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Jay Wilson answered questions of various community sites.

I'll start with the in-game interview with:

Unfortunately, we hear from various community sites and over again the same questions that have already been answered in other (sometimes older) interviews. I now roughly one times on the content and provided him with some personal observations and conclusions:

• First point is the PvP from Diablo III. We are all wondering how it is with Fury Boots and co. can work to create a similar fast-paced PvP game like Diablo II. Unfortunately, Jay is not a big one on it, but confirmed that Blizzard is concerned with PvP. A player may target limit of ~ 5 people / Game Blizzard would have to consider, however, a kind of arena-concept in order to continue to offer PvP as a team sport.
• Set Items will have a higher importance than in Diablo II would be a pity if there would be a "look-alike contest á la World of Warcraft. This will remain but we probably saved as much value is placed on variable Stats.
• Boss fights are somewhat versatile. This allows bosses to change into different phases of the fight, and behave differently. However, it will not be the case that a group must be divided into the tank, damage dealer, and other "WoW" for similar roles.
• The Diablo 3 team is in the degree in the content development and works to coincide with all acts of the game. Even the first act it is somewhat revised, as certain subtleties of the storyline is not yet quite satisfactory. Since this is well known that Blizzard is certainly late, there remains the hope for an early beta.
• Blizzard also deals with the balance. This involves the question of which class can dish out as how much dmg / time to keep the game exciting. Sorceresses have now as a "Arcane Power", which is similar to the mana from Diablo II very much. Even the monk has one with the "Spirit", a system similar to miss the fury of barbarians. The monk builds in battle "Spirit on" and thus can activate special attacks.
• Known NPCs return. In addition to Deckard Cain is also a witch Adria (Diablo 1) play a central role.
• Crafted items will also be interesting in the endgame and can be reached in accordance rarely absolute top-Stats. As in Diablo II, it may be that you craftet unbeatable values on an item.
• Gemstones will have many (perhaps up to 14) stages, the total consumption base, however, thanks to simpler procedures and more common. This allows the blacksmith to probably a total of six bases with ItemType purpose, without thereby using up a quest reward.
• Chars can personalize on dyes, by which you can customize the color equipment. On the subject of "talisman" Bashiok but wanted to say anything.
• An achievement system is planned, but it will not go there, probably to stupid monster kills. There could be an especially busy for Crafting Achievements Itembauer, but also PvP-related achievements.

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There will be no close-ups of chars, in-game cutscene, and optical changes in the chars through skills. Blizzard here saves development time and leaves space for change in addon (s).

Extension (s) are just as it did in Diablo II (LoD) is already beginning to play in planning in order to integrate them perfectly into the story.

Somewhat unfavorable Jay is expressed from the funding model. He leaves open regional, such as Blizzard can pull some money out of Diablo III. This may involve small services such as Char-Transfer, rename, and co. for the Blizzard already in World of Warcraft player asks the checkout. Readers with no background information could be here, but also a monthly fee to read Draus - which has been frequently denied by Blizzard.

More information to follow.

Artisan is a new NPC class, which replace the Horadric Cube in crafting. They follow the player in the world and they could even increase in the number of completed Crafts Level.

You must provide the only Artisan (eg smith) with Mats and gold, and he has done the rest of the first blacksmith of three classes and can also happen to be socketing items - but not exclusively as a quest reward.

Jay Wilson explains in this video the whole system:

Live recording of the Gamescom 2010: (Video of Diablo 3.net)

Bashiok reported yesterday in the Battle.net forum to speak again and said something to the drop rate of Health Globes, which will replace the potions in Diablo III (in part).

Health Globes are small magical items (different thickness), the monsters are killed by lying and whole group in collecting something heal.

In something like this is now known to:

• Normal Monsters: There is a small chance that they will drop the death mini Health Globes
• Champions: Champion Monster (formerly blue in Diablo II) may already fall in battle and also at a slightly higher death Globe Health can
• Rare Monster: (known in Diablo II diced by their funny names) can be already lost 25% of all life and the death of even greater Globes.
• Uniques / Bosses: Here you have to let surprise you, but often they are at the end of quest lines, so that a cure in the fight rather insignificant.

