"Diablo: The male wizard is taking winter by storm with this stunning off the shoulder piece by Horadrim Couture (5of6)"
From the tweet pertaining to announcing today's armor class. Seems like it means the Blizzcon demo, and through that possibly an Act in the final game, is going to be in the snow. Sorry if someone already caught this. Too bad its not a completely new type of environment, but in D2 they kinda covered all their bases for environment templates.
well just think how good the desert in diablo 3 looks compared to diablo 2. a snowy environment will look pretty cool
My thoughts exactly. Considering how much better the desert looked in last years demo I'm really excited to see a snowy act, if thats what Bashiok is hinting at. It could be the blue/white color of his outfit but this is more fun to talk about.
They already said no new act will be at Blizzcon. Maybe a different region within the same act, as I think they said that there may be instances like that, though that was right after the announcement years ago.
Ah now that you say that it does sound familiar. Well regardless, snow would be cool. And one would think they would still want a new environment of some sorts, so its not out of the question completely. Just a few more days till we find out anyways haha
They have recently stated that there will be a wide range of areas per act but each act will have a common theme/region. I personally think the statement was just sarcasm of the usual fashion wording.
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Yea like i said thats a possibility, but this is more fun to think of. And just overall, a return to a very well done snow level on par with the change from D2 Desert to D3 Desert would be very very cool. Plus, deserts have mountains in them. Kilimanjaro has snow on its peak year-round.
Well just like a week till we find out. Like I said I think the demo, or if not the demo, then the gameplay section they have on the Blizzcon schedule, will be in an enviornment that we havent seen before, because otherwise it would be something of a let down. Although I guess you can do something like forest -> dark forest or plains or something, but I'd like to see a completely different color palette. It would be nice, but really any new footage of D3 would be amazing no matter what.
And on the world map on the D3 site it looks like Xiansai suffered the same fate as the area surrounding Arreat, as its kinda a grey color.
Looking at the cool sandstorm effects they have for the desert area, I'd be hard-pressed not to believe they're working on a snow region eventually. I'm sure it would look great. Heck, I thought it looked awesome in LoD. Every area had unique features.
I thought the only confirmed not-going-there places were the Amazon homeland, that really cool vibrant island concept art) and the Kingdom of Shadow place thats like halfway between heaven and hell, or a portal to hell, or something. Don't remember anything about Xiansai. But I could have missed that. Either way, an Asian place would be sweet.
I thought the only confirmed not-going-there places were the Amazon homeland, that really cool vibrant island concept art) and the Kingdom of Shadow place thats like halfway between heaven and hell, or a portal to hell, or something. Don't remember anything about Xiansai. But I could have missed that. Either way, an Asian place would be sweet.
when taking about the monk homeland one of the devs said only wizards homeland would be in game.
I thought the only confirmed not-going-there places were the Amazon homeland, that really cool vibrant island concept art) and the Kingdom of Shadow place thats like halfway between heaven and hell, or a portal to hell, or something. Don't remember anything about Xiansai. But I could have missed that. Either way, an Asian place would be sweet.
when taking about the monk homeland one of the devs said only wizards homeland would be in game.
thought they were not including any homelands at all, but that they were possibilities for them in expansions.
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"Ureh and Skovos were cut as potential locations in the game a long time ago."
-Bash http://forums.battle.net/search.html?stationId=3000&forumId=12007&searchText=skovos&characterName=&blizzardPoster=true&recentPosts=0
And that seems to be the only talk of specific location cuts from Bashiok. I think those were the only ones with concept art connected to them (Skovos being the really vibrant U-shaped island, and Ureh being the city in the cinematic trailer). There doesn't seem to be anything pointing to anything taking place in many other specific locations, but obviously we only know so much. Visiting homelands would seem to put a particular influence on specific characters in connection to the stories, although I guess Arreat kinda did that for the barbs, so its not out of the question.
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Act II has a variety of locations that aren't just sand blown desert. New locations and changing scenery keep things interesting. We're upping the ante, so you're not going to go into an act and it's essentially the same look and tileset the whole way through. We keep a theme but there's a ton of variation possible, even in a desert.
So that doesn't disqualify climbing up a mountain in the desert (ie a Kilamanjaro equivalent) so snow could be possible without introducing another act. Also, a sweet ass new location template could be Heaven. Just sayin.
From the tweet pertaining to announcing today's armor class. Seems like it means the Blizzcon demo, and through that possibly an Act in the final game, is going to be in the snow. Sorry if someone already caught this. Too bad its not a completely new type of environment, but in D2 they kinda covered all their bases for environment templates.
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Ohh well good find.
My thoughts exactly. Considering how much better the desert looked in last years demo I'm really excited to see a snowy act, if thats what Bashiok is hinting at. It could be the blue/white color of his outfit but this is more fun to talk about.
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Maybe the game starts where Diablo II: Lord of Destruction ends...
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And on the world map on the D3 site it looks like Xiansai suffered the same fate as the area surrounding Arreat, as its kinda a grey color.
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thought they were not including any homelands at all, but that they were possibilities for them in expansions.
-Bash
http://forums.battle.net/search.html?stationId=3000&forumId=12007&searchText=skovos&characterName=&blizzardPoster=true&recentPosts=0
And that seems to be the only talk of specific location cuts from Bashiok. I think those were the only ones with concept art connected to them (Skovos being the really vibrant U-shaped island, and Ureh being the city in the cinematic trailer). There doesn't seem to be anything pointing to anything taking place in many other specific locations, but obviously we only know so much. Visiting homelands would seem to put a particular influence on specific characters in connection to the stories, although I guess Arreat kinda did that for the barbs, so its not out of the question.
Also found this:
So that doesn't disqualify climbing up a mountain in the desert (ie a Kilamanjaro equivalent) so snow could be possible without introducing another act. Also, a sweet ass new location template could be Heaven. Just sayin.
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