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Diablo IV Beta |Mini OT| READ THE OP

What would you rate Diablo IV

  • 1 (Amazing)

    Votes: 116 37.3%
  • 2

    Votes: 111 35.7%
  • 3

    Votes: 62 19.9%
  • 4

    Votes: 12 3.9%
  • 5 (Dreadful)

    Votes: 10 3.2%

  • Total voters
    311

Filldo

Member
How's game performance and does it look good on PS5?
Looks amazing and plays great. There was some pretty bad lag last night before I finally had to quit. Got kicked and errors two times in a row trying to reconnect. Got about four or five hours of play though, level 12 sorcerer. It’sa really pretty game, lots of little details. I can’t wait to play more today.
 

Flintty

Member
My blue ninja Rogue. I’m always a big fan of transmogging gear. Some of the early stuff is looking good, I can’t wait to see the end game gear.

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Luipadre

Member
I really hope the beta has a vram memory leak or something, because i get massive stutters in cutscenes and even in gameplay with 8gb vram and textures on high. Medium textures fixes it but the cutscenes looks awful with those textures. Please blizz fix it. Also whats up with these random 35 fps cutscenes and vista shots? Must be a bug aswell
 

DavidGzz

Member
My blue ninja Rogue. I’m always a big fan of transmogging gear. Some of the early stuff is looking good, I can’t wait to see the end game gear.

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Sweet. I made a dark elf rogue named Drizzt, of course. Looking like a red ninja at the moment. Anyway, for some reason I can't upload a pic. I keep getting an upload fail. Any tips? Maybe it's too large at 3.9MB.


Edit. Nevermind. Seems that the size was the issue. I used the front facing camera on my phone and voila. I'd screenshot but I'm on console right now.
 
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amigastar

Member
My blue ninja Rogue. I’m always a big fan of transmogging gear. Some of the early stuff is looking good, I can’t wait to see the end game gear.

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I always dreamed of an ARPG with these kinda graphics where you gear looks awesome. And now finally we are there.
 
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DavidGzz

Member
I really hope the beta has a vram memory leak or something, because i get massive stutters in cutscenes and even in gameplay with 8gb vram and textures on high. Medium textures fixes it but the cutscenes looks awful with those textures. Please blizz fix it. Also whats up with these random 35 fps cutscenes and vista shots? Must be a bug aswell


Me too because I can't stand all the stutters on my 1660ti machine and if like to be able to pick and choose where I want to play at the moment. I'm well above the specs needed and I even tried FSR 2 ultra performance. It looks and plays way better on XSX. Zero stutters. As smooth as D3 on console but wayyy prettier.

Also, why can't I use a keyboard to at least type on console? What a pain. It's 2023.
 

.Pennywise

Banned
Welp, after finding Diablo IV to be such a blast I made the rounds around the inet to see what's the common consensus.

Not to be surprised in the slightest most people find it really good except the always, the same, the expected, the haters of everything that's not their beloved game, the Diablo 2 fans
 
this might be a stupid question but does the high res texture download make a difference (on PC)?

at first the game wanted me to download ~80GB but i downloaded only about 40GB. the textures are a muddy blurry mess up close during some scenes. it's not a deal breaker but i wish they did look clearer. is it worth downloading the extra 40GB? i'm only playing at 1440p. i'm worried because already my GPU is using ~13GB VRAM so might not be able to run higher res textures.
 
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Luipadre

Member
this might be a stupid question but does the high res texture download make a difference (on PC)?

at first the game wanted me to download ~80GB but i downloaded only about 40GB. the textures are a muddy blurry mess up close during some scenes. it's not a deal breaker but i wish they did look clearer. is it worth downloading the extra 40GB? i'm only playing at 1440p. i'm worried because already my GPU is using ~13GB VRAM so might not be able to run higher res textures.

Cutscenes looks MUCH better with high textures altho the game stutters like hell with high textures even on a 4090 apparently so there is probably some memory leak bug
 
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Cutscenes looks MUCH better with high textures altho the game stutters like hell with high textures even on a 4090 apparently so there is probably some memory leak bug
ah alright. i thought that. the game started out with about 10GB vram and creeped up to about 13-14GB. hopefully it's fixed in time for launch.
 

Madflavor

Member
Level 18. Taking my time exploring every path. I can't get over how much I love this. The rogue skills are amazing. So cool and inventive compared to other games of this type. Even pencil and paper RPGs skills aren't as cool as this shit. It's also the prettiest game of it's type in my opinion. I love how everything looks and the sound is soooo good. The story and voice acting are also top.
Great to hear. Also thank you for yesterday for alleviating my concerns with the way the game looks.

I might have to play the free beta next week.
 

.Pennywise

Banned
There's a known bug with high res textures, it has a memory leak problem, doesn't matter how much you love high res texture nor how beefy your PC is, after a while your game will start to stutter until crashing.


