Further changes will be coming to D2R Items console lobbies in an official version, which will allow players to be more comfortable grouped with other players based on specific activities. In spite of requests from players, Blizzard states console versions of Diablo Resurrected don't have the ability to build personalized lobbies. However, it will "monitor feedback on this topic" after the game's launch.

Diablo: Resurrected will support cross-platform progression when it is released on September 23. It is currently available for preorder. The game will launch in the same week that Blizzard continues to grapple with the aftermath of a State of California lawsuit claiming that the company is guilty of discrimination and harassment against women. Diablo IV, which recently lost its game director, is in the process of development and does not have a release date.

"Our ambition was to make Diablo IV's characters appear as stunning and made by hand as we could using the latest tools and techniques," Mueller said in the latest Diablo Quarterly blog post. "Over the course of time, our hopes about what we thought we could achieve evolved to become what you are seeing now. We wanted to work with the most advanced tools and techniques However, we also had an issue with leaning towards "realistic" in ways that wouldn't have that hand-crafted feeling we felt was fundamental to any Blizzard games."

In order to embrace this design philosophy, Blizzard had to completely rebuild its rendering engine and authoring tools while assembling a team of artists tool engineers, rigging specialists, lighting experts, and surfacing experts. The result was "massive enhancements" to the level of detail and the surfacing of complex materials like silk, synthetic cloth fur, hair as well as small elements like the highlights of the eyes and rivulets of perspiration, according to Mueller.

The additional benefit of this character art development emphasis is that the majority Diablo IV's story cutscenes are rendered in-engine with game models allowing for cinematic moments that show the player's customized character in the action. Diablo IV's Rogue announcement trailer , as an instance, was cheap diablo 2 resurrected items developed entirely within Diablo IV's game engine. Diablo IV game engine.