Dalyxia schreef op maandag 14 september 2009 @ 12:16:
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nee ok, maar dat is een argument die dit topic een beetje doodslaat he

Donnas-A schreef op maandag 14 september 2009 @ 15:11:
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Nou ja mijn record staat samen met een maatje van mij op ongeveer 30 uur non-stop World of Warcraft spelen...daarna zo brak als een tientje maar het was de moeite waard :-)
Ik weet zeker dat dat met Diablo 3 ook weer gaat gebeuren, dus je bent niet de enige

Verwijderd schreef op zondag 13 september 2009 @ 21:18:
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-Misschien een quest waarbij de merc wordt gevangen gehouden (een beetje zoals Cain) en dat je hem/haar daar moet bevrijden.

-Of dat jouw merc tijdens het spel door (terwijl je hem al, als merc hebt), gekidnapped word door een of ander boss, en je daar achteraan moet.

Enkel maar ideetjes..

Valt mij trouwens op dat de meesten echt Diablobloed hebben! Natuurlijk heb ik dit ook, maar om dagelijks hier op het forum te gaan zitten....

Pensmaster-B schreef op zondag 13 september 2009 @ 22:12:
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offtopic:
psychoclown, We've found a witch, may we burn her?

Dalyxia schreef op zondag 13 september 2009 @ 23:28:
die skill cap zooi vind ik maar niks, dat je skill cap kan raisen en die skill cap raisen via een very rare item drop is al helemaal loos, dat is weer echt zo'n ding voor de rijken + zit er dan ook een cap op de skill cap raising, of kan je oneindig doorgaan met de skillcap raisen?

lijkt mij iig niks, moeten ze nog een heel stuk gaan uitwerken

Question: I was a big fan of the Amazon in Diablo 2, and I’m wondering if we’ll see her return? Or perhaps the Rogue from Diablo?
Answer: No comment. You’ll have to wait until next year to find out.

Question: Will we see the Horadric Cube in Diablo 3? Or some other form of item crafting?
Answer: There were good and bad elements to the Horadric Cube. We liked that it gave players some control over item creation, but we didn’t like the fact that the recipes were hidden. Players shouldn’t have to check websites to find how to use the features in the game. We’re going to include ways for players to improve their items, but we’re not ready to give details about those yet.

Question: I was a fan of Singer Barbarians in Diablo 2. Will we see builds like that possible with the Barbarian in Diablo 3?
Answer: (Some initial confusion due to the questioner’s accent and about what he meant with the question.) Oh, you mean a Barbarian with offensive warcries? We don’t have any of those in the game now, but it’s something we’ll consider.

Question: What sort of weapons can the Monk use? Just a staff?
Answer: In our early Monk design we had him empty handed, but we soon realized that weapons just make things more fun. Characters in Diablo are defined by their weapons. The Monk now uses staves, and his animations are all tied to that. He has a lot of sweeping motions with the staff, and when he uses fist weapons he changes entirely, using punching attacks. We’re not sure how the Monk’s weaponry will work eventually, but we might have him using fewer weapons than some of the other characters, but have his weapons make a bigger effect upon his performance.

Question: How dark is Diablo 3 going to be? Horror influences?
Answer: (Some confusion over the question, since it was somewhat unclear if the guy was referring to actual darkness, like art direction, or darkness in a thematic sense.) Oh, you mean dark as in mood and theme? Yes, we think Diablo 3 will be very dark and full of horror influences. We can’t talk about everything yet, but if you look at the situation in Alcarnus in the demo playable here at the show, you’ll see a total massacre. The town completely defiled. That’s just a sample of the sort of thing we’re aiming for with Diablo 3.

Question: I have a question about the Monk’s control system. On the combo attacks. Can you just keep doing them at stage one, without moving on to stage two and three?
Answer: Yes. The moves activate on timers, and if you don’t click the mouse again quickly enough, the second stage won’t be activated. Right now we’ve got the timer set to 0.6 seconds, I believe, and a player can reset the timer any time they want by pausing.

