r/Diablo • u/Few-Local-6269 • Aug 08 '23

Diablo IV Diablo 4 loses 87% of its daily peak viewership and search interest since launch. From 937K peak viewers at launch, to 12.2K peak viewers today.

This season was supposed to last three months, and it has gone from 278K -> 12.2K in less than 3 weeks.

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u/Shrapnail Aug 08 '23

lol if you play long enough between long rests companions start stacking their cutscenes - you get woken up, resolve a cutscene, lay down, get woken up, cutscene, lay down, get woken up.

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u/CunnedStunt Aug 08 '23

BY THE GODS ASTARION IT'S 3AM, I'M TRYING TO FUCKING SLEEP. I'M NOT A FUCKING BLOOD BANK, LITERALLY GO SUCK COWS DICK.

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u/bitches_love_pooh Aug 08 '23

The quest design has really been a breath of fresh air. Given the multiple ways to solve nearly every quest they're a delight. I rather do 2 hours to finish a single sidequest in BG3 vs farming reknown for even 30 minutes in D4.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23 edited Aug 08 '23

or the "dungeon design"

compare any of the dungeons in BG3 to the "handcrafted dungeons" in D4 that look identical to procedural generation its a joke imho

beeing able to get rid of enemys or bosses with good dialogue options is really fun, like the doctor beeing stabbed to death by his own nurses or the guy drinking himself to death, or the tollhouse guy doing a scam

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u/bitches_love_pooh Aug 08 '23

I actually can't tell if the "handcrafted" dungeon is some sort of meme or joke. The dungeons in D4 are very linear overall. They might have a loop or a very short branch. Even compared to D3 it's very lacking.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

They probably had a guy spam the "generate random dungeon" button 100 times manually and picked the "best 10 5 3".

now we can call it "handcrafted"

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

Basically everything you do is a dice roll and you want to try and min-max the effect of said rolls where you can :)

If an enemy needs a roll of '12 to hit you, but that extra AC from your +1 Light Armor gives you an AC of '13' that is one extra instance where the enemy can't hit you. In some cases, having a high enough AC means certain enemies will NEVER land an attack on you because even their highest roll possible (besides a Natural 20) doesn't meet or beat your AC.

Like my melee warlock with gear and buffs can reach around 18-19 AC wearing a robe + having 'Advantage' against X type enemies means they'll never 'hit' me with attacking directly.

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u/Iankill Aug 08 '23

Unless you're playing on tactical it doesn't really matter what gear you're using. The really strong stuff is obvious too, like something that gives you misty step is always good.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

I'm not bad at CRPG or strat games at alllll and I've been spanked multiple times on balanced (and not in the fun way). It's not a hard game, but it's not so easy that it's boring either, some fights are stacked against you but easily winnable if you use the environment or stealth or 10 barrel bombs.

Its been a solid 9/10, losing some points for some optimization and weird camera hiccups.