Diablo Death system explained more in details about what will happen with your character when you die. Before I get in to what we are doing let me go over some things we want to avoid with a death mechanic. We want to separate being in town and being out on a quest/adventure/dungeon as much [ Read More ]
With only 12 days left to BlizzCon 2008 we are counting down and are very excited! Therefore we have created a Premium BlizzCon section that will cover everything from live news coverage to contest, latest Interviews, reviews and releases directly from BlizzCon. Diablo3x.com BlizzCon Key Features: Live Coverage News Webcast directly from BlizzCon (blizzCon news page and screenshots) BlizzCon Live [ Read More ]
We all remember that spellsbooks was part of Diablo I, maybe we will see them in Diablo III, see this blue post. That came back in Diablo II too eventually in the form of rune words, and I don’t think it really worked out too well in the end. I do think it actually could [ Read More ]
What is weighted more in Diablo 3: single or multiplayer game? Jay Wilson: We do not differ greatly between solo and multiplayer cooperative play. As Diablo 3 is designed, players can have fun alone and with several players. Let’s say you run alone, and you wants your friend to join the game. So once he [ Read More ]
We all know the weight system from Diablo 2, its seems to work well, but blizzard seems to want to tweak that a little in Diablo 3. Read what Bashiok wrote about this: A weight system is simply a different approach to inventory restrictions, and it’s actually fairly similar to a grid based system except [ Read More ]
It seems like that Diablo 3 could support directx 10 which is included windows vista. Blizzard stated that is one of the key elements for the new battle.net 2.0 platform. Directx 9 users on windows XP can be safe and be able to play Diablo 3, so directx 10 wont be a requirement. Here is the official statement from [ Read More ]
The currently alt key from diablo 2 to show items will be changed, look what blizzard wrote in a blue post. The way it works now is that when an item drops the name shows for about 5 seconds and then they fade out and disappear. Pressing Alt shows all dropped item names for again [ Read More ]