Question: I have a question about item farming from bosses. Baal runs. Will that sort of play be supported in Diablo 3?
Answer: We want to allow a wide variety of play styles in Diablo 3. Players will always do what grants the best reward, and bosses have the best items. In the Diablo 2 end game, there was one right answer. No variety. In Diablo 3 we’re looking at doing something more like World of Warcraft, where there are a lot of quests for players to do. That diversifies the end game content. Players do “runs,” but different ones. We can’t give details yet. Furthermore, the end game equipment goals will be more varied, and more strategic. It won’t be just about adding more hps/damage.

Question: Will we see mercenaries, like there were in Diablo 2?
Answer: No comment yet. But if I were going to comment, I’d point out that the mercenaries in Diablo 2 were a great idea, and that if we had them in Diablo 3 we’d want to expand on the concept!

Question: Will magic find return?
Answer: Yes. It’s in the game now, and we’re definitely going to support magic find and gold find. We’re thinking about things like ways to find specific items. Something like gem find, or rune find, etc. Also, everyone in Diablo 2 played the Sorceress since she was so good at magic finding since she didn’t need other equipment bonuses. We’re looking to avoid that sort of situation in Diablo 3, by making equipment more necessary to survival and success.

Question: I’m wondering if we’ll still need a lot of mules to hold items? Will the stash be larger in Diablo 3?
Answer: Gigantic stash! Bigger. And we weren’t happy with the methods required to self transfer items in Diablo 2. We’d like players to be able to share items through the stash, or maybe by email. Like most of our other systems, we’ve got a lot of ideas and we’re working on it, but we can’t make any final comment yet.

Bashiok: Skill caps start at 5 and go up from there. We’ll have a way for them to be increased and right now we like the idea of the player being able to choose which one/s they want to increase. So if that’s the case it’ll probably be an item you can use to “unlock” a skill cap to a higher number, and maybe a few of these skill cap unlocking items will be provided through playing the game (major quest/act completion rewards) and then also maybe as very rare item drops.

Verwijderd schreef op vrijdag 11 september 2009 @ 16:06:
Tegen die tijd zijn die graphics al weer flut

DeepSeven schreef op vrijdag 11 september 2009 @ 16:18:
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Niet echt hoor, 2010 lijkt om de hoek. 2011 is gewoon ver weg. Ik kan niet echt warm lopen voor een game die nog jaren uitblijft.

DeepSeven schreef op vrijdag 11 september 2009 @ 15:41:
Hij komt niet in 2009 uit, blizzard heeft al aangegeven dat ze in 2010 2 titels uitbrengen en dat zijn Starcraft 2 en WoW:cataclysm, dus D3 staat voor 2011 of later. 1.5 jaar op zijn minst nog dus, ik volg het nieuws ook nog amper, duurt gewoon nog te lang tot release.

I was lucky enough to get to play Diablo III a few times while at PAX, and thought I would share my impressions and experience with you all.

I started out playing the Wizard, and quickly found that it has a learning curve. If a Wizard gets into a bad spot, they die a lot faster than other classes. They also have a lot more active skills, so knowing what button to press and when to press it is a lot more important. I didn't have a lot of time here, so I mostly just died a lot before my friends took over. One of them played a Monk for a while, but I'm sure you've read a lot about them already.

Later I came back and played a Barbarian, and they are much improved from the DII variety. For one, no more mana. The Fury system felt very natural, which surprised me, because I expected it to be like the Rage mechanic in WoW (which I dislike). I especially enjoy the fact that if you Cleave into a group of enemies, you get back more than enough Fury to just keep on Cleavin'. Also, the warstomp was not only effective, but fun. The +defense warcry had no cost that I could see, so no precious resources wasted on the buff. When cast, a small box with a timer appears above the action bar to let you know how long is left on the buff.

On to the gameplay. I got a full inning with the Barbarian, and it was action packed. Started with two one-handed weapons, but soon found a big axe and started using that instead. It was honestly pretty hard to tell a difference between the two styles, but both produced lots of dead things. I later on picked up a rare two-handed sword, and that was both effective and pretty. It added lightning damage, and you could see little bits of electricity hitting the enemies now and then. Very satisfying.

While playing, I pretty much ignored the main quest given to me and explored the desert. While wandering, I found three random quests. For the first one, I stumbled on a group of cultists performing some ritual. Knowing that's often a bad thing, I attacked them; one of them cowered and begged for his life. In return, he told me where to find a treasure chest. It took me until almost the end of my game session to find it, but it contained a rare dagger among other things.