Been seeing a lot of people complaining how hard Bosses are this time around. Seems like most aren't understanding that this time around it's very important that you invest a couple of points in defensive skills and armor, it's not an afterthought like in previous Diablo games where it only matters in the very endgame when you're being one shotted.
 

DavidGzz

Member
There's a known bug with high res textures, it has a memory leak problem, doesn't matter how much you love high res texture nor how beefy your PC is, after a while your game will start to stutter until crashing.


Been seeing a lot of people complaining how hard Bosses are this time around. Seems like most aren't understanding that this time around it's very important that you invest a couple of points in defensive skills and armor, it's not an afterthought like in previous Diablo games where it only matters in the very endgame when you're being one shotted.

Yep, my Rogue was squishy in some boss fights, so I picked up the Dark Shroud skill. It's great for damage reduction and looks cool as hell. I love the orbs revolving around my character.
 

ManaByte

Member
There's a known bug with high res textures, it has a memory leak problem, doesn't matter how much you love high res texture nor how beefy your PC is, after a while your game will start to stutter until crashing.


Been seeing a lot of people complaining how hard Bosses are this time around. Seems like most aren't understanding that this time around it's very important that you invest a couple of points in defensive skills and armor, it's not an afterthought like in previous Diablo games where it only matters in the very endgame when you're being one shotted.
I’ve had elites one shot my Barbarian. You need to dodge too.
 

cormack12

Gold Member
Some of the bosses are just melee nightmares really. I'm playing rogue so it isn't insane but vhenard for example I found tough on veteran. Needed a few goes considering you're spending into damage or caltrops and the tree opens really early.
 

Freeman76

Member
I'm not reading through the whole thread cause I'm a lazy fuck with a short attention span.

What's the consensus so far? Better than D3? I need to know if this game is gonna be one spicy meatball.

Best one yet. Its massive, so much to do, so many systems to figure out. To anyone other than nostalgia plebs who are stuck in the past this will go down in history as a classic
 

Spukc

always chasing the next thrill
after having a ton of fun with barb.
My lvl 17 sorc is really fucking lame.
Loved sorc in d2 and d3
But oh my they really need to change it.
 

cormack12

Gold Member
World boss event today in 10 minutes and again a couple times later on, anybody know where it can be found?
Won't make the first one, what time is the second? I imagine it will be like an icon like Destiny 2 or Forza getting to get people in place beforehand
 
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STARSBarry

Gold Member
Played the beta to lvl 20 to get the wolf cub pack

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ended up... reasonably impressed, it certainly has its issues. But I went from a "I'm not buying this" to "ok you get my money" Will I stick around for the live service BS? No idea but I will probably finish the campaign and grind a little bit for a few months so worth the entry fee from what I have seen.

World boss event today in 10 minutes and again a couple times later on, anybody know where it can be found?

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Setzer

Member
Loving it so far. Gameplay, graphics, cinematics, and sound are all top notch. I'm definitely getting D2 vibes. It's going to be a long 3 months to wait until release.
 

Yoshichan

And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
worthless developer making a worthless game that can't spawn a worthless world boss on time, a world boss that is gonna drop worthless loot because the loot table and itemization is worthless

nice
 
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Boneless

Member
Not necessarily really bad but seems like most core skilla are exactly the same? Whirlwind barb, hydra sorc etc etc
 

Nydius

Member
My only complaint, and admittedly a nitpicky one, is that the UI, especially the skill bar and skill tree, has no real style and looks too mobile game-y. Everything is flat and either a primary color or the nearest complementary color and looks like the same as a dozen or so mobile or F2P games already out there.

Looking at a screenshot I took yesterday while leveling, the skill bar is just so boring.

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Of course, this isn’t an issue limited to this game. They kinda did the same thing moving from Overwatch to Overwatch 2. They stripped out most of the style and replace the UI elements with flat, uninspired designs. If this is a modern design trend, could we please nip it in the bud and get back to having style and flair? I’m reminded of watching as fast food places went from having their own building styles to all being the same, boring, brown and beige box building.
 
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Spyxos

Member
after having a ton of fun with barb.
My lvl 17 sorc is really fucking lame.
Loved sorc in d2 and d3
But oh my they really need to change it.
I am not alone then, my sorc is lvl 20. I have tried all the skills and somehow nothing appeals to me. D2 and D3 sorc I liked a lot more as well.
 

ANDS

King of Gaslighting
. . .world boss spawn is a Daylight Savings issue. Or rather isn't. The timers were all off by an hour. Spawns in ten minutes for today.



"Everyone" hates them, but LIVE SERVICE games DOMINATE every storefront. Sure. Sounds legit.
 

cormack12

Gold Member
. . .world boss spawn is a Daylight Savings issue. Or rather isn't. The timers were all off by an hour. Spawns in ten minutes for today.



"Everyone" hates them, but LIVE SERVICE games DOMINATE every storefront. Sure. Sounds legit.
Does that mean the second UK one is 8pm?

Or its brought forward to 6pm and I'll miss it?
 
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