KONKURRENCEN ER SLUT: SE VINDERNE NEDENFOR








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Reaper of Souls beta review af RTG

Konstruktiv kritik i video-review opsummerer de største svagheder ved Reaper of Souls beta.

Mens utilfredsheden med Reaper of Souls-betaen synes at have nået nye højder på Blizzards officielle fora, kan det være svært at holde styr på, på hvilke punkter det er, RoS ikke leverer. Her er et video-review fra RTG, der påpeger de største svagheder ved spillet i dets beta-fase lige nu.

Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls - Finding Loot Should be Fun - Closed Beta Gameplay

Når jeg vælger at fremhæve denne video, skyldes det, at det for mange er uoverskueligt, i hvilken stand Reaper of Souls er lige nu. Meget få har adgang til betaen, og man begynder at høre flere og flere kritikpunkter i disse dage. Videoen her er en let indføring i de største problematikker. Der er tale om velmenende konstruktiv kritik, og det er præcis, hvad betaen er til for. Der er godt to måneder til udgivelse, og vi vil alle så gerne have, at Diablo 3 endelig bliver det spil, vi altid har håbet på. Om det er tid nok til at få ramt den helt rigtige formular, kan kun tiden vise. Personligt begynder jeg at tænke på, om Blizzard kunne vælge at måtte udskyde udgivelsen - det er sket før, og jeg vil hellere vente, til spillet er perfekt, end at få en middelmådig pakke.

Kritikken fra videoen bliver set af Blizzard, hvilket Lylirras tilstedeværelse i denne tråd vidner om.

I think I've seen all of our Sibcoe's videos at this point, and I enjoy them quite a bit. He does a great job communicating how the game feels to him, while also providing much appreciated context by defining what he likes vs. what he doesn't.

His feedback is certainly not the only we've seen, though -- so for those of you who have been writing posts about your experiences on the PTR or beta (lengthy or short), sharing videos online, or even tweeting us, know that we're listening, and that we've been making sure it all gets to the developers. Keep it up if you're keen; if not, that's cool too. We're thankful for any and all feedback you've given us.

Travis Day: Timede legendary drops i Reaper of Souls

Det lader til, at der vil være et sikkerhedsnet for alle uheldige spillere, der ikke finder legendaries i RoS efter to timer.

De sidste dage har der været oprør på Blizzards fora om D3/RoS, da der udtrykkes utryghed om kvaliteten af Reaper of Souls. Især har der været udtrykt utilfredshed med måden, 'loot-gamet' virker på - dvs. måden man kommer til bedre items ved at spille spillet. Stregerne er især trukket op omkring, at legendary items dropper for sjældent i nyeste beta-version, og at gamblingen med Blood Shards (som man får i Nephalem Rifts) hos merchant Kadala, ikke er ideel. Man kan gamble legendaries hos denne merchant, men der synes at være stemning for, at man som spiller hellere vil belønnes gennem de direkte kampe i Nephalem Rifts. Der er ekstremt mange synspunkter oppe at vende, og det hele kan læses i tråden på Battle.Net, hvor en MVP i den grad sætter gang i diskussionen.

Personligt har jeg forsøgt at følge nogenlunde med i tråden, der både er blevet aflagt visit af Community Manager Nevalistis og senest Game Designer Travis Day. Sidstnævnte bringer en del ny information på banen omkring Blizzards intentioner med betaens nuværende droprates, som også synes at blive de droprates, Reaper of Souls bliver udgivet med. Igen; der er skrevet meget om emnet, så jeg vil anbefale alle interesserede at smutte forbi den ovenfor nævnte tråd. Det er fedt at se, hvor meget feedback communitiet giver til udviklerne - sommetider kan det dog koge over og udvikle sig til en heksejagt.

Jeg vil i dette indlæg fremhæve et rigtig interessant indlæg fra Hr. Day i samme tråd, hvor han nævner et aspekt, vi ikke før har hørt om; en form for timede drops. For at forstå dette udtryk, skal vi forstå, at Blizzard tilsyneladende opererer med nogle tal, der siger, at en spiller gerne skal finde et legendary minimum hver anden time. Det er i hvert fald dét, de nuværende droprates sigter imod. Til trods for dette kan RNG , der altså per tilfældighed vælger, hvad der droppes, i det sekund man dræber et monster, spille mange et puds. Mange har vel efterhånden prøvet (og her snakker jeg ikke kun om RoS beta, men også D3) at spille i flere timer uden at se skyggen af legendaries eller set items.

