Diablo IV: le novità su Stagioni e Pass Battaglia dall’ultimo live stream

Ieri sera si è tenuto un nuovo live stream con i principali sviluppatori di Diablo IV – Rod Fergusson, Joseph Piepiora, Kegan Clark e Adam Fletcher – dedicato ai contenuti stagionali in arrivo dopo il lancio del gioco, insieme alla monetizzazione a lungo termine con il Pass Battaglia e il Negozio. Ecco i punti più interessanti riscontrati:

Stagioni

• Il primo contenuto post-lancio di Diablo IV, con la stagione 1, arriverà indicativamente verso metà luglio.
• Ogni Stagione avrà un tema distinto, ad esempio “Zombie” e aggiungerà una nuova serie di missioni che mostrerà le meccaniche e modifiche esclusive introdotte. Molte di queste saranno temporanee e verranno rimosse al termine della stagione.
• In maniera simile a Diablo III, ci sarà un Percorso Stagionale con imprese e obiettivi da completare. Inoltre, saranno disponibili delle “Aspirational Challenges” focalizzate sull’endgame.
• La Campagna principale del gioco non continuerà attraverso le Stagioni.
• Al momento si prevede una stagione ogni tre-quattro mesi. Per partecipare alle stagioni sarà necessario creare un nuovo personaggio, ma esiste una modalità permanente senza stagioni.
• Mentre il bilanciamento del gioco sarà effettuato periodicamente, nuove funzionalità e modifiche QoL saranno introdotte con l’avvento delle stagioni.
• Per le prime stagioni, Diablo IV non avrà una classifica stagionale.
• Se un personaggio stagionale hardcore muore, il progresso sul Percorso Stagionale viene mantenuto in quanto legato all’account.

Pass Battaglia e Negozio

• I livelli del Pass Battaglia stagionale verranno sbloccati attraverso il Favore, ottenibile semplicemente giocando e completando gli obiettivi stagionali.
• I tre tipi del Pass Battaglia sono:
  • Base: qui ci sono le modifiche e le ricompense di gameplay e contenuto, disponibili per tutti una volta raggiunto un certo livello personaggio.
  • Premium: oggetti cosmetici esclusivi del Pass Battaglia, con un tema stagionale.
  • Accelerato: come il Premium, ma le ricompense cosmetiche si sbloccheranno ad una velocità maggiore.
• Acquistare in un secondo momento il Pass Battaglia Premium garantirà Favore e ricompense in modo retroattivo.
• Gli acquisti dal Negozio sono in gran parte legati a classi specifiche, ma sono sbloccati a livello di account.
• L’offerta del Negozio cambierà settimanalmente, ma gli oggetti torneranno spesso disponibili all’acquisto.

Se volete sapere di più sulle Stagioni e sul Pass Battaglia, il blog post sottostante fa per voi. Ricordate che questo weekend ci sarà il Server Slam, in cui sarà possibile mettere alla prova i server di Diablo IV in una riproposizione della scorsa open beta. Buona caccia!

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EXPLORING DIABLO IV’S POST-LAUNCH EXPERIENCES

Stoking the Flames of Hell: Seasons

Seasons are quarterly releases that will add additional gameplay features, questlines (with new and old faces alike), Battle Passes, Legendary Items, class balance changes, quality-of-life improvements, and much more. Seasons will introduce fresh concepts and ideas into the world of Sanctuary, for all wanderers to enjoy while simultaneously iterating upon your baseline experience. Above all, we want Seasons to be celebratory moments; something to look forward to and enjoy with your friends and other members of the Diablo community.

Season 1 will begin in mid to late July, and to embark on this next chapter, you must first complete the Campaign. Because of this, we recommend you begin your pursuit of Lilith in advance so you can jump into the first Season as soon as it becomes available.

Progressing Through the Season Journey and Earning Rewards

If Seasons are the night’s sky, then the Season Journey is the North Star, your guiding light. Players can look to the Season Journey for details on the new content available to them. The Season Journey will be invaluable in helping you quickly level-up your Battle Pass, as this is done through completing Chapters that are comprised of Objectives. Completing all Objectives in a Chapter will score you Seasonal rewards, such as useful Crafting Materials and Legendary Aspects for your Codex of Power.

