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I wonder if they will ever add PVP to the beta. I understand they aren't going to further the campaign, but PVP would be nice.

Also it was a surprise to me that the scripted death animations like the ones found in the 2008 teaser fight with the siege breaker will not be making it into release. (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3967589584)

Unfortunately we never managed to get these implemented. They were a really cool idea, but a pretty huge amount of work. The one we showed of the siegebreaker was a scripted sequence we set up specifically for that video. It was never implemented, and never actually worked without someone sitting there typing in a bunch of commands to get it all to fire off properly. It's still something we'd like to do, though.

All things considered there are just higher priority tasks sometimes. We'd love, for example, to have the monk display his weapons during all of his skill animations. But it's an enormous animation and effects investment to get it done, and we have to weigh all of these things against other features and polish. A lot of the skills we could improve have multiple animation sets, multiplied twice for each gender, and then multiplied by each weapon type he can equip. That can be 40 or more unique animations, and then there's a full FX pass, approvals, QA testing, etc. etc. and that'd just be for 1 skill.


We have our wish lists, but it's a balancing act of resources. Ideally our choices when balancing go toward setting realistic limitations, and producing the best game possible.

I wonder if they will ever add PVP to the beta. I understand they aren't going to further the campaign, but PVP would be nice.

Also it was a surprise to me that the scripted death animations like the ones found in the 2008 teaser fight with the siege breaker will not be making it into release. (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3967589584)

Unfortunately we never managed to get these implemented. They were a really cool idea, but a pretty huge amount of work. The one we showed of the siegebreaker was a scripted sequence we set up specifically for that video. It was never implemented, and never actually worked without someone sitting there typing in a bunch of commands to get it all to fire off properly. It's still something we'd like to do, though.

All things considered there are just higher priority tasks sometimes. We'd love, for example, to have the monk display his weapons during all of his skill animations. But it's an enormous animation and effects investment to get it done, and we have to weigh all of these things against other features and polish. A lot of the skills we could improve have multiple animation sets, multiplied twice for each gender, and then multiplied by each weapon type he can equip. That can be 40 or more unique animations, and then there's a full FX pass, approvals, QA testing, etc. etc. and that'd just be for 1 skill.

We have our wish lists, but it's a balancing act of resources. Ideally our choices when balancing go toward setting realistic limitations, and producing the best game possible.

Doubt any of the patches will be runestone related, they've already said runestones won't be in the beta no?

On a side note, assuming this patch fixes the crashes and errors etc I have a feeling we could be seeing a rather large wave of beta invites coming in the next few days. Hopefully?

Hmmmm, only the patch notes will tell.

Basically admiting that much of the coolest stuff in '08 was a demo that will never see release. Shocking.

That was quick.

Either runes or PVP is not needed in the Beta, the Beta is fun as it is. Those who want more can give me their accounts so I can enjoy them instead.

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i hope they will fix rapid fire on DH and fire bats on WD cus when i use them it crashes my game... so just alt+f4 is my only option to quit game

I've had problems with disintegrate as well >< Pretty sure the fix for those is in patch 11. Not going to lie tho, when I read patch 11, my first thought was omg maybe they finally decided on runestones!

I wonder if Patch 11 will fix the copyright text (Year) at the bottom of the Login screen...

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i hope they will fix rapid fire on DH and fire bats on WD cus when i use them it crashes my game... so just alt+f4 is my only option to quit game

I've had problems with disintegrate as well >< Pretty sure the fix for those is in patch 11. Not going to lie tho, when I read patch 11, my first thought was omg maybe they finally decided on runestones!

Disable Vsync or play in window mode. Should "fix" the sync problems that occures when you use channeled skills. Also I wouldnt be too sure that its fixed with Patch 11... they said they fixed it with Patch 10 but it only got worse

Oh and its sad that the Monk wont get any animations for release it looks really stupid that the sheaths/unsheaths his weapons for every strike <_<

Spot on! You should always play in window mode

Why do you guys prefer windowed mode? My computer is getting pretty old, but when I turn down all the graphics options to lowest coupled with the smallest resolution possible, it runs smoothly. But when I tried running in fullscreen windowed mode as opposed to just the regular fullscreen mode, it becomes choppy again.

What other reasons are there to use windowed over fullscreen other than quick and easy alt-tabbing? And maybe crashes for some reason...?