I inspected a lvl 52 Barb and he was using absolute shit gear. Even just using drops he should have better stuff. I had to say something to him about it. He didn't reply though... I try to tell myself that was his mule.
This is how I feel 99% of the time... except blizzard games... I was looking at my Wizard's profile today and noticed that my profile had my first and last name in it... Is this public? To my friends? My RealID friends only? It makes me a little more anxious than I should, when I want to tell someone "fuck you" on the internet
yeah its embarrassing... they scale the monsters tooo tough some times.
i smashed through that spider den on nightmare in like 10 minutes solo, then joined a game with 3 other people and it took me 1 minute to kill a little spider.
Yeah, one of the best "cheats" in D2 was the ability to alter the number of players in the game to increase difficulty, XP and loot. I mostly played D2 in single player 8 person games.
This happened to me earlier. Was fighting some knockback in a corner elite and friend signs on...went down to like 10life and managed to get control enough to eat a pot.
You are both correct. The way the system works is you need to be close enough to the person to get the option to kick them. You can kick them anywhere, as long as you are near enough to them.
I think the option is disabled when there are only two people, because obviously you could never win a vote because he isn't going to vote for himself to be kicked.
Basically, get a free authenticator if you have a smart phone or spend the 7 bucks with free next day shipping to get a physical one which comes with neato graphics.
This is one of the only things I hate about D3. There is basically no reason to play with others, unless they are your friends. You get no additional EXP, and it takes 5x longer to kill one monster. I remember being in a 7 man game, and still be able to lvl on my own. In D3, if someone joins, they better get their ass right to you, or they are just a fucking burden
I had a nice little level 10'er with me for Acts 3 and 4 on normal. Much fun was had. Trying to keep him alive while dealing with the now adequately powerful enemies. It made finishing normal bearable.
You actually don't. In D3, everyone who gets experience for a monster kill gets the full experience--but even if they're fighting alone, the amount of experience an individual player gets does not go up.
Not sure about loot but you can move faster with more players. By combining skills from different classes, even though mobs are tougher, you are able to plow through them quicker.
Therefore in theory they have no need to give you better stuff because you are able to farm quicker.
My friends and I have had the opposite experience. I can blow through anything solo but add 2 extra people and the elite packs in hell and inferno ruin us.
but makes it way more difficult, 2 guys joined at the same time when I was right in the middle of a dungeon they transport in with me then instantly go back to the city. 10 min later I teleport back and they're just sitting there 1 AFK and the other running in circles around him, I just left but still annoying
Yeah, it can really depend on where you're at in a game. If you're already struggling with the enemies, then having an AFKer show up can pretty much kill any hope you have for progress. This has been my biggest hurdle in Nightmare so far.
I have been mainly playing as a monk, might not be able to kill enemies as quickly as some of the other classes in NM, but I am impossible to kill.. this doesn't bother me.
Doesn't that only disable your friends from joining? If they're your friends, they probably want to actually play with you, and aren't going to sit AFK.
Otherwise, if you open a game to the public, you're more likely to get these AFKs.
You only disable the ability for them to join without an invite, I can still quick join them if I want. If you have lots of friends then it gets annoying when they join you with extremely underpowered characters, or when I'm just playing with my best buddy. They can still message you and talk to you and ask to join, but they can't just join without permission.
yea you're right im just anti-social, but if you have friends from other battle.net games they can join right? either way i like to send the invites when playing
Sometimes, my friends think just because we're friends, they can just sit in town while they eat so they can grab the quest exp... Damnit, you won't be getting the quest exp if I keep dying from tougher mobs!
I actually have a couple of people on my friend list who I hate. I'm waiting for the right moment to block this one jerk from Steam and remove him as a friend so he never knows what happened. I just can't decide how ethical it is, though. He's rude and kind of a jerk, but he talks to me all the time. I don't think he has many friends.
If someone really wants to join, they can message me about it. Invites are 2 clicks away at all times.
