Diablo II: Resurrected

Holy soykaf I'm pumped. This game was pretty much my childhood. >Tech alpha opt-in https://diablo2.blizzard.com/en-us >Diablo® II: Resurrected ™ Announce Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRP62MGOrUo >BlizzConline 2021 - Diablo II: Resurrected Deep Dive with MrLlamaSC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dL7ZeIAsE Things I'm looking forward to: * Crossplay? They mentioned global platform-neutral servers and cross-progression across platforms. I'd like to play this with my brother who is on PS5. * I hope they fix botting and duping in multiplayer, so that rare rune drops feel like they are actually worth something * Hardcore playerkilling with a pimped level 18 charge paladin * Loafing around in random PvP and trade servers

New hi-res models. Some people dislike them, but I like their crude and rugged look because it fits the brutish world of Diablo.

You can zoom in on your character now, and unique items have a custom model that matches their inventory icon

Shared stash is added to get rid of the need for muling. In the MrLlamaSC deep dive video, it seems that each character has their own shared stash, which appeared as "Shared I", "Shared II", "Shared III"

This looks really good. However i still play d2 and dont see the point in fancy graphics nor do i want to go over another grind.

Am not a big fan of the 3d graphics, lost a lot of the charm to me(you can turn them off though so no problem). Really looking forward to the quality of life changes and starting new characters with friends

Hopefully they've learned something after how the WC3 Reforged launch went.

>>4438 It's done by Vicarious Visions, who also remastered Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk Pro Skater. I have more faith in them than Blizzard...

I presume they're going to fuarrrk over older Windows and Wine users of Diablo II with a patch concurrent with this "remaster", as they did with Brood War?

>>4440 There is supposedly a legacy toggle to revert back to classic rendering, and the original D2&LOD will keep their place as separate products on bnet

I prefer this https://opendiablo2.com Having a soykafty lowres screen, HD remasters do nothing for me.

After watching the Deep Dive.. man this is going to be fantastic and I can't wait. I can't remember the last time I was so excited for a game. It'll be great, especially after the let down Torchlight 3 was..

>>4432 Soul on top and soulless on the bottom. The new Amazon looks like a tranny, the new Barbarian looks lame, and the new Paladin looks like a racial caricature. All they had to do with improve resolutions and maybe add a little more detail but they went and screwed it up. The new Necromancer looks cool though.

>Diablo II Resurrected Q&A with Lead Designer & Producer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxg_tLCe1g0 >custom user-defined keymappings, multiple saved presets >multiple shared stashes, limited by realm and mode >no loot filtering >no stackable gems and runes >no announcement about public APIs for community developers >no cross-play, only cross-progression >malignant bugs (e.g. invisible poison clouds) to be fixed, but "quirky" bugs part of the meta (e.g. boss glitches) to remain >cannot bring offline character to battle.net, but no need to be online to play locally >1.14d is the target patch, no announcement about future patches >in terms of QoL, erring on the side of simple remaster instead of complex remake >fast creation and exiting of servers (e.g. for farming) still allowed >uber system to be kept as it is >ladder-only runewords to remain outside single-player >no announcement about macOS compatibility, possible announcement at release >probably no ultra-wide support, possibly hades-style decorated empty space at edges >looking to address the weak contrast in new 3D engine between enemy models and background >modding supported with more accessibility, but should be incompatible with old mods that manipulate code directly >UI more modular, hacking possible >additional darkness in new 3D engine to be addressed to avoid the meta shifting into classic rendering >monster AI still bound to original 4:3 resolution, but dev team mindful of implications >no announcement about voice chat >refined UI (e.g. friends list), but old chat commands also supported >devs wish for tech alpha feedback about whether they nailed down the "diablo 2 feel" or not >controller skillbar probably not available on MKB >controllers cast skills with one press, compared to manual toggling and casting on MKB >a bit more animations >a bit more sound ambience >many diablo 2 fans/veterans in dev team >more technical details about frame rates coming at a later date

>>4450 >Soul on top and soulless on the bottom Quite the opposite. The ones on top look like those plastic figurines you find from cereal boxes. The ones on the bottom look rugged in a way that actually fits the world of Diablo. Also the lightning around the campfire is borked, they look way better in >>4433

>>4435 I appreciate that they add features from mods, but in plugy you have basically infinite stash pages that are not tied to a character. It's probably good to somewhat limit players' inventory size, but it will only lead to everyone making 20 level 1s to get stash pages, if it works that way.

