March 25, 2024 • 40 mins
In this episode, I talked about Bobby Kotick wanting to buy TikTok; Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.4; good news for Bluddshed; Diablo Immortal
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- Coming to you fromsomewhere in Sanctuary.
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This is episode four 50of Shattered Soul Stone,
your Diablo Community podcast.
This episode is called Kodak Talk
because I think it sounds funny.
It is March 24th, 2024. And this is Jen.
So we're gonna start off
with an article from End Gadgettitled Activision Blizzards
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ex CEO.
Bobby Kotick reportedlywants to buy TikTok.
And there's a little blurb in here.
It says He's pitched the idea
to potential partners includingOpen ai, CEO, Sam Altman,
the Wall Street Journal reports.
This was written by Cheyenne McDonald.
So here's a little bit from this article.
Bobby Kotick, the formerCEO of Activision Blizzard,
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who stepped down at the end of last year,
is apparently interested in buying TikTok
as a new bill in the USthreatens to ban the app
or force it sale.
According to a report bythe Wall Street Journal,
Kodak mentioned the idea ofpartnering on such a purchase
to open AI, CEO, Sam Altman and others.
Seated with him at aconference dinner last week
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and brought it up with BiteDance executive chair Jang Ying.
If TikTok is sold theWall Street Journal notes,
it would likely go for hundredsof billions of dollars.
Codec led Activision for over 30 years
but didn't exactly leave on a good note.
The company has facedmultiple lawsuits in recent
years, including one.
It's settled with the CaliforniaCivil Rights Department
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over alleged pay discrimination.
In December in 2021,
Activision Blizzardemployee staged a walkout
and demanded Kotak resign.
But that didn't happen.Kotak ultimately sh stayed on
as the head of ActivisionBlizzard until the completion
of Microsoft's acquisition in 2023.
Kodak's alleged interest inTikTok comes at a tumultuous
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moment for the immensely popular platform
after lawmakers introduced the
policing Americans fromForeign Adversary Controlled
Applications Act.
That's a mouthful last week,
which President Biden said hewould sign if it passes under
the bill, which goes to the house floor
on Wednesday for a vote.
TikTok China based parentcompany Bite Dance would have
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to sell the app within six months,
otherwise it'll be bannedfrom US app stores.
TikTok has been trying to getits millions of users to rally
behind it in wake of theBill's, sudden momentum
and sent out push notificationslast week asking users
to call their representatives
after the house vote whereit's expected to be approved.
After clearing the Energy
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and Commerce Committee ina unanimous vote last week,
the bill would move on tothe Senate while lawmakers
concerns about TikTok Centeron fears of data privacy
and its connection to China.
Wall Street Journal notes
that involving Altman in itspurchase could open up the app
to the possibility ofbeing used by open AI
to train its AI models,
which doesn't exactly soundideal for users either.
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And it kind of goes onfrom there a little bit,
but that's what's going on.
I mean, I guess, you know,maybe Bobby Kotek is bored
and wants to try, you know, messing around
with something else that may
or may not, um, makeits way through Congress
and the Senate and all that.
I don't know, it's just weird.
And from here we have a lotof Diablo stuff going on.
So we have, if youhaven't done this already,
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which I haven't, the reason I haven't is
because I've been sick for a while
because I have horrible allergies
and just couldn't function for a while.
So that's why last episode didn't appear
because I just couldn't do it.
So I'm just gonna continue on from here.
So Diablo four patch 1.3 0.4is now available to download.
It is two gigabytes apparently.
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And this is from WowHead written by J Tross.
It's got a lovely imageat the top of this here
and it doesn't say a heckof a lot Other than that,
I mean there's some notes about it,
but that's from a long,that's from a while back.
So I guess what they're trying
to say is you should probably go ahead
and download this patch on March 14.
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Bloodshed announced on Twitterslash x. This it's official.
I am now a member of thehashtag Diablo community team.
There's a little fire emoji there.
I'll be helping out withcreator programs and management.
Really excited to dig backin with the community.
There's a little red heart.
Also, you can still expectthe educational videos from me
on the YouTube channel.
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So that's what's going on with bloodshed.
So you know, good job. Um,I think you'll do well.
You seem to know what you'retalking about, so that's great.
Over in Diablo Immortal territory, uh,
we've got a few thingsthat have been posted on
uh, Twitter slash x.
So it's the first one I'vegot here is titled The Arachni
Embodies the Webs, it spinscomplete with deceptions
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and lethal traps.
Eradicates the threat to win challenges
and rewards in our season24 Battle Pass, a regent
of webs available now until April 11th.
And it has a picture hereof uh, the different types
of characters you could possiblyplay in Diablo, immortal.
And I don't know if there'slike webs coming from them
or not or if they're stuck in one,
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but it's kind of a neat little drawing.
Everything I talk about todayis gonna be in the show notes.
So you could find it there.
And it looks like there'slike a 34 second video stuck
with this uh, thing that I just read you.
So you can go ahead and do that.
And some of the comments are really funny.
Um, one of them has a picture of one
of the Diablo I mortal characters.
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It looks like a man withgreen hair and green clothing.
And this person I'm not gonna name, um,
writes finally a Kinky BP skin.
I love it so much. I don'tthink there's anything weird
about it, but this person seems happy.
So maybe he'll go in and get that.
Also from Diablo, Imortal on x slash Twitter,
a new terror is descending into sanctuary.
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Prepare to defend with honor
during our limited time eventfrom now until April 1st.
And there's this huge thing with teeth
and a glowing, uh,interior, like it's going
to swallow up the playersor something like that.
And it says something istearing into sanctuary
and that's all it says.
So we don't know whatthat's gonna be exactly,
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but I bet it'll be interesting.
And then again from Diablo Immortal,
this was written on March23rd in 2024, the Age
of Unmasking Takes Over Diablo Immortal,
what are you most excited for this year?
Let us know in the comments.
And there's a 2024 roadmap here called uh,
the Age of Unmasking.
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Above it is the second anniversary
and then later there'ssomething called Terror Reign.
So from January to Marchthere's terror riffs,
oblivion pillars, eternal Equipment,
and Deckard Ka Elite Quest.
That's also, uh, has tongue,she's renewal in front of that.
The next is a blue bannerthat says New class.
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That's for April and June.
So it's gonna be a new Paragonsystem, new equipment system,
new heli query bosses and new game modes.
Then there's a yellow bannerthat says Cursed Solstice.
This is for July throughSeptember, world Stone Quest,
part one Dungeon Updates, new Co-op mode,
a Cursed Towers update.
And then there's another one
that's an orange bannerthat says Hallows Wake.
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That's gonna happen forOctober and December
or maybe between September and October.
Not real clear about that.
So that one for October
and December is World Stone Quest part two
'cause the September one was part one
and then there's news, a NewZone and Hella Query bosses
and so much more apparently.
And then the last thingover there says Broom teen.
And I don't know what that is,,
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but if you go into the game,you'll probably find out
for yourself when it's,when it gets there.
If you missed it in the past,you may have uh, become aware
that there are a lot ofbooks that have to do
with mostly lore
of various characters inthe entire Diablo series.
So we're not just talkingabout Diablo Mortal
or Diablo four, but the whole deal.
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So wow head posted, uh, ninedays ago by Slic, a post
that says Diablo Book of Cane
and Book of Teelre-released on March 12th.
So they're already out thereif you want to get them.
I happen to have both of these'cause I got them right away
because I've been lower junkie apparently
and I just really wannaknow what's going on.
I usually like really enjoy the artwork
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and stories and that kind of thing.
So here's a little bit about that.
Blizzard Re-released the firsttwo books from the Diablo
book of series, book of Kaneand Book of Teel on March 12.
These decade old books havefinally made their return just
in time to potentially giveus a refresher on kibitz
of lore in the Diablo universeat the time of publication.
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The price is 29 95 USD for the book of CAE
and 27 87 USD for the book of Terio.
Diablo book of CAE wasoriginally published on
December 13th, 2011.
While Diablo book
of Teel was publishedon October 1st, 2013,
these books had seemingly run out
of print given theirunusually high prices.
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If you were to buy themnew as of March 12,
these books are now back instock for anyone who is looking
to add them to their collection
or to catch up on more recentlore in the Diablo franchise
and to prepare for more, evenmore lore to come when vessel
of hatred releases.
That is my understanding isgonna be uh, season four.
There was a whole thingI watched about it,
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you may have watched ittoo and it had like really
interesting pictures, butnot a lot of uh, details
because of course they're notgonna give you all the details
for the upcoming thing if you'restill in the current thing,
you know, so those who are looking
to purchase these books canfind them on Amazon using the
link below where thereis a link in this article
or wherever books are soldat the time of publication.
The price is, I think wealready just said that one.
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Um, yeah, 29 95 USD for book of Kain 27 87
for book material and there'ssupposed to be another one,
a book of Brava,
which I think I mentionedthe last time I did
a Shattered Soul Stone episode.
And that one is 29 95 USD.
It's not real clear whenthat's gonna come out,
but it might be withDiablo four's expansion.
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VE vessel of hatred andis likely to coincide
with the expansions release late in 2024.
