Diablo 4 Beta Review – Should It Be Delayed?

this review did not age well……the server slam was flawless with connection. no rubber banding, no queues, no disconnection for me at all and I played 20 hrs

on PC the only issue I had was the story not progressing sometimes or getting stuck in the opening town. Other than that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Thank you for this info!

Is adding an offline mode doable? I feel like that's the simplest/best way to mitigate server issues, plus when I think of Diablo, I think of a single player game with optional multiplayer from the good ol' days of Diablo 1 and 2

The problem with players getting tired of products that are not complete is that they keep pre-ordering and buying stuff in game. In the companies eyes it is a success because they sold. People are not voting with their dollar, only bitching about the meal that wasn't very good after they ate it and then hanging around for more drinks and hoping desert makes up for everything.

Performance is low on the concerns. Mine was the inconsistent writing. Some side quests have better writing quality than the main story. The dialogue really goes up and down in the limited experience we have with the beta. I am quite sure there are multiple writers working on the game and the difference between their qualities really show in the game. The main quest unfortunately gives me D3 quality and vibe, minus the childish art style.

Why are you acting as though the beta's problems are unfixable within 2 months? We've had far less time between beta and release in other triple-a games and they have fixed far worse problems. The beta is literally designed to identify these problems and that's somehow a bad thing. (For the record I encountered 2 bugs during the beta, which is far better than most modern games at full release).

Its should be never relase …1/10…incredible bad…

Rubberbanding and lag where the major issues, so almost all network performance issues. Probably more to do with server issues, than client issues.

During open beta every single time I Portaled back to kyovashid I would get disconnected. I played on ps4

I played on PS5, I really only got into Diablo when 3 came out. I’d say it seems similar but as you pointed out, devs rushing to release games quick, I’m sure money woes involved. I’d say wait till fall, but I’m not an Uber fan of this type of game.

My biggest complaint about Diablo 4 is that I can still play Diablo 1 after 20+ years, and there is absolutely zero guarantee that will be possible with Diablo 4. The game is launching on life support.

Ok sure there are problems, but what can you say about the impact of these, and the developmentspeed of the team?

This game would have to be an absolute disaster for it to garner negative reviews.

The rubber banding was brutal in kyovashad and kinda bad out in the world. Only a few little bugs elsewhere but yeah all I can say is I’ll pray that it’s better on launch cause I am so hype for this game! I can’t wait till I get to play with my friends

Things I loved about D4:
-Graphics
-Voice Acting
-Gear system
-Classes felt unique

Things I hated:
-Poor class balance
-The U.I
-The server issues
-Low mob density
-The limited character creation
-No risk/reward gameplay for melee builds
-Build diversity

My biggest concern is actually that I just played through Last Epoch and now I'm spoiled by how good their gearing/crafting system is. I hope Bliz makes some changes to how the gear works and puts some of the legendary gear affixes back on the skill tree where they so obviously started. Otherwise yeah, my biggest concern is the always online nature and the issues from D3 launch repeating themselves.

Now that they have made the spells awesome, they should increase the fanaticism of the enemies… don't have them stand around, a charge at a sprint will add extra energy to their attack…… the necro skellies should charge to fight also, and the golem should smash enemies out of the way like a heavy cavalry charge

Yes