Diablo 3 beta nearly here, client is out!

Saw this on tweaktown just now...

"Diablo 3 is about to run out the door of Beta heaven and be upon us. Until now it was only open to family and friends of Blizzard employees, and within the next few days it'll be in the hands of everyone. The beta client comes in at 1GB and a patch is already available for the Beta!"



You can start grabbing the Beta right now from here.

 

but you need to be chosen to participate, right?
unfortunately my country usually dont get keys since they prolly think that we dont speak english here

is there an installer for mac as well?

 

Seems you need an active Battle.net account with at least 1 payed game on it, and run the Beta Profile program that identifies the specifications of your PC.

Source: Diablo III Beta Opt-In and FAQ - Diablo III

 

btw nvm i found enUs beta for mac. Its for us though.

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Yes, and also u need to be chose from what i know. Its not like anyone can play beta. It doesnt work like that.

 

I have already opted in, have no idea if I will get picked. I wonder if my laptop or my desktop specs are more appealing.

P.S. Deagle when I get my key for Dead Island your going to probably have to install Hamachi to play with me

The EVIL shall spread!

(Actually Hamachi is not evil it just does not play well with Game Ranger since it tries to do the same thing, maybe the best thing we can do is have the entire team use Hamachi)

 

Same, opted in as well. I hope my desktop specs are good enough to get me picked.

 

Noooooooooooooooez
Really hope that netplay works but if not then i guess my computer will be "infected". D;

 

been opted in for ages, although knowing my luck, will not get chosen

 

Signed up just a couple of mins ago. Hope I get in!

 

if anyone gets in, be sure to update the thread.. i dread to think how many hours are going to be spent playing this game!

 

^^ I recall i went through diablo2 rather fast though. Tried nightmare difficulty and it was rather boring to do same stuff again. I hope multiplayer will be somewhat fun and increase re-playability.

 

I've been so waiting for D3...

I found the first run-through of D2 easy as well... but it isn't the endgame which
makes it fun... its starting anew with a completely different build to try.
(well different for me)

The "optimal" cookie-cutter builds are always brokenly easy. I always had more fun with the ones everyone told me were "impossible".
(nothing is impossible, just takes more patience)

I still play D2 from time to time...

 

Blizzard have always kept their system requirements as low as they could while making their games look great. That is the purpose of such betas (since we know they are not including PvP this time round).

If it comes to specs, your system is way over the recommended requirements they will shell out after beta. From what I've heard, Diablo 3 will be a little more demanding than SC2's recommended specs. Again, it is a different game and it will manage resources differently.

I also think that they will aim more at systems with lower specs for their beta. just my 2 cents...

Still, fingers crossed for everyone around here who signed up! Just as culvers said, be sure to fill us in if you get picked!

 

Mine are at the lower end on CPU, but medium-high on GPU. hope I get in!

 

Blizzard usually selects from a wide range of systems when choosing beta testers. My M1530 with an 8600M GT and a T8300 got me into the SC2 and Cataclysm betas.

 

I am also interested on how much attention laptop systems will get when it comes to the beta. Clearly, laptops are more than capable nowadays of running even the most demanding of games.

Would be interesting to weigh in the numbers of desktops vs laptops.

 

Since there is no offline Single-player mode for Diablo III, obviously laptops are the ones getting specifically neglected (because people travel with them and a lot of the times have no WIFI connection).

 

no offline? what?
So diablo 3 isnt smth i can play while hanging out of town?
just like sc2 and just like wow and... oh wait, we are foked...

 

Well... at least you are not the only one that is disappointed. Others thought it would be a better idea confronting Blizzard on the open about this:
Francis is upset

Some call this fake, but I couldn't care less while rofl.

 

rofl... but ye... lets hope its as good value for money as wow once was i dont mind it being online.

 

This is a composed man; that was just a troll video he posted (check his channel for his actual opinions towards the matter posted after this particular video).

 

I don't know why everyone thinks that good pc specs will get them higher on the beta list. Blizzard's games are meant to be run on old pcs aswell as new ones. So, a lot of the time, they pick people with poorly specced hardware to see if they have problems or not.

 

^^ Pretty obvious that they will want a little bit of everything since good/new gpu doesnt necessarily mean better performance which is why its called "beta".

 

If anything I'd say you're at more of a disadvantage if you have a monster super build. They'll still want a snapshot of the uber builds though.

 

I will not be purchasing Diablo 3 due to the online only requirement. Such a shame I was really looking forward to it as well, but I spend 2/3 of my year away from reliable internet/wifi so just not worth it.

