@@AlanZ684 how else would you see your shiny armor that you have bought for 20 bucks?! 🤣 (idk the prices, bcs I can't care less about microtransactions in a $70€ game)
Yeah, I’m with Raxx on this one. I don’t think anyone expected D4 to be the complete sh1tshow it is now. D4 is gonna be in skeleton mode until the D3 devs take over D4 and make it a much better game.
@@xSayPleasex If the development team for D4 continues on this trajectory of misstep after misstep. Unless D4 gets a Reaper of Souls style expansion that completely overhauls the game in a big, positive way, D4 will likely be gone with the wind sadly as I personally like the base game and combat is fun, but nothing else is really engaging.
Constant combat, lots of elites and opportunities for drops, quick changes in environment, and bounty mats because you're in open world. THIS. IS. PERFECT.
Can anyone remember season 1 of D3? No one talks about it and I wasn't playing at that point. Was it flawless? I may look into it now, but yeah no one mentions it.
I am back already and looking at comments on an old Kripp video is hilarious - People saying the same stuff back then about D3 than D4 now. Give it a few more seasons to be less boring, etc. LOL
@@telepath_ it shouldn't need more seasons. How good D3 was at the end should have been the starting point of D4. If the development team couldn't learn lessons from the previous game then they are bad developers.
It won't matter the storage you install D4 on lol. You will get loading screens no matter what. And quite often, as just teleporting across the map and into dungeons gives a loading screen@@bryanbryan6108
@@bewarned8236right? 😂 not really complaining about this free D3 content...but a portal that takes you to a bunch of rooms of mobs with some bounty materials at the end. Lol yay. This will get old...after like 2 portals. Maybe a guaranteed primal at the end of something. Solo self found is probably the best added feature.
They need to just hand D4 over to the 3 interns who ran D3 for the last couple of years. They earned it. I was consistently hype for new seasons either because of cool themes or new class builds.
@@tuclance Yeah, it wouldn't make sense for them to have everything that's in D3 already be in D4. I wouldn't even want that. In that case I'd rather play D3. D4 is fine where it is, it needs time to be great, but it's def been worth the money for me already.
@@tuclance It could.. but it doesn't. D4 has been worked on by a massive team for the past 5 years. There are A LOT more accumulated work hours that have been put into D4 in those 5 years, than into D3 in the past 10.. And as Trosgustav said.. I also don't want them to just copy paste stuff from D3 into D4.. but there's literally no excuse why the only endgame activity worth doing, is nightmare dungeons, after 5 years of work by hundreds of people..
Imagine if they decided not to put D3 into maintenance mode and had kept developing for it. It could be very successful. They could have revamped the graphics and did a new season event that showcased a whole new D3 and put out a monumental amount of content to rekindle the flame. Word of mouth would have e exploded the scene. But no, we got a half-baked D4 that needed much more time in the oven.
Played for a couple of hours and the season theme is exactly what I imagined and wanted 😊 Pretty cool and satisfying. I would really like to see the QoL improvements from S28 implemented in S29 somehow!
This has the same vibe as what you were describing with the chain nightmare dungeons in D4, only on a much faster and smaller scale. Hopefully we get something similar before 2033
So the seasonal mechanic is a chance to get a portal to a series of small areas made from the same tile sets we've had for ages and fighting the very same enemies we've been fighting this whole time. Wow, so innovative, much content.
Oh boy, i'm so excited about the new d3 season. They just opened the competition for semi-casual players, which I suppose are majority of the game enthusiasts. Not only we can now perform well without endless grinding, but also can be less picky with the gear, since we have more freedom with the paragon points managment. I would still preffer to reward players for their commitment to paragon, but very mildly, like adding +1 to main stat/vita for every paragon above 800. That would motivate people to reach 2-3k paragon over the season
I jumped into one of those and next thing I know I'm fighting monsters inside of tristram. The NPCs were gone, but all the buildings were there, it was pretty cool actually. Oh, I see @ 1:15 you also found the town rift XD I ran a T16 Enmity and still only got bounty materials so it felt kind of bad. I like that I don't need to do bounties for them now, but I think the experience overall left a lot to be desired. One big QoL thing they could do is put GR keys in the chest so I don't need to run normal rifts ever.
