Damn ... D4 (Beta) is really bad

[Schutzengel]

Hello all,

played the D4 Beta for some hours now and sorry ... but D4 feels like going through the Flayer Jungle / Spider Forest / Great Marsh (from Diablo 2) but without any enemies. Just endless walking around. For dozens of painful minutes. Go to NPC1. Go to Shrine. Go to < insert whatever>. Go back to NPC1. Go to this. Go to that. ... ... ...

A huge letdown for me. It feels like an MMO. Like if you play WoW but the devs decided to remove half the enemy population and doubled down on town size so you have to walk that extra minutes you didnt want to waste your lifetime on. You walk from A to B so often that walking is the main playstyle of D4.

At this point, I dont feel like D4 will be any competition to any ARPG out there, including Last Epoch, as it plays out as a dedicated MMO instead. For me its not even a competition to Diablo 2 Resurrected. The character models are the only strength it has and Im quite shocked how much it fails in most aspects that make an ARPG good.

Wanted to share, Sincerely.

[CysteicAcid]

I just played D4 too. No more love for games from Blizzard anymore, its all about making money. How can such a lackluster game cost 70 $, just cuz of the name.

[Medicles]

I am fine with that tbh. It makes sense for the worldbuilding to have less enemies in the overworld than in the underground and there are still events in the overworld for some killing. I highly assume thats why mounts will be part of the game as well. Though i cant deny that i became annoyed as well for running around so much, would have liked to have the mount already unlocked.

[Gottorn]

MMO ARPG - good news.

[Schutzengel]

Well ... it works out as a MMO, I guess, but this isnt what I expected.

The footage in all the videos shown always had loads of enemies around the player. It looked like D2+. But when you play the game its like the complete opposite.

You run around with little mobs to kill in-between and vast amounts of footwork to get from NPCs to others. I played WoW some years ago and this is exactly how it plays out.

Unfortunately, this isnt the game I wanted. Last Epoch, even with its downsides, is superior to D4 in all aspects that make for a great ARPG ... which came totally unexpected.

[Avalanche]

Schutzengel eredeti hozzászólása:

Hello all,

played the D4 Beta for some hours now and sorry ... but D4 feels like going through the Flayer Jungle / Spider Forest / Great Marsh (from Diablo 2) but without any enemies. Just endless walking around. For dozens of painful minutes. Go to NPC1. Go to Shrine. Go to < insert whatever>. Go back to NPC1. Go to this. Go to that. ... ... ...

A huge letdown for me. It feels like an MMO. Like if you play WoW but the devs decided to remove half the enemy population and doubled down on town size so you have to walk that extra minutes you didnt want to waste your lifetime on. You walk from A to B so often that walking is the main playstyle of D4.

At this point, I dont feel like D4 will be any competition to any ARPG out there, including Last Epoch, as it plays out as a dedicated MMO instead. For me its not even a competition to Diablo 2 Resurrected. The character models are the only strength it has and Im quite shocked how much it fails in most aspects that make an ARPG good.

Wanted to share, Sincerely.

Kinda like this game to be honest.....i see loads of quests that send me from point A to point B with probably an over the top amount of enemies that somehow can do more damage than what their bodies are capable of and if you don't the right combo and the right time you die.....that is how it is with this game, if you don't find the right combo to take out the tougher enemies...you will die ALOT.

For me, i found Sentinel with Multistrike skill points put into Void Cleave, then at 4 stacks of Multistrike, i use Void Cleave and that gives 100% damage increase which is doubled with a 2h sword/axe.

I have tried the other classes in this game and none have that omph.....i think Sentinel is my thing......the secondary classes seem....meh.

All these abilities that do dumb things and i am like 'why have it there?' I never understand it sometimes.