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What do I need for your code spooky?

They've rolled this gimmick out before

idk Polu, I think you just have to order that stupid sandwich

I kind of assume they just hand out codes too idk

Gent, it looks good

I want to try it

lmao thats what im getting

But it's not even new

I think I saw somewhere that it's been gone for 10 years

so it's basically new

If you visit Ohio in July of 2024 I will go get one with you

And that’s a Rusp promise

(I have no idea if there’s a KFC within a 100 mile radius of me)

Hows diablo 4?

the game structure is really good, semi-open areas with lots of instanced zones. Map design is the #1 thing about this game I've not looted enough stuff to get a perfect feel for how well they're doing that, but so far it's felt like what I'd want from this part of the leveling curve lots of good QoL things, and some obvious bugs (like tooltip windows jumping around and cutscene audio desync) that I think will be fixed before launch

That said

if this skill system is really what they're launching with

I'm going to be pissed

I think it's a small subset of the overall skill tree

I really do think that's what they're doing, though I haven't gone out and verified by reading interviews or anything

but the current skill system in the beta is worse than D3 on launch, in-that it's more linear somehow

the tree thing they're doing could work, it's stolen from PoE and the setup is fine

Strange

but you end up only being able to choose 1 or 2 modifications for each major skill

and there are only maybe 25-50% more major skills overall

where as in D3, each major skill had ~5 modifications

that sounds way worse than 3

I think, I really do

it's a "vertical slice" for the beta

it's just too linear for me to think otherwise

Bopit, are you a D2 fan?

never played

it looks fun though

I really dislike D2, but I know some people have a hard on for it still

modded d2 fun

base d2 is too dated imo

that's why I didn't bother playing remake either YoumuShrug

$1.1M spent

I played D2 when I was young, Act 1 was fun. After that my interest in it and the fun of the gameplay dropped. Would usually stop playing in Act 2, like twice, maybe trice in Act 3, and pushed through to hell once.

Does anyone want a D4 access code

BBC plays D4 kappa. Realistically some of the more boomery members would actually want to play.

reminder, it's an open beta next weekend, this weekend is just the KFC exclusive one

Mid?

I have a lot of thoughts on D4

I have zero idea how this game is going to be received, or what Blizzards vision is for the game

The only thing I feel confident saying rn, is the game is massive

the game should also be F2P, this game is what I think a PC-focused "Diablo:Immoral" should have been

what do we call this genre, action-RPGs?

I think this genre as a whole just needs to accept that F2P is the only way to get new people into the game

the core game design feels very nostalgic, but the social systems are all over the place

This game so desperately wants local/private servers to still exist

the whole setup of a semi-instanced world is FUN

but it's fun that really only exists if you're playing on a giant private server

and you can only reliably get that many people to buy a $70 game, if it's F2P

D3 was the top-selling game of all time when it came out, and I think D4 will be lucky to sell 1/10 of that

because the landscape has just totally changed

I think it's a great game held back by its genre and Blizz being too slow for their own good

lmao Blizz

what

what should i see in this screenshot

They put a notice up that the beta is a "work in progress"

I should have cropped that better

i mean

they arent wrong

putting it up as a maintenance notice just made me laugh

and let's be honest, the "beta" is the final game

ain't nothing changing between now and release

Here's that Sims clone being shown