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We don't have any auto-content matching system or automatic group finder systems that will be coming with patch 0.9 in March.
We don't have any auto-content matching system or automatic group finder systems that will be coming with patch 0.9 in March.
Heya I just wanted to clarify my understanding.
- No Internet Connection = Offline characters available
- Internet connection = Server-side characters available
When I have an internet connection, will I be able to play my offline characters? Or will I have to disconnect from the WiFi or put Steam into Offline mode?
Thanks for being so open with the community. I know it creates expectations and misunderstandings at times, but I like to focus on the positive aspects :)
Just to be super clear, this is how it is planned at the moment and might be slightly altered if we run into a problem.
With internet connected: you can use online characters online or offline characters offline.
Without internet connected: you can use offline characters offline.
Do we still need to run the client in online mode to log in before then being able to play offline? Or will we straight up be able to hop in without Internet access?
The current plan and what will happen unless something goes wrong (unlikely, but it's not fully finished yet) is that you can turn the game client on without being connected to the internet at all and still play your offline characters, offline.
Edit: I'm pretty sure that once the client starts up without an internet connection, you'll probably have to restart the client to be able to get into online mode. This would be an extremely rare case I think though.
Yeah I was a little too loose with the term 'client'. Thanks for the clarification Mike!
I only even mentioned it because someone recently linked an old post on the forums which said that we were going to have separate game clients.
Still different characters though, yeah?
Edit: apparently I have a different handle on mobile.
Yes, you'll still only be able to play offline characters offline and online characters online.
So we can play our characters offline or online?
No, everything else McFluffin said was right, you'll still only be able to play offline characters offline and online characters online.
Your saves are currently on the offline client. When mp drops there will be two clients: a server authoritative MP client and an offline SP client. Your saves will stay on the offline SP client so as long as you're OK playing offline you can play your saves, but if you want to play online you'll need to start fresh.
Very close and this was what we had said in the past. We no longer are going to be splitting the clients. Now, it's just one client that you can run in offline mode if you want.
Edit: You'll still only be able to play offline characters offline and online characters online.
I agree to a point, however with the exception of the fact that T:I is anonymous and those 2 are not, you can trade almost everything with very few exceptions.
No need to change it really, I just like to try and give advice to heavily reported posts that I don't remove if I can.
I think you'll see a more positive reaction to a more inclusive set of options. People advocating for fully open trade like D2/PoE don't really have a good option to select here.
I understand how you got there. I’d really appreciate it if we weren’t trying to interpret what was said and just read what was actually said.
I don’t know how they could be compatible either. 4 years ago, I wasn’t trying to suggest that they were either.
Oh I see! Thank you for the update. I hope modding is implementable in some fashion or another. I don't know what future plans are from a longevity viewpoint (from what I understand not all game developers want their game to have long term longevity since it might impact the next game they develop). Personally, I think modding would be great if implemented since it would allow indirect patches/bug fixes from the community, along with quality of life mods (again idk how this would look since LE multiplayer/single player is on a single client ).
We currently have no plans to help or hinder offline mods.
The big distinction here is that we don't have a fully offline mode yet. So, nothing has changed on this front yet. When we do have a proper fully offline mode, we will likely be very hands off with it. Our major concern with game integrity comes with online mode.
Edit: I just read that statement and some things have changed. The online and offline modes are going to be part of a single client now. We will have to reevaluate how we are going to handle people making mods.
Hey, I know this is a different topic but maybe you know, are we gonna have zdps support builds when 0.9 launches?
You'll be able to go full support if that's what you mean. Like it won't ever be literally zero dps unless you just equip a single healing spell 5 times.
