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I got a question for Blizzcon regarding Bashiok's post on the death mechanic. How are they going to prevent check point spawn mf runs? Say... there is a super chest and a check point right before it. You open the superchest, go kill yourself and open the chest again. Maybe there will be a unique boss right after a checkpoint that isn't big enough by himself to give you another checkpoint when you kill him but give good drops.. so you kill him and die right after, and keep killing him. I'm worried that the death checkpoint idea will create super MF runs. Also, what will prevent people from bringing lots of monsters to the checkpoint where they know people will be spawning because there is a hard part right in front of it? It would be like a monster pk tactic.

-5speed

1) With diablo 2 players were forced to make 'mules' due to not having enough room for all their items. I note that a new inventory system will help reduce this problem, but what if the player has 100's if not 1000's of items? Will you be implementing a 'gold' system similar to what D2jsp.org forums has done? which in result has solved this very problem.


2) Diablo PVPing has always been an aspect of what truly made diablo what it is; uniquely bold and not watered down as most games of today are. How will you expand upon diablo2's pvp system without losing alot of the charm found in d2 pvp?


3) Some Fans seem concerned in regards to PK'ers joining public games and killing them when they're very low level. Instead of catering to only these concerned players and having 'mutual hosting in pvp', instead will a 'level hosting restriction' be implemented? Where players can host anyone same level or higher than them, however, can only host someone within 5-10 lvls below them without having to have a mutal agreement?

haha I didnt really word the last question very well but i think its pretty important.

Quote from "necronergal" »

this is more towards battle.net then diablo 3.

how much of a revamp willl battle.net 2.0 be to battle.net?

might have been said already somewhere but ya.

this has been stated in diablo 3 interviews in that battle.net features are for the sc2 team to hype and release, not d3 team

and since sc2 release date should be announced at blizzcon, I bet they will already be releasing the 2.0 features

and then they announce all the diablo 3 classes

and then they announce world of starcraft!!!!!!

plzz have a splash screen when we wake up tomorrow blizzard... plzzz

[Question] Will Diablo III have bosses/unique monster encounters that are multi-layered? By this I mean having the bosses/uniques use different attack abilities and tactics as you get their health lower.

[Specifics] I know I might get flamed for this...but the 3-phase Kael'Thas encounters from The Burning Crusade are a great example of a challenging boss fight that develops in flavour as you move into each phase. It would be awesome to see the environment used against us in such fights as well. Other worthy reference points could be the 'Sisters of Fate' fight in the God of War series.

[Question Again] Can we expect to see some of this multi-layered encounter approach to bosses in Diablo as opposed to the 'hey I'm big and I'm going to keep hitting you in 10 different animations till you kill me' approach?


-MajorMoose humbly requests.

Will D3 have a playable demo? If so when do you guys project it will be released?

Quote from "MajorMoose" »

[Question] Will Diablo III have bosses/unique monster encounters that are multi-layered? By this I mean having the bosses/uniques use different attack abilities and tactics as you get their health lower.

[Specifics] I know I might get flamed for this...but the 3-phase Kael'Thas encounters from The Burning Crusade are a great example of a challenging boss fight that develops in flavour as you move into each phase. It would be awesome to see the environment used against us in such fights as well. Other worthy reference points could be the 'Sisters of Fate' fight in the God of War series.

[Question Again] Can we expect to see some of this multi-layered encounter approach to bosses in Diablo as opposed to the 'hey I'm big and I'm going to keep hitting you in 10 different animations till you kill me' approach?


-MajorMoose humbly requests.

Take a closer look at the gameplay video. At one point (Can't remember where) there is some demon that some dudes summon that sucks all their blood/etc up to make itself. After it got hit a bit, it increased in speed and some weird flaming rune appeared all over its body. I'd say they've already started doing this =)

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Is is possible to move to previous world locations in Diablo III, even though your player character has progressed to another act? Or is one limited to staying within the zone the act is focused on?

For example:

- I just completed A1, A2. In A3 (assuming there is one), can/will a player visit A1 again in addition to being able to access a new area?

Oooh ooh ooh, even cooler, once they go back to act one, might they find a bunch of new quests that weren't even available yet due to things happening in the story in act 2/3 causing quests/etc to appear in act one that weren't there originally ...

Wow, bad at explaining my point there.

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Oooh ooh ooh, even cooler, once they go back to act one, might they find a bunch of new quests that weren't even available yet due to things happening in the story in act 2/3 causing quests/etc to appear in act one that weren't there originally ...

Wow, bad at explaining my point there.

That I think would be very interesting.

Quote from "Decay" »

Take a closer look at the gameplay video. At one point (Can't remember where) there is some demon that some dudes summon that sucks all their blood/etc up to make itself. After it got hit a bit, it increased in speed and some weird flaming rune appeared all over its body. I'd say they've already started doing this =)

Ahh Indeedy the Thousand Pounder unique was an awesome touch from the gameplay trailer for sure. The flaming rune was a nice touch and is indeed a hint of what I was expecting

I would however like to see that get expressed in more extensive ways like the Kael'Thas/Sisters of Fate encounters- like actually have the scenario/setting/environment change along with the boss abilities so that you're forced to learn a new tactic or use a different strategy. Diablo III needs to be easy to use- but I would definitely not like to see it become a pushover like D2 felt at times.

