Hej dejlige D3X'ere jeg sad igår og satte en liste sammen af komponenter, da jeg i nærmeste fremtid skal have ny computer (min nuværende er 3½ år gammel).
Jeg gør det mest for sjov og øvelse pt. da jeg håber på at min nuværende rig kan holde et halvt år mere, og så kan jeg altid se hvordan priser og udvikling har ændret sig til den tid

Nå, men til builden:

(priser taget fra nuværende priser på edbpriser.dk)

Case er arbitrær, så det er lidt hvad man har lyst til, men jeg vil virkelig gerne høre ind til folk der har lidt forstand på motherboards, for det er den ene ting som jeg virkelig er i tvivl om. Jeg er helt klar over hvilket socket, osv den skal have for at understøtte både CPU og ram, men ud over dette er jeg på bar bund.
Den skal gerne kunne overholde følgende kriterier:
Skal understøtte 1866 Mhz ram i dual-channel (kom evt. med alternativ til 1600 Mhz ram i dual)
Skal passe til en i5-2500k
Den behøver ikke nødvendigvis at kunne udvides med et ekstra grafikkort, men vil gerne se prisforskel til sammenligning hvis den skal kunne det
Den skal have 1 SSD og 2 HDD's tilsluttet
Den skal kunne overclocke (jeg har aldrig gjort det før, men det er noget jeg godt kunne tænke mig at lege med)

Jeg regner med at den med case og bundkort vil komme til at ramme omkring de 7000.

På forhånd tak for svar, og folk må meget gerne prøve at give en dybdegående forklaring på hvordan man finder det rigtige bundkort

Så er der kommet HD kvalitetsbilleder fra Game Developers Conferrence panellet:
Se dem allesammen herunder:


Og Diablo's udvikling konceptmæssigt fra start til slut:

Og Diablo's endelige karakter koncept:

Synes personligt at det endelige koncept til Diablo ser mega godt ud. Ikke direkte feminint, men heller ej bulky, selvom nogle af hans early koncepts nu også er super seje.

Sluteligt kan der læses et kort inverview med Art Director Christian Lichtner hos IGN her

Diablo III Launcher Fortælling:
Så er der sluppet lidt extra gotter ud af posen til os fans. Mens man installere D3, vil der nemlig være en lille historie med billeder til. Det er hovedsagligt et recap af de første to spil, men er alligevel meget fængslende at se på. Se billederne og teksten til dem herunder:

Link her.
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20120312

Og hans write-ups er som regel værd at læse

Så er der sluppet lidt nyt ud omkring affixes på items. Det ser ud til at det der er i betaen kun er en del af det samlede, og at der kommer skill-specifikke item affixes til at gøre skills stærkere! Læs det hele her:

A couple of weeks ago, right after Beta Patch 13 went live our DiabloNut Diablo 3 Database datamined a huge list of new item modifiers, which seemed to show +skill type bonuses to every skill in the game. It wasn’t clear if those were an old feature just added to the beta build or a new feature being tested out, and there was no telling if they’d actually be active in the game at any point. Queries to Bashiok and the other US CMs went in vain, but now, thanks to the Italian B.net forums, we know that these items are in the game, and should be a huge feature on higher difficulty levels.

Thanks to Lomion for sending the news and the translations of the forum replies by GM Xarishflar.
Quotes:

Citér

In the final version of the game you will have a wide array of personalization choices; there will be affix and legendary items that will modify the effect of your character abilities. Of course, these high level items are not present in the beta version, but they are to be found in the advanced levels of the game.

…Yeah, they are somewhat replacing the old runes. Developers wanted to give players an additional chance to customize character skills, as an alternative to the recently removed rune quality levels.

…Yes, they are probably going to be equitable items. At the moment we can’t share more precise information with you; the game is still in beta, some things could be revised and modified before release.

This is awesome news, for those of us concerned by the repeated removals of character individualization/customization over the course of Diablo III’s development. It also seems like a great news for the whole “creating an identity for each character” issue; freespecs are easily done, but if you’ve got some gear that boosts skills X and Y, you’re more likely to find ways to use those powered up skills in all situations, rather than switching to different skills for every new encounter.

I do wonder how the item bonuses actually work, though. After all… there aren’t any skill points anymore, so it’s not like an axe can just have +2 to Frenzy. It’s not clear from the syntax of the item mods as seen via the datamining. Lots of skills don’t do damage, after all, so how can the same modifiers add to damage, or duration, or the amount of buff or debuffs, etc?

Did the developers leave something akin skill levels in the game code, invisible to the player, but there to be modified by +skill gear or by say, skill shrines, should those return to the game at some point?[/i]

Kilde:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/skill-item-modifiers-confirmed

Hermed en udvidet liste over de seneste patch notes, så man rigtig kan se hvad der er blevet ændret. Generelt rigtig mange nerfs:

http://www.diablofans.com/news/1102-beta-contests-over-patch-13-class-changes-curse-weekly-roundup/

ps. The wall of text WILL crit you for infinity!

Jay Wilson afslører i nyt indlæg, at Diablo 3-udviklingen kører på skinner, og at annonceringen af udgivelsesdato ikke er 'soon' men 'in near future' - altså i nær fremtid.

Jay Wilson wanted to share a message with the Diablo III community:

Some of you might have seen some headlines or a certain (obviously sarcastic) blue post that implies that we're unsteady about where Diablo III stands, and that you should temper your expectations when it comes to the next installment in the Diablo series.

Let me be clear: Nothing could be further from the truth.

As those of you in the beta have seen, the game is in good shape. Actually, I should say that the beta version of the game is in good shape. The latest full build we've been testing here in the office is in great shape. 

We get a lot of sympathy from the other teams because of the long hours of crunch our design team is putting in, but the secret is that playing through the game as we do final tuning, bug fixes, and optimizations is a real joy. We always know a Blizzard game is almost ready when we have to ask members of the team to stop playing so they can get their work done. That’s definitely been the case around here.

We think you're going to love Diablo III when it's released, and speaking of release plans, you can seriously expect a launch-date announcement from us in the near future. See, I didn’t say “soon,” so I’m not taunting you. You’ll know as soon as I know for sure the exact date.

And by the way, we want you to have high expectations for Diablo III and all Blizzard games. That’s what pushes us to try to make the best gaming experiences we possibly can. If Diablo III wasn’t a worthy next installment in the Diablo series, we wouldn’t release it. That’s the way we do it. That’s the way we’ve always done it.

As I’ve said many times in the recent past, we think Diablo III is coming along great and we can’t wait for you to get your hands on it. We’re doing all we can to ensure you have one hell of a time once you step foot in Sanctuary…

Also, I think Diablo is much more comparable to the Evil Dead series personally, and those just kept getting better.  OK, I know a lot of you prefer Evil Dead 2 to Army of Darkness, but come on, Bruce Campbell fights a squad of little Bruce Campbells!  Priceless. =)

Jay Wilson is the Game Director of Diablo 3, and wants to know “Hey, uh, what’s that you got on your face?”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBCSautRXY

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4079872821#1