Diablo 3 - Gamepad Edition

[RenegadeRocks]

COTA is in Festering Woods... the area right after you meet the Scoundrel.

Went from lvl 11 to 30 in under 2 hrs, solo.

Yeah, found it...and yes levelled up 3 times within 15 mins or so. I pumped up the difficulty to get more xp faster.

I am not the kind who can repeatedly do such stuff, I think I will move on soon, but its a good place for those who wanna level up fast.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

@Shifty: The whole balance and flow of the gameplay is completely different in this version. Even encounters have changed, basic mechanics have chanhed. Feels like a new game, not at all like the ps3 D3 we played last year.

But yeah I am also playing on hard or higher in the first play through this time.

 

[specwarGP2]

Be wary of these D3 junkies. You can, you know, just play the game rather than worry about loot and builds.

But that's what Diablo is all about though!

Have to give blizzard credit for crafting a game that is both very noob friendly and deep enough to keep you hooked in for the long haul.

I'm progressing rather slowly... stopped playing for the night after I hit lvl 41.. still trying to get used to the controls. Others on my friend list are already at 70... they must be power leveling each other.

 

[Lefungus]

I bought the game too. I really think this game was meant to be played on the gamepad. The experience is so much better. From the day I've played torchlight on xb360, I knew I wanted Diablo3 there

Random tidbits:
* The game begins to show its age, lighting looks flat against other ps4 games. I'd love to test a 3D enabled version though, but it doesn't look like to be supported.
* They broke subtitles. I hate that, now I cannot get subtitles for any dialog from characters during the game. On PC, there were some kind of dialog bubble on top of characters. I know I don't miss much but still.
* They changed the layout and I don't understand why. No more easy-to-see red glob for life, everything is stashed on the left-bottom corner. No character list on top-left. In multiplayer, each avatar gets a big colored disc, why ?
* The stash looks cumbersome. I don't know how I will manage it during endgame. It's weird, the res is bigger that on my pc, and I can see only 4 items at once ? I think a better compromise exists between pc and console version. I need to check, but I don't think I can get how much better loot is in %
* I wish I could import pc chars. I don't understand why they didn't enable that, after all, the expansion was an opportunity to make things equal and remove the auction house imbalance.

About the game itself, I advise playing at the highest level as possible as soon as you start, and reduce it as soon an elite pack crush you, which should happen at level 30 approximately ^^
Cota runs are soul-crushing, I don't understand how people enjoy doing that.
I'm playing WD again, waiting on patch 2.1 to try the crusader

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Damn that COTA place is like a cheat ! I am levelling up like crazy, have turned up the difficulty to max possible. Hope it doesn't break the game for me !

 

[deathindustrial]

Its not a legend. Select Offline from the R3 menu and no one will enter ur game. By default the option is 'Friends Only'.

Game is much more fun in co-op, IMO.

When I bring up the R3 menu nothing is selectable, that is why I called it a legend. This is on the PS4. From the pause menu I can navigate to a player's list in the top right of the screen and invite PSN "friends" but so far I have not found any way to select offline mode or make a game open to all.

The menu system must have been pretty awful before if folks think the current one is awesome. It's tolerable but still pretty clunky compared to similar games (Sacred 2 on the PS3 was definitely easier to use). Trying to back out of the current menu selection usually bumps you back to the top level instead of one level which makes actions like comparing weapons unnecessarily slow.

Not being able to rotate the view was a surprise.

Seems light on loot compared to similar games - I am assuming people just don't bother smashing stuff?

No text scroll on dialogues is kind of lame - you have to wait for the audio if the current page of text can't fit into the box.

Haven't tried couch co-op with the wife yet.

Cheers

 

[RenegadeRocks]

It's selectable in my game. Its the same menu as was on the ps3. Once u press R3, use the left stick or d-pad to select what mode u want to play in. Its not a legend, never heard of such a glitch either.

Going back in inventory is clunky,yes, but I have no other issue with the menu system.

 

[RobertR1]

C'mon, drop $60 you cheap bastard. Help a guy out. We can probably convince Scott to jump in too. I'd like to get in on some epic co-op raids. Don't you have a kickass barbarian build or something?

I just bought the digital version from Live. It's DLing right now.

I have a Wizard that can do T6 but the pain of grinding to get the gear isn't something I'd wish on anyone (except Scott maybe).

I'd be nice if they'd let me atleast transfer my character over! Come on Blizzard! pretend like it's 2014.

 

[Cyan]

Damn that COTA place is like a cheat ! I am levelling up like crazy, have turned up the difficulty to max possible. Hope it doesn't break the game for me !

I am going to play it like I'd do on the PC -stopped at normal, act 3-. Normal, Nightmare, then Hell difficulty level. I've got the game for the Xbox One.

Without forcing me to go to Battlenet and stuff like that, this might rekindle my love for Halo 3, which I lost at the time, but didn't find it so bad, just not what I expected. I love the series, eternally even.

