Diablo 3 1 Hour Lead Designer Panel (WWI, 2008) Part 1

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVNUXmzD8cU
Part 1 of the Diablo 3 lead designer panel Q&A from the WWI.

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http://diablo3blog.blogspot.com/

Diablo 3 has been officially announced at the Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational 2008.

Some features and facts of Diablo 3:

-- Same interface style: red health and blue orbs, skill bar at bottom, 3/4 overhead perspective. Also a character with 2 axes hacking at demons in what appears to be a foggy cathedral. Has a jumping attack where he smashes the two axes into the ground.

- The axe guy is the barbarian class. Improvements have been made, like the hotbar for skills. Using the mouse wheel and tab key you can quickly switch between skills. There are still slot limits. Using enchanted axes with frost and lighting ,which stuns and freezes opponents. Whoing inventory.

- Red orbs that drop from enemies will replenish health without you having to use items. Demon foes have a summon ability. Barbarian's jumping attack covers a lot of distance. Was shown flying up a staircase. Also some kind of shockwave attack will be part at the Barbarians disposal.

- Blizzard is touting interactive environments as an important feature.

- Each piece of gear is custom designed for each class. Barbarians put on demonic style garb, with devil horns. They can also hop across the map.

- A Barbarian was shown disloging a rock wall and dropping it on zombies, killing them.

- A demo was shown of the whirlwind attack.

- Deckard Cain is in the game. When talking to NPCs, the game appears to switch interfaces. The changed interface highlights the character model. Having to rescue Cain from this cathedral.

- More barbarian skills. A barbarian can use a ground stomp attack to get skeleton warriors to drop their shields, making them easier to take out.

- Cultist enemies have the ability to transform into a more destructive force, so they must be taken out quickly.

- There are scripted events, like walls breaking appart, and cultists summoning a fat demon who's shock waves shatter stone pillars in the environment.

- More witch doctor information: It can cast out locus swarm, which spreads between targets and deals damage. Can summon mongrel things that he can cast locust swarm on. This also buffs their damage. can use a fire bomb spell. Can summon a wall of zombies that stays stationary, but the zombies in the wall flail their arms and do damage to their opponents.

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[jesseg456]

Is this game going to be like WoW like pay to play? i hope not

[Icewolf2]

Very informative, but with the camera sound, it's kind of hard to hear at times, can you add captions or annotations just to help?

[Honkprelle]

@jesseg456 Dont be a jew.

[Hodovnik]

whats up with all the boldies? .) i guess u sure have to be bold to venture to the world of sanctuary but this is a bit extreme .p

[blarson12]

I can't hear the fuckin questions!

[blarson12]

@Icewolf2 Yeah they should sub it.

[blarson12]

@Anarkokommunist Late 2011.

[blarson12]

@jesseg456 No i don't think so but in the multiplayer part of it you might have to.

[iLikeBergerz]

@jesseg456 No. Diablo 3 won't go that far off from the original diablos.

[darksinthe]

There is no release date announced at all. Anything that says otherwise is false. The whole GET DIABLO BETA KEY spam is just that... spam. Gold sellers from wow probably trying to install a keylogger on your computer to get passwords, or just to get your information to spam them (I havent checked it out because i know its just a S C A M, for a fact.)

Diablo 3 will be released WHEN ITS READY. I know that sucks to hear, but it ensures the game will be A M A Z I N G when its released.

[stalkerchernobyl]

did i hear he said diablo 3 is gonna be a short game and fast playing ?

[sabdow]

2011 some time what I just recently read.