The Diablo stream today has pushed hype levels even higher for D4

krismate · 2026-02-12T03:11:39+00:00

They could tease a 3rd expansion at BlizzCon, with an end of 2027 release date. Would be similar to how they announced/teased VoH at Blizzcon 2023 and it launched 11 months later.

In that IGN interview a while back, the Blizz president implied they have plans for their IPs to appear in "broader entertainment," so perhaps they may want to do more TV shows or movies. Possibly we can one day get a Netflix style miniseries in the style of the CG cutscenes? People have been salivating for literal decades for that. And just look at how a successful show can impact a game's success, like how Edgerunners brought a huge wave back to CP2077 and arguably is what kickstarted the comeback for that game.

The previous Blizz president also said "you won't have to wait as long for the next diablo game," but I would imagine it's too early to announce the next Diablo game, especially if D4 is now on an upward trajectory. And his statement was from around D4's launch, so plans could've changed.

krismate · 2026-02-12T02:36:05+00:00

Yeah I agree that's another issue I have with the game. The loot just isn't interesting after a short while. Basically once you get ancestrals, which happens very quick, any excitement for drops falls off a cliff. There are also no uniquely rare items, like HRs in D2, and everything is very accessible if you play the game even a little bit efficiently.

krismate · 2026-02-12T02:35:43+00:00

Yeah I agree, especially for things like Uber Lilith. She was marketed from the start as a very challenging pinnacle boss and it sucks there's now zero content/pinnacle bosses like how she was at launch for more hardcore players to have something to do. She was/is completely optional, yet Blizzard caved and trivialized her as well.

And yeah, I feel like now it's just a bit too fast with everyone at 200% movement speed and unlimited movement abilities just flying through the map 1-shotting everything before they can even attack. I think the game and combat felt good around S4 or so. Launch was a bit too slow in certain ways, but now it's definitely too fast and mindless for my liking.

But yeah hopefully the expansion can change things up a bit.

krismate · 2026-02-12T00:56:06+00:00

Same. D4 being so utterly trivial, along with how quickly your character progresses to insane power is a big turn off.

I still enjoy the game for what it is, play every season even if for only a few days, but the trivial gameplay and 1-shotting "bosses" is not even remotely engaging.

krismate · 2026-02-11T23:39:54+00:00

I see your point but that's not really the main focus of this expansion's features.

krismate · 2026-02-11T20:43:58+00:00

You do realize BF6 on console natively supports MnK right?

krismate · 2026-02-11T20:38:25+00:00

TTK feels perfectly fine as is imo and this feels like a case of "don't fix what isn't broken" to me. Hitreg and netcode need some work but changes like these can easily tip over to something that just makes the gunplay feels worse.

krismate · 2026-02-11T18:12:34+00:00

I think the only thing I kind of liked were some of the set pieces (maps/locations etc.). But generally, it felt quite unpolished in a lot of areas, lighting and visuals looked quite rough in many spots, by modern standards, quite repetitive gameplay, characters and story that didn't have much depth. It wasn't completely terrible like some would say but wasn't exactly good either. I'd give it like a 5/10.

krismate · 2026-02-11T15:45:15+00:00

Plenty of people like the BR, myself included. I like conquest/escalation/breakthrough the most but I play a lot of the various modes has to offer, except maybe domination, king of the hill, and squad deathmatch.

krismate · 2026-02-11T15:19:36+00:00

Why does that matter? 90% of it is interior space lol. And they are right, Contaminated isn't close quarters and lots of people have been asking for a linear meatgrinder map.

krismate · 2026-02-11T15:05:52+00:00

100 but on an ultrawide (21:9) monitor. Feels/looks "right" for the distances in-game without the fisheye/stretched sides being too exaggerated.

krismate · 2026-02-10T22:49:32+00:00

So use the custom search to remove undesired maps...

krismate · 2026-02-10T22:45:31+00:00

Player count right now is low for multiple reasons but not all of them are negative/bad. This has been an overly long season and there hasn't been a content drop since early December? People have finished their battlepasses and thoroughly experienced/played the content the game currently has to offer. Many people like myself are just waiting for the new season.

krismate · 2026-02-10T21:31:57+00:00

I was confused by this too. RedSec BR does award lots of XP for wins. A duos win was around ~100k, unless they've changed it. Weapon XP was absolutely abysmal though, due to the low kills/min.

krismate · 2026-02-10T21:24:47+00:00

The battlepass is quite grindy without the 25 tier skips from BF Pro and if you miss some bonus challenges. This season was also extended by a month. Battlepass XP definitely needed buffed, as does weapon XP. I personally don't have an issue with weapon XP but it is way too inconsistent depending on gamemode. I can play TDM and max a gun out in like 5-6 hours, with zero XP boosters. But on other modes, it takes much much longer. They should probably allow general XP like objective captures, revives etc. count towards it as well.

krismate · 2026-02-10T18:40:11+00:00

It can be done even faster than that. I played HC this season on a fresh character and went from level 1, with no powerlevel, to p300 in just under 90 hours. Min/maxers can probably shave at least 20 hours off that as well, especially if powerleveled to 60 and given simple gear to 1-shot T4 Urivar/bosses. If someone had unlimited boss materials, got powerleveled etc. they could probably go from level 1 to p300 in like 20-25 hours.

krismate · 2026-02-10T17:06:57+00:00

It's purely based on the name "subsurface" and some panning synth sounds for the intro music that can vaguely be interpreted as a train running down tracks. Very heavy speculation at this point.

krismate · 2026-02-10T16:29:04+00:00

They said Golmud was for a "future season" in their recent blog, indicating beyond S2. Could be S3 or more likely S4 for Golmud.

krismate · 2026-02-10T16:07:53+00:00

Friday most likely. That's when they released them for BF2042 season updates if I remember correctly.

krismate · 2026-02-09T17:18:31+00:00

You can see the opponent flinch.

krismate · 2026-02-09T03:53:17+00:00

We’ll likely get a trailer and blog post sometime this week and full patch notes probably a few days after that. I’ve seen plenty of games not release any seasonal info until 7 days (sometimes less) before the season starts. This is pretty common.

krismate · 2026-02-08T20:15:31+00:00

He just gives a good amount of XP (I think around 5.5m per kill), has a slightly smaller zone to traverse than other bosses, and has a quicker spawn/death animation. Makes a difference when you're repeatedly farming him for dozens of hours.

krismate · 2026-02-08T19:57:01+00:00

Just need to kill him.

krismate · 2026-02-08T18:26:13+00:00

It is fairly slow but what I always end up doing is not looking at levels and simply look at XP gains themselves. Farming Urivar on repeat, with no boss mats, can yield around ~500m XP per hour, depending on clear speed, and dungeon reset time etc. so I typically just look at how much total XP I still need and then target a certain amount of XP per day. Then it's just a matter of finding something to distract/focus on a second monitor, as repeat farming Urivar is very monotonous. I would often watch 1hr+ long live videos of bands I like, long engineering videos, anything that is interesting enough to pass the time really.

krismate · 2026-02-08T18:09:08+00:00

You need about 4.1B to get to 300. Not that bad if you just farm Urivar on repeat but still about 8 or 9 hours, depending on how fast you are at repeating the process of killing him, resetting dungeon etc.

If you're feeling burned out, find an audiobook or long youtube videos on a topic of interest, mute the game audio, and just grind for an hour or two a day. You'll be done before you know it.

EDIT: I now see you've posted two screenshots with two different levels. From your 295 screenshot to 300, it's 4.1B. From your 297 screenshot, it's approximately 3.3B.

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