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    posted a message on From The New Leaked Beta Photos... "The Dumb Way To Hold A Shield."
    for fencing bucklers yes that is true. But bucklers worn by gladiators in ancient Rome were mounted on the arm.
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    posted a message on From The New Leaked Beta Photos... "The Dumb Way To Hold A Shield."
    A true buckler function the same as an oversized arm guard and would fit in the same manner as shown here. I have no problem with this design.
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    posted a message on New leaked beta photos
    saw this on another site:

    Blizzard Quote:
    Question: I would like to learn if this one with beta key is from media,press, friends and family or invites already started for all “normal” users.
    Blizzard’s Answer: Beta testing is NOT started. I would like to remind you that you should be careful to all the information you receive. With the beta on the edge there are always a lot of thieves around. At this point of time we are getting prepared to start the internal beta testing (employee, friends and family), and for this period keys will not be sent. As soon as we will be able to open the closed beta for all who registered for it at the battle.net we will officially announce it. Invites will go out ONLY after an official announcement.


    Where did the Beta downloader screenshot come from?
    Blizzard Quote:
    Question: Where that guy got that screenshots/client downloader?
    Blizzard’s Answer: He could get it from anywhere. For years now we are showing out different builds on multiple gaming events, where anyone can try the game out.
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    posted a message on New leaked beta photos
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    Quote from lMarcusl

    I'm very disappointed by the leaked stuff so far. Graphics settings seem very low because you can see every pixel and a lot of things seem quite unfinished...the selection screen has nothing on the D2 screen (which is an 11 years old game!!!!). At the last picture the barbarian isn't even holding the damn shield in his hand, it's just stuck to his arm... I really hope this is just really old footage and stuff because I am not impressed at all.


    Just to reply, that would be a buckler. It is supposed to be strapped to your arm instead of being held as a shield.

    ...yes... its a buckler... you are supposedly be able to dual yield, while having the buckler on also... but i dont know if that will be the case here...

    It isn't always a duel wield mechanic. It really isn't even meant historically as a dual wield weapon. It was used and designed for fencing or for quick attacks. http://www.thearma.org/essays/SwordandBuckler.htm
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    posted a message on New leaked beta photos
    Well in regard to the lore aspects, they have said multiple times, there is more lore and more conversations in D3 then there are in D2. It is just that you don't have to sit there and read them, but they are voiced over so you can keep playing if you wish. Nothing wrong with this game design. I don't truly care if I have to read it or I have to hear it, as long as it is in there.

    As for the graphics, again we don't have a clue what the setting were, or how they have been compressed and saved and everything else that can break down the integrity of the image.

    Finally as for the character creation screen-It is better then what we originally had in D2 and far better then what was in the D2 beta. So chill, it will work itself out. This is beta.
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    posted a message on New leaked beta photos
    Quote from lMarcusl

    I'm very disappointed by the leaked stuff so far. Graphics settings seem very low because you can see every pixel and a lot of things seem quite unfinished...the selection screen has nothing on the D2 screen (which is an 11 years old game!!!!). At the last picture the barbarian isn't even holding the damn shield in his hand, it's just stuck to his arm... I really hope this is just really old footage and stuff because I am not impressed at all.


    Just to reply, that would be a buckler. It is supposed to be strapped to your arm instead of being held as a shield.
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    posted a message on we have beta forums
    here is the info post in the forum. I am assuming this is new and I haven't just missed it based off fact that the only post in it is 30 minutes old.

    http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3118161827
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    posted a message on Gold Sharing Question #2
    their will be no link between hardcore and softcore characters in anyway. Haven't read it stated that way, but from everything they are saying, there will be no way to funnel gold, items, or anything from hardcore to softcore or vis a verse.
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    posted a message on Siegebreaker question
    Yes, but they have also completely changed where and how you find caine. also, you don't exit the cathedral after finding him like in that video, you go further down into the cathedral. so they have obviously reworked a lot sense that vid.
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    posted a message on Siegebreaker question
    So I can remember way back when the disscusion about if Siegebreaker was actually gonna be in act 1 or not? I really like the siegebreaker and think it may be my favorite diablo monster sense the butcher. I am not certain I think he will show up in act 1 just because I think the 4some in the video was pretty high level and were well equiped. It makes me wonder if it is actually a much later creature?

    What do ya'll think?
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    posted a message on French interview about items and identifying
    guess I had just missed the info about not having to id blue items
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    posted a message on Was this REALLY ever a serious problem?
    well the guys that did D1 and D2 wanted D3 to be an mmo

    Flux: What were Blizzard North’s plans for Diablo III, when you really got started on it back in 2001? What were you expanding from Diablo II, and in what new directions did you want to take the concept and design?
    Max: We wanted to make it a bigger game. We were going the MMO route. We wanted to support many more players in the game. When I left the company in 2003 the project was still very early on; far from the point where we could have revealed anything about it publicly, since so much would still have changed. There’s lots and lots that goes in inside game companies that never hits the light of day, since projects change so much in their early iterations. We may have changed our own path radically had we kept going on it.

    But at the time our thinking was to go more MMO on it. We wanted to foster big in-game communities. Not just session-based with four or eight people. We wanted more than just 4 or 8 people per game. We wanted a big overworld and a giant shared community.

    Flux: You’d have hosted lots of players in the same instance? Or like a perpetual world?
    Max: A really big instance. Basically a perpetual world.
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    posted a message on French interview about items and identifying
    http://www.jeuxvideo.com/reportages-videos-jeux/0002/00021770/diablo-iii-pc-les-objets-00000859.htm

    Haven't seen it before, don't read or speak french, but the answers by the blizzard guys are in english.

    If this has been posted before, sorry. Accordning to this, you don't have to identify blue items(magic) just rares and legendary items.

    The footage is all broll I believe.

    Oh, I had to click on pc on the right to get it to play, hopefully it will do that automatically for ya'll.

    Oh and if it isn't french my apologies. that is what I thought it was.
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    posted a message on Spell Animation
    Ok, how about realism about WD needs to use his hands to cast spells. It could be intentional design as opposed to laziness
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