Travis berører dette emne og forklarer, at udviklingsholdet har udarbejdet et system i spillet, der vil sikre, at chancen for at finde legendaries forhøjes, hvis RNG efter to timer ikke har sørget for, at der er droppet et legendary item.

The fact that some people claim to go for 10+ hours without finding a legendary is not only not our intent, but should in fact be impossible. We added a system in the expansion that tracks the amount of time you spend fighting creatures without finding a legendary and after a certain period of time will slowly start increasing the legendary drop rate. Once a legendary drops for you, actual item not crafting recipe or material, we reset that timer. This is meant to be a safety net so that the random can never be too extreme to the negative end. If players are legitimately going 18+ hours and not seeing a legendary it's possible that there are some bugs floating around that need to be identified.

Ganske spændende i mine øjne. Godt eller skidt? Umiddelbart fjerner det den svaghed, D3 havde, da det udkom - at det var nærmest umuligt at finde legendaries. Samtidig kan man selvfølgelig frygte at systemet vil medvirke til for mange drops. Det er igen noget, man kan have svært ved at forholde sig til, før spillet kommer ud i sin helhed.

Ikke desto mindre vil jeg glæde mig til at sidde med et stopur, og holde øje med, når der er gået to timer, når jeg skal spille den endelige udgivelse.

Desuden vidner den omtalte tråd om, at Blizzard slet ikke er færdige med at udvikle på Reaper of Souls, hvilket Travis og Nevalistis forsikrer alle om. Lad os håbe, de har ret, og at vi virkelig får en fantastisk udgivelse i marts, selvom der er grund til bekymring på visse fronter.

TILFØJELSE:

Travis Day er vendt tilbage til tråden med mere info om den omtalte 'timer', og understreger blandt andet, at systemet ikke kan 'udnyttes' via eksempelvis at lade sin character stå i to timer. Han tilføjer også, at han arbejder på et hotfix, der sætter legendary droprate op til det dobbelte i betaen. Spændende, og det er fedt at se lidt interaktion med en af hovedmændene bag spillet.

Hey folks I'm back with some clarifications and some news that should please everyone.

First the clarification, the timer system that works behind the scenes is meant to be exactly that, behind the scenes. No you can't afk the system, there are a lot of moving pieces to it and we talked about it extensively before we implemented it to guarantee its not exploitable. At it's heart Diablo is a game about slaughtering demons and getting random cool rewards. The system that is in place should never be experienced by 99% of the population, it's there for the 1% who just get really bad random rolls for an excessively long period of time. If we want you to get a legendary every 2 hours, the system basically says "ok it's been like double/triple that period of time, just help the guy out!"

Second and more importantly. I'm in the process of working up another hotfix for the beta that will do 2 things.

1. Reduce the chance for Kadala to give legendary items. We have a lot of solutions to the split farming problem but they are going to take a little time to be put in place and in the mean time we don't want peoples feedback to be completely skewed based on her rewards. This reduction will be revisited once we fix all the split farming issues.

2. Double the legendary drop rate. Your feedback hasn't been falling on deaf ears, and much discussion and deliberation has gone into it. We know that drop rates aren't exactly where we want them right now and it's very important to us to get as much feedback as possible during our beta. We are going to adjust the legendary drop rates via hotfix so that you guys have as much time as possible to test and give us feedback on how the changes feel, also more time for us to compile data and get RoS to be the best it can be.

Ny patch på PTR og i Beta - item detaljer

Nyeste detaljer om Diablo 3 PTR og RoS beta. Vi sætter fokus på item-ændringer.

Blizzard har udgivet ny patch på både PTR til Diablo 3 og i betaen til Reaper of Souls. Det kan muligvis være svært for nogle af forholde sig til alle ændringerne, da det er de færreste, der er dykket ned i PTR, og endnu færre der har fået adgang til betaen (vi håber stadig, at vi kan få lov at udlodde nogle beta-keys snart). Dog er der nogle ret håndgribelige ændringer iblandt, og især item-ændringerne burde kunne skabe lidt buzz hos de fleste.