I only played S28 January to April hit like P 780 had fun I'm definitely going to check back into D3. Hit lvl 100 in Eternal on launch, hit lvl 100 in S1 last week haven't played in about 6 days or so
Wish they would keep making new seasons for D3. The team does such a fantastic job and with the new changes it seems sad to quit now. If there are seasons for the other Diablo games why stop making them for D3?
That's what I was thinking. If popular Diablo streamers will play d3 season, they're gonna bring some new players to the game that's not d2's handicapped brother anymore.
FYI, I got gr keystones and db's way earlier than normal. xD This place is VERY lucrative. Very commonly find gobs in there as well. Also, there seems to always be another portal, and it's attached to a random monster.
Season theme seems good for leveling 1-70. It made me use cooldown build due to resource burn. After that, I really didn't do them. Please bring back altar in some form.
@@armorvil I mean, wooh? They should have found a fix for that 5 years ago...not on their LAST season. This one will get played just as little as always. PoE starts Friday so anyone who plays d3 will play it for the weekend and move back to poe again lol
Are these only seasonal? I’ve been playing in hardcore mode with a level 41 wizard then a level 33 monk and I’ve not spawned one of these. Maybe I got the one game they forgot to update.
Wonder they have taken last part from wow. where the big chest are. I remember some similar in wow but I dont remember what expansion in wow it is from. Looking forward to trying it myself when season 29 starts.
Ok so the new season theme is randomly found in the world killing monsters (aka while leveling, or bounty farming) which consists of a bunch of enemies to kill that drops bounty mats at the end. So0o0o the way I see this, is for the last season, we get a way to potentially level quicker and thats about it. Am I missing something here? Why would you run this over a GR or bounty farming? No new season power, just a portal to kill things to give us mats that we can obtain a different way already?
I guess one way of looking at this is you could potentially have all of your cube items for your character pre lvl 70 if you have found them/crafted them as these drop DB's and Bounty Mats. So thats cool I guess? I don't know...I'm a diehard d3 season fan boy, always on leaderboards, but this just doesn't seem that useful to me so far lol.
going through a portal without having a 5sec load screen feels so high QoL now. Also, is this the suggestion rax did for D4 already implemented for D3?
I can actually imagine this being a thing they are gonna put into D4 in a future season if it goes over well in D3. At least that's what I would do, but I'm not a corpo so what do I know.
Damnit I got 2 of these things while going for Canai's Cube, at the end of the second one a ceromonial knife dropped and couldn't pick it up. Probably I was full and it closed again so quickly like it seems you get teleported back to town like faster or something. I know it's PTRetc but only level 16 atm.
I have run thru about 20 WD starts so far on the PTR to lvl 70 OR at least til the use of the lvl 70 lvl reduced use 2H axe ... and only gotten SCRIM ancient spear 1 time out of about 20...thought it was suppose to be 50/50 chance .. always Emproers BS spear lol?!? If this happens on season start, what is best recovery for this? maybe a gambling strategy to save me a hard start with no weapon upgrade in cube? Let me know ur thoughts anybody...and thx
Damn... I'd already uninstalled D3 and moved on to D4 months ago. Now I'm tempted to re-install for the last Season. Yeesh... why is this team not working on D4 content, this looks so much fun! ... ah yes, then that's why. Someone somewhere has ordered that D4 cannot be fun 🤔
www.twitch.tv/raxxanterax Testing out the Season 29 PTR right now, come hang out!
Not sure where to ask this for an answer, but why was the paragon calculator removed from MaxRoll? It was helpful
Hi. Rax. Very urgent question please? Are you on telegram or someone is using you details for scam? I will explain more if you want. Thank you 🙏
Actually like seeing Raxx in D3 again.
