The "What are you playing now?" Thread

[Rich]

Just beat Diablo on the first try! Onto Act V...

I bought a Staff of Teleportation to be able to quickly move around, what is the best/cheapest way to recharge its teleports? A typical repair on it is expensive AF. Would the Horadic Cube recipe be the best way to do it?

@Rich . @Marcus

Yea probably. I don't know how much it costs in gold. I've never used an item that has teleport on it but that was pretty smart.

Ort runes are pretty common though.

 

[DirtyDan]

Finished Jedi Fallen Order and I really enjoyed it. EA put in the effort and made a game that tells a better story than the new trilogy of movies.

I'm not sure why they used the appearance of the voice actor for Cal Ketis but it's a pretty nice touch. Cameron Monaghan is great in Gotham and Shameless, hope he sticks around to do more star wars related projects.

The skill system, combat, and movement are all good. This game is even less adjusted for PC than Batman Arkham Asylum. Playing without a controller hurt the experience a little but I'm stubborn and stuck it out with the keyboard. The difficulty was suprising for this game, had to turn it down to story mode because I kept getting my ass handed to me before I could reach checkpoints. No auto or quicksaves either, only saves at checkpoints. This game will fuck up your day.

Loved the final part of the game with Vadar

20 hrs to complete. Good story, can be a bit monotonous at times, but overall suprisingly good for a triple A star wars game. EA just needs to remaster Battlefront 2 already.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I'm not sure why they used the appearance of the voice actor for Cal Ketis but it's a pretty nice touch. Cameron Monaghan is great in Gotham and Shameless, hope he sticks around to do more star wars related projects.

I imagine there will probably be a sequel.

 

[DirtyDan]

I imagine there will probably be a sequel.

Unrelated, but don't you play TF2?

 

[Jack Brickman]

Unrelated, but don't you play TF2?

Been a couple of months, but yeah. Used to play it all the time. Played competitively back when I was in college, although now I mostly just huntsman troll.

 

[Ohio]

Beat Diablo 2 on Normal the other day. It's so much better than Diablo 3. I get why people replay it and grind for gear now...it's just fun. And addicting. I've already gotten a Spirit sword and shield, Lore cap and Stealth armor and am cruising along in Nightmare.

I plan to play through Hell (if I can) and then see from there.

 

[Rich]

Diablo 2 just did a better job of nailing the correct difficulty level.

For those that don't know, Diablo 3 had an utterly insane, completely over the top difficulty level on hell mode when it first launched. I mean the elite packs on hell were 10x harder than the Act Bosses. Some of them were basically unkillable. Some of them would one shot you with literal unavoidable skills.

And i know what you're thinking. "Oh man a harder hell difficulty would be a fun challenge!" No. I remember the very first mob, a little fucking stupid wasp, in Act 2, was harder than the Act boss of ACt 1. Just a regular little grey bug. And that's not a joke. The fgucking thing would one shot you and had a bazillion hitpoints. I never managed to beat Act 2 before they nerfed it about a month or into the game. It was that over the top.

Just beyond stupid.

So then from there they never managed to hit that just exact right spot than Diablo 2 did when they had to scale it back.

 

[MD13]

Diablo 2 just did a better job of nailing the correct difficulty level.

For those that don't know, Diablo 3 had an utterly insane, completely over the top difficulty level on hell mode when it first launched. I mean the elite packs on hell were 10x harder than the Act Bosses. Some of them were basically unkillable. Some of them would one shot you with literal unavoidable skills.

And i know what you're thinking. "Oh man a harder hell difficulty would be a fun challenge!" No. I remember the very first mob, a little fucking stupid wasp, in Act 2, was harder than the Act boss of ACt 1. Just a regular little grey bug. And that's not a joke. The fgucking thing would one shot you and had a bazillion hitpoints. I never managed to beat Act 2 before they nerfed it about a month or into the game. It was that over the top.

Just beyond stupid.

So then from there they never managed to hit that just exact right spot than Diablo 2 did when they had to scale it back.

I remember those days where you'd run out of the act 2 town and instantly die. Awful times. D3 as a whole was just really underwhelming, beat it once and just never went back to it.

 

[Marcus]

Beat Diablo 2 on Normal the other day. It's so much better than Diablo 3. I get why people replay it and grind for gear now...it's just fun. And addicting. I've already gotten a Spirit sword and shield, Lore cap and Stealth armor and am cruising along in Nightmare.

I plan to play through Hell (if I can) and then see from there.

I decided to restart the game and do a Hammerdin build. I have been having a lot more fun with it.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Diablo 2 just did a better job of nailing the correct difficulty level.

For those that don't know, Diablo 3 had an utterly insane, completely over the top difficulty level on hell mode when it first launched. I mean the elite packs on hell were 10x harder than the Act Bosses. Some of them were basically unkillable. Some of them would one shot you with literal unavoidable skills.

And i know what you're thinking. "Oh man a harder hell difficulty would be a fun challenge!" No. I remember the very first mob, a little fucking stupid wasp, in Act 2, was harder than the Act boss of ACt 1. Just a regular little grey bug. And that's not a joke. The fgucking thing would one shot you and had a bazillion hitpoints. I never managed to beat Act 2 before they nerfed it about a month or into the game. It was that over the top.

Just beyond stupid.

So then from there they never managed to hit that just exact right spot than Diablo 2 did when they had to scale it back.

Reminds me of Valheim the first time you get to the Meadows biome, hear a buzzing coming from off screen, and then you're fucking dead.

 

[Chris]

Picked up Bloodborne again to do the DLC. Just beat Rom, and fuck do I hate boss fights with a million adds.

 

[Rich]

For an idea of how hard Diablo 3 was on launch, the first person to beat the game on hardcore mode, all difficulties, took 6 weeks and it was because of one class having one specific build that allowed you to become actually invincible. Without that, I dunno if anyone would have done it before they nerfed it.

Now these are guys playing the game probably 8-10 hours, minimum, everyday from launch, trying to be the first. So think about it taking 6 weeks in order to pull it off.

Someone could beat Diablo 2 on hardcore mode, starting from level 1, in a matter of days.

 

[Marcus]

Picked up Bloodborne again to do the DLC. Just beat Rom, and fuck do I hate boss fights with a million adds.

Best DLC of all the Soulsborne games, imo... and I am a huge fan of the DS3 DLC.

 

[Chris]

Best DLC of all the Soulsborne games, imo... and I am a huge fan of the DS3 DLC.

When should I do it? I think I’m like 50. Going to do Cainhurst and Unseen Village, then was maybe gonna peep the DLC. Dunno if I’ll still be underpowered but that’s nearing the end of the game.

 

[Marcus]

When should I do it? I think I’m like 50. Going to do Cainhurst and Unseen Village, then was maybe gonna peep the DLC. Dunno if I’ll still be underpowered but that’s nearing the end of the game.

It’s honestly pretty tough. You probably COULD do it in the 50s, but I’d probably grind a bit to around 65.