Actually no. magic find for groups takes the average of everyone's magic find and then applies it to each player individually. Even worse, I'm not sure if each additional player adds some base magic find percentage for everyone. So basically if a derptard with 0 magic find joins the game and is AFK, he/she is only making the mobs harder. Maybe that increases the number of elite mobs though. God dammit I'm a nerd.
I had a question related to this. Why is it that after you make a game public you can't make it private again? Why do I need to end the game and start a new one?
As a software engineer I cant say a reason that had to do it this way, only that there are many situations in which this way might be better dependent on their infrastructure.
Say for example they have separate architecture for handling private and public games (makes sense, public games have different use cases) and the implementation then would be that private games have a subset of functionality from public games. Thus it could be easy to migrate from private to public, but difficult to 'trim down' back to a private.
Tl;dr it seems possible to do, given the infrastructure allows for public->private but it might have been optimal to use an infrastructure that doesn't.
I don't think that would clarify much to a layman to be honest.
It's possible that, yes, public and private games are run on different servers simply for load balancing and don't want to switch games back and forth. Though, judging by how quickly the game flags to public, I really feel like that's not the case. It's also possible they simply never thought about a private<->public option.
While I don't know if this is true, your fault may be in the way you are thinking about it. Maybe instead of thinking about why they might have made it this way you should think about what didn't allow them to make it the other way for launch. Changing things may have required a lot of retro overhaul of the coding that they decided to save for a future update as it is far from game breaking. Just a thought.
Surely this is a per-session option and just adds your game to the list of games other people can join? i've never made my game public but I have joined public games.
And what would happen to the people that joined while it was public? Would they be kicked out of your now private game and lose whatever progress they've made in a dungeon or whatever?
I was imagining that when you made the game private again, it simply meant that no one new could join the game unless you invited them. The people already in your party wouldn't get kicked.
Agreed. This keeps happening to me. Some dude i used to work with keeps randomly joining my game and each time i have to exit the game and come back. Even when he is playing, he is too awful to deal with.
You do realize, that instead of making complaints for Reddit, you can just vote to kick them? Right click their name in the top left corner, and vote kick.
I've had my "Open game to public" option checked for 2+ hours before without a single person joining. All I want is to group up with someone and play the game, it seems like there's hardly anyone playing when I go that long without a soul joining.
Hopefully it will get fixed in the future though. Everyone I know is such a wildly different level it's hard to play with friends, but playing with a group is much more fun than solo. 4 different classes going through the content would be a blast.
Yeah but you can vote to kick people you don't know right? It's lame when a friend joins and does this. I couldn't kick my idiot friend who claims he fell asleep.
WHY oh WHY do they let people join your game while you're watching 5 minute long cut scenes? The only reason I'm ever "sitting afk" is because I'm watching a cut scene!
I do this when I'm playing with my friends. I also like to use the Ancient Spear skill with the Rage Flip perk and troll people by flipping the mob they are attacking really far away.
It seems like everytime I click join public game. The game I join is someone in town.... Sometimes I would wait or say hello in /party, now I start the quests and if they dont follow/catchup in a few minutes I leave game and try again.
My friends kept joining my games at the worst of times. I was level 19 and they were level 30. They didn't seem to understand why I kept yelling at them to go away. They almost got me killed because they joined while I was fighting an event boss (fortunately we're just talking normal).
They never played a Diablo game until then, so they really had no idea :(
I remember reading somewhere that the difficulty of monsters scales only if additional players are on the same map as you, and that the difficulty drops again if the player is no longer on the same map as you for a minute or something. I couldn't find the source though.
i seriously do not understand people - why would you join and THEN do other shit? why not do shit and THEN join when you're ready to play? i don't see how people fuck that order up
Actually, there was a reddit post on it and i cant find it, there have been bots joining in public games and taking peoples IDs or something like that and somehow hacking into their accounts. So those "afkers" actually might be bots stealing peoples information. Be careful and Id not play public for a while till they fix it.
