Diablo IV's enjoyable open beta is held back by underwhelming MMO elements.
The always-online Diablo IV is right around the corner. I had an enjoyable time exploring the setting of Act 1, the eerie Fractured Peaks zone that’s heavily inspired by northeastern Europe, while going hands-on with the game’s open beta. It all worked well when the servers didn’t completely break down, forcing me to wait in a queue.
Related Who let the demons out? The beta kicked off with a cinematic opening that introduced the new villain, Lilith, who isn’t really siding with Heaven or Hell and is more interested in messing with the human-inhabited in-between world of Sanctuary for her own ends. The opening scenes present a far more gruesome image of Diablo’s world, definitely aligning with what one would expect as a modern progression from Diablo 2, and I enjoyed how it characterizes its main players early on.
I played a Barbarian to level 25 and tried out a bit of gameplay with the dagger and bow-wielding Rogue and the magic-wielding Sorcerer, and they all felt very different in practice. There’s a proper skill tree for each class instead of a tab where I could just assign a bunch of attacks and passive moves. This skill tree strikes a balance between complexity and accessibility, giving me an increasing number of branching skill lines as I continued building out my character.
Loot also seemed to be instanced between each player in the multiplayer overworld, so it never felt like I was stepping on anyone’s toes when mindlessly grabbing all the loot after beating a public world event alongside a few other random players. If I wanted to play entirely alone, I could dip into a dungeon that is both instanced and procedurally generated for just myself and my party.
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