Again I don't want to sound like a prude- but it would definitely be comforting to hear that this aspect is being given due focus- directly from the horse's mouth

Quote from "wtfomgbbq" »

That I think would be very interesting.

Or even more interesting:



going back to find that as a result of failing "quest x" ... a town is burned down, people slaughtered, and overrun with demons, etc! This would definitely add to the creepy/fearful feeling we'll hopefully all get from the game. :thumbsup:

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The mercenary system of diablo2 was nice, but the equipping of them was very limited, and you could not customize skills, here are a few questions about mercenaries.

1. Will you Be Able to name your mercenary?

2. Will your mercenary change looks depending on what you equip him with?

3. Will your mercenary have a limited skill customization, or occasionally yell things during combat? (more interactive)

4. Will your mercenary have an inventory to store things? (i never saw why they could not carry items in d2, haha)

5. Also, if there are 5 acts like before, (or more lol) will act 4 still jip us with only half content? XD i hated act 4's lack of stuff to do.

top notch questions .. i really cant see why they cant wear the exact same things as normal chars .. like rings, amulets carry charms etc and have an inventory the same size .. fair enough if you have to pay them gold per day for carrying it etc but they should implement this

Seems like most of the questions are from people who haven't been paying much attention to what Blizzard has been saying

Questions:

- Will there be a demo released before the retail game? When?

- Can we at least have a ballpark estimate of when Diablo III will be released?

- What will the minimum/recommended system requirements be?

- Can we have lots of trailers/movies between acts or even between quests? No one can produce as excellent and gripping movies as Blizzard!

- Will bodies/corpses be removed from the physics engine to stay longer on the battlefield to create that "carnage" feeling

- Will the game and especially boss-fights be tense? With D1 and D2, even the second time around you still shit your pants when coming to some of the bosses. With this new globe effect I get the feeling that you will develop the feeling that you will defeat the boss, he won't kill you, it just takes long. And if you die, whoops, no big deal, respawn at the previous checkpoint with no penalty.

Opinions:

- I liked the fact that in D1 and D2 you were swearing as you tried to hit buttons 1 to 4 to get health. Then you died and was determined even more to go beat that boss!

- I think there should be some sort of punishment when you die. Loss of gold perhaps or that you have to walk a long way. I didn't like the fact that you could lose your items. If dying isn't punishing, it will become trivial and people won't get gripped in the game. You're fighing the devil after all, you should be scared as hell!

Just my 2c

Quote from "sonicpld" »

- Will be a game released this winter ?
- Will be back Sorcerer and Paladin ?
- Will be there other missunderstandings like "Which doctor" ?
- Will be back and advanced runewords ?
- What will be lvl cap ?
- Will be Stall trade - like in Silkroad ?
This is the most important questions about Diablo 3.

We already know answers to all those questions...

Quote from "Oddity" »

Seems like most of the questions are from people who haven't been paying much attention to what Blizzard has been saying

Quote from "Dimebog" »

We already know answers to all those questions...

feel free to answer any of the questions here that blizzard has already been talking about .. not all of us have enough hours a day to spend reading every ounce of info released ..and it may even help out the mod of this thread incase he missed reading the blizzard release of that info .. which in turn will save him from looking silly asking that question on the day

it will also stop a second person asking the same question hopefully (if they read everything in this thread).

An old chinese proverb says:
''He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not remains a fool forever.''

How will the lack of town portals effect co-operative play. One of the best parts of the town portal was when a new player joined an existing game they could quickly catchup to the players in the game by being given a townportal. It sounds like the current direction is, "make it a bigger decision to go to town" but won't that make grouping up more cumbersome?

Quote from "sonicpld" »

- Will be a game released this winter ?
Diablo 3 will be released when it's done. Most chances it won't be released this winter.

- Will be back Sorcerer and Paladin ?
The barbarian will be the only returning class in Diablo 3. There might be returning classes in an expansion for the game, but it's way too early to think about that.

- Will be there other missunderstandings like "Which doctor" ?
Misunderstanding?... The next announced classes will probably recieve the same reception as the witch doctor, if that's what you meant. I wasn't really sure what you meant, sorry.

- Will be back and advanced runewords ?
No, this feature is most likely being pulled off.

- What will be lvl cap ?
For now, Diablo 3 is going for the same level cap as Diablo 2 - 99. Maybe it will be raised to 100, but there is no drastic change being planned currently.

- Will be Stall trade - like in Silkroad ?
Stall trade? Sorry, I don't know "Silkroad".

This is the most important questions about Diablo 3.

I answered your questions as best as I could based on what we already know... in question 3 and 6 I wasn't sure what you were talking about.

How is the PvP system going to differ from that of D2?

Will there be organized clans / guilds?

Will there be a PvP ranking system other than just a ladder based on level?

Will there be arena style PvP?

Will there be team PvP?

Will there be an option to do an advanced start?

For example... say we want to try a new barbarian character, but don't want to wade through the first Act, will we be able to set up an advanced start (presumably we would just have character and skill points to distribute and gold to furnish ourselves via the town).

Can the character that you play get a different/animated death if killed by a critical strike from an enemy?

Can Kratos be a playable class? :D:D:D

In any part of the game, will the 3 brothers reunite? I really wanna fight meph,diablo,baal at the same time... just for a big finish.

Theres 5 classes if im not mistaken, so there will be 5 different Follower / Merc's classes?