
Time and date remain uniform across all platforms, and you'll need continuous internet access to play Diablo IV. Meanwhile, the Standard Edition's launch is scheduled for June 6 at 4:30am IST/ June 5 at 4pm PT in the US. For India, this translates to June 2 at 4:30am IST. In a tweet, Mike Ybarra, president, Blizzard Entertainment confirmed that players who pre-ordered the Deluxe and Ultimate editions of the upcoming dark fantasy dungeon-crawler will get to play it early on June 1 at 4pm PT. That includes another livestream next Friday, July 29th, which will offer more details on the next patch, 1.1.1.Īs any preview, Blizzard did say that 1.1.1 would look to revise the Sorcerers and Barbarian classes, with the intent of making them more powerful again.Diablo IV is prepping to release in June and ahead of that, we've received global release times for both early access and regular launch. Fletcher also said that they would commit to sharing patch notes earlier in future, so that the community had a chance to read and digest updates before new patches are released. In future, Piepiora said they would do better to consider player fun in their attempts to balance the game. Joe Piepiora, associate game director, said that they felt that certain builds based around cooldown reduction were so powerful, giving players access to instantaneous active skills, that they threatened the usefulness of other builds by comparison. We've most definitely heard the feedback from the players on that front," said Fletcher.īlizzard did try to explain the reasoning behind the patch, saying that Diablo 4 is ultimately a game "about choice". "We don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again.

It's something that we ourselves know, it's not the greatest play experience for players. On the subject of "reducing player power", associate director of community management Adam Fletcher said, "We know it is bad. Manage cookie settings How to level fast in Diablo 4. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.
