Rob Wrote:No offline mode, what the f'ucking hell.

I don't want to be forced to play World of Diablo 3. It's retarded. I just want to pummel the s'hit out of enemies and bosses alone. In my house. What the shi't is this

Dark Link Wrote:Create game -> Password -> Private game -> Solo to victory.

Rob Wrote:It's still a retarded system

Rob Wrote:No offline mode, what the f'ucking hell.

I don't want to be forced to play World of Diablo 3. It's retarded. I just want to pummel the s'hit out of enemies and bosses alone. In my house. What the shi't is this

Quote:According to Rob Pardo, executive producer of Diablo III, this was done mainly to combat the style of hacking present in previous versions of Diablo. "In both Diablo and especially in Diablo II, I think the intuition for a lot of people when they're playing the game is 'I want to make my character offline away from that scary battle net environment. And then once I have this powerful character, I'll jump online.' But the problem with that concept is we can't really detect if they're cheating. They might have the capability to hack their character, things like that, so at that point we can't really allow that character to be in the battle net environment. Then they're going to have to restart their character, which is exactly what happened in Diablo II, which was really unfortunate."

"Your character will be online on battle net the moment you start playing," said Pardo. "You can play a solo experience like you would in Diablo II, it's just your character is on Blizzard's servers and authenticated." This character can then hop into multiplayer games and trade items with others through battle net.

Kevin645 Wrote:It's simply because Blizzard doesn't want anyone to pirate games soo they force people to use Battle.net.

CrazyNomad Wrote:Better than the DRM protection from ubisoft, that if you lose internet connection for 1 sec, you lose your progression.



wonder if that campaign mean the "offline mode" like SC2

JoeTang Wrote:Probably means quests vs arena.


I'm surprised no one has commented on the removal of skill points either. Speccing is suddenly all about Skill Runes. sigh.
Hopefully, no offline just means they insist you have a connection to get achievements and nothing else.

JoeTang Wrote:>Diablo 2
>>16 active skills, any passive
>Diablo 3
>>6 active skills, 3 passive

k.

Dusk Wrote:...how many active skills did you use in D2? 3, 4, tops? Some builds used one, not counting stuff like Teleport from Enigma.

The new system removes point hoarding, which was stupid. The only thing it's missing at the moment is something to cement your skill and rune selections. It's kind of dumb if you can just go back to town and switch all your skills without even paying for a respec. That's what removes the feeling of character customization.

JoeTang Wrote:>Diablo 2
>>16 active skills, any passive
>Diablo 3
>>6 active skills, 3 passive

k.

Quote:Q: Will Diablo III include support for bots and/or mods?

A: No, for a variety of gameplay and security reasons, we will not be supporting bots or mods in Diablo III, and they'll be expressly prohibited by our terms of use for the game.

Quote:Blizzard has done away with the talent trees and skill points of games past, giving players new active and passive skills every level or so. Players may only employ a set number of skills at a time, up to a maximum of six active skills and up to three passive skills. They can be swapped in and out at any time, opening up the option for experimentation and flexibility. In the beta version I played, I had the option to use just two active skills at once. After reaching level 10, I had unlocked one more active skill and the ability to use a passive skill.

Those skills can be complemented with Runes, special stones that can be socketed into a skill to boost or alter its abilities. Blizzard illustrated this by designing a "Melee Wizard," changing the fragile Wizard class—which typically keeps enemies at arm's length—into a deadly close-range build. Into the Wizard's Spectral Blade skill was socketed a rune that added a healing attribute to each hand-to-hand attack. The Diamond Skin defense skill was boosted by reflecting damage back at the Wizard's attacker. Frost Nova, a freezing area of effect skill, was runed to create a chilling cloud that damaged enemies over time. Explosive Blast, also socketed with a rune, turned a fiery explosion spell into an instant killer. Arcane Orb, normally a projectile attack, was altered by a rune that caused those projectiles to orbit the Wizard, making it even deadlier up close.

Chameleonic Wrote:WHat the heck, Online all the time...I will not be buying D3 now. D3 was one of the games I was most looking forward to, now it is dead to me.