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'''Checkpoints''' in [[Diablo 3]] function similar to [[respawn]] pointsin FPS games. Players who die appear back at the last checkpoint they reached, usually at the stairs that they took to reach the current level, or the closest chokepoint that separates two outdoor levels.

==Convenient Travel Options==Checkpoints are meant to save players time ::Updated waypoint design and effort when they respawn after death, and when they start a new gameUI implemented. [[Waypoints]] will probably function much as they did in [[similar to Diablo II]] (but fewer, and more far between), but instead of making the levels smaller, the [[D3 Team]] have added checkpoints into the [[level]]s, cutting down the distance players will have to retrace after they die, or when they create a new game.

In addition to waypoints and checkpoints, the D3 Team has talked about adding some mechanism (such as a [[town portal]]-like scroll) that would enable players to allow characters to travel instantly travel from town to the location of the other players characters in the game. It's not clear why players in the game couldn't just cast This would work something like a one-way town portal, letting a newcomer to the game get right into the action, but it seems that those will be limited in [[Diablo III]] (not working as a strategic element, way to travel to prevent players and from escaping back to [[town]] any time they want), so the instant location scroll is meant to save battling players any delay or pause in the actionfor exploitative reasons.