i wondered and wondered about town portals for a long time, and then finally i get my answer from blizzcast 8 and surprisingly the archivist april fools joke, from what i gather there will be town portals in the game, yes i saw the gameplay video where a tp goes up for cain and doesnt close behind him but still people werent sure if that was bc it was the end of the quest or not
here are pictures i will show u then i will put my skills of deductive reasoning to work
and here it is kind of confusing, because this also shows what might be a potion in skill number 5 but im sure its not since it has been confirmed that potions were out i believe (im talking out of my behind here)...but there is clearly a town portal scroll diagonally from the rune they are showing off
last but certainly not least blizzards new announced class the archivist if u look at the quest bolt video, when he ransacks the bookcase two id scrolls and a tp scroll fall out
yeah pjanoos hit the nail on the head, but also with the 3rd one, that class is most likely a aprils fool joke so the could of added that for a joke aswell, because you dont know what the scrolls are in the other two pictures
i wondered and wondered about town portals for a long time, and then finally i get my answer from blizzcast 8 and surprisingly the archivist april fools joke, from what i gather there will be town portals in the game, yes i saw the gameplay video where a tp goes up for cain and doesnt close behind him but still people werent sure if that was bc it was the end of the quest or not
here are pictures i will show u then i will put my skills of deductive reasoning to work
and here it is kind of confusing, because this also shows what might be a potion in skill number 5 but im sure its not since it has been confirmed that potions were out i believe (im talking out of my behind here)...but there is clearly a town portal scroll diagonally from the rune they are showing off
last but certainly not least blizzards new announced class the archivist if u look at the quest bolt video, when he ransacks the bookcase two id scrolls and a tp scroll fall out
what are u guys' thoughts?
Good deductive reasoning, I hope the town portal system is not altered at all, I couldn't think of a single improvement for it in all honesty, believe me, I would complain if I could.
I don't think it would be wise to do a victory lap just yet. I think that it would be great to have town portals in the game and I'm sure there will be some facsimile seen in the game. The parts that we do not know are the mechanics that are attached to it.
I personally would not be surprised if the portals could not be use in combat. They made the observation that in Diablo 2 there was little danger when stepping out of town because safety was only a town portal away. They are trying to create a mechanic that pays credence to the danger lurking outside the safety of the towns so the town portal we have known and loved does not fit this specific bill.
With that being said, I can't see them excluding them entirely. Thus, I foresee some kind of portal that can only be used while out of combat. This would pay credence to the danger AND allow you to get back in the action if you need a quick repair. I also think it is possible that they will employ a cooldown on the portals similar to WoW's hearthstone.
This, of course, is just speculation but I find that I have fair reasoning behind it.
I think Nocturne brings up a good point. D2 had some cheesiness to it, such as being able to bail out in a TP and just spam potions as a mean of active combat. They wanted to get rid of that kind of gameplay of spamming potions, but since its a hack'n'slash, they need to present real danger to dying to the thousands of creatures in the world/dungeons between bosses while giving players a way to regen health. They decided on this new system of health orbs dropping. It's a decision to increase the game's playability and make it more about strategy than cheese.
You can assume their going to follow the same thread of design philosophy when dealing with the town portal system. Seeing as it had a cheesy factor to it and would conflict with this new approach to the game, you can be positive it won't be coming back in the same fashion. Likely it's going to have a change of mechanics. As for visuals, it's likely going to just look like an updated and higher resolution version of the old TP. Improving while keeping that retro feel, making it still feel Diabloish.
First of all - potions are not out, they have a different purpose now.
Second - there will be different kinds of scrolls like in D1.
Third - we will have tp scrolls but they will work differently and probably haven't been fully developed yet.
1. yes i saw that, and i also read somewhere that there will still be potions but they wont be as helpful as d2 pots
2. yes in one of the other screen shots there is another kind of scroll but when i zoomed in on it, it was off color red or black
3. by saying this, u confirmed everything i said, all i said was i think i confirmed tp scrolls, i didnt say i nailed the mechanism down or what they are going to do with them
1. I think TP scrolls will be a one way transport. Meaning you TP out, you gotta walk all the way back to where you TP'd from.
or:
TPs will not send you back to town, but will only exit from the dungeon you are in.
