shown here.

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Alok said:
Im sure game director said there are 5 classes to begin with. Three basic are being shown here.

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Didn't Diablo 3 had 3 or 4? I guess they're aiming for more DLC this time around.

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thetechfreak said:
Didn't Diablo 3 had 3 or 4? I guess they're aiming for more DLC this time around.

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There were barb , wizard, Witch doctor, monk, demon hunter , total 5 in d3. They added necro, crusader latter.

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Monk was my favourite.

Edit: In other news - Protestors Rally Outside Blizzcon 2019 with 'Winnie the Pooh' Costumes

Path of Exile 4.0 announcement in 15 days. :boxing:

Official Announcement Cinematic Trailer

Gameplay Trailer

Hands-on Gameplay Impressions

Me while watching cinematic trailer :hyper:

Me while watching gameplay trailer :unsure:

Piyush said:
Me while watching cinematic trailer

Me while watching gameplay trailer

It's mostly like alpha, it might improve and change a lot before release. But overall vibe looks good. What I'm most happy about that those laser beams and Rocket launchers are gone alongwith vibrant colours.

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Live gameplay from Blizzcon:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1014761158881339

Well, I don't know what I expected - Diablo 4 will not have an offline mode, and the game is 'not coming anytime soon' | PC Gamer

Desmond David said:
Well, I don't know what I expected - Diablo 4 will not have an offline mode, and the game is 'not coming anytime soon' | PC Gamer

Even D3 does not have an offline mode. Game is expected to release late 2020 is what I read somewhere today. Reason being, they are developed for PS4 and Xbone both of which would go outdated within next 2-3 years due to their successors.

007 said:
Even D3 does not have an offline mode. Game is expected to release late 2020 is what I read somewhere today. Reason being, they are developed for PS4 and Xbone both of which would go outdated within next 2-3 years due to their successors.

Yes that's not an issue , I recently purchased eternal collection again for switch lite, it does have offline and controller scheme.

I heard Diablo IV will have controller support on PC from the get go which is absolutely necessary in modern games

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So just one more relevant panel left in this Blizzcon.

Diablo IV: Systems & Features
12:45 AM - 01:30 AM IST (tonight, Nov 3)
Now that Diablo IV has been Unveiled, get a deep dive into some of the Systems and Features that will be coming to the game.

I guess we won't get to know any tentative dates or anything further in this event.

Date I think would be around late 2021 looking at current condition of the game.

I'm still have some hope for a d2 remaster announcement which won't happen.

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Alok said:
I'm still have some hope for a d2 remaster announcement which won't happen.

I was having that hope until today. Now that they are going back to older days of being more grim, old skill points system, old classes - I think it may not happen. For now, I am ok as long as they don't kill the D2 servers where my characters are saved.

Alok said:
It's mostly like alpha, it might improve and change a lot before release. But overall vibe looks good. What I'm most happy about that those laser beams and Rocket launchers are gone alongwith vibrant colours.

Well it looks better than D3 thats for sure

Compilation of Q&As from the interviews with developers Joe Shely (Lead Game Designer) & David Kim (Lead Systems Designer)
Respective videos from their Twitch are linked below.

Questions from Quin69:
Q: Paragon?
A: We want something that feels meaningful if you hop and play for 15mins-1hour progression. Work in Progress.

Q: End game variety
A: Max level key dungeons (Have Ranks, Have Map mods affixes) will scale (similar to POE Map Mods, Mythic Plus in Wow)

Q: Itemization/Legendaries
A: Legendaries modify existing skills (reduce CDR on X) Teleport Reduced cooldown, Nova Happens Happens when you Teleport

Q: Transmog sets?
A: Considering it

Q: Solo Self Found
A: Not a mode, you can do it if you want (some bosses, world events are too hard mentioned from David Kim)

Q: Leaderboard for Keystone (GR)
A: Leaderboard not useful, so they are "still figuring it out" Focus instead on Seasonal Conquests

Q: Trading
A: No Auction House, Exploring Options, 3 Types of Items 1. Tradeable All times, Mats 2. Trade Once Then Bound 3. Never be Traded

Q: Crafting
A: Expanding, End game is modifying Items, Collecting Mats

Q: Seasons
A: Yes, Modifying the best items so Meta shifts

Q: New content/business Model
A: Expansions Confirmed

Q: Skills / Respec
A: No Respec Get tomes To Level up Skills (Unsure if capped on how many tomes)

Q: Monetization
A: Base Game / Expansions / Shop for cosmetics MTX

Q: Modify UI/DPS meters
A: Yes Modify keybinds, and Elective mode yes

Q: Bots/Cheating Thud
A: we take it seriously

Questions from Rhykker:
Q: HC Mode
A: Yes

Q: PVP
A: Specific PvP Areas : PvP Modes (No Esports Yet)

Q: Classes At Launch
A: 5 Classes (other 2 Unknown) New Classes W/Expansions

Q: Pay2Win?
A: We Wont Sell Power, But stash space and others

Q: Max Level?
A: 40 is Max as of now

Q: Party Size
A: 4, World Boss

Videos from Blizzcon. Most likely they will be taken down soon as these are supposed to be paid content for virtual ticket holders.

