The Open Beta starts on the weekend in Diablo 2 Resurrected and lets you play the remake for free for three days. We will tell you how to participate and what the beta offers here at MeinMMO.
When does the beta start? The open beta of Diablo 2 Resurrected starts on August 20 at 7:00 PM and runs until August 23 at 7 PM. A preload is available from August 17, as soon as the closed beta ends. This allows you to download the nearly 25 GB and start right at 7 PM on Friday.
How can you participate? The Open Beta is available for PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4. The Nintendo Switch version will be released on September 23, alongside the game.
To participate in the Open Beta, you need the online service of your respective platform, even if you only want to play single-player. PSPlus, Xbox Live, or Battle.net are mandatory for the beta.
If you have that set up, you can simply download the beta starting August 17 and play on August 20.
What can you play in the Open Beta? In the beta, not the entire game is available; you can only play the first two acts of the game and only 5 of the 7 classes. These 5 classes are:
- The Druid
- The Barbarian
- The Sorceress
- The Amazon
- The Paladin
Necromancer and Assassin players will have to wait until the end of September to join the battle with their favorite classes.
What progress will be carried over? If you have already played the Closed Beta or Early Access Beta, you can continue playing in the Open Beta from where you left off. However, no progress will carry over to the final game.
Crossplay is not available despite the wide availability, neither in the beta nor in the final release.
In this video, you can see gameplay of Diablo 2 Resurrected:
Technical Problems at Launch
What problems were there? Selected fans have been able to play Diablo 2 Resurrected since August 13, but the first beta had technical problems at launch. Additionally, lobbies are missing on consoles, which is one of the biggest points of criticism.
Many players were disappointed that the servers could not handle the load. Others countered that one should expect technical issues in a beta. At the start, many users could not connect at all or struggled with massive lags.
It remains to be seen whether Blizzard can get the problems under control by the start of the Open Beta.
What does the community say? Content-wise, the remaster is well-received by players. Some players are pleased with the ability to switch between the old and new graphics at any time. This quickly shows how much Blizzard has improved.
At the same time, many praise how much Blizzard has not done, namely in terms of gameplay. The remaster remains true to the original in many ways and adds meaningful quality-of-life improvements, as user Ziffibert notes on reddit.
However, the community still negatively rates several other technical issues. It seems that there is no limit for frames per second in the PC lobbies, which causes graphics cards to overheat. A similar problem recently occurred in its beta for the new MMORPG New World.
The most commonly mentioned problem topic is by far the lack of ultrawide support. These screens are not recognized optimally, instead of seeing more, users only see black bars. This bothers many users accordingly.
Many bugs also seem to be an issue, as user TechnicalNobody notes on reddit : “As a veteran, I found at least 3 dozen bugs in just these 2 acts. And this is only the 10% of the content that they [Blizzard] are confident enough to show. This is not something they can fix in a month.”
Have you been able to play the beta already or are you still waiting for the free open beta? Or have you had enough of Blizzard’s remasters after the Warcraft 3 debacle? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments.
Now even the father of Diablo says: “Blizzard is dead to me.”.