So if you want some lore,this is where to go,
but you're gonna have towait on the Bravo one.
Over on max roll we have a itemization,
the itemization campfire chatwrap up written by Dready
who always does good work in this.
This is where I go when I'm like, okay,
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wait, what is this about?
I go here and then I learneverything and it's wonderful.
Okay, so the itemization, a campfire chat,
live stream just took place.
The panel consisted of Joe Shelley,
game director Joseph Priya,associate game director,
Adam Jackson, lead classdesigner, Charles Dunn,
associate game designer,
and Adam Fletcher, director of community.
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The topics included themassive itemization updates,
class changes, PTR news and so much more.
See all the major points below.
This is kind of long, so I'mgonna give you some of it
and you can check it outin the show notes later on.
PTR details, yes, they'rehaving a PTR if you missed that
before, there will be a PTRfor the next, uh, chapter of
of uh, Diablo four basically.
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So here's some little bullet points.
The upcoming PTR will runfrom April 2nd to April 9th.
The PTR is PC battle.net only.
Console PTRS may happen in the future.
Season three ends Tuesday,May 14th now to allow the PTR
to run and incorporate all the feedback.
And season four startson Tuesday, May 14th.
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So that's kind of together, you know,
season four will start on the 14th.
Season three ends on the 14th I think.
So I gotta get back in there and play.
Me being sick for a whiledid not help me at all.
Okay, PTR specifics, instant boost
to 100 including the followingcampaign completion mount.
All skill points, all paragonpoints, fog of war cleared,
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all alters of Lilith discovered random set
of rare gear on your boosted character.
All class systems unlockedall glyphs maxed level when
boosted you gain, oh boy, a lot of gold.
Uh, 1 million, I think it's 1 million gold
or something like that and 1000 ovals.
This can be done multiple times.
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Legendary drop rates,doubled note anything related
to renowned mimics what youcurrently have completed.
If you haven't already,make sure you do this
before the PTR starts.
A specific PTR forum will beadded to the Diablo foresight
as well as the team willmonitor social media channels.
Here's some itemization updates.
The dev team started withthree key principles,
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quality over quantity.
The devs are refocusingon having fewer items
with better quality.
This gives items more meaning
to more players For the long run,
the best items have a journey currently.
Once you found your gear,that was it for the most part.
With new systems comingto the game, the goal is
to make items more a journeyto have items unique to you
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and give a sense ofprogression through crafting.
Surprise and delight reignitethe joy when items drop.
There should be excitingrewards. There is also trading.
Trading is being updated in a big way.
Legendaries and uniques willbecome tradable in season four.
There are two exceptions.
Doing any form of crafting onthese items binds them to you.
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Also Uber uniques are not tradable.
There's a bunch of stuffhere from base item updates.
There's like photos of this in here
that I'll let you gocheck out on your own.
Yeah, and this just goes on andon and it looks really good.
Um, so part of it,underneath those pictures
with some words in themtalks about items gain
apexes from a smaller pool.
This is meant to removea lot of ddu, duplicate
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or conditional effects.
The dev team is also improvingthe potency of many apexes,
including plus ranks
to skill Sacred items nowonly drop in world tier three
with ancestral items in world tier four.
Overall AFIX values have been increased.
Legendary items now only rollthree apexes down from four
rare items now only rolled twoA fixes down from four max.
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The amount of apexes, at leastfour legendaries is meant
to give you a great base to work on
and to add two again, this is meant
to change the itemizationin game to a journey.
Legendaries from level 95plus monsters always drop at
925 item power.
Many uniques now drop in world tiers one
and two starting at in world tier three,
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all uniques drop Uber uniquesstart dropping from monster
level 55 plus enemies andalways drop with 925 item power.
There's some other stuff in here.
I highly recommend you scroll through it
and read the rest of it, butif you wanna know everything,
this is exactly where you needto go over on max roll with
what dread side has written.
And I even didn't give you all of it.
There's more for you to discover.
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We have Diablo four patch notes,
which sometimes I find hilariouslyfunny as to what they had
to fix and sometimes it's just
kind of like, oh, that's okay.
So this was posted on March 22nd, 2024.
The Diablo four team hasbeen monitoring your feedback
as we introduce patches
to keep your experiencein sanctuary smooth,
we will update the below list
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and denote whether the fixesare intended for pc, Xbox,
PlayStation, or all platforms.
So here we go. This is for all platforms.
Well, they posted thispatch notes on March 22,
but they decided to add to it, uh,
and on March 26th for some reason.
So game updates, patch 1.30.5 introduces Ray tracing
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to all supported platforms andupdates to ambient occlusion
and contact shadows.
For more details, pleasevisit this article.
I guess I'm gonna haveto find this article
after I'm done writing this.
There are bug fixes fixed anissue where the portal entrance
to the gauntlet didn't apply.
Portal cosmetics fixed anissue where the ability
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to interact with certain thingswould not function if corpse
tendrils were equipped to thesame key binding as interact.
Fixed an issue where some elitescould not properly spawn in
the second half of the path
of the blind dungeon fixed an issue
where some headstone cosmetics would not
appear in the wardrobe.
Various performance stabilityand visual improvements.
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So there's that, that's the newest stuff.
Let's find out what thisarticle happens to be.
, just, you know,to see what they meant.
Okay, so the article is titled
Hell's Beauty Burns AEW with Ray Tracing
and this is from March, 2022.
Nope, 22 of 2024, sorry.
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Numbers are the bane ofmy existence. Honestly.
On March 26, wanderers canconquer the horrors of hell
with a suite of new graphicalenhancements available to them
with patch 1.3 0.5.
Arriving alongside ournext content update.
Sanctuary will be furtherimbued with the luscious shadows
and enhanced reflections
of ray tracing plus othervisual enhancements.
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So here's some stuff thatthey've got going on.
If you go to this article,
which again will be in the shownotes, it will show you like
where the shadows are coming from
and the difference betweenusing it and not using it.
To me this one looks a little subtle,
but there's some differences right away.
You can see if you watch it long enough.
Ray tracing shadows.
Ray tracing is the term thatbroadly refers to the ability
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for game engines to producemore lifelike images.
For example, shadows castby the sun are enhanced
with ray tracing.
And there's a picture here of one
that's a little bit more blurry
and one that's not as blurry.
So it says on the left,ray tracing is toggled off,
resulting in sharper andless accurate shadows.
On the right ray tracing is enabled.
The shadows from the tree are much more
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realistic and lifelike.
Notice the further you lookfrom the base of the tree,
the softer the shadows become
because these are in some kind of fog.
There's um, a person riding a horse
through somewhere in sanctuary.
And the difference between
the shadow coming from thebuilding behind this character
is very different.
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It's very clear in the first shot
and it's kind of fuzzy in the second shot.
And there's more like this.
There's a group of littleskeletons trying to be fought off
by what probably iseither a, I think a druid
'cause they do have like, you know, um,
horns on their helmetand the first glimpse
of it gives you like afuzzy view of the shadows
of these two skeletons
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and the the character that they're playing
and, um, how clear it gets after that.
I think that's mostlythe point with this is
to show like hard shadows
so you can really see things going on.
And then there's one in likeyour, your character goes
for the first time to talk material.
That's all I'm gonna say aboutthat if you haven't done it.
And yeah, the shadowsare totally different.
So there's that. There's alsoreflections on the water.
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So ray tracing also producesmore lifelike refle reflections
on surfaces like a stillpond or a broad mirror.
This enhanced featurecan reveal more details
around your environmentby not only bringing depth
to the reflections of the water,
but adding to the broaderenvironmental storytelling as well
with this asset below.
Okay, here's the asset below.
We've got what lookslike a sorcerer who is
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throwing lightning at agroup of possibly Goulds
and they're all standing in a river.
Okay, so with this assetbelow the ray tracing enabled,
you can see the reflection
of the ball lightning offthe surface of the water.
One of the benefits of ray tracing is
that it can also enableyou to see the reflection
of something offscreen,
like the offscreen rockface in the top right hand
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corner below the image.
The reflections from raytracing will help provide more
lifelike instances where youcan view pieces of environment
that were previously unseen.
And that's, uh, most of it.
There's also ambient occlusion,
which sounds like someonedid something dangerous
and needed a hospital, but maybe not.
Uh, Diablo four alreadyincludes ambient occlusion,
which measures the extent
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of which a surface is obscured
from surrounding light shadows.
In other words, it determines
how much surroundingobjects prevent a surface
or object from receivinglight from a source such
as a campfire or lantern.
Now available on allplatforms, we have updated
and enhanced the ambientocclusion feature PC users
who use the preset graphicsupon ultra quality.
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We'll notice this change the most,
but it can be seen on allquality settings on all platforms
and there's, you know,showing you the shadows coming
and going on a couple ofdifferent images down here.
There are contact shadows.
We recently updatedcontact shadows to apply
to more characters insanctuary than before.
Previously contact shadowsonly displayed the shadows
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around player characters,
but now at the highest graphicsettings includes shadows
for all player characters,NPCs and monsters alike.
And then there's uh, stufffor PC and for console.
