Diablo IV

[ADL]

 

[luj1]

this is their target audience lets be real

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

All I know is that that's the only game I played on that laptop, and it was a brand new one. And D4 started crushing more and more often and finally no 3d worked, not even Atom. I did get to finish the story on another PC desktop but I was fortunate this didn't happen on my personal laptop. I do think there was something wrong with D4 when this happened sice I read other people with RTX had similar problems.

 

[KIss My Ass]

It's time I return. Took a lengthy hiatus because of emotional turmoil but I'm getting better and a guy I work with, who initially didn't care for the game while I was playing the shit out of it, got really into the game and has surpassed me. I can't allow that.

 

[Shaki]

I got an urge to play some mindless hack'n'slash, thought about trying Diablo 4. Opened some review on youtube, saw class selection screen with nigger sorcerer, went to reinstall Grim Dawn instead.

 

[KIss My Ass]

I got an urge to play some mindless hack'n'slash, thought about trying Diablo 4. Opened some review on youtube, saw class selection screen with nigger sorcerer, went to reinstall Grim Dawn instead.

The character select screen is completely randomized. I've had all white characters appear on it before.

 

[Shaki]

I got an urge to play some mindless hack'n'slash, thought about trying Diablo 4. Opened some review on youtube, saw class selection screen with nigger sorcerer, went to reinstall Grim Dawn instead.

The character select screen is completely randomized. I've had all white characters appear on it before.

Good to know, maybe I'll try it after all, once I get bored of Grim Dawn again

 

[Arbiter]

No game or program can fry gpu. Your gpu was at fault.

What a coincidence - Starcraft 2 was also known for frying GPUs, even Blizzard admitted that: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/starcraft-2-fries-your-gpu.47406/

 

[Average Manatee]

It's always firstly the GPU's fault for being fryable to begin with

 

[Goldschmidt]

 

[BlackAdderBG]

D3 years of innovation and beloved.

 

[Skinwalker]

Is "expansion" the same thing as "season"? Meaning, do I have to create a new character to play all of the new stuff, in which case I will never play it?

 

[KIss My Ass]

Finally got around to completing the Malignant questline. Pretty underwhelming, especially compared the game's main questline which is mostly great. This just felt rushed and half-assed. The hearts are just more shit you gotta sort through in your stash, ie, work. The final boss was a joke (I don't even remember his name and I just beat him yesterday). Season of Blood better be a big upgrade or I'll be putting this thing down for a year so they can get shit sorted out.

The game is far from dead though. The combat is top notch and if or when they get the multiple damage systems balanced and a proper endgame built this game can become a real beast. Call me fabulously optimistic but the solid foundation is already there. I just don't see this game failing.

 

[ArchAngel]

How real Diablo games got made:

 

[luj1]

There is a unique mace named after him, Schaefer's Hammer

It's pretty good weapon for late Nm, early Hell

Anyway, Condor Entertainment made D2, not Blizzard

PS This guy invented random affixes on magic items, lol crazy

 

[ArchAngel]

There is a unique mace named after him, Schaefer's Hammer

It's pretty good weapon for late Nm, early Hell

Anyway, Condor Entertainment made D2, not Blizzard

I found it funny how he said they didn't have a clue how to run a buisness and they did pay taxes and had to let themselves be bought by Blizzard to be able to finish the game.

Also their new arpg they are making seems interesting

 

[luj1]

I found it funny how he said they didn't have a clue how to run a buisness and they did pay taxes and had to let themselves be bought by Blizzard to be able to finish the game.

yup thats the story

Also their new arpg they are making seems interesting

they also made the Torchlight games

 

[luj1]

This is a good discussion too, everyone was on it

 

[luj1]

ArchAngel allegedly its a project from the original mod development team from Phrozen Keep (!) and ex-Condor/Blizz North

PS we should make a thread about it

 

[Ismaul]

This is a good discussion too, everyone was on it

The rivalry between the Schaefer brothers is quite funny.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

D2 was lightning in a bottle situation for most of these guys, all their other games and even the LoD showed they didn't understand what people liked in the game. Thank God for Chris Wilson, if you ever wondered what the autistic eurojank games could be if they were done by competent developers he is that.

 

[Goldschmidt]

Chris Wilson is the genius of game designers.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Chris Wilson is the genius of game designers.

1. He had nothing to do with the original Diablo which was the best.

2. Diablo 2 was the beginning of the decline, so technically he is responsible for all of the franchise's failures.

3. PoE is a piece of shit and has nothing to do will Diablo, so if you keep bringing it up in here I will smack the ever living shit out of you and your mother.

 

[Zeriel]

Just to confirm the game really did fry my GPU. Fortunately it had warranty and they replaced it but damn, it seems they fucked up badly. Never happened to me before.

No game or program can fry gpu. Your gpu was at fault.

Usually what tends to happen is that most of games don't actually utilize most of gpu. Game is either rop bound, memory bandwidth bound, shader bound and other conditions which make gpu run at 100% but not really.
If game comes that actually is well balanced engine wise in all aspects then you get true 100% utilization and this is where faulty gpu can "fry itself" as its fault was hidden by simply gpu not being used in full.

Kind of how CPUs 100% in your game has nothing on AVX512 100%

Either way your gpu bios should have seen temps getting too hot and switch off gpu first if it was poorly cooled. If temps were ok for it then some other part of gpu failed that would fail either way.

Yeah in most cases when a GPU "fries" itself in my experience it's not the cores, but the memory modules. They often don't have a lot of attention to durability, and have no or cheap heat dissipation, which leads to problems under stress. Some particular cards were notorious for this, or particular variants whereas some other aftermarket variants would be very chilly under the same load.

Back in the day I used to swear by MSI having really nice heat dissipation designs, but I have no idea if that's held up over time.

 

[Perkel]

The game is far from dead though. The combat is top notch and if or when they get the multiple damage systems balanced and a proper endgame built this game can become a real beast. Call me fabulously optimistic but the solid foundation is already there. I just don't see this game failing.

Base gameplay is great but the build aspect of gameplay just sucks. The fact that games has only handful of uniques is only more salt to the wound as they base stats on items also aren't great.

This is improvement over D3 but it is far from D2 superiority.

Why is it so hard for Blizzard to take D2 itemization and stat gameplay and get D4 graphics and animations...