Alle ændringerne kan ses ved at følge dette link: NEW PATCH FOR 2.0.1 PTR AND CLOSED BETA NOW AVAILABLE

Her et uddrag fra patch-noterne, der har med items i Diablo 3 og Reaper of Souls at gøre samt lidt ekstra spændende notes fra Reaper of Souls:

Diablo III PTR Patch 2.0.1 - v.2.0.0.21390

ITEMS (generelt)
- Health Potion drop rate has been reduced from all sources
- Armor racks now give less generous loot
- Added new item affix: "+X% damage to Physical damage type skills" to go along with similar Elemental damage type skills affixes
     - This new affix rolls in the same slots and ranges as the other +X% damage to each of the                             
       Elemental damage type skills affixes
- Maximum amount of Resource cost reduction you can roll on items has been reduced from 12% to 10% on weapons and 10% to 8% on non-weapon slots
- Vendor-bought items are now flagged as such, and cannot be salvaged

Set Items
Many set items have received updates to their set bonuses:

Blackthorne's Armor
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Vitality
+10% Damage against Elites

3-piece Set Bonus:
+25% Gold Find
-10% Damage Taken from Elites

4-piece Set Bonus:
You are immune to Desecrator, Molten, and Plagued monster types

Bul-Kathos’ Glory
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Strength
+10 Max Fury
You occasionally Whirlwind furiously, dealing 250-300% weapon damage to all enemies around you for 6 seconds

Chantodo's Return
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Intelligence
Reduce damage from elites by 10%
Your shields heal for 25% of their remaining amount when they expire

Endless Path
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Vitality
+50% Critical Hit Damage

Immortal King’s Legend
2-piece Set Bonus:
+100 All Resistance
+10 Max Fury

3-piece Set Bonus:
+289 Life per Fury Spent
+2 passive Fury regeneration

4-piece Set Bonus:
Call of the Ancients last until they die

Inna's Grandeur
2-piece Set Bonus:
Reduced Life per Spirit Spent from 274 to 124

Manajuma's Ornaments
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Intelligence
+30 Mana per Kill
You are surrounded by a deadly poison cloud, dealing 150% weapon damage per second to enemies within 10 yards

Natalya's Solace
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Dexterity
+10 Max Discipline

3-piece Set Bonus:
+7% Critical Hit Chance
+10 Max Discipline

4-piece Set Bonus:
The cooldown of Rain of Vengeance is reduced by 1 second for every enemy you kill

Shenlong's Noble Path
2-piece Set Bonus:
+250 Dexterity
+1 Spirit Regen per Sec
Chance to hurl a ball of pure energy when attacking, dealing 300% weapon damage as Fire

Tal Rasha's Sacrifice
Increased Arcane Power Regeneration on the 3-piece bonus to 2

LEGENDARY ITEMS

The unique affixes for many Legendaries now roll with variable bonuses instead of static numbers
Example: Wizard Spike may now roll between 20%-25% chance to cast a Frozen Orb
All legendary quivers now roll 15-20% attack speed
Legendary items with more powerful effects are now more rare

Many Legendary items have received updates to their stats and bonuses:

Andariel's Visage
- Reduced the Increased Fire Damage Taken roll to 5-10%
- Reduced internal cooldown
- Increased Poison Nova radius to 10 yards
- Now rolls with Attack Speed and Elemental Damage Bonus

Anessazi Edge
- Increased Stun duration from 1.0 to 1.5 seconds

Azurewrath
- Increased minimum roll for Freeze chance to 20%
- Now rolls Attack Speed

Buriza-Do Kyanon
- Now causes your projectiles to pierce 1-2 additional times
- Lowered pierce internal cooldown to 0.5 seconds
- Now always rolls Cold damage, Dexterity and Attack Speed

Calamity
- Now applies only unruned Marked for Death in order to reduce visual and process clutter

Cindercoat
- Increased minimum cost reduction for Fire skills roll to 23%

Dark Mage’s Shade
- Reduced maximum cooldown roll to 20

Doombringer
- Now rolls Primary Stat, Life %, Life per Hit, and 30-40% increased damage for Physical skills

Eye of Etlich
- Increased Ranged Damage Reduction roll to 30%-35%
- Now rolls Elemental Damage Bonus

Frostburn Gauntlets
- Increased minimum Cold Damage roll to 23%
- Increased minimum Freeze roll to 34%

Gazing Demise
- Legendary power has been removed and is now on Homunculus

Gyana Na Kashu
- Increased minimum Piercing Fireball damage roll to 360%

Homunculus
- Legendary power has been redesigned
- A Zombie Dog is automatically summoned to your side every 4-6 seconds
- Now rolls Intelligence, Maximum Mana, All Resist, and Reduced Damage from Elites

