Diablo Immortal Q&A with Wyatt Cheng - Region Locked Servers, New Classes

Inmortal Publicado 01/05/2022 a las 14:00 por Medievaldragon

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There will be new classes, new legendaries, and new skills in the future.

Tooltips will not be larger in the PC. You have to tap-hold and drag same as in the mobile screen to scroll down.

API for the community might be available someday, post-launch. No plans at the moment.

There will only be five character slots. No plans to sell new character slots.

Wyatt mentioned one thing that doesn't transfer over when Class changing: Legendary properties.

Legendary Item properties are determined when they drop even if they are unidentified to the player.

Wyatt Cheng Discord Diablo Immortal Q&AAngruke:

There will be limits to what you can do, but I don't think it will be severe. I understand enjoying solo play - but we fundamentally want the game to have a social component as well.

We've adjusted bounties so you'll never need a group to do them. You can join the shadows as solo, and you can do contracts purely solo as well. Both of those are things a solo player would have had trouble doing at the end game in the Closed Beta.

Angruke:

We're still working on mouse and keyboard. The PC client will be in a beta state, there will probably be some bugs that need to be worked out. Parts of the game we missed. We'll need people's help making sure all the controls feel good.

Future skills. Maybe. We're going to be evaluating the value of new classes vs. new legendary items vs. new skills. They all kinda compete for the same development resources.

TripleGgaming-YT:

Definitely happy to try and improve on the emulator experience. Even though people do emulate, it requires a few more hoops to jump through, and sometimes the game doesn't run as well, look as good, or control as well.

Angruke:

Tooltips in Immortal scroll. Since the PC UI screens use the same screen ratios as mobile, the text is large on PC and you scroll by pretty much the same amount.

Angruke:

No plans to scale the UI at this time. We want to stay focused on mobile as the primary platform and PC as a step-up from emulation, but not as something that diverts too many development resources away from making mobile the best it can be, such as live content patches, etc.

gaymerbear:

I saw this request a bunch when we announced PC. To be honest, I don't know much about what it takes to bring a game to M1 Macs or AppleTV. I've been largely silent on the topic simply because I don't know anything about the development process for what is involved in such an endeavor.

ein:

I feel like a phone joke is appropriate here.

Angruke:

People in beta know this already, but I think a lot of people will be surprised how well the game plays on phone. Despite a PC client, despite controller support, despite disliking every other game on the market with "on-the-glass" touchscreen controls - I think Immortal feels really good in your hands. I get some people will never like it, but I think a significant number of people will be surprised to find they like the touch screen controls after all.

I imagine a whole class of players will play Immortal on PC, get super into it, and then one day have to go to a Thanksgiving dinner at their in-laws. They may never play Immortal on mobile until then. They'll fire it up, bring it with them and be like "Holy cow this is pretty good". They'll always prefer PC, but they'll appreciate the portability of mobile in the long run.

JujiLee:

Can't say anything about that yet sorry. WE GOT PLANS.

sanktanglia:

None at the moment, often brought up though. Internally everybody is "let's launch first, then revisit APIs later"

gaymerbear:

I do all my playing on an iPhone XR right now. I've been a little slow to upgrade, but it runs great.

SE|CheAn:

We are still working on server plans. 30 million pre-registrations were a lot. We're doing datacenter and capacity planning. I would love to see us publish server names beforehand - I think it's really good when games do that. Besides, I need to know what server echohack is going to be on so I can run the other way.

dredscythe:

How will I get to be the Immortal if I have to compete with that guy.

gaymerbear:

Yah - the team on D3 is killing it. Mad props to them.

ein:

I really enjoy playing Immortal. I'm planning dive in hard, same as I have done for many D3 seasons.

dredscythe:

We have a bunch of regions identified. I believe NA East and NA West are two of those regions but don't consider that an official answer. Keep an eye out for the official post in the future.

gaymerbear:

You get 5 character slots, and that's on a per-server basis. Between that and the class change that should be plenty? If you really love leveling alts, you'll probably go to new servers to create more characters.

One note though - in a lot of games leveling alts has some advantage to your "main". One of the reasons we are introducing the class-change feature is because we DON'T want leveling an alt to provide ANY advantage to your "main". We don't want somebody who loves 1 character to feel compelled to roll an alt.

Even cosmetic rewards are still rewards that could drive somebody who doesn't enjoy alt play to feel like they have to from a "completionist" standpoint. So no flairs or anything. The best somebody could do is maybe screenshot their character list and post it to reddit.

Kyoky:

No plans.

Kyoky:

There will be a cooldown on how often you can change classes. We don't want you changing classes for different activities. Changing every day, for example, would be too much. Somewhere between a week and a month, TBD (to be determined).

shp

You keep your paragon, your level, item ranks, etc. We try to keep a lot of your progress. One thing, notably, you'll feel like you're missing is the specific legendary properties. This is because the legendary properties are class specific. So if you go from a Wizard to a Barb, your barb doesn't have any cool Barbarian legendaries. So you'll need to farm these up on the Barbarian when you switch to it.

ein:

Items are fully determined when they drop. Identifying just reveals those properties to you.

nukky:

I would love to see this, too. Right now there’s just whatever was on Blizzcon store and online store and then custom swag we made internally. I think we had immortal phone cases for sale at Blizzcon 2018! My publishing team got this for me as a gift. Super limited! I think like 20 of these exist in the world as a prototype. A Diablo Immortal wireless charger, in case it's not obvious.

JujiLee:

This is still being worked on. I am pretty sure the answer for PC, because of distribution via Battle.net app, is yes. For mobile it's more complicated. We upload the binaries to Apple/Google, they do their verification and submission process, there's a bunch of stuff that happens behind the scenes. We don't have control over the exact timing. That was a question about whether it will be possible to fully preload the game before June 2nd.

DaPWNisha:

There should be an official answer to this between now and launch.

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