Blizzard Pushes Out Small Diablo III 1.0.3a Patch
Don't worry, this patch won't undo everything that was just released in 1.0.3...
A week after releasing the giant design update Patch 1.0.3, Blizzard’s released another, more compact patch to address some of the issues with 1.0.3.
Patch 1.0.3a is primarily a bug fix patch. Primarily, zombie Bears will no longer be afraid of enemies on slopes and pathfinding’s been greatly improved—they’ll no longer make fools of themselves by sticking onto objects that they shouldn’t be colliding with. Some unspecified gold and service exploits have also been patched… sorry cheaters.
There is also one design update that comes with 1.0.3a. Fans have complained about the raised repair costs that were implemented in 1.0.3. As a result, Blizzard’s reduced the amount of wear-and-tear done to armor in regular combat. The 10% reduction in durability on equipped items taken as punishment upon death has not been altered.
As usual, Blizzard’s made their patch notes readily available for reading on their site.
Thats not cheating...
hmmm... biggest pc only game in years, and reporting on patches that change content early on in the cycle... i cant see why this would be considered news or even worth watching... well besides BIGGEST PC GAME IN YEARS, or POSSIBLE DUMBING DOWN OF PC ONLY GAMES
see you dont get it. this game could define how pc games are made. if people still play after making the game easier, do you think people will make a truly hard pc game any more? there arent many people on the pc, and if people want an easier game, it may sell more.
lets put it this way, the early game patches and the backlash or lack of any of them get could set the tone of pc gaming from here on out.
depends on the exploit. if you could force a glitch on an end game boss and kill it, and that glitch is hard to initiate and you have to knowingly force it, than yes, that is a cheat. take a look at kerafyrm from everquest. the first kill of that mob was done using an exploit, which caused i believe a very high end guild to effectively ban of every player, im a little foggy on the details.
As Diablo III has been one of the most anticipated PC games for the past decade, I feel that reporting on the early design patches would be relevant and interesting news to some of the audience. I'm sorry you feel so strongly about not caring about Diablo III and I appreciate the feedback. There's always the option to leave these stories alone to those who do care to read about Diablo III news.
- Catherine Cai
According to a forum mod they are fixing it in 1.0.3b which is "supposed" to come out later this week.
Cheers!
This is not an MMO Blizzard don't ruin it trying to milk it like WoW.
Path of Exile is looking better and better everyday when new patches/nerfs unfold in Diablo 3 on a regular basis!
the only hope for ARPG's are torchlight 2, grim dawn and Path of Exile.
Not just that, but everybody feels like they have to repeat what the guy above said.
I think you might need to implement a "hide story" function so that people don't feel the need to go to articles that simply wouldn't interest them in the first place.
In any case, maintaining that games are of no importance here when some of the most popular articles are GPU reviews is rather bewildering. My two penneth.
same goes with all the cloud "articles"