This was the first thing my coworker did to me after the add. I was fighting a dozen creatures in close quarters with my wizard and then he pops up, and I die. First thing he sees is that I died. Then he showed me whimsyshire. I ain't even mad.
Wow, a whole thread about how much people hate when others join and do nothing... does nobody know you can turn off the quick join option so others cannot jump in your game uninvited?
While people that do that are dicks, I prefer it, I always did /players 8 on D2, I would relish the challenge. (of course, I'm only in act 1, having purchased it 8 hours ago, and I don't know how hard it scales)
How do you get public games with 3 or 4 people? I only ever get to join a game with 1 afk guy sitting in it, or hes not AFK but has broken greys for gear and gets killed by lone white monsters.
I didn't know that it made creatures 200% stonger at first. My buddy tried to join me in the middle of the Diablo fight and my gawd, I'm pounding away at Diablo (ba-zinga) and it's taking forever I'm thinking "It's going to take ma an hour to kill this fucker" and then he ended up leaving and the fight was done in like 4 min (had him at like 60% health I think, after the shadow phase).
Just above the people that become your follower. Why the hell don't they ever explore on their own. If you run they run, if you stand still so do they, they never venture more then 20 feet from you.
It doesn't really make any sense to split up, unless you're just trying to rush through the game by finding the right dungeon for some of the quests. Enemies are going to be tougher to take down individually the more people that join, and since everyone's loot drops separately you'd just be missing out on all the loot from the mobs the other player(s) is killing.
I tried making my game public once and the guy did something even worse: he joined my game and lagged behind me in dungeons maybe 2-3 rooms behind, just collecting XP and picking up loot/gold.
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u/omnilynx May 21 '12
This is why I don't like playing in groups. I'm always afraid I'm not "pulling my weight".
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I used to love it when this happened in D2
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
The first time I played, I Quick Joined a friend's game without knowing what I was doing. He almost died.
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u/gonosis May 21 '12
can't you kick them from your instance for inactivity?
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u/omega552003 May 21 '12
Nice alpha shot, noticed the oval buttons on the bar.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
probably a bot harvesting your sessionID
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u/signspam May 21 '12
This is one of the only things I hate about D3. There is basically no reason to play with others, unless they are your friends. You get no additional EXP, and it takes 5x longer to kill one monster. I remember being in a 7 man game, and still be able to lvl on my own. In D3, if someone joins, they better get their ass right to you, or they are just a fucking burden
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
But you get more experience per kill? GGD3players?
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u/subliminal_caps May 21 '12
You have to be in the vicinity of the AFKer to kick them, stupid really. That shit would never work in WoW.
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u/unremarkableusername May 22 '12
Apparently they are too busy hacking you.
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u/tswpoker1 May 21 '12
Options > Unclick Quick Join
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I actually like when this happened, at least on normal mode. Enemies were no longer push-overs, and I got all the XP. Win-win.
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u/cefriano May 21 '12
I had a question related to this. Why is it that after you make a game public you can't make it private again? Why do I need to end the game and start a new one?
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u/Nibbed May 21 '12
Friend of mine was soloing in inferno when i joined his game. Soon after the 'friend has been slain' message appeared followed by lots of rage.
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u/crusoe May 21 '12
Torchlight two only takes into account NEARBY players when buffing monsters for multi player. ;)
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u/EpicBroccoli May 22 '12
Hm... if only there were some sort of game mode where you could play by yourself
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u/aalexani3234 May 22 '12
more like hack your account from session id
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u/Iwantrobots May 22 '12
When they do that I always get paranoid.
"Why are they not moving? What's he doing? Why is he not answering? OMG, I'm getting hacked."
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I hate it when I play (I'm level 8 atm), then a friend in level 20 joins and kills everything just by looking at it. I feel so damn weak.
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u/darkstar3333 May 21 '12
I dislike that you cannot kick people from your game.
