anjinsanroland wrote:With normal xp multiplier, player is already swimming in stats.
My current experiment is Necro/Inferno/0.10xp is enjoyable so far.
That way skills come in rewarding periods and stats don't fall behind thanks to colored apples. But bloodshards and such that give +10-15 are powerful enough I think having a couple of extra orbs that give +intellect is overkill.
Getting an optimal xp cut is the way for me. Otherwise everyting becomes epic level so fast that there remains no balance and after a while you feel sorry for the poor monsters and powerful monsters just level you up faster.
With that much gold and power, there can be no unique monster that can stop you. You can always use an icon of defender. If the general progress remains challenging and rewarding than the game won't become stale. Your Heretic mappack mod was like that as far as first three maps went. I don't know later maps, I switched to diablo after that. There, your xp gain was a fraction of what you have in diablo, so it seems diablo is optimized for only the first act.
If a player will play through all the acts, then character progression should be divided and distributed accordingly, not by improving the progress after epic levels, but by stretching it across the whole game, because Wrath of Cronos cannot handle very high levels. It is most enjoyable in the first 40 levels. After that you already feel powerful. Nearing level 100 you feel epic. And beginning by 120-140 you feel ridiculous.
Please consider the original Hexen game and also its expansion. Both were over by the time you hit level 40.
I will try to find and share optimal xp multipliers. I think that will solve all the problems and you won't have to change the mod.
You also have all the data in your hands. You can approximate total xp gain for all the acts for different difficulty levels and for varying wisdom stats. Then by calculating level up requirements you can show endgame character levels for varying xp multipliers. That way people choose their challenge & reward & enjoyment and try at their own leisure. If enough people share their experience and a consensus is reached, then you can integrate this flavor of options into the game by a whole new difficulty selection screen. At that time your game becomes a closed system with enough options from the beginning for all kinds of players with no need to tweak WoC options.
anjinsanroland wrote:You have done an incredible job. Your mod has so much replayability.
What I meant in my previous posts was not about a one kind of gaming experience. With WoC's xp multiplier, both kind of players, players who want to play at epic levels and those who want to savor the lower level character progress have options for different tastes. I don't think you need to change the xp multiplier. In my completely personal opinion, what Diablo 3D needs is a set of difficulty&xpMultiplier combinations for different tastes. Players enjoying the game can easily contribute by trying and sharing their most fun combinations. That leaves you room to focus on other content at your heart's desire. And then, at a later time you can integrate the most popular set of combinations as difficulty selections.
I apologize if I sound insistent. But I just want this to reach a wider audience. Just as WoC holds massive potential over Doom/Heretic/Hexen maps, Diablo 3D also holds potential over WoC.
Best wishes
csiga77 wrote:Hello,
I have a serious FPS problem on gzdoom, but only since the end of act4, including the map where you kill the second diablo. It was the worse, but act5 is something like 2-5 FPS. It doesn't use the CPU, only ~50% of one core, and the GPU usage is under 20%. Maybe I miss something in the settings, I don't know, but before these maps it was more than OK. I already switched from NORMAL to LITE version. None other mods do that, I have at least 50. It is a core2 duo with an old 9800GT. Old config, but never had any problem running gzdoom, minecraft or Q4 etc on ~100 FPS.
If anyone knows the problem and have any tips, I would preciate that. Thanks in advance.
irontusk341 wrote:
Check your settings under display - texture - and make sure HQ resize mode is off, and multiplier is off... also check in display settings if multisampling is off.. Also the batch file runs the default graphics card so if you have two cards like most people, the batch file would choose the one that windows uses, usually intel or AMD chipsets. why? windows 10 is the bane of my existence.
csiga77 wrote:irontusk341 wrote:
Check your settings under display - texture - and make sure HQ resize mode is off, and multiplier is off... also check in display settings if multisampling is off.. Also the batch file runs the default graphics card so if you have two cards like most people, the batch file would choose the one that windows uses, usually intel or AMD chipsets. why? windows 10 is the bane of my existence.
Thanks for the reply, I checked all the setting you mentioned, I set all this settings as low as possible earlier. The card issue is off the table too: it is a no-vga motherboard with a physical NV card. And if gzd doesn't use the card anyway, there is the question about not using the CPU either. I started a new game to try it, it uses most of the CPU and the half of the GPU, and renders 100+ FPS, so the problem only arises when I get to the mentioned point in the game. (Half GPU is ok, gzd will never use some GPU features). By the way this is a linux64 system, i tried on win7 too - it is a bit worse - as win eats hardware, linux not.
irontusk341 wrote:to be honest im not familiar with linux. Is there no way to utilize both CPU's in a task manager type program?
on the subject of the game, i am working on another patch that i found.. Nothing game breaking... just some minor nuisances. On the subject someone brought to me, about weapon switching back to melee weapons, i may need help with that... i cant figure out why its not willing to switch unless you run out of ammo.
irontusk341 wrote:the XP you gain will be almost a quarter of what you used to gain in previous versions
anjinsanroland wrote:irontusk341 wrote:the XP you gain will be almost a quarter of what you used to gain in previous versions
as far as 1st level skeletons and zombies go, xp gains in 4.1 and 4.2 versions are the same.
Also I didnt have the chance to see if new weapons still hurt the pets.
anjinsanroland wrote:You have done an incredible job. Your mod has so much replayability.
What I meant in my previous posts was not about a one kind of gaming experience. With WoC's xp multiplier, both kind of players, players who want to play at epic levels and those who want to savor the lower level character progress have options for different tastes. I don't think you need to change the xp multiplier. In my completely personal opinion, what Diablo 3D needs is a set of difficulty&xpMultiplier combinations for different tastes. Players enjoying the game can easily contribute by trying and sharing their most fun combinations. That leaves you room to focus on other content at your heart's desire. And then, at a later time you can integrate the most popular set of combinations as difficulty selections.
I apologize if I sound insistent. But I just want this to reach a wider audience. Just as WoC holds massive potential over Doom/Heretic/Hexen maps, Diablo 3D also holds potential over WoC.
Best wishes
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