Load times are bad.. For me at least double. It's not unbearable, definitely has a slower feel doing repeated runs. I'm at NM Meph right now trying to gear up and yeah the load times are the most annoying part. My wife is playing pokemon so I usually have a maybe 5 seconds to look completely away from the screen and watch what she's doing on the TV, or take a drink of coffee. It's not so bad. I'm sticking with it for now on this character untwinked, and will likely put myself on the board in the untwinked thread. LK runs are going to be atrocious but I just like the smooth niceness of the graphics. I'm kind of getting that folks aren't hammering D2R a whole lot right now on this forum so I feel like I want to just go for it and really dig into all the differences and the feel of it.
One more thing that's annoying right now is having to exit the game completely when muling with our new bargain brand gomule. So usually I wait until my personal stash is filled up, exit the game, mule, and get back to farming. I don't want to take any risks on having items poof or any other goofy interaction there so I'm going the completely safe method.
One of the GREATEST FEATURES of this game is ctrl+click to drop items or quick move items to stash/cube. Oh my lord is it nice I love it. Took me a while to get used to it but it's so fast and so nice.
Another feature I really like is the ability to adjust each and every sound type individually. Ambient sound is so freaking loud all the time and it's like constant static in your ears. For those of you playing, try turning that off and experience the joy of not having static in your ears constantly. I also like that I can turn off just the sound and listen to the music alone, or listen to the music full blast and turn the sound softer. Not an option in the original! Really nice, one of my favorites here.
The option "Large Font Mode" changes some things in a nice way, some things in a questionable way. I like the way it is in NPC dialogue menus - they're tiny by default. One of the things I don't understand about this option is that it changes item tooltips and dropped item labels on the ground to be completely solid colored instead of translucent, and possibly makes them slightly bigger but about the same size. Regardless, like you say
@jjscud there's something weird about item labels on the ground generally. They're about the same size or slightly bigger, however it seems like they don't stack quite the same. It's too big for me, I wish they were smaller. The higher resolution would make this viable for the first time but of course no change. Item label flickering is also super obnoxious. Sometimes when you're standing completely still, an item label will just be swapping places with another item label like every frame the game renders, so it's flashing super fast at you, and this can happen with multiple item labels at the same time. Very annoying to look at.
Overall I'm having an absolute blast though. It's for sure the way I'll be playing through the game on just normal whatever characters since it's so fun to look at. Increased framerate is incredible. I'm playing at 144fps and it's mindblowing. My computer fans are quite upset but if I put on headphones I don't hear it so much and they're set to keep my temps low so I'm not worried there.
Tons of fun! I'll be through the game today most likely, we'll see though, I am farming hard at NM meph, had some really juicy drops already and I might pause for quite some time at Hell meph as well. We'll see!!! Fun times!
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