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Your Beta Thoughts
As you know over 100k beta keys were sent out two days ago. This means a lot of you have now played through your very first run of the beta! We want to know your thoughts! Tell us what you favorite part was! Did anything surprise you? Did something make you want the game even more than before? Tell us in the comments and include any screenshots if you like!
The graphics are nice, the gameplay is a bit clunky at times -- I think the gold radius needs to be enlarged some.
Is it a bad game? No. Will it live up to D1 and D2? No, but most sequels don't.
I started with the Wizard and shot through, unlocking every achievement I could on him and getting him to level 13 in about 12 hours. He consistently killed things in 2 hits (minus elites, obv). He had a solid mix of single target abilities but also aoe that wrecked havoc on everything I came upon.
For my 2nd character I settled on WD since he seems the most unique and honestly, I'm not impressed.
His poison dart past the introductory quests comes across as too underpowered. Where my wizard 2 shot things, the WD can take up to 6 shots to kill zombies, that's with waiting for the poison dot to deal its additional damage.
His exploding frogs seem like a waste of mana/arcane -- just about every cast, 1-2 of them would hit some pebble in the road or an invisible wall and explode prematurely, quite often they'd explode at my feet the second I cast them.
So, being disappointed with the frogs, I got excited when I unlocked the zombie dogs -- that is, until I used them. Just like his darts, they're just too underpowered. Running around in the cathedral I came across a group of 5 (might've been 4) zombies and decided to see how'd my dogs do -- they died. Sure, they were outmatched and only meant to supplement my abilities but on a 1v1 fight that I did Zombie vs. Zombie dog, about 50% of the time the dog died still.
I'm sure the WD will get better but working through it right now, I'm not convinced that he's balanced enough in the early game.
Though I'll concede the point that I could be headed down the wrong track and that maybe the wizard is just too powerful and the WD is actually where it needs to be.
I'll keep playing him and get around to the other classes as well.
But on a sidenote: Did they really need to make the WD a carbon copy of Dhalsim from Street Fighter?
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It's like watching a B&W movie and knowing that the actor is wearing a yellow shirt, for example.
Most colorblind people can do this with relative ease.
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Either way --- quite the hardware setup to handle but presumably he's also farming other games too, I'd imagine?
Internet wise - what kind of connection are we talking about to run all of them, at once - presumably from the same location.
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The graphics are nice, the gameplay is a bit clunky at times -- I think the gold radius needs to be enlarged some.
Is it a bad game? No. Will it live up to D1 and D2? No, but most sequels don't.
I started with the Wizard and shot through, unlocking every achievement I could on him and getting him to level 13 in about 12 hours. He consistently killed things in 2 hits (minus elites, obv). He had a solid mix of single target abilities but also aoe that wrecked havoc on everything I came upon.
For my 2nd character I settled on WD since he seems the most unique and honestly, I'm not impressed.
His poison dart past the introductory quests comes across as too underpowered. Where my wizard 2 shot things, the WD can take up to 6 shots to kill zombies, that's with waiting for the poison dot to deal its additional damage.
His exploding frogs seem like a waste of mana/arcane -- just about every cast, 1-2 of them would hit some pebble in the road or an invisible wall and explode prematurely, quite often they'd explode at my feet the second I cast them.
So, being disappointed with the frogs, I got excited when I unlocked the zombie dogs -- that is, until I used them. Just like his darts, they're just too underpowered. Running around in the cathedral I came across a group of 5 (might've been 4) zombies and decided to see how'd my dogs do -- they died. Sure, they were outmatched and only meant to supplement my abilities but on a 1v1 fight that I did Zombie vs. Zombie dog, about 50% of the time the dog died still.
I'm sure the WD will get better but working through it right now, I'm not convinced that he's balanced enough in the early game.
Though I'll concede the point that I could be headed down the wrong track and that maybe the wizard is just too powerful and the WD is actually where it needs to be.
I'll keep playing him and get around to the other classes as well.
But on a sidenote: Did they really need to make the WD a carbon copy of Dhalsim from Street Fighter?