Name the best and the worst things about the game until now

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10

Music/atmosphere is amazing , story seems pretty cool, cutscenes are fantastic, graphics are top notch.

The bad, character model/ inventory, it takes up so much space but I never look at it. The design in D2/D3/PoE is simply superior. Skills/build seem lacking in design. Spell animation is the same regardless of skill level. Too many empty rooms/corridors. Limited environment interaction, world feels quiet.

11

Amazing launch, game play is great and I haven’t had a single technical issue.

There is no social aspect as far as chatting goes, but good news, I get clan spam for whenever someone completes a challenge!

12

Best - game performance has been really good.

Worst - played over 20 hours now and have yet to see a single world boss. I’m at level 38 and have only had 5 legendaries drop , 3 had the same affix on them , only one was even usable. Half my gear is under level 20 because drops are too random and changing stats gets too expensive.

13

I’ve had to replace and upgrade my weapon fully, plus adding an affix every 2-3 levels or my damage falls off by hundreds of points. Yay.

14

Can’t find him to save my life lol.

I have found ONE beast bone however, off of a spider, so there’s that.

15

it looks nice, it plays like diablo and i actually like the necromancer goth kid.
but that damn shared world… why? well i know why, you won’t buy cosmetics when nobody sees them ofcourse but why isn’t there an opt out option for that?
my love for the other diablo games was going through desolate monster filled places and knowing i was there alone. now when i see an event thing there’s usually some fridge with a name like smashyourfacexx allready there…
i am an oldschool gamer, you know, a darkened room dweller. stop forcing introverts to socialize.

16

Good:

Storytelling is amazing, lots more cutscenes and NPC moments/dialog that make the story much more compelling than D3 was.

Bad:

Cant progress the campaign coz the game freezes then crashes when I initiate dialog with quest NPC
Cant unlock a dungeon coz I didnt pick up the “optional” side quest to unlock dungeon when doing campaign quest
Cant log in to character to play after completing a dungeon and being unable to teleport to town

Too many bugs/crashes have made this launch memorable for all the wrong reasons :frowning:

17

Fractured Peaks and it’s towns share a single music track. The dungeons share a single music track. Small indie company. Multi-dollar budget.

18

Best: it has an open world at least
Worst: itemization

19

So far, all areas feel the same. Lack of monster diversity? Not sure. Seems repetitive at the moment.

3 Likes
20

Best. Graphics and sound. The game looks absolutely incredible at max graphics and 4k.
Worst. Itemization / Legendary aspect dependencies for a build or a skill to feel usable.
Also adding that “builders” and spenders is not fun simply because basic skills feels really bad.

2 Likes
21

Have to agree that the limited sources of “increased resource generation” and “reduced resource cost” means bottoming out a lot an unpleaseant gameplay experience

22

Worst. The legendary system. Aspects are great with it’s reusability… Legendaries not so much because the game screws you over unless you wait for that one perfect item.

23

BEST:
The story is absolutely the show stealer for the first time in franchise history. Let’s face it the lore has been there but Diablo 4 is the first time I’ve truly invested into the story. I like many others know the story from Diablo - Diablo 3 and it was intriguing and the extra lore cool to experience but D4 takes it a step further.
So… STORY.

WORST:
Seasons haven’t started yet but having to buy a new battle pass for each season is pretty wack. I’m ok for a one time pass purchase, paid expansions and a cosmetic shop but if they plan to give us 4 seasons a year(they said every three months I think) that comes to an extra $40 a year. Not terrible but since I’m sure I’ll want some cosmetics now and then and I’ll absolutely want expansions then the multiple battle passes per year purchases seem a bit overboard. However I’ll bite the bullet regardless I reckon.
So… Multiple battle pass purchases.

24

Link source pls… That sounds like the Premium pass

25

Won’t let me post the link but I read it on Xbox news.

26

  • Gameplay is fun

  • Graphics are good

  • Sound, Music and Voice are good

  • Openworld is meh

  • first 3 Acts nothing memorable. Pretty basic dungeons, and the reuse of assets starts extremly early

27

“The free battle pass is available to everyone, adding 27 tiers with rewards like Smoldering Ashes and other cosmetics.”

Basic battle pass is free, premium passes are just cosmetics and tier skips…not required for seasons

ign. com / articles / diablo-4-battle-pass-pricing-season-details-revealed

28

Yes, but the premium has 67 tiers. I GUARANTEE some of those things will be very useful for progression like gold, material, exp and such. It is going to absolutely gimp someone to play the free version.

29

Here’s my take. All subjective so you’re welcome to disagree.

