Sorry for the mediocre audio - this was an impromptu meeting that happened on a minutes notice in a noisy venue with a subpar single-microphone setup. I hope a few people might still enjoy the new info we got here!
@MrLove-666
Ай бұрын
Muted with captions is better ;-) Thanks for that vid though!
@Danizwatching
Ай бұрын
Its still worth watching!! Thank you for putting this out here. People still want to hear what they have to say regardless of the mediocre audio.
@joshb6026
Ай бұрын
It's good audio,
@joshb6026
Ай бұрын
But is he trying to sell d3 mercs in a paid expansion live service, I bought D3 expansion and a season pass holder to d4 but Will not buy expansion
@DarekAntokolski
Ай бұрын
From 12:00 and on I absolutely loved the way they started talking about things. Really knowledgeable and future focused development. Would love to hear more from ppl like them who think big picture. Can't wait for tomorrow
@damagus90
Ай бұрын
This is so good! thank you for asking these questions, this has to be one of the best interviews I've heard so far with the D4 team! Great work, the community appreciates it!
@UltracoreUltraUranium
Ай бұрын
Great job on the season. Diversity is certainly UP. Please make a unique for ice shards SPECIFICALLY please and thanks 🙏
@TavandtheTadpole
Ай бұрын
Appreciate the interview!
@Thristed
Ай бұрын
Really good interview and great questions! Thx for sharing
@robinchaing
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the content Wudijo!!
@heartoffire5902
Ай бұрын
Really appreciate this interview!
@NeverGiveUpz
Ай бұрын
Awesome video mate, can see how passionate and excited for the changes you are, and D4 in general :)
@jw3807
Ай бұрын
INCREASE THE DIFFICULTY!!
@MrLove-666
Ай бұрын
3 hours non-stop: Dads will like the Dark Citadel lol
@NeCoNLive
Ай бұрын
2.0 PTR HYPE!
@DarekAntokolski
Ай бұрын
Where they were hiding those ppl during the year! Love to hear finally from someone who gets the game and the endgame side of it!
@Matheus-wz6cp
Ай бұрын
I don't know, the problem with making all content available to everybody is that we end up in a situation like season 5, where after just 2 weeks in the game (or even less for some), you are basically done, lol Where are the things to grind for? Some really rare drops, like cosmic wings, or some incredibly difficult boss-something that will encourage the blasters and people who play more than 2 hours a week to keep coming back for more than 3 weeks. In its current state, the game is essentially a casual game... looking forward to season 6 === thx for the vid!!!
@deetsitmeisterjd
Ай бұрын
"In it's current state, the game is essentially a casual game" Welcome to Diablo... did you play D3 or what?
@playerone6434
Ай бұрын
You shouldn´t have to play the game for the grind, you should grind to play the game. The gameplay itself should be interesting not the grind for some virtual stuff.
@klaasvaak3772
Ай бұрын
Hi great job on the videos´s. You talked with them about the different sources of mats for instance the tempering materials. I was wondering if you could ask them about a different source for glyph leveling. If you want to level up the glyphs and you want to max them out as soon as possible than you will be around level 90/100 depending on the amount of glyphs. That prevents you from using any other sort of end game activity for leveling. I was wondering if the developers have any insight into that. For example if you do it this way, you have no option for using infernal hordes for leveling.. Also nightmare dungeons only give you glyph exp so once you are done with the glyphs you dont do them anymore. It would be nice to get some other stuff from nm dungeons so you can keep doing them if it is fun for people but you also want to be able to skip nm if you really hate it.
@AnatoleVGC
Ай бұрын
Im loving all this intervews. They've been way more reveling than they use to. Cant wait for the campfire
@tuclance
Ай бұрын
They must be, more open = better. Just look at GGG Best company ever.
@ExcessumGaming
Ай бұрын
The biggest issue in endgame is getting to it and finding your build cant do it, and there is really no alternative even if you are perfectly geared.... Wardrobe would solve that as we could have different builds for different activities, and even if our fav build is not working for that one thing we can go with something else.
@maxmustermann3938
Ай бұрын
Yea, and they've confirmed multiple times now that they are working on an Armory, unfortunately doesn't look like it'll drop with the expansion in Season 6. Maybe we get it in a midseason patch, maybe we'll have to wait longer, but we'll get it.
