Announcing Ruthless

So it's very much more about item scarcity than monster scaling, interesting. Seems like it might turn out to just be about more playtime aside from the loss of movement skills, but that might turn out to be a bigger factor than it initially sounds.

I've played closed beta, BLAMT races, multiple Gucci leagues (with my own harder rules of only using quality flasks and gems, so much for gem scarcity) and usually play off meta SSF melee, I enjoy the item pacing of Diablo II and yet I have zero motivation to play Ruthless in the current state of the game.
A year or two ago, I would have been excited but with balance being this spiky and the game being this deadly and demanding of what your build needs to handle, I'll give it a try once but it's just not the right game for something like that anymore. There sure will be some competitions in the mode and some people will kill Pinnacle Bosses but I'll just watch the professionals suffer. I doubt it will be anything long term.

THE PAIN, the pain ..., I like it ! ;)

This sounds AWESOME. Can't wait to try it.

Full post about a new mode coming in 3.20 mainly aimed at streamers. Who will in most cases be pressured into playing the mode to see how "hard" they are. Which feeds into the stupid bro culture on Twitch.

Would have announced Ruthless AFTER you went through how you plan to fix the base game.

You know the thing most of your player base will be playing the most.

Also, HC will be dead from the get-go in 3.20. Then the fact SC-HCSSF players will just move over to this making that mode pretty much pointless.

Ehh. Not my thing, as this sounds like worse gear than D1 and more early grind than lategame D2, but what do I know, and more power to those excited to play. To future Ruthless Hardcore SSF players, I salute you.

Sounds brutal fun for those who want a game mode like this.
now us, basic trade league players, can we get back our fun game tho? as it was? like in 3.13? pls Chris?

Alpha please, I want to be destroyed.

Ruthless should have been a November event for testing purposes.

Ruthless 3.19 + Archnemesis mods, is the game still playable?