Diablo IV - Systems & Features

Diablo IV - World & Lore

Feature Overview - Official

007 said:
Even D3 does not have an offline mode. Game is expected to release late 2020 is what I read somewhere today. Reason being, they are developed for PS4 and Xbone both of which would go outdated within next 2-3 years due to their successors.

D3's offline mode was kind of cancer IMO, especially if you have an unstable connection and bad pings.

Rathma - Lore

New Gameplay Today - Druid

System Design in Diablo IV (Part I)

never played any Diablo game which game to start with?

pkkumarcool said:
never played any Diablo game which game to start with?

Diablo 1 though Diablo 2 is the best in the series IMO.

pkkumarcool said:
never played any Diablo game which game to start with?

This one for sure.

You can play Diablo 1's shareware version for free in the browser - DIABLO

For full version you will need the MPQ files from the full version.

007 said:
Rathma - Lore

A new leak confirms that the pale man in the Diablo 4 cinematic reveal trailer is, in fact, Rathma, son of Lilith.

Diablo IV Quarterly Update—February 2020

No Blizzcon this year. Cancelled.

Obviously. I wish they did an only only show though.

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New full quest videos for Barb, Sorc, Druid

Wow. Looks like a return to form for the Diablo series. Though would still like a Diablo 1 and 2 remaster.

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Desmond David said:
Wow. Looks like a return to form for the Diablo series. Though would still like a Diablo 1 and 2 remaster.

Here you go

- Diablo II: Resurrected

007 said:
Here you go - Diablo II: Resurrected

Yeah, have missed my Amazon for long time

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true_lies said:
Yeah, have missed my Amazon for long time

My "DeadlyShock" (Lightning Javazon) on Europe realm.
I started with Europe for no reason about 16+ years ago, so have all characters there.

*i.imgur.com/6ieRtge.png

007 said:
My "DeadlyShock" (Lightning Javazon) on Europe realm.
I started with Europe for no reason about 16+ years ago, so have all characters there.

*i.imgur.com/6ieRtge.png

Wow. Those are a lot of charms. I have Diablo 2 and LoD in my Battle dot net library. I used to play PvE but haven't done in a long time.

Rogue Gameplay

007 said:
Rogue Gameplay

This actually looks much better than Diablo 3. Diablo 3 looks a bit too cartoonish IMO.

*thegamespoof.com/gaming-news/diablo-4-will-have-5-regions-and-150-dungeons/

The developers promise a very dark world

And I expect nothing less.

Really like the dark and gritty tone. Looks a like a proper sequel to Diablo 2.

Diablo IV Collector's Edition confirmed via WoW patch leak. Owners of D4 CE will receive Amalgam of Rage mount in WoW.

*www.icy-veins.com/forums/uploads/monthly_2022_04/wowtools.png.ab6ab55aeef6a1af81aad73a4d2cfb7d.png

Source

Beta pre-registration now available for interested folks.

*i.imgur.com/PG1wLM1.png

*diablo4.blizzard.com/en-us/

*www.pcgamesn.com/diablo-4/in-game-store

I have played little bit of diablo but dont know what it is all about.

pkkumarcool said:
I have played little bit of diablo but dont know what it is all about.

The lore is pretty deep, so it's hard to explain here. Perhaps you should watch some youtube video that explains the lore.

Edit: Try this - *www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVYLtmv1QtGfyfDLnjypehVL7oGMisLrs

007 said:
*www.pcgamesn.com/diablo-4/in-game-store

*www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-promises-diablo-4-wont-be-monetized-like-diablo-immortal/

Damage control

Necro joins the camp!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1536393379474554883

007 said:
Necro joins the camp!

Think there should be a military type character as well, like the Paladin and Crusader. Could be the Templar in a future DLC, seeing how D2 and D3 launched with 5 characters and added 2 more later in DLCs

Necro cinematic trailer

007 said:
*www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-promises-diablo-4-wont-be-monetized-like-diablo-immortal/

Damage control

Diablo Immortal is such a ****show right now I think this is logical. Also, let's not forget the auction house fiasco in Diablo 3.

I just accidentally noticed D4 listing in the PS store and it said "Just Announced". Not sure if it has been there for a while or it was just listed. Could not find a D4 listing on the regular PC Battle.net store though.