Looking at D3 after playing D4 for a while makes it weird just how much farther zoomed in D4 is.
If everyone played at a farther zoom, then you wouldn't be able to see all the detail in those sweet, sweet shop transmogs.
@@thewu910it hurts me how true it is...
Doomed*
They did it to incentivize you to pay attention to your end game cosmetics to get you to spend money at the cost of gameplay
@@AlanZ684 how else would you see your shiny armor that you have bought for 20 bucks?! 🤣 (idk the prices, bcs I can't care less about microtransactions in a $70€ game)
Went from uploading “goodbye Diablo 3” to “I missed you Diablo 3” in two months.
that's what D4 does to a person ._.
Yeah, I’m with Raxx on this one. I don’t think anyone expected D4 to be the complete sh1tshow it is now. D4 is gonna be in skeleton mode until the D3 devs take over D4 and make it a much better game.
@c1g4n blizzard does not care as long as you're a counted stat in their ecosystem. User engagement is all that matters in today's gaming landscape.
@@juduking44 Ok and? How much "user engagement" do you think D4 will have with its eventual expansions if they don't fix the game in a big way?
@@xSayPleasex If the development team for D4 continues on this trajectory of misstep after misstep. Unless D4 gets a Reaper of Souls style expansion that completely overhauls the game in a big, positive way, D4 will likely be gone with the wind sadly as I personally like the base game and combat is fun, but nothing else is really engaging.
Constant combat, lots of elites and opportunities for drops, quick changes in environment, and bounty mats because you're in open world. THIS. IS. PERFECT.
Bounty mats are a smart placement given the season of SSF you can't do split bounty farming like usual!
Im way more hyped for d3 season 29 then i was for d4 s1 =/
I wasn't, but I am now. Not because of this video, but because D4 turned out to be so boring.
Can anyone remember season 1 of D3? No one talks about it and I wasn't playing at that point. Was it flawless? I may look into it now, but yeah no one mentions it.
I am back already and looking at comments on an old Kripp video is hilarious - People saying the same stuff back then about D3 than D4 now. Give it a few more seasons to be less boring, etc. LOL
@@telepath_ it shouldn't need more seasons. How good D3 was at the end should have been the starting point of D4. If the development team couldn't learn lessons from the previous game then they are bad developers.
Sorry, I did not mean give D4 a few more seasons, that's what people were saying at the start of D3 seasons@@avatarofdeath
Imagine this in D4 - the loading screen after each portal. Godly
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I dont understand this comment
@@tobiasfr3186this person has Diablo 4 installed on an HDD so he has long loading screens.
It won't matter the storage you install D4 on lol. You will get loading screens no matter what. And quite often, as just teleporting across the map and into dungeons gives a loading screen@@bryanbryan6108
Take this team directly to D4 and have them do all the seasons from now on.
Please no. I cant take another subpar season. if "OMG IM FIGHTING IN TOWN" is the highlight of the season.............................good lord.
Your expecting something better from the team that gave us Mag Hearts?@@bewarned8236
@@bewarned8236right? 😂 not really complaining about this free D3 content...but a portal that takes you to a bunch of rooms of mobs with some bounty materials at the end. Lol yay. This will get old...after like 2 portals. Maybe a guaranteed primal at the end of something. Solo self found is probably the best added feature.
@@bewarned8236better than having 15 second loading screens after every teleport
Amen
Wasnt this exactly what you wished for in D4 endgame content? Or did this happen before the D4 video
I thought the same while watching the video.
It's similar but loot does drop all throughout the floors so it really isn't as absolute blast mode as his idea for D4 was.
They need to just hand D4 over to the 3 interns who ran D3 for the last couple of years. They earned it. I was consistently hype for new seasons either because of cool themes or new class builds.