Furthermore Bashiok incidentally revealed a few details:

• The Siege Breaker Assault Beast (known from the gameplay video) will probably be a unique monster.
• Rare monsters can get various magic affixes (possibly even teleport)
• Healing potions there will continue - but they are no longer available in large quantities and have a cooldown timer
• Globes can probably come out of boxes

Source: Battle.net Forum

As in the past year, one can allude Diablo 3 again on the Gamescom game exhibition in Cologne.

Less gratifying, however, is that Blizzard again presents the previous version, which does not include other new features. Why Blizzard has decided to take this step, is unfortunately not entirely clear.

It could indicate that they present to the next BlizzCon so serious changes in the demo that this is not just Gamescom times can be made compatible.

A small ray of hope remains:

This year, Jay Wilson on the D3 Leaddesigner Gamescom to be a guest and answer questions about Diablo 3rd

We are sure you know, Blizzard has Starcraft 2 27/07/2010 "Wings of Liberty released on.

Publication is the game for Windows and Mac. About console versions we are unfortunately not yet - because Blizzard last year intensive Gespäche with Microsoft has led in, however, [1] and Starcraft 2 perfectly Xbox 360 playable would be on is a subsequent release similar to the Playstation version of Diablo is not excluded.

Starcraft II multiplayer only on Battle.net / Online compulsory when installing

To install Starcraft 2 you have to connect to Battle.net to you, even if you want to play the game offline only. Your CD key is so firmly tied to the account. If someone really do not have Internet access, it must at least briefly with his PC to the network.

Initially there was some excitement about the lack of LAN play, the Blizzard of protection against piracy, has removed perhaps. For smaller Lan-parties, this is still is not a significant problem, because an ordinary DSL16k line provides enough power for the relatively small number of transmitted data.

Next point of criticism was the "RealID" (Real name in user profiles), for the Blizzard Battle.net Accounts wanted to introduce. This issue now seems to be off the table for the time being, according to the user (as reported) uA Community Manager Bashiok the potential for abuse of this feature demonstrates.

The Fortzungen of Wings of Liberty are:

• Starcraft 2 - Heart of the Swarm and
• Starcraft 2 - Legacy of the Void

These are (expected year on year), the remaining races closer to light. Whether, however, Blizzard's new add-on policy may be seen. However, the offered content to single player missions for your money is perfectly okay.

Blizzard has invented the somewhat dusty genre of real-time strategy StarCraft II certainly not new, but it still looks as if it were on the prior period.

The graphics are sufficient for an RTS and quite pretty to look at. Compared to the rather low hardware requirements (see end of article) they can be described as very attractive, even if it requires for the full game also benefit from a powerful computer.

Some users still reported from some teething problems with older generation graphics chips. Blizzard will be the next few weeks to patch. Even on newer Nvidia integrated graphics solutions like ION is Starcraft 2 playable at a very low level of detail.

Frame rate limit:

Unnecessary overloading of the graphics card can be prevented in which one limited by a small change in the Config frame rates.

Opens to the variables.txt and adds at the end the following lines:

frameratecapglue = 30
frameratecap = 60

Level Editor

As in the first Part you can get your maps with a level editor tinkering itself.

Conclusion:

Blizzard delivers a truly successful game. For nearly 50 €, it is certainly worth its price, as it probably will be announced as his predecessor for years. Starcraft 2 should be a compulsory purchase order, even if you have not played the predecessor possibly.

Now a say in the forum!

The online press evaluates positive:

• Buffed 92/100
• IGN 9.0/10
• GameSpot 9.5/10
• ...

(Cinematic)

Caution spoilers!

