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Idk, it still seems like half of the people hating on this spiffy new race car are calling it stupid because they don't like the paint(wow-similar graphics), and half are hating on it because it's not street legal and they need to drive it on the track, and only when it's open (which is 24/7 unless the track crew is doing maintenance).

I've just gotten to Act IV and the story is fucking great, better than either of the previous two. The cutscenes are jaw-dropping. I've never been nearly this engrossed in a Diablo game's story before. The gameplay changes have grown on me by now- I just learned you can check an option which lets you completely freely assign skills to the keys, including 2 skills from the same tree. The changes to the potion system, the changes in pacing, the changes in difficulty- I don't care to mention how many times I've died on normal. I had fun in Act 1 but the shit that goes down in Act 3 and 4 is fucking nuts. Act 3's boss battle was insane. He had a seaker spell that 1 hit KO-ed my buddy, and left me at about 15% health. Huge pools of blood that did damage to you was filling the arena as we fought. Fucking madness.

It's totally fine to not like a game, but to pass the entire thing off because of what amounts to little more than petty, bureaucratic bullshit is just silly, and that seems to me what most people are doing.

"What do you mean that you occasionally do maintenance on the race track? THIS IS BULLSHIT, THIS RACECAR SUCKS, YOU'RE OUT TO GET ME, FAGS" - the gaming community.

Oh and I don't think Diablo "got away with it" because of it's name, I think it did because it's fun and this doesn't stop the fun.

Oh, and about the disposable income buying items- yeah, it does. It doesn't buy the number of hours of play time need to get a toon to 60, nor does it buy and this is crucial SKILL. I have a feeling it will also buy you loads of ridicule from some other players

I could buy the best gear in the game and still get my ass handed to me by a better PVP player than I.

Goddamnit I had a good bit of discussion typed out for PB and then page backed. frickityfrickfrick, balls. I hope you appreciate the discussion lol, I'm typing it twice.

The AH is really not intended to be malicious. It is intended to be a solution to the black market which ruined, ruined, RUINED Diablo 2. It is honestly intended to help the economy rather than rip off players. The small "tax" on sold items helps pay for the servers, which at this point are planned to be up for 15 years. I'll take this over a $15 a month subscription fee any day of the week.

as error 37 has made all too apparent

Obviously the first few days are going to be unpredictable. You don't open servers to millions of people and have it go off without a hitch, that's just unrealistic. This is Blizzard. They run WoW, they have as much experience keeping populated servers running as anyone else and I trust them. I'm not going to throw a shitfit because the game goes down every once in a while for maintenance.

In the past you could just load up a modding tool and add the weapon stats you wanted"

I disagree that this is good. This is bad. Bad bad bad.

PS, Activision can suck one.

Collapse: No, but Guild Wars is. And it works the same way- every time you leave town you create your own instance. Replace the social town with the chat channel and you have exactly how D3 works. D3 is obviously not technically an MMO, even if that point meant anything to begin with.

if it's not an only-multiplayer game like WoW

BUT IT IS, FFS. You can run around alone like a dickweed in WoW, too.

Stop arguing about DRM over Diablo! It's not DRM! It's to stop fuckwits who kinda-sorta like Diablo from ruining Diablo like they ruined every other fucking version of Diablo! That's why Diablo die-hards play on private servers about 1/1000 the size of Bnet. It's a multiplayer game, it's 100% about end-game, and it allows item/money trades in game. Always on connection. Needed. Done deal.

Is WoW's connection considered DRM? No!

Rufee, I don't think I've got you on my list- add Legitzkrieg. I've got these other dudes. I'd definitely be down for some TWHL-squad action! Although I'm going to be playing D3 for quite a bit at first. Prior to launch I play or practice BF3 at least once a day, pretty much as a rule. I'll be back to it in no time, I'm sure. If anyone wants pilot lessons I'm down like a clown Charlie Brown.

I think the people complaining about having to be online to play singleplayer Diablo are forgetting something- THERE IS NO FRIGGIN SINGLEPLAYER.

You bought a multiplayer game. You can run a live instance of the game and just not let anyone else in if you want, if that's your thing. It's still a multiplayer game. With a real money auction house, all items and toon information needs to be stored server-side. It's not DRM, and it's not a single player game.

Someone start working on an offline hack for this fucked game.

Hack the client all you want, your toon, the mobs, events, and all the items are still being generated by the server. Nothing you can do about it.

And Urby, random fuckers can't join until you select the "Open game to public" option from the in-game menu.

That being said I'm just about 4-5 hours into it myself, and I can't wait to get home from work and keep playing. Anyone else on the NA servers?

Oh and Urby- a little BF3 support trick. See a medkit on the ground? It needs an ammokit-hug. It's a lonely, and cold medkit. They are all lonely and cold. Make all of them warm and hugged by an ammokit, and you're instantly a half-good support. Spraying bullets around wildly is the other half.