@rodtsm
Ай бұрын
So from what she said, the difficulties will have no limits? Or something like the pit, there is a limit but no one is able to reach it yet
@yulfine1688
Ай бұрын
That's the idea... except we learned from d3 that it will probably be hit and at somepoint you have an end.. unless you make it beyond crazy so we will have to see what happens, I have concerns as this team hasn't worked on diablo or any arpg and were very much new so they're learning as we can see with the game so far. However there are plenty of areas to touch upon, but its also only been a year and as such other arpgs took 4+ years to get where they're at and then have mostly sat at mediocre for most players which is why diablo is popular the casual pull that it allows creates other issues in making content and balancing and adding depth that even casuals can drop in and out of whenever but also something for the hardcore or even average gamers to appeal to... which we are seeing them struggle with and that is no surprise you really can't have your cake and eat it to, its not impossible but its pretty close. They're going to have to finish hammering down the main audiences they want to target.
@jw3807
Ай бұрын
They’re just clueless on how to balance the game. Difficulty is non existent and there needs to be 10x more vertical progression in the game.
@maxmustermann3938
Ай бұрын
The info on this is out now with the campfire chat, might as well add it here for anyone who hasn't seen that yet. No, the difficulties have a limit. They are replacing the old world tier approach (which was paired with sacred/ancestral power jumps) where you basically just speedran WT3 in a couple minutes, then do most of your leveling in wt4 with no way to increase the difficulty for content other than the tiered content. The new version just has more "classic" difficulty options. Four of them are available from the start and basically form the range of difficulties you can choose from while leveling to 60 (the new max level). They don't change the monster levels, instead they just scale their strength (via numbers and tweaks to AI, movement speed, cooldowns etc.). If you can manage leveling in a higher difficulty then you'll just get more rewards and will be able to level up faster. Once you hit max level, there are 4 endgame difficulties (Torment I to IV) that you can unlock. You'll unlock them through the Pit, which is down to 100 tiers, and when you beat a certain breakpoint in the Pit you unlock a higher difficulty. These difficulties then affect ALL the content in the game, i.e. a Nightmare Dungeon and Infernal Horde no longer have a Tier, you just have a generic sigil that you can use and which will pop a NMD/Hordes at the difficulty you are on. Only the Pit will still have separate Tiers. Same is true for the boss ladder - they now just scale to the difficulty you are running. There is no more separate "Tormented" version, it costs the same mats to run them always (no stygians etc.), but the higher the difficulty you are on, the more rewards you will get.
@cordial001
Ай бұрын
Good work Wudi
@TheRealMrGordons
Ай бұрын
Please let the pit bosses drop boss summoning mats. That would give us a good reason to run them. Blood bishop could drop exquisite blood etc
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
I'm guessing Pit improvement won't come from the expansion but a bit later in the rework of the acitvities. Pit not only needs another form of reward, but also needs more map layouts and monster types for a bit more diversity. Nightmare dungeons also need a rework, perhaps in the form of modifiers for sigils, that put new affixes on them that can influence rewards and gameplay.
@deetsitmeisterjd
Ай бұрын
They need to remove Glyph XP just make them a lootable item with rarities.
@Illyczka
Ай бұрын
Nicely done
@theshadowcult
Ай бұрын
We still need 2 or 3 more different modes. its getting there, but it needs just a little more. Im all for the work the devs do, and while there are many problems, they have ben doing well, so im sure the updates to the existing modes will be interesting, but dont stop now when you guys are on a roll.
@DoctorStrange01
Ай бұрын
It's hard to add new modes if the game's core (which is itemization and skill system, which are both directly connected with each other) is shallow. Like, what is the point of making new ways of playing if the gear that's dropping will be the same ? You do different content for different rewards, see PoE. Those mechanics drop different items. In D4 you have uniques and mythic uniques, that's about it. You don't need to farm anything else, you just do ubers until you drop an item.
@MrLove-666
Ай бұрын
Very good Questions Wudijo, Besides the audio, it's a solid interview.
@ArthurMishoe
Ай бұрын
Any feedback as to the timeline of adding console players to a PTR?
@dragon_dyce
Ай бұрын
they should add races/events that start every few hours like poe did in the past
@MrLove-666
Ай бұрын
6:24 that would be really awesome, after all this time.
@Araturion
Ай бұрын
According to Blizzards own numbers 85% of the players are playing solo. Adding forced group content without a SSF mode is bad for 85% of the players and the game. There should be an option to do The Dark Citade solo especially because the developers have said that you should be able to do everything in Diablo 4 solo. Diablo has always been soloplayer games with the option to play with friends.
