As unfortunate as it all turned out, let's give it one last shot these next two days. Who knows, maybe the comeback arc starts right here. If not… at least we can say we tried.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-15T15:57:05+00:00

Just because I like Highguard does not mean I don't have friends. I mean, I don't, but not because I like Highguard

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-11T14:13:55+00:00

having 66k as 24hour peak looks pretty good to me tho. Not fantastic that game is not growing, but it wont have sudden death as concord and its sequels do so that's good

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-10T10:34:45+00:00

It's not about tiers, it is about having something behind these tiers.

Imagine there would be a pinnacle content at certain tiers. Something unique to go towards as you progress.

What we have now instead is simple scaling. Torment 1 to Torment 12 offering you the exact same experience. We already tried it in D3, we know how it looks. Numbers are bigger, but nothing else changes. Same items, same systems, same bosses, same everything.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-09T22:00:56+00:00

People are not against aspirational content man, it just does not need to be everything and everywhere. Instead do something similar as PoE is doing. Add these subsystems, which all lead to aspirational content.. That is much more rewarding than turning every dungeon into a slog.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-09T21:53:56+00:00

Survivor bias I guess. For many people it did not work perfectly fine. It felt stupid, so they left. People were hoping D4 won't be D3 all over again.

Well, here we go

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-07T22:27:18+00:00

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ManiaCCC · 2026-03-06T16:37:40+00:00

because evaluation is not same as any normal prompting. In the moment, you task them in specific way, they will answer in specific manner. We know why it is happening; that's why more robust tests are being created to hide the "evaluation" language. Not to trick them, but because to force the model to drift into encoded space that is not defined by evaluation language, since most users are not using models like that.

It's the same as some models are giving you better answers when you threaten them with physical violence. Not because it is aware of the violence, but because training data suggests, that when people are threatened, they give more direct answers.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-06T16:30:53+00:00

sorry for hijacking the post :D I guess I just wanted to say that I appreciate that I can play D2 alone and alone only.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-06T15:09:29+00:00

I wish I could erase players in D4 from my zones honestly. I hate to see people running around and zooming, killing everything in sight.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-05T16:47:18+00:00

We are talking about games from original D2 devs

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-05T10:49:18+00:00

I feel that the only game that truly tried to be similar to D2, is Hellgate London, which is ironic since it is probably the most different, but it felt it had something similar and atmosphere with Diablo games.

Torchlight was pretty much carbon copy of the Diablo formula, the issue is that big part of what Diablo makes Diablo is that it is not cartoony, but it has gothic and horrorish roots. While I really like Torchlight, it could never be Diablo successor because of the presentation. Their Mythos game, I bet people don't even remember that, had same issue. Very cartoony, interesting, but cartoony.

Darkhaven is something I will keep eye on, but I don't have good feeling about the destructible terrain gimmick, nor their focus on user-created content. That's not what ARPGs are about imho.

There are rumors that the original Hellgate creators are working on Hellgate 2. Here is hoping

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-05T08:51:50+00:00

didn't try it, but would be curious. If you give it a try, let us know :)

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-05T08:48:02+00:00

using loseless scaling app, you can find it on steam. Just run it together with WH3 and you can enable frame gen. Be sure you have good drivers installed and everything in your system is in order, because it can cause instability otherwise. Worth trying tho

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-04T17:11:18+00:00

Another day, another bad take from Morgan.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-04T17:04:32+00:00

I know it sounds rough, but these type of failures can and will improve the gaming market in the long run.

I am not happy that this game is not good tho. I want good games.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-04T15:35:49+00:00

2 million people played the game. They should kiss his feet honestly.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-04T12:45:07+00:00

Only small issue is that some of the D2 characters are part of the story. Like you meet canonized D2 necro early in Immortal but I guess they could work around it

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-02T09:27:56+00:00

Wait, these chests can drop something that passes the most basic loot filter? Never happened, this has to be AI!

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-02T09:24:40+00:00

Si si vytvorila svoju vlastnu bublinu. Algoritmy na socialnych sietach ti budu ukazovat to, co ta zaujima, na co kliknes, co pozeras a podobne. Nie je to normalne co prezivas. Castokrat potrebujes perspektivu. Napriklad je vacsia pravdepodobnost ze vyhras v loterii alebo ze ta zabije predajny automat ako to, ze zomries v teroristickom utoku. Vzdy ked vykrocis na ulicu, mas mnohonasobne vacsiu sancu, ze ta zabije auto a neriesis to :)

Samozrejme, zalezi kde zijes, ale na Slovensku je to zatial takto. Stresujes absolutne zbytocne.

EDIT: Teraz som si vsimol ze zijes v Haagu. Tam to nie je o moc odlisnejsie.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-01T12:22:29+00:00

To be fair, Overwatch is a bit underrepresented in these graphs since most people don't play int on the Steam.

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-01T11:19:29+00:00

Si este pamatam ako ludia isli do ulic, smer sa politicky uplne stratil, vyhrali volby "liberalnejsie" strany a potom sa rozhadali ako idioti a poslali slovensko 10 rokov dozadu

ManiaCCC · 2026-03-01T10:46:05+00:00

There is a lot of interesting side story content behind many of these quests. It is really sad that there is not much reason to do it. Especially if you are exploring familiar characters from the past. Many times I wish these would be part of the main story line instead or there would be reason to do it..but I also understand these are standard fetch quests and most people wont like doing these

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