Danimal wrote:Anyone picking up Diablo for the PS4? I'm considering getting it but want to know if anyone else will be around to play it with.
Yep, already picked up 2 copies and linked my accounts. The cool part was, my wife and I played the crap out of it on 360, and after some account management on Battle.net, we were able to import our 360 saves fine so we started with level 60 characters on PS4. Love that part, so we don't have to level up the blacksmith and jewelcrafter guy again.
I picked it up yesterday, and played for a bit before the kids took over the PS4.
What do you recommend as a class to play with? I started out as a Barbarian, figured it would be easiest to jump in with. I have not really played a Diablo game since the first one on the PC.
Crusader is the jack-of-all trades class. You wear heavy armor, you can wield a big shield and even a 2-handed weapon in one hand, and you have melee attacks, mid-ranged attacks, and long-ranged attacks. You can heal yourself in small doses, you have massive area damage.
Basically, it's the best do-everything class, in my opinion. You won't have the ranged power of a demon hunter or wizard, you won't have pets like a Witch Doctor, you don't bang up close as well as a barbarian, but especially for your first toon--the moment you are playing a barb and you get an elite group that throws down lava puddles, lasers, and jailers---you're dead if you don't have some method of ranged attacks. Barbs have a weapon throw, but you are still limited to doing your real damage up close and personal.
Granted, ANY class can work in any situation. But the Crusader handles any situation well, which makes sense, since it's the new class that they took a year to come up with after the original game shipped.
TCrouch wrote:Crusader is the jack-of-all trades class. You wear heavy armor, you can wield a big shield and even a 2-handed weapon in one hand, and you have melee attacks, mid-ranged attacks, and long-ranged attacks. You can heal yourself in small doses, you have massive area damage.
Basically, it's the best do-everything class, in my opinion. You won't have the ranged power of a demon hunter or wizard, you won't have pets like a Witch Doctor, you don't bang up close as well as a barbarian, but especially for your first toon--the moment you are playing a barb and you get an elite group that throws down lava puddles, lasers, and jailers---you're dead if you don't have some method of ranged attacks. Barbs have a weapon throw, but you are still limited to doing your real damage up close and personal.
Granted, ANY class can work in any situation. But the Crusader handles any situation well, which makes sense, since it's the new class that they took a year to come up with after the original game shipped.
Is there a XB1 setting so it will do auto-system updates without you having to turn on the box & trigger the update? I thought there was, but I don't see it.
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greggsand wrote:Is there a XB1 setting so it will do auto-system updates without you having to turn on the box & trigger the update? I thought there was, but I don't see it.
Go to settings then power/startup. Check the box for auto downloads and make sure the XONE is set to 'instant on' or whatever it's called.
Am I right in my impression that this game barely resembles the D3 that we spent some time playing coop together after launch? Wondering if it's worth dropping back in for some more demonic goodness.
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You now have kill streaks that give you a huge boost of XP depending on how quickly you kill packs of mobs, and how many. My wife and I only started toons on Expert, not Master or Torment--and we hit one level at the start of a pack of mobs, and by the end of that pack we leveled again. It was nutty.
Also, if you break 8 random things, it gives you something like a 50% run speed buff for up to a minute. Then double resource regen by catching something in a trap. Legendary drop rate is much, much better.
Plus, as I'm playing along the past couple nights, I found legendary/rare drops. It said "Gift for <insert friend name here>". You actually find loot for other people on your friends list. You hit X and mail it to them, and they get free gear in the mail. That's pretty sick.
Not to mention crafting is overhauled, all of that weird tiered crafting material stuff is replaced by universal components (you even crush white/gray items for common resources), and it's just a very streamlined experience compared to the game released 2 years ago.
And that doesn't even count Adventure Mode. Beat acts 1-5 once, and you unlock adventure mode, where the entire map is opened up, you just run around collecting bounties (killing named mobs) and unlocking Nephalem Rifts, which are totally randomized zones with any combination of maps and mobs. I sh*t you not, one time I was fighting pink teddy bears and purple unicorns in a cave. Beat the story mode one time, and you're no longer forced to sit through the same story repeatedly on a new difficulty. It's just a bunch of random bounties/rifts and hordes of mobs to kill. It even works on new characters, so I have a couple of level 70's on PC that never played the story mode. Just leveled from 1 to 70 in adventure mode the whole way, which beats the tedium of replaying parts of the story that were boring (like the beginning of act 2, the dungeons in act 1, etc).
TCrouch wrote:ABSOLUTELY, Rob. It's night and day. For example:
You now have kill streaks that give you a huge boost of XP depending on how quickly you kill packs of mobs, and how many. My wife and I only started toons on Expert, not Master or Torment--and we hit one level at the start of a pack of mobs, and by the end of that pack we leveled again. It was nutty.
Also, if you break 8 random things, it gives you something like a 50% run speed buff for up to a minute. Then double resource regen by catching something in a trap. Legendary drop rate is much, much better.
Plus, as I'm playing along the past couple nights, I found legendary/rare drops. It said "Gift for <insert friend name here>". You actually find loot for other people on your friends list. You hit X and mail it to them, and they get free gear in the mail. That's pretty sick.
Not to mention crafting is overhauled, all of that weird tiered crafting material stuff is replaced by universal components (you even crush white/gray items for common resources), and it's just a very streamlined experience compared to the game released 2 years ago.
And that doesn't even count Adventure Mode. Beat acts 1-5 once, and you unlock adventure mode, where the entire map is opened up, you just run around collecting bounties (killing named mobs) and unlocking Nephalem Rifts, which are totally randomized zones with any combination of maps and mobs. I sh*t you not, one time I was fighting pink teddy bears and purple unicorns in a cave. Beat the story mode one time, and you're no longer forced to sit through the same story repeatedly on a new difficulty. It's just a bunch of random bounties/rifts and hordes of mobs to kill. It even works on new characters, so I have a couple of level 70's on PC that never played the story mode. Just leveled from 1 to 70 in adventure mode the whole way, which beats the tedium of replaying parts of the story that were boring (like the beginning of act 2, the dungeons in act 1, etc).
As far as replayability goes, it's unstoppable.
Having to play thru the game four and a bit times on the 360 version to get to level 60 was a real drag.
Fellas.. I'll soon be picking up a new console and i've still not decided which one to get. I gather the ps4 is the slighly more powerful machine and i'm partial to their Exclusives but am wondering how the PS4 is online from a gameplay perspective. I'm not all that concerned about the user interface as much as I am gameplay / lag type issues. Most of my online gaming time would be spent playing Fifa, NHL etc.
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Warframe - Free to play game. Looks like Destiny lite.
I find it odd no one is really upset that the big Shareplay feature is limited to 60 minute sessions. Perhaps people just don't give a s*** about this feature.
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Danimal wrote:I find it odd no one is really upset that the big Shareplay feature is limited to 60 minute sessions. Perhaps people just don't give a s*** about this feature.
I don't think it's on most people's radar yet since it's something new, but as far as I can tell you can do unlimited sessions. That seems like a fair compromise as otherwise you could walk away from your console and "share" a game while your friend plays it to completion over the next day or two.
Phototropic wrote:That seems like a fair compromise as otherwise you could walk away from your console and "share" a game while your friend plays it to completion over the next day or two.
I hadn't really thought about it being used that way so that make sense. I'm more thinking of you and a friend are in the middle of playing and it ends, idk what the procedure entails for starting a new session.
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