I've purchased the digital version, but one day I am thinking of having the physical version when it's cheap enough.

 

[NRP]

Okay . . . noob question. I equipped a new sword on my WD that does more damage than the basic dagger. How do I melee attack enemies? Do I just need to get close and my character automatically attacks? When I press the A button, I shoot my blow gun. None of the other buttons seem to do anything.

By the way, zombie dogs are freakin awesome!

 

[specwarGP2]

Okay . . . noob question. I equipped a new sword on my WD that does more damage than the basic dagger. How do I melee attack enemies? Do I just need to get close and my character automatically attacks? When I press the A button, I shoot my blow gun. None of the other buttons seem to do anything.

By the way, zombie dogs are freakin awesome!

WD doesnt have any attacks that actually do any melee attack animation.

Protip: if you have enough DPS, you can use locust storm (first rune) to wipe everything out in COTA in a minute or less The dot keeps the combo meter from dying. Other skills that work well for COTA runs are spirit walk (to keep from getting boxed in and to get to mobs that are spaced far apart before your meter dies), firebomb (first rune - jumps between 6 enemies) BBV (for elites). Passive: Pierce the veil But if your dps is good all you really need is locust storm and spirit walk.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Okay . . . noob question. I equipped a new sword on my WD that does more damage than the basic dagger. How do I melee attack enemies? Do I just need to get close and my character automatically attacks? When I press the A button, I shoot my blow gun. None of the other buttons seem to do anything.

By the way, zombie dogs are freakin awesome!

YOur primary attack is "A". Your damage is dictated by the weapon u hold,but the animation may differ depedning on what primary ability u choose in skills. Like my Crusader is shooting a wite beam which chains through enemies even though what I hold is a sword.

 

[nightshade]

Does anyone wants to play this with me on PS4? I don't wanna play alone anymore (gets a bit tough)

Ok wait, this game has enemies that level up with you now? Oh Jesus why? I hate those completely negates the point of levelling up.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Okay . . . noob question. I equipped a new sword on my WD that does more damage than the basic dagger. How do I melee attack enemies?!

You don't. Very weird, unique D3 feature, the weapon you equip is not wielded as a weapon. Its stats just affect you main attack. You'll wave a sword around and shoot darts that do more damage than if you wave your old wand around and shoot darts. Given the attack animations change, it looks to me like they were going with a conventional ARPG equipment approach but changed their minds and simplified it.

 

[NRP]

Ok, thanks guys. So far, I'm liking this game.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

You don't. Very weird, unique D3 feature, the weapon you equip is not wielded as a weapon.

Ok, thanks guys. So far, I'm liking this game.

It's a Blizzard RPG so some things exist only for game balance and it's the same with World of Warcraft where some equipment slots only exist for the item stats bonuses.

You'll get used to it, but don't be surprised if they change it all and remove the weapon slot and rebalance the class so that the stats on the remaining equipment slots benefit more.

This is kind of Blizzard's thing Tweak, tweak, tweak, change, revamp class, repeat ad infinitum.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

You don't. Very weird, unique D3 feature, the weapon you equip is not wielded as a weapon. Its stats just affect you main attack. You'll wave a sword around and shoot darts that do more damage than if you wave your old wand around and shoot darts. Given the attack animations change, it looks to me like they were going with a conventional ARPG equipment approach but changed their minds and simplified it.

If you want to you can see the weapon animation. Just keep pressing R2 till ur resource(man/wrath whatever) is exhausted. THen if you press R2, the character will use the equipped weapon and not any of the "skill" animations.

Just a randomn fact !

 

[deathindustrial]

You don't. Very weird, unique D3 feature, the weapon you equip is not wielded as a weapon. Its stats just affect you main attack.

Arrrgh, what game design nonsense. I've been salvaging and junking anything that wasn't a wand due to 30 years or so of RPG history dictating that weapons are always specific to class.

Still cannot for the life of me get the R3 network menu to behave like anything other than a legend. Do you have to be in a specific game mode for multiplayer or reach a certain level first or something like that? I have the option to invite friends but that appears to be it.

Cheers

 

[Deleted member 11852]

Arrrgh, what game design nonsense. I've been salvaging and junking anything that wasn't a wand due to 30 years or so of RPG history dictating that weapons are always specific to class.

Oops!

I've played more RPGs where that wasn't the convention compared to those where it was. Generally generic equipment - swords, staves, daggers etc - may not be optimal for a given class (i.e. there is better equipment available) but it's better than nothing at all in the slot!

 

[deathindustrial]

Well that's embarassing.

So last night I had the volume up a bit higher while I was playing and at one point I brought up the "legend" R3 network menu. I tried using the d-pad again and this time noticed a slight sound corresponding to each press of the pad. Looking very close at the screen I realized that I was in fact scrolling through the options, just that the highlight for the selected line was so faint on my TV that it is almost imperceptable. Not sure how much of that is to do with brightness settings in game, my TV or my eyes but at least now I can choose what network mode I want.

Cheers