When Devil 4’s The eighth season begins on April 29 Battle Pass will look completely different. Instead of a linear track, it will be divided into categories or reliquary so that you will prosecute specific types of cosmetic adaptations for your demon. Like many popular live service games, which introduced more choices in their battles, the goal of Blizzard is to adapt to how people actually play Diablo 4.
There were three problems with ancient battles, senior game manager Dan Tanguay told Polygon in a recent interview: the awards “They did not feel sensible enough”, were “inseparably connected with the seasons” and had a general “lack of agencies”.
In my experience, this is all true. I would jump into a fresh one Diablo 4 The season, he can take a look at the battle page, and then inevitably forget about it until I felt like cleansing the notifications, telling me that something fresh has unlocked. And many times the fresh cosmetics concerned a class in which I didn’t play actively, which made me care even less.
It seems that this is a kind of experience that Blizzard tries to avoid relics, a renovated battle pass, which allows you to first choose the desired prizes. The price is still attached. Three of the four categories have a cost in advance before you start unlocking their awards, such as Mini Premium battle passes. But if everything you care about is a glowing tiger from the relic of the beast instead of a fancy sword from a reliquary of a weapon, you can simply skip him. And players who do not bother with the assumption of a fresh character of each season will now have access to the system in Eternal Foreign Games.
Tanguay said that the team felt that the ancient battle pass was stuck in RPG, which consists in decision satisfaction. “You choose basically all the elections that include your compilation, you choose how you look, and then we have a battle pass, which is simply highly, highly linear and very deterministic, and this is like:” WOW, there is simply no choice here, “he said.
Each relic prize costs, a new currency that you can only earn by mocking monsters while playing. Everyone will be able to spend it on cosmetics from a free reliquary during the season. Reliquary of events such as the one that starts Diablo 4‘S Berserk Cooperation in May will appear for a limited time and will require a unique currency. Tanguay could not confirm whether returning events would have their own relics, but said that the band is still “talking” about these possibilities.
The relic system is the next step in the constant approach of Blizzard to process parts of the game that lag behind. Tanguay added that by disconnecting the battle passes from the seasons, Blizzard can do more with a seasonal journey, which is a free set of challenges, such as killing bosses and filling the dungeons that reward locks and cosmetics. They were often so simple that you finished them accidentally. But Tanguay said that the team was trying to force players to “stretch and make more aspirational content” to complete later chapters. I noticed one for season 8, which asks you to beat one of the bosses of end games using a specific seasonal force, which should be nippy to find out how to achieve a fresh season.
