Blizzard Likely To Get Things Right With Diablo IV

Azfar Rayan from NoobFeed writes - It's been a while since we've been waiting to play Diablo IV, and we only have to wait till June 6 to play the full game. Blizzard has promised a lot of things, including not heavily relying on microtransactions. If things go as we've experienced in the betas, we can exact a solid game after all. Only time will tell.

[Anomander]

After two beta weekends with Diablo 4 the game feels solid. The only request I would have is to have them out in a LT skills modifier so we can equip more skills. 6 skills doesn't feel like it's enough especially when items can drop specific skills for you to use as well they you may have not spect out. With that said the 6 that they give you is do able, you just have to focus on your skill tree and make some sacrafices.

[Flawlessmic]

Yea as far as the beta goes I really enjoyed it, like now I went from might get it to must buy!!

[Michiel1989]

I don't think they will ever change the amount of skills you can carry, the game is also for consoles and would work way less well on them if so. I don't like that either but it's whatever.

What I would like to see changed is how the skilltree works, this would somewhat also function as an extra ability slot. Now you HAVE to put a certain amount of skills in a group before being able to advance to the next, I really dislike that. It makes every build pretty straightforward, you have to get a generator, it's not fun. I would love it if they removed that limitation at the endgame (they might already do this, but I doubt it). If I can for example keep up my resource I need with items or other skills, it would be really nice to not have to waste points on a generator. Maybe only remove that restriction for the generator part, because otherwise things would probably become wacky, but in the 2nd part there are already passives to use, so at least you'll be able to spend your points on something beneficial.

I really liked the beta, I played a druid and he was kind of slow to start off, but I found a pretty great tornado build with trample and the earth shield which gave me 33% mov speed cause unstoppable. I got quite fast clears already in the end. I also got pretty fucking lucky with my item drops ngl

[dumahim]

I thought that was odd. Didn't one of the prior games have a button for pulling up a second line of skills? Like X is for one skill, but if you hold R1 it'd be a different skill? Might be a different game I'm thinking of.

[Michiel1989]

Could be, I never played it on console, but having unlimited available slots when there is crossplay won't be happening. Pc players will have too much of an advantage.

Also don't forget that all class will be able to have all passives at all time then, it would having to choose skills mundane and items with +1 to all skills of a tree way too broken

[Anomander]

I thought the D2 Remake had the LT modifier to expand the skills? I'm fairly sure Grimm Dawn allows more than 6 as well. They can still add more just but doing button combos. X+Y, A+B, and RB+LB, not to mention moving the dodge from B to to the right control sick which is not even utilized.

It just seems weird that they have these great skill trees and item drops giving you more skills and then capping it. Granted beta only allowed you to get to Lvl 25, so who knows what end game looks like, but I'm guessing we are stuck with it. I know this has been talked about on the D4 forums so hopefully the developers are reading.

[Viljong]

If there are any microtrans which give you an advance over those who dont pay2win i wont buy

[Stanjara]

There are... Every three months new season battlepass.

[DarkZane]

It's only cosmetics.

[Anomander]

Battle pass is just going to be Cosmetic items..
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[Viljong]

It may be cosmetic at first so people buy the game then they start adding pay2win elements after release.

[Kaii]

Concerning factors being baseline skills being terrible unless you equip legendaries, the paragon system is just stat increases.
Druid/Barb - Trash & before someone says legendaries change the experience, they had buffed drop rates for beta & like my above statement, Items shouldn't be the 80% and player 20%.
Sorc/Necro are basically in their own league.

The World Boss event was awkward, my last attempt on Sunday was met with instanced players who were 15-19 throwing default casts and pulling up the beach chair -_-
This build or should I say "beta" was available 2-3 months ago to certain press outlets so I don't get why the lvling experience was "that" different from necro/druid In the open & don't even get me started with the skeletons looking out of place.

6 skills best not be the limit due to hardware constraints with last gen, I HOPE it's somehow balance related and not 7*12=84 abilities In boss areas.
Rogue/sorc/necro/rogue 7th slot would've opened me up to expand my arsenal.

Nobody should mention backtracking In arpg's >.< Just chew your way forward, certain dungeons objectives were/are tedious, don't expand my playtime by some asshole bat hovering in the corner In the 3rd room or w.e.

3 Concerns > *Itemization>class play *6 skills ./ugh > *Dungeon objectives getting tedious
& RIP to druid players trying to kill goblins this weekend :p

[rippermcrip]

6 skills has nothing to do with console limitations. The game has always been like that. With a Playstation or Xbox controller you literally have 12 buttons (counting the dpad), so they would easily go above 6 if they wanted. That isn't even counting using like L1 as a modifier.

