*** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

[Ewaf]

Been away all weekend, bit gutted I've pretty much missed the beta How big is the client, and does it end tonight?

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

Been away all weekend, bit gutted I've pretty much missed the beta How big is the client, and does it end tonight?

Around 2GB in size I think. And it ends tomorrow at 5 pm.

 

[pioneer2000]

Does character progress carry over to the full game or do we have to start over?

 

[Raumarik]

Finally got on for a little while, like the idea of the game and it's good fun. Can't help feel that the graphics are a little blurry though, but perhaps that's just me!

 

[Cat_In_Pyjamas]

Strangely I don't have that, I just have "Pre-purchase Diablo III now!" under "Your Game Accounts". Maybe you got into the proper beta?

Nope. I have the D3 beta listed in my b.net account but I don't have permission to post on the beta forums.

@pioneer - there will both be a character and achievement wipe on release. Far as I know, the beta client won't let you play the game on release either - you'll have to re-download/re-install the game. Treat it as if it was a WoW PTR server.

 

[Matmulder]

Does character progress carry over to the full game or do we have to start over?

Highly suspect it'll all be wiped so everyone starts fresh on the 15th.

 

[Swarfega]

Wipe for sure.

 

[Raumarik]

This is not a dig at people playing with multi monitor set-ups, but does anyone else think they're... not very good? Personal preference, obviously, but I couldn't stand to play a game split across screens, especially 3 widescreen ones. The reason I ask is because I only ever see praise for it, and no one ever says they don't like it. Maybe it's just me xD ? Multi-monitor is great, don't get me wrong -- especially for separating watching a video or web browsing from another task, but I just can't see how splitting a game across a few monitors is superior to playing on one large, seamless screen.

very few tasks are improved by it, I use dual monitors at work but that's partly as I can be in editing code or spreadsheets whilst needing to keep an eye on a server on the other screen. At home, when I've used eyefinity on 3x 21" monitors I felt it was good for immersion on some games, but just plain annoying when I wasn't in them.

 

[anything I don't mind]

I can't connect to the beta, it says that the beta servers are down due to stress tests.

 

[Shamikebab]

login button is just greyed out for me :/ Is it all down?

 

[Evilsod]

*logs in fine*

You're doing it wrong...

...though it still keeps timing out when trying to start a game which is getting really annoying.

 

[Shamikebab]

Login button is just completely unclickable for me

 

[orderoftheflame]

*logs in fine*

You're doing it wrong...

...though it still keeps timing out when trying to start a game which is getting really annoying.

Same here.

Are you guys that are having problems connecting to the Europe server? Only the American on is available for the beta.

 

[Roblam]

Login button is just completely unclickable for me

Make sure you're entering your battle.net email address into the name box, and not your battle tag.

 

[Shamikebab]

Server option is set as 'The Americas' in game....maybe I'll download it again, very odd.

 

[Shamikebab]

Make sure you're entering your battle.net email address into the name box, and not your battle tag.

Thanks Honestly they could give you a bit more information rather than just leaving the login button grey

 

[orderoftheflame]

I've only just noticed that you can pause in single player since the last patch now.

 

[Evilsod]

Unfortunately it doesn't pause when you open the steam overlay which almost got me killed a couple of times ^^

 

[QlimaxUK]

Around 2GB in size I think. And it ends tomorrow at 5 pm.

more like 4.7 GB

However you can play after 2 GB has downloaded but will be really laggy!

 

[anything I don't mind]

I had to select american in the options to get it too work. Game is great Already level 3 and have not used any health yet. Gfx and sound fx are amazing