*i.imgur.com/Hcv2SbR.jpg

*www.pcgamesn.com/diablo-4/beta-access-tattoo

*thegamespoof.com/gaming-news/diablo-4-tested-on-ps5-and-ps4/

*www.pcgamesn.com/diablo-4/beta-leaks-smart-loot-trading

At least they are not bringing back the auction house.

Desmond said:
At least they are not bringing back the auction house.

Right. But there should be a good way to trade like in D2 as well. One of the best aspects I enjoy playing D2 till date is the grinding & trading of rare items, runes along with the game's simplicity itself. I don't like the D3's time-limited trading amongst players who were in the same game when the item dropped. In D3 everyone can easily get all gears for their class if they do a bit of grind, not the same in D2. One can play 500-1000 hours and not get a high rune.

Even though the item list is pretty simple in D2, they have deadly drop rates making your find more valuable and hence making the trading scene more interesting.

Yeah, I remember that you have to farm the countess for the Eth rune (I think).

But its likely that third party stores will spring up online selling these items. I think Blizzard don't want this to happen.

*news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23816415/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-august-2022

The season system seems a tad too complex. I guess it's just too profitable for them to not include it.

Desmond said:
The season system seems a tad too complex. I guess it's just too profitable for them to not include it.

Unlike D3 seasons which is more or less similar to ladder concept in D2, wherein you start a new character and grind all the way up to get some seasonal unique rewards, D4 seems to throw in new gameplay features, questline (to reveal more of the world of Sanctuary and your character's place in it), rewards and even a seasonal endgame deadly boss. So this is a welcome move IMO. I never played any of the D3 seasons after the first 3 or 4 - it was just not enticing for me.

I have been following this leak and so far every single date has matched - including the latest Overwatch 2 release (Oct 04).
If this follows through, we can expect some sort of showdown at The Game Awards on Dec 8th and pre-purchase of Diablo IV. :bananana:

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What are the

007 said:
I have been following this leak and so far every single date has matched - including the latest Overwatch 2 release (Oct 04).
If this follows through, we can expect some sort of showdown at The Game Awards on Dec 8th and pre-purchase of Diablo IV.

Source

What are the chances of getting a closed beta key on this for those having registered?

true_lies said:
What are the chances of getting a closed beta key on this for those having registered?

Pretty slim I think unless your ID has contributed a lot of gaming activity (my guess). So far I have registered for multiple games but got invite only for D2 Resurrected.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1600194779790311441

Lilith Is Coming.

Leaks and rumors about a surprise 6th class reveal expected at The Game Awards (Dec 8th) along with release date, preorders etc. Stay tuned.

The video doesn't say much though and most of it is just filler.

The embargo ends today btw. So we can expect more content to start flowing in.

*i.imgur.com/s4V6pRC.png

That reminds me, TGA is today.

Promising reviews for the preview. :smile:

PC Gamer - Blizzard's long-awaited sequel is extroadinarily satisfying to play within minutes.

Gamespot - Diablo IV is quick to differentiate itself from its predecessors in almost every way, while intelligently iterating on new series staples with ideas that put freedom of play at the center.

Engagdet - This feels worryingly good. Don't fail me now, Blizzard.

PlayStation Blog - A more expansive, customizable loot-filled adventure. Journey through the Sanctuary with even greater freedom to play and look how you want.

NME - A hell of a good time. An unexpected delight, 'Diablo 4' is light on new ideas but a much-needed refinement of dungeon crawl design.

Push Square - 20 hours of Diablo 4 on PS5 has us believing in Blizzard's latest trip to Hell.

IGN - RIP to my free time. Diablo 4 feels like a massively plussed-up version of Diablo 2, which is the best-case scenario for it, in my book. Not that it ignores Diablo 3 – there are clear notes taken from the best of that game too – but tonally and artistically, it leans more heavily into the Diablo 2 playbook. Regardless, this is going to be a huge game by any definition.

Eurogamer - I've spent 10 hours with Diablo 4 and I'm sold - it's been worth the wait. Hell it's great!

CNET - Diablo 4 takes bleakness to a new level -- in a good way. Be ready to be disturbed.

Polygon - Diablo 4 is taking itself very seriously. The dark atmosphere of the next main Diablo game is more engrossing than expected.

GameRant - Delightfully Dreadful!

The Sun - A darker take on the devil!

With this amount of hype, expectations and initial impressions, they need to do A LOT BETTER during the release to avoid launch day server issues. Overwatch 2 launch was a catastrophe. D2 Resurrected was a mess which I witnessed myself (long queues, character rollbacks, progression lost, server login issues etc.)

