Diablo 4 Dev Tracker

Hi all,

As we prepare for the start of the first Diablo IV PTR (Public Test Realm), we want to remind everyone what PTR is and what are some of the larger known issues that you may experience in this testing period. PTR allows players to check out and provide feedback on some of the content coming to Diablo IV in the near future.

Due to PTR being a preview of upcoming content, please note that many things are still in the early stages, and we have identified several notable ones in the list below. You should expect to see some less polish in a PTR from what you see in the final release, and that is totally normal. We can assure you that these items will be addressed before the start of the new season along with other smaller items that may not be listed below.

We are looking forward to the feedback the Diablo IV community provides throughout this PTR process, and we are thrilled to have everyone jump into the big changes coming to Season 4.

Temper...

Change is coming, wanderer. Do you dare immerse yourself in what lies ahead for all of Sanctuary?

The first Public Test Realm (PTR) for Diablo IV is on the horizon, offering you the chance to test upcoming changes and features for Season 4! PTR will be available from April 2 through April 9 for players with a PC Battle.net account.

The purpose of the PTR is to test updates and features alongside you before the launch of Season 4. Then we’ll take your feedback from PTR to make adjustments to Season 4 before it goes live for everyone.

For an in-depth overview and the PTR patch notes, please see our blog post ...

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Stored Aspects will be moved to the Codex of Power for your Eternal character seamlessly when the season ends. It will take the highest of each Aspect that you may have collected into the new Codex.

So, let’s say you have an Aspect in your stash on your Eternal character and Season 4 begins, the Aspect will be automatically added to your codex and Aspect item will be destroyed.

But let’s say you had a max roll of that same Aspect from your season 4 character’s stash, it will then seamlessly replace your lower roll Aspect in Eternal and forever be in your Eternal codex that way.

Just a small caveat is that this happens automatically for anything in your account stash when the season transition occurs. If you have them in a specific alt character’s inventory, you will need to just hop on them after the Season rollover and those will then seamlessly move to the Codex as well.

The seasonal codex does r...

For some added context, the way it works is that there will be two options now. One is a Standard zoomed feature which is how it is presently in the game. The other will be a Far feature which is what some noticed yesterday.

Some platforms like PC (but not Steam Deck) will default to the Far zoomed out feature. There will be a new option in the menu to change this to Standard as well. Steam Deck can also change it, but I just want to note their default is the Standard zoom.

Consoles will also have these two options as well.

The team did some extra checks on performance for this as this does increase draw distance and add some more things on the screen. If players experience any performance related items during PTR, please let us know in the PTR forums when those open up. It is important for us to make sure we get that in.

Everything presented in the stream yesterday will be both eternal and seasonal.

This is something the team is aware of and the plan is to offer some glyph XP bumps in Season 4 so they do progress faster for players.

This wont be present in the PTR just because we are also giving everyone boosted glyphs but expect to see this when S4 starts.

Greetings Heroes,

Welcome to Diablo IV PTR Bug Report Forums! To get started on this forum, please read through this guide as it explains some Do’s and Don’t’s for bug testing and reporting.

Overview

• When reporting a bug, please make a thread for each bug you find, rather than compiling multiple issues into one post/thread.
• Please use the Search feature to search the forum and see what bugs are posted. If you have a duplicate thread, we will lock it and point you to the current thread where the bug is being discussed.
• Please specify which character on your account experienced the issue you are reporting.
• Finally, please only discuss bugs within the threads. Avoid off topic discussions or other things not related to the bug in the thread. Don’t use bug report threads as a platform for discussing game balance, design, or to provide feedback or other subjective opinions about the game.

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Find an in-game bug on PTR? Help us squash it by reporting it here!

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HOTFIX 1 - March 19, 2024 - 1.3.4

THIS HOTFIX HAS BEEN FULLY ROLLED OUT

GENERAL NOTE

• Trials are temporarily unavailable and will come back online once we have fully completed today’s hotfix and maintenance.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where...

HOTFIX 1 - March 19, 2024 - 1.3.4

THIS HOTFIX HAS BEEN FULLY ROLLED OUT

GENERAL NOTE

• Trials are temporarily unavailable and will come back online once we have fully completed today’s hotfix and maintenance.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where...

That will be much closer to the expansion release. We generally try to do them within a couple weeks of the content coming out, depending on the situation.

Ahead of tomorrow’s Q&A, we’d like to invite players to share questions they would like to see answered during the Q&A portion of the stream. While we won’t be able to address them all, and will still be pulling them from Twitch chat as well, we do source questions here as well. Going forward, we intend to create a thread like this ahead of each livestream so that questions can be more easily compiled. Just a few points:

• Troll/spam posts will be removed

• Please only post once per person, and make edits to your post as needed if you choose to add more. This will make it more efficient for us to grab questions.

• This thread is not intended for feedback posts, please continue to post those in your own topics as normal

We will have a blog before the 26th with a great breakdown on the tech being included along with some good before/afters.

Just want to note that no existing items have had price increases.

The product team though has been hearing the feedback and it may take a little bit but there will be some more discounted items available in the coming weeks/months and we have some changes to announce regarding some other items like the Portal Pack here soon.