>>4433 >>4450 Amazon is my jam!

Updated cibenatics look good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyxkEuZVaUs

>>4787 Spear & Shield Amazons... form up!

Any experiences with running it on Linux yet?

when will they get their head out of their own ass? jfc they will repackage their own chewed up soy kaf day in and day out and rake in all the paypig fortunes, no new idea needs to come into the studio, that's AAA gaming baby, your own childhood that was sold to you, stolen from you, and sold back to you AGAIN!

>>5077 Here's how you do time-stamps: https://youtu.be/-V7ZYk7elA4?t=60

>>5073 Wish there was an option for brunette spear & shield amazon

Anyone planning to get Diablo II: Resurrected? The graphics are better but if the gameplay is the same, what is the point? At least, give me the option of a female redhead werewolf druid.

>>5202 It also has no good mods available and isn't even on the most up to date battlenet patch meaning several bugs are in still in the game and some QoL features are missing. You can't play Path of Diablo on it either and Path of Diablo is by far the best Diablo 2 experience from what I've seen/played which is most of the overhaul mods. Path of Diablo has tons of QoL features, new items, new skills, new maps to complete. It's just good and you can't play it on resurrected.

>>4451 >no announcement about voice chat I hope they don't consider VC to be a thing in-game. We already have apps to do that for us in-between friends. Good ol' text chat is enough for strangers.

>>5214 It's pretty normal they do that as they're marketing their games to children, not adults.

>>5214 That's an excellent decision, we really need to stop sexualizing everything. Today's kids are so messed up they actually think building your identity based mainly on who you would like to have sex with is a good idea.

Playing D2R on a console to play with a friend. It's a terrible experience trying to find a game on Xbox without the Xbox post system IMO. >No server search, instead they use a "party finder" that tries to pair you with people that created a game in the same "quest" that you chose on the prompt. >If you finish the quest, rumors says that your game gets thrown into the "free roam" game mode. The catch all. >No keyboard support, but I hear they are planning on an implementation soon. >No chat prompt. Only predefined messages that fuarrrking is like kicking dead whales down the beach and tells nothing most of the time. >Legecy mode doesn't turn certain UI windows in legacy like on PC >Dropped items show their name for a few and then you have to walk close by to read the names again. No way to toggle item names as far as I know. They did a great job implementing controller controls in the game thought. I have no complaint so far and I'm having a good time. I miss joining random games thru a server search thought...

Can you still play the old Diablo2 on battle.net?

>>5341 >Dropped items show their name for a few and then you have to walk close by to read the names again. No way to toggle item names as far as I know. wow i am dumb there's an option to toggle that. Happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>5355 >Can you still play the old Diablo2 on battle.net? I think you can still play classic diablo 2 on battle.net. If not, well there's still amazing mods like PD2 or PoD that are still thriving.

>>5387 D2R definitely looks nicer but it has identical gameplay and missing some features of the original; so what's the point?

>>4450 why did they shrink the barbarian and necromancer kek

>>5391 【Diablo2 Resurrected】ソーサレス *teleports behind you* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM8HLjR1tnM >>5401 Diablo II:Resurrected models https://www.artstation.com/hossein_diba VS https://www.artstation.com/tonzy Looks like bad textures and harsh lighting in-game makes them all look bad.

>>5391 >missing some features of the original I don't know... Other than mod support missing, I don't see any major features missing. There's alot more in D2R than in Classic if I dare to say it. Console is missing a server browser, but I doubt you'll be playing on Console anytime soon. If you want a bigger player base on vanilla D2, D2R might be worth it. Otherwise, yeah there is not point in getting the game ATM.

>>5535 It's missing TCP/IP connection option; it was taken out for software security reasons. The only to play online multiplayer is via Blizzard's battlenet servers.

>>5545 Oh yeah soykaf you're right. I totally forgot about TCP/IP. Would have loved D2GA on D2R for pvp and testing builds on D2R instead of betting on how they'll work compared to Classic D2.

>>5552 Sucks cos I used the TCP/IP multiplayer more than battlenet.

D2R Patch 2.4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T6la0zk9L8

>>5812 D2R updated https://youtu.be/7FGkbFnGzLc?t=567

Should I stick with D2R or move on to DiabloIV on 6am 6th June?

>>6964 D4 is going to be a worse D3 with D2 abilities copy pasted

>>6964 I wanna try D4 but it's way too expensive. Standard digital edition in my country is 81 usd. fuarrrk off with that soykaf.