All hell breaks loose 6.6.23

Pre-order up- Diablo® IV - Diablo® IV | Battle.net

Standard - $69.99
Digital Deluxe - $89.99
Ultimate - $99.99

007 said:
All hell breaks loose 6.6.23

Blizzard's cinematic trailers have always been just on another level

The collectors ~~edition~~ box is up for grabs from the official Blizzard Gear store in NA, UK, EU regions.

*gear.blizzard.com/products/diabcl0001-diablo®-iv-limited-collector-s-box

Note: For the first time, game is not bundled in the box, hence it is not a CE, rather a CB (collector's box). Game has to be purchased separately at Battle.net whichever edition you prefer.

*i.imgur.com/OOFjPfc.png

Collector's Box Contents:

Candle of Creation
Cloth Map of Sanctuary
Diablo IV Collector’s Edition Art Book
Occult Mousepad
Pin of the Horadrim
Two Matted Fine Art Prints Sized 18.54” x 10.79”

007 said:
The collectors ~~edition~~ box is up for grabs from the official Blizzard Gear store in NA, UK, EU regions.

*gear.blizzard.com/products/diabcl0001-diablo®-iv-limited-collector-s-box

Note: For the first time, game is not bundled in the box, hence it is not a CE, rather a CB (collector's box). Game has to be purchased separately at Battle.net whichever edition you prefer.

*i.imgur.com/OOFjPfc.png

Collector's Box Contents:

Candle of Creation

Cloth Map of Sanctuary

Diablo IV Collector’s Edition Art Book

Occult Mousepad

Pin of the Horadrim

Two Matted Fine Art Prints Sized 18.54” x 10.79”

134$ and no game ? Ridiculous in my opinion. But fans will buy nonetheless.

*www.nerfnow.com/img/3124/4708.png

They have not learned from the diablo Mobile event massacre.

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Yeah, I mean how hard is it to include the game, all they have to do is print a code on a card and add it to the box.

Desmond said:
Yeah, I mean how hard is it to include the game, all they have to do is print a code on a card and add it to the box.

I have a different opinion here. While I understand the fact that the collector's box gives an "incomplete" feel, this is a smart move by Blizzard in terms of manufacturing and reducing the number of SKUs for different platforms as well as giving the freedom to the user to buy the game edition they actually need. Otherwise, they'd have to print different key labels, different packing costs per platform and on top of it, they would have to force a particular edition of the game on the user even if the user doesn't care about cosmetics.

The only grudge I have with Blizzard this time is the exclusivity to Gear Store. Since the last CE (WoW Dragonflight), they've cut down the middlemen (Walmart, BestBuy, GameStop, Amazon etc.) for CEs. Good for Blizzard - more moolah, but extreme disadvantage for the customers as the shipping costs are exorbitant right now. One has to pay upwards of $100 additional to ship out of the Gear store regions ($200+ to India) and on top of it you'll have customs duty making the cost of CEs 2.5X more the actual CE cost.

Diablo IV Beta dates announced at IGN FanFest!

Early access beta for pre-orders: March 17-19
Open for all: March 24-26

Changes as in changes or new stuff as compared with previous Diablo games

Developer update livestream - Open Beta, Strongholds and Armor system

Beta Dates and Times:

Early access beta: 17-March 9AM PT to 20-March 12PM PT , 3 playable classes - Barbarian, Rogue, and Sorcerer
Open beta: 24 March 9AM PT to 27-March 12PM PT, all classes playable - Barbarian, Rogue, Sorcerer, Necromancer and Druid

Beta Rewards:

Initial Casualty title for reaching Kyovashad with one character
Early Voyager title for reaching level 20 on one character
Beta wolf pack cosmetic item for reaching level 20 on one character

https://imgur.com/DaPEZKR.mp4

System Requirements:

Minimum (1080p, 720p render resolution, low graphics settings, 30 fps)

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K or AMD FX 8100
RAM: 8 GB RAM
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD RAdeon R9 280
Storage: 45 GB available space

Recommended (1080p, medium graphics settings, 60 fps)

CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K or AMD R3 1300X
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 370
Storage: 45 GB available space

Pulled the trigger on D4 Ultimate. I'll be playing both the early access and open beta.
Add me on Battle.net whoever plans to play or to just connect - DeViL#6644

Nice, how much did it cost?

I am not sure I will buy day 1, but I will see if I can join the open beta.

Desmond said:
Nice, how much did it cost?

I am not sure I will buy day 1, but I will see if I can join the open beta.

99.99 USD.. got charged approx. 8.3k including forex fees. I posted in the Post your latest purchase thread but unable to post internal links here.
The standard edition is $70 though.

Beta download has been enabled for early access. Sadly no space left :lol:

Decluttering...

Nice. Let us know how it plays.

