Currently, we have MP0-10... It is already super spread out and hard to find a group for things,ESPECIALLY on hardcore mode.
Now with RoS, we have different game modes and pretty much the same amount of difficulty modes. I really worry RoS will suffer the same multiplayer issues the current version has. We need to be able to queue up for multiple difficulties.
A valid concern that I also feel worried about.
It's true that Reaper of Souls will have a Campaign and Adventure Mode (you can read a bit more about Adventure Mode here), but you should still see a healthy pool of multiplayer games. We anticipate a lot of players will spend most of their farming time in Adventure Mode, which is typically when/where players will want to group up,
So essentially, the already tiny population of public players will further diminish slightly by splitting the game into campaign and adventure mode.
and you'll be able to join a clan or community for even more social options.
even more (private game) social options.
To answer your question specifically, though, there are nine different difficulty levels (Normal, Hard, Expert, Master [unlocks at level 60], and Tormet I-V [unlocks at level 70]) and currently you’ll only be able to select one difficulty whenever queuing for Public Games. This is because, right now, there’s a pretty significant difficulty jump between each setting.
I'm currently playing Path of Exile and even though I've completed cruel (equivalent to nightmare in d2), since my gear still isn't good enough, I'm totally fine with farming more in cruel before moving onto merciless (hell in d2).
Now everyone is entitled to be able to play through normal to inferno in 1 run without any backtracking to farm. Just play on any of the 10 difficulty settings that you feel comfortable with which begins at super fucking easy.
We’ll definitely keep an eye on things, and if finding games becomes a problem then we’ll be sure to communicate that to the developers
Finding games is ALREADY a problem. Thank you so much for the console matchmaking system we were given.
Yeah, PL800 is effectively the level cap. Everything beyond that is just a token increase in primary stat, and +5 per level is not that big a deal compared to the +800 or whatever you can find on an item in RoS.
+5 per level for 1200 levels is 6000 though.
I'm glad that you're all excited for these extra paragon levels, but it just ruins it for me knowing that Blizzard is going to create bind on account items to hinder bot selling, but then have all these stat boosting paragon levels which gives an incentive for bots to exist.
I just preferred the way D2 had it and which PoE has right now.
elvy makes a good point though. Sure, we'd get more appearance variability solely with loot 2.0 than we have now, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the item that you've set your eyes on will also look good. Transmog fixes that problem.
Have you ever tried multiboxing ? I highly doubt it is cheating as you paid for 4 accounts you are playing all 4 accounts
Are you really playing 4 accounts though? The way I see it, you're playing 1 account, and software is duplicating your key strokes in 3 other clients, so essentially, you're playing 1 account and the software is playing the 3 other accounts.
and it is everything but easy to maintain a synched group. Multiboxing is for the Pro's just my 2 cents.
Have you ever tried macroing? It is anything but easy to consider and account for all the possible variations in the environment, monsters, your life, spells, positioning, mouse movements, lag, item drops, etc. etc.
Macroing is for the pros, just my 2 cents.
The more loot the more gold nuff said. After all the game is about farming why spend 400-800 hours on one account when you can do it on 4 and get 4 times the reward.
Exactly why it's against the spirit* of the game.
* = would be replaced for 'rules' if Blizzard weren't greedy hypocrites.
Notice it says "torment difficulty or higher" so I'd hazard a guess that the monster power numbered levels will be replaced for fewer and more meaningful difficulty levels.
Keep in mind what those achievements used to be:
- Kill the Butcher without being burned by floor fires or being grabbed by Ancient Spear on Hell difficulty or higher.
- Kill the Butcher in under 2 minutes on Inferno difficulty.
- Kill the Butcher while he is stunned by his own charge attack on Nightmare difficulty or higher.
It sounds like this is a new proper difficulty mode. They've talked about getting rid of Hell before - my guess is they're revamping the difficulty progression to be Normal -> Torment -> Inferno, and the renaming is to prevent confusion since all the level requirements are changing.
That's a good point you make. I've always wanted the number of difficulty levels to be cut back down to 3, but I just gave up hope on that dream.
Notice it says "torment difficulty or higher" so I'd hazard a guess that the monster power numbered levels will be replaced for fewer and more meaningful difficulty levels.
That's weird. I haven't played in a few months but I was playing when the drop sound for legendaries was added and my barb always had that skill on his bar.
Unless it was changed recently you have fail ears if those sound the same to you
Amongst all the fighting and the fact that I played back when hardly any legendaries would drop so you could get a good idea for what it sounded like, I'd say that they are pretty similar.