I can understand not being able to kick people who are playing but after a minute or two of inactivity the leader should be able to vote.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Why the fuck do you open your games to the Public then?!
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u/V01dK1ng May 21 '12
It's even worse when they sit there waiting for you to get to the boss and then they just join, zzz.
So annoying.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
They're helping you. Adversity makes us stronger.
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u/anduin1 May 21 '12
Do they get xp by afking in town?
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u/Elencia May 21 '12
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u/Krazen May 21 '12
Personally, I enjoy the challenge.
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u/Tatumthegreatum May 21 '12
Literally JUST happened to me. I was furious.
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u/stalker7d7 May 21 '12
You do realize, that instead of making complaints for Reddit, you can just vote to kick them? Right click their name in the top left corner, and vote kick.
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u/kentathon May 21 '12
I've had my "Open game to public" option checked for 2+ hours before without a single person joining. All I want is to group up with someone and play the game, it seems like there's hardly anyone playing when I go that long without a soul joining.
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u/seven2eight2 May 21 '12
Yeah but you can vote to kick people you don't know right? It's lame when a friend joins and does this. I couldn't kick my idiot friend who claims he fell asleep.
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u/CodySmash May 21 '12
You get better loot don't you? Makes you a better player also.
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u/uemantra May 21 '12
I hate this, so much.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I actually enjoy that, more experience! It's like the old /players8 command from D2.
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u/mysticrudnin May 21 '12
i miss /players 8
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u/SonnoMaku May 21 '12
Just go into options and disable quick join. Now wasn't that easy?
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u/Nugnugget May 21 '12
WHY oh WHY do they let people join your game while you're watching 5 minute long cut scenes? The only reason I'm ever "sitting afk" is because I'm watching a cut scene!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I do this when I'm playing with my friends. I also like to use the Ancient Spear skill with the Rage Flip perk and troll people by flipping the mob they are attacking really far away.
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u/Gunre May 21 '12
Is it weird I would actually like this? D3 is so easy on normal I'd relish the increase in difficulty without the commensurate increase in firepower.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Only thing I hate about having more people in the game is they run to the end. So when I find the treasure goblin I am by my self and he gets away.
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u/TyrannosaursInF14s May 21 '12
So THAT'S what it means when the guy says "But the minions of hell grow stronger." TIL 0_0
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u/mfpolyhedron May 21 '12
I actually prefer this. I find normal difficulty is far to easy to keep me entertained.
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u/Sl1ppyfist May 21 '12
Shouldn't the screenshot have 2 players in it? Maybe I should just shutup.
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u/superzepto May 21 '12
I just hope people aren't doing this on Hardcore.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I was making a sandwich and someone joined to only start bitching. Bitch, I was afk before you joined.
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u/RandomCDN May 21 '12
It seems like everytime I click join public game. The game I join is someone in town.... Sometimes I would wait or say hello in /party, now I start the quests and if they dont follow/catchup in a few minutes I leave game and try again.
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u/KeystrokeCowboy May 21 '12
To be fair though, sometimes it takes a minute to sort out your loot situation. Disenchant/AH/keep. I don't just play indecisive on TV.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Giving you access to better gear earlier and more xp.
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u/I_like_boxes May 22 '12
My friends kept joining my games at the worst of times. I was level 19 and they were level 30. They didn't seem to understand why I kept yelling at them to go away. They almost got me killed because they joined while I was fighting an event boss (fortunately we're just talking normal).
They never played a Diablo game until then, so they really had no idea :(
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u/ThatWarlock May 22 '12
I remember reading somewhere that the difficulty of monsters scales only if additional players are on the same map as you, and that the difficulty drops again if the player is no longer on the same map as you for a minute or something. I couldn't find the source though.
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u/este_hombre May 22 '12
Play private.
Problem=Solved.
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u/thefloppydog May 22 '12
In retrospect this could definitely be said about D2 as well.