Ok I'm finally done with the early access beta. All beta rewards completed.
Played for about 18 hours in total over the weekend.

Beta connectivity/login issues:
After the beta went live, their game login/queue mechanism was messed up where folks were put on queues for more than an hour. Adding to that was the frequent disconnections and getting punished further by lining up at the dreaded queue again. At some point I had 108 minutes of waiting to just get into the game's main menu where you select/create characters. Further, you have another queue to get into a game "session" which was comparatively better. Things were back to normal with < 1 minute queue timings (or instant) from the end of day 1. I hope Blizzard has learnt the lesson and will plan accordingly for the public beta next week as there will be tons of players trying to login.

Positives:

The first thing that comes to my mind is the grim and eerie environment. Loved this!
The map is huge. The beta gives limited access to quests in the first area (Fractured Peaks) but there is still much to explore and there are plenty of world events and side quests to spend time on. You will not be bored.
BGM and sound effects were amazing! The death animations + sound effects are done well.
Combat is great and killing quest bosses/world boss (Ashava) were not a cake walk. Died few times and had to strategically plan. Blizzard would announce world boss spawn timings for the weekend session.
Drops are well balanced. I got about 4 legendaries in 18 hours, items for other classes were less than 10% dropped, which is good. Was able to steadily build the character.
Skill tree is exhaustive, distribution is good and manageable.
I did not party much but interaction with random players, trading, emoting were nice.
Tons of item transmogrifications and character customizations (appearances)

Negatives:

Bugs are expected as it is beta, so there were frequent disconnections, getting kicked out when trying to return to town (loading screen and gets out), some areas were buggy and not accessible.
This is more of a hassle than negative. Mounts were unavailable for the beta. Although you'll have access to the stable and its master, cannot buy a mount. So had to walk a lot from place to place, even with waypoints.
Story (from whatever revealed so far) has some twists in place but I was able to guess many things.

There is still so much more, so I'm looking forward to the full release!

Here are some screenshots. Meet Scarlet the Sorceress.

007 said:
Ok I'm finally done with the early access beta. All beta rewards completed.
Played for about 18 hours in total over the weekend.

Beta connectivity/login issues:
After the beta went live, their game login/queue mechanism was messed up where folks were put on queues for more than an hour. Adding to that was the frequent disconnections and getting punished further by lining up at the dreaded queue again. At some point I had 108 minutes of waiting to just get into the game's main menu where you select/create characters. Further, you have another queue to get into a game "session" which was comparatively better. Things were back to normal with < 1 minute queue timings (or instant) from the end of day 1. I hope Blizzard has learnt the lesson and will plan accordingly for the public beta next week as there will be tons of players trying to login.

Positives:

The first thing that comes to my mind is the grim and eerie environment. Loved this!

The map is huge. The beta gives limited access to quests in the first area (Fractured Peaks) but there is still much to explore and there are plenty of world events and side quests to spend time on. You will not be bored.

BGM and sound effects were amazing! The death animations + sound effects are done well.

Combat is great and killing quest bosses/world boss (Ashava) were not a cake walk. Died few times and had to strategically plan. Blizzard would announce world boss spawn timings for the weekend session.

Drops are well balanced. I got about 4 legendaries in 18 hours, items for other classes were less than 10% dropped, which is good. Was able to steadily build the character.

Skill tree is exhaustive, distribution is good and manageable.

I did not party much but interaction with random players, trading, emoting were nice.

Tons of item transmogrifications and character customizations (appearances)

Negatives:

Bugs are expected as it is beta, so there were frequent disconnections, getting kicked out when trying to return to town (loading screen and gets out), some areas were buggy and not accessible.

This is more of a hassle than negative. Mounts were unavailable for the beta. Although you'll have access to the stable and its master, cannot buy a mount. So had to walk a lot from place to place, even with waypoints.

Story (from whatever revealed so far) has some twists in place but I was able to guess many things.

There is still so much more, so I'm looking forward to the full release!

Here are some screenshots. Meet Scarlet the Sorceress.

The positives are a welcome sign. Will try out the open beta next weekend. But still gonna wait on buying it for a few months. Started D2R not too long ago (on Duriel, the pain train).
Any signs of the microtransactions plague that affected Immortal in this?

Wow. The art style looks really good, especially after the somewhat cartoony art style of Diablo 3.

true_lies said:
The positives are a welcome sign. Will try out the open beta next weekend. But still gonna wait on buying it for a few months. Started D2R not too long ago (on Duriel, the pain train).
Any signs of the microtransactions plague that affected Immortal in this?

Cool. Please try and let us know your feedback too.
No, there will be an in-game shop in the final version but they will sell only cosmetics that has no advantage in-game.
Read here - news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23816415/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-august-2022#Shop (Section: The Shop)

OK....so started playing the open beta....and its Great. I feel its the Diablo we all needed after 2.

