Diablo 2 fan remake gets a new release in anticipation of Diablo 2: Resurrected

Reports of an official refashion of Diablo 2 from Blizzard have been pick up over the sometime couple of weeks, but fans ingest been keeping the standard Microcomputer game intact for eld. Last twelvemonth we spoke to one modder who has given Diablo 2 a refresh and keeps it up to particular date like Blizzard even never left information technology. Project Diablo 2 ISN't the only fan-made rework around, though. Another popular one is called The Anathemise of Tristram, though the team behind it are about to move on.

"With the upcoming Diablo 2: Resurrected promulgation in a few years by Blizzard (rumour), we distinct to polish and release an unfinished version of The Curse of Tristram on Battlenet this weekend (February 12, 2021)," Modder Egod123 explains on YouTube. "This edition is conclusive and inalterable and includes everything we ready-made sol far."

The Curse of Tristan is a devotee remake of Diablo 2 Act 1 that you can find in Starcraft 2's Arcade. Information technology features new items to farm out, fresh economies to lord, and can be played with up to four friends on normal, nightmare, and hell difficulties. The team even holds time period events to sustain things refreshful.

Aboard the expected reveal of Diablo 2: Resurrected, modder Egod123 explains that IT's simply time to move on. It's go jolly hard to work with the Starcraft 2 railway locomotive as information technology's been slowed down by stacks of code. The team does be after to keep the project updated with bug fixes, merely that'll likely live IT.

As for what's next, the team is taking everything it's learnt and is plunging into indie dev. "It was an incredible adventure, and we've distinct to go on and formally become independent devs by learning Unreal Engine 4 and 5 with wholly the experience noninheritable from this awesome project."

You terminate see Curse of Tristram in action below:

Diablo 2: Resurrected hasn't been confirmed yet, though a recent report from Bloomberg explains that Tony Hawk's In favour of Skater 1 and 2 studio Vicarious Visions is reportedly working on it, and was folded into Blizzard as part of the process.

Either way, we mightiness find something extinct soon. Blizzard doesn't await the Diablo 4 spillage date to fall this year, but the BlizzCon 2021 schedule details a Diablo low-pitched dive, so we English hawthorn get lots of details on different things to tide over us over.