@richardm8807
Ай бұрын
Where'd you get that number?
@MrLove-666
Ай бұрын
Can't wait for the "Git Gut" and get kicked out, "Friendly" lol
@DarekAntokolski
Ай бұрын
Best interview with the devs I saw in a long time. Especially the second half. Thanks for a good job at asking them in the right way
@sathdk79
Ай бұрын
Blizzard is sleeping on the possibility of adding an "EX" or "SUPER" Meter similar to Street Fighter style fighting games. Ultimates in Diablo 4 are not extremely valuable with the 4 button economy. Allowing a meter to build up as you progress through an area to unlock an ultimate would allow for a new dimension in build planning.
@Ironmeen
Ай бұрын
If they ever add leaderboards, they gotta remove private profiles. The community wants to know what top builds are on the leaderboard!
@Allugotisdeuces
Ай бұрын
when blizzard nerfs all the fun builds at the top due to player complaints, and you aren't invited to top tier dark citadel because your build is not 'optimal' according to the leaderboard, just remember you guys asked for leaderboards
@maxmustermann3938
Ай бұрын
Torchlight Infinite has this same thing, you can make your profile private and then people cannot check out your build via the leaderboard. This is just a perfectly sensible privacy option and I honestly don't think they could get away with removing that.
@jrrthompson1996
Ай бұрын
The Spiritborn looks cool, but mercenaries might actually be what I'm most excited about. I loved companion tactics in Dragon Age Origins, and while the D4 mercenaries are definitely not going to be even remotely as in-depth as that system, setting logic for their abilities adds another layer of interactions that will hopefully increase the depth of gameplay across all of the classes.
@XerXcho
Ай бұрын
Kinda pitty we won't be able to put items on them
@krectus
Ай бұрын
I believe the logic only applies to one "reinforcement" ability where another merc jumps in to pull off a certain skill when something is triggered. Cool idea but does seem very limited right now. Would love to see this expanded on.
@messire9837
Ай бұрын
@@XerXcho Considering how easy it is to get mythicals these days, I too get to feel like that would be way too OP.
@Steph1
Ай бұрын
I think that you should temper your expectations on it: yes it’ll be fun, but the system seems pretty shallow at the moment so you’ll probably have limited options to try around with. With the great updates from last 2 seasons one could think they’ll flesh out the mercenary system some time in the next 12-18 months though 👍
@stephensmith4025
Ай бұрын
Oh boy. I see “explanations” on a lot of things.
@ncrsy
Ай бұрын
thanks for interviewing these legends
@teodorcaraba979
Ай бұрын
come on man, some mics plz jesus
@dominicstark6318
Ай бұрын
Only thing that doesn't sound good to me so far are mandatory mercenaries (if you wanna be efficient). I'm with wudijo on this one. I don't want an NPC following me around all the time.
@fedekapo6
Ай бұрын
Didnt they say in a recent interview you can leave the follower in city and just use their skills?
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
Don't use it. There are people that want them. Everybody seems entitled in this playerbase. Some don't want mercenaries, some don't want nightmare dungeons, many didn't want Hordes pre S5, some don't want multiplayer content, etc, etc. Don't engage in activities you don't like, even if you loose power. If everybody was like you the game would be super mario in 2D because everybody would only agree to push a button.
@hiddenxalpha7053
Ай бұрын
@@marsovac 'Dont engage in activities that are mandatory', Nice.
@aurelia713
Ай бұрын
LOOTFILTERS !!
@crashdummy101
Ай бұрын
They talk about player choice at the beginning, but then they remove player choice by forcing grouping with raids, it makes no sense Blizzard keeps thinking they can tell players how to play instead of letting us choose how we want to play I am not buying the expansion solely on the fact that they try to force a way to play that i dont like
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
They removed nothing. They added choices for those that do want that. You can still choose to not do it, and have a choice to do it. Don't be selfish, let others have fun without limiting game design only to what you like. If you don't like Nightmare dungeons you won't have glyphs, and you spend more time in those doing that than we will need to spend in this. I also prefer to play solo, but if I need to do this occasionally I will probably do it. But even if I don't it is a few cosmetics, so who cares really. Don't want them to remove fun for those that will want to enjoy some multiplayer. There are also rewards for multiplayer Gauntlet, like titles and stuff. I never did that and don't miss them.