Like 007 said, the atmosphere of the world feels grim and eerie, be it out in the open or in a dungeon.
Graphics are great, so is the music. Really adds to the atmosphere when exploring the world or in combat, and its a huge world.
Combat is the striking feature as it should be and blizzard have done a really good job.
Started as a Rogue and by the time I reached level10 was already loving the combat. Skill tree has plenty of options for combat.
Faced a magnitude of performance issues. First time I loaded into a game, it froze with just my character and no textures loaded. Game froze quite a few times specially at the start or end of a conversation/cutscene. Biggest issue was the constant stuttering, which was even worse in city with other players around. Network issues. So yeah, beta for sure
Biggest plus I would say would be the dungeons. They're big and not so easy. Boss is a pain to beat unless you lower the difficulty tier or joined by other players, died a couple of times at the boss trying to solo.

Really looking forward to playing it, maybe a few months after release when all the launch day bugs/issues are ironed out and after looking at a few reviews.

First time loading into game

Game just froze after this conversation for a minute or so

Dungeons are the highlight

true_lies said:
OK....so started playing the open beta....and its Great. I feel its the Diablo we all needed after 2.

Totally agree on this one. This should've been D3.

true_lies said:
Faced a magnitude of performance issues. First time I loaded into a game, it froze with just my character and no textures loaded. Game froze quite a few times specially at the start or end of a conversation/cutscene. Biggest issue was the constant stuttering, which was even worse in city with other players around. Network issues. So yeah, beta for sure

Did you try lowering the texture quality? If not try this - keep overall graphics quality to High and reduce only textures. That improved the stability and fps/stuttering issue for me considerably. But yeah, they have a lot more to improve performance before release. Hope they deliver.

true_lies said:
Biggest plus I would say would be the dungeons. They're big and not so easy. Boss is a pain to beat unless you lower the difficulty tier or joined by other players, died a couple of times at the boss trying to solo.

Two concerns I had with dungeons:

Same repetitive design but devs have confirmed that there are over 100 designs and each area has a common format. So in beta, as only Fractured Peaks is available to explore, hence we see similar dungeons.
Backtracking and exiting dungeon - Monsters respawn after a while so you may notice them again when backtracking after "completing" a dungeon. This is by design it seems. So I was always TP-ing to town and then running all over the map to the same location. I realized very late that there is a Exit Dungeon option in the emote wheel which we can use to go back to the entrance.

For this beta weekend, I tried my hands on PS5 with a Rogue.
Initial impressions:

Zero lag and zero performance issues! No wonder games are optimized for consoles. Not even a single stutter that I saw on PC. It was a breeze to play from couch.
I have never played any ARPG with a controller before. It was pretty easy and comfortable to play. I always had the wrong imagination that inventory management/comparison would be a nightmare with controller. That wasn't the case. Also managing health potions + skills + dodge during combat was great.
Cross-progression, cross-play is amazing. My character from last weekend was available to resume right from that point. Can co-op with players from other platforms too. I played Rogue till level 5 and then resumed from laptop later. Only downside I see is the need to purchase another copy of the game for each platform.. looters

007 said:
Did you try lowering the texture quality? If not try this - keep overall graphics quality to High and reduce only textures. That improved the stability and fps/stuttering issue for me considerably. But yeah, they have a lot more to improve performance before release. Hope they deliver.

Did not fiddle with the settings much, will do so. Also me being a stupid a**, installed it on my hard-drive instead of the ssd :facepalm:

After playing Diablo IV all weekend...

Necro is OP! (I wouldn't call it broken, this wouldn't work out with bosses)

^Damn! What's the bloody explosion?

TheSloth said:
^Damn! What's the bloody explosion?

Its called Corpse Explosion. One of the iconic skills of Necromancer class across all Diablo games. You kill an enemy minion or monster, the corpse drops as usual which is unusable for other classes. Necro can cast corpse explosion spell to blast it to deal additional damage.

Diablo IV: Class Tier List

Only played as the Rogue but I do feel they need a buff, specially the low tier skills

Source : gamerant.com/diablo-4-tier-list-class/

Into the Endgame

Diablo IV Server Slam - May 12, 12 p.m. – May 14, 12 p.m. PDT

Open to all
Level cap: 20
Previous beta rewards can be earned if you missed before
Kill Ashava with a level 20 character to get exclusive mount on launch NEW
- Ashava spawn times: May 13 starting at 9 a.m. PDT and every 3 hours thereafter until the final spawn on May 14 at 9 a.m. PDT.

PS: Any character progress made during the Early Access and Open Beta weekends will not carry over to Server Slam. Additionally, any character progress made during Server Slam will not carry over to launch.

