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There is no reason to have a penalty associated with game play time.

Jeru is right, we have all been using the checkpoint system in D2. everbody would cast tp to make body retrieval quicker than walking back from town. All the checkpoint system does is automatically give you that tp to get back quicker. If you say you do not like the check point system, then play D2 and only use tp's to go back to town and never cast one because you think you might die. After running all the way back from the latest waypoint a couple of times, tell me you don't like the checkpoint system.

The only draw back to the checkpoint system is not bein able to go to town as easily. However, when you died and went to town, it's not like you actually used the town. You would just leave it to get your body. It also sounds like they are minimizing need to go to town. No pots, random merchants to sell stuff. It seems like towns will be used kore for lore than gameplay now.

I don't think the monsters respawn so you wouldn't have to fight your way back. You would catch up to your group quickly because they are stopping to fight.

In the quote it mentions placing the checkpoints at the end of each "floor" in the dungeons. Does this mean we can expect a more dungeon crawling feel from D1 as opposed to the more openess of D2?

I would assume that they would have the same system in place for sing and multi player. I think if you die in a group, you res at the last check point and run to catch back up with them.

Do we know whether or not you res naked and collect your corpse or full res at the last checkpoint. To me it sounds like you get all of your gear when you res.

I would also assume you would keep at least the items you collected from the last checkpoint when you die with no other way to save them but quit the game. How much would it suck to get a unique item, die and loose it or get a unique item and have to save and exit just to ensure you keep it.

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I would like to know how they would do it with a Hard Core mode. Of course they wont have it. but still. It would be cool if when your character died, if you had a penalty system where you were able to resurrect him somehow. like maybe have your lvls are gone/ you lose all your equipment/etc. type thing. hahaha.

Isn't that the same thing as starting over once you die in hardcore. Just create the same character if you loose everything.

punished and annoyed are two separate things. You can loose exp, gold or who knows what else without having to do the mundane run to get back to your body just to die on the way and have to do it again. The punishment of dying should not come at the expense of fun game play.

I like the checkpoint system. I used to get so aggrivated haing to worry about popping tp's just in case I died so I didn't have to run back. Now I won't have to worry about it.