Hello Happy. Welcome to assuming an alternative is a solution. If I asked for pancakes because waffles had become an unappealing taste due to eating too much of it, but was instead given a bowl of croutons, we would all agree that croutons are not pancakes. Yes, in general they are both bread products, but one is not the other. The above is essentially what was proposed in this thread. I am not looking for key sequences to manually skip the intros. I’m asking for the devs to provide a workaround to this unnecessary manual skipping in the form of a command line switch (or a setting). AFAIK, all of the other b net based Blizz titles do not force the player into a 3 hurtle skip trip every time the game is loaded. Again D3 got this right. What I’m asking for is pretty simple to implement.
Let’s be clear the 3rd hurtle will linger indefinitely until manually skipped. All of the hurtles require the player to babysit the loading process in order to skip through or the intro cinematics will proceed as designed. There is no way to rapidly press a key 5 times at game load and have the game use those key presses to skip all 3 hurtles because the game actively consumes keyboard buffer input between the hurtles. Even a keyboard with very low repeat delay and high repeat rate (which I have) is insufficient.
This is very simple. A command line argument like ‘-skipintros’ and the responding code would be a real solution. Come on devs this is an easy win. Interns could handle this one.
I mean, I’m not “believing” anything. I’m just simply reiterating what Blizzard said on the matter. And mods are fine some long as they don’t inject memory.
You asked. And I quote “is there a way to skip the 3 intro scenes” the solution you were given not only satisfies that, but it’s functionality equivalent to exactly what you want right now. It’s something you can do yourself that solved that exact problem. But you are dismissing it offhand because if reasoning he demonstrated was not a problem. That’s whinging for the sake of it. It is equivalent, is it perfect? No, but there is a way stop being a baby about it
I see. You read the title and “skipped” the content in the starting post. I made a request for skipping the intros but added context to my request. The added context of my request would make my dismissal reasonable.
I also see that you are bored and were looking for troll cQQkies. Enjoy your cookies.
Not going to touch that ^^.
Wow. Thank you. This confirms that it is time for a break.
It baffles me that not many people, even Cheetah on old threads seems to understand what’s going on here.
Previously there were command line arguments you could add to the shortcut’s target parameters that allowed you to skip intro cutscenes, which is just as authentic of an experience as it was without it.
You can no longer do this, but no one has explained why. I suspect it is because of the battlenet launcher being involved, but others have mentioned you have this option in D3.
Therefore, it should be something available on D2R. It seems like an oversight to not have it.
There’s absolutely no reason to be a jerk about it in this thread. I can press the space bar too but it still is a valid point to reach out and understand why it no longer is a feature in D2R.
Personally I don’t care either way but it would be interesting to determine why it doesn’t work, or how you could work around it. Deleting the video files seems like a decent proposal if it doesn’t cause game crashes.