Gamenaner won't let me make an account I'll try again with another email in a bit.

Good pick cap't

Ha! I was on the right track with the game but didn't know about the boss and he wasn't on wiki, that's some funny stuff. Eerily similar!

Well, it was branded "Beta". I do stand by my previous suggestion that the last compile be done by Archie. And I didn't have my fps counter on, but I noticed slowdowns and it's hardly and old computer.

Ok, so it sounds like it's not really one big thing but a few little things. That's good! Honestly all of those things sound reasonable, but I want to wait to hear what everyone else thinks.

And yeah CT spawn is the only problem area, and it's not even all the time. But when you stand in the middle, you can see nearly everywhere.

And I did say it was fine! It is fine for me! I'm suggesting that other players, who didn't contribute to this and have as much fun with it as we are are, are definitely going to notice it.

lol. Ok so seriously, can we get serious and talk serious talk about the serious frame rates. Even though it's fine for us, and totally doesn't ruin our fun, when we release this into the sharktank of CS maps, it's going to turn players off. Honestly, we should get a prize for making a small Source engine map that runs worse than 64 player Battlefield 3.

How can we go about this? Duplicating the file and then removing whole sections, one at a time, to see which of the removed sections solves the problem? Then when we find the section, make it our collective mission to fix it while keeping it as true to the original work? I would be fine with my work being reconstructed if it turned out to be the problem, but I don't know if everyone else feels that way. We would really need everyone to be on board before we tried.

Thoughts?

Explain! I wiki'd it and I still can't figure it out, lol. I WANNA GET THE JOKE.

A small, crazed, wayward ultra-conservative militia takes hostage the operators of a porn studio based on moral stances. The city block is evacuated and police approach from the next block over via the sewers in order to save the producers.

ah, i think i gave you an incorrect file for one of the sprays.

Maybe removing black lines on the character would cement them in the black line-less environment? Anyways, neat looking stuff right there! I particularly enjoy the painterly aspects of the background, the trees especially, great work!

<3

Now i don't even mind being edit blocked, Cap't, feel free to move these graphs anywhere. Now that I think of it back in T spawn with the other graffiti makes a bit more sense. That would allow you to cut down on overlays too, if 3 of the vanilla graffs get deleted to make room for each of these, that's 6 less overlays in the area.

A sunny wall is better than a shaded wall, but its by no means required

I've got two repaired alpha channels for a Mr. Terror here, get 'em while they're hot! http://localhostr.com/file/6CPRatt/blitzgraff_fixedalphachannel.zip

Ok! Fixing now.

I'm open to that. I want to give this thing a fighting chance at being really fun to play, and I think we're on the right track.

Well I hope you get that figured out, because that's some good looking stuff. The only constructive criticism I could really give would be my pretty common suggestion to make sure the lighting/colors don't get too monotonous in areas, but I can't really do that without seeing how the areas connect and such. Good stuff!

Oh, I love the blue ones. The textures remind me of Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity. So fucking good. The glowy sprites fit nicely. The texture on the train car confused me for a bit, I suppose it is broken down?

I challenge TWHL for a more depressing song than this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk

That is indeed a very good idea Archie. I also noticed that I went too close to the border on the mouth one, and you can actually see a little hard edge. As long as we've got time and I don't need to rush then I could fix those. I guess I could do that spray for Scotch when I fix them. Which probably won't be today. I'm not feelin it right now. I'm lazy

Also, are there any set sizes that I should be using for overlays, or does Source handle odd dimensions well? I've been making them 512x512 for simplicity's sake.

Since it's only for Portal 2 I don't suppose it's so big a deal. The results will probably all look very similar, very modular, and a skilled mapper in hammer will probably be able to distinguish his maps from these puzzles pretty easily.

Sure, if Cap't doesn't mind sticking it up somewhere then I can do it tomorrow when I get back from work and I'll send it to him.

Cap't can you do me one favor? can you move boxman down so he starts at the grass, and then shrink him so that he's as tall as the pile of boxes? It will be epic.

I had just assumed you would post it around and list us all as the authors, but now I like the idea of a TeamTWHL account posting them. I never thought of that!

As for a name, that is a better question. What direction do we even go with that?

And Daub, I tagged one of the graffs. My gun half-covers it and it's really small. I didn't want to plaster MY name all over OUR map!

That outdoor part is very UT I love it. Brings back memories of space stations and rocket launchers.

[edit]donesies! http://localhostr.com/file/vzeCXKF/team_mapping_019.zip

Ok! All im gonna do is add my graffs then do a fast compile, ill do it in a few hours when i get home from work and then i'll re-up.

[edot] oh, and I'll fix those couple of nodrawed faces, although i honestly have no clue how they got there. I'm sure I'd have noticed if my own building was nodraw'd when I compiled to look at it.

