I think it's more close to a factor of 0,2 - 10 ingame yards = 2 meters - just imagine the hero lying down (assuming he's ~2m tall)
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I think it's more close to a factor of 0,2 - 10 ingame yards = 2 meters - just imagine the hero lying down (assuming he's ~2m tall)
You caught me before my edit :< I meant 2, but hit 1.
krameriffic
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We all know the distance measurement is fubar in relation to rl - but one guy did the work to analyze the ingame distances:
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So you are 30 feet tall in Diablo 3.
Gotcha.
DreamMachine
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This new blizzcast also mentions it
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4874842/Darkness_Falls_Heroes_Rise_50_Unlock_Revealed-4_20_2012#blog
sazzy
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D3 CE available for AUS people
its 140 AUD tho
http://www.game.com.au/diablo-iii-collectors-edition/pc-games/DIABLO3CE
its 140 AUD tho
http://www.game.com.au/diablo-iii-collectors-edition/pc-games/DIABLO3CE
D3 CE available for AUS people
its 140 AUD tho
http://www.game.com.au/diablo-iii-collectors-edition/pc-games/DIABLO3CE
Yeah I just got that tweet. Art book is the only thing I am slightly interested in, and $140 is just too much for that alone. In saying that though, if the other things interest ou, it's a great CE.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Just finished my last playthrough of of the beta. Didn't max any characters to 13, but I only ended up getting maybe one or two total to 13 in the entire time I've been in the beta. They wiped it too frequently once I got it.
Did pick up some sweet crossbows off the vendor, as well as +2-4 Damage rings and had a Demon Hunter at level 7 or 8 doing ~40 DPS. Which is pretty damn good. I didn't even have pants with stats for her.
I've definitely settled on female Demon Hunter as my first character, even if she doesn't end up being my main in the long run. It's hard to fully gauge how well you'll like each class when you only get a small taste of all the abilities. The male DH just looks kind of skeezy and I think the female VA is better too.
Also, that last unlock on the launch website is
It was datamined pretty early on when the site went up. As for the other two, we have another Developer Diary, and Wallpapers.
See here for the datamine: http://www.diablofans.com/news/1143-diablo-iii-darkness-falls-heroes-rise-mini-site/
Did pick up some sweet crossbows off the vendor, as well as +2-4 Damage rings and had a Demon Hunter at level 7 or 8 doing ~40 DPS. Which is pretty damn good. I didn't even have pants with stats for her.
I've definitely settled on female Demon Hunter as my first character, even if she doesn't end up being my main in the long run. It's hard to fully gauge how well you'll like each class when you only get a small taste of all the abilities. The male DH just looks kind of skeezy and I think the female VA is better too.
Also, that last unlock on the launch website is
a cinematic, which probably won't exist anywhere else.
See here for the datamine: http://www.diablofans.com/news/1143-diablo-iii-darkness-falls-heroes-rise-mini-site/
sorijealut
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she is much prettier than your avatar... T_T jk
but yeah, the female barb made me sick looking at her. Too thick.
fizzelopeguss
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they should just give that guy all the prizes from the art contest.
While I'm not the biggest fan of female Barbarians... I do commend Blizzard for making them look like barbarians and not models in bikini armor like the above.
Agree with the bolded. Want impossibly shaped women you can go oggle at the Demon Hunter with her back arched so far back she must have spinal bifida.
While I'm not the biggest fan of female Barbarians... I do commend Blizzard for making them look like barbarians and not models in bikini armor like the above.
Yeah, not really representative of the actual game model.
sorijealut
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Yeah I agree, but -
why can't we just say "it's the barbarian blood" and make her not as hulking? lolol
why can't we just say "it's the barbarian blood" and make her not as hulking? lolol
I wish those "interviews" were a little less scripted. It's really obvious that every word that is said was cleverly crafted by a marketing engineer.
CarbonatedFalcon
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The Blizzcasts are awful. They're not real podcasts so much, like you'll get from some other developers (the old Bungie podcasts were pretty good) as pretty much straight PR talk.
Not to mention how sporadicly they release them. There've only been 17 in a span of 4 years. It was almost a year (358 days) between the recent one and the last one released, and there were 5 month spans between the two before that. I'm not asking for a weekly, or even a monthly podcast, but a little regularity would be nice. They do sort of make up for it with copious blue posts and the panels at Blizzcon though, so I can't be too harsh.
LightofRohan
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Damn the rune system seems a little pointless. How was it when they were collectable? Seems like there isnt much to collect this time.
Agreed; current system has it's own issues but it's still superior to the previous droppable runes idea.
Reluctant-Hero
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Played the beta one last time tonight. Can't wait for the 15th.