@SimplyDoomSlayer
Ай бұрын
@@marsovac They're choosing to focus their time on MMO mechanics instead of singleplayer, which SHOULD be the core focus of the game. They kept advertising this game as a return to its D2 roots, and yet it's the complete opposite. It's like D3 on steroids. If you're not doing the multiplayer content you are LOSING OUT big time. I hate that.
@maxmustermann3938
Ай бұрын
@@SimplyDoomSlayer They're dedicating one out of MANY coming changes and new content to an "MMO" feature. All the rest of it is still targeted at the main single player base. Yes, we have this stupid boss rotation meta. That's not an MMO feature though, that's just a shit design right there. This is really the only thing where you are missing out big time. You won't be missing out big time by skipping out on the actual coop content they are making for the expansion. And you are right, they were planning on returning to the D2 roots, it went down in flames and it turned out that everyone wanted something very different from what they had in mind, so they did a U turn and shifted in the D3 direction. Big surprise. Nobody actually wants to play ancient trash game design other than hardcore or highly nostalgic people that can still enjoy it.
@brunojabami9841
Ай бұрын
The biggest midle finger for us solo players....it's ok encouraging group content,but not allowing a content for who not wanna play group???? pretty wrong
@marcosyy87
Ай бұрын
👏 I would like to see RMAH and runewords back in the series
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
Please no RMAH, put as many runewords you want, but don't let the most efficient way of gearing be farming the auction house.
@johnman025
Ай бұрын
Wudijournalist.
@nonoeverhart9526
Ай бұрын
it's still crap that we can't gear mercenaries
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
I guess they work somehow on character power. It would be hard to scale them through gear for the new system of difficulty that is scalable.
@Schizm1
Ай бұрын
I'm super sad about MMOfication of D4:/ It's clear that it's the direction the game is gonna go on. Raids, forced coop, weekly quests etc. It's idiotic... Pretty much ruining a legendary aRPG franchise:/
@hiddenxalpha7053
Ай бұрын
That was obvious from Beta, if you couldn't see it you're blind. The ability to see other players outside of towns, world bosses, and mounts. Hell, even 'Not able to use skills in town' is probably to prevent "ruining other peoples experience", D3 let you do it.
@Schizm1
Ай бұрын
@@hiddenxalpha7053 No it wasn't. Entire, and I mean ENTIRE marketing was build around nostalgia. "Return to darkness", "Play how you want", "We wanna make sure you're able to complete all content solo because we don't want to ruin the feeling of loneliness" etc. - All those are direct quotes from the devs. I can BET that after a while - Blizz is gonna add solo option to that raid. Fuck it - Even Lost Ark. THE mmo for raid fans added solo option to it's endgame raids. MMOfication of D4 is just gonna make it even more shallow than it already is
@SimplyDoomSlayer
Ай бұрын
Absolutely man. I refuse to play this game until they remove MMO mechanics (or at least give me an option to turn them off). That's looking more and more unlikely. I just want to grind this game in SSF without dealing with the stupid MMO mechanics like I did for D1, D2, and D3. Why is that so much to ask?
@6MikeJones9
Ай бұрын
Ok but u can do everything solo except the 1 new raid. What's the big deal
@Schizm1
Ай бұрын
@@6MikeJones9 You must be new to aRPGs if you're asking this. Also - Cheapest version of expansion is what? 40usd? So for that I want to be able to play ALL content. Fuck it - take that raid bullshit away and charge 25usd - then we can talk.
@MrLove-666
Ай бұрын
10:55 Bullcrap again and again lolol Diablo was SOLO! No need for effin e-peen, play Leagues of Legends instead. So they want to say: "Diablo 4 is fundamentally cooperative game, of course" hahaha lmao Ask anyone in any competition, if there is a "friendly" theme.. Come on.. They want Leaderboard to show the world they're the #1, the friend that is #2, is the first loser, "friendly" lol
@henrycaldwell238
Ай бұрын
new system does not work and sucks!!!!! You can't set rewards to your difficulty level and then have massive player trading. It means that the drops and item system is SH!T just like now... They have to because botters and top level end game guys sell the top end items. Sad how stupid the dev team is not to know this already. LMAO... yet you force everyone to find 3 people to group up to get UBER tiems... freaking liars.
