Diablo IV (PC/PS5/XSX/PS4) - June 6, 2023

[arus2001]

Regrettably, this is a similar situation to D3. For whatever reason, the game is almost constantly querying the player's inventory and stash both for disconnect protection and anti-dupe measures. However, there is logistically no reason to be checking one's stash inventory unless you're interacting with it.

Either way, no item should have a digital footprint of more than a few dozen bytes. The overall inventory of a player shouldn't be much more than a few KB. Even if you multiply that by 10 million accounts, each with max characters, it's still something modern server hardware should be able to manage. This is 1000% a lern2code issue.

[Meresgi]

So when you go to the vendor to upgrade gems and such you can do so even if they are sitting in your stash, same for the keys for the chests...but this is beyond fucking dumb for anything, even an anti-duping mechanism that many believe it is. Somehow people think having every player querying every other players full inventory everytime they come on screen is less server load then the server being queried about inventory and items the character has.

Use a fucking nested dictionary for items and their rolled stats or something, query the server about said items. If someone drops item on the ground, pop it out of the dictionary. They pick it back up? Add it back in. WoW has the excuse of shit spaghetti code from it's inception but holy fuck who are they hiring for their programming nowadays?

[arus2001]

Player inventories should be a matrix, potentially multiple if you wanted to break it down to personal inventory, stash tab 1, 2, etc.. However you can still easily do it one big one even if parts aren't unlocked. I doubt the game has enough affixes to exceed the 000-FFF range where number values could be raw or translated down further to save a few bytes. Multiply that by, say, 8 per item, with extra strings for item name (rarity can be included here as well as flavor text and graphical references), time and location dropped, and a couple other minor details. An empty slot would pretty much be all 0s until filled, then back to 0s when emptied.

Again, none of this being anything other players need to know when the server remains the common link for veracity and protection. The hidden data and other protections, like the stash being non-interactable unless a couple flags (stash open, proximity to valid stash object) are active, is all you need. Fail those two and the server should automatically nuh uh any attempt to modify contents.

[Greedouw]

Also, I somehow activated the premium battle pass?

[Melena]

Also, I somehow activated the premium battle pass?

Yup, they force the cursor to default on it with no confirmation if you select it.

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[Mertron]

i am a loser and enjoying the new season, but at the same time man the game has become laggy as shit and playing necro is probably not helping

[Meresgi]

i am a loser and enjoying the new season, but at the same time man the game has become laggy as shit and playing necro is probably not helping

The rubber banding is so fucking bad lately, like i can't do helltides or even NMD because I just rubberband around and die

[Kachiko]

Pretty significant buffs incoming for the next patch. Full notes released on Tuesday, though it's only a start to the work they need to do. Interested to see how Chain Lighting rolls out with this but won't know until I see if the increases are +% or x% increases.

[Yuri-G]

is there any purpose to hearts that I don't end up using? sell them all for 1 gold each? or is there something else I can do with them?

[Meresgi]

is there any purpose to hearts that I don't end up using? sell them all for 1 gold each? or is there something else I can do with them?

Nuke them into ichor to make other useless hearts or I think maybe the invoker to farm the boss lol...this entire season is fucking trash. I got a barber heart, and a few others. Fucked around with them, hit lvl 67 and i'm done. Couldn't even get past 70 and no desire to even min/max my rogue build just so I can farm pointless shit for no rewards.

[Dimmauk]

The lack of sets is still weird. I think it's what's been bothering me the most

[Karbuncle]

The lack of sets is still weird. I think it's what's been bothering me the most

Set bonuses are pretty much a staple of the series. Its insane they arent in the game right now, but a lot about the game feels like it was hit with a rushed release date and is unfinished/"Doing it live".

[Andalusian girls]

def feels much like Diablo 3 in that this is going to be a much better game in a year / after the first expansion. dropped it for now, ain't worth grinding through the endgame as is, plenty of other stuff out. enjoyed the campaign and will gladly come back when it's in a better state.

[Krandor]

Set gear was really only a D3 thing, off the top of my head I can't think of high tier build in D2 that used set gear outside of Trang-Oul gloves, and it was only those.

[Karbuncle]

I can agree D2 Sets were the infancy of the idea, D3 made them better and expanded on the concept and dare I say nearly perfected them, but I think we can both agree it is rather stupid for D4 to just not have them at all. Heck, even Diablo Immortal has set items though I'm not sure how good they are cause I don't play Diablo Immortal.

It just doesn't help that D4 feels like a rushed-to-launch incomplete product, someone made a choice to push it out the door before is finished like most AAA games these days, and its a shame(and I don't blame the developers and nobody should). I do hope it gets better cause playing the D2 Remaster lately has me wanting for another good Diablo game. Though I hope it doesn't take an expansion to make D4 "good" like it did with D3.

[Roranora]

Set gear was really only a D3 thing, off the top of my head I can't think of high tier build in D2 that used set gear outside of Trang-Oul gloves, and it was only those.

3-piece Tal's was solid. Laying of Hands, Aldur's boots, and Nat's boots were worth using on their own, but you're right, D2 didn't have very many viable set pieces

[Meresgi]

PoE2 has map overlay and I had to laugh...like how does D4 not have this stupid crap. I love dying in Helltide or a dungeon to a bullshit explosion because I dared to look at the map for 1-2 seconds.

The last dev chat was good, they showed they need to fix a lot of stuff but i'm sick of Blizzard not listening to beta feed back. releasing a buggy game and then coming back and implementing the shit people wanted in beta but as content patches and updates and acting like it's their own idea or we should be proud of them. Grats on doing the bare fucking minimum!

[Prothescar]

It'll take them 2 years to do everything they said they "know they need to do" anyway. Indie dev studio etc.

I dont wanna hear the bullshit of ThE dEv CyClE tAkEs TiMe! when GGG can push out sweeping league changes within 3-4 weeks of a league launch (sometimes even sooner) in response to feedback while keeping people updated, in depth, about what those changes are planned to be while having a team that is at least half the size of Diablo's. Meanwhile Blizzard can't even add a fucking gem tab sooner than 6 months out?

[Yuri-G]

IDK if y'all just work for GGG or what but clearly you have all convinced me, downloading PoE now. I'll probably delete D4 and re-download it a year or so from now, maybe when the expansion comes out. I just don't see why I would invest time in an unfinished game when I can play finished games now and play this one when it's actually done

[chazzyphizzle]

i tried PoE and grim dawn but just could not get into them at all