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post #496 of 1623
5/17/12 at 10:52am
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Originally Posted by JMRouse View Post

I know it's been answered before, but I don't feel like reading this whole thread. How taxing is this game on a PC? Been thinking that I need a new rig and it would be nice to get back into PC gaming.

not too taxing; my friend is playing on a 1.8ghz laptop with an gt*8400 and 3gb of ram and it runs. my system is 2.4ghz) with 4g of ram and a gtx250 and its smooth on the highest settings. like someone else said $500 should cover you just fine.

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Originally Posted by whnay. View Post

What is elective mode?

its an option in the gameplay tab of the menu. it allows you to assign skills from any category to any button; eg. you can assign a "focus" or "technique" monk skill to your rightclick instead of having it stuck on your keyboard. this lets you use multiple skills from the same tree.
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post #497 of 1623
5/17/12 at 10:57am
Sweet - I've got a gaming mouse with 5 buttons
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post #498 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by whnay. View Post

Sweet - I've got a gaming mouse with 5 buttons

Yeah, its gonna be great when I get home and turn it on. It would be a little weird to have attack skills on a keyboard button (since they target whatever your mouse is on) but putting it on an extra mouse button will be great.

The gaming mouse might also make they DH traps a little easier to use. I had trouble decoupling the idea of a keyboard command with the trap being placed not where I stand but where my mouse is pointing.
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post #499 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:14am
Elective mode will not allow you to re-assign the actual keys or buttons used in the game. You are still stuck with the numbers 1-4 on the keyboard and right/left clicking on the mouse. It just means you can assign any action you like to any of those buttons, regardless of category.
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post #500 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:26am
Blah - that's of little use
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post #501 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:27am
So is everyone playing this ?? FFS

Going to pick it up tonight ... I'll become a "weekend warrior"

Going to character a Sorc
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post #502 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:28am
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Originally Posted by otc View Post

I think my $300 or so htpc build (A6-3600 based) is probably more than enough to play it with pretty decent settings. A gaming desktop that doesn't use a low power APU could probably be built for a similar price and have a little better performance.
Before now, I was playing on a thinkpad T400 and it was playable in some areas but got really rough in others (but it was below minimum specs). A macbook that meets the published minimums should be playable with low effects and low resolution...so it might be worth trying it on the machine you've got.
This may be true, but if he aims for other games, too, and wants to play games that will release, he should spend 500$++.

I've died too often so far, and I'm just a level 15 sorc.
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post #503 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post

Elective mode will not allow you to re-assign the actual keys or buttons used in the game. You are still stuck with the numbers 1-4 on the keyboard and right/left clicking on the mouse. It just means you can assign any action you like to any of those buttons, regardless of category.
You can do it in the key binding options.
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post #504 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:34am
Anyone else playing as a Monk? I found the class to be near bulletproof through the second act--just dash into the center of a horde and, lickety-split, everything dies.

Things got a lot harder in the third act, though.
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post #505 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:43am
i thought NM was bad... hell is... lawl. took me 5 minutes to kill skelly king.

*thinks about inferno* *shivers*
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post #506 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:53am
Are you starting to get good loot?
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post #507 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:54am
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Originally Posted by b1os View Post

You can do it in the key binding options.
Where do I find this?
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post #508 of 1623
5/17/12 at 11:57am
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post

Elective mode will not allow you to re-assign the actual keys or buttons used in the game. You are still stuck with the numbers 1-4 on the keyboard and right/left clicking on the mouse. It just means you can assign any action you like to any of those buttons, regardless of category.
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Originally Posted by whnay. View Post

Blah - that's of little use

You can rebind keys in the options somewhere so you can have both 1 *and* mouse4 operate the same function.
And if for some reason that doesn't work, one trick I have used in many games (maybe I even used it on the f-key hotkeys in d2) is to just change the options in the mouse drivers. Bind mouse4 and mouse5 to a normal keypress and then the game can't tell if you are pressing 1 or the button.
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post #509 of 1623
5/17/12 at 12:07pm
So pro
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post #510 of 1623
5/17/12 at 12:09pm
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Originally Posted by whnay. View Post

Are you starting to get good loot?

Who, me?

Okay stuff. In terms of monk-specific weapons, there is nothing but garbage. I think I've picked up three magical fist weapons since I started playing. But, I dual-wield with my monk anyway. One-handed swords seemed rare in Act 1, but become a bit more common in Act 2. Now I am picking up lots of socketed items to put gems into.
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