I also came across an adventurer fighting near some ruins. Once I rescued him, a quest display popped up saying "1 of 5 adventurers rescued". I eventually found all 5, at which point I was prompted to find their captain nearby. After talking to him, it initiated an event that had waves of monsters rushing us. Not too difficult, and it awarded some nice exp.

Last quest I found was a collapsing cave. I clicked on the portal in and found myself on the floor of the cave with 4 minutes until the roof collapsed. There were chests all over the place; I would estimate there were over 20 of them in there. Lots of rares. The marketing guy that we were talking to said that if we didn't get out in time, we would lose all loot gained inside. I managed to find that above-mentioned rare two-handed sword in here, and used it to kill the few enemies that were inside. I never managed to find the exit, though. When the roof collapsed, it killed me and I resurrected at the portal in. I still had the sword I found, so perhaps you get to keep everything after all? Either way, it was a lot of fun. Kept me on my toes and definitely added to the excitement.

On top of all that, I watched a buddy play the Witch Doctor for a session, and he fell in love. He was casting zombie dogs and spiders all over the place, and then throwing firebombs into the mess. I swear he even cackled a few times. The only problems he seemed to run into were occasions that big boss-types took out all his dogs, and he had to retreat to resummon them. His mana was generally quite high, unless he was just chain-gunning the firebombs.

Last but not least, Bashiok was around and quite friendly. He provided plenty of information and didn't seem to mind the barrage of questions that were directed at him. Good man for the job.

Blizzard Entertainment had quite the setup here at PAX 2009, with a huge booth stocked with PCs for playing their three major titles in development. It was a nice change of pace from some of the other booths because they didn't bother with gimmick, models and hokey displays. The just let us play the game. Thank you! Check out the gameplay videos and impressions below to see how it went.

Our time with Diablo III was much more brief than we would have liked. The long lines of slavering Diablo fans behind us kept breathing down our necks, reminding us that we had to keep moving or face forcible ejection. But we did get enough time with Diablo III to know it will be a great game.

Fans will be delighted to know that the game looks and plays much like the first, obviously with better graphics, new foes and new classes. But the heart of the first Diablo games is still there and it all feels very familiar.

We got to play in a barren wasteland composed of several different areas. Much as before you travel between areas and accomplish tasks while killing enemies and looting them. The most noticable difference from the previous games is that the battles and attacks are so much flashier than before. You will still get swarmed, and the playing style still requires a click-fest, but attacks are brighter, the blood is redder and far more plentiful, and the spells appear large and flamboyant on the screen.

We spent some time with the newest class in the Diablo series, the Monk. The Monk focuses more on hand-to-hand combat, but it doesn't have a lot of hit points. That means you can't just rush in and start swinging or you'll die quickly. The Monk requires a little more finesse and a lot more strategy, deciding how to draw out enemies, when to retreat and when to attack. The monk also has a few combo moves that allow you to deliver many attacks without staying in the same spot. One has you slashing back and forth through an attacker from many different angles. It actually looked like a move from Street Fighter or an anime movie rather than a Diablo move, but the Monk is like nothing you've seen the Diablo games anyway.

Overall, the game looks fun and the mechanics have had a nice update and polish. But that won't be enough to make it a great game. The story is going to be the big selling point. If Blizzard can create an epic story and some compelling quests (and let's face it, we know they can), then Diablo III will be a supremely entertaining and memorable game. Otherwise, it will just be Diablo II with a shiny new veneer.

I had a chance briefly this morning to get my hands on Diablo III at the Blizzard booth here at PAX 09. I decided to try out the newly announced Monk class for myself as it is further removed from what I am used to in Diablo II. The first thing to notice as different is that the pace of the fighting is a bit slower than that of its predecessor. However, Diablo III responds in kind because everything has an extra weighty badass-ness to it. What I mean by that is that when you pull of a large skill, the ground or the screen might shake, and the audio gives you very satisfying feedback to go along with it. The result is that you really feel like you are fighting these deadly things off as they try to surround you.