And besides, if I had "fail ears" then Blizzard wouldn't be changing the sound now, would they.
What? That ability has a high pitched shallow ping coming off CD while the legendary drop sound is fuller and deeper (and frankly, quite different all around). Is this a bug for some people where the sound was the same?
I would keep hearing a legendary drop and I would look around frantically for it. Eventually through trial and error after countless false hopes of the sound actually being a legendary ping, I realized it was the barb's overpower.
Now that the public matchmaking system has been beta tested on the PC version for console users, can we finally get the D2 game creation system we've been asking for?
10 bucks says they are overhyping this announcment. I doubt it will be a full on new game, but rather something small. possibly mobile related, and/or social network related.
It's one press release picture and 2 tweets. Can't people announce things earlier anymore? How would you do it?
He mistakenly meant that we're overhyping it in our heads, and it's making us hope that it's going to be something awesome.
I don't think I'll be back until the expansion comes out, or a patch launches with a radical redesign of the public games and chat system.
I feel like I'm playing a single player game with all my friends having left, and public games? This game isn't going to leap from a single player experience to a multiplayer one when you have 2 bots filling up the 4 player cap in each public game you join.
I've been scammed a couple of times, but then again, I was a young teenager playing D2.
How many times have I been scammed since then? 0.
Why? Because I've learnt from my experiences.
Now with RoS, we have different game modes and pretty much the same amount of difficulty modes.
I really worry RoS will suffer the same multiplayer issues the current version has. We need to be able to queue up for multiple difficulties.
A valid concern that I also feel worried about.
It's true that Reaper of Souls will have a Campaign and Adventure Mode (you can read a bit more about Adventure Mode here), but you should still see a healthy pool of multiplayer games. We anticipate a lot of players will spend most of their farming time in Adventure Mode, which is typically when/where players will want to group up,
So essentially, the already tiny population of public players will further diminish slightly by splitting the game into campaign and adventure mode.
and you'll be able to join a clan or community for even more social options.
even more (private game) social options.
To answer your question specifically, though, there are nine different difficulty levels (Normal, Hard, Expert, Master [unlocks at level 60], and Tormet I-V [unlocks at level 70]) and currently you’ll only be able to select one difficulty whenever queuing for Public Games. This is because, right now, there’s a pretty significant difficulty jump between each setting.
I'm currently playing Path of Exile and even though I've completed cruel (equivalent to nightmare in d2), since my gear still isn't good enough, I'm totally fine with farming more in cruel before moving onto merciless (hell in d2).
Now everyone is entitled to be able to play through normal to inferno in 1 run without any backtracking to farm. Just play on any of the 10 difficulty settings that you feel comfortable with which begins at super fucking easy.
We’ll definitely keep an eye on things, and if finding games becomes a problem then we’ll be sure to communicate that to the developers
Finding games is ALREADY a problem. Thank you so much for the console matchmaking system we were given.
+5 per level for 1200 levels is 6000 though.
I'm glad that you're all excited for these extra paragon levels, but it just ruins it for me knowing that Blizzard is going to create bind on account items to hinder bot selling, but then have all these stat boosting paragon levels which gives an incentive for bots to exist.
I just preferred the way D2 had it and which PoE has right now.
Have you ever tried macroing? It is anything but easy to consider and account for all the possible variations in the environment, monsters, your life, spells, positioning, mouse movements, lag, item drops, etc. etc.
Macroing is for the pros, just my 2 cents.
Exactly why it's against the spirit* of the game.
* = would be replaced for 'rules' if Blizzard weren't greedy hypocrites.
That's a good point you make. I've always wanted the number of difficulty levels to be cut back down to 3, but I just gave up hope on that dream.
Amongst all the fighting and the fact that I played back when hardly any legendaries would drop so you could get a good idea for what it sounded like, I'd say that they are pretty similar.
And besides, if I had "fail ears" then Blizzard wouldn't be changing the sound now, would they.
I would keep hearing a legendary drop and I would look around frantically for it. Eventually through trial and error after countless false hopes of the sound actually being a legendary ping, I realized it was the barb's overpower.
He mistakenly meant that we're overhyping it in our heads, and it's making us hope that it's going to be something awesome.
I feel like I'm playing a single player game with all my friends having left, and public games? This game isn't going to leap from a single player experience to a multiplayer one when you have 2 bots filling up the 4 player cap in each public game you join.
How many times have I been scammed since then? 0.
Why? Because I've learnt from my experiences.
OP, you will learn too.