Absolutely fantastic, I can't understand why most of the cool stuff isn't in d4.
they're saving it for the expansions to milk the most $ out of their players
It could have something to do with the fact that d3 been out for 10years+ and d4 less than 3months... maybe just maybe..
@@tuclance Yeah, it wouldn't make sense for them to have everything that's in D3 already be in D4. I wouldn't even want that. In that case I'd rather play D3.
D4 is fine where it is, it needs time to be great, but it's def been worth the money for me already.
@@tuclance It could.. but it doesn't. D4 has been worked on by a massive team for the past 5 years. There are A LOT more accumulated work hours that have been put into D4 in those 5 years, than into D3 in the past 10..
And as Trosgustav said.. I also don't want them to just copy paste stuff from D3 into D4.. but there's literally no excuse why the only endgame activity worth doing, is nightmare dungeons, after 5 years of work by hundreds of people..
Imagine if they decided not to put D3 into maintenance mode and had kept developing for it.
It could be very successful. They could have revamped the graphics and did a new season event that showcased a whole new D3 and put out a monumental amount of content to rekindle the flame. Word of mouth would have e exploded the scene.
But no, we got a half-baked D4 that needed much more time in the oven.
I found one absolutely full of Treasure Goblins. I wasn't strong enough to kill most of them since I found it super low level, but it's pretty neat.
looks good coming back for this season
This is what echoing nightmare should be!
Team behind last D3 seasons is crazy :-). I like it.
It’s been a while since I heard excitement in Raxx’s voice while playing Diablo. I kinda miss 3 after 4.
D3 is such a cool game ❤
I honestly, genuinely want to go back to D3 man. Demon Hunter gameplay was so much more fun than Rogue.
isnt this kinda your suggested concept of a new endgame for D4?
I like the "Oops all elites!" levels myself
It’s a sad state of affairs when the previous game 10 years older is better than the current game.
Nice to see diablo from a damn proper camera distance for a change
After playing D4 am so extremly hyped for d3s new season and the fact camera is way way far more out SO MUCH BETTER.
Very cool, a lot of those were unique level layouts.
All were world map snippets.
yeah i hadn't seen the siegebreaker platform since i did campaign in 2013
no, all of them were there before. its not newly made.
@@matthewbarabas3052 yeah, borrowed from campaign and other parts of the game but not used as levels before.
Played for a couple of hours and the season theme is exactly what I imagined and wanted 😊
Pretty cool and satisfying.
I would really like to see the QoL improvements from S28 implemented in S29 somehow!
They said S30 will have the altar
Autosalvage of items, would be crazy good. Maybe s29 theme stays in s30, cause it's adds depth to the game and not just power.
Please keep making D3 videos/guides for this season!
Town is sometimes not lava 🫠
Awesome to see you having fun again!
I got the season portal at lvl 10, got a few DBs as drops. That was pretty cool to get before lvl 60 :)
This has the same vibe as what you were describing with the chain nightmare dungeons in D4, only on a much faster and smaller scale. Hopefully we get something similar before 2033
Faster is not in the D4 Lexicon...
And that people is how you design a Nightmare Dungeon correctly. This is what i wanted in D4.
1:20 i love the late reaction lol
So the seasonal mechanic is a chance to get a portal to a series of small areas made from the same tile sets we've had for ages and fighting the very same enemies we've been fighting this whole time.
Wow, so innovative, much content.
Oh boy, i'm so excited about the new d3 season. They just opened the competition for semi-casual players, which I suppose are majority of the game enthusiasts. Not only we can now perform well without endless grinding, but also can be less picky with the gear, since we have more freedom with the paragon points managment. I would still preffer to reward players for their commitment to paragon, but very mildly, like adding +1 to main stat/vita for every paragon above 800. That would motivate people to reach 2-3k paragon over the season
Glad to have you back for another Season Rax Crazy to go back to D3 but D4$ made me so sad. Maybe we can just say in D3...