Each objective also rewards an amount of Favor, the resource used to level up through the Tiers of the Battle Pass. Favor can also be obtained from completing quests, slaying monsters, participating in events, and more.

Injecting Variety with the Optional Battle Pass

With each Season comes a new Battle Pass for you to earn rewards from, containing 27 Free Tiers and 63 Premium Tiers. You can earn Cosmetics and Smoldering Ashes from the Free Tiers just by slaying demons as you normally would. Smoldering Ashes are a resource that can be spent on Season Blessings, which provide you with a bonus to earning XP, Gold, or Obols depending on which Blessings you spend Ashes on. Players can have more than one Season Blessing active at a time and can use additional Ashes to upgrade the bonus they receive. The bonuses gained from Season Blessings only last until that respective Season ends. Since Season Blessings affect gameplay, you must meet certain Character Level requirements to claim the Smoldering Ashes needed to apply Blessings. This ensures they are earned by achieving gameplay requirements and there is no advantage gained from purchasing Tier Skips.

To earn rewards from the Premium Tiers, a player must purchase the Premium Battle Pass. This upgraded track of the Battle Pass will not provide any in-game power, but instead unlocks tiers that provide Cosmetics unique to that Season and the Platinum currency. Platinum can be spent in the Shop to acquire new Cosmetics that sculpt you into the wanderer you wish to become or put towards the purchase of future Battle Passes. Platinum can only be acquired using real currency, such as USD.

Overall, there are three versions of the Battle Pass available. The Free Battle Pass, simply called Battle Pass, the Premium Battle Pass, which will cost 1,000 Platinum (equivalent of $9.99 USD), and the Accelerated Battle Pass, which includes all perks of the Premium Battle Pass, 20 Tier Skips, a special Cosmetic, and will cost 2,800 Platinum (equivalent of $24.99 USD).

Reinforcing Your Character’s Fantasy: The Shop

Through slaying demons across Sanctuary, you can acquire hundreds of transmogs, weapons, and pieces of armor, including dozens of armor sets, all available to players at launch. The role of Shop Cosmetics is to provide greater breadth in customization options, allowing you to reinforce the fantasy of choice for your character—none of the Cosmetics sold in the Shop provide anything greater than aesthetic variety. Diablo is a dark, gritty, fantasy game, and its purchasable Cosmetics will reinforce this theme. In comparison to the Class-agnostic Cosmetics earned from the Battle Pass, the Cosmetics offered in the Shop are meant to reinforce class-specific fantasies, so there will be some Cosmetics unique to particular Classes. The Shop is intended to be an avenue of self-expression for our players, and they can interact with it as much or as little as they desire during their time in Sanctuary.

The Cosmetics sold in the Shop will rotate on a consistent basis and must be purchased with Platinum. Once you have purchased a Cosmetic for a Class, it will be usable for all characters of that Class on your account. Diablo IV also contains a cross-purchase feature, where any Platinum or items acquired with Platinum are tied to your Battle.net account and can be accessed on any platform where you play the game. The Shop has been built for transparency; using the Preview function, you can thoroughly inspect any Cosmetic you’re thinking of purchasing to ensure it feels right for you. Our Shop is also intelligent; using your playstyle and aesthetic preferences, it will recommend Cosmetics that support the wanderer you want to become.

*Legendary Armor earned through gameplay (left) versus Armor Cosmetics purchased from the Shop (right).

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HELP US PREPARE FOR LAUNCH DURING SERVER SLAM

Server Slam runs from May 12, 12 p.m.–May 14, 12 p.m. PDT. Everyone can take up arms against the armies of the Burning Hells to help us test the durability of our servers on Windows PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4—along with couch co-op for consoles and cross-play and cross-progression for all platforms.

For information on Server Slam’s contents, rewards, and how to Early Download it now, visit our Server Slam blog.

-The Diablo IV Team