I'm a slowpoke and just finished act 1. I'm having a lot of fun. The barbarian feels like a human grenade. I haven't tried multiplayer yet as I'm a pretty annoying player that explores every single corner of every map and smashes and kills everything there is.
I really like the lighting and subtle environment fog in each area. It adds a lot to the atmosphere of the game.
Strange that one of my favorite gaming devloper entities is a community forum?
Where when devs do not have enough love for their own games to support them in glorious full 3d/surround/eyefinity multi-monitor peripheral stereoscopic GLORY! ( who knew so many cyclops had final say? )
Reminds me of how the Beatles engineer had to fight for stereo recording when stereo was not yet widely adopted. And how frustrating it must have been back then to be an audiophile with a good set of headphones?
Never fear! Dopefish and Helifax's new plug-in for the widescreen fixer can be downloaded from the WSGF forums!
If you have a multi-monitor 3dvision surround set-up you probably noticed save some offscreen artifacts that multi monitor in DIABLO 3 could be quite EPIC! ( Even found that the chat ui and map was welcome for me being on the outer monitors as those elements would annoy me quickly if centered... and I could quickly refer to the map on the center mnitor with the TAB toggle ) Otherwise the most important HUD elements were centered ( in my opinion ).
However...
The only way before this fix to enjoy multi-monitor was with the windowed full screen mode. Only problem was that 3dvision would not be supported in this mode.
The Helifax plug in allows Diablo III to be converted to multi monitor resolutions after the game is started in fullscreen mode! ( effectively bypassing the windowed constraint! )
Joy!
downloads and appropiate threads:
Link to the WSGF fix: ( note: you apply the widescreen fixer in fullscreen mode not fullscreen windowed to get 3dvision and multi-monitor! )
I'm a slowpoke and just finished act 1. I'm having a lot of fun. The barbarian feels like a human grenade. I haven't tried multiplayer yet as I'm a pretty annoying player that explores every single corner of every map and smashes and kills everything there is.
I really like the lighting and subtle environment fog in each area. It adds a lot to the atmosphere of the game.
I probably spent 5 hours today admiring the quality ambient occlusion setting on the gnarly beautiful treework myself!
Lots of good hard work! ( it's really starting to irk me reading how much the graphics suck in this game... I really find it hard to believe any halfway sentient being cannot find hours of graphics appreciation from somewhere in this game? Plenty I have a problem with as well but jeez louise! come on! )
Is anyone else having issues connection wise? I seem to be getting anything from 300-900 ms most of the time making it unplayable, just way too much lag XO
I noticed when installing (and looking at my battlenet account now) that is says my region is 'Global'. Is there some other place where it says if you're on US or EU servers?
I have to admit...
The Armor is really looking WOW like. I was hoping customization would allow more original surprises? I am not sure, but it seems as if all my armor choices for my Witch Doctor will not allow me to stray from their concept the way Diablo II allowed my Necromancer to look like anything from Barbarian to Necromancer to Paladin ( or best yet: a hybrid which befits a wandering adventurer? ie: A necromancer adventurer would most likely be a dark cleric/ anti-paladin combination like old school D&D )
I haven't had the courage to play in multiplayer yet as I like to stop and take time to smell the ded flowers. But is it possible to pickup dropped Barbarian armor as a different class?
( really hoping I do not end up looking as ridiculous as the wood/bone armor progression shows for the witch Doctor? It was hard enuff swallowing my necromancer pride in the first place. To also have the humiliation of ghetto bark as my only dress to look forward to? )
looks like a cool game character I suppose? jes doesn't seem like Diablo universe?
got some time on my hand and was going to get back to work on some tools I have had on the backburner... But I am missing Necromancer so much I think I might do some fan concepting in PS an ZB.
( Anyone with same interests up fer a personal challenge? slap.* slap.* )
you guys have any information on the achievement bugs?
I mean the whole completing an act/event/whatever and getting the achievement, but when logging in later having it locked again.
it's not only the achievement-whore in me that's talking, but since achievements unlock banner stuff, it would be nice to have the rewards that one is entitled to?
for example, I'm a level 50 demon hunter, but I've apparently not dinged level 20 since that achiev isn't unlocked (the others up to 50 are).
or making it to act4 on nightmare but without having the achievement for killing the skeleton king in act1.
"just give the achievement servers time to think" is the general idea, but it feels more like they've thought about it and decided to drop a few achievements (and in effect, ingame rewards) for some incompetent reason..
Would anyone happen to have a guest pass code? I already have one for me and id love for me and my friend to both play on a guest pass. Alone the game is pretty boring but id love to experience party play
@Haisai: How is that a spoiler? its a secret just like the cow level. Maybe I'm missing something, any who cant put an image in a spoiler tag. Been trying to clear Nightmare but too low
This game is so much amazing fun when you play with a group of friends. Already a lvl 60 DH with 13.1k dps because I'm a nerdlord, lol.