Diablo 3 may yet get to show everyone how great it is!❤
30seconds only before it closes, that could suck in multiplayer
I jumped into one of those and next thing I know I'm fighting monsters inside of tristram. The NPCs were gone, but all the buildings were there, it was pretty cool actually.
Oh, I see @ 1:15 you also found the town rift XD
I ran a T16 Enmity and still only got bounty materials so it felt kind of bad. I like that I don't need to do bounties for them now, but I think the experience overall left a lot to be desired. One big QoL thing they could do is put GR keys in the chest so I don't need to run normal rifts ever.
I actually get GR keys from there...
@@jgteoh Maybe I'm just unlucky, I'll run some more later :D
I only played S28 January to April hit like P 780 had fun I'm definitely going to check back into D3. Hit lvl 100 in Eternal on launch, hit lvl 100 in S1 last week haven't played in about 6 days or so
Wish they would keep making new seasons for D3. The team does such a fantastic job and with the new changes it seems sad to quit now. If there are seasons for the other Diablo games why stop making them for D3?
That's what I was thinking. If popular Diablo streamers will play d3 season, they're gonna bring some new players to the game that's not d2's handicapped brother anymore.
Got almost 2 levels in 4 min on normal difficulty lol
That was sick!!!
I totally forgot about the "Kill massacre" bonus, that was always such a great incentive to have an ongoing fight
Game of the year D3, cannot wait to blast again!!!
FYI, I got gr keystones and db's way earlier than normal. xD This place is VERY lucrative. Very commonly find gobs in there as well. Also, there seems to always be another portal, and it's attached to a random monster.
This game isn't that bad after all
Level 64 and you can actually see the xp bar move quickly. God, I wish D4 was like that.
And it was only normal mode.
Do you think they are some kind of testing it in D3 then ad into D4 ?
hmm i saw the monster has resource leech - is that a new affix?
Looks like your having blast there Rax :)
Season theme seems good for leveling 1-70. It made me use cooldown build due to resource burn. After that, I really didn't do them. Please bring back altar in some form.
Yeah altar if it only was for picking up stuff, now we have to pick up materials again.
Raxx: "Town is lava"
Blizzard: "Hold my beer"
I think more excited for this than d4 right now sadly. Stopped playing pre s1 due to the lack of stash space and lack of end game feeling
Those are pretty nice and a welcome activity to gain bounty mats.
Looks great, definitely gonna do one toon for that season.
This should be D4. Why cant they implement this in d4. This is great end content. It doesnt feel boring
Great end content...going into multiple portals that go to random areas and killing a few guys? lol
@@7gamex vs what we have in d4 its far better, keep sucking on that d4 teet tho....
@@7gamexYes
@@7gamex At least it's finally a way to get bounty mats without having to bore yourself to tears doing split-bounties. I asked that for a while.
@@armorvil I mean, wooh? They should have found a fix for that 5 years ago...not on their LAST season. This one will get played just as little as always. PoE starts Friday so anyone who plays d3 will play it for the weekend and move back to poe again lol
So if you get this in a GR does it count towards the progress?
I do like the idea but it should be infinite and get harder with every portal to the point where you cant go any further.
I can see this is a great leveling mechanic, fast and random 30sec maps on the roll.
Nice , gonna play s29 for sure
Are these only seasonal? I’ve been playing in hardcore mode with a level 41 wizard then a level 33 monk and I’ve not spawned one of these. Maybe I got the one game they forgot to update.
And since the paragons are limited, that means we can actually farm this for end game gear.
Hopefully it's this much density, or more, on t16.
Are the Altar of Rites still in the season?
The best levels for me were the ones filled with the bosses. I am super psyched for this new season.
I hope the replace Echoing Nightmares with this. The theme is a lot of fun.
Yeah, I am going to need to keep the S28 auto scrap yellow/blues please...thats a lot of loot
The altar will be permanent from season 30 onward. Just have to loot one more season
Hey Raxx, didn't you mention something exactly like this for D4 NMDs?!?!?
bounty materials are good for new SSF mode! very nice news..