Magefist
- Increased minimum Fire Damage roll to 30%

Moon Slayer
- Grasp of the Dead will now display a cooldown swipe when cast if Moon Slayer is equipped
- This Legendary power is under review and may be revised in the future

Moonlight Ward
- Now rolls 40%-50% increased damage for Arcane Skills
- Removed internal cooldown

Pox Faulds
- Legendary Power has been redesigned
- When 3 or more enemies are within 12 yards, you release a vile stench that deals 240%-320% weapon damage as Poison every second for 10 seconds to enemies within 15 yards

Skycutter
- Now rolls 30%-40% increased damage for Holy Skills

String of Ears
- Increased Melee Damage Reduction roll to 25%-30%

Stone of Jordan
- Increased minimum roll of Bonus Damage to Elites to 25%
- Now rolls Primary stat, Elemental Damage Bonus and Maximum Resource affix families

Strongarm Bracers
- Changed from +25% damage for 3 seconds to +20-30% damage for 5 seconds

The Swami
- Reduced chance to proc Frost Nova on killing an enemy from 20-25% to 15-20%

Swamp Land Waders
- Increased bonus Poison Skill damage roll to 30-40%

Tasker and Theo
- Changed from +100% pet attack speed to +40-50% pet attack speed

Wizardspike
- Now only drops for Wizards
- Legendary Power now actually casts the Frozen Orb rune
- Reduced Frozen Orb proc chance to 20%-25%
- Now has an internal cooldown based on attack speed to normalize Frozen Orb proc rate during channeled spells
- Now rolls with 75-100 All Resistance
- Can now roll with any damage type, not just Arcane

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Reaper of Souls Closed Beta - v.2.0.0.21390

CRAFTING
- All Legendary crafting recipes now require a unique material
- Unique crafting materials for Legendaries now only drop at level 70
- Unique Legendary crafting materials now display as Rare quality (instead of Legendary quality)
-The chance for a crafting plan to drop from Horadric Caches has been reduced

ITEMS

- A new item affix has been added: +% damage to Piranhas
- Death's Breath now drops more frequently from Champion and Elite packs
- Piro Marella (Crusader shield) is now a crafted item
- Golden Scourge (Crusader flail) is now a crafted item

LEGENDARY ITEMS

Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander
- Reduced chance on killing a demon to gain a Shrine buff from 2% to 0.5%

Alabaster Gloves
- Now heals allies for 50% of health potion amount

Band of the Rue Chambers
- Increased minimum Spirit Generation bonus from Spirit Generators to 60%

Cord of the Sherma
- Increased internal cooldown to 10 seconds
- Increased radius to 27.5 yards to match the visual effect

Eye of Peshkov
- Increased minimum cooldown on Breath of Heaven roll to 38%

Falcon Wing
- Now works on dodges

Fulminator
- Increased minimum Lightning Rod weapon damage per second to 167%

The Furnace
- Increased internal cooldown to 1 second

Golden Gorget of Leoric
- Reduced Skeleton duration to 10 seconds

Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan
- While stationary, the resource regeneration and damage is now reduced by 20-25%

The Laws of Seph
- Increased Spirit gain on casting Blinding Flash from 45-60 to 75-100

The Magistrate
- Increased coolup before Frost Nova to 4.5 seconds
- Reduced cooldown between Frost Novas to 4.5 seconds
- Reduced Freeze duration to 2 seconds

Mask of Lies
- Now always rolls with +Maximum Arcane Power

Salvation
- Reduced party-wide healing amount on block from 100% to 20%-30% of the amount blocked

Schaefer’s Hammer
- Increased the Lightning Damage roll to 30%-40%
- Removed internal cooldown

Thunderfury
- Increased movement and attack speed slow to 30%
- Increased proc chance to 60%
- Fixed a bug where the proc chance wasn’t rolling against the triggering power’s proc scalar
- Changed internal cooldown to 1 / Attacks Per Second
- Increased maximum targets to 5

Thundergod's Vigor
- No longer a Barbarian Belt and can roll for any class
- Now rolls 150-200 Lightning Resist
- Now rolls 10%-15% more damage with Lightning Skills

Trag’oul Coils
- Will now also reduce all cooldowns by 45-60 seconds when you use a healing well, in addition to its previous effect of replenishing all resources

New Legendary - Halcyon's Ascent (may also be listed as "Strobe")
- Rolls Primary stat, Cooldown Reduction, Increased Damage Against Elites 10%-15% and Reduced Damage From Elites 10%-15%
- Legendary Power:
    - Barbarian – When you use Wrath of the Berserker, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your   
    skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
    - Crusader – When you use Akarat’s Champion, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill,
    causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
    - Demon Hunter – When you use Vengeance, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill,
    causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
    - Monk – When you use Epiphany, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing 
    them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
    - Witch Doctor – When you use Big Bad Voodoo, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your   
    skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
    - Wizard – When you use Archon, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them
    to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds

Rigtig mange spændende ændringer/tilføjelser på både D3- og RoS-fronten her. Som sagt kan alle patch-ændringerne læses ved at følge linket tidligere i denne artikel.

