Diablo III - May, 15th. Yes, this year.

[IOWA]

Diablo III Open Beta Weekend

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4105609/Diablo_III_Open_Beta_Weekend_-20_04_2012#blog

Edited April 20, 2012 by IOWA

[Dan G]

Tiit, play with me and teach me the ropes?

[IOWA]

I haven't played before, but sure!

[Dan G]

It says my account doesn't have access to an open beta

[Deathstar]

It says my account doesn't have access to an open beta

starts in 8 hours. 12:00pm pst.

[Dan G]

O sad.

[Deathstar]

Ye, still can dl the client while you're waiting.

[Dan G]

Yeah I did all that, that's how I found out that I don't have access yet. "No beta license" or something. The way my sleeping pattern's been means I probably won't be on until the morning

[IOWA]

Eesh, how'd you install/update so fast? My thing's been super fucking slow.

Edited April 20, 2012 by IOWA

[Dan G]

I have 30mb down but was getting anywhere between 2m & 500k for the download. I downloaded it twice cause I'm a genius. First time took about 20 minutes, second took an hour-ish. Must be your kooky Estonian interwebs.

[IOWA]

[Dan G]

Finished the beta in co-op as a demon hunter. It's fun! Shame the beta has some connection issues for me though and it keeps timing out.

[Deathstar]

PLAYED THROUGH AS A SOSO AND OWNED

[IOWA]

Wizard all the wayyyyyyyyyy

[Ronnie]

beta was boring to me, i knew this game got too hyped :\ hopefully GW2 is gud

[Dan G]

Played through the beta twice now. Once as a Demon Hunter and the second time as a Witchdoctor. Witchdoctor's are somewhat OP. Snare + 80% movement slow, Leaping spiders & Dogs = Nothing ever gets close to you and you can go round looting while everything dies

[ReDrOc]

Mario sucks at it. Gayle was pretty much holding his hand

[IOWA]

[Muse]

Got it pre-ordered and downloaded.

[Memphus]

how can you hotkey swap between spells and move at the same time with a controller? How can you spell swap at all?

consoles are so behind computers right now. They'd have to be developing for the next gen consoles.

I've played TONS of Diablo clones on console, and I LOVE them! I find they feel even better on console than on PC (haha, exactly what the Diablo 3 console designer said!)

Just an example of how they could map spells:

A, B, X, Y are 4 spells you set

Holding left trigger switches it to a different 4 spells you set (so hold left trigger and press X to cast that spell)

Holding right trigger switches it to yet another 4 spells you set, etc etc.

That is just one example of how it could be done. There are thousands of possible methods.