This game, while social features are not a core function of gameplay, they are necessary in terms of the players needs in game.
As it stands, with no text chat or lobby system with named games the console version is destined to become a social graveyard / single player fest.
Did you guys really think that adding a few new emotes (which didn’t work on beta) is going to suffice?
I can’t ask a player for a tp.
I can’t tell the noob that the item I’ve been trying to trade him for 5 minutes is better than his starter staff.
I can’t make a game tailored to my specific needs, which Diablo 2 has a lot of those needs that aren’t directly related to a quest.
Games like rust and Conan have a lobby list with game names on their console versions so I really don’t wanna hear that it’s a technical limitation excuse, but if that’s the card that gets pulled…
Y’all gonna need to add like 40 subcategories to free roam
Tristram runs
Rushing
Stat / skill quests
Cow runs
Baal runs
Do you see where I’m going with this?
The system on beta will not work and it must be changed.
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The system they use on beta, is the same exact system they used on diablo 3, trust me, they did not want to use this system, its clear, that they simple have no funds to invest, the situation is, one of the best games of all time is in the hands of very small developers team with low funding, if u really hope for lobby, u better hope somebody step that money up, because they wont invest in lobby from their own pockets right?
Not going to work at all post 90 if the lobby is still slot based. By that i mean if someone joins then leaves the game his slot is taken so you will not get a replacement. And basically after 90 you will get almost no xp unless there is 8 people in the party.
But honestly I never seen lobbies working on console either. Modern console players not the same animal as pc players from 20 years ago. A lot of those baal run lobbies only worked because there were a lot of people that all played 8 hours straight grinding in the same run. You going to have a hard time keeping up runs with 8 players and keeping the game full on console I would imagine.
No actual players needed, on pc you can activate players difficulty by using chat, so u can solo and get loot and exp as if you were in 8 players team. Simply by writing players 8.
Console doesn’t have that option. It also doesn’t matter what the player base is, you can’t copy and paste d3 lobby system into d2
Well too late, they already did that, now only hope for lobby, is if they receive huge funding from some investors, because u dont need to be genius to realise how expensive it would be to implement and maintain lobby on the consoles.
How can a primitive system from 20 years ago cost money? If anything it cost them more to change it to what they have it at than leaving it as is
I am not a programmer to explain it to you, but trust me when i say its far, far from being as simple as copy paste, it would take huge effort and money to make it possible.
So then have them tell me that to my face. I’d rather hear the real reason then some bs
console, at least ps4 has party chat system… works well with D3, use it with D2R
As i said earlier it is a lot easier to get parties together in d3 because it is only 4 players. And does not really even matter there is not a huge difference between solo and group xp in d3.
In d2 you do not get xp without a party really. After 90 you can possibly level solo but takes forever and combined with the death penalty impossible after 95 or so. In d3 you can go get 3k paragon in a week solo or in group either way.
Well i say easy but even with 4 players in d3 you always have that guy walking his dog,beating his children, or whatever other excuse you can think of to afk that makes grouping less xp then solo in d3 too.
Been a long time but that set players option only works off ladder correct?
No, that’s what Diablo 3 is for. This is Diablo 2, no changes. This is a change no one asked for.
If they decide to make d2r this unsocial its over before it starts, Chat and any game list/creation are extremly important