Keep trying to start playing this game, get sent a verification code, try and enter that code on the page using the PS5 controller is impossible it just jumbles everything up. Have had the game since yesterday and, due to this and the masses of updates, haven't played it yet. Oh how I miss plug and play...

I'd like a mobile inventory management app, if they're gonna have us hard-line to the internets like this. Can't be hard.


Mind that E3 everything had a second screen?

FranticPea wrote:

What's the point of the always online? What exactly is it giving us apart from no pause function?

It gives them power over you and data. It also helps stop cheating, but really it’s anti consumer DRM that people are gonna buy anyway.

afgavinstan wrote:

Other players in your map server, can offer up some pve things, events, etc. There's pvp too.

3 was the same. I guess it's deep deep in the backend.

Edit: that too!

Was offline on console for D3. Switch certainly allowed you to play offline.

Other players?

No pause bullshit arrrrggghh. I hope theirs some good mp reasons for it. Can you insta save then reload it once you've answered the door/phone/finished your shit etc?


Edit- ah ok just seen your post Gav, thats good enough for me. Just have to treat it as such then. Not to be played with distractions.

afgavinstan wrote:

There's no user-prompt to save whenever you want. It just.... Saves, for you. All the time.

It is shit but a way around it is, say nature calls, press down on d-pad, that'll teleport you to the nearest town. It also, when you arrive there, spawns a portal to take you back to where you were when you went back to town.

Good to know. Still haven't started it yet. I'm waiting until I can give it minimum a good couple of hours for the first session. Maybe tonight.

It doesn't turn on until you reach the big town after the tutorial.

Yellow dots on the map.

In that case I'd probably take note of what the boss is doing and maybe try to get stat buffs and/or elixirs that will help.

If its not for you though, fair play!

Gonna try some couch co op later. Haven't had a full nerdy evening of gaming with a mate in YEARS.

You can look at a list of players on your 'server', I think. Possibly join their actual party from there? Dunno.

Just been doing the campaign and still in the first act, clue for the spoiler is bad mum.
any tips or is it best to play co op or lower the World Tier for that part?

The bullshit I came across wasn't anything to do with any of the above. It was just sheer volume of enemies. I got the boss to 1/2 health, piss easy to read it's attacks. But then the adds came, and by the time I'd dealt with them more had arrived, then more. Physically couldn't keep up until the whole screen was enemies and I didn't have the firepower to cope solo.

Bullshit game design if you ask me. Either telegraph that I should be higher level as a solo before I waste my time, or adjust the diff to suit. Shitty.

Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying it, but like 3 they've fucked the difficulty balance again. Literally breezing through 95% of it without having to think, and now wondering what skills to take as I have 3 that I'm using that deal with pretty much everything.

Maybe it was just that one dungeon, but I doubt it. I'll follow the story a bit and not go off piste.

It was the fact that loads appeared, I could get away from the boss but there were too many other enemies for me to get away