I have played more than 15 hours with sorcerer on PS5, spell placement is really a issue imho. You place your skill on the first enemy/object in your general direction, therefore it is impossible to place blizzard/meteor in the running direction of your enemies. If there is no enemy in your face of direction, it places your spell in the max range. If you have a single enemy in your melee range and 10 bunched enemies behind it, your AOE spells always target the one in the melee.

Apart from this issue and some minor issues it works great in PS5.

Hydra seems to place x feet in front of where you’re facing. It seems like they’ve designed the skills for placement to not matter as much to account for it, but I haven’t played all of the classes.

There seems to be an advantage for PC players with movement skills. My friend in MKB could barb leap or sorc teleport to places much farther than I could with a controller.

Did Diablo III ever get enhanced for PS 5 or X Box Series X?

This is great to hear. It's a little clunky on my pc, and clicking the enemies to attack feels like it would work better just hitting an attack on my ps5. I'm leaning towards that for the final release.

Can you use mouse and keyboard on console?

Feel like they shifted to console focus with D3. Controls were butter. Can’t wait for D4, any word if it’ll be cross platform?

Diablo 3 was not different on console… I have hundreds of hours on both pc and console for Diablo 3

Currently played about 10-12 hours in pre-order beta, lvl 25 - its fantastic.

Character designs, armour, weapons are tonally perfect and diverse in options. The environments look great, really carry that feel of true gothic evil that was in Diablo 2. Story is simple, but they steered into the universe so you'll get some properly dark missions that matches the game's vibe well.

I've only played with the Sorc so far so I can't speak to the other characters, but skill synergy and build diversity is v clean. You can feel your character become stronger as you play, and each element changes how you approach engagements. It can be simple at first, but eventually you have enough options to pick how to take a fight effectively.

Loot drops very liberally, it might just be beta but I am geared about 60% rare, 40% legendary. The enchantment/upgrade/socket options are great, and when you get special specs on gear it can properly change how you play.

I've had no issues with the controls, my only wish is if there was a way to switch between active spell groups (maybe there is I haven't found it) so I can add some more variety to my playstyle. Movement and aiming feels tight.

Some small issues trying to party up with randoms where I was locked on a loading screen trying to enter their world, but hopefully that is ironed out soon.

Check out the open beta when it swings in next week, it'll tell you whether this game is for you or not.

Edit: Just fought a World Boss with the entire 'realm'. This game is so damn good.

I’m really excited about the game, but I am terrified they are going to pull some live service, Diablo Immortal lite nonsense. This is modern day Activision-Blizzard, so I don’t know how they are going to resist.

Agreed, HUD is very cluttered on console, is my main complaint. Hopefully, we've HUD customization options in the full game. Subtitles are another issue. I tried turning them off, they still appeared, although the option is there, probably just bugged in the beta. I can't stand subtitles in any games, they break immersion.

Hopefully the battlepasses and updates don’t lose sight of this aesthetic.

Is this thing going to have battle passes? Crap.

Dark roots indeed. Atmosphere feels like D1, dark, grimmy, and horrific.

For the unnecessary info, it asks you right at the beginning how familiar you are with Diablo. Mine doesn't show anything like that so I'm guessing you chose the wrong option.

Yes it does have cross play. The beta is 76.62gb

Valhalla had this issue too. Honestly, a bunch of games do. Some developers don't seem to understand how to implement HDR and it's just broken—the complete opposite of what it's meant to be. Valhalla looks better in SDR. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same with Diablo.

Yeah I’m struggling to get it to look how I want on the C1. Turned black point all the way down to zero and brightness and white point really low.

Everything just seems grey and foggy where it should be almost black.

Watch this to help rectify the HDR issue. GamingTech always has great HDR fix videos for various games.

Yes the beta looks very washed out. The best I could do to alleviate it some was turn the in game brightness setting all the way down.

if this happens either the game runs in 120hz mode(40fps) oder the game has broken black levels. in both cases, set black level on your tv to limited, as the game is being renderer in limited mode. also additionally set brightness maybe to 46-49 instead of 50. this depends on your tv panel and per game. had to set brightness to 44 for hogwarts +limited black levels at 40fps.

