MXL: Sigma Announced

[suntorytime]

I know you you have nothing to with that amount of cookies but jeez, this ideal is great +1

[Professor-Zoom]

a) Keep the "main storyline" path clean. So while going from zero to baal, there will be no highly direct access to uberlevels. Instead, there will be either passages to the uberlevels or the entrance to these ubers will be harder to notice. In other cases, some uberquests won't even appear at all, and will be accessed via special means.

so now the quests like have to go get act2 "cube, staf" act3 "eye,brain,heart" will back ?

[Marco]

a) Keep the "main storyline" path clean. So while going from zero to baal, there will be no highly direct access to uberlevels. Instead, there will be either passages to the uberlevels or the entrance to these ubers will be harder to notice. In other cases, some uberquests won't even appear at all, and will be accessed via special means.

so now the quests like have to go get act2 "cube, staf" act3 "eye,brain,heart" will back ?

To some degree. But either way, the main story line is being shortened, which means shorter mazes, i.e. underground passage, jails, catacombs, river of flame, maggot lairs, etc. will be reduced.

[shnurr214]

excellent work marco really looking forward to it keep it up guys

[void]

Does it also mean smaller dest Den of Evil?

[kissofaries]

^ or bigger river of flame?

[Crash]

Baba get 'em

Titan Strike must be OP as shit now

[Blastonecrosis]

must haz

[Blastonecrosis]

Hella dropped 25$ for the cause

[archon256]

a) Keep the "main storyline" path clean. So while going from zero to baal, there will be no highly direct access to uberlevels. Instead, there will be either passages to the uberlevels or the entrance to these ubers will be harder to notice. In other cases, some uberquests won't even appear at all, and will be accessed via special means.
b) Make the uberquest placements more lore-friendly. As you've seen before, butcher on tristram makes more sense, as it was this way in Diablo 1. A lot of quests are changing places/acts.

I really like the idea behind this, but I have one concern.
Would it be possible to modify the list of waypoints somehow to make sure players can get to these ubers quickly?

I know that late game players have a ton of move speed and all, but it still felt really annoying to me to have to run repeatedly through the various "level 1" zones like Cave level 1, Hole level 1, Underground Passage level 1 etc. in order to get to the ubers. That part of the game offers zero challenge and is just a waste of time, especially when running to a zone that's farmed a lot like Duncraig.