In order to celebrate Diablo’s 20th anniversary, Blizzard released a new massive update for Diablo III. This update adds support for the Corsair Utility Engine (CUE) SDK and Razer peripherals, and a screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) pixel shader option, improves support for 60Hz+ monitors, and adds a 64-bit client as default for 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems.
According to the release notes, players should see improvements to system performance and faster loading times thanks to this 64-bit client. In addition, this new client uses DirectX 11 natively, which brings support for normal maps, per pixel lighting and improved anti-aliasing options.
What’s also interesting here is that this new patch for Diablo III adds a new free event, in which Blizzard basically recreated the entire first Diablo game using Diablo III’s assets. And yes, the secret cow level is included in this free event.
This event features all the 16 levels from the first Diablo game, as well as four main bosses and a special graphics filter that will make the graphics look “old-ish”, and will be available only in January.
Naturally, this new patch also comes with various balance tweaks. Those interested can find the complete changelog here.
Have fun!
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But see how cool it is. you can do the same s**t you did in past 5 years but now with this visual filter and they called it a free Diablo 1 event. come on take my money!
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Do you seriously think you’re being witty? What they’ve done took time and effort. And they didn’t have to do it nor are they charging extra for it. I don’t even play Diablo 3 anymore but you whiners are a joke.
You might not playing it anymore but you sure are a blizz fanboi at it’s best, a toxic savage animal like the rest of them.
It’s the same levels that you played in D3 but with different visual filter and the same enemies with a few new items. they should’ve done it sooner and they should not charge for these things like the rest of online ARPGs out there, game is lacking and tbh it’s already dead, you can’t even find more than 2 players in some days.
Try again. I haven’t played StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3 in years because both those games are a joke. The fact you accused me of that is highly amusing. You’re grossly underestimating the time and effort of game development and your “hatred” of Diablo 3 is blinding you.
“You’re grossly underestimating the time and effort of game development”
What ? it took them a decade to make an ARPG which was worst than other ARPGs out there.
“grossly”
lol.
“your “hatred” of Diablo 3 is blinding you”
Yeah, you know, i hate D3, i hated it so much that i paid for it.
“The fact you accused me of that is highly amusing”
Irony, your exact words “whiners are a joke” and “your hatred of Diablo 3 is blinding you”
So, what, “it’s OK because they’re doing it for free”?
That’s your argument? Meaning, what, that they should be charging for it? Yeah, okay, sure, good luck with that.
Sure, they could have just not done it at all instead, but seriously – what the f*ck is the point of doing this, instead of just doing a straight-up remastering, instead?
Also, yay, it’s free, guess what’s not? The new class they recently implemented. Guess what’s still not on the horizon? Gameplay fixes for all the sh*t they f*cked up – but yay, free Anniversary event!
Which nobody ever asked for – but yay, it’s free!
Like it could be a paid DLC in the first place.
Oh, & also – DX11! And 64-bit! Oh, wow! Sh*t that should have been there from launch has finally arrived! Rejoice people, & celebrate the fact that they’re not asking us to pay for it!
LOL. Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason they’re even doing this is because someone noticed the good press Path of Exile was getting for its own DX11 & 64-bit transfer, so they decided to do their own in order to make themselves feel “relevant” again, or whatnot.
Or hey, maybe it’s just another remnant from that sh*tcanned Diablo Expansion Pack, who knows.
Also where is that PvP that should have been in the game since release ?
How was your holiday brah ? 😀
HAH, the Arena PvP….. Ugh. “Oh yeah, it’s all good, it’s coming, no worries!”
Except it’s not, & they knew it, & they lied the whole time….. Little sh*ts.
Boring, got distracted doing a bunch of sh*t for the last week 🙁 You? 😛
Well it wasn’t our holiday, ours is in the first day of spring (end of march), so nothing 😀
AHA!
….. Good point ^^
DX11 and a 64-bit client should help get rid of the fps drops when fighting large monster groups (even people with i7 processors had drops to below 30). Maximum fps won’t be higher, but I hope that minimum and average fps will be way better now 🙂