Hey guys and girls, for those playing the Beta or who may know this stuff I'm hoping someone can answer a couple of questions about D3.
I'm furious that D3 is online only. I've learned to accept it, but it seems there may be other issues for me with this system.
- Pausing. Can you pause D3? I read you cant and the closest thing to it is finding somewhere safe (town I presume) and... just standing there, which leads me to my next point.
- Autokick. Will you get kicked from inactivity? I'm married with a little girl so I'll often play games between doing the dishes, cooking diner, putting the little one to bed etc,etc and will often come and go from a game. Being kicked isnt so bad if I can save at any point, but this leads to my next point.
- Saving. Can you save at any point, or do you need to find a checkpoint? If so....
- Checkpoint Availability. I also read that sometimes checkpoints can be VERY far between... like 2 hours in some cases. More time than I usually even spend playing on a week night.
I hope all this isn't true and it seems like a bad dream. If it is, there really wont be much hope for me to D3 properly at all and I'll probably just pass on it altogether in this format.
Thanks in advance.
You cannot pause the game, even when playing alone. You may always teleport back to town or take a waypoint and idle there.
No idea on autokick. I know that the game does not currently have kick functionality as far as doing it manually. Actually now that I think about it, I saw 3 people afking in a video for almost 2 hours and not only did they not get kicked, they actually still got around 2/3rds of the experience...
The game is always saving. It's basically persistent in it's saving.
From what I saw of the beta checkpoints (as far as quest progress) weren't very far apart at all. It only takes about an hour to kill the skeleton king from the start of the act to him, and that's around 4 quests I think.
It takes about 10 seconds to quit the game if you aren't in town, and you have an instant quit option if you are in town. I don't think that you will have as much problems with the game as you foresee.
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You cannot pause the game, even when playing alone. You may always teleport back to town or take a waypoint and idle there.
No idea on autokick. I know that the game does not currently have kick functionality as far as doing it manually. Actually now that I think about it, I saw 3 people afking in a video for almost 2 hours and not only did they not get kicked, they actually still got around 2/3rds of the experience...
The game is always saving. It's basically persistent in it's saving.
From what I saw of the beta checkpoints (as far as quest progress) weren't very far apart at all. It only takes about an hour to kill the skeleton king from the start of the act to him, and that's around 4 quests I think.
It takes about 10 seconds to quit the game if you aren't in town, and you have an instant quit option if you are in town. I don't think that you will have as much problems with the game as you foresee.