** Diablo 2 Resurrected Thread **

[opethdisciple]

The thing with this is it's just a remaster not a from the grounds up new game. So hopefully won't take too long.

 

[.Lethal]

The thing with this is it's just a remaster not a from the grounds up new game. So hopefully won't take too long.

Besides moving it over to the current battle.net and having to research much of the lost code from Blizzard North yeah.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Besides moving it over to the current battle.net and having to research much of the lost code from Blizzard North yeah.

They had the code is was mainly the original art assets they had lost, thankfully they still had many of the original design documents.

 

[.Lethal]

They had the code is was mainly the original art assets they had lost, thankfully they still had many of the original design documents.

my understanding is that they had the code base but much was lost during a final backup just before Diablo 2 was released.

the original art assets aren’t used in the remaster since everyone of them have been remade.

 

[LiE]

the original art assets aren’t used in the remaster since everyone of them have been remade.

You can toggle on classic graphics so I assume they have them?

 

[Deleted User 234324]

They used the old assets they had along with the original design documents to recreate the assets for the updated engine, which allowed them to get the details almost identical to their original designs.

 

[.Lethal]

You can toggle on classic graphics so I assume they have them?

Yeah. The data loss happened before D2's release. What was released is what we got as a final product but some of the stuff they previously had was lost. There was an interview a few years ago by one of the original devs that said based on what was lost he didn't think a remaster was possible, but Vicarious Visions were able to find a lot of the original data, much of which was assumed lost forever.

 

[kthula666]

Alpha bugs aleady with shared stash load items in bank ALT-F4 to desttop and reload to dupe stuff

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Alpha bugs aleady with shared stash load items in bank ALT-F4 to desttop and reload to dupe stuff

Well thats what Alpha's and beta tests are for

 

[Teaf]

There's now a "Beta Opt-in" button on the official web page.

https://diablo2.blizzard.com/en-gb/#masthead

 

[LiE]

There's now a "Beta Opt-in" button on the official web page.

https://diablo2.blizzard.com/en-gb/#masthead

Looks like it doesn't work yet.

Thank You! We’ve recorded your opt-in to the Diablo II: Resurrected Technical Alpha.

 

[HippoTank]

I've heard good things about Diablo 2, looking forward to this more than Diablo 4!

 

[Teaf]

Looks like it doesn't work yet.

Aye, could just be a typo on their end as after you've registered for the (apparent) beta it doesn't let you click it again.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Didn't get a chance to play it much unfortunately over the weekend, only dabbled for less than an hour but did encounter one bug initially with character creation.

Other than that it seemed good, ran well and could potentially do well.

 

[Robert]

Is the engine a modified version of d3?

 

[LiE]

Is the engine a modified version of d3?

I think it's the D2 engine, untouched.

 

[Teaf]

Aye it's Diablo 2 engine. The renderer however is new.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

It's a wrapper running on top of the D2 client, you can literally switch between old/new graphics in game just by pressing 'G' ingame.

 

[Armageus]

It's a wrapper running on top of the D2 client, you can literally switch between old/new graphics in game just by pressing 'G' ingame.

I believe it's slightly more than that, as it's also supposed to be released on Consoles (PS4/Xbox etc) which would never have had a native D2 Client

 

[Deleted User 234324]

That isnt a problem now, the D2 client is coded for x86/x64 architecture and the current consoles all use the same CPU instruction sets so its mainly a case of adjusting the renderer to work on the consoles hardware which again will be directx 11/12 or vulkan most likely so for playstation and xbox wont require a significant rewrite.