They don't want you to be able to use a ton of skills. They want your build to be a decision you have to make.

[Goosejuice]

I personally think the ultimate skill should have its own button not on the skill bar so u can get 1 more skill. The ultimate with its cooldown almost feels like it's just taking up space that u could have used for extra cc or defence spell.

Also druid suckkkkkkkkksssss. At least for now, idk about endgame but it's just not fun to play. Druid was one of my faves in D2 so it's sad to see it how it is now.

[Hofstaderman]

So they got rid of the battle pass?

[iivGHOST]

No itll be in there

[Elda]

I enjoyed it. A definite day-one buy for me.

[SenorFartCushion]

Wait until people see the storefront

[Si-Fly]

I can’t wait to pimp my Sorc with skins 👊🏻

[Flakegriffin]

Oh man I cannot wait for this game to come out. Beta was phenomenal.

[CrimsonWing69]

All I can say is from what I played in the beta, it’s my favorite Diablo game now.

[anast]

It looks like a F2P game with AAA quality presentation. I would wait for a deep sale, unless "you" are a small streamer that needs to buy this game to make money.

[CrimsonWing69]

I’m not a hardcore Diablo player, honestly 3 was the first one I actually played, but played 2 with Resurrection. With that being said what makes this play like a F2P game vs something like Diablo 3? I’m legit asking and not busting your chops, here.

[anast]

It's always online, there is no way to play it offline. The foundation is F2P. Yes, they made it look like Diablo again and the progression is cool, but it's still a F2P game wrapped in a full price wrapper. At this point just wait for Path 2... I can play Diablo 2 all DRM'd up offline.

[Stanjara]

Basically battlepass... you will have tasks to do which are a total waste of time...that will have fomo gear and cosmetics. If not... than gamba.

[CrimsonWing69]

@anast

I dunno, like the online only bit didn’t bother me. Like, I actually thought it was cool seeing real people in the game world and getting random help with quests.

To me, the game itself felt like Diablo 3 to me, but with the grittier art style of Diablo 2. I don’t know enough to say If Diablo 3 feels much more different over 4, but man I really loved what I played and didn’t get the F2P vibe from it.

@Stanjara

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the battlepass just for cosmetics only? The game felt pretty much like a traditional game to me. I never played the mobile Diablo game so I’m not sure if there’s any similarities to the F2P model and this battlepass implementation. Though I feel you can just play the game without ever purchasing the pass and it’ll feel like a full Diablo experience.

[oIMyersIo]

Game feels decent, few months of polish and balance…I’m looking at you, Druid.

Lots of stuttering on PS5 when using dash/dodge and when going into a new area but unsure if that’s just down to heavy server load due to the beta weekend.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Come home Blizzy!!

[darklaw]

It needs more options when dealing with your inventory. reverse order, best to worst, rare to common. and why are there points in the game where you have to press circle to climb duck? I get it, to make it more puzzly. but it feels cheap and out of place.

[dumahim]

X as a skill attack, but also to pick stuff up. Circle's, seemingly, only use is for those sections. Why? Let us bind a skill to circle as well or move pick up to there.

[cammers1995]

Is it still always online DRM?

[dumahim]

yes. It has a login queue system, but the few times I fired it up over the weekend, it wasn't bad at all. Could just chalk it up to normal login stuff. Would be great to skip it all if you just want to play offline. My character warped back in step quite a few times switching between areas.

[Anomander]

I had some Warp back issues this weekend entering and leaving population zones. The closed beta no issues with that, so my guess it was player congestion. Queue times were much better. Even at the longest was no where close to what it was sitting the closed beta.

[Stanjara]

Not only that... you have to pay ps plus or live gold to be able to go through the campaign... solo.

[Bemi]

Loved the beta. I skipped most dialogue as to not spoil anything. But had to grind to level 20 to get that cute little wolf pack cosmetic.

[Si-Fly]

Exactly how I played it!

[Rowco147]

I'll wait for Poe 2. D4 beta just seemed blah

[anast]

Exactly and it's F2P.

[1nsomniac]

After taking part in the beta, as always the cutscenes and story are good but this time around the controls and the gameplay were rubbish.

[MadLad]

The last thing they've gotten right in a good, long while was the Diablo 2 remaster.

Oh wait ... that wasn't you.

[anast]

Exactly... logging in every 30 days to play offline is jank.