Hell definitely gets a bit harder (mostly on the champion and elite pack's part), but I can't wait for Inferno!
Damn Rens, thats hardcore lol.
Got to level 48 myself. Cant see how I'm expected to reach 60 by the end of the game now as its the final act already but perhaps some insane xp drops from bosses.
This game should definitely be considered a multiplayer game with a foreveralone option. Whenever you get a chance to play with a friend or just go in a public game the experience is so seamless and enjoyable I've come to resent any mention of this being a 'single player game with DRM'. One thing i recommend to all is. stack some magic item finding stats and use the ah to sell your good drops and obtain items that are more catered to your class.
MMmmm, I wanna get in on the action, but can't seem to convince my friends
If anyone has a couple of (EU) Guest Passes he's not using, I'd greatly appreciate it!
so my girlfriend just saw an advert for the game and thinks it might be cool to play it with me.
since i'm working like 70 hours a week at the moment AND i have the create a girl course on the go, i'd like to know if anyone is willing to donate a couple of guest passes to us so we can see how it is before i commit to a full purchase.
@ZacD your stats are like the opposite of mine heh. I'm taking on the boss before diablo in nightmare, have 2600Damage and only 6000 health.
I can get him down to 60% before he even hits me but it only takes one hit haha.
@ZacD your stats are like the opposite of mine heh. I'm taking on the boss before diablo in nightmare, have 2600Damage and only 6000 health.
I can get him down to 60% before he even hits me but it only takes one hit haha.
I really don't like being squishy, I tanked Azmadon without moving or dodging any attacks, I'm going to work on my hardcore character in a bit so it scares me whenever I die.
I'm in act 3 nightmare, lvl 47 on my monk and I really have to try to die (except arcane/chain guys... Fuck them). Will get jumped by large groups here and there, but found a build and skill rotation I fucking love. Will post it later, but I have around 7k hp and 1100 damage.
My rotation: enter with fire cyclone, heal (w/ spirit regen rune), way of fist spam (w/ regen rune), use the suck-up-enemies move to tank, and spam kick w/ stun rune, while using healing mantra w/shield rune. With the heal on spr use passive, I spam heal myself and can sit in molten/plague champion packs without taking damage. Killed
belial
solo without taking damage. Honestly it feels a little broken for nightmare, but can really see this being useful in hell and inferno with a shield.
I wasn't playing with anyone, Singleplayer game and all that :> I just expected an alternative for those of us who could give less than two shits about playing with others. Which is why the constant login issues and crashes and LAG annoys me to no end. I don't even get why they'd include Hardcore mode in this, when latency issues is actually caused by the number of people playing the game, not necessarily with you.
Skidrow hooked the May 14th release of D3 to some fake SC 2 based LAN server and had cracked and working SP versions of D3 out for piracy on the same day, that's most definitely not how it should be.
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ewww nice color coordinated banner!
I really like the lighting and subtle environment fog in each area. It adds a lot to the atmosphere of the game.
Where when devs do not have enough love for their own games to support them in glorious full 3d/surround/eyefinity multi-monitor peripheral stereoscopic GLORY! ( who knew so many cyclops had final say? )
Reminds me of how the Beatles engineer had to fight for stereo recording when stereo was not yet widely adopted. And how frustrating it must have been back then to be an audiophile with a good set of headphones?
Never fear! Dopefish and Helifax's new plug-in for the widescreen fixer can be downloaded from the WSGF forums!
If you have a multi-monitor 3dvision surround set-up you probably noticed save some offscreen artifacts that multi monitor in DIABLO 3 could be quite EPIC! ( Even found that the chat ui and map was welcome for me being on the outer monitors as those elements would annoy me quickly if centered... and I could quickly refer to the map on the center mnitor with the TAB toggle ) Otherwise the most important HUD elements were centered ( in my opinion ).
However...
The only way before this fix to enjoy multi-monitor was with the windowed full screen mode. Only problem was that 3dvision would not be supported in this mode.
The Helifax plug in allows Diablo III to be converted to multi monitor resolutions after the game is started in fullscreen mode! ( effectively bypassing the windowed constraint! )
Joy!
downloads and appropiate threads:
Link to the WSGF fix: ( note: you apply the widescreen fixer in fullscreen mode not fullscreen windowed to get 3dvision and multi-monitor! )
http://www.wsgf.org/dr/diablo-iii/en
http://img.wsgf.org/f/u/Plugin.Diablo 3.rar
https://www.widescreenfixer.org/
http://www.wsgf.org/forum/9066/diablo-three?page=5
glory: ( change the jpg extension to.jps for automatic 3D Vision Photo Viewer opening )
I probably spent 5 hours today admiring the quality ambient occlusion setting on the gnarly beautiful treework myself!