@1ButtonDash
Ай бұрын
lots of filibuster. I appreciate the interview but they say the same thing in all of these interviews and you can tell they are tight lipped until the campfire chat
@zenshakujo8070
Ай бұрын
Yep, kinda lame during campfires as well imo
@TheLegoJungle
Ай бұрын
Marketing department has a lot of say over the development so they halt devs from talking about what they want, sadly.
@kapiteinlulhaas7612
Ай бұрын
Yeah even the most simple questions always lead to these long winded minute long awnsers that basically say nothing.
@CasualRaxx
Ай бұрын
You’re an incel.
@YM-ex8hh
Ай бұрын
Live as a service just another way to say forever beta...players are the beta testers for free 😂
@mathew00
Ай бұрын
Remember old systems when there was no internet? Developers had to take testing seriously. Now, the only thing tested is the ability to install and pull updates. Sad
@krectus
Ай бұрын
free? come on now they pay them a lot of money to be beta testers.
@MarQQuiSsee
Ай бұрын
So they admitted consoles did bottleneck D4 and its potential. Nice WP
@messire9837
Ай бұрын
Current devs themselves bottlenecked Diablo's potential, it's been like that since D2's success made actual talented devs too expensive to keep around. I feel like it's obvious enough to avoid wasting time mentionning it. But hey, here you go, bruh. The truth.
@SimplyDoomSlayer
Ай бұрын
@@messire9837 Not flaming you, but Blizzard rakes in BILLIONS of dollars in revenue. There is no way they are unable to afford the absolute top-in-class developers. If you are AAA studio, you *can* afford it. Whether they choose to do so or not is on the studio. I think in general the blizzard devs actually are pretty good. I rarely have technical problems with any blizzard games, which is contrary to most titles these days. My problems with blizzard are ALL around their decision making in game design and the forced always-online MMO mechanics. They're advertising to a market which isn't me anymore and that makes me sad. Maybe that market is disappearing entirely... I don't know, but I hope not.
@vnshngpnt
Ай бұрын
Looking at this game director now it's understandable why game is shit lmao
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
The statement would make logical sense, if the game actually was shit.
@hiddenxalpha7053
Ай бұрын
@@marsovac You can complete a full season in 3 days, 3 days into a 3 month season. The game IS shit.
@deetsitmeisterjd
Ай бұрын
@@hiddenxalpha7053Same as PoE then? Everybody said how good it was and then stopped playing after 3 days after they released how grindy the Settlers of Kalguur was.
@hiddenxalpha7053
Ай бұрын
@@deetsitmeisterjd I never said POE *wasnt* shit, But thats also a different issue. 'People didnt like a mechanic' is not the same as 'There is no mechanic/content'
@steveabner2275
Ай бұрын
DEI D4.....
@Mediumdoo
Ай бұрын
Big Mike 24
@XerXcho
Ай бұрын
The West is cooked
@messire9837
Ай бұрын
@@XerXcho Didn't that happen during Diablo III?
@KarmaKahn
Ай бұрын
Because they hire women?
@madac219
Ай бұрын
@@KarmaKahn I don't think thats a woman , is it?
@jaysonbird3975
Ай бұрын
Oh wow! I uninstalled today. Corpo fake game.
@CookaSoupNieceEH
Ай бұрын
Remove group only requirement for Dark Citadel, I already accepted enough of your MMO nonsense forced upon us Solo players all over Sanctuary
@messire9837
Ай бұрын
This. Then again, thanks them random players running/clowning around me map for that PERFECT winterglass gift. So I don't get to complain too much.
@marsovac
Ай бұрын
"I don't want others to have fun if I don't find that fun" - very altruistic playerbase we have.
@SimplyDoomSlayer
Ай бұрын
@@marsovac I don't want to engage with the MMO mechanics. Is that really so hard for you to deal with? I'm not saying it can't exist, I'm saying I don't want to see other people in town unless I choose to do so. I don't want endgame content to be gated behind MMO. I don't. Want. To. Deal. With. It. Why can YOU not accept that? I'm fine with it existing in the game. If people would rather game with their friends I support that entirely. ARPGS for ME (and many others, based on the comments) is about the PERSONAL journey.
@richardm8807
Ай бұрын
@SimplyDoomSlayer Then don't. With the exception of helltides you rarely are forced to interact. And you don't have to interact. The other characters are just there. Move away. Turn off cross play. Play eternal. Various ways to isolate. Pits, NMD. Gauntlets. Those are all you. The reality is Diablo was marketed as co-op since D2.
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