The interface is familiar but dressed up, and item names appear over drops as normal. Two things that are very different that I noticed in the small demo were checkpoints, and reviving teamates. When I died in the demo, the game waited to see if a teammate was ready to revive me with a skill or potion and when no one did, I was resurrected at the last checkpoint which was close by. This is markedly different from Diablo II, in that I had all my equipment and did not need to worry about whether I dropped a portal or had to walk to my body from town, I just got right back into the action. I don’t know if this is a positive change or a negative one just yet, I am really biased to Diablo II, and I am not sure if those checkpoints persist when the game is turned off. One thing is for sure, it’s fun.

Zagreus - Diablo 3 PAX Impressions II

The demo starts out in front of some city gates, which via context of conversation with Asheara (the female NPC who gives you the main quest), I'm assuming to be the city of Lut Bahadur. Asheara states that the city of Alcarnus is lost, and that the troops are falling back to Lut Bahadur. You begin in the Sundering Pass, right outside the city gates, and, over the course of your playthrough, can progress forward onto the Howling Plateau, then into the Canyon Rim Mines, and after passing through the Stinging Winds, finally enter the fallen city of Alcarnus. Random Quests I and those in front of me in line encountered brought us to the Town of Arkun (I can't remember the exact spelling), the Lost Ruins and the Crumbling Ruins mini-dungeons.

The random quest into the Lost Ruins was entitled "Idol of Rygnar". An NPC, Poltahr, is standing outside the entrance, and tells you that it has taken him years, but he's managed to track down the Rygnar Idol to these ruins, but they are monster infested. You escort him through the ruins and find the idol, after which he thanks you and says he needs to get this back to town. You are rewarded with 8400 experience points and the Empire Runners item (no idea what it is, wasn't my quest).

The random quest for the Crumbling Ruins begins when you enter. The place starts falling down around you and your character states that they "Better take what I can and get out..." you then have three minutes before the ruins collapse to explore and loot.

I encountered the random quest I noted yesterday with the dying girl. She is initially tied to a post and surrounded by Dark Cultists. Once you free her, she says that she is done for, stating that she already saw what happened to the other girls. She asks you to go to the village of Arkun (again, not sure if that's not actually what it was called), and warn them that she and the others were kidnapped by a villager name Akawrun (also, not sure on this name, was approaching the end of my play time). I did not make it to the village, but I did come across "The Cowering Akawrun" amongst a group of cultists. After disposing of them, he begged for his life, stating that "If I hadn't given them our daughters, they would have done to us what they did to Alcarnus!" I was not presented the option of killing him; He was untargetable.

I also ran into a quest where I had to save some men-at arms from some Lacuni. After rescuing all of them from a couple Lacuni each, we regrouped with their commander and they helped fight off a couple waves of Lacuni Huntresses. It appeared as if one of them was going to join me as a Hireling, but my playtime was up and I was asked to allow someone else to play.

Along the way, enemies encountered include, but are not limited to; Sand Wasp, Dune Thrasher, Desert Dervish, Fallen Imp, Fallen Shaman, Fallen Overseer, Fallen Hound, Lacuni Warrior (the muscular cat men with duel swords), Lacuni Huntress (smaller cat persons who pop out of the sand and follow you), and Dark Cultists. The two Ruins dungeons housed Bone Warriors, Tomb Vipers, Serpent Magus, Enraged Spirits, Frozen Mages, Gloam Constructs (like the frozen mage, only electricity based), and Poisonous Skeletons (like the frozen mage, only poison based).

Monster Prefixes included Champion, Fanatic, and Possessed. What I'm going to call Affixes for the time being, which appeared in yellow, below the monster names, that I managed to right down were as follows; Electrified, Plagued, Fast, Magical, Frozen, Stoneskin, Cold Aura, Doppelganger (which I erroneously reported as and enemy type yesterday), Molten, and Powerful. Molten was the only Affix that was not attached to a Unique, making the Bone Warrior [Molten] less powerful than a Champion Bone Warrior, but more powerful than a non-affixed Bone Warrior. All the Uniques had at least one, if not two Affixes.

