I just saw an update to Dialo 3, 2.8.0. Patch notes only go to 2.7.6. What are the 2.8.0 notes?
They haven’t shared them. So, it’s a FAFO situation, in my opinion. Throw things at the wall and discover what changed yourself.
Not the brightest move on Blizzard’s part but lately they’ve not been capable of making the brightest moves.
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My best guess is that they had a security vulnerability and they tried to patch it before it exploited their server and keeping hush about it, (adjusting my tin foil hat) or the same person that ended season 33 abruptly, is at it again! That’s my guess and I’m sticking to it!
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You mean in the Battle․net App, right?
Otherwise:
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Often times patches don’t contain any player facing changes, or changes that are intended to be public. In those cases, it’s not uncommon to not have patch notes.
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But change from 2.5 to 2.6 introduce necromancer, 2.6 to 2.7 - revamped followers, but nothing for 2.7 to 2.8 is strange. Why the subversion such seriously changed?
What is seriously changed? If you think because its a 2GB update, that makes it a serious change? I’m just curious.
Because they don’t normally increment the second number unless it’s a big change.
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*shrug
I suspect it was as said earlier:
And I have seen the same before, patches with little or no information. They don’t have to tell us what was fixed.
Naturally we are curious as it was a rather large patch, but if they want us to know, they will tell us.
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Version numbers are arbitrary. There likely was a large enough change to the game and/or its back end systems that warranted that version change.
As for subversion, I suspect you mean silence? Not everything that’s put into a patch is something the players are meant to notice or know about.
Hope they provide patch notes in what has changed esp if it affect game balance.
They will likely add another digit to the tail end before they go to 2.8.1 
They shouldn’t be.
On the one hand, I agree that these changes, which seem to be almost if not entirely back-end stuffs, aren’t necessarily things “end users” need to know, for the same reasons I, as a civilian, don’t necessarily need to know EXACTLY where every single CIA operative happens to be in real time. (obviously video games and patches aren’t usually apples to that orange in terms of seriousness or scope, but the hyperbolic comparison proves the point)
On the other hand though, this isn’t freaking 2002; everyone is going to notice when something gets updated, for reasons that are catastrophically obvious. And two gigs isn’t exactly a “casual” amount of data to update, either.
People are obviously going to get curious, and I really do agree with DTMAce here; I don’t see any downsides to posting at least A singular formal patchnote, even if it’s literally just: "cheaters stink 
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Give us something, you know?
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I don’t know the technology but I’m playing a much more leasurely game that was released in 2007 and after a rework, maintained in Visual Studio 2008, using components long abandoned. This project eventually moved to VS 202x. Prior to that, they added x64.
Depending on the code, these changes are simply a recompile but when you jump forward 15 years, some things are bound to jump at once from best practice to removed (skipping obsolete warnings in intermediate versions).
Diablo 3 is also done celebrating it’s 15th codebase birthday, if not way more. (I recall advertising it alongside a WoW expansion and having a yearly sub promotion.)
I mean it’s a possibility. Which could also result in the mentioned “bot-breaking” changes.
Not trying to be that guy and possibly missing this question being posted already. Has anyone else noticed and can answer why my in game settings are not being saved? Aside from the last update, I have done nothing and now every time I log in I have to reset the settings. Progress is saved fine, but the settings are not.
A few years back I ran into the same issue with D3 and Grim Dawn.
It turned out that, for some reason, my preferences were being saved to my OneDrive Documents folder. But, those games were looking for them in my C:\Users\perus\Documents folder, where they should be.
I eventually uninstalled OneDrive and will NEVER use it again. I also had to run a system registry checker to clean out ALL references to OneDrive. It was a painstaking process, but I eventually got it cleaned up.
I have not had this issue since.
I’m on a PC running Windows 10.
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You can check to see if this is your issue by looking at your Documents folder. Open the Diablo III folder there and look at the date on your D3Prefs.txt file.
Now, check your OneDrive\Documents folder. (If you’re on Windows with OneDrive). Open the Diablo III folder there, if there is one.
If you find another D3Prefs.txt file, is the date more recent than the one in your regular Documents folder? If so, then that’s the problem. If not, I don’t know what else to tell you.
Its also possible the preference file has an issue, or is locked somehow and doesn’t have write permission.
You may want to rename or delete it, then let the game create a new file which should then save the changes:
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Exit the game and the battlenet launcher.
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Go to Documents\Diablo III.
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Find the file named D3Prefs.txt.
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Delete or rename it.
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Restart the launcher and launch the game.
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You will need to do the settings once more, but then after you exit it should remain saved now.
Not a some reason. OneDrive makes a merge with your critical documents with a cloud backup, so if your computer suddenly croaked and you lost access to the drive, you can still retrieve them from the internet.
However that is a problematic issue for several reasons:
- Space. They only give you a small amount of space for free, otherwise you have to play monthly/yearly or the Microsoft 365 package to have a LOT more space
- Bandwidth. The program uses your internet to sync your files as you use them, immediately. And the first time you setup the app, it could hog your internet for awhile if you have a lot of files.
- Multiple systems. This is especially critical for gaming. If you have two identical systems, this isn’t an issue, but if you have different systems with different GPUs, different capabilities, then the problem shows up as your preferences keep getting swapped around between systems. So a system that needs less quality would share those settings with a system that needs more quality and if you didn’t check you would think your game suddenly got uglier or worse looking.
For a while I was excluding the games from being synced within my OneDrive between my desktop and my laptop. But recently MS screwed with it again, and all that stopped, the game’s files on the laptop got replaced with the ones from the desktop and it got messed up. After that, I removed the OneDrive from the laptop entirely. Though honestly its the one that probably needs it the most.
Microsoft makes the OneDrive appear as a default location for documents, pictures, etc. However some programs (like GD) may be programmed to look for the user folder Documents under the current profile, rather than the Microsoft delineated one that could be assigned literally anywhere.
All of my main documents are actually kept on a different drive from the C:\ in my case.
OneDrive is a mess to be sure, but it can save someone a loss of data in some cases.
Even Microsoft couldn’t solve what happened to my pc. I won’t say what they sent me. That’s between me and them. Obviously the issue was marked as solved though.
I was reading though this thread. What was your issue?
They couldn’t solve what problem? And if you aren’t going to talk about it, why post about it at all?
Guess I’m confused here.
They updated my pc and it goes wierd. 3 days, marked as solved except it’s not even when i said it’s not but do what you like since i’m used to people breaking my pc’s. I managed to get it to work but… it’s wierd, like me!