Tja. Hvorfor ikke?

D. 25. marts 2014 udkommer Reaper of Souls. Der er lige over tre måneder til, og det er en noget hurtigere udgivelse, end de fleste havde troet. Nyheden er netop kommet ud, og du kan læse den officielle melding fra Blizzard nedenfor. Prisen bliver $39,99/€39,99 for standard-udgaven, og $59,99/€59,99 for Digital Deluxe Udgaven, som giver lidt ekstra bonuser - blandt andet tre ekstra character slots.

Reaper of Souls™ Unleashed on March 25, 2014 – Prepurchase Now

On March 25, the crusade against death itself charges forth with the launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls for Windows and Mac. Prepare for the onslaught today by prepurchasing the expansion digitally on Battle.net.

Whether you plan to immediately don the armor of the new Crusader character or take your current hero directly into Act V, Reaper of Souls will bring you updated loot rewards, all-new class skills and abilities, game-changing features like the Mystic and Adventure Mode, and highly replayable content in the form of Bounties and Nephalem Rifts.

You also have the option to prepurchase the Digital Deluxe Edition, which contains a wealth of in-game goodies: a collection of exclusive helm- and weapon-transmogrification recipes to distinguish your hero among the champions of Sanctuary; a loyal Spectral Hound minion to keep your adventurers company on their epic journeys; three additional character slots to accommodate new heroes; an in-game Treasure Goblin companion pet for World of Warcraft; and an assortment of Crusader-themed Battle.net portraits and Malthael-themed decals for StarCraft II.

Here, have a look for yourself: 

Spectral Hound Minion and Transmogrified Gear


Treasure Goblin Pet for World of Warcraft


Battle.net Portraits and Malthael Decals for StarCraft II

Players who prepurchase the Digital Deluxe Edition will receive their in-game items with the launch of the expansion on March 25, though some items may arrive beforehand, so keep an eye out for early deliveries.

If you're looking for even more loot, the Reaper of Souls retail-exclusive Collector's Edition comes fully equipped with all the in-game goodies from the Digital Deluxe, plus a range of premium collectible items:

- Malthael mouse pad, bearing the impenetrable visage of the Angel of Death
- Hardback Collector's Edition art book, chronicling the game's artistic development
- Behind-the-scenes Blu-Ray/DVD two-disc set, featuring in-depth interviews with the development team and members of the Diablo III community

The Standard Edition is available for $39.99 USD and the Digital Deluxe Edition is available for $59.99 USD. If you choose to preorder the Standard Edition and later want to upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition, you'll be able to do so for $20. The Collector’s Edition is available only at select retail locations for a suggested retail price of $79.99. A limited number of Collector's Editions will be available and they're expected to sell out quickly, so be sure to lock in your preorder with your local retailer as soon as possible. 

For more information on the March 25 release of Reaper of Souls for Windows and Mac, check out the official press release, or visit the Reaper of Souls game page to learn more about the expansion and secure your digital copy. Also, be sure to keep an eye on www.diablo3.com for updates on the launch of Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition on the PS4. 

Until then, we'll see you in Sanctuary!

*When you prepurchase Diablo III: Reaper of Souls digitally via Battle.net, you will be able to download an encrypted version of the game client prior to the launch date. The expansion content will be unlocked and available for play on March 25, 2014.

Som det er tilfældet hvert år, er jeg ufattelig blank på, hvad jeg egentlig skal ønske mig. Jeg kan hurtigt skrive en masse tøj og kedelige ting på listen, men jeg vil nu altid gerne have et eller andet sjovt og nyt i julegave - en eller anden form for gadget - da det næsten er en tradition for mig at kunne sidde og lege med et eller andet nyt i juledagene.

Men nok om det. Må man få indblik i jeres ønskesedler? Inspiration er godt!