Matthew Rossi
The Queue: Special BlizzConline Wrap-Up Edition
So, now that day 2 of BlizzConline is over and we’ve all had a taste of the future, which is also a taste of the past in some cases like Diablo 2: Resurrected — consider this Queue to be a place for y’all to react as you see fit. What’s up? What are you currently going down a deep well of speculation on? We’re doing Lorewatch today, you can believe Joe and I are musing hard right about now.
Anyway, it’s the Queue. Let’s do this. I’ve got Ministry playing and I’m ready to answer some questions.
What did you think of BlizzConline?
I don't think any BlizzCon experience with three Diablo games in development is designed for me to do anything but love it as intensely and violently as a thousand exploding suns.
What is cross-progression in Diablo, and how is it different from cross-play?
If you've been watching BlizzConline (or reading about it), you've probably heard mention of cross-progression, a feature you'll find in both Diablo 2: Resurrected and Diablo 4.
Diablo 2: Resurrected preserves 8-player multiplayer and other game modes from the original
Watching the Diablo Q&A at BlizzConline, I was happy to hear Rob Gallerami talk about how multiplayer is going to work in Diablo 2: Resurrected. Although I was a bit disappointed to hear him say that we're not going to get the couch co-op play that Diablo 3 has on consoles, I was heartened to hear that 8-player multiplayer will be available, hearkening back to the way it worked when the game first came out, and it'll be available through Battle.net.
Diablo 2 Resurrected will be available on several consoles but will not have cross-play (yet)
As part of a Diablo 2 Resurrected group interview, Rob Gallerami and Matthew Cederquist discussed which consoles the game is currently designed for and how it's going to work in terms of playing with controllers.
So I heard you liked daily quests! Korthia, the new Maw zone in patch 9.1, will resemble the Mechagon daily quest hub
In patch 9.1, the Maw is expanding to include Korthia, a lost part of the Shadowlands that has been invaded by the Jailer and his forces as they seek...
See you later: You can cleanse yourself of the Eye of the Jailer in the Maw in patch 9.1
The folks at Wowhead interviewed Jeremy Feasel, WoW's Principal Game Designer, and Frank Kowalkowski, the game's Technical Director, talking all about patch 9.1, which is coming out some time after patch 9.0.5 comes out in March.
Diablo 2: Resurrected keeps the gameplay of the original intact, but consoles require some changes
I was relieved to see that gameplay in Diablo 2: Resurrected is almost completely unchanged.
Diablo Immortal has a Paragon system, and it improves on Diablo 3’s model
Watching the Diablo channel as part of this year's BlizzConline, I was surprised to discover that we're going to see a return of the Paragon system from Diablo 3 in Diablo Immortal.
Burning Crusade Classic is now officially announced, Level 58 boosts incoming
We weren't surprised by the Burning Crusade Classic announcement, of course -- I don't think anyone was surprised, we expected it to follow once they ran out of content in WoW Classic.
