Diablo 4 devs reveal Season 4 Public Test Realm as major changes loom Blizzard EntertainmentDiablo 4 Season 4 looks to be bringing a major overhaul to the game. So much so that Blizzard is launching a Public Test Realm for players to test them ahead of time. Diablo 4 is still firmly planted in its third major content update, the Season of the Construct. That doesn\u2019t mean the development team isn\u2019t looking ahead, however. Diablo 4\u2019s story so far has been one of the player perception pendulum swinging back and forth wildly. A lackluster first season drew major criticisms before Season 2 knocked players\u2019 socks off and Season 3 is currently sitting somewhere in the middle. In a recent Campfire Chat, Diablo 4\u2019s development team announced their plan to ensure that the upcoming Season 4 hits the right notes for players. Blizzard will launch a Public Test Realm (PTR) for Diablo 4 Season 4 so that they can tune the experience before launch. Associate Game Director for Diablo 4 Joseph Piepiora explained that the move was due to a massive overhaul of multiple systems coming in Season 4. \u201cSeason 4 goes well beyond the scope and scaling changes that we made in Season 2,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cWhile Season 3 is still active, the Season 4 PTR will go live and players will get a chance to check that out and give us feedback,\u201d he continued. The goal is to ensure that Season 4 hits the ground running based on direct input from players. \u201cSeason 4 is gonna be responding to a lot more of the reward concerns that people have and things regarding itemization,\u201d Piepiora explained. It looks like those elements will be present in the PTR for players to test as well as some class-balance changes. What the team at Blizzard is describing as a \u201cmini beta test\u201d will only be available via PC Battle.net so console players will, unfortunately, miss out. It also doesn\u2019t appear that a PTR will be available for every incoming season of Diablo 4. We\u2019ll see them on a case-by-case basis that \u201cwill depend on the scale of changes\u201d coming to the game. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have another Campfire Chat, specifically focused around the PTR and the content that you\u2019ll be playing in PTR,\u201d Community Manager Adam Fletcher teased. \u201cSo it will be a little bit of a reveal for what you\u2019ll be experiencing in Season 4.\u201d The date and time for that particular Campfire Chat hasn\u2019t been revealed as of yet but we\u2019ll be sure to cover it when it drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Diablo 4 devs reveal Season 4 Public Test Realm as major changes loom Blizzard EntertainmentDiablo 4 Season 4 looks to be bringing a major overhaul to the game. So much so that Blizzard is launching a Public Test Realm for players to test them ahead of time. Diablo 4 is still firmly planted in its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}