Diablo III Discussion

[tkin]

Too costly, waiting for other sources

Max I am willing to pay for a PC game is 999/-(GTA spoiled me).

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

I want to know about the lag issues... and all issues being faced from india..

 

[ydalmia]

Well, no reviews? Anyone?

OK, just had a mini marathon session with the game, finished Act 1 and am a little into act 2 as the Witch Doctor.First of all, the game is brilliant, I love it! it was very frustating to install and log in with the servers all full and so much server lag, but once things got stable, it was all worth it.

After a lengthy install, I couldn't wait to dig in but servers were totally busy yesterday. Even last night getting in was a pain and took around 30 minutes. I also got kicked out of the game a couple of times and had sudden lag spikes which resulted in horrible deaths haha.

All of this subsided eventually and I was able to play for 3-4 hours with decent latency. the game has done a great job of hiding lag, and even though I was getting a ping of 300ms, it almoast felt like a single player game. The game is quite beautiful with great environments and monsters, but I think it lacks that dark feel I so loved in D2. I have only played the WD yet and I tried the wizard in the beta, people say the WD is the most boring/underpowered class but I think I love the control the class offers.

I am glad there is a public holiday in Goa due to elections so I am catching a quick power nap while the server is down for maintainance and then I jump right back in!

In short the launch day was horrible, but the game is awesome!

Too costly, waiting for other sources

Max I am willing to pay for a PC game is 999/-(GTA spoiled me).

There will be no other source for Diablo 3.

Uh oh i'm dying to play .... Guys playing please do some review and screenies.

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here i got first murder shot...
spoiler alert

Spoiler

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Btw now "Error 37" creating rage...

I will post some screenshots when I relog.

 

[FogAndSteel]

I would suggest buying the digital version of the game from Battle.net No hassles about cds and product keys. Its fully linked to your battle.net account, so no worries

Oh and btw, this game ROCKS

The Blizz forums have been imploding with Error (12) for Asia users who bought and downloaded a digital copy :S

If yours is working just fine, i'm buying and downloading it TODAY !!

Personally, I'd like to have a retail copy, I like having the DVDs.

Btw - when you picked up yours online, did you have to pay in SGD or something? When I login to my Blizzard Account and try buying - it's showing the price as 90 SGD.

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

latency 300 on what servers ?

 

[axes2t2]

There will be no other source for Diablo 3.

 

[iittopper]

I am willing to pay upto 1800 for diablo 3 and praying that the price do decrease . Is there a chance of it ?? Or should i ask my uncle(USA) to buy it for 60$$ for me ...

BTW i have not played any diablo game , just excited about it !!!

 

[coolpcguy]

You won't get the game for 1800. It won't be released in India, so it has to be imported by FK/other vendors.

Played for about 2 hours yesterday, started off with a Monk. I didn't run into any problems.

Some videos:

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

Diablo III Monk - YouTube

All about 20-30 seconds. Was recorded using Fraps, note that it looks slow because fraps kills my framerate - though I am playing it 1080p & recording at half that res.

Here's my current Monk build *us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#bZXd!Z!aa

latency 300 on what servers ?

US, same about 330ms latency

 

[007]

CE is over. Unless you want to pay ten times the actual amount.

Ahem ahem. Well, I will have to partially disagree with that and I have some good news to share with you all. After desperately waiting and refreshing the online retailers (thanks to my sleepless nights for past 5 days and my finger going numb by pressing F5), I finally managed to snatch a copy of CE for myself for $99.99 and not a single penny more from Amazon with free release day delivery! Yes, I received my copy in US just about 15 hours ago and I can say I am a proud owner of D3 CE now. I couldn't do the unboxing myself but had the event over Skype with my friend.
I've consumed the licenses in my account and ready to join the party by this friday!

Yes, those eBay scalpers are still trying to sell the CEs for $250+ as it is sold out everywhere. To hell with them. And would you believe if I said, I managed to place a pre-order in 3 different retailers where the stock turned up for just minutes and finally CANCELLED two of them myself?

