In 3.9.0, maps can have Vaal side areas

THEY FINALLY DID THE PORTAL THINGY! THANK GOD.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Yea I mean its obvious this was in development before that thread that I linked my post.

No, no, no! It was ALL me. They made this in days after reading my comment. It's obvious.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

I find it very interesting that Ben appears to not have known this was a thing based on his posts. I wonder why that would even be the case? It's odd, but super cool this is coming.

It's a big company. Everyone can't know everything. I don't know Ben's role, but to "demand" that he's involved in every mechanical change/addition, is maybe demanding too much?

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Phrazz wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Yea I mean its obvious this was in development before that thread that I linked my post.

No, no, no! It was ALL me. They made this in days after reading my comment. It's obvious.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

I find it very interesting that Ben appears to not have known this was a thing based on his posts. I wonder why that would even be the case? It's odd, but super cool this is coming.

It's a big company. Everyone can't know everything. I don't know Ben's role, but to "demand" that he's involved in every mechanical change/addition, is maybe demanding too much?

Lol.

But I would have imagined he would have been asked to work on this...

Either way perhaps it wasnt to hard to implement with the tools that they already had in place.

That said this is a welcome addition, and some nice work to accommodate something we have been looking for as players.

I feel like this was brought up at Exilecon at least twice and the devs were like "okay fine, if all you want is a portal rather than an environmental entrance, we can do that in like an hour. Fuck it, let's go."

The reason that was constantly cited against it was always environmental entrances. At Exilecon they compared it to the work to do hideout entrances in maps. But everyone was just like "but maybe just portals?" and they caved.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Either way this is a welcome addition, and some nice work to accommodate something we have been looking for as players.

I sure as hell welcome it. The "game is too packed"-crowd might disagree, as it's "yet another thing in maps we 'have to' interact with, and interacting with things in video games is bad". Anyhow, interesting to see what they'll do with loot in these areas, as six-links are 'no more' in a year or so, as the six-linked items more or less were the carrot here.

Do they test the game with HH or is it equipped just for the screenshot ?

This is very cool.

After finishing acts I've always had a feeling that i missed Vaal side areas in the maps.

I hope +1 area level of Vaal side areas won't break loot allocation in T16 maps.

pog

nice added chaos damage plus u have there

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Phrazz wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Either way this is a welcome addition, and some nice work to accommodate something we have been looking for as players.

I sure as hell welcome it. The "game is too packed"-crowd might disagree, as it's "yet another thing in maps we 'have to' interact with, and interacting with things in video games is bad". Anyhow, interesting to see what they'll do with loot in these areas, as six-links are 'no more' in a year or so, as the six-linked items more or less were the carrot here.

It's possible that 6L gems can still sell for a divine and that corrupted gems can drop 6L in 4.0 just like gear now?