One thing I'm really going to miss from season 28 is my pet salvage.. it's so annoying picking up trash to salvage for mats
Looking forward to the new season.. will be the first time starting a season from the beginning..
any opportunity to get bounty mats that isn't bounties is a plus in my book
are they better than GR though? is it really going to be worth hunting in the open world for these portals when GR are just so easy to grind out
Wonder they have taken last part from wow. where the big chest are. I remember some similar in wow but I dont remember what expansion in wow it is from. Looking forward to trying it myself when season 29 starts.
Its also a part of the RoS campaign when you breach the Pandemonium Fortress.
I really hope they add some more class changes to mix the season up.
Ok so the new season theme is randomly found in the world killing monsters (aka while leveling, or bounty farming) which consists of a bunch of enemies to kill that drops bounty mats at the end. So0o0o the way I see this, is for the last season, we get a way to potentially level quicker and thats about it. Am I missing something here? Why would you run this over a GR or bounty farming? No new season power, just a portal to kill things to give us mats that we can obtain a different way already?
I guess one way of looking at this is you could potentially have all of your cube items for your character pre lvl 70 if you have found them/crafted them as these drop DB's and Bounty Mats. So thats cool I guess? I don't know...I'm a diehard d3 season fan boy, always on leaderboards, but this just doesn't seem that useful to me so far lol.
Man im so excited to play D3.
going through a portal without having a 5sec load screen feels so high QoL now. Also, is this the suggestion rax did for D4 already implemented for D3?
i hope they keep what the mascot did. Loot white, blue and yellow pieces automatically.
Is the Altar of Rites still in Season 29?
I can actually imagine this being a thing they are gonna put into D4 in a future season if it goes over well in D3. At least that's what I would do, but I'm not a corpo so what do I know.
Looks good but why should people do this instead of rifts?
Can you teleport back to town and then back into the Rift like you can from, say, Greed's Lair?
Yes.
Agree looks pretty cool
I'm 100% go bomber chicken WD next season.
Fun fact got one at lvl 11 and the elites dropped DBs
I wish the D4 devs played D3. This looks fun.
Damnit I got 2 of these things while going for Canai's Cube, at the end of the second one a ceromonial knife dropped and couldn't pick it up. Probably I was full and it closed again so quickly like it seems you get teleported back to town like faster or something. I know it's PTRetc but only level 16 atm.
I have run thru about 20 WD starts so far on the PTR to lvl 70 OR at least til the use of the lvl 70 lvl reduced use 2H axe ... and only gotten SCRIM ancient spear 1 time out of about 20...thought it was suppose to be 50/50 chance .. always Emproers BS spear lol?!? If this happens on season start, what is best recovery for this? maybe a gambling strategy to save me a hard start with no weapon upgrade in cube? Let me know ur thoughts anybody...and thx
Hey raxx. looks like blizzard watched your video on how to fix d4 and added it to d3.
I would gladly pay for a "Battle Pass" or whatever to get more D3 content. I'm just bored to tears in D4 lately...
dont give them any ideas..
Damn... I'd already uninstalled D3 and moved on to D4 months ago. Now I'm tempted to re-install for the last Season. Yeesh... why is this team not working on D4 content, this looks so much fun! ... ah yes, then that's why. Someone somewhere has ordered that D4 cannot be fun 🤔
How did you do it so fast & easy?? I get killed so quickly in the second or 3rd. 😞
The portal spawns are probably a bit cranked on the PTR but looks fun
with how short this was i was expecting a one-shot out of nowhere from being swarmed by the new elites
This looks like more fun than anything D4 has to offer
How good fissure are with auto salvage of the Altar. But fissure seems like an activity that could stay forever.
interesting... might actually load up d3 for the final season
Idk why, but seeing d3 again made me happy af.
Can't wait to play. Nostalgia I guess.
I'll definitely put D4 to the side and go back to D3 for this season.
you know Its bad when D3 looks fun compared to D4