D4 officially announced - GGG's next move?

D4 is a perfected version of D3. That's it. From the get go you will feel the similarity. This is how D3 was intended to be but ended up repacked as D4.

Poe has nothing to fear from D4 after watching the Panels at Blizzcon.

It will loose Players for a while, but after realising D4 is a reskinned Open World Version of D3, they will come back.

Did you see the "Stats" in D4? :D

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Did you even watch the streams and developer panel?

There are skills, talents, runes, legnedary modifiers, and we dont even know about crafting, ect...and this is an incredibly early alpha build. No one is saying those are incredibly deep, hell what arpg is?

The Barbarian had 4 active weapon slots, and certain skills tied to those weapons. You could be dual wielding and seamlessly pull out a heavy weapon special attack. That's interesting.

What's the difference between a skill using two or one weapon, when you're wielding both, they change on the fly and all of them are available all the time? Just another mechanics that removes a choice. Will Diablo 5 just let you wield two axes, a two-handed mace, a wand, a staff and a crossbow?

Anyhow, I did watch most of what's released, and the talents looked VERY minor, and not really anything that makes YOUR build differ from any other barbarian (or other classes) out there. Runes? I like runes. As long as they're as impactfull (and rare) as in Diablo 2.

I'm still open. I will be VERY positive if talents make an impact, and you're not able to change everything on the fly. I will be positive if you can specialize in a skill - and that those choices follow you. I will be very positive if you can "build" one barbarian a completely different way, offensively and defensively than another barbarian. I will be very positive if armor pieces (and talents) have more than one defensive option.

Needless to say: I will be very positive if you have more than one option to gear a class.

i trust 4.0 will be amazing

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BlackPulsar wrote:

i trust 4.0 will be amazing

Based on what? The last 2 years have been full of half-assed releases, with a few exceptions.

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nibas wrote:

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BlackPulsar wrote:

i trust 4.0 will be amazing

Based on what? The last 2 years have been full of half-assed releases, with a few exceptions.

I concur, GGG can throw whatever mechanics into 4.0 all they want but if they don't have a better netcode and game engine to significantly improve quality of play it won't mean a thing. For example Betrayal fortresses were great but the ambush encounters lagged/froze up the client and even with SSD it killed desire to play the league. GGG has to figure out a way to give us better QoP or it's "game over man".

That is one thing that Blizzard has always done well. I've party played D2 and D3 with my 2 BFFL and play was always butter smooth with no lag. The skill set choices were pathetic and non-existent skill/talent tree was the worst about D3 but party play was rock solid. Then Blizz foobar'ed big time on trading and that's when I got off their ship and came over to GGG's ship (late fall of 2012). D4 demo play has skill/talent trees and runes are coming back (yay!). The D4 demo also proves that you can have great fx without being a clusterfuck mess that obscures the monsters and incoming damage. Even dodging attacks look good in the demo. The Druid with wolf pets and being able to morph into a bear and fast charge (reminds me of PoE shield charge) is awesome for power attacks and looks fantastic. Only unknown is how the endgame system and quests will change to be more exciting and not be as boring as D3 is. Blizzard still does the cinematics very well. But they can afford to make them and GGG is too small and poor for PoE to have any (like sailing back to Oriath with Lilly Roth to start act 6 would have been a nice place for a cinematic). D4 will have trading but nothing in the demo to know what form it will be.

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Arrowneous wrote:

That is one thing that Blizzard has always done well. I've party played D2 and D3 with my 2 BFFL and play was always butter smooth with no lag.

I was playing D3 in the old times. And I was playing on HC as I do in POE. I can say with 200% confidence that you could play HC in D3 only in party. Of course, you could try to play HC solo, but one day or another you get a critical error, game crushed and you rip. That was because of 10-sec delay before you are actually disconnected.