Diablo 4 Unveiled Panel

The Diablo 4 Unveiled panel is now live. We’ll cover all the updates on the next installment in the Diablo franchise.

Diablo 4 Panel

  • Still a Classic Isometric Action RPG
  • Dark Non-Linear Campaign
  • Shared Open World with 5 Distinct Regions
  • Weather and Day/Night Cycles
  • Hundreds of Dungeons and Legendaries
  • Five Powerful Classes
  • Sorceress, Barbarian, and Druid announced so far.
  • Developed for PC, Xbox One, and PS4 simulanteously
  • Developers want everything you experience to feel immersive and faithful to the game.
  • Much more grounded approach to design. They want a darker, more mature setting with a realistic story.
  • Character selection campfire is back.

Barbarian

  • Visceral combat
  • Designed to be physically imposing and armed to the teeth
  • Arsenal system: Barbarian has 4 weapon slots and can use 1 and 2 handed weapons in the same build. 4 legendary weapons can be equipped at once!
  • Items can be assigned to a skill, the weapon will be used automatically when the skill is pressed.

Druid

  • Druid is back for the first time since Diablo 2
  • Still rooted in nature with his natural companions like wolves and vines.
  • Werebear and Werewolf forms.
  • Like the Barbarian’s weapon swapping your abilities will automatically activate the appropriate form.
  • You can completely specialize in 1 form.

Sorceress

  • Elemental carnage on the battlefield
  • Dungeons are extremely dark and are lit up by her magic
  • Appears to be a male and female option
  • Can transform into a destructive ball of lightning
  • Frost and Fire spells as always.
  • Shatter frozen enemies.

Diablo 4 Cosmetic Customization Options

  • Male and Female options for each class.
  • Can customize hair, skin, jewelry, scars, etc.

Diablo 4 Gameplay Customization

  • Talent Trees are back
  • Runewords that create triggers and effects
  • Skill ranks are back

Game World

  • Diablo 4 will be much more open.
  • You can level how you choose. Explore, do side quests, etc. Or just focus on the main story.
  • 5 distinct zones with unique environments
  • Regions are up to 20 times larger than previous games.
  • There will still be waypoints.
  • Due to the large zone size there are now mounts.
  • Mounts can be customized with armor and trophies. Damage reduction, move speed increase, etc.
  • Dismount abilities

Social Hubs

  • Safe zones
  • Interact with other players
  • Look for groups for open world raid bosses
  • Trade

PvP Zones

  • Special zones where players can opt into PvP combat.
  • Any player can be killed here and ears will be looted.

Diablo 4 Dungeons

  • Explore dungeons to find Epic loot.
  • Fully randomized.
  • Hundreds of underground dungeons.
  • There are also exterior dungeons.
  • Players will be going to Hell.

Monsters

  • Many familiar enemies like fallen and skeletons.
  • New monsters like the Drowned… undead which come from the ocean
  • Open world raid style bosses. Ashava, The Pestilent shown in demo.

Items and Loot

  • Emphasis on Legendary items.
  • Diablo 3 had too much of an emphasis on Sets.
  • Sets will still exist, but will not dominate like Diablo 3.
  • Affixes will improve skill ranks and grant talents.
  • Much more build variety through legendary items.

Release Date is not announced, but Diablo 4 will not be released anytime soon. Many demo streams coming throughout blizzcon.

There is a new Diablo 4 website with game information and development status updates.

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