Official Blizzard Quote:
A few more changes have made their way in to Diablo III beta patch 10, including the removal of Scrolls of Companion and Scrolls of Reforging, and we’ll be updating the patch notes to reflect that.
In both cases these are features we felt were underdeveloped and just not quite good enough for the game in their current state. The companion pets felt like they were mandatory to maximize play efficiency and some of the pets were too cutesy for the gritty, dark world of Sanctuary. Neither of those are issues we felt like we could solve without a lot of additional work, and we’re trying to close in on a solid release date for the game, not move further away. When weighing these systems against releasing the game, we decided to cut these scrolls and stay on track for the game’s release.
We think we can make companion pets into a much cooler system (both mechanically and visually), and evolve the reforging scrolls into a more meaningful system at some point in the future. For the time being, they will not be in the initial release of the game.
New Information Coming Soon
Bashiok posted on twitter saying we should be getting some more info soon as it seems some additional changes snuck into patch 10 (Such as the removal of the Scroll of Companion in the beta)
Diablo 3 Hardcore Strings
The hardcore option has appeared in patch 10 along with a few strings.
"You have but one life eager hero. If you should die, though your deeds be remembered, you shall not return again. Customer Service will not revive a fallen Hardcore Hero for any reason."
Diablo 3 New System Tooltips and Options
With patch 10 all system options now have tooltips. There were also a few new additions, such as the LowFX (Click the image to read all system tooltips)
Diablo 3 Current Time
Many users have been asking for a real-time clock in-game. Blizzard has added this in patch 10.
Blizzard CS Beta Key Giveaway Concludes
Blizzard CS has just finished their 5th and final round of beta key giveaways through their Twitter account.
Official Blizzard Quote:
We'd like to thank everyone for their participation in the #DiabloBeta Sweepstakes. All messaging has been sent out; Grats to the winners!
Be sure to use the Beta Opt-in feature too! We are still giving out beta invites through that.
Over 5000 Bugs Reported
There have been over 5000 bugs reported on the battle.net forums!
Official Blizzard Quote:
Hey guys!
I have some really cool news for you. Last night, we past 5000 bugs reported on the Bug Report forums! This is an incredible milestone for the Diablo III community, and one you should be proud of.
Here are some fun stats about bugs in the Beta:
- The first bug was reported on 9/6/11 and can be found here
- The most common bug ever reported was when the Battle.net servers were down during Thanksgiving 2011. It was reported over 200 times.
- 5092 bugs have been reported since 10 AM PST on 1/25/12
- Of the 5092 bugs reported on the forums, 856 unique bugs have been sent off to the developers to fix. (Remember, a bug reported on the forums can be a duplicate or not a bug at all). Thank you again for all of your hard work testing the Diablo III Beta and helping Blizzard make it the best game it can possibly be. Here's to 5000 more!
Sincerely,
Vasadan
Error 3022
People have been getting Error 3022 when using the AH. Blizzard has posted a quick fix for this error.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Hey guys,
If you are getting Error_3022 when trying to use the Auction House, this is to let you know that Blizzard is working on the issue.
For now, here is the current work around to get your account working again.
1. Go to the Battle.net website and log in.
2. Go to your billing address.
3. Click Edit when at your billing address.
4. Do not edit anything and press Save.
5. Attempt to use the Auction House again.
For some reason, people with valid billing addresses are being locked out of using the Auction House, even though the Beta is not using your billing address for anything as Beta Bucks aren't real money. This work around should help you guys out.
Week of feb 5th, nothing will happen on the 5 th, that's a Sunday.
Nothing will happen on a Sunday?!?!?! I'll be sleeping all day to charge up for the start of classes!!
As for the "changes" that "snuck in"...Call me pesimistic, but I have a feeling it's just about the various class changes and the removal of the scroll of companion.
completing the game on normal doesnt mean beating inferno. otherwise it would say "completing the game on softcore". normal is just normal. norm > nm > hell > inferno. so just norm on softcore then you can make a HC char
ugh
No. Each type of random event is a single algorithm. WoW easily would have more bugs than Diablo after a first pass (assuming same coding and developer competency).
Last time I tried the AH in Beta the search function/filtering was remarkably limited in scope and the category fields returned 100's of items completely outside of the parameters.
Specifically, you could only search for single attributes which could not be filtered by level requirement or value. For example, if you wanted an item with poison damage, you'd get every single item on the AH with that stat, regardless of level requirement. Nor could you be specific, limiting the search to items that provided 20+ poison damage, because you felt anything below that value was useless.
im pretty sure the rage involved would be 100x higher for all HC players if that was the case. lol
Official Blizzard Quote:
We'll have info soon. Some additional changes snuck in to Patch 10.
Official Blizzard Quote:
A few more changes have made their way in to Diablo III beta patch 10, including the removal of Scrolls of Companion and Scrolls of Reforging, and we’ll be updating the patch notes to reflect that.
In both cases these are features we felt were underdeveloped and just not quite good enough for the game in their current state. The companion pets felt like they were mandatory to maximize play efficiency and some of the pets were too cutesy for the gritty, dark world of Sanctuary. Neither of those are issues we felt like we could solve without a lot of additional work, and we’re trying to close in on a solid release date for the game, not move further away. When weighing these systems against releasing the game, we decided to cut these scrolls and stay on track for the game’s release.
We think we can make companion pets into a much cooler system (both mechanically and visually), and evolve the reforging scrolls into a more meaningful system at some point in the future. For the time being, they will not be in the initial release of the game.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Neither of those are issues we felt like we could solve without a lot of additional work, and we’re trying to close in on a solid release date for the game, not move further away. When weighing these systems against releasing the game, we decided to cut these scrolls and stay on track for the game’s release.
This makes me very happy. Glad to see they are pushing things through to get this out the door.
we already dont have to pick up gold, in D2 we had to "pick it up" now we have to run over it.
Plus someone made the comment I never even thought of. What was the point of gold pickup radius? Now it has a point again.
Trying to apply real life logic into a video game that it's mechanics, physics, and lore defire all relative logic is kinda redudant. I agree with removing cutesy for the "gothic and grim" diablo we all are awaiting for... then again this grim and gothic game has been dubmed down for the masses and 12 yr olds... wait is this game really gothic and grim anymore?
It's not always redundant. Not in cases like this which make you facepalm. Logic, even in games full of magic and myth, still should be somewhat retained to avoid LOLWTF moments (a guy gets stabbed through the freaking face by Baraka and tossed halfway across the room but Liu Kang asks him if he's ok the moment he hits the ground. WTF? The guy is dead as shit Liu Kang!!)
I think it's still grim and gothic, don't mistake design choices with theme and art style. You have halved bodies, blood, torture chambers, organs hanging on hooks, monsters that have half their stomach sticking out. Not very kid friendly at all.
Yet this same logic you apply to WoW doesn't apply either, it was initially a story about war death and all that other glory stuff then as the game got more popular it became less grim and more childish. I'm hoping this fate doesn't apply to this series but until I play the full released game I'm not going to commit to an answer. Also for a grim game seems a bit colourful still
EDIT: Quoted wrong section for WoW statement, but meh.