Blizzard introduced throughout at this time’s Campfire Chat livestream that the massive Diablo 4 loot rework introduced in February will go reside on a public take a look at realm on April 2, giving gamers one week—till April 9—to place the replace by means of its paces and see what’s altering.
Diablo 4 gamers could word that the PTR dates put it awfully near the deliberate finish of season 3, which might make for a little bit of a crunch if the replace wants important work. To make sure that’s not an issue, Blizzard has prolonged the present season from its deliberate conclusion on April 16 to Might 14.
“We’re pushing it again a couple of weeks to make sure that we get all of the suggestions from this PTR, and we apply it to season 4 to be sure that all these new system modifications that we’re doing are proper and work for the group based mostly off of everybody’s suggestions,” Diablo group lead Adam Fletcher mentioned throughout at this time’s Campfire Chat livestream. “So season 3 is now going to finish on Might 14, and naturally with that, season 4 additionally begins on Might 14.”
This PTR will solely be obtainable to gamers on PC by way of the Battle.internet consumer, which Fletcher mentioned “permits us to be just a little extra agile,” presumably due to the extra stringent compatibility necessities on console.
He added, nevertheless, that Blizzard is methods of enabling entry sooner or later for console gamers as nicely: “We’re going to attempt to discover different methods of having the ability to convey PTR, once we do have a PTR, to gamers sooner or later.”
Gamers within the PTR will begin recent, however “boosting choices” shall be offered so gamers can shortly get to the good things, and different facets of the sport shall be cleared or unlocked to facilitate testing.
Full directions on tips on how to get into the PTR consumer shall be posted subsequent week in a fully-detailed weblog submit. A PTR-specific discussion board will even be activated to allow testers to extra simply share suggestions.
Right now’s Diablo 4 livestream goes deep into main itemization modifications coming to the sport in season 4—we’ll have an in depth breakdown of what gamers can stay up for when the stream is over.