 

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Thats what you are saying now, and then you ll buy it anyway because its soo awesome and you can totally go through it during that third part of the year when you are at home.

^^ Thats what blizzard is thinking and they are most likely right

 

It's not that the feature bars some people from playing without WIFI, it's the fact that they implemented it. The game might be good but the developers carry inconsiderate and neglecting attitudes, and so won't receive the support of many who loved Diablo II.

 

Speaking about support i live in a country with the population over 46 millions where people will NEVER buy software if they can... somehow get it for free. So i can perfectly understand blizzard. Thats one thing.

Another thing is we can talk whatever we like but when it comes to buying people will think "wth, i have internet at work, i have internet at home, i have internet in every cafe why should i care if game needs online connection?". I feel for those who dont have internet access though since blizzard games are usually awesome.

but thats just my opinion anyway =)

 

pretty much the only place it's really hard to get internet is on a plane. a lot of people can tether their smartphones even in cars / trains / etc.

that barrier will change soon enough.

 

Another issue regarding this is the possession of property. At least if a game has offline single-player, those who dish out $50 or $60 have something solid that they can go back to regardless of where they are in the world (regionlocking) or if where they are has WIFI or not.

Not everyone lives in North America or Europe or S. Korea or Japan, where broadband and free WIFI is everywhere.

 

They provide their reason behind the internet connection required is that they are avoiding hacks and exploits into the game. But if you ask me, the real motive here, is that they do this in order to avoid PIRACY.

 

I don't understand why people are making it out like this is the only game that requires an internet connection to play.

 

It's not. Doesn't change the fact that since it has a dedicated Single-player mode, people hailing from years of Diablo II have been expecting that to exist as an offline format.

Do you know how idiotic an independent online-only SP mode is in a lobby-based game? It's identical to if you make a MP character that goes into private games! Might as well not have this as an "option" at all because it's just a multiplayer mode where you can't join public games.

 

jerg,

if it will be indeed pretty much single player then ye, its stupid.
Connect once a week to check if its not stolen — fine, but requiring permanent connection to play single player is meh.

On the other hand... we can hope there will be awesome co-op so people will be "rewarded" for being connected.

 

Despite my bad experinces with SC2 and WoW, D3 will get a chance because of how much I enjoyed and still enjoy D2. If their lawyers have nerfed D3 into pointlessness, then I'll add Blizzard to the "no thanks" list.

D3 really is my last hope for Bizzard. If D3 is dead then Blizzard joins the "meh" crowd for me.

 

What didn't you like about SC2? I thought the plot of the single-player story was less compelling than SC1, but I thought the game was vastly superior in every other way.

 

Community was single-digit maturity even in beta (very bad sign as beta is usually the best times you will ever have due to the type of people usually IN a beta.)

Obvious cheating even in beta in most matches I played.
(I couldn't lose that fast in SC1 or any RTS game Blizzard has ever made while AFK when opponent knew I was AFK.)

 

WoW biggest financial success and most massive online game of all times,
SC2 — best multiplayer rts to date.
Thats just facts — people playing, copies sold etc.
2 biggest disappointments. yup.

If you dont like the genre dont blame the developer imo.
I agree that wow got too dumbed down during last year or two though to appeal more towards 10yr olds, but its hard to judge since i simply had too much and would quit anyway.

 

That's surprising to me because the actual release isn't anything like that. I run into really, really nice people when I play. Best online experience I've ever had (compared to C&C Generals, Ghost Recon, Modern Warfare, and Bad Company 2). Maybe it's a bronze league thing, but there's almost always a "glhf," and small talk while you play about funny usernames, whatever is not uncommon. If I say "hey, someone's at the door, can I pause for a sec?" the other person is unfailingly gracious. And when I've had to concede a match because my kid woke up early from his nap, I normally get a "hey, no worries, friend me and we'll play sometime." If I beat someone, I get a "gg" more often than not, and occasionally even get compliments. I do the same if someone did a particularly good job in kicking my butt.

A tool who swears at me or calls names? That's happened maybe five times in the 200 or so games I've played.

I've never seen anything that resembles cheating. I suspect they fixed this for the production version. Obviously the security for cheating isn't perfected in the beta, because beta phase exists to reveal vulnerabilities and problems like that.

In general, it sounds like the beta experience sucked. You should come back and try it now, though. I think those idiots have moved on to the next latest-and-greatest thing, leaving behind a really quality community.

 

There are many things which are popular, but not very good.

The music industry is full of people who cannot even sing in tune half of the time without a machine doing it for them. Yet they rake in the dough.

