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DarkPlasmaBall
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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. 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 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. I only remember people getting pissed at necros with a billions summons regularly and that was to some extend also because it made their fps drop. I don't remember ever getting flamed for casting something because "visual clutter". | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
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On May 02 2023 08:35 andrewlt wrote: Those are in the shared open world where you can have way more than 4 people battling them at the same time. 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. | ||
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ProMeTheus112
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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. Not sure, can there ever be more than 4 players together fighting in other scenarios that include many monsters? If so I don't really know why else there would be a 4 limit. Or is it because the monsters don't scale up at all for having more players around? Or to limit how much scaling would be going on due to that. Or it just doesn't seem playable, but then world bosses anyway. | ||
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emperorchampion
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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. I have it on good authority that there will be a dialogue that pops up with “you must gather your party before venturing forth” before moving areas. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
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On May 02 2023 09:34 emperorchampion wrote: I have it on good authority that there will be a dialogue that pops up with “you must gather your party before venturing forth” before moving areas. I understood that reference  | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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Amui
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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 I'm honestly pretty impressed at how grounded they are, and also very disappointed I can't get a panda bear mount at the same time. | ||
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