Uniques that I managed to catalog are a follows: Death Froth [electrified] was a wasp. Spirit Hawk [plagued][fast], Bile Feast [magical], and Rust Raven (was too busy dying to note her affixes) were all Lacuni Warriors. Haze Fuse [powerful][cold aura] and Pit Thorn [frozen][stoneskin] were Tomb Viper/Serpen Maguses.

Again, I got a wide variety of items and equipment. Equipment I could not equip simply told me that I could not equip it. There was no required stat level, and only one item said that it was unique to a class (A two-handed Axe for the Barbarian). I managed to find four elixirs; An Elixir of Strength I, Elixir of Dexterity I, Elixir of Dexterity II, and Elixir of Willpower III. Elixirs of rank I increased the stated stat by 4 for 300 seconds, rank II gave a +8 for 300sec, and rank III gave +12 for 300 sec. The universal potion cooldown was 60 seconds. Someone in front of me received a Vial of Regeneration and a Vile of Resurrection, but I did not and don't know what they do. As a side note, it tried to un-equip the backpack, but it wouldn't let me because I had items in it.

Minor Notes : I rocked a Wizard this playthrough. The magic baldes skill was the default left click and consumed about as munch mana as the WD's Skull of Flame, but the Wizard's mana regenerated faster. 1,2 and 3 were Frost Armor, Mirror Image, and an ability that froze enemies around you temporarily. All were very helpful, especially Mirror Image, which isn't just a immobile copy, but has access to all of your skills, and has rather good AI (it was doing better in fights than I was ).

All in all, a good morning at PAX. Torchlight was also playable, but I didn't get a chance to play it, spending the rest of my time receiving free stuff and participating in raffle drawings.

Dalyxia schreef op zondag 06 september 2009 @ 22:48:
over die all male en 5e all female class

blizzard heeft zelf aangegeven dat er voor all classes een male en een female versie komt

dus je mag straks ook met een non spelen zogezegd

All four announced classes were playable, with the Female Monk being the only disabled option, and it was the desert, same as the Blizzcon build.

Zagreus - Diablo 3 PAX Impressions

All four announced classes were playable, with the Female Monk being the only disabled option, and it was the desert, same as the Blizzcon build. I got in when the doors opened, so there were only four people in front of me. Guy #1 rocked a witch-doctor, and received a (presumably random) quest where you rescue a girl tied to a post from a group of Fallen. She then asks you to follow her, but dies a couple steps later, asking you to go find here village and let them know what happened. When you find the village, they have you go and kill some champions outside the village that have some quest drops and return them to the headman. Not sure what the next leg of the quest was, as his time ran out.

Guy #2 rocked a monk, literally blowing away pretty much everything on the field. Monk was much more powerful than the other three classes at this point. He received a random quest to go down into the Lost Ruins and escort a man to a relic at the end of the dungeon. Inside that dungeon where a bunch of skeletal soldiers called “Bone Warriors”, snake men called “Tomb Vipers”, and those spider people on the four spindly legs were called “Doppelganger”, with the blue versions being called “Frozen Mage”. After that quest, the random NPC runs off, say he’s got to “get this back to town”.

Guys #3 & #4 rocked a Wizard and a Barbarian for approx 10 minutes each, jsut wanting to see what the game was like and then move on. And then it was my turn.

I picked the Witch Doctor and rolled out. Hotkeys currently consist of 1 through 5, left click, right click and tab. The tab key toggles swaps what is in the tab slot with your right click. As a WD 1 had Summon Zombie Dog, 2 had Frighten, 5 had 5 Health Potions (more on this later), left click was a standard attack, right click was Skull of Flame, and Tab was the Corpse Spiders.

An NPC named Azsheara (or something like that) greets you at the gate and gives you the main quest concerning the city filled with cultists. I didn’t receive any random quests, sticking pretty much to the main road in to town where I began killing cultists. On the way there, I ran into a group of Champions, consisting of a Champion, 2 Fanatic, and 2 Possessed Dune Stalkers, so those all exist in DIII. Also found a Health refill shrine and a another shrine whose effect I didn’t have time to figure out. I came across a raised drawbridge that would lead across a side-canyon when lowered but when i tried to hit the switch to lower it it told me that in order to do so I was required to have the “Necromancer’s Book” Quest item, which I never found.

