That's the state the game settled in for a long time, with Blizzard not making substantial changes again until 2010 - by which point I think mostly only megaserious players remained. I played D2 the most under 2003's Patch 1.'s Patch 1.11. That's interesting to me because 1.14 is very much not the Diablo 2 I remember. So right now we're focused on pretty much what's live today.' 'We didn't want to start balancing it out to something else, because if we gave players this game that they remembered but things felt differently because we balanced them or rebalanaced them, it's too many variables. 'We wanted to focus on nailing the foundation of the authentic experience,' he said. Gallrani also said in the Q&A that D2R is based on the current live version of D2, 1.14, without balance changes (though he did note 'the balance of the game live has quirks for it') or new Runewords or such. I beg of you to go easy on a poor old man.- Diablo FebruTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. Why you would want to manipulate this Hell? Are you some sort of demon yourself? Woe! Yes, mod support will be here in Diablo II. Enough folks were unhappy that Blizzard offered refunds to anyone who wanted 'em, a move beyond their usual refund policy.Īs for mods, they were confirmed in, uh, a Twitter thread pretending to be Deckard Cain: But this new version lacked several features and introduced new problems.

That's good to hear after Warcraft 3: Reforged controversially replaced the original release, patching it up to Reforged. You can play 'em both at the same time if you want.' This is a separate product, separate game. 'Everything you have about D2 currently will stay D2. 'No, absolutely not,' D2R principal designer Rob Gallerani replied. Such as whether D2R would overwrite the original Diablo 2. I'm wary after the mess of Warcraft 3: Reforged but god, I want so badly for this to be good.įellas from Diablo 2: Resurrected, Diablo 4, and Diablo Immortal fielded questions from the public in a video Q&A.

Such as: unlike the recent Warcraft 3 remaster, this will be a separate game and won't update or replace the original Diablo 2. After announcing Diablo 2: Resurrected during BlizzCon, over the weekend Blizzard revealed more titbits about the remaster of their 21-year-old excellent action-RPG.

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