Fem-Barb, Sonya, all day.
Fem-Barb, Sonya, all day.
I think it's because everyone already associated runes with the new skill system.
I dont mind the frame.. not a fan of the face though.. and the bright orange hair. Shouldve went with more of a copper red.While I'm not the biggest fan of female barbarians... I do commend Blizzard for making them look like barbarians and not models in bikini armor like the above.
Something like She-hulk wouldve been better.
You pretty much never found any good ones. The only way to get them was trading for dupes.
FieryBalrog
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Dupes? Are you referring to the D2 runes?
I think the guy was asking about when runes dropped in D3. Still seems like a shame they changed it. Would've been cool to decide which skill to socket a rune with.
LightofRohan
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Ah I see. Feels a little cheap now... like why wouldnt you have a run enabled?
The whole skill system feels like it has changed a lot and I havent' even seen the past types of it. It doesn't really make that much sense to me still...
Yeaaa, that was kind of a big point for me with D3. I liked the idea of finding neat runes to customize skills with. Just clicking them on seems weird..
I'm not going to look until Nightmare. Bashiok said on twitter that some of the items are super spoilery.
Ohhh right. I missed that part of the beta.
Uninstalled beta after 6 months
I hope the Book of Cain gets here quick.
There's still gems.
I hope the Book of Cain gets here quick.
There's still gems.
sorijealut
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This. It took me so long to understand what happened because I was confused.
Also, has anyone else quickly shoved in runes into armor/weapon for runewords before they went poof?
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Agreed. I didn't like it when I first heard of it back when D3 was announced and now that we have this new system, I am glad that they ditched the old one. I absolutely hate having gameplay elements locked away by RNG mechanics.
I'd take that over level restrictions. Just trade what you find on the AH.
CarbonatedFalcon
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At least basic runes themselves (e.g. Lvl 1s, 2s) weren't intended to be rare at all - only the higher level ones. So getting one split on your magic missile, everyone could do - getting 7? Not nearly as easy.
I definitely think there was a missed opportunity there, either having runes as items, or items that modified/enhanced a baseline rune, but the current system is passable, except for the UI, which works, but it still pretty crappy.
There's always room for changes in an expansion.
The problem is...
When runes are common (early ranks) - the mechanic is pointless, runes operate just as they do now, you will always have a rune available for your skill.
When they are rare - A. And the power difference between ranks is low, they aren't worth the effort. OR B. The power difference between ranks is high, RNG becomes a lot more punishing, full builds not available to everybody.
Blizzard chose (A) probably mostly because they want everybody to be able to have a "full build" (even if you didnt have rank 7 runes, rank 6 wasn't much weaker). But then the runes weren't worth how rare they would drop, nor how many of them there were...
When runes are common (early ranks) - the mechanic is pointless, runes operate just as they do now, you will always have a rune available for your skill.
When they are rare - A. And the power difference between ranks is low, they aren't worth the effort. OR B. The power difference between ranks is high, RNG becomes a lot more punishing, full builds not available to everybody.
Blizzard chose (A) probably mostly because they want everybody to be able to have a "full build" (even if you didnt have rank 7 runes, rank 6 wasn't much weaker). But then the runes weren't worth how rare they would drop, nor how many of them there were...
CarbonatedFalcon
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Oh I completely agree. And the scenario where having thousands of possible items, for something that so heavily affects the gameplay, more so than gear or gems, wasn't going to work either.
I just think it's would have been possible to have a more compromising solution between what was, and what we have now. Not that what we have now is bad by any means.
Spent my last day of beta playing around with getting a PS3 controller to work for Diablo 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqEoMhkj6W4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqEoMhkj6W4
How so? And controller mapping software should be safe from banning?
FrontalMonk
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Gonna have to disagree here, because I think you and I are looking at things from opposite perspectives. I mean, the problem I run into with the old system is that levelling after 30 is boring. Once you've unlocked the skills, what does a level up get you? Some incremental improvements to your stats? Your level feels meaningless, and levelling up isn't exciting or fun. Tying unlocks to your level means that every time you level up, you get something new. You check the skill page to see what you unlocked, and you're enticed to try a new build revolving around a skill you wouldn't normally use, but that rune looks so good. You call it a restriction on what you can do, I call it an exciting opportunity to do more things as you progress.
AllIsOneIsNone
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We all know the distance measurement is fubar in relation to rl - but one guy did the work to analyze the ingame distances:
source
So have blizzard stated why the distances are like this? I noticed a problem when it said my monk's deadly reach extended 45 yards on the 3rd hit. If they just replace "yards" with "feet" it'll pretty much be accurate.
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