On the night of July 27, the servers of Diablo 4 were down to implement a new patch. This patch fixed several bugs, including one that allowed a journey step of Season 1 to be completed in seconds. You can find the patch notes in German here.
What kind of bug was it? The journey is one of the new features of Season 1, where you are supposed to solve various tasks. One of these tasks from Stage 3 was to collect 10 chests from the Whispering Tree.
This could be done until today by simply picking up a chest and dropping it again repeatedly. Each pick-up contributed to the progress. Now it no longer works. The bug was popular for completing the journey step because you need Stage 3 for several things:
- You need to complete Stage 3 to progress in the seasonal quest.
- The seasonal journey rewards you with a special item that resets skills and paragon at the end.
- With the bug, this step was the easiest in the stage.
Furthermore, every journey step advances you in the Battle Pass, where you can earn cosmetic rewards.
What’s in the patch: The new update brings more bug fixes, most of which will likely be more pleasing than the one related to chests. Among other things, there is now a pop-up that prevents you from accidentally wasting money on the Battle Pass.
Additionally, Werebears and Werewolves no longer glow unnaturally brightly, and the game should run more stably. You can find the complete patch notes here:
The patch notes in German
- A bug was fixed that allowed some focus off-hand items to imprint an aspect only once.
- A bug was fixed that caused the combination of the malevolent powers Dark Dance and Punishing Speed to stun players themselves.
- A bug was fixed that allowed the seasonal journey Cruel Reward to be repeated by dropping and picking up the same loot.
- A bug was fixed that made the fur color of Werebear and Werewolf too bright in certain situations.
- A bug was fixed where movements with certain controllers often did not work correctly.
- Activation of the premium Battle Pass must now be confirmed by a pop-up.
- In the Battle Pass menu, the button that the controller selects first is now by default the seasonal journey button.
- Multiple causes of crashes have been fixed.
- Further stability improvements.
- A fix for the interaction with the Malevolent Heart power Raging Winds, which caused Cyclone Armor to trigger automatically and ignored the cooldown.
- Receiving or reallocating Season Blessings now clears the “Buy Back Items” area.
New update 1.1.1 aims to fix a bunch of issues
Blizzard is currently planning several patches and hotfixes that are yet to come. Most of them are aimed at fixing bugs and increasing stability. However, a major patch 1.1.1 with numerous balance changes is also scheduled to come in the next few days, including:
- Improvements for Barbarians and Sorceresses
- Higher monster density in Nightmare Dungeons and Hell Tides
- A new tab for the loot chest
On Friday, July 28, the developers plan to talk more specifically about the new features in a new Campfire Chat. As community chief Adam Fletcher promised, the patch should be released “shortly thereafter,” probably within 1-2 weeks.
After the large criticism of patch 1.1.0 and Season 1, the developers now want to discuss the upcoming changes in advance and publish patch notes several days before patch day:
