Death mechanic for Blizzard games has evolved a lot since Diablo 1. Diablo 1 didn’t have any, like the other games during it’s time. When you die, it’s game over for you and a menu that prompts you to quit or load from your previous save. Save the game a millisecond before you die then you’re screwed. The players found this annoying so Blizzard changed the death mechanic to something more lenient, which is, you respawn at the act’s town… nude… then you walk (run) your way back to your corpse and you get your previously equipped items back again. WoW’s death mechanic was pretty similar to this but you spawn as a ghost so you won’t get ganked/killed on your way to your corpse but that doesn’t stop you from getting corpse camped by either other players or mobs. Bashiok divulged some information on as to what death mechanic Diablo 3 is using in the current development build :

As posted by Bashiok

Before I get in to what we are doing let me go over some things we want to avoid with a death mechanic. We want to separate being in town and being out on a quest/adventure/dungeon as much as possible. Leaving the safety of a town should not be a decision you take lightly. We don’t want to remove the sense of suspense and danger by making town something you’re always going back to pretty much whenever you like. The intent is to create a greater separation from being in town, and not, and to make your time away from town a lot more tense.

On that same note we also don’t want to remove the player from the action. Throwing them back to town for every death really breaks up the action, and not in a fun, interesting, or necessary way.

So, with these things in mind we’ve found that a check point system works really well. Throughout your adventures, and generally at the ends of each “floor” of a dungeon your character is saved to a checkpoint. When you die you’re dropped back at the last checkpoint with a small amount of health, and the rest regenerates slowly. It’s obviously a very forgiving system as it is. It’s just too early to put a ton of thought in to what penalties there should be, if any, added on top of it.
Regardless, potential penalties aside, this is the death mechanic we’re currently using and it’s working really well so far.

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There are reviews claiming that the Star Wars Force Unleashed novel and graphic novel do more justice to the storyline than the game franchise. Well, the best way to find out is to read it yourself. You may download Star Wars Force Unleashed Graphic Novel here (pdf-comic format,  104 pages) :


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“The Sith always betray one another. . . . I’m sure you’ll learn that soon enough.”The overthrow of the Republic is complete. The Separatist forces have been smashed, the Jedi Council nearly decimated, and the rest of the Order all but destroyed. Now absolute power rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith lord better known as the former Senator, now Emperor, Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader. In turn, the Dark Lord has groomed a lethal apprentice entrusted with a top-secret mission: to comb the galaxy and dispatch the last of his masters’ enemies, thereby punctuating the dark side’s victory with the Jedi’s doom.

Since childhood, Vader’s nameless agent has known only the cold, mercenary creed of the Sith. His past is a void; his present, the carrying out of his deadly orders. But his future beckons like a glistening black jewel with the ultimate promise: to stand beside the only father he has ever known, with the galaxy at their feet. It is a destiny he can realize only by rising to the greatest challenge of his discipleship: destroying Emperor Palpatine.

The apprentice’s journeys will take him across the far reaches of the galaxy, from the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to the junkyard planet of Raxus Prime. On these missions, the young Sith acolyte will forge an unlikely alliance with a ruined Jedi Master seeking redemption and wrestle with forbidden feelings for his beautiful comrade, Juno Eclipse. And he will be tested as never before–by shattering revelations that strike at the very heart of all he believes and stir within him long-forgotten hopes of reclaiming his name . . . and changing his destiny.

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Here are the brief changes for Warhammer Age of Reckoning that came with the September 23, 2008 patch.

Warhammer September 23 patch notes

- Fixed a bug where root spells did not have a chance to break if incoming damage was defended against or absorbed.
- Fixed a bug where root spells would not properly break on damage after the 1.5s ‘Guaranteed Root’ time expired.
- Continuous damage effects such as damage over time will still only have a chance to break on initial application of the spell, not subsequent tics of damage.

You can download the Warhammer Age of reckoning September 23 patch automatically with the Warhammer patcher executable.

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