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ultrachrist posted:gonna wait to see if I can pick this up used some time down the line, but was absorbing some nostalgia looking at gameplay. I was curious what the PS4 trophies would be and there's one for leveling a hardcore character to 99! Wasn't reaching 99 an insane grind in the og version? I remember something like... you hit the late 80s, maybe early 90s and then it takes weeks. From what I recall it's somewhat doable up to 94 or 95 and then after that 
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ultrachrist posted:gonna wait to see if I can pick this up used some time down the line, but was absorbing some nostalgia looking at gameplay. I was curious what the PS4 trophies would be and there's one for leveling a hardcore character to 99! Wasn't reaching 99 an insane grind in the og version? I remember something like... you hit the late 80s, maybe early 90s and then it takes weeks. The XP needed from 98 to 99 is the same as 1-98, so good luck I guess
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My recollection was that it literally took a team of guys sharing a character and playing 24/7 for weeks to hit 99 initially, but that it was much easier once LoD dropped. I don't think I personally got any chars past the 60s.
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Just assume the game ends at lvl 85 and if manage to get past that then good on ya I guess gently caress I’m actually paying attention during this zoom meeting because I can’t get in on ps5. This is not how this was supposed to go
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The servers being hosed is no surprise, but can you still play Diablo II Resurrected in single player offline?
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level 7 character has disappeared, very accurate nostalgic blizzard launch day experience
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Anyone knows if character names are unique or if they follow the D3 standard of having some kind of "unique per handle" (so the charname is char@handle or something like that)? I managed to grab some names I would not like to lose because the servers crapped out and got rolled back 
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I said come in! posted:The servers being hosed is no surprise, but can you still play Diablo II Resurrected in single player offline? Yeah seems to work fine offline. I don't think you can play "multiplayer offline" over LAN which is a bummer.
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Online names aren't unique anymore, its kindof like the D3 naming system now
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good thing they made the game online only so people who crashed can't even make single player games while servers are hosed
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smoobles posted:Yeah seems to work fine offline. I don't think you can play "multiplayer offline" over LAN which is a bummer. Still an improvement over Diablo III launch.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:The skellies I'm raising look fuckin amazin I forgot how comically fast the skellies walk, I'm lollin'
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ultrachrist posted:gonna wait to see if I can pick this up used some time down the line, but was absorbing some nostalgia looking at gameplay. I was curious what the PS4 trophies would be and there's one for leveling a hardcore character to 99! Wasn't reaching 99 an insane grind in the og version? I remember something like... you hit the late 80s, maybe early 90s and then it takes weeks. characters get full XP from monsters within 5 levels of them. a larger gap starts imposing a penalty, and you can do a 7-level gap before it gets too painful (with an 8-level gap, you'd only be receiving 36% of the XP you'd normally get) since all monsters are set to the level of the "area", it's really the level of the area that matters Nightmare difficulty Act 5 ends at area level 66, so characters can get to level 72 by the end of Nightmare (and should before going to Hell, really), with 74 possible if you're willing to grind Baal runs Hell Act 1 ends at area level 73, so you can do up to character level 78 Hell Act 2 ends at area level 79 (ish), so you can do up to character level 84 Hell Act 3+ will support area levels that will make character level 85 reachable There's a second layer of XP multiplier: at character level 70+, there's a penalty to XP earned on top of the regular monster level vs character level calculation. A level 70 character is only earning 95% of the XP they otherwise shoud. A level 80 character is only earning 48% of the XP they should, and so on. When you're at character level 98, you have a 13 level gap with pretty much every monster, so you're only getting 5% XP from them, and then the high-character-level penalty reduces that further to 0.59% of 5% so yeah getting to 99 is... not to expected except for the most dedicated https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Area_Level https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Experience
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smoobles posted:I forgot how comically fast the skellies walk, I'm lollin' they have a run animation now for maximum trousling
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kaleedity posted:they have a run animation now for maximum trousling gonna mod this song in for the walking sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qbGJuxCYY&t=1s
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Sep 23, 2021 17:28
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Can’t name my character Selene. Says it’s profane. 
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Sep 23, 2021 17:36
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don't think it's been possible to make a game in the last ~45 minutes, but if you were already in a game when the issue popped up you can keep playing
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Sep 23, 2021 17:38
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hosed around with an offline character while Blizzard figures out their poo poo, and I'm really loving the graphics. It feels like my rose-tinted memory of how the game actually looked. They did a great job.
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Durendal posted:Can’t name my character Selene. Says it’s profane. Mods ban this sick filth
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Sep 23, 2021 17:42
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Just lol if you had hopes set on playing it reliably before like Saturday.
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I'm honestly amazed I got in, got to the cold plains wp, cleared the cavern, then logged out. probably won't be able to play that character again
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Since this is purely digital it seems like they could have, you know, planned for this. But lol okay gg
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this suuuuccccckkkkksssssss
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30 minutes and apparently they are going to restart things. Some streamer heard this
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External Organs posted:Since this is purely digital it seems like they could have, you know, planned for this. But lol okay gg they have a history of servers making GBS threads the bed on launch day so digital or not doesn't matter.
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lol it's 1 AM here and I can't start a game I'm going to go to bed instead of hammering at this
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Sep 23, 2021 18:00
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how does this rank on disastrous Blizzard launches i.e. all Blizzard launches
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https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/1441084923117400070 Love the "please log off before maintenance" alert 1min before the start of said maintenance
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You'd think since they've got activision money they could spin up some extra servers for the launch but i guess all that money is gonna be pissed away defending their chauvinist asses
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I accidentally pushed G and laughed pretty hard. smoobles posted:I forgot how comically fast the skellies walk, I'm lollin' They're zoomin!
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This all does feel properly nostalgic though. A+ so far. What would diablo even be without server issues.
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launch day thus far: 8:03 - game works! 8:45ish - can't create or join games anymore but if you were already in one you can keep playing 10:00 - servers down for maintenance
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smoobles posted:how does this rank on disastrous Blizzard launches i.e. all Blizzard launches people have played the game so it's extremely high end for blizzard
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