So depending on what you're using
or maybe you're doing both,here's what you need to know.
Graphic settings requirements
and how to enable forPC to enable ray tracing
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and other visual enhancementson PC select options
from the in-game menu.
Under performance you canmanually select the various visual
improvements that have been included
with this content updateoutlined in this blog.
For additional details on whichgraphic cards are eligible
for Ray Tracing, pleasesee our Diablo force system
requirements article herethat might've been the one
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that I uh just told you about.
Console on console.
Select options from the endgamemenu from their navigate
to the graphics tab.
Under performance select Enhanced Visuals.
This enables enhanced visualson console Feast your eyes on
your improved ray tracing visuals.
It increases the quality oftextures like fur, hair and fog.
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Shadows will have amore realistic response
to light at various distances
and many reflections willbe enhanced in order not
to compromise overall performance.
This feature is locked at 30FPS frames per second overall.
And then something having to do
with Nvidia GForce is in here as well.
I don't, honestly I've never used one.
I don't know what thisdoes, but if you have one,
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you might wanna read the endof this particular article
from from Blizzard.
PC Gamer has an article titledBlizzard just revived Diablo
four with a list of changes so massive
that it's practically a newgame written by Tyler Culp.
A little blurb here. Seasonfour will add powerful LUT
crafting new Dungeons new Bosses,
and a list of quality of life changes.
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So here's a little bit from this article.
Blizzard should call DiabloFour's next season Diablo five
because the changes comingon are so fundamental
and widespread, it's going
to feel like you're playinga full on sequel After months
of teasing a massive overhaul
to Diablo four's core design Blizzard.
Use today's campfire chat stream to walk
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through Season four's rework,
which will be permanently inthe game from then on to loot
and many of the game's, othercore systems over the course
of a nearly two hour stream.
The changes touch almostevery aspect of the game,
which is probably why the Stream opened
with game director Joe Shelley.
Defining the most importantaspects of Diablo four
as the decisions you make before combat
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and the ones you make in between
to set up what's in store for next season.
Season Four's, loot, rework, redefines
how you build your character through loot
and adds much needed complexity
and creativity to DiabloFour's character progression.
Diablo four's items and yourcharacter as a result are going
to become flexible in ways they have never
been since its release.
A pair of gloves, for example, can drop
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with only a few stats or apexes you want.
And through two new craftingsystems they can now be shaped
around the kind of build you want to play.
Blizzard has clearly takeninspiration from last Epoch
and Path of Exile.
I hope I pronounce those right,to add a staggering amount
of customization to its loot.
The hope is that the age ofsorting through mountains
of gear for the perfectitems is finally over
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and Blizzard beliefs, it canbe done without a loot filter.
And here's some, uh, there'sa picture in here about, uh,
different items and
what they're turninginto, that kind of thing.
Manuals will drop consistently as you play
and are permanently available in a menu.
So if you need a manualfor something, there it is.
Uh, let's walk througha theoretical example of
how upgrading loot will work.
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In season four and onwards.
You defeat a boss who dropsgloves with three stats on them.
Legendary and rare itemshave one fewer stat on them.
Now two, they're almost perfect for you
but will need to betempered at the blacksmith.
Three, you temper your gloves
with a new manual itemyou found that adds one
of four mobility based stats.
Example, movement, speed evade,
cool down reduction, et cetera.
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Four, you're lucky. And getthe movement speed stat added
to your item before using upits maximum temporary re rolls.
Five, you add one more stat
that makes your bonesplinters skills shoot
more projectiles.
Six. Then you use themaster working system
to increase all the stats,
including the tempered ones on the gloves.
Even further, up to 12times seven you luck out
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and roll the four major upgrades
to your movement speedincreasing the stat dramatically.
One stat jumps way upevery four upgrades eight,
you're now the fastestnecromancer that ever lived.
And there's a little bit more in here,
but that's kind of the idea.
I think I like this idea
because it does, as this articlesaid, make it pretty clear
that they know that things arekind of, you know, you have
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to go searching through your stash
to find the thing you want
and it may be underpowered for you
by the time you find itand that kind of stuff.
So I think it's cool thatthey're giving us more options
to do stuff with andwe won't have to spend
so much time just sorting through loot
that maybe is not relevant for us anymore.
So I like that The Verge hasa teeny tiny little article
posted on March 14 by Tom Warren.
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It says Diablo's fours rage tracing update
arrives March 26th.
Diablo four is getting a ray
tracing update later this month.
Armor, water, windows andother reflective surfaces.
We'll all have Ray tracedreflections for more detail
and lighting accuracy shadowsthroughout the game will
also feature ray tracing.
And then uh, there's a partabout Nvidia that I skipped over
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but they have a tiny bit here.
Nvidia is also bringingDLSS 3.5 to portal with RTX.
This should improve the fidelity
of full ray tracing in the game
and you can enable framegeneration on 40 dash series RTX
cards to boost frame rates.
So there's that going on
and a lot of the rest of this is wow head.
We've got a cultist enchanting cost to cap
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and Diablo four, seasonfour, uh, posted by Cons, uh,
how do I say this constant,something like that.
Um, so here's a little bit about that.
A frequently requested change
to Diablo four's enchanting system will be
coming in season four.
The cost to re-roll gear apexesat the occultist will now
cap at a certain cost.
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Blizzard revealed duringthe latest campfire chat
that enchanting costs would be one
of the systems receiving anoverhaul no longer scaling
to an absurd degree on repeatedre-roll pieces of gear.
And then there's some updates here.
Um, it's in a little box
so it looks like it'sfrom the Campfire chat.
Additional updates,
legendary items dropped fromMonsters level 95 plus are
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always 925.
Um, item Power, I think thisis the same thing I saw before.
Forgotten Souls from Whispers
or Rare Drop globally from Elites.
There's this kind of stuffin there currently players
looking to re-roll anapex on their gear have
to pay a continuously scalinggold cost on each re-roll.
For some this is an annoyance at best,
but for unlucky players
or those looking to push theabsolute limit of their gear
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with perfect stat rolls,
this scaling cost canquickly balloon into the tens
of millions per roll.
Assuming the gold cost capimplemented in the season four
change is reasonable.
This is sure to be a wellreceived change for players
who have had their fill ofrolling away their gold in the
current state of season three.
And so there's just, there'smore about that somewhere
also from wow Head from Arcane.
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Huge changes coming tohell Tides in Diablo four,
season four and it's got a picture here
of somebody's character
with a bow running towardssomething else for Hell Tides.
It's a little hell tidesthing in the corner.
So you know that's where you ran into.
I suppose this one was written by Arcane,
I think I just said that Therecent developer Campfire Chat
has announced some of theupcoming changes to Diablo four,
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which are simply massive in scope.
They are barely any systemsthat are left untouched
and one of these sweepingreworks targets the Hell Tide
event which is gettingconsiderable quality
of life in mechanical changes.
A number of these muchneeded changes are brand new
but some bear direct inspirationfrom the popular Blood
harvest event from seasontwo, hell Tide quality
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of life changes Hell Tideswill now be available
for players in world tiers one
and two allowing playersto have another way
to level their charactersMore Interactables
and events are being addedto increase the diversity
of things to do during the hell Tide.
There will be huge demonic worms
that may suddenly burst forthfrom the ground to spew groups
of demons near players.
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At varying times the density
of monsters in the areawill be much higher,
including players beingambushed by sudden Monster Spa
and will tie into the new hell Tide threat
system about that.
They wrote about the threat system.
As players kill demons, complete events
and everything else theycan do during the hell Tide,
the forces of hell will begin
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to take notice of their actions.
As the threat meter fills,demons will ambush players
with increasing numbers and intensity
and there's some screenshots here of
that new hell born enemyand hell tide assault event.
Upon filling the threat meter completely,
a sound will play alongsidea notification on the screen
signaling the beginning ofhell's directed assault.
Hell Tide Harbinger will begin
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to spawn alongsidesignificantly more monsters
and elite monsters.
This demonic assault will continue
as the threat meter drains over time.
At the end of this event, anew enemy type called the hell
born will appear to attack the player
with dark shadowyversions of player skills.
Once slaying the hell born willdrop legendary items as well
as its exquisite blood
and order to summon vampireLord Zeer New hell Tide Group
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boss encounter as players progress
through the hell tide they will start
to acquire a rare summoningmaterial that can be used
to summon the blood maidena new public event boss.
While we don't know much aboutthis boss yet, we'll update
with the latest informationonce we hear more.
Stay tuned also from wow HeadBlizzard confirms and Dariel
and other bosses will dropUber uniques in season
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four Diablo four.
So here's a little bit about that.
This one was also written
by Arct following the recentcampfire chat developer live
stream on March 20.
Blizzard has been providingextra details regarding some
of the ch upcomingchanges in features we can
expect in Diablo four.
Season four RecentlyBlizzard has confirmed
that the new Uber boss onDrio will be an alternative
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to fighting dural for thecoveted Uber unique items such
as the grandfather, whichis some kind of a sword.
