IGN was able to talk to both Wyatt and Jay about patch 1.0.5. Below are some quick highlights from the article about the new features coming in 1.0.5. Make sure to check out the full article over on IGN.
- "The goal of the system is to allow players set a monster power level, and the higher they set the level the bigger the bonuses they'll get to magic find, experience and loot drops -- but the harder the game will be."
- Monster Power will work in all difficulties, including Normal.
- "At level 60 players can find various objects to put together a device that will allow them to fight more powerful bosses hidden throughout the game,"
- PvP will be ready when it's ready. They want to make it the best they can. "the original hope was this year, but they're focused on making its quality up to their standards."
Blizzard Comic Contest Winner
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
And the comic contest winner for August, 2012, is ... Heather Scoggins (Theodel).
The talented winner will receive a DC Unlimited StarCraft® Premium Series 2: Tychus Findlay Action Figure. Congratulations! In September, we’ll be giving away a SteelSeries Diablo® III Headset to the winner of the next Blizzard Comic Contest.
Keep those comics coming, and you might be the next artist to take home a prize! Also, be sure to set aside some time to check out our Warcraftand StarCraft comic sections.
The talented winner will receive a DC Unlimited StarCraft® Premium Series 2: Tychus Findlay Action Figure. Congratulations! In September, we’ll be giving away a SteelSeries Diablo® III Headset to the winner of the next Blizzard Comic Contest.
Keep those comics coming, and you might be the next artist to take home a prize! Also, be sure to set aside some time to check out our Warcraftand StarCraft comic sections.
Diablo III Inferno Booster Pack Winners
The winners for this weeks Booster Pack have been selected! Congratulations to our US winner Nacho_ijp and our EU winner Pebaar. If you did not win this week, fear not! The contest will return again on Friday for another chance at free loot.
Curse Weekly Roundup
In this weeks roundup: the November 18th launch of the WiiU, Guild Wars 2 for hitting the mark of 2 million copies sold, The first set of games are pushing in under the Steam Greenlight project, Endermen and Blue Cave Spiders come to XBox 360, Terraria comes to XBLA and PSN, and finally NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 and 650 have arrived!
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Posted Sep 17, 2012I hope not. That'll add D3 to my increasing pile of games I need to play the coming week. >.<
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Also kind of intrigued by the uber bosses and what kind of items we can expect from them.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Now their lieing and saying they originally said the end of the year???
And to add insult to injury are saying it wont be here till 2013?
Horrible public relations....I wonder why when it was playable in 2010 with full arenas with the schedule of launch(later being pushed back to "just after launch", they have failed this badly???
Hope lots were fired over the failure to meet deadlines.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012mmm...let' see if they learned from their previous mistakes, shut their mugs up, keep their heads down and give us something good.
I'm not a fan of the "share all with the community 4 year in advance, raise the expectations, scratch the game few months before expected release, scrap togheter something that resemble a game, patch it later till you have a good game" approach.
Have to say in my opinion they did a good job with patches and the game is actually fun to play.
Thnks Molster!
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Posted Sep 18, 2012That you fail to read isnt blizzards fault.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Just saw a friend that is a very good player failing Diablo fight on inferno OVER AND OVER because it's a jaywilsoned encounter. Stupidly increased math, that doesn't account for the artifacts that brake fight mechanics.
His only option was to keep trying until LUCK allowed him to fight without any of those broken mechanics happening.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012LOL im guessing your a new player...
PvP was avalaible in 2010 at expo's blizzard attended. They also stated during beta they were ment to have PvP at release but that it would be pushed back till shortly after release.
Then YOU FAILED TO READ:
""the original hope was this year, but they're focused on making its quality up to their standards."
Which is in the top line of the article were posting about and obviously implys that they dont have the resources to get it out this year, even though they had finished one of the systems and made it playable in 2010 and promised it to customers before release that it would be avalible shortly after.
I guess having the best selling video game of all time still doesn't give you enough money to be able to meet internal or even publically annouced deadlines even with 3 years of pre-development/their obviously small amount of staff
Its a bloody tough multi-billion dollar industry I tells ya.../sigh
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Its because they are trying to figure out how to let people with 200k damage and only 500k ehp fight eachother with out it being really really really stupid (1 shot fest)
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Oh and speaking of failing to read:
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
As we're counting down the days until we're ready to announce a release date for Diablo III, we've come to realize that the PvP game and systems aren't yet living up to our standards. Today, we wanted to let you know that we've made the difficult decision to hold back the PvP Arena system and release it in a patch following the game's launch. After a lot of consideration and discussion, we ultimately felt that delaying the whole game purely for PvP would just be punishing to everyone who's waiting to enjoy the campaign and core solo/co-op content, all of which is just about complete.
While we work on making sure PvP lives up to its full potential, we hope you'll find some consolation in the fact that soon, you'll be having a blast leveling characters, finding items, learning the classes, and perfecting builds…and that when the Arenas do arrive, you’ll be all the better prepared for battle.
When the PvP patch is ultimately ready, it will add multiple Arena maps with themed locations and layouts, PvP-centric achievements, and a matchmaking system that will help you and your team get into fairly matched games quickly and easily. We'll also be adding a personal progression system that will reward you for successfully bashing in the other team's skulls.
We know a lot of you are looking forward to PvP, and we’ll be focusing our post-launch efforts on making sure the Arenas are as brutal, bloody, fast-paced, and awesome as we know they can be. In the meantime, we're in the process of putting the finishing touches on what we think is a truly epic campaign and co-op experience for launch.
We'll have a lot more info to share on the PvP system in the future, and we look forward to the moment we can get the game into your hands.
SHow me in here where it says "shortly after release"?
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Posted Sep 18, 2012I wonder if the magic find will allow us to stack over the MF cap. Otherwise it will be a bit contradicting to the system they're going after. Once you acquire good enough gear to do the higher difficulty levels you'll naturally have a higher paragon level (and probably some MF on your gear) so the reward won't be so great.
However, if it lets us break the cap (and possibly more item drops)... that should be a decent reward.
I wonder what is being done to the monsters to increase difficulty though. If it's just increased HP, that won't make the game harder. I hope it's at least increased damage and hp. If they increase the damage though, they're going to run into the same problems they originally ran into with Inferno. Ranged classes getting 1 shot and melee classes complaining that they're forced to take all their defensive skills. It will be pretty funny if this new system brings all those issues back.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012I dunno how I feel about Bind to Account items...
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Praise the gods. If these legendaries weren't BoA the AH would devalue them so fast that you'd be able to get them for a few hundred thousand, maybe even less, in a few days' time.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012PvP will release if and when they are happy with it. Not before.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012That's not very reassuring
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Posted Sep 18, 2012They always claim it was up to their standards when they do get critical acclaim and never when it gets bad reception.
Only using hindsight to gauge your "standards" is the anti-thesis of assuring. Also you are clearly forgetting which team is working on this game. Not SC, not WoW. But rather the fail team. The team that actually had standards for Diablo has their game releasing in two days.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012Heres 3 different sources quoting Jay, and a video of himself saying shortly after release:
http://www.cinemable...unch-40854.html
http://www.tomshardw...ming,14980.html
http://www.mmo-champ...iablo-3-release
So yea, guess you havent been around since beta but we had the developer tell us it would be ready a few months after launch and made a big apology to the community for not meeting their deadline of having it out when the game launches.
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Posted Sep 18, 2012