Open Beta feedback

PC General Discussion
1

I played as a sorc. Reached 25, did all quests, all zones, strongholds, statues etc.

Here’s my quick summary for the devs:

  1. I constantly felt slightly underpowered, combat felt rather boring (unfortunately, more boring than D3, PoE and even D1) - similar feeling I got when I tried D:I
  2. Modifiers on items (incl. socketable gems) didn’t feel impactful
  3. Skill tree options seemed somewhat limited; leaf-level nodes didn’t offer enough meaningful variety and weren’t enticing
  4. Would be good to be able to zoom out a little bit more
  5. Graphics were good, but certain things remained cartoony (like Nec’s skeletons) - would like to see that changed. Your benchmark for how not to make things look cartoony is PoE.

Problems encountered during gameplay:

  1. Continuous desync and rubber-banding when traversing open-world areas or in towns
  2. Intermittent lagging (sometimes lasting a few seconds)
  3. A few client crashes (which it looks like you’re tracking)
  4. Dungeons / world zones would sometimes fail to load (= got stuck at the loading screen indefinitely)

At this point I don’t even feel like trying other classes (I’d be forcing myself to continue playing this Beta). It’s also unlikely that I’ll be there at launch in June. Will need to see endgame reviews before I spend money on anything.

2

Agreed with the skill tree. And for me I felt very unbalanced in combat. Sometimes I was breezing through things. Then at some big boss fights I had to run around in a circle for 10 minutes trying to not die while slowly witling away the boss’ health. Even boss fights that I was well matched with seemed to be a grind and take forever and half the time the loot was just mediocre. I enjoyed the game overall, but the combat with the bosses really took the fun out of it.