

DLL injections as something you could do with classic Diablo 2 that you can't do with D2R. But it won't work exactly the same way, since modern is stricter and more secure. Modding: There are 20 years of Diablo 2 mods out there at this point, and Diablo 2: Resurrected will still allow modding. But again, same performances, shot-for-shot, if it cut from one scene to another in the original it's going to cut at that moment in the remake of those videos."

and remake them from scratch with modern technology and CGI," says Fergusson.

"We wanted to take this really dramatic story and take all 27 minutes of the cinematics. The cutscenes have been completely redone rather than upscaled from the original files, but with involvement from people who worked on the cutscenes back in 2000. If you want to type "pp" in chat the old-fashioned way, you still can.Ĭompletely remade cutscenes: This is the one place where D2R actually is a remake. There's an auto-party system for automatically joining games and automatically inviting people to your game, but it's optional. If you want to run over it to pick it up, you can run over it." There are new hotkeys. "If you want to pick up gold by clicking on it, you can still do that. Auto-looting and other QoL upgrades are optional: "Auto-gold is a feature we've added that you can turn on or off," says principal designