07-17-2012, 01:04 PM
If you pre-order TL II on Steam for $20, you get TL I included for free. That's how I got it. I'm flawedparadigm on Steam.
Yeah, one of the nice things is if you mention to this dev team that something is out of line, you either get help, or they'll look into it. They don't tell you you're just imagining it. Of course I also worked with Max Schaefer when he was doing Mythos, and he remembered me (from here, actually.)
My only regret is that Peter Hu isn't with them anymore but I'm sure there were good reasons. Excellent folks, though, and a great game.
I don't find combat at all mindless, but that may have to do with my minion-based build and having to constantly re-summon things and evaluate my needs, along with keeping my pet buff going and deciding when to blow my mass heal spell CD. So far as mods, I'm not using anything to alter skills or classes, just improve selling prices, add (rare) stat potion drops, up the random quest rewards, and have items always be ID'd. So nothing that directly affects the difficulty, just an indirect bit via quest rewards.
TL II is getting a lot of hype right now, including on Blizzard's boards, so I expect there may be a larger modding community for it. Could get very interesting.
Yeah, one of the nice things is if you mention to this dev team that something is out of line, you either get help, or they'll look into it. They don't tell you you're just imagining it. Of course I also worked with Max Schaefer when he was doing Mythos, and he remembered me (from here, actually.)
My only regret is that Peter Hu isn't with them anymore but I'm sure there were good reasons. Excellent folks, though, and a great game.
(07-17-2012, 08:27 AM)FoxBat Wrote: TL does alot of things right, and TL2 does them even better. But the relative mindlessness of combat bothers me. Others might prefer that however.
Being moddable is cool, but I was disappointed that TL mods were mostly new custom imba classes and pet skins, and very light on balance or tactical challenges which the original was sorely lacking. The tools are there, but there is still a question of community interest.
I don't find combat at all mindless, but that may have to do with my minion-based build and having to constantly re-summon things and evaluate my needs, along with keeping my pet buff going and deciding when to blow my mass heal spell CD. So far as mods, I'm not using anything to alter skills or classes, just improve selling prices, add (rare) stat potion drops, up the random quest rewards, and have items always be ID'd. So nothing that directly affects the difficulty, just an indirect bit via quest rewards.
TL II is getting a lot of hype right now, including on Blizzard's boards, so I expect there may be a larger modding community for it. Could get very interesting.
Finally satisfied that this, in fact, a game in the Diablo series.