It only scales the level of areas that you have already outlevelled, which is fine with me. Its not like traditional scaling where every zone is the same level as you, when you are level 15 , a level 20 zone is still a level 20 zone, its just that the level 5 zone is now a level 15 zone. I'm good with that, I'd be bored senseless going back to a level 5 zone at level 70 and just breezing through stuff. Might as well just play with godmode turned on
Trying to hit level 50 "asap" is something I'd never do. I utterly abhore the concept amongst some gamers of rushing games, of any genre. Its just not in my gaming DNA at all to play any title of any genre in that way. Totally goes against every principal of gaming enjoyment that I've ever had, though I know it floats some peoples boats.
Yeah very odd that the overlay map isnt a thing, a lot of streamers have raised that as one of their top things to "fix", will be interesting to see if its present next weekend as its supposed to be a different build of the game next weekendI'm really missing the transparent world map that you could overlay on screen while still running around.
Barbs 25 now. Still need to finish the main quests that are available but have explored most of the map now I think. A good few shrines have been found, the old, follow the map edges first then clear the center
It wont flop in sales, but i dont see this game having much staying power for me.
Really had high hopes after seeing the intial itemsation.
But i gotta say d4 is more mmo than actual arpg. Everything is just easy and a bit shallow. The skilltree may as well not exist.
So unless they start showing the endgame more and it’s different to what we can currently do, id say this is going to flop, not sales wise but cant see people sticking around.
Ah now see thats something different though, I get that it might not have staying power for you specifically but that doesnt make it a flop. Thats the hyperbole part I guess. Hell even Diablo 3 was a success rather than a flop, D4 wont flop.
I wouldnt say its babys first arpg, I feel thats just belittling it for belittling sake, I do however agree with you that its targetting a casual arpg audience. Its certainly not as "spreadsheety" as PoE for example. In MMO terms, if Diablo is World of Warcraft, PoE is Eve Online, which is fine, some people prefer WoW, some people prefer Eve Online. I played Diablo 3 for years and that was more shallow than D4 seems to be so I'm sure I will get years out of D4, however I am that casual arpg player target that you mention. I've got far too many titles to play now and in the future to be dedicating 13,000 hours to 1 title.
The beta runs to 7pm on Monday I believe, so boss should be up a few more times yet
Better for the individual assessing it of course, all subjective. However as I say, the arpgs I listed are as different as various MMOs, so to compare them directly is as flawed as comparing WoW, UO, EvE and ESO, yes they are all MMOs but they are aimed at different sorts of players and are designed differently so its hard to simply make it a black and white comparison.
Well, I couldnt comment on what the "majority" want, least not without polling the entire playerbase, so yeah, I can only speak for myself, which is all I did in the post you quoted, explained that I dont rush/speedrun games (totally dont see the point) as its not in my gaming DNA to do so, whether the "majority" agrees with me on that I of course couldnt say nor would I ever profess to know.
I'm saying, like all things in life, be it book, tv show, movie, game, car, whatever, the best and most valid comparisons are like for like, not like for similar.
No, it won't. They published the times the world boss would appear - 8 am this morning was the last time for this weekend's beta test.
Ahh, ok, kind of an odd decision to have another 19 hours of beta on Monday but no world boss in those 19 hours but yeah I guess next weekend it is then
