Diablo 4: Strongholds and very low hardware requirements

Public beta is coming Diablo 4 Blizzard talked and revealed more details. In the last stream, the developers showed how it will look like in the fortresses (in the original Strongholds), how the armor system works, what players will get for playing the beta and surprised with very low hardware requirements.

The first phase of beta testing for pre-orders will take place from March 17 to March 20, and the servers will be open for everyone from March 24 to March 27. There will be a prologue and the entire first act to trywith heroes you can reach level 25.

There will also be online for 4 players, local co-op for two, and you can choose between the Barbarian, Rogue, and Sorcerer classes. You can create up to 10 characters per account, but none of them will carry over to the full game.

If you play the beta more, you will be able to get three rewards that will come in handy in the full version:

• Sacrifice Starting Title: Obtained by reaching Kyowashad with one character.
• Early Voyager Title: Earned by reaching level 20 with a single character.
• Beta Wolf Pack cosmetic item: Can be obtained by reaching level 20 with one character.

Now let’s go look into dangerous fortresses (fortresses). This is a new addition to the Diablo series that should change the very nature of this RPG during gameplay.

They are mainly about dungeons, which you can dive into alone or with a group. When you chase hell minions from this location back to where they came from, the location becomes public, and then turns into a bustling metropolis. New merchants, potential shortcuts, and the ability to unlock previously inaccessible dungeons.

The liberation of the fortress will bring you experience, new high-level equipment and other little things. All in all they have these dungeons improve endgame experience.

• Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD FX-8100
• RAM: 8 GB
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 280
• DirectX: 12
• Space on the first disk 45 GB (SSD)

You should expect to play on such a set with minimal graphical detail at low resolutions. Blizzard claims 720p and 30fps. The authors also state that they are working on optimization. They want almost everyone to play Diablo 4. Therefore, the game should work even on sub-minimum PCs. This applies to dual-core processors, integrated graphics cards and hard drives.

• Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K or AMD R3-1300X
• RAM: 16 GB
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 470
• DirectX: 12
• Space on the first disk 45 GB (SSD)

You will be able to play the Diablo 4 beta if you meet the recommended requirements. in native 1080p resolution. ray tracing it will be available some time after the release of the full version.

The full version of Diablo 4 will be released on 06/06/2023 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.