I'm doing a fast compile, just so I can screenie the few sprays I placed and put the shots here. There is a reason for this, SO READ IT NOW:

IF I TAGGED YOUR BUILDING, AND YOU DISAGREE WITH YOUR BUILDING BEING TAGGED, SAY SO HERE.

Ok so only 3 buildings that aren't mine got graffs. here they are:sneaky boxman is with the boxes

Ok! So is that one posted on the page back the proper version, or does someone have it still?

lol thanks

When suddenly... The Half Whole-Life.info!

yay chiptunes http://fantomenk.bandcamp.com/track/playing-with-power

I did too! Could it be that there just aren't twelve of us cool enough to spend 5 minutes doodling about Gordon Freeman?

Firefox is giving me a warning about that page when I try to go there. All is well?

When isn't the nav mesh derp?

I think that texture on the building behind my apartments could be scaled down quite a bit

I think I used a texture that calls for little tufts of grass that don't exist. I could try to change it to another similar one, but as far as I know it's not doing any harm. My areas don't seem to be very intensive on the frames.

I'm sure the layout would need to be tweaked/redone completely, but the theme would be nice. Twas just an idea.

And seriously you should play THPS2, its the best of the series probably.

actually, now that ive got the map here...this would be kinda sick.... that looks like a spawn up top there... and those buildings are nice... and it's a figure-8...

actually this would kick complete ass.

Dude... Don't even joke about remaking Venice Beach from THPS2 into a nice CSS map. Don't even joke about that. The fact that it doesn't exist yet is a sin in of itself.

I'm not kidding either.

Haha. That's pretty funny, Urby. To be fair, no one around here ever actually calls them that. It's a term that exists because it used to be used I guess? I think the guy who used it was trying to be a bit humorous.

Yay! Cap't approves of my graff work. AND WE FOUND A USE FOR BLITZKRIEG!

AND IT ONLY TOOK SEVEN YEARS!

Attention TWHL: The Diablo III beta is now OPEN!

Even if you don't have it in your account, download the proper client, run it, and BOOM!

I've heard that switching to US client can solve this not working for some reasons for some people, but I just downloaded it and launched it and I'm playing! I've got to go to work of course, but I'm going to play when I get back. Hopefully some of you do too and we can play together!

HAPPY HUNTING!! HERE'S TO MAY 15!!

Beta clients:

Windows:

US: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/4de82d80-ddeb-4e61-80ae-b4e8817f54b0/Diablo-III-Beta-enUS-Setup.exe
GB: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/da85694f-aa95-ea2a-32bd-396b6c9e90fb/Diablo%20III%20Beta%20enGB%20Setup.exe
FR: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/da85694f-aa95-ea2a-32bd-396b6c9e90fb/Diablo%20III%20Beta%20frFR%20Setup.exe
DE: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/da85694f-aa95-ea2a-32bd-396b6c9e90fb/Diablo%20III%20Beta%20deDE%20Setup.exe

MAC:

US: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/4de82d80-ddeb-4e61-80ae-b4e8817f54b0/Diablo-III-Beta-enUS-Setup.zip
GB: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/da85694f-aa95-ea2a-32bd-396b6c9e90fb/Diablo%20III%20Beta%20enGB%20Setup.app.zip
FR: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/da85694f-aa95-ea2a-32bd-396b6c9e90fb/Diablo%20III%20Beta%20frFR%20Setup.app.zip
DE: http://us.media.battle.net.edgesuite.net/downloads/d3-installers/da85694f-aa95-ea2a-32bd-396b6c9e90fb/Diablo%20III%20Beta%20deDE%20Setup.app.zip

Removed Herobrine

lol

So is this uploaded yet?

I just did one! Someone describe it.

one more down, ill stop posting them all now, but i think ive got a nice enough look with this one.

Should I turn my best drawings from that drawception binge into graffitis for the map? I did one to see how it would look.

I think a lot of custom TWHL graffs would add a lot of charm to the finished product.here's number 2, much more like spraypaint, and how the others will look unless there are objections

I vote archie does the final compile for us...

If you have no ideas you should place props tastefully around the place, you know, to flush it out more. For example, mailboxes, firehydrants, manhole covers? telephone poles, cables...

lol derp moment, idk why i called you skals... sorry

it's the strange knife. Either way, it's not something special.

Really? I was under the impression strange items were sought after. I'm sure some back-stabbing douchbag spy would love to count his stabs. Ah well, idk much about items anymore I've not been playing for quite some time.

And urby, I don't think unusuals drop. So in my case and my bros case, we actually both got something we couldn't get for free.

Obviously not everyone feels the same way! 'tis all good.

Wait, yeah, what? You can't get the default weapons from crates that makes no sense.

Is the name text Orange?