With Diablo Immortal, we are expecting a mobile game in the universe of the dark action RPG. A 1-hour video shows you a lot of the game and clarifies about Pay2Win and autoplay.
What can be seen in the video? YouTuber Lord Fluffy presents the current technical alpha of the hack and slash Diablo Immortal being held in Australia in great detail.
He talks about dungeons, grinding, legendary items, skills, the legendary gems, the rifts, and more. Basically, you will learn almost everything there is to know about Diablo Immortal at this time from the video. The video also shows again that we can expect an MMO.
What is particularly exciting? In online games, and especially mobile games, it is always important to know whether there are Pay2Win aspects. Can you buy any advantages with money?
It is also interesting whether there is some kind of autoplay feature. Does the character walk automatically to the quest location? Does it perhaps fight on its own? Especially Asian mobile games often offer such autoplay functions.
And Lord Fluffy addresses these aspects in his video.
What about Pay2Win? Lord Fluffy explains that Diablo Immortal is basically mainly about upgrading equipment. Whether by finding better loot or by upgrading your armor and weapons using legendary gems. Equipment is the most important aspect.
You can buy so-called Legendary Crests for real money in the game, as seen in the video from timestamp 51:34. These offer you the advantage that during adventures in an Elder Rift, you are guaranteed to receive a legendary gem. According to Lord Fluffy, these rifts do not pose a significant challenge and can be completed relatively quickly. This means that if you buy Legendary Crests, you can easily and quickly obtain the gems.
With these, you then upgrade your items and become significantly stronger. The stronger you get, the higher you rise in the leaderboard. Lord Fluffy assumes that the leaderboard will therefore be dominated by players who buy many Legendary Crests and thus quickly obtain the legendary gems.
Will there be servers for paying and non-paying players? The YouTuber asked Blizzard in an AMA whether there will be different servers so that some players, for example, can be free from Pay2Win elements by paying a one-time fee. But Blizzard denied that.
What about autoplay? Lord Fluffy demonstrates the bounty hunts in his video at timestamp 30:23. These are quests you need to complete to get loot. If you accept a bounty hunt and click on it to start, your character will automatically move to the target location.
There, you will then fight against the enemies yourself to achieve the goal. Thus, it is clear that Diablo Immortal offers a certain form of autoplay, as you do not have to manually go to the quest target location at least during the bounty hunts.
What do you think about these game mechanics? Can you accept them in a mobile game or is it an absolute no-go for you?
Diablo Immortal is one of the 8 new hack and slashes coming in 2021 while you wait for Diablo 4.