Lots of good hard work! ( it's really starting to irk me reading how much the graphics suck in this game... I really find it hard to believe any halfway sentient being cannot find hours of graphics appreciation from somewhere in this game? Plenty I have a problem with as well but jeez louise! come on! )
Please add me at any time!
rogerklado@hotmail.com
Finally unlocked whimsyshire. Now i can sparkle like the ray of sunshine and twinkledust that i am! I'm fabolous!
To the developers who read this:
Hands down, and WOW. Awesome work.
I will post my character as soon as I hit 40.
The Armor is really looking WOW like. I was hoping customization would allow more original surprises? I am not sure, but it seems as if all my armor choices for my Witch Doctor will not allow me to stray from their concept the way Diablo II allowed my Necromancer to look like anything from Barbarian to Necromancer to Paladin ( or best yet: a hybrid which befits a wandering adventurer? ie: A necromancer adventurer would most likely be a dark cleric/ anti-paladin combination like old school D&D )
I haven't had the courage to play in multiplayer yet as I like to stop and take time to smell the ded flowers. But is it possible to pickup dropped Barbarian armor as a different class?
( really hoping I do not end up looking as ridiculous as the wood/bone armor progression shows for the witch Doctor? It was hard enuff swallowing my necromancer pride in the first place. To also have the humiliation of ghetto bark as my only dress to look forward to? )
looks like a cool game character I suppose? jes doesn't seem like Diablo universe?
got some time on my hand and was going to get back to work on some tools I have had on the backburner... But I am missing Necromancer so much I think I might do some fan concepting in PS an ZB.
( Anyone with same interests up fer a personal challenge? slap.* slap.* )
*Dramatic music ensues*
A warrior of light will appear, vanquishing the hordes of darkness and smiting the evil of this land! And this warrior will be known as...
George :thumbup:
I mean the whole completing an act/event/whatever and getting the achievement, but when logging in later having it locked again.
it's not only the achievement-whore in me that's talking, but since achievements unlock banner stuff, it would be nice to have the rewards that one is entitled to?
for example, I'm a level 50 demon hunter, but I've apparently not dinged level 20 since that achiev isn't unlocked (the others up to 50 are).
or making it to act4 on nightmare but without having the achievement for killing the skeleton king in act1.
"just give the achievement servers time to think" is the general idea, but it feels more like they've thought about it and decided to drop a few achievements (and in effect, ingame rewards) for some incompetent reason..
Haha an awesome secret dungeon
Did some nightmare with my monk too, Hell and higher are going to be nuts! this game rules
Nightmare is a fun challenge,
started a witch doctor on hardcore, only lvl 12 so far, but its a fun class.
Also rainbows.
Also the auction house is awesome for getting great items and making extra gold.
Hell definitely gets a bit harder (mostly on the champion and elite pack's part), but I can't wait for Inferno!
...then I got to Acts 3 & 4... and I was very pleased
got a lv 50 barbarian and a lv 37 hunter now
playing a bit much, loving it.
Got to level 48 myself. Cant see how I'm expected to reach 60 by the end of the game now as its the final act already but perhaps some insane xp drops from bosses.
This game should definitely be considered a multiplayer game with a foreveralone option. Whenever you get a chance to play with a friend or just go in a public game the experience is so seamless and enjoyable I've come to resent any mention of this being a 'single player game with DRM'. One thing i recommend to all is. stack some magic item finding stats and use the ah to sell your good drops and obtain items that are more catered to your class.
We have to hook up ingame man! what's your tag? We'll make sweet loot together!
that legendary crown sometimes glows pink in the game, kinda takes away from the badass look.
Where can you find this tasty looking thing?
saw it in the auction house
also, servers down. can't play the single player game I bought using money. gg
If anyone has a couple of (EU) Guest Passes he's not using, I'd greatly appreciate it!
since i'm working like 70 hours a week at the moment AND i have the create a girl course on the go, i'd like to know if anyone is willing to donate a couple of guest passes to us so we can see how it is before i commit to a full purchase.
cheers guys!
I can get him down to 60% before he even hits me but it only takes one hit haha.
I really don't like being squishy, I tanked Azmadon without moving or dodging any attacks, I'm going to work on my hardcore character in a bit so it scares me whenever I die.
My rotation: enter with fire cyclone, heal (w/ spirit regen rune), way of fist spam (w/ regen rune), use the suck-up-enemies move to tank, and spam kick w/ stun rune, while using healing mantra w/shield rune. With the heal on spr use passive, I spam heal myself and can sit in molten/plague champion packs without taking damage. Killed
I wasn't playing with anyone, Singleplayer game and all that :> I just expected an alternative for those of us who could give less than two shits about playing with others. Which is why the constant login issues and crashes and LAG annoys me to no end. I don't even get why they'd include Hardcore mode in this, when latency issues is actually caused by the number of people playing the game, not necessarily with you.
Skidrow hooked the May 14th release of D3 to some fake SC 2 based LAN server and had cracked and working SP versions of D3 out for piracy on the same day, that's most definitely not how it should be.
52 Demon Hunter in Act 1 Hell B]