Positives:

  • Customizable characters. Still very limited but just being able to attempt to make my own character feels good. Needs more hairstyles and body sizers and maybe 2-4 more faces each.
  • My character in cutscenes. Just too few to really enjoy it.
  • Story. I’m just glad to get more Diablo story/lore and that it is voiced. Not the best story but I like it.
  • The music is not bad.
  • Huge open world is better than instanced zones you load into. But I am thinking it isn’t a seamless open world I think the little hiccups/stutters are instanced points in the open world that aren’t melding correctly.
  • When I feel OP it is fun but that is rare.
  • Drops not raining like they did in Beta though I’ve got way more legendary items than a normal playthrough of D2 so maybe too high a drop chance (?).
  • Aspect system.
  • Mounts. Loved them in Lost Ark and love them in D4. Just unlocked mine and is very good.

Negatives:

  • Mount not being available at the start or even before the quest Oasis of Memories which requires you to run a very long way.
  • First boss was nerfed and it was perfect in Betas.
  • No one to connect me to the past Diablos. Lorath just doesn’t do it for me. There is a cameo character from a past game but I don’t even think they are the same voice actor, at least didn’t sound the same to me, so feels like a new character.
  • Classes feel underwhelming. Can’t play the builds I want because they feel so weak. I hate funneled meta builds. WoW does that and I can’t stand it.
  • Enemy scaling. I understand the need for things to stay relevant but when trash mobs are like battling slightly weaker elites it doesn’t feel good and I don’t feel stronger. Increasing power basically equals nothing. Might as well run around it starter gear and all whites since I might feel somewhat more powerful.
  • Store skins being a little too expensive for my tastes and I hear they are for only one class and not interchangeable. Had a discussion in another thread about Plat being too expensive but it turns out it isn’t. It is the store items that are too expensive and so it throws the good Plat price out the window.
  • Limited resource regeneration on classes. Druid I don’t think regens its resources you get it from dealing damage which feels bad. Other classes it feels too slow.
  • Graphics. I only have 4gb VRAM so have to run textures on low but it doesn’t look great. Lost Ark I could run and it looked far better imo. Just my GPU and not really a Blizz thing.
  • The game gets worse the more I play it. From my past experiences this means a memory leak. Never stuck with games that had a memory leak for long because it ruins the game having to constantly log off and than back in when everything has closed.
  • Mounted attack skill cooldown. The CD starts every time you mount instead of just having a GCD that when it’s done can be used. So you have to wait 8 secs. (?) every time you mount in order to use it again instead of 8 secs. after use.
  • Remounting skill CD. Have to wait 10 secs after dismounting to mount again. Seriously? Should’ve been maybe, maybe 3-4 secs. but most definitely not 10 secs.
  • Not appearing where I exit at. I believe in the Betas that if I exited somewhere when I 'd log in again later I was in that spot but now I am all over the F’in place. I save in town and I appear in some other part of twon. I had just saved in the Oasis of Memories town and now just logged in to find I am as NE of that as you can get outside the town on the border of the map. WTF?
  • Game still has little ice skating/rubberbanding/stutters/lag at certain points.
  • STILL can’t skip every cutscene even if I’ve seen it more than once. :angry:
  • Pure Necro summoner build is trash. The build is gear dependent and I can’t find the gear. Skeleton warriors are garbage and can’t take hits from normal enemies. Defender skeletons are tankier but even they get stomped in some dungeons on WT1. The heal should be a straight heal or a heal before the HoT. The HoT is too low and can’t even keep up with the damage skeletons take.
  • Gems do not have their own bag space and too many versions take up too much room.
  • The mount not having a constant speed but going faster the farther your mouse is from center. On paper this sounds really good but in practice this is terrible. Just give me the option to have my mount go full tilt every time I click with no ramp up.
  • World Tier 1 not being less gear dependent, no enemy scaling and more for those that want to focus on the story and chill with minimal challenge. WT1 needs to be chill mode with each tier after increasing the difficulty. WT2 can start with enemies scaling to your level, the gear dependency, the tougher mechanics, etc. and WT3 can make everything faster and scale above your level and so on and so forth.
  • Appears that 2-3 Lilith shrines are in the Fields of Hatred and you get auto-flagged. Not a fan of auto-flagging for PvP. Also, thought there were no shrines that we’d get flagged for?
  • Resistances don’t scale well. 12% is not an actual 12% but something like 12% of what you have or something like that. Not even worth taking right now.
  • Trash are more difficult than bosses and can on shot you while bosses can’t. Something is off here.

EDIT: Just going to add to this as I play because I either find stuff or remember stuff from the Beta’s and Server Slam.

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