Will share pics once I get the actual box in hand.

In short the launch day was horrible, but the game is awesome!
I will post some screenshots when I relog.

Thanks ydalmia.

 

[coolpcguy]

^ awesome.

 

[masterkd]

Too costly, waiting for other sources

Max I am willing to pay for a PC game is 999/-(GTA spoiled me).

I'm with you tkin..however I'm willing to pay 1500/- max
That's why even if I'm dying to play the game, i didn't order it

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

US servers are up!!

Here is the official page to monitor their server statuses.

Is Flipkart still shipping it? I tried ordering D3 today, the D3 page says "Coming Soon"

Yep, they're gonna ship it. Last week of May. However, I'm gonna be in Kolkata from 27th May to 6th June. Mom will receive the shipment and I'll be playing in June.

In short the launch day was horrible, but the game is awesome!

Horrible is an understatement. And so is awesome.

I can say I am a proud owner of D3 CE now. Will share pics once I get the actual box in hand.

Congrats! Glad someone got CE.

Definitely share the pics. Looking forward to meeting you (and others also) in-game.

All about 20-30 seconds. Was recorded using Fraps, note that it looks slow because fraps kills my framerate - though I am playing it 1080p & recording at half that res.

God, I hope my onboard doesn't run D3 like that.
What's your FPS without fraps? Check it. There is an option in the game menu which allows that.
BTW how can you play it at 1080p? Aren't you playing in your lappy (1366X768 res)?

 

[coolpcguy]

^ It should be fine, I'm running it at max details. It's very smooth without fraps. Start recording and frame rate tanks. Will post a shot without recording once I'm home in the evening.

The laptop's connected to my Dell U2312HM 23" screen in extended desktop. Laptop screen == twitter, IM. Monitor == Gaming, Movies, Browsing etc

 

[007]

Horrible is an understatement. And so is awesome.

Very well said. Like!

Congrats! Glad someone got CE.
Definitely share the pics. Looking forward to meeting you (and others also) in-game.

Thanks. Sure, i'll share and looking forward to meet you too.
I have to start the installer tonight. I'm on BSNL 2-8am free plan. So it should take a couple of days for me to get started.

BTW how can you play it at 1080p? Aren't you playing in your lappy (1366X768 res)?

I'm guessing he has a Full HD screen in his laptop/desktop. I have a Full HD screen on my laptop too. Resolution which I get is 1920x1080.

 

[CommanderShawnzer]

i have one question about D3
is it compulsory to co-op play with some random people on bnet
or can i play single with AI party members against AI demons?

@the lucky dudes who got D3 CE: post unboxing pics and a review please

 

[coolpcguy]

Co-op is not compulsory. I'm playing alone, as will most for their first playthrough

 

[007]

@the lucky dudes who got D3 CE: post unboxing pics and a review please

I haven't got it in my hand yet and will be getting in the second week of June only. My friend unboxed it this morning and I just watched it in video chat. It didn't strike me at that time to record as I was more worried about the contents of the box. Few have reported that the soundtrack DVD is missing in theirs and many couldn't find the guest passes for D3 and WoW (the latter does not matter much to me). Good that mine did have all the promised items. I will share the pics soon. I just claimed the D3, D2 and D2LoD licenses so far.

One thing that I could say right now is that the box looks very nice and the contents are of high quality. ( thats what my friend said )

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

@007 Could you please PM me one of the D3 guest pass keys? I need to check how D3 runs on my PC.

 

[Alok]

all damages done to user scores of such a great game is only due to that "drm". See metacritics.
Its pretty unfair to pay $60 then can't even play single player.

And i know Blizzard won't change drm, they are such...

I'm going to order this anyway.

 

[tkin]

The problem with D3 is that part of the game runs on Blizzard servers, like content generation etc, so having a high latency connection will kill the gameplay, sometimes I get good pings, but sometimes I get very band ping to USA(even in India), in these times the game will rubberband like crazy and won't be able to play it, not to mention its costs 4 times as much as most games here.