Diablo IV - Page 70

On May 02 2023 06:10 ProMeTheus112 wrote:
The problem with P8 in D2 imo is it just makes the game way too easy most of the time. +50% hp for monsters per extra player in the game and some extra +% damage doesn't match the added power of 8 partied players at all (1.10). On the other hand it can still be fun sometimes when the parties are a bit split up accross a dungeon and stuff. Guess you could do 4v4 pvp also^^ I imagined D3 max of 4 was chosen for performance reasons, D4 is probably on the same problematic (3D also harder to see what's going on + console compatibility). I think it'd be possible to balance the system differently to accomodate for 8 players or so but w/e.

On May 02 2023 06:29 andrewlt wrote:
The flashy effects of D3 also didn't support 8 players actually playing together. 4 players is a good number if you expect players to actually be partied. Even in D2, whenever I played sorc and used blizzard, people would get pissed. I think the power fantasy of ARPGs lend themselves better to smaller parties. Even melee chars are AoEing all over the screen. It's just too messy with too many people.

IIRC, experience is shared in D2, so it's actually not optimal for 8 players to party up because you kill shit too fast. I remember people joining 8 player act 1 games, for example, and going to act 4/5 and soloing there. Most of my games were played in parties of 1-3 people. In D3, I played a lot of games with a group of 1-3 people as well.

On May 02 2023 08:40 Miragee wrote:


D4 is doing 4 player parties because of performance when they have an open world with 20+ player boss battles? That doesn't make much sense to me.

On May 02 2023 08:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


How does the transitioning work between a 4-player-max game and a shared open world? Does one need to leave their own (4-player-max? private?) game and then re-enter a "shared world" game? Or are they linked somehow? During the beta weekends, there were definitely a whole lot of people running around the same town/area I was in (way more than 4 people), so I'm not really sure where the "4-player-max" rule fits in to all this.

On May 04 2023 02:25 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
New mounts shown. Kind of boring but they really can't go with anything else tbh lol

https://www.wowhead.com/diablo-4/news/more-diablo-4-mounts-unveiled-ghostly-runed-flayed-332738#comments