The information comes fromgame director Joe Shelley
who also noted that all ofthe other major bosses such
as Beast in the Ice
and the Lord Zeer willhave a notable chance
to drop Uber unique items as well.
Later Shelley added in areply to a player's question
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that the drop rate for Uberuniques items from bosses such
as the Beast in the ice inLord's ear would be significantly
higher than the normalodds of average gameplay.
However, and Dariel
and Durio will still havethe best odds for players.
So if you read throughthis wellhead article,
you can see some littlescreenshots from x slash Twitter
that Joe Shelley is talking tosomebody about with the stuff
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that kind of is already in the article.
These changes arecertainly a welcome edition
as players have even more ways
to get decent changes at coming at
claiming powerful trophy items.
This will also relieve some
of the fatigue someplayers have noted about
fighting dural endlessly.
So there's that. We've alsogot from Adam Fletcher over on
x slash Twitter, uh,
seen some people question ifthe camera slash view distance
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change is just for season four.
Just to be absolutely clear,it is in the game for good,
there will be two options.
The standard option which isthe distance currently in the
game and far, which isthe expanded distance.
Some platforms will defaultto one or the other,
but a new option in the menuwill be available for players
to select the one they prefer.
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So yes, consoles will get this as well.
So that's pretty coolthat that can happen.
You know, anything thathelps with consoles
to make it somewhat adequate
or uh, reasonably similar
to playing on PC is a good thingfor me because I have a Mac
and it won't play this game,
it will not play Diablo fourbut I could do it on my Xbox.
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Another one from Wow Head written
by constant, I hope I'm saying that right.
Uh, hardcore changes
to death avoidance coming in season four.
So if you are a hardcoreplayer this might interest you.
Blizzard announced upcoming changes
to death avoidance onhardcore films in season four
during their recent campfire Chat.
Players will no longer haveeasily accessible cheat death
mechanics, which will entirelychange the meta in terms of
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how players approacheverything from nightmare
dungeons to pinnacle bosses.
And here we have a pictureof Elixir of Death evasion,
a magic elixir for the next 30 minutes.
Prevent death once and becomeimmune for two seconds.
Once this takes place youcannot benefit from it again
for five minutes andthen the, the Quest text
or whatever here says uh, the item text.
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This elixir is special
and may be used alongsideany other elixir.
It requires level 10 so that'sreally not too much to uh,
to ask for I suppose.
Uh, we're also removing the elixir
of death evasion from the game.
We've also redesignedFlame shield's enchantment.
So yeah, that elixir
of death evasion I guessis leaving the game.
I was not aware of that.
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Um, so before with Flame Shieldit was enhancement effect.
Flame shield automaticallyactivates when you take fatal
damage can only happenonce every 120 seconds
and now it's changed to flame shield.
Enhan Enchantment effectflame shield automatically
activates after cumulativelylosing a hundred percent
maximum life can only happenonce every 30 seconds,
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which is a lot betterthan waiting 120 seconds.
So that's pretty cool.The first change applies
to all players Elixir of death.
Evasion will be removed from the game
to emphasize the finality ofdeath when playing hardcore.
The second change only pertains
to sorcerers Flame shieldEnchantment will no longer
activate when taking damagethat would otherwise be fatal.
Instead activating
after a player cumulativelyloses a hundred percent
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of their maximum life every 30 seconds.
So that's what that one'sabout. Got a few more here.
Okay, so this one's written by popular.
Popular who has one of thebest names over at Wow Head,
in my opinion, betterVisual Clarity coming
to Uber Lilith BossMechanics in Diablo four PTR,
I'm just excited that we're having a PTR.
I don't usually join into thosebecause I'm terrible at it
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and I'll leave everyone elseto sort it out for themselves.
But it's nice that they're giving us
that option in in generalyou don't have to do it,
but you can if you want to,
depending on how many people they let in.
I assume if you've ever foughtagainst Uber Echo of Lilith
and Diablo four, you mayhave had some frustration
with the hit boxes and the
visibility of some of her attacks.
Diablo four lead class designerAdam Jackson has confirmed
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that in Diablo four's firstPTR some changes will be coming
to the Uber Lilith encounter,
including more accurate hit boxes
and fewer one-shot mechanics.
So here's a post of somethingfrom X slash Twitter
that Adam Jackson wrote.
Speaking of Uber Lilith on thePTR, you'll be seeing updates
to her including bettervisual clarity of her attacks.
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The hit box of her waveswill better match the visual.
Her waves slash ghostsare no longer one shot.
Uh, mechanics instead they'lldo heavy ramping damage
as you get hit.
The Uber Lilith fight has oftenbeen criticized for its lack
of clarity when it comes tothe visualization of mechanics.
So these will be welcomechanges to players
who have struggled with thisboss encounter previously.
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Diablo four's first PTR will be available
to all PC battle net owners
of Diablo four starting on April 2nd.
So if you're on console, you'renot getting into the PTR is
what I'm understanding from this
and I won't be getting in either.
Okay, we've got another one from wow head
by Thera Deeming newcrafting system coming
with Diablo four, season four.
It's got this manual here about something.
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I don't know if this is thesame as the other one or not.
There's definitely a manual in here
but it didn't talk about thisone does not talk about the
um, the potion thing.
So maybe it's, maybe it's something new.
During their season fourcampfire livestream blizzard
showcase a new crafting systemcoming with Diablo four.
Season four tempering willbe a new crafting system open
coming sorry to Diablo fourwith the release of season four.
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Together with the new masterworking crafting system,
tempering will replace currentupgrade craft crafting system
and offer new ways to furtherimprove items in Diablo four.
Here's some stuff though the tempering
through the tempering craftingsystem players can add
specific powerful apexes torare and legendary items.
These tempered apexes appearon so-called temper manuals,
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which have four different apexes on them
and drop from most content inDiablo four players won't be
able to add tempered apexes tounique and Uber unique items.
If you combine a certaintemper manual with an item,
it will add one of thosefour apexes randomly.
There will be general temper manuals
but also class specific temper manuals
with powerful exclusive tempered apexes
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as shown in the screenshot down below,
which they do have picturesof those similar to aspects,
temper manuals will havedifferent categories.
Weapons, offensive defensiveutility mobility resource.
These categories indicatewhich items can be
combined with the temper manual.
For example, a mobilitytemper manual can be applied
to boots and amuletsAncestor items can hold up
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to two tempered apexes itemswill also have tempering
durability, also called temper re-roll,
which will determine the number
of times a player couldre-roll a tempered apex.
Much more like normal apexestempered apexes could roll
within a certain range, addinganother probability layer
to the crafting process.
The developers pointed outthat the system includes a lot
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of new and unique apexes thatwill add more customization
and new ways to play your character.
So that's what that one is.
And finally we have
Diablo four Uber uniquecoming in Season four
Tes Mite written by popular.
Popular. If you playedDiablo three, you've probably
wore materials mites
or pieces of it, uh, in thegame and it's really neat.
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So we've got this characterhere in a screenshot
that is scaring away a bunchof, uh, it looks like skeletons
that are on fire and abunch of like, I think,
I dunno if this one hastheir own skeletons or not,
but it looks like a wholebunch of shields around
that particular character
and these lights coming off of 'em.
So this one is a 925 item power.
It is 1,619 Armor eight plus 18
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to all stats plus 50% maximum resistance
to all elements plus 11.2%resistance to all elements,
10% damage reduction.
While at full life your skillsunleash a divine barrage
dealing 909, also saying 7 82
to 924 damage at the bottom.
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It's not quite all the way there,
but it says, thus teal, aperfect aspect of justice come,
came to be none.
Were more vehement againstthe forces of hell.
And it goes on from there.It's a little cut off.
Oh, here's the rest of it. Alldemon Monica entities learn
to shudder at tear atjustices might Books of Jarral
volume one, this Uber uniquehas some great defensive apexes
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such as maximum resistanceto all elements,
which dramatically reduces the amount
of non-physical damagethat a character takes.
Additionally, the developers confirmed
that the damage reductionafix would be much more
rare starting in season four.
So this is another huge bonus.
Finally, the conditional effect
that unleashes a divine barrage acts
as an artillery shrine launchingprojectiles out at enemies
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whenever the charactercasts a skill or ability.
A second unique item,
but not an uber unique fracturedwinter glass is also shown
during this live stream.
Fractured winter glassis in a unique amulet
that allows sorcerers torandomly spawn a conation such
as a hydra whenever they cast frozen orb.
In addition, these randomlyspawned conation will also have
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a lucky hit chance to castan additional frozen orb.
There's a screenshot of that in there.
And these are just two of theunique items that are coming,
the new unique items thatare coming to season four.
So that's pretty cool.
That's a lot of stuff
to do in the game comingup in season four.
I've had this, uh, I'vebeen talking at you
for more than 40 minutes now, so I think
that's time to end it.
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Uh, thanks for listening.
Uh, you have been listeningto episode four 50
of the Shattered Soul Stone.
Your Diablo communitypodcast missed an episode.
You could find the show blog
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www.shatteredsoulstone.com.
Come join us in game ourin-game, community and clan.
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Find the Discord invitationlink on our Twitter at shattered
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Thank you for listening.
