Diablo II: Resurrected Technical Alpha (Barbarian GAMEPLAY)
248We're playing the Diablo II: Resurrected Technical Alpha, during which we'll be showing off Barbarian gameplay and hosting a key giveaway so that a lucky few can access the Technical Alpha on PC, which will run until noon CST on Monday, April 12.
That’s actually a whole lot of time to engage with the Diablo 2 single-player Tech Alpha experience, which includes the entirety of the first two acts of the game and three character classes to enjoy. This alpha experience is also entirely single-player in scope, so you won’t be able to play with friends or anything. That said, we’re going on adventures with some of our favorite characters available for play: The Barbarian, The Sorceress, and the Amazon. Yes, I know what you’re thinking. The two best classes, Druid and Necromancer, aren’t available in this test. I noticed that too.
Diablo II: Resurrected is headed to console for its official launch later this year as well as PC, and hence console controls are a new element to tinker with. Other small changes are completely quality-of-life-oriented and don’t change the core game in any significant way. What sort of things are coming, you ask? Well, you won’t have to click on every stack of gold to pick it up if you don’t feel like it. Characters can also share stash space, meaning you won’t have to create an army of level one “mules” to carry all your sweet Stones of Jordan and ears collected from player-vs-player. Also, there’s no level cap in this alpha even though it ends after the Duriel encounter, so it will be interesting to see just how hard and high some folks grind it out in those Act 2 tombs.
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