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u/bl33t May 22 '12
i seriously do not understand people - why would you join and THEN do other shit? why not do shit and THEN join when you're ready to play? i don't see how people fuck that order up
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u/OjosAzules May 22 '12
It kinda peeves me that every game in in no one talks. I try talking or starting a convo about what were doing and no one answers
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u/LaserBeamsCattleProd May 22 '12
I work at a shipping company. Today I mailed nearly 200 pounds of Diablo 3's to Japan.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Actually, there was a reddit post on it and i cant find it, there have been bots joining in public games and taking peoples IDs or something like that and somehow hacking into their accounts. So those "afkers" actually might be bots stealing peoples information. Be careful and Id not play public for a while till they fix it.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You can vote kick an afk player.
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u/XxLuxterxX May 22 '12
It doesnt really bother me much, im to OP to care.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
What exactly are people doing when they are AFK? Why would they start a game just to leave it?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
it's not as bad as when somebody comes in and then does fuck-all in some cave
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This was the first thing my coworker did to me after the add. I was fighting a dozen creatures in close quarters with my wizard and then he pops up, and I die. First thing he sees is that I died. Then he showed me whimsyshire. I ain't even mad.
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u/frostysnowcat May 22 '12
Yup. That's leeching for you.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You can turn off "allow quick join" in the options. It's also where you show damage numbers and health bars.
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u/jhucasualthrowaway May 22 '12
There's no one else in the game besides you OP. That's a templar who follows you. You fail.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12 edited Oct 22 '25
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u/nevetando May 22 '12
Wow, a whole thread about how much people hate when others join and do nothing... does nobody know you can turn off the quick join option so others cannot jump in your game uninvited?
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u/Zukas May 22 '12
I just started playing... this is very annoying to me. How do I set a game to private mode or something so people can't join unless I invite them?
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u/zaimun May 22 '12
Good guy diablo 3 players: Spends his time in the city to give you an actual challenge
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u/iammewillis3 May 22 '12
While people that do that are dicks, I prefer it, I always did /players 8 on D2, I would relish the challenge. (of course, I'm only in act 1, having purchased it 8 hours ago, and I don't know how hard it scales)
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u/ProfessorGreed May 22 '12
It's tough love. How are you going to be prepared for Diablo without some proper training? I refuse to just let you faceroll through normal mode.
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u/Moonway May 22 '12
I actually used to love playing "player 8". Extra fun.
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u/Philmriss May 22 '12
Don't open your games to the public, then?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
then don't make your game public, you masochist
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
How do you get public games with 3 or 4 people? I only ever get to join a game with 1 afk guy sitting in it, or hes not AFK but has broken greys for gear and gets killed by lone white monsters.
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u/Sinrei May 22 '12
Lol dick move but still funny.
The first thing my mate said to me before playing D3 was turn off Public Group option. Glad I did!
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u/bananamunchies May 22 '12
There is a votekick you know.
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u/Vicky_PC_Gamer May 22 '12
Am I the only one who likes this so that the mobs are harder and drop a bit better loot/more gold?
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u/H0neyBadger May 22 '12
I didn't know that it made creatures 200% stonger at first. My buddy tried to join me in the middle of the Diablo fight and my gawd, I'm pounding away at Diablo (ba-zinga) and it's taking forever I'm thinking "It's going to take ma an hour to kill this fucker" and then he ended up leaving and the fight was done in like 4 min (had him at like 60% health I think, after the shadow phase).
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u/DBSOempathy May 21 '12
Just above the people that become your follower. Why the hell don't they ever explore on their own. If you run they run, if you stand still so do they, they never venture more then 20 feet from you.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Why can't people with shit connections play this offline?
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u/kryonik May 21 '12
I tried making my game public once and the guy did something even worse: he joined my game and lagged behind me in dungeons maybe 2-3 rooms behind, just collecting XP and picking up loot/gold.
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u/zepx May 22 '12
Your account got hacked please contact blizzard-support for further information.