Hosting games now means you're hosting a dedicated server for people to join.Ĭross-progression with consoles: Diablo 2 is being released for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch, and Blizzard is supporting cross-progression with PC. It also offers the advantages of just being able to click on a friend's name to invite them without typing in an IP address or scrolling through a list of game lobbies. However, he also said that many parts of the game that once required those kinds of invasive mods to modify have been shifted into easily modifiable data, so modders will still be able to access them despite 's tighter security.ī friends lists, dedicated servers and security: Gallerani says Blizzard is "actively discouraging" exploits like item duping and botting, things the modern client helps prevent. DLL injections as something you could do with classic Diablo 2 that you can't do with D2R.
But it won't work exactly the same way, since modern is stricter and more secure. Modding: There are 20 years of Diablo 2 mods out there at this point, and Diablo 2: Resurrected will still allow modding. But again, same performances, shot-for-shot, if it cut from one scene to another in the original it's going to cut at that moment in the remake of those videos." and remake them from scratch with modern technology and CGI," says Fergusson. "We wanted to take this really dramatic story and take all 27 minutes of the cinematics. The cutscenes have been completely redone rather than upscaled from the original files, but with involvement from people who worked on the cutscenes back in 2000. If you want to type "pp" in chat the old-fashioned way, you still can.Ĭompletely remade cutscenes: This is the one place where D2R actually is a remake. There's an auto-party system for automatically joining games and automatically inviting people to your game, but it's optional. If you want to run over it to pick it up, you can run over it." There are new hotkeys. "If you want to pick up gold by clicking on it, you can still do that. Auto-looting and other QoL upgrades are optional: "Auto-gold is a feature we've added that you can turn on or off," says principal designer Rob Gallerani, who works at Vicarious Visions, a studio now under the Blizzard umbrella.
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