Diablo 4's dungeons are intentionally similar, but "don't be too quick to judge"

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Blizzard promises there's more to come from Diablo 4'ꦦs dungeo🅺ns. While they are "intentionally" designed to have continuity with each other, game director Joe Shely says there's plenty outwith the beta players are yet to see.

To get you up to speed, many who played the early access beta🍌 found the dungeons repetitive in design. Progressing through many requires finding items, such as a door key. Backtracking for one you missed feels inevitable, then, though the lull in action it creates can - the maps are large, so it can take a good few minutes, and each room stays empty once you clear them of enemies. Others, meanwhile, found the dungeon layouts too , pining for something labyrinth-like instead.

Speaking to GamesRadar+, Shely says that the beta only✱ covers one of Diablo 4's five zones, Fractured Peaks. That's roughly 20% of the overworld, so there'sꦿ plenty yet to see.

"So, when yo♋u think about the whole world, you've got over 100 dungeons, vastly more than you're se🌄eing within Fractured Peaks," he says. "When we designed the dungeons for Diablo 4, we intentionally wanted each dungeon to have some continuity with itself. Meaning that you're not just going into a portal and finding a big pile of building blocks that we're putting together.

"That can be very fun to do. If you look back at Diablo 3's Greater Rifts, that's what we were doing, and Diablo is very well suited to that. But, we wanted [Diablo 4's] open world to have dungeons that existed in a place🍌 with some identity to them."

Shely goes on to explain that the way you interact with dungeons changes as you progress through the game. During the early game, you'll have the Renown system to show you what dungeons you can engaꦺge with fo🌳r experience points, whereas the Codex of Power system will point you towards a specific one to gain a certain power for your class.

"In the early game, we anticipate players will engage with each dungeon up to once," Shely 💧says. "They'll have some personality to them and might have different objectives than another dungeon."

Once you complete the 🅷campaign, Shely says the replayability system kicks in with Nightmare Dungeons, which feature modifications to change the difficulty𒉰 and how you approach each level.

"We've heard the feedback," Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson says. "Part of it is that it's a subset of all the dungeons, so don't ඣbe too quick to judge. But the notion is that this is setting a baseline for Nightmare Dungeons because they will really mess with the dungeons from all the different things that it can do from a property s💖tandpoint. 

"And then, from a l🤡ive service perspective, we're going to be continuing to add not only more dungeons but more types of dungeons. And so you'll see that variety change as well."

Also relating to the beta, Blizzard says that its 澳洲幸运🦋5开奖号码历史查询:rough opening will ensure a smoother l🌃aunch and that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Barbarian feeling weaker in the early game hasn't gone unnoticed. The throughline is that each issu📖e should be remedied for launch.

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Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'𓂃ll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play😼 the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.