14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer Blizzard announces that Diablo 3 has received a new patch, labeled 2.0.5, which is at the moment live in North America and which will soon also be offered for European gamers.
The company has listed all the changes that it is introducing on the official site and the most important are:
Increased the radius of "Strength in Numbers" (multiplayer buff) from 100 to 200 yards Gold Find on items will now stack multiplicatively with the Gold Find bonus provided from game difficulty This significantly increases the gold reward most players will see when playing on higher difficulty levels or wearing Gold Find gear. Example: Suppose you are playing on Master (+200% Gold Find) and have 50% Gold Find awarded from items. A pile of gold drops that would normally be 50 gold. Your Difficulty bonus increases the 50 gold to 150 gold. Your 50% Gold Find will now increase the 150 gold to 225 gold. The 300% Gold Find cap applied to items and Paragon Points has been removed The Vote Kick system has received several changes to make it less restrictive: Vote Kicking is now available after you have been in a game for 2 minutes (down from 5 minutes) Killing a champion or rare pack no longer disables vote kicking for 15 seconds After a boss kill, vote kicking is disabled for 15 seconds (down from 3 minutes) Some additional restrictions were also relaxed Known Issue: The tooltip will not reflect these changes Tyrael will now chat about his poor eating habits with less frequency
The change log is pretty big and also includes tweaks to all the classes included in Diablo 3 and to the crafting system of the title.
The changes have been put together by the team at Blizzard over the past few weeks based on reports coming from the player community and on statistics that they are collecting about the title.
The studio says that it is committed to the title in the long term, which means that more patches will be offered based on info coming from the player base.
In August, gamers on home consoles will also be able to get their hands on Diablo 3.
Rumors are also suggesting that a second expansion for the title is at the moment in the early stages of development.