Diablo Immortal enters limited public alpha

[Shawn Knight]

Recap: Diablo Immortal takes place between the events of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (an expansion for Diablo II) and Diablo III. The massively multiplayer element aside, it appears to look and play a lot like a traditional Diablo game, just on mobile. That won't appease everyone (especially diehard PC gamers) but it might not be as bad as the critics initially suspected.

Diablo Immortal, the massively multiplayer mobile-only game that Blizzard first revealed back at BlizzCon 2018, is just around the bend.

Blizzard on Friday announced that they will soon be opening the game for a limited public technical alpha. The goal of the controlled launch is to test server stability and client performance across a wide range of devices as well as collect player feedback regarding the core game, the leveling experience and other early gameplay systems.

From today, select gamers in Australia that pre-registered on the Google Play Store will receive an invitation to the Diablo Immortal technical alpha.

The test will be limited to a couple thousand players, Blizzard said, and is expected to run for a couple of weeks. Minimum hardware requirements include a Snapdragon 710 SoC, 2GB of RAM and Android 5.0 Lollipop or higher. The game is free-to-play but there will be optional in-game purchases, although Blizzard said these “will never stand in the way of progression or enjoying the game.”

A general release date has not been set for Diablo Immortal.

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[fps4ever]

Come on man...I signed up for it a long time ago.

 

[RedGuard]

I never understood why mobile games have to be so unappealing. I mean there were handheld consoles smaller than 6 inch phones that had awesome games on them. But on these devices you only have games that basically play themselves. Or you have to pay.

Anyway, I think the biggest problem is the lack of physical buttons. Are there any such accessories that connect via Bluetooth and allow one to have a D-Pad and X, Y, A, B buttons? Do they work with more complex games?

 

[corrosive23]

I never understood why mobile games have to be so unappealing. I mean there were handheld consoles smaller than 6 inch phones that had awesome games on them. But on these devices you only have games that basically play themselves. Or you have to pay.

Anyway, I think the biggest problem is the lack of physical buttons. Are there any such accessories that connect via Bluetooth and allow one to have a D-Pad and X, Y, A, B buttons? Do they work with more complex games?

You can use an xbox one controller on android.
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-use-xbox-one-controller-android

 

[Versutus]

I never understood why mobile games have to be so unappealing. I mean there were handheld consoles smaller than 6 inch phones that had awesome games on them. But on these devices you only have games that basically play themselves. Or you have to pay.

Anyway, I think the biggest problem is the lack of physical buttons. Are there any such accessories that connect via Bluetooth and allow one to have a D-Pad and X, Y, A, B buttons? Do they work with more complex games?

Mobile games are for a totally different target audience. Todays mobile games are for short playsessions to kill some time while you are waiting for a bus or just wanna do something before bed. Yes, there are exceptions. Mostly they are timekillers, nothing more.

 

[Bao Nguyen]

It's bad because It's essentially just a reskin of another chinese game which was a copy of the original Diablo gameplay ironically

 

[Zinixo]

Meh .I own d 1-3 .1 and 2 were great, 3 shoulda been called diablocraft. dumbed down game mechanics made for a lame game compared to previous ones .this was after a huge wait because wow was the only blizzard game receiving attention from devs at the time. They also came out with starcraft 2 which game wise was much better then d3 but the marketing of it in 3 pieces pretty much killed sales .
I used to buy every game blizzard made ,now I dont even bother to look at blizzard and have 0 plans to buy anything from them.

 

[Rayneofpayne]

Blizzard is doing nothing, it's not really even their game it's licensed branding to a Chinese company making the game. Either way it's a shitty mobile game no actual fan of diablo cares about, half of them didn't like Diablo 3 and 4 is already looking like a turd for a representation of ARPG for dummies, in that ever expansive braindead button mashing arcade brawler relabeled as an ARPG with no for thought to any real character development.

 

[Bamsemh]

F2p, but obviously still p2w style... D3 launch mistake all over again.

 

[Hardware Geek]

Just give me a wide-screen, HD version of Diablo 2.

 

[Bamsemh]

Just give me a wide-screen, HD version of Diablo 2.

1080p d2 is already out. But you can't play on official battlenet servers, only the ones allowing cheats/trainers/hacks.