I am a big fan of music and a musician in many fields (vocal, percussion, keyboards) and thus I hold a great deal of expertise in performance. I don't buy the crap and encouage others not to buy it either until they hire the talent again. Obviously other people either enjoy listening to crap or just don't know that it is possible for a person to sing in tune most of the time. I will continue to remind people that the world is not so deficient in talent.

I greatly enjoy RTS games... and I am big into chess and other more personal strategy games as well. I don't think SC2 is a bad game... I think the community that is basically forced upon you is lacking. I don't really think Blizzard built a bad game. I think they are not very good at controlling cheats and hacks and they should stop forcing all of the rest of us to put up with their flawed way of doing things. There existed and still exists a way to let their customers play SC2 the old way. I wil continue to remind the world that it doesn't have to be the way it is.

I enjoy all kinds of MMOs... but have my dislikes when it comes to WoW.
I am not the only one.
WoW has become so mainstream and caters to the lowest-common-denominator of humanity, and its community shows it.

So...
-You are wrong about me not liking the genre
-You are wrong about popularity = quality
-You are wrong about where the blame lies. We both know Blizzard could alter its games ever-so-slightly to the rest of the spectrum and still get their wide-appeal. (well save WoW, which I believe is simply beyond help)

 

Just so I'm totally clear, you haven't played SC2 since the beta days, right? If you're judging SC2 based on the beta, I really recommend you take another look at post #39.

 

1. I cant see where this music analogy is coming from. Blizzard games are definitely "in tune". They are perfecting their products on all levels beyond anything i saw coming from any other developer. No one turned MMO or RTS to something that massive and re-playable ever before.
2. Stop this SC2 cheats stuff alrdy. How long did you play SC2? What league are you in? Bronze? People who played thousands of games never heard about anything like that.
3. Cant understand you complains about SC2 community as well. Not only you dont need community to play 1v1 RTS but also all players on the top are old WC3 veterans and by old i mean they are 25yrs+ mostly which is pretty adult when speaking about gamers.
4. // You are wrong about popularity = quality //
Great logic right there so if it holds true for music it holds true for games as well? I do insist that in Blizzard case popularity do mean quality. I never met a company who deliver products on such insane quality level. Prove me wrong without stupid analogies with some real life examples. Who delivers better?
5. // You are wrong about me not liking the genre //
So what RTS are you playing? Just because you LIKED RTS at some point doesnt mean you like it now if you dont play ANY rts atm. I liked mario carts when i was 10yrs olds but i didnt play any racing game since then. That doesnt give me the right to say that i enjoy racing games its just they all suck and only mario carts is awesome since its the only racing game that i ever liked.

 

SC2 community has by far the best community of any online multiplayer game.

As for cheats... citing the fact you lost fast makes me think you thought the opponent had some kind of resource/building hack? Those don't exist. They were just that much better than you.

 

Hope I could get Diablo 3 beta key like SC2 beta.

Yes, I do agree that popularity doesn't mean it's good stuff, eg. I totally cannot see what's so great about those iphone/ipad games like angry bird that so many people are playing it. However, I would say they probably do have their reasons for being popular.

For blizzard, their games are never really about cutting edge technology, just look at their water, if you've used SC2 editor you will know that it's just a plane with an animated material, the most primitive way to making water. However, blizzard games always had great design. SC2 is like probably one of the best RTS out there in terms of design, dawn of war/company of heroes are probably close but their difference is mainly in terms of style that attracts different players.

As for WoW, it's success is really not a coincidence. I've tried almost every MMORPG out there, and none are as addictive as WoW. If you've studied game design, you will appreciate how much efforts are actually being put into designing WoW, such that every single tiny detail you never seem to notice is actually perfectly tuned to make you glued to the game. This is something I've never seen in any other MMORPG.

 

Also, popular things are ALWAYS very good its just you are measuring it differently compared to people among who it is popular.

You can say "meh, this guy cant sing in the tune, have no idea why he is popular he is so bad" and the other guy will say "wow, he turns me on with his voice tembre, the music and texts are so touching, its nothing like i ve heard before, its so unique!".

Getting back to computer games someone can say "Cant understand people who play wow, game is so bad! – and why is that? — graphics is nothing like Crysis2, so it suck / its not like mario carts, so it suck / you cant drive a tank there / i like games with machine guns and there are none in wow / etc". And people who do like it will say "its atmosphere and details are beyond anything i played before".

So in short — popular things are always good. They have something very unique, insanely good and appealing to the crowd. Wether YOU will like it or not is another question. So ye, its very good, just not perfect, but hey, nothing is perfect.