new patch picture analysis thread

[AwesomeDude]

Sanctuary is the world the whole Diablo story takes place on, it isn't a place of its own in game.

 

[Pherdnut]

Bonehew has CE charges too, I think.

 

[Godz Deathz]

i think we established that it was death sentry from sin

 

[superdave]

hmmm this d be too hard... it d take too much time to actually go through all maps in all levels in all acts in hell difficulty to find her. However making her as the cow s level d make more sense imho, once you ve finished all the quests in the game with a char then you can find her somewhere.

please don't spam the thread with this stuff guys
or like this...."Sanctuary is the world the whole Diablo story takes place on, it isn't a place of its own in game."

there is a thead open for speculations here http://www.purediablo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=371203

ok thx for pointing out the extra pics...i counted 13
i noticed a poison nova? in one of the pics with lilith

"Bonehew has CE charges too, I think."....no one is using one in the pics...no corpsemourn either so we can discount those

 

[krischan]

I noticed that there are no icons of party members, but that might just mean the barb player isn't in the party. However, the barb probably shares auras with other characters. I don't really have an explanation for that :scratch:

Another thing is that it looks like act 1, but there are no succubi there. I guess Lilith summons them.

 

[ghostee]

what is wrong with phyrexial's death sentry explanation? that's the most obvious explanation for the CE imo (aside from a hidden necro).

 

[DjSlayer]

There is one thing I find very disturbing with the screenies, Lillith are not taking damage.

- D.J.

 

[superdave]

what is wrong with phyrexial's death sentry explanation? that's the most obvious explanation for the CE imo (aside from a hidden necro).

the death sentry seems like the obvious explanation pizza....i also noticed the sin was amped by lilith?

 

[ghostee]

There is one thing I find very disturbing with the screenies, Lillith are not taking damage.

- D.J.

it doesn't really look like they're aiming to kill though.. i mean the barb is casting warcries half the time or something, the pally is just standing there with salvation, the zon is also standing still most of the time, but i think she's finishing up a strafe in one of the pictures.. the only effective source of damage seems to be the assn's traps. which i shouldn't be able to do large amounts of damage to a boss in a 4+ player game anyways.

 

[superdave]

notice the experience bar of the ikbarb fighting solo is at about 1/8...in all the other pics with the party he is at zero

and yes lilith has not taken any damage in any pics

edit...i love the shot with the boawazon tanking

 

[rykuss]

I noticed that there are no icons of party members, but that might just mean the barb player isn't in the party. However, the barb probably shares auras with other characters. I don't really have an explanation for that :scratch:

Another thing is that it looks like act 1, but there are no succubi there. I guess Lilith summons them.

I was also thinking Lillith summoned those creatures.

 

[Poke]

I noticed that there are no icons of party members, but that might just mean the barb player isn't in the party. However, the barb probably shares auras with other characters. I don't really have an explanation for that :scratch:

Another thing is that it looks like act 1, but there are no succubi there. I guess Lilith summons them.

By pressing "z" you can remove the pictures of party members.

 

[krischan]

notice the experience bar of the ikbarb fighting solo is at about 1/8...in all the other pics with the party he is at zero

and yes lilith has not taken any damage in any pics

edit...i love the shot with the boawazon tanking

Perhaps he died a few times (his life bulb doesn't look good in the screenshot where he is alone), left the game and thus lost the XP.

I was also thinking Lillith summoned those creatures.

What disturbs me more is that the barb isn't partied with the others (no party member icons), but shares auras with them. Am I overlooking something ?

Edit:

By pressing "z" you can remove the pictures of party members.

Aha, that explains it.

 

[ghostee]

I was also thinking Lillith summoned those creatures.

Succubi or hell witches are in the screenies. Hence the blood spirits (red balls). I took a guess that it was the tower (fire pentagrams) but it could be the "sanctuary" that is being referred to.

i think zabo has an explanation.. it could be a new area. i guess that is highly unlikely though since it's so similar to the act one cellars, and i doubt they would make another area so much like that.

also krischan.. there's a button (forgot which) which can remove the party faces. i guess they tried to take off as much as possible from the screen to keep it mysterious.

 

[Merick1]

We see both dclone and Lilith in these pictures.
This is probably a hint. Lilith may be summoned by some process like the soj selling world event.

Do any of you statistic forum gurus know if a new area can be added with a patch? It's never been done before.

 

[Pherdnut]

They seem fairly certain from that Chinese source that Lilith is a new boss type that appears randomly in Hell. The idea being to encourage players to actually play through the game rather than rush everything.

Also, there is no reason to assume that that's the Diablo clone. Nobody knows for sure.

 

[Sh4dovv]

OMGOMG NEW PATCH! as long as this doesnt kill dupes, this news is GG!

tho this lilith...maybe very similar to dclone

my guess is selling HIRUNES TO MERCHANTS will spawn her! this will greatly lower the amounts of hr like dclone did to soj!

 

[Pherdnut]

I was under the impression that D Clone only caused people to dupe SoJ's like it was going out of style to get to D-Clone.

 

[superdave]

again guys keep the speculations and spam outta this thread....it will just get too big to sort through the info on the pictures...there are a few people already trying to make an anaylsis of the pictures and it will take extra time to get the info up if they have to read through crap...if you have an observation about the screenies by all means post it....when referring to a screenshot please include the name of the shot...ie 111-ss01 is the first diablo pic

 

[Puffen]

As seen on the second picture the diablo monster is casting armageddon which means it's Dclone since i dont recall Diablo using that spell..

There are no corpses on the dclone pictures either, but that could have been because the players went to town for a while and therefore the corpses vanished.

What really strikes me as odd though is that cain's cage is gone. Shouldnt it be there even after you completed the quest?

The place that Lillith is at, arent there places like that with a burning star in mausoleum, crypt, forgotten tower and catacombs?

Noticed now that the pictures are in reverse order because if you look at picture 6 there are several bodies on the ground and you can see that the assassin has summoned some death traps (I think, Im not a sin-expert). On picture 5 though the bodies have exploded and you can see that lilith took some damage of those corpse explosion?

If you look at picture 3 you can see that the exploded bodies are gone, but thats probably because the party went to town and the bodies vanished. The TP in the back helps this theory. On picture 3 there is a dead merc in the fire star in the right part of it, but the body is lying differently compared to the one on picture 4. It might be that they went to town, resurrected the merc, went down through the TP and the merc died again. This is really unlikely though since he died at the exact same position. There might be an easier explanation to the mercs death, hopefully