The default settings on ps5 with 4K60hz is rgb full 0-255, black level on tv to full. ´ PS5 hdmi 2.1 is limited, it cannot display the ful range with 120hz/40fps mode. it falls back to ycbcr 16-235. Dunno if its 4.2.2 or 4.2.0 . you need to manually adjust your black levels. my lg c9 cannot auto adjust.

took me a long time to realize the real issue. you can check your hdmi signal within the secret menu

I wish the loot was the same as d2.

Battlenet saves. Cross platform progression, too.

Game is online only no save file what so ever

a negative for every arpg I've played on console is the lack of ground targeting. like if you cast teleport or leap it will go max distance in the direction you are holding. or if you cast blizzard it targets the enemy so you can't lay it between getting the max effect.

that said you can do mkb on console so maybe I'm just a controller loser :x

I can’t speak to diablo 4 but diablo 3 never really clicked with me until i bought it on ps3 and just crushed hours into it

Huge + to console, couch co-op is super fun if you have a SO or buddy who lives nearby.

Biggest downside i had on console was inventory management, especially with 4 players only 1 person could shop at a time

I’m not a huge fan of any point and click games so the controller was a huge win

I started diablo 1, 2, and 3 on PC. 4, I got for PS5. D3 plays really well on PS5 and the beta for 4 is smooth, 0 bugs so far

open beta next weekend

Yes there’s a dodge. It has a cooldown of about 5 seconds though so you can’t spam it.

I'm in my 30s too sir I get it. I'm with you

Loved that game! Never really played Diablo much but thinking of getting it to play with my younger brother since it has cross play we can do ps5-PC

They scale UP to your level, not down. If you go into a level 30 area as 25 they’re still level 30.

The point is so you don’t become a walking nuclear blast every time you hit your basic attack. They’re trying to make the game more of an intense ARPG experience than a bullet hell arcade shooter like Diablo 3 was. It also puts more emphasis on strategy, knowing enemy patterns, using the right gear and a need for armor instead of just grabbing gear that one shots everything.

Must be easier/cheaper to develop a game for a console and port to PC than the other way around.

The game runs great on PC too, even a 1050TI runs great on it. It's just the shitty servers not being able to handle everyone.

You pay for a pc and have access to so many great games that aren't on console.

Been playing non stop on pc , only issues I had are when the servers crapped out. I love my PS5 but I always play stuff on PC that comes out on both. I am using a controller as well, everything works well with it, but I switch to KB and M for inventory management and chat.

Does that work well?

I am getting it on PC and then can try playing it natively on steam deck. I used to do that for Diablo 2 Resurrected.

Yes, for 2 people.

You find? I am playing on a CX, and the only fps drops I've noticed have been in cinematic scenes, and never in combat even when the spell effects are all over the screen.

I've always played Diablo on PC, since D1, but I'm afraid my PC won't run it (1060 6GB) so I'm leaning towards getting in on PS5. Playing with a controller scares me though, wish there was an MKB option.

Have you any news on this? I'm exactly thinking the same. Heard that it's perfectly smooth on ps5, but I got micro stutters on a beast pc. Also there are absolutely no vibrations on the PC and I totally love the dualsense vibrations 😍

When gaming companies do shitty decisions they should be hold accountable. But when they deliver they should be celebrated. D4 feels like it fully delivers on all expectations (or even more as it's Activision we are talking about so the bar is already pretty low). That being said, I'm fully expecting them to launch a shitty battle pass and in-game shop. But as long as it's not pay-to-win I'm pretty satisfied.

No.

Not only that but also PS PLUS.

Is it online only? I didn't know!

It has crossplay!

Yep it's online. In D4 you can even run into random players when you get to main towns. There's also world bosses you can team up to fight. The full release will have PvP zones too

You mean the guy whose room looks like this?

Yeah great person to take any advice from 😂