007 said:
After playing Diablo IV all weekend...

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Is this a Hellraiser reference?

007 said:
Diablo IV Server Slam - May 12, 12 p.m. – May 14, 12 p.m. PDT

Open to all

Level cap: 20

Previous beta rewards can be earned if you missed before

Kill Ashava with a level 20 character to get exclusive mount on launch NEW

Ashava spawn times: May 13 starting at 9 a.m. PDT and every 3 hours thereafter until the final spawn on May 14 at 9 a.m. PDT.

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PS: Any character progress made during the Early Access and Open Beta weekends will not carry over to Server Slam. Additionally, any character progress made during Server Slam will not carry over to launch.

Server slam pre-load is ready on all platforms.

Here's Rhykker's TLDR version of the recent developer update:

Diablo 4 season 1 start date, season content detailed, pay 2 win & monetization discussion, battlepass and cosmetic shop details

The Sorceress is f#$%ing OP

Launch Trailer - Gameplay

007 said:
Launch Trailer - Gameplay

Good trailer, but WTF is that music lol.

Desmond said:
Good trailer, but WTF is that music lol.

Lol.. music by Belial Eilish. :razz:

Received huge backlash already.

Belial Eilish

Lmao.

We can also have Tyrael Swift.

Diablo 4 early reviews are positive! (exclusive access for reviewers before launch)

GamingTrend - 10
GameSpew - 10
VideoGamer - 10
GamesRadar - 5/5
Windows Central - 5/5
Dexerto - 5/5
VGC - 5/5
TechRaptor - 9.5
MP1st - 9.5
NPR - 9.4
COGconnected - 9.4
IGN - 9
Prima Games - 9
Press Start - 9
Screen Rant - 9
Twinfinite - 9
We Got This Covered - 9
Games Hub - 4/5
Destructoid - 8
Wccftech - 8.5
Shacknews - 8
Siliconera - 8
Gamespot - 8
Metacritic - 88
Opencritic - 89

From some of the online channels I follow:

IGN:

Wudijo:

Rhykker:

Fextralife:

GameSpot:

Eurogamer:

Wow.

How's the microtransactions? Lenient or egregious?

Desmond said:
Wow.

How's the microtransactions? Lenient or egregious?

Egregious!
The below Wraith Lord set look costs $28 in real money.

All the MTX are purely cosmetic. Should not bother folks like me who are least interested in paid / rare skins. I never understood the knife and skin crazies from the CS:GO community too.

Started D4 with a lady barb..
Skipped high texture assets this time during download as I don't have a 4K rig anyway. Total download around 45GB. (half the size)
Created a clan. Feel free to join :lol:

A bit too costly for me right now, but I will join when I actually get to buy it.

Yes, very steep pricing!! With early release discount?

Sure, whenever you guys can.. we can party!

I was excited for it as a full diablo pc game after long time but wasnt expecting this steep price I will also look up for it later.

007 said:
Started D4 with a lady barb..
Skipped high texture assets this time during download as I don't have a 4K rig anyway. Total download around 45GB. (half the size)
Created a clan. Feel free to join

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Mr.Diablo you're carrying the game on behalf of all Indians. :-D

Darth Vader said:
Mr.Diablo you're carrying the game on behalf of all Indians.

lol... I understand $69.99 is not a "regional pricing" but isn't it close to most AAA game standard prices on launch ($60)? It may be even more these days for some publishers I think. I've seen plenty of Indian folks pre-ordering Baldurs Gate 3, EA Battlefield games at full price and higher editions (some in TDF group too).

The base edition of D4 is simply good enough if one doesn't care about cosmetics. Considering the enormous amount of replayability value and one-time purchase, D4 should be worth it. It will be even better on some discounted sale after one year if people can wait (-10% or -20% usually, can't predict).

In my defense, in 10 years of "purchasing" games - I only pre-ordered Diablo games at full price. :-D

007 said:
lol... I understand $69.99 is not a "regional pricing" but isn't it close to most AAA game standard prices on launch ($60)? It may be even more these days for some publishers I think. I've seen plenty of Indian folks pre-ordering Baldurs Gate 3, EA Battlefield games at full price and higher editions (some in TDF group too).

The base edition of D4 is simply good enough if one doesn't care about cosmetics. Considering the enormous amount of replayability value and one-time purchase, D4 should be worth it. It will be even better on some discounted sale after one year if people can wait (-10% or -20% usually, can't predict).

In my defense, in 10 years of "purchasing" games - I only pre-ordered Diablo games at full price.

You are a true diablo fan :-D

pkkumarcool said:
You are a true diablo fan

and here I found another one:

Desmond said:

The KFC promotion was US only.