I think they are gonna try really hard to reduce the rushing ability in this game and the biggest way they can do that is to remove the ability for a high level to get somewhere and then bring in the low levels to get xp while killing the boss.
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Doesn't the gameplay video show Cain taking a portal back to town????
Yes, but it has been discussed already that that doesn't necessarily mean we get to use them when we want. We might only get to use them at certain times (the portals that open for you after andariel, duriel, etc.) We're almost certain that they will be included, but now the discussion is mainly on how they will work.
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nah i wouldnt say wrong title, i posted a question on the official blizzard forums and got no reply it was up to 8 pages i think being discussed about tp's and no blue post, then i posted another one called "blizzcast 8 questions asked" and then i said i would have asked different questions something about tps and i got a blue response saying to submit my questions to the blizzcast email if i wanted questions answered, therefore ignoring my question without actually saying anything
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here are pictures i will show u then i will put my skills of deductive reasoning to work
http://www.diablofans.com/images/blizzcast8/character-screen.jpg
if u look at skill number 5 its the town portal skill, plus he has 2 casts available
http://www.diablofans.com/images/blizzcast8/inventory.jpg
and here it is kind of confusing, because this also shows what might be a potion in skill number 5 but im sure its not since it has been confirmed that potions were out i believe (im talking out of my behind here)...but there is clearly a town portal scroll diagonally from the rune they are showing off
http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml
last but certainly not least blizzards new announced class the archivist if u look at the quest bolt video, when he ransacks the bookcase two id scrolls and a tp scroll fall out
what are u guys' thoughts?
Good deductive reasoning, I hope the town portal system is not altered at all, I couldn't think of a single improvement for it in all honesty, believe me, I would complain if I could.
I personally would not be surprised if the portals could not be use in combat. They made the observation that in Diablo 2 there was little danger when stepping out of town because safety was only a town portal away. They are trying to create a mechanic that pays credence to the danger lurking outside the safety of the towns so the town portal we have known and loved does not fit this specific bill.
With that being said, I can't see them excluding them entirely. Thus, I foresee some kind of portal that can only be used while out of combat. This would pay credence to the danger AND allow you to get back in the action if you need a quick repair. I also think it is possible that they will employ a cooldown on the portals similar to WoW's hearthstone.
This, of course, is just speculation but I find that I have fair reasoning behind it.
You can assume their going to follow the same thread of design philosophy when dealing with the town portal system. Seeing as it had a cheesy factor to it and would conflict with this new approach to the game, you can be positive it won't be coming back in the same fashion. Likely it's going to have a change of mechanics. As for visuals, it's likely going to just look like an updated and higher resolution version of the old TP. Improving while keeping that retro feel, making it still feel Diabloish.
You beat me to it That's what I was gonna say, it should take a few seconds to cast one so you can't just pop back in town real fast.
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1. yes i saw that, and i also read somewhere that there will still be potions but they wont be as helpful as d2 pots
2. yes in one of the other screen shots there is another kind of scroll but when i zoomed in on it, it was off color red or black
3. by saying this, u confirmed everything i said, all i said was i think i confirmed tp scrolls, i didnt say i nailed the mechanism down or what they are going to do with them
or:
TPs will not send you back to town, but will only exit from the dungeon you are in.
I think they are gonna try really hard to reduce the rushing ability in this game and the biggest way they can do that is to remove the ability for a high level to get somewhere and then bring in the low levels to get xp while killing the boss.
you don't take - Wayne Gretzky"
- Michael Scott
"Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and Fvck the prom queen."
Yes, but it has been discussed already that that doesn't necessarily mean we get to use them when we want. We might only get to use them at certain times (the portals that open for you after andariel, duriel, etc.) We're almost certain that they will be included, but now the discussion is mainly on how they will work.
you don't take - Wayne Gretzky"
- Michael Scott
"Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and Fvck the prom queen."
nah i wouldnt say wrong title, i posted a question on the official blizzard forums and got no reply it was up to 8 pages i think being discussed about tp's and no blue post, then i posted another one called "blizzcast 8 questions asked" and then i said i would have asked different questions something about tps and i got a blue response saying to submit my questions to the blizzcast email if i wanted questions answered, therefore ignoring my question without actually saying anything