I find Diablo 4 grouping system somewhat unoptimized for the needs of the player. I would like to group with like minded(random) people for certain specific goals, make friendships and progress much faster than the current pace. A Lobby like the one in d2r would serve perfectly this purpose.
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There’s always the unofficial discord - Sanctuary. However it’s doubtful they would ever add a lobby like in D2. They are working on a group finder feature though. How it will work and when it will come out is also anyone’s guess.
Its funny you mention the D2 lobby system. There were talks that in D2 they wanted to make a town hub aka glorified chat room where you could walk about in a town interact with things talk to all the many players. Ultimately was scrapped and we got the lobby system with our characters at the bottom.
FastForward to D4… We have town hubs now, but due to the limit of how many players per shard and the stash issue, kind of a bummer we don’t have a better system of finding players to do xyz with… Almost need like a Town Board where you can create open party and tag it with xyz goals and let people join as they want.
Yep, that town board idea could work as well. As long players can make open party with their own goals it will do the job regardless of how it is executed.
I don’t generally play with others, but the idea of doing more, say, duriel runs with others because everyone shares mats has me intrigued.
Thing is apparently you need to go to discord. That is a major fail on the game’s part. Wow has matchmaking queues and has for over 10 years. In this game I can’t even see more than one person at a time.
I had a bad experience with discord so I tend to be pretty scared of it. It would be nice if the game itself would allow for that sort of matchmaking, I mean who wouldn’t want extra runs, it isn’t like I’ll need to talk or anything and from wow I’m used to playing with people I don’t need to talk to.
C’mon blizzard we’re talking about basic functionality in a multiplayer game!
I’m mostly solo player but I do feel better grouping tools would be useful. Especially with legendary and unique items now tradable people looking for groups are going to be drowned out by people trying to sell items.
I suspect of they do it’ll be something similar to how the wow group finder worked. You say what you’re interested in doing and a pop up comes up and asks if you want to enter or not. I just hope they don’t add anything that specifies what classes are allowed to join. Back when I played wow I was lucky enough to have a bunch of tanks and healers so I never had to queue for long but DPS classes sucked for queueing. If they do that in D4 whatever the perceived weaker classes are will never get into a group.
D4 is online Single Player game.
Options for Party exist when purchasing mats from Chinese.
Lobby, Town Hub, … anything that could connect players to one each other could be a good thing.
I tried Discord, and it is an awful experience. From having to minimize the game and add “friends” through the Bnet app, to having to listen to some obnoxious and immature 16 year old talk and never shut up, NO THANK YOU. I agree it is simply a fail that the one efficient means of making a group is to go to a 3rd party site. Consider it an epic fail that this online MMO-esque shared world game never had any type of party/group finder. Just amazingly short-sighted to say the least.
This does not seem like it would be difficult to implement. On your character screen you could select which character and enter a new screen that lists parties/games/other? Create party for Helltides, party is listed with a max of 4 players. When one leaves game/party, slot opens up. In background Blizzard just needs figure out how to balance player load on each server. Not difficult, been done before. This is something that I figure could have been easily implemented in a patch for a season.
I would rather play Helltides in a party, I would rather do NMDs in a party. But options to date are just embarrassingly limited, embarrassing for Blizzard that is. I am the opposite of many here who commented about playing solo. I play online multiplayer games to be playing with other people. If I want to be alone, to be solo…I do other activities (I have enough yardwork this summer to last me a lifetime).
Diablo 4 doesn’t have a grouping system. A lobby or in game system like wow has would be nice.
Yes. Better Lobby better LFG and Player housing. Now that the core game is “fixed” lets iterate on immersion/ fantasy and community elements please.
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Why in the world would anyone be scared of a comms program? That seems pretty irrational.
I don’t like to talk to strangers, especially on the internet where I can’t see the person. I am diagnosed with anxiety among many many other things so there’s your answer.
Last time I used it was to relay a story to a streamer on youtube, and the comments just kept coming in insinuating that I was lying. Since that became part of the video they were streaming I felt so negative about the situation that I uninstalled the program, lost my headset, and likely will never try it again even though I realize using it for this game would keep the chatter to a minimum. I just don’t want to interact with people in that fashion.
I’m old fashioned and didn’t have the internet until I was in college. I’m barely comfortable writing on message boards, in fact. When I play with other people online (say in a wow queue) I have learned to say exactly nothing because the best thing you can expect from an internet conversation is “well that was stupid, but I’m not offended.” That’s a pretty low bar so I’ll just keep quiet and save myself the hassle.
They are just words from people you dont know and have no idea who you are. It seems you are making wayyy too much out of nothing.
It would seem that way, but I am mentally ill so it does mean something. One bad interaction puts me in a funk for the rest of the day. You think I don’t know that I don’t know them and shouldn’t care? Of course I do, I’m not stupid, but I can’t help feeling bad. It’s part of my struggle. I am so far behind “normal” people that I’m working minimum wage at 47 with a college degree because prior to six months ago I hadn’t worked since 1999. It’s honestly surprising to me that I can even write on a forum, and I won’t lie if I think the discussion is getting heated, I won’t look at it and just delete it from my feed.
TL;DR: I can’t help how I react. If I could control those kinds of things I wouldn’t be ill.
Good luck to you.
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Considering grouping is a very different game experience than solo, you would have thought a group finder should have been included at launch. Not including one was just a bad idea. But gamers have found a work-around, so developers probably have shelved the idea for the time being. That is usually how software development works.