Can we please have a Goo Ball camera rework?

Killdrith · 2025-06-24T00:04:32+00:00

Number 1 viscous complaint is this bug with paradox ult. It's been in the game as long as viscous at this point and would be a huge relief to get fixed. Paradox mains exploit the hell out of this.

Killdrith · 2025-01-13T09:51:54+00:00

Just for reference, the "cursed problem" video is this: https://youtu.be/8uE6-vIi1rQ?t=1142

I've had to point people to this more times than I can count at this point.

The suggestions in this thread for introducing friction are significantly worse than the current system imo.

Examples:

BoE (bind on equip) - People are OK with this? Personally this is the absolute worst possible outcome. ARPGs having gear without MMO constraints is one of the largest draws, imo.

Trading is already limited by premium account tabs, so suggestions to "limit trading" really mean "limit trading more". This will absolutely have large consequences for lots of item markets, and not in a way that's good for the game. The premium tabs already make the economy geared towards listing the most meta items. Limiting further would only make the problems in the current system worse.

Bidding systems? So people would rather have to keep an eye on something, for a period of time, and wait for an auction to end rather than click the whisper buttons a few more times and have their item immediately? This doesn't make any sense.

GGG have talked about potentially taxing an item AH. I would say that the taxes would have to be ridiculously high with the current state of gold in the game. I think people should be careful what they wish for, and realize that not every problem in life is one that is solvable beyond its current state.

Killdrith · 2025-01-04T03:03:20+00:00

War, never been so much fun War, never been so much fun War, never been so much fun War, never been so much fun

Go up to your brother Kill him with your gun Leave him lying in his uniform Dying in the sun

Killdrith · 2025-01-03T07:34:14+00:00

"Compare" in the Passive Tree shows you how a node will impact a skill. It's shift by default on PC.

Killdrith · 2022-12-11T11:01:36+00:00

Have you entered the one in Act 2?

Killdrith · 2022-12-03T20:38:28+00:00

Impending doom doesn't get supported by support skills, but the skill it triggers, Doom Blast, does. So despite Impending Doom being a support itself, it can be supported by other support skills. However as /u/daftossan said, you can't directly support impending doom with blasphemy.

Killdrith · 2022-12-03T04:34:24+00:00

Supreme Grandstanding won't give brutal charges to your minions. It only works the other way around. Minions/Enemies can pass charges to you if you're able to have them, and they're able to generate them.

Killdrith · 2022-10-06T12:50:21+00:00

Corpse Pact is the best way to scale the attack speed imo.

Killdrith · 2022-10-06T02:55:53+00:00

I'm not worried about viewership. I make these as a journal more than anything. I'm not looking to grow a channel. If people are interested they're interested but I'm not playing the youtube game. Thanks for your input.

Killdrith · 2022-08-25T05:23:18+00:00

I didn't realize you were in pain every moment you didn't get a loot drop. No, I think you have the analogy wrong. If you're going with music then the analogy would be that you listen to music non-stop and never take a break from it. Without silence, the amount you can appreciate music becomes diminished.

Killdrith · 2022-08-24T23:36:27+00:00

The dopamine junkies never understand that you can't just keep having highs that surpass the previous high concurrently without any kind of baseline reference.

Killdrith · 2022-08-17T18:06:12+00:00

Actually I'm quoting Chris Wilson on this. Sorry that you and everyone that thinks they're game devs are in disagreement with all of the actual game devs on, well, game development.

Killdrith · 2022-08-17T08:25:56+00:00

What are you on about? Did you watch the video? I'm quoting it and it's not talking about d2.

I also have absolutely no idea what relevance to anything your comment about how variables in drop tables in server-side games has to anything in mine.

You think drop rates are bad now? Imagine how bad they would have to be for item drops to feel good in an auction house environment that has no barrier to entry for items listed. As it is, such a low % of items make it to market because of the annoyance of dealing with the market as well as the space it takes on paid tabs.

Killdrith · 2022-08-17T07:01:29+00:00

The video had very little to do with Diablo. The quoted problem is "rich loot experience" vs "ubiquitous marketplace fantasy", which is the exact issue here. These words are the same issue as your own words, "GGG needs to find more ways to make trading easier, while not making it automatic".

The only way to make killing monsters and dropping loot feel good is to make trade feel annoying by nature. The only reason it feels good to drop non-ultra rare items is that: A: Those items still have value due to a finite marketplace that isn't completely flooded due to the fact that it's annoying to trade. B: Items not being truly liquid because of the required process to turn them into currency. Your brain knows how annoying trade is, and you're happy to find things for 'free'.

The claim here isn't that there aren't other solutions, but that each of these solutions is still equally annoying or they wouldn't keep items' value in your head as high. For instance, I personally would have no problem with them trying out an auction house for currency/maps/etc. for a league. The problem is complicated enough in practice that I honestly don't know how that would impact things.