Drop-wise, I got a pretty good variety of Items. I got various daggers, axes, helms, armor, 2 Greater Healing Potions, 1 Lesser Healing potions, and 3 more of the regular Healing Potions that you started out with. All potions were instant heal, like in Diablo I, as opposed to the Heal over time like DII, and there was a universal Potions cool-down like in WoW. not sure exactly how long it was, but was somewhere between 30 and 60 seconds. You started out with a stack of like 20 Scroll of identifies in your backpack, with familiar red-bound scroll icon, in order to identify unknown items with (signified by a blue question mark in the middle of the item pic). Items you couldn’t use had a red X through them. I got and elixir of regeneration and an elixir of strength, and tried to activate both, but discovered that you can have only one elixir on at a time.

Not much else noteworthy happened in my playthrough. General notes on the WD: I became low on health frequently, but was always able to save myself with a Frighten followed by Corpse Spiders and/or Plague Swarm and a couple Zombie Dogs. Mana regenerated fast enough that I could almost always pop off a Skull of Flame, if little else, though there where a few times where I was running from a horde of Dervishes and those Light-saber-wielding Hyena people (can’t remember what they’re called ) where I had to wait for enough mana to cast Frighten before I felt safe. He was challenging yet fun.

Verwijderd schreef op zaterdag 05 september 2009 @ 15:40:
Ik zou het wel vet vinden als je een staf en een soort van zwaard Talisman kon dragen, gewoon voor de looks, en misschien dat er nog een kleine functie aan hangt (een dolk kan natuurlijk er altijd bij ). Met functie heb ik het natuurlijk over stat bonussen etc.

kid jansen schreef op zaterdag 05 september 2009 @ 18:50:
Af en toe mag het best wat moeilijker van mij, en vooral meer afwisseling. Ik zou het zelf leuker vinden als je geen Normal, Nightmare en Hell had, maar dat je gewoon van begin tot eind steeds nieuwe content had. En dan ook niet zoals nu op Ladder dat je Hell op lvl70 hebt uitgespeeld, en dat je dan vervolgens alleen nog maar baalruns aan het doen bent. En een beetje tactics kan ook geen kwaad, vooral bij bossfights met meerdere spelers.

.Arne schreef op zaterdag 05 september 2009 @ 18:54:
Wat voor character is dit? Ziet er rogue achtig uit...

Pheno79 schreef op zaterdag 05 september 2009 @ 20:37:
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Je hebt de vrouwelijke wizard gevonden, gefeliciteerd Of dacht je dat Blizzard per ongeluk de vijfde nog geheime character in hun publieke demo zouden stoppen?

ravw schreef op zaterdag 05 september 2009 @ 19:03:
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ach dat vind ik nog niet zo'n ramp..
Maar wat mij wel heel erg leuk lijkt is dat als ej meerdere Char heb aan gemaakt ..

Dus je heb een
Monk lvl 80
Warrior lvl 75
Wizzard lvl 88

Dus dat je die dan met een andere char mee kan nemen als Henchman
Dus dan met die andere chars ook nog tegelijke tijd een beetje kan levellen of dingen kan doen.

Dalyxia schreef op vrijdag 04 september 2009 @ 12:38:
als ze niet willen dat mensen gaan lopen zeiken om filmpjes, dan moeten ze die filmpjes niet laten zien

Ik vraag me af of BoE dan ook een nieuwe trade-scam gaat zijn. Beetje items traden, heb je neit in de gaten dat je BoE item al geequipped is geweest. Doh!

Verwijderd schreef op vrijdag 04 september 2009 @ 11:31:
En als je goed leest tussen de regels door, merk je ook op dat ze de effecten bij 'full potential' testen, en de effecten dus upgraden als je skills upgraden.

The_Sukkel schreef op vrijdag 04 september 2009 @ 11:38:
Ik weet niet of ik het BoE (bind on equip) principe goed begrijp.

Betekent het dat je je eigen wapens gaat verzamelen welke je steeds sterker kan maken door er allerlei items aan toe te voegen? En die wapens zouden vervolgens alleen door jezelf kunnen worden gebruikt?

If so, dan zou dat best wel ok zijn...
If not, begrijp ik het nog niet helemaal...