@007 What are your views so far? How's the endgame? Bugs or any anything?
I'm almost tempted to buy it considering the reviews. Still gonna wait for a sale.

Desmond said:

Some of the best series I've seen and felt every moment of that in D2.
Specifically this

Been there done that, specially the end.

007 said:
The KFC promotion was US only.

What was the promo?

true_lies said:
@007 What are your views so far? How's the endgame? Bugs or any anything?
I'm almost tempted to buy it considering the reviews. Still gonna wait for a sale.

Some of the best series I've seen and felt every moment of that in D2.
Specifically this

Been there done that, specially the end.

Lol, did you waste runes too?

true_lies said:
@007 What are your views so far? How's the endgame? Bugs or any anything?
I'm almost tempted to buy it considering the reviews. Still gonna wait for a sale.

I am playing sporadically so I am not into the higher level farming yet. I am trying multiple characters and keep changing the skills as they are balancing many skills and high farming areas/dungeons left and right. (mostly nerfing) There are no bugs in my encounter and the journey has been so far great. Based on yesterday's announcement, there is a round of buffs coming up as part of a major first patch. Season 1 is going to start in July it seems.

Desmond said:
What was the promo?

If you buy KFC chicken sandwiches in the US, you get some unique codes to redeem exclusive cosmetics.

Desmond said:
Lol, did you waste runes too?

Sorting through the chest and accidently putting a rune in an armor socket happened.
Surely did the carefully examining the runeword to put in weapons/armor.

Diablo IV - Season of the Malignant (Season 1)

Announce Trailer

Gameplay Trailer

Starts 20-July-2023...

Off topic news:
Blizzard is bringing (some of) their games to Steam starting with Overwatch 2 this August.

*www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23800283/overwatch-2-steam-blizzard-pc

Yeah, there is a thread about this here: *geek.digit.in/community/threads/blizzard-games-headed-to-steam.212313/

Elon approves.

First Diablo IV sale - *us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/diablo-iv?p=1068098
(20-25%)

It's coming to Steam

*www.pcgamer.com/well-that-didnt-take-long-diablo-4-is-coming-to-steam/

Desmond said:
It's coming to Steam

**www.pcgamer.com/well-that-didnt-take-long-diablo-4-is-coming-to-steam/

Listed:

*store.steampowered.com/app/2344520/Diablo_IV/

Available on 17-Oct. I was initially curious to see how they'll set regional pricing (Steam allows, Bnet does not). But based on Overwatch 2's pricing, most likely, they will do a direct conversion from USD from the looks of it.

Lol, they are not even trying to round off numbers.

Overwatch 2 is the lowest rated game on Steam right now. Considering that they should reduce the price more.

Recently learned about this hilarious news

kotaku.com/diablo-4-iv-for-mac-whoopi-goldberg-upset-blizzard-port-1850519443

First expansion..

Related news. Battle.net changing from USD to INR. Just got this email.

Nice. Though I doubt the prices of existing products will go down.

Desmond said:
Nice. Though I doubt the prices of existing products will go down.

Yeah, prolly be a direct conversion from USD to INR.

Diablo IV is now available on GamePass

Loot Reborn - Much needed changes to itemization

I know it's a bit too late to ask, but is this always online like D3?

Desmond said:
I know it's a bit too late to ask, but is this always online like D3?

Yes it is. You'll have to be always online. The world/realm is shared among other players so its kind of a MMO implementation, though you don't have to necessarily party with anyone and play individually on your own quests.

007 said:
Yes it is. You'll have to be always online. The world/realm is shared among other players so its kind of a MMO implementation, though you don't have to necessarily party with anyone and play individually on your own quests.

Is the Console version Online only too ? D3 wasn't and I played it on my PS4 Pro.

Stormbringer said:
Is the Console version Online only too ? D3 wasn't and I played it on my PS4 Pro.

It is a completely online only game, not sure why you think one platform would be online only & other will have an offline mode. That's just not how it works these days, even if the game can have a perfectly fine offline mode.

Stormbringer said:
Is the Console version Online only too ? D3 wasn't and I played it on my PS4 Pro.

Yep, online needed for D4 on PS. You will get a server disconnected or network error screen if net fluctuates or if there is some actual server side issue. Like yesterday they launched new season and there was some queue pileup initially and server kicked out few times.

omega44-xt said:
It is a completely online only game, not sure why you think one platform would be online only & other will have an offline mode. That's just not how it works these days, even if the game can have a perfectly fine offline mode.

D3 was like that and hence my query. PC was always online but for console they removed that.

Stormbringer said:
D3 was like that and hence my query. PC was always online but for console they removed that.

That is 12 years old, not a good comparison honestly. Those days some console games had local MP as well but PC didn't.