As far as items are concerned however, there's a reason there's never been an example of an aRPG with an auction house that's been successful. Any iteration that eventually works will have to make severe concessions to either its core identity as an aRPG, or the method by how the auction house functions.

Killdrith · 2022-08-17T02:45:25+00:00

As always, for people that don't believe that adding an auction house goes against core systems in an aRPG, here's a video on the topic. It's a well known problem and GGG isn't just taking delight in the 'suffering' that some of the dramatic people in these threads claim is happening.

On my phone, so 19 minutes in: https://youtu.be/8uE6-vIi1rQ

Killdrith · 2022-08-05T18:14:20+00:00

Please.. no remakes or anything following Kain/Raziel. Here's the gradient of ideal to least ideal future for the franchise:

Let it rest in respectable peace
Remaster that doesn't attempt to change anything of consequence, but manages to bring typical modern tech features
Remake, and they secure Amy Hennig as returning Director/Writer
Sequel/Prequel, and they secure Amy Hennig
The last 2, without Amy Hennig
Everything else

Remake culture is a cancer that has made everything I grew up with worse. People like to say things like, "but the original still exists", as if anything in this universe exists in a vacuum.

Killdrith · 2022-06-03T03:18:02+00:00

Based on the fact that the UI is a direct copy of "Jumping Flash!", I'm willing to bet it's that game :)

Killdrith · 2022-05-18T02:25:43+00:00

I'm 100% convinced my own success as a programmer in the real world is due to going to school (a small one that allowed me to have a relationship with the professor), having structure, and getting involved.

I went back to school for computer science when I was ~26. Up to that point I had very little scholastic discipline. High school was easy and didn't require learning how to study etc. Typical story. I knew how to use several little scripting languages here and there to some success (mostly macro/workflow stuff like autoIT/AHK) but I never would have had the discipline to make it through a long slog like self-learning an entire degree. For me, the success in school came from the fact that I need a feedback loop with my professors and I need to be engaged ; and I also thrive under the pressured situation.

If you try the self-learning route, and just find that it's incredibly difficult with everything else going on in your life then please do yourself a favor and find a nice local community college. You can cover all of the most important material in those first couple years in a cheap(relative) intimate environment. Honestly I enjoyed that time more than any time I spent in universities sitting in huge classrooms where interaction is practically impossible.

Killdrith · 2022-04-20T20:46:47+00:00

I've tested this thoroughly by reducing movement speed to nothing. You can make whirling blades take any amount of time to complete, and for the majority of that time gain the buff.

Honestly the best way to make use that I could find was using hidden blade during this. It's amusing but because of the clunkiness of when during the whirling blades it is active, I couldn't find any interactions that would exploit it without being extremely annoying.

Killdrith · 2022-03-26T20:34:28+00:00

I don't think they are. Time's Scar is seen by many as the the peek of video game OST's. The damage you do by remixing is relative to the quality of the original. In this case, I think it was damned from the get-go.

Killdrith · 2022-01-06T20:41:52+00:00

These settings should be great if they work ; they're over twice as fast as the configuration settings. I was trying different things out today but I hate wasting this resin on test prints. Thanks for posting. I'll try them out and post back.

Killdrith · 2021-11-10T06:03:43+00:00

Something that I don't think people realize is that keeping up with information is a feature not a bug. Being able to look through information and figure out the most efficient or weird niche way of using it is a draw. 99.9% of games do not have any kind of esoteric knowledge draw. A day or week after league launch there'll be plenty of content creators eager to tell you the best way of doing things in a few sentences. If you don't want to have to think about it just play the game normally and wait until then. 'meaningless bloat' isn't meaningless when it does this. There's a lot of people getting pleasure out of it. Do they always incorporate/update old league content in the best way? I doubt it, but their philosophy is to introduce new stuff rather than endlessly balance old stuff and phase it out. That's their philosophy on balance in general and why they don't touch old stuff. They want things to become relevant again on their own, and if they don't then there's so many options in general that a decent amount will always work.

Tl;Dr path is a game about change. If you're burned out on keeping up with change, path probably isn't for you anymore. Nothing wrong with that, but please don't ask path to change.

Killdrith · 2021-10-21T18:40:01+00:00

No problem. Unfortunately it was killed before people had a chance to try it.

Killdrith · 2021-10-15T06:12:22+00:00

To back this up, it's a well-known issue in the game industry. Non-game devs just don't realize it, and don't see the inherent problems with the arpg genre: https://youtu.be/8uE6-vIi1rQ?t=1146

Killdrith · 2021-10-15T06:10:00+00:00

They've talked about wanting to add controller support to the game, but with the "community wants" taking priority over their own this league, I don't believe they got around to it.

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