- Coming to you fromsomewhere in Sanctuary.
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This is episode four 50of Shattered Soul Stone,
your Diablo Community podcast.
This episode is called Kodak Talk
because I think it sounds funny.
It is March 24th, 2024. And this is Jen.
So we're gonna start off
with an article from End Gadgettitled Activision Blizzards
(00:23):
ex CEO.
Bobby Kotick reportedlywants to buy TikTok.
And there's a little blurb in here.
It says He's pitched the idea
to potential partners includingOpen ai, CEO, Sam Altman,
the Wall Street Journal reports.
This was written by Cheyenne McDonald.
So here's a little bit from this article.
Bobby Kotick, the formerCEO of Activision Blizzard,
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who stepped down at the end of last year,
is apparently interested in buying TikTok
as a new bill in the USthreatens to ban the app
or force it sale.
According to a report bythe Wall Street Journal,
Kodak mentioned the idea ofpartnering on such a purchase
to open AI, CEO, Sam Altman and others.
Seated with him at aconference dinner last week
(01:07):
and brought it up with BiteDance executive chair Jang Ying.
If TikTok is sold theWall Street Journal notes,
it would likely go for hundredsof billions of dollars.
Codec led Activision for over 30 years
but didn't exactly leave on a good note.
The company has facedmultiple lawsuits in recent
years, including one.
It's settled with the CaliforniaCivil Rights Department
(01:27):
over alleged pay discrimination.
In December in 2021,
Activision Blizzardemployee staged a walkout
and demanded Kotak resign.
But that didn't happen.Kotak ultimately sh stayed on
as the head of ActivisionBlizzard until the completion
of Microsoft's acquisition in 2023.
Kodak's alleged interest inTikTok comes at a tumultuous
(01:49):
moment for the immensely popular platform
after lawmakers introduced the
policing Americans fromForeign Adversary Controlled
Applications Act.
That's a mouthful last week,
which President Biden said hewould sign if it passes under
the bill, which goes to the house floor
on Wednesday for a vote.
TikTok China based parentcompany Bite Dance would have
(02:11):
to sell the app within six months,
otherwise it'll be bannedfrom US app stores.
TikTok has been trying to getits millions of users to rally
behind it in wake of theBill's, sudden momentum
and sent out push notificationslast week asking users
to call their representatives
after the house vote whereit's expected to be approved.
After clearing the Energy
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and Commerce Committee ina unanimous vote last week,
the bill would move on tothe Senate while lawmakers
concerns about TikTok Centeron fears of data privacy
and its connection to China.
Wall Street Journal notes
that involving Altman in itspurchase could open up the app
to the possibility ofbeing used by open AI
to train its AI models,
which doesn't exactly soundideal for users either.
(02:53):
And it kind of goes onfrom there a little bit,
but that's what's going on.
I mean, I guess, you know,maybe Bobby Kotek is bored
and wants to try, you know, messing around
with something else that may
or may not, um, makeits way through Congress
and the Senate and all that.
I don't know, it's just weird.
And from here we have a lotof Diablo stuff going on.
So we have, if youhaven't done this already,
(03:15):
which I haven't, the reason I haven't is
because I've been sick for a while
because I have horrible allergies
and just couldn't function for a while.
So that's why last episode didn't appear
because I just couldn't do it.
So I'm just gonna continue on from here.
So Diablo four patch 1.3 0.4is now available to download.
It is two gigabytes apparently.
(03:35):
And this is from WowHead written by J Tross.
It's got a lovely imageat the top of this here
and it doesn't say a heckof a lot Other than that,
I mean there's some notes about it,
but that's from a long,that's from a while back.
So I guess what they're trying
to say is you should probably go ahead
and download this patch on March 14.
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Bloodshed announced on Twitterslash x. This it's official.
I am now a member of thehashtag Diablo community team.
There's a little fire emoji there.
I'll be helping out withcreator programs and management.
Really excited to dig backin with the community.
There's a little red heart.
Also, you can still expectthe educational videos from me
on the YouTube channel.
(04:16):
So that's what's going on with bloodshed.
So you know, good job. Um,I think you'll do well.
You seem to know what you'retalking about, so that's great.
Over in Diablo Immortal territory, uh,
we've got a few thingsthat have been posted on
uh, Twitter slash x.
So it's the first one I'vegot here is titled The Arachni
Embodies the Webs, it spinscomplete with deceptions
(04:38):
and lethal traps.
Eradicates the threat to win challenges
and rewards in our season24 Battle Pass, a regent
of webs available now until April 11th.
And it has a picture hereof uh, the different types
of characters you could possiblyplay in Diablo, immortal.
And I don't know if there'slike webs coming from them
or not or if they're stuck in one,
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but it's kind of a neat little drawing.
Everything I talk about todayis gonna be in the show notes.
So you could find it there.
And it looks like there'slike a 34 second video stuck
with this uh, thing that I just read you.
So you can go ahead and do that.
And some of the comments are really funny.
Um, one of them has a picture of one
of the Diablo I mortal characters.
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It looks like a man withgreen hair and green clothing.
And this person I'm not gonna name, um,
writes finally a Kinky BP skin.
I love it so much. I don'tthink there's anything weird
about it, but this person seems happy.
So maybe he'll go in and get that.
Also from Diablo, Imortal on x slash Twitter,
a new terror is descending into sanctuary.
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Prepare to defend with honor
during our limited time eventfrom now until April 1st.
And there's this huge thing with teeth
and a glowing, uh,interior, like it's going
to swallow up the playersor something like that.
And it says something istearing into sanctuary
and that's all it says.
So we don't know whatthat's gonna be exactly,
(06:04):
but I bet it'll be interesting.
And then again from Diablo Immortal,
this was written on March23rd in 2024, the Age
of Unmasking Takes Over Diablo Immortal,
what are you most excited for this year?
Let us know in the comments.
And there's a 2024 roadmap here called uh,
the Age of Unmasking.
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Above it is the second anniversary
and then later there'ssomething called Terror Reign.
So from January to Marchthere's terror riffs,
oblivion pillars, eternal Equipment,
and Deckard Ka Elite Quest.
That's also, uh, has tongue,she's renewal in front of that.
The next is a blue bannerthat says New class.
(06:45):
That's for April and June.
So it's gonna be a new Paragonsystem, new equipment system,
new heli query bosses and new game modes.
Then there's a yellow bannerthat says Cursed Solstice.
This is for July throughSeptember, world Stone Quest,
part one Dungeon Updates, new Co-op mode,
a Cursed Towers update.
And then there's another one
that's an orange bannerthat says Hallows Wake.
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That's gonna happen forOctober and December
or maybe between September and October.
Not real clear about that.
So that one for October
and December is World Stone Quest part two
'cause the September one was part one
and then there's news, a NewZone and Hella Query bosses
and so much more apparently.
And then the last thingover there says Broom teen.
And I don't know what that is,
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but if you go into the game,you'll probably find out
for yourself when it's,when it gets there.
If you missed it in the past,you may have uh, become aware
that there are a lot ofbooks that have to do
with mostly lore
of various characters inthe entire Diablo series.
So we're not just talkingabout Diablo Mortal
or Diablo four, but the whole deal.
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So wow head posted, uh, ninedays ago by Slic, a post
that says Diablo Book of Cane
and Book of Teelre-released on March 12th.
So they're already out thereif you want to get them.
I happen to have both of these'cause I got them right away
because I've been lower junkie apparently
and I just really wannaknow what's going on.
I usually like really enjoy the artwork
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and stories and that kind of thing.
So here's a little bit about that.
Blizzard Re-released the firsttwo books from the Diablo
book of series, book of Kaneand Book of Teel on March 12.
These decade old books havefinally made their return just
in time to potentially giveus a refresher on kibitz
of lore in the Diablo universeat the time of publication.
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The price is 29 95 USD for the book of CAE
and 27 87 USD for the book of Terio.
Diablo book of CAE wasoriginally published on
December 13th, 2011.
While Diablo book
of Teel was publishedon October 1st, 2013,
these books had seemingly run out
of print given theirunusually high prices.
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If you were to buy themnew as of March 12,
these books are now back instock for anyone who is looking
to add them to their collection
or to catch up on more recentlore in the Diablo franchise
and to prepare for more, evenmore lore to come when vessel
of hatred releases.
That is my understanding isgonna be uh, season four.
There was a whole thingI watched about it,
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you may have watched ittoo and it had like really
interesting pictures, butnot a lot of uh, details
because of course they're notgonna give you all the details
for the upcoming thing if you'restill in the current thing,
you know, so those who are looking
to purchase these books canfind them on Amazon using the
link below where thereis a link in this article
or wherever books are soldat the time of publication.
The price is, I think wealready just said that one.
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Um, yeah, 29 95 USD for book of Kain 27 87
for book material and there'ssupposed to be another one,
a book of Brava,
which I think I mentionedthe last time I did
a Shattered Soul Stone episode.
And that one is 29 95 USD.
It's not real clear whenthat's gonna come out,
but it might be withDiablo four's expansion.
(09:59):
VE vessel of hatred andis likely to coincide
with the expansions release late in 2024.
So if you want some lore,this is where to go,
but you're gonna have towait on the Bravo one.
Over on max roll we have a itemization,
the itemization campfire chatwrap up written by Dready
who always does good work in this.
This is where I go when I'm like, okay,
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wait, what is this about?
I go here and then I learneverything and it's wonderful.
Okay, so the itemization, a campfire chat,
live stream just took place.
The panel consisted of Joe Shelley,
game director Joseph Priya,associate game director,
Adam Jackson, lead classdesigner, Charles Dunn,
associate game designer,
and Adam Fletcher, director of community.
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The topics included themassive itemization updates,
class changes, PTR news and so much more.
See all the major points below.
This is kind of long, so I'mgonna give you some of it
and you can check it outin the show notes later on.
PTR details, yes, they'rehaving a PTR if you missed that
before, there will be a PTRfor the next, uh, chapter of
of uh, Diablo four basically.
(11:03):
So here's some little bullet points.
The upcoming PTR will runfrom April 2nd to April 9th.
The PTR is PC battle.net only.
Console PTRS may happen in the future.
Season three ends Tuesday,May 14th now to allow the PTR
to run and incorporate all the feedback.
And season four startson Tuesday, May 14th.
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So that's kind of together, you know,
season four will start on the 14th.
Season three ends on the 14th I think.
So I gotta get back in there and play.
Me being sick for a whiledid not help me at all.
Okay, PTR specifics, instant boost
to 100 including the followingcampaign completion mount.
All skill points, all paragonpoints, fog of war cleared,
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all alters of Lilith discovered random set
of rare gear on your boosted character.
All class systems unlockedall glyphs maxed level when
boosted you gain, oh boy, a lot of gold.
Uh, 1 million, I think it's 1 million gold
or something like that and 1000 ovals.
This can be done multiple times.
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Legendary drop rates,doubled note anything related
to renowned mimics what youcurrently have completed.
If you haven't already,make sure you do this
before the PTR starts.
A specific PTR forum will beadded to the Diablo foresight
as well as the team willmonitor social media channels.
Here's some itemization updates.
The dev team started withthree key principles,
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quality over quantity.
The devs are refocusingon having fewer items
with better quality.
This gives items more meaning
to more players For the long run,
the best items have a journey currently.
Once you found your gear,that was it for the most part.
With new systems comingto the game, the goal is
to make items more a journeyto have items unique to you
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and give a sense ofprogression through crafting.
Surprise and delight reignitethe joy when items drop.
There should be excitingrewards. There is also trading.
Trading is being updated in a big way.
Legendaries and uniques willbecome tradable in season four.
There are two exceptions.
Doing any form of crafting onthese items binds them to you.
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Also Uber uniques are not tradable.
There's a bunch of stuffhere from base item updates.
There's like photos of this in here
that I'll let you gocheck out on your own.
Yeah, and this just goes on andon and it looks really good.
Um, so part of it,underneath those pictures
with some words in themtalks about items gain
apexes from a smaller pool.
This is meant to removea lot of ddu, duplicate
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or conditional effects.
The dev team is also improvingthe potency of many apexes,
including plus ranks
to skill Sacred items nowonly drop in world tier three
with ancestral items in world tier four.
Overall AFIX values have been increased.
Legendary items now only rollthree apexes down from four
rare items now only rolled twoA fixes down from four max.
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The amount of apexes, at leastfour legendaries is meant
to give you a great base to work on
and to add two again, this is meant
to change the itemizationin game to a journey.
Legendaries from level 95plus monsters always drop at
925 item power.
Many uniques now drop in world tiers one
and two starting at in world tier three,
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all uniques drop Uber uniquesstart dropping from monster
level 55 plus enemies andalways drop with 925 item power.
There's some other stuff in here.
I highly recommend you scroll through it
and read the rest of it, butif you wanna know everything,
this is exactly where you needto go over on max roll with
what dread side has written.
And I even didn't give you all of it.
There's more for you to discover.
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We have Diablo four patch notes,
which sometimes I find hilariouslyfunny as to what they had
to fix and sometimes it's just
kind of like, oh, that's okay.
So this was posted on March 22nd, 2024.
The Diablo four team hasbeen monitoring your feedback
as we introduce patches
to keep your experiencein sanctuary smooth,
we will update the below list
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and denote whether the fixesare intended for pc, Xbox,
PlayStation, or all platforms.
So here we go. This is for all platforms.
Well, they posted thispatch notes on March 22,
but they decided to add to it, uh,
and on March 26th for some reason.
So game updates, patch 1.30.5 introduces Ray tracing
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to all supported platforms andupdates to ambient occlusion
and contact shadows.
For more details, pleasevisit this article.
I guess I'm gonna haveto find this article
after I'm done writing this.
There are bug fixes fixed anissue where the portal entrance
to the gauntlet didn't apply.
Portal cosmetics fixed anissue where the ability
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to interact with certain thingswould not function if corpse
tendrils were equipped to thesame key binding as interact.
Fixed an issue where some elitescould not properly spawn in
the second half of the path
of the blind dungeon fixed an issue
where some headstone cosmetics would not
appear in the wardrobe.
Various performance stabilityand visual improvements.
(15:59):
So there's that, that's the newest stuff.
Let's find out what thisarticle happens to be.
Okay, so the article is titled
Hell's Beauty Burns AEW with Ray Tracing
and this is from March, 2022.
Nope, 22 of 2024, sorry.
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Numbers are the bane ofmy existence. Honestly.
On March 26, wanderers canconquer the horrors of hell
with a suite of new graphicalenhancements available to them
with patch 1.3 0.5.
Arriving alongside ournext content update.
Sanctuary will be furtherimbued with the luscious shadows
and enhanced reflections
of ray tracing plus othervisual enhancements.
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So here's some stuff thatthey've got going on.
If you go to this article,
which again will be in the shownotes, it will show you like
where the shadows are coming from
and the difference betweenusing it and not using it.
To me this one looks a little subtle,
but there's some differences right away.
You can see if you watch it long enough.
Ray tracing shadows.
Ray tracing is the term thatbroadly refers to the ability
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for game engines to producemore lifelike images.
For example, shadows castby the sun are enhanced
with ray tracing.
And there's a picture here of one
that's a little bit more blurry
and one that's not as blurry.
So it says on the left,ray tracing is toggled off,
resulting in sharper andless accurate shadows.
On the right ray tracing is enabled.
The shadows from the tree are much more
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realistic and lifelike.
Notice the further you lookfrom the base of the tree,
the softer the shadows become
because these are in some kind of fog.
There's um, a person riding a horse
through somewhere in sanctuary.
And the difference between
the shadow coming from thebuilding behind this character
is very different.
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It's very clear in the first shot
and it's kind of fuzzy in the second shot.
And there's more like this.
There's a group of littleskeletons trying to be fought off
by what probably iseither a, I think a druid
'cause they do have like, you know, um,
horns on their helmetand the first glimpse
of it gives you like afuzzy view of the shadows
of these two skeletons
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and the the character that they're playing
and, um, how clear it gets after that.
I think that's mostlythe point with this is
to show like hard shadows
so you can really see things going on.
And then there's one in likeyour, your character goes
for the first time to talk material.
That's all I'm gonna say aboutthat if you haven't done it.
And yeah, the shadowsare totally different.
So there's that. There's alsoreflections on the water.
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So ray tracing also producesmore lifelike refle reflections
on surfaces like a stillpond or a broad mirror.
This enhanced featurecan reveal more details
around your environmentby not only bringing depth
to the reflections of the water,
but adding to the broaderenvironmental storytelling as well
with this asset below.
Okay, here's the asset below.
We've got what lookslike a sorcerer who is
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throwing lightning at agroup of possibly Goulds
and they're all standing in a river.
Okay, so with this assetbelow the ray tracing enabled,
you can see the reflection
of the ball lightning offthe surface of the water.
One of the benefits of ray tracing is
that it can also enableyou to see the reflection
of something offscreen,
like the offscreen rockface in the top right hand
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corner below the image.
The reflections from raytracing will help provide more
lifelike instances where youcan view pieces of environment
that were previously unseen.
And that's, uh, most of it.
There's also ambient occlusion,
which sounds like someonedid something dangerous
and needed a hospital, but maybe not.
Uh, Diablo four alreadyincludes ambient occlusion,
which measures the extent
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of which a surface is obscured
from surrounding light shadows.
In other words, it determines
how much surroundingobjects prevent a surface
or object from receivinglight from a source such
as a campfire or lantern.
Now available on allplatforms, we have updated
and enhanced the ambientocclusion feature PC users
who use the preset graphicsupon ultra quality.
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We'll notice this change the most,
but it can be seen on allquality settings on all platforms
and there's, you know,showing you the shadows coming
and going on a couple ofdifferent images down here.
There are contact shadows.
We recently updatedcontact shadows to apply
to more characters insanctuary than before.
Previously contact shadowsonly displayed the shadows
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around player characters,
but now at the highest graphicsettings includes shadows
for all player characters,NPCs and monsters alike.
And then there's uh, stufffor PC and for console.
So depending on what you're using
or maybe you're doing both,here's what you need to know.
Graphic settings requirements
and how to enable forPC to enable ray tracing
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and other visual enhancementson PC select options
from the in-game menu.
Under performance you canmanually select the various visual
improvements that have been included
with this content updateoutlined in this blog.
For additional details on whichgraphic cards are eligible
for Ray Tracing, pleasesee our Diablo force system
requirements article herethat might've been the one
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that I uh just told you about.
Console on console.
Select options from the endgamemenu from their navigate
to the graphics tab.
Under performance select Enhanced Visuals.
This enables enhanced visualson console Feast your eyes on
your improved ray tracing visuals.
It increases the quality oftextures like fur, hair and fog.
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Shadows will have amore realistic response
to light at various distances
and many reflections willbe enhanced in order not
to compromise overall performance.
This feature is locked at 30FPS frames per second overall.
And then something having to do
with Nvidia GForce is in here as well.
I don't, honestly I've never used one.
I don't know what thisdoes, but if you have one,
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you might wanna read the endof this particular article
from from Blizzard.
PC Gamer has an article titledBlizzard just revived Diablo
four with a list of changes so massive
that it's practically a newgame written by Tyler Culp.
A little blurb here. Seasonfour will add powerful LUT
crafting new Dungeons new Bosses,
and a list of quality of life changes.
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So here's a little bit from this article.
Blizzard should call DiabloFour's next season Diablo five
because the changes comingon are so fundamental
and widespread, it's going
to feel like you're playinga full on sequel After months
of teasing a massive overhaul
to Diablo four's core design Blizzard.
Use today's campfire chat stream to walk
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through Season four's rework,
which will be permanently inthe game from then on to loot
and many of the game's, othercore systems over the course
of a nearly two hour stream.
The changes touch almostevery aspect of the game,
which is probably why the Stream opened
with game director Joe Shelley.
Defining the most importantaspects of Diablo four
as the decisions you make before combat
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and the ones you make in between
to set up what's in store for next season.
Season Four's, loot, rework, redefines
how you build your character through loot
and adds much needed complexity
and creativity to DiabloFour's character progression.
Diablo four's items and yourcharacter as a result are going
to become flexible in ways they have never
been since its release.
A pair of gloves, for example, can drop
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with only a few stats or apexes you want.
And through two new craftingsystems they can now be shaped
around the kind of build you want to play.
Blizzard has clearly takeninspiration from last Epoch
and Path of Exile.
I hope I pronounce those right,to add a staggering amount
of customization to its loot.
The hope is that the age ofsorting through mountains
of gear for the perfectitems is finally over
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and Blizzard beliefs, it canbe done without a loot filter.
And here's some, uh, there'sa picture in here about, uh,
different items and
what they're turninginto, that kind of thing.
Manuals will drop consistently as you play
and are permanently available in a menu.
So if you need a manualfor something, there it is.
Uh, let's walk througha theoretical example of
how upgrading loot will work.
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In season four and onwards.
You defeat a boss who dropsgloves with three stats on them.
Legendary and rare itemshave one fewer stat on them.
Now two, they're almost perfect for you
but will need to betempered at the blacksmith.
Three, you temper your gloves
with a new manual itemyou found that adds one
of four mobility based stats.
Example, movement, speed evade,
cool down reduction, et cetera.
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Four, you're lucky. And getthe movement speed stat added
to your item before using upits maximum temporary re rolls.
Five, you add one more stat
that makes your bonesplinters skills shoot
more projectiles.
Six. Then you use themaster working system
to increase all the stats,
including the tempered ones on the gloves.
Even further, up to 12times seven you luck out
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and roll the four major upgrades
to your movement speedincreasing the stat dramatically.
One stat jumps way upevery four upgrades eight,
you're now the fastestnecromancer that ever lived.
And there's a little bit more in here,
but that's kind of the idea.
I think I like this idea
because it does, as this articlesaid, make it pretty clear
that they know that things arekind of, you know, you have
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to go searching through your stash
to find the thing you want
and it may be underpowered for you
by the time you find itand that kind of stuff.
So I think it's cool thatthey're giving us more options
to do stuff with andwe won't have to spend
so much time just sorting through loot
that maybe is not relevant for us anymore.
So I like that The Verge hasa teeny tiny little article
posted on March 14 by Tom Warren.
(25:13):
It says Diablo's fours rage tracing update
arrives March 26th.
Diablo four is getting a ray
tracing update later this month.
Armor, water, windows andother reflective surfaces.
We'll all have Ray tracedreflections for more detail
and lighting accuracy shadowsthroughout the game will
also feature ray tracing.
And then uh, there's a partabout Nvidia that I skipped over
(25:35):
but they have a tiny bit here.
Nvidia is also bringingDLSS 3.5 to portal with RTX.
This should improve the fidelity
of full ray tracing in the game
and you can enable framegeneration on 40 dash series RTX
cards to boost frame rates.
So there's that going on
and a lot of the rest of this is wow head.
We've got a cultist enchanting cost to cap
(25:57):
and Diablo four, seasonfour, uh, posted by Cons, uh,
how do I say this constant,something like that.
Um, so here's a little bit about that.
A frequently requested change
to Diablo four's enchanting system will be
coming in season four.
The cost to re-roll gear apexesat the occultist will now
cap at a certain cost.
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Blizzard revealed duringthe latest campfire chat
that enchanting costs would be one
of the systems receiving anoverhaul no longer scaling
to an absurd degree on repeatedre-roll pieces of gear.
And then there's some updates here.
Um, it's in a little box
so it looks like it'sfrom the Campfire chat.
Additional updates,
legendary items dropped fromMonsters level 95 plus are
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always 925.
Um, item Power, I think thisis the same thing I saw before.
Forgotten Souls from Whispers
or Rare Drop globally from Elites.
There's this kind of stuffin there currently players
looking to re-roll anapex on their gear have
to pay a continuously scalinggold cost on each re-roll.
For some this is an annoyance at best,
but for unlucky players
or those looking to push theabsolute limit of their gear
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with perfect stat rolls,
this scaling cost canquickly balloon into the tens
of millions per roll.
Assuming the gold cost capimplemented in the season four
change is reasonable.
This is sure to be a wellreceived change for players
who have had their fill ofrolling away their gold in the
current state of season three.
And so there's just, there'smore about that somewhere
also from wow Head from Arcane.
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Huge changes coming tohell Tides in Diablo four,
season four and it's got a picture here
of somebody's character
with a bow running towardssomething else for Hell Tides.
It's a little hell tidesthing in the corner.
So you know that's where you ran into.
I suppose this one was written by Arcane,
I think I just said that Therecent developer Campfire Chat
has announced some of theupcoming changes to Diablo four,
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which are simply massive in scope.
They are barely any systemsthat are left untouched
and one of these sweepingreworks targets the Hell Tide
event which is gettingconsiderable quality
of life in mechanical changes.
A number of these muchneeded changes are brand new
but some bear direct inspirationfrom the popular Blood
harvest event from seasontwo, hell Tide quality
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of life changes Hell Tideswill now be available
for players in world tiers one
and two allowing playersto have another way
to level their charactersMore Interactables
and events are being addedto increase the diversity
of things to do during the hell Tide.
There will be huge demonic worms
that may suddenly burst forthfrom the ground to spew groups
of demons near players.
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At varying times the density
of monsters in the areawill be much higher,
including players beingambushed by sudden Monster Spa
and will tie into the new hell Tide threat
system about that.
They wrote about the threat system.
As players kill demons, complete events
and everything else theycan do during the hell Tide,
the forces of hell will begin
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to take notice of their actions.
As the threat meter fills,demons will ambush players
with increasing numbers and intensity
and there's some screenshots here of
that new hell born enemyand hell tide assault event.
Upon filling the threat meter completely,
a sound will play alongsidea notification on the screen
signaling the beginning ofhell's directed assault.
Hell Tide Harbinger will begin
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to spawn alongsidesignificantly more monsters
and elite monsters.
This demonic assault will continue
as the threat meter drains over time.
At the end of this event, anew enemy type called the hell
born will appear to attack the player
with dark shadowyversions of player skills.
Once slaying the hell born willdrop legendary items as well
as its exquisite blood
and order to summon vampireLord Zeer New hell Tide Group
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boss encounter as players progress
through the hell tide they will start
to acquire a rare summoningmaterial that can be used
to summon the blood maidena new public event boss.
While we don't know much aboutthis boss yet, we'll update
with the latest informationonce we hear more.
Stay tuned also from wow HeadBlizzard confirms and Dariel
and other bosses will dropUber uniques in season
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four Diablo four.
So here's a little bit about that.
This one was also written
by Arct following the recentcampfire chat developer live
stream on March 20.
Blizzard has been providingextra details regarding some
of the ch upcomingchanges in features we can
expect in Diablo four.
Season four RecentlyBlizzard has confirmed
that the new Uber boss onDrio will be an alternative
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to fighting dural for thecoveted Uber unique items such
as the grandfather, whichis some kind of a sword.
The information comes fromgame director Joe Shelley
who also noted that all ofthe other major bosses such
as Beast in the Ice
and the Lord Zeer willhave a notable chance
to drop Uber unique items as well.
Later Shelley added in areply to a player's question
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that the drop rate for Uberuniques items from bosses such
as the Beast in the ice inLord's ear would be significantly
higher than the normalodds of average gameplay.
However, and Dariel
and Durio will still havethe best odds for players.
So if you read throughthis wellhead article,
you can see some littlescreenshots from x slash Twitter
that Joe Shelley is talking tosomebody about with the stuff
(30:58):
that kind of is already in the article.
These changes arecertainly a welcome edition
as players have even more ways
to get decent changes at coming at
claiming powerful trophy items.
This will also relieve some
of the fatigue someplayers have noted about
fighting dural endlessly.
So there's that. We've alsogot from Adam Fletcher over on
x slash Twitter, uh,
seen some people question ifthe camera slash view distance
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change is just for season four.
Just to be absolutely clear,it is in the game for good,
there will be two options.
The standard option which isthe distance currently in the
game and far, which isthe expanded distance.
Some platforms will defaultto one or the other,
but a new option in the menuwill be available for players
to select the one they prefer.
(31:41):
So yes, consoles will get this as well.
So that's pretty coolthat that can happen.
You know, anything thathelps with consoles
to make it somewhat adequate
or uh, reasonably similar
to playing on PC is a good thingfor me because I have a Mac
and it won't play this game
it will not play Diablo fourbut I could do it on my Xbox.
(32:03):
Another one from Wow Head written
by constant, I hope I'm saying that right.
Uh, hardcore changes
to death avoidance coming in season four.
So if you are a hardcoreplayer this might interest you.
Blizzard announced upcoming changes
to death avoidance onhardcore films in season four
during their recent campfire Chat.
Players will no longer haveeasily accessible cheat death
mechanics, which will entirelychange the meta in terms of
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how players approacheverything from nightmare
dungeons to pinnacle bosses.
And here we have a pictureof Elixir of Death evasion,
a magic elixir for the next 30 minutes.
Prevent death once and becomeimmune for two seconds.
Once this takes place youcannot benefit from it again
for five minutes andthen the, the Quest text
or whatever here says uh, the item text.
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This elixir is special
and may be used alongsideany other elixir.
It requires level 10 so that'sreally not too much to uh,
to ask for I suppose.
Uh, we're also removing the elixir
of death evasion from the game.
We've also redesignedFlame shield's enchantment.
So yeah, that elixir
of death evasion I guessis leaving the game.
I was not aware of that.
(33:07):
Um, so before with Flame Shieldit was enhancement effect.
Flame shield automaticallyactivates when you take fatal
damage can only happenonce every 120 seconds
and now it's changed to flame shield.
Enhan Enchantment effectflame shield automatically
activates after cumulativelylosing a hundred percent
maximum life can only happenonce every 30 seconds,
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which is a lot betterthan waiting 120 seconds.
So that's pretty cool.The first change applies
to all players Elixir of death.
Evasion will be removed from the game
to emphasize the finality ofdeath when playing hardcore.
The second change only pertains
to sorcerers Flame shieldEnchantment will no longer
activate when taking damagethat would otherwise be fatal.
Instead activating
after a player cumulativelyloses a hundred percent
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of their maximum life every 30 seconds.
So that's what that one'sabout. Got a few more here.
Okay, so this one's written by popular.
Popular who has one of thebest names over at Wow Head,
in my opinion, betterVisual Clarity coming
to Uber Lilith BossMechanics in Diablo four PTR,
I'm just excited that we're having a PTR.
I don't usually join into thosebecause I'm terrible at it
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and I'll leave everyone elseto sort it out for themselves.
But it's nice that they're giving us
that option in in generalyou don't have to do it,
but you can if you want to,
depending on how many people they let in.
I assume if you've ever foughtagainst Uber Echo of Lilith
and Diablo four, you mayhave had some frustration
with the hit boxes and the
visibility of some of her attacks.
Diablo four lead class designerAdam Jackson has confirmed
(34:35):
that in Diablo four's firstPTR some changes will be coming
to the Uber Lilith encounter,
including more accurate hit boxes
and fewer one-shot mechanics.
So here's a post of somethingfrom X slash Twitter
that Adam Jackson wrote.
Speaking of Uber Lilith on thePTR, you'll be seeing updates
to her including bettervisual clarity of her attacks.
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The hit box of her waveswill better match the visual.
Her waves slash ghostsare no longer one shot.
Uh, mechanics instead they'lldo heavy ramping damage
as you get hit.
The Uber Lilith fight has oftenbeen criticized for its lack
of clarity when it comes tothe visualization of mechanics.
So these will be welcomechanges to players
who have struggled with thisboss encounter previously.
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Diablo four's first PTR will be available
to all PC battle net owners
of Diablo four starting on April 2nd.
So if you're on console, you'renot getting into the PTR is
what I'm understanding from this
and I won't be getting in either.
Okay, we've got another one from wow head
by Thera Deeming newcrafting system coming
with Diablo four, season four.
It's got this manual here about something.
(35:41):
I don't know if this is thesame as the other one or not.
There's definitely a manual in here
but it didn't talk about thisone does not talk about the
um, the potion thing.
So maybe it's, maybe it's something new.
During their season fourcampfire livestream blizzard
showcase a new crafting systemcoming with Diablo four.
Season four tempering willbe a new crafting system open
coming sorry to Diablo fourwith the release of season four.
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Together with the new masterworking crafting system,
tempering will replace currentupgrade craft crafting system
and offer new ways to furtherimprove items in Diablo four.
Here's some stuff though the tempering
through the tempering craftingsystem players can add
specific powerful apexes torare and legendary items.
These tempered apexes appearon so-called temper manuals,
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which have four different apexes on them
and drop from most content inDiablo four players won't be
able to add tempered apexes tounique and Uber unique items.
If you combine a certaintemper manual with an item,
it will add one of thosefour apexes randomly.
There will be general temper manuals
but also class specific temper manuals
with powerful exclusive tempered apexes
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as shown in the screenshot down below,
which they do have picturesof those similar to aspects,
temper manuals will havedifferent categories.
Weapons, offensive defensiveutility mobility resource.
These categories indicatewhich items can be
combined with the temper manual.
For example, a mobilitytemper manual can be applied
to boots and amuletsAncestor items can hold up
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to two tempered apexes itemswill also have tempering
durability, also called temper re-roll,
which will determine the number
of times a player couldre-roll a tempered apex.
Much more like normal apexestempered apexes could roll
within a certain range, addinganother probability layer
to the crafting process.
The developers pointed outthat the system includes a lot
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of new and unique apexes thatwill add more customization
and new ways to play your character.
So that's what that one is.
And finally we have
Diablo four Uber uniquecoming in Season four
Tes Mite written by popular.
Popular. If you playedDiablo three, you've probably
wore materials mites
or pieces of it, uh, in thegame and it's really neat.
(37:50):
So we've got this characterhere in a screenshot
that is scaring away a bunchof, uh, it looks like skeletons
that are on fire and abunch of like, I think,
I dunno if this one hastheir own skeletons or not,
but it looks like a wholebunch of shields around
that particular character
and these lights coming off of 'em.
So this one is a 925 item power.
It is 1,619 Armor eight plus 18
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to all stats plus 50% maximum resistance
to all elements plus 11.2%resistance to all elements,
10% damage reduction.
While at full life your skillsunleash a divine barrage
dealing 909, also saying 7 82
to 924 damage at the bottom.
(38:33):
It's not quite all the way there,
but it says, thus teal, aperfect aspect of justice come,
came to be none.
Were more vehement againstthe forces of hell.
And it goes on from there.It's a little cut off.
Oh, here's the rest of it. Alldemon Monica entities learn
to shudder at tear atjustices might Books of Jarral
volume one, this Uber uniquehas some great defensive apexes
(38:56):
such as maximum resistanceto all elements,
which dramatically reduces the amount
of non-physical damagethat a character takes.
Additionally, the developers confirmed
that the damage reductionafix would be much more
rare starting in season four.
So this is another huge bonus.
Finally, the conditional effect
that unleashes a divine barrage acts
as an artillery shrine launchingprojectiles out at enemies
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whenever the charactercasts a skill or ability.
A second unique item,
but not an uber unique fracturedwinter glass is also shown
during this live stream.
Fractured winter glassis in a unique amulet
that allows sorcerers torandomly spawn a conation such
as a hydra whenever they cast frozen orb.
In addition, these randomlyspawned conation will also have
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a lucky hit chance to castan additional frozen orb.
There's a screenshot of that in there.
And these are just two of theunique items that are coming,
the new unique items thatare coming to season four.
So that's pretty cool.
That's a lot of stuff
to do in the game comingup in season four.
I've had this, uh, I'vebeen talking at you
for more than 40 minutes now, so I think
that's time to end it.
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Uh, thanks for listening.
Uh, you have been listeningto episode four 50
of the Shattered Soul Stone.
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www.shatteredsoulstone.com.
Come join us in game ourin-game, community and clan.
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(40:22):
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.