Spyke
feddit.de

Good old days? You mean like Diablo 1? D2 was online as well, except it stored your character files locally (so people could cheat their characters with a utility like Jamella).

I was mistaken. Still a long way to go back for an offline option, so it's probably a pipe dream in D4 and beyond.

I didn't mean that to sound as aggressive as it did, I apologize lol.

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lemmy.world

D2 could be played offline, I had a 28k connection when it released so I generally would just play it offline. I think regular Bnet was pretty good for not having cheaters but Open Bnet is where you could use your offline character and load him up with stuff using a trainer/program and play online.

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Yeah, we played D1 and D2 multiplayer over LAN as a family. SO many good memories. My dad did hardcore on D2 Battle.net but always raged whenever our crappy Internet dropped.

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Thanks for the correction. My memory is a little fuzzy. To be fair, we're still talking going back 23 years to even have an offline option.

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At least in 3 you could choose to play solo which was way less laggy than this open world mess and most important of all you could fucking pause the game. Being in a nightmare dungeon with one of a throusand affixes that force you to move at all times or you die by some shit that's constantly chasing you and then the door bell rings is great. Just great.

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Yeah and it’s the main reason I won’t even bother with hardcore.

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Yes, also had a lot of rubber banding today. At least my ping improved when I turned off IPv6... 😉

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Today was rough for the first 20 minutes I played, but it smoothed out.

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Yep super laggy and dropping frames when it was running smoothly before.

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I've noticed it seems particularly bad during helltides. Best way I've found to fix it is close game and sign back in. This does suck if you're doing solo NM dungeons.

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TP to town. "Oh you habe 4 charhes of evade?" Lets screw 3 of them with rubber baanding...

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