Here is a short gameplay video of the first Mission

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Starcraft 2 Hardware requirements

• Minimum:
  • PC: Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 (Latest Service Packs) with DirectX 9.0c
  • 2.6 GHz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
  • 128MB PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card or better
  • Mac: Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
  • Notebook NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT or ATI Radeon X1600 or better
  • PC / Mac: 12GB HD space available
  • Ram:
  • 1 GB RAM Windows XP, 1.5 GB Windows Vista / Windows 7, 2 GB Mac
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Broadband Internet connection
  • 1024X720 minimum display resolution

• Recommended Specifications:
  • PC: Windows Vista / Windows 7
  • 2.4Ghz Dual Core Processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better
  • Mac: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  • 4 GB of system RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or ATI Radeon HD 4670 or better
  • Full-HD / Ultra requirements
• Requirements Full-HD / Ultra:
• Quad-core or fast dual-core CPU (eg E8400 or better)
• HD 5850 / GTX285
• 2-4 GB of RAM (depending on your operating system and number of units)

Blizzard announced recently that they must in future give his first name & last name in plain sight in the new Battle.net account. To this end, also decided Diablo community manager Bashiok write his name in the forum.

"Micah Whipple at your service."

They forgot he had probably how fast the community to their personal information including address, telephone number and details would come to family members. Some sites have the info now removed, but this then distribute the net.

Until now it was in the Battle.net forum strictly forbidden to publish personal data of users in any way. Now Blizzard breaks the self-imposed rule and would become the social network. Concern it is that information about children can be published here. Although there are some features for parents to prevent this - but what parents are interested in already for the games their kids?

initially affected only the games of "Battle.net 2.0" (WoW, Starcraft II and Diablo III) - whether the older games are integrated, is not yet known.

What do you think of Blizzard's plans?

Longer is already known that Diablo III is optimized for the now very popular widescreen format 16:9 and 16:10.

The competent Diablo II players wonders, of course, as Blizzard will compensate for the benefits of a larger picture, for example in PvP not to let the hardware decide between victory and defeat.

Bashiok commented on Battle.net Forum:

We're supporting all the normal and widescreen (16:9 / 16:10) resolutions. Switching from a normal to widescreen aspect you will see more playable space, but within each aspect ratio you're not going to get more game info space. [...]

The advantages (especially in pvp) might therefore be limited, since you will only see a little more of the map. Blizzard is therefore the visibility of the light radius and objects limit on the card, so that even with an old 19 "(4:3) monitor can still play under fair conditions?

Somewhat recently we've been trying out the line of sight mechanic (that maybe called fog of war by some). It's not dependent on light radius, it's simply what's blocked by geometry. It introduces all sort of technical issues for us, not that they're insurmountable, but it's something we're playing around with.

Tactically quite interesting, then, that monster can hide (or player?) Behind an obstacle, the system should find its way into Diablo 3rd Indirectly, he confirmed that of course the light radius from which this feature is independent.

It is also unclear to what resolution you choose to be minimal in order to suffer no disadvantage. Possible would be 1280 × 1024, as this format is supported for many years by all 17 "and 19" monitors. This would fit very well to 1080p (1920 x 1080) and owners of small notebook displays (eg 1280 x 800) would not have a big disadvantage. It would be conceivable but just another "camera-height", which provides the players with low-resolution graphics with slight losses identsiches a picture.

Let us wait.

At the last Blizzcon it was announced that Blizzard is the new Battle.net "2.0 set" more on social networks.

In the first step, it is Starcraft II players be able to add their Facebook friends on Battle.net. This function is probably also exist in Diablo III, so you can see his friends very easily. Whether, however, the German StudiVZ / MeinVZ integration will get is not known yet.

Source: Blizzard Press Release

On 3.6. starts at 4 clock (CET) of the first early ticket sales for BlizzCon 2010th

For $ 150 you can proudly assure you one of the coveted tickets. The Blizzcon 2010 of 22 - 23 10th again take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Besides Diablo 3 is of course a lot of Starcraft 2 and get the new WoW Addon Cataclysm.

The second Sales promotion will run on 5.6. to a reasonable amount of time (19:00 h). If you want to but really take the long way up, which will probably also make sure the alarm clock.

See you in California

Blizzard seems to have corrected a few minutes before the rollback in Diablo 2. The servers run stable again and there are no degrees available rollbacks more.

Trigger was a public cheat method could be repeated with some fraudsters their rune words (or rune quests) repeatedly until the desired result.

Thank you Blizzard, this time was that reacts so quickly. In the past, the example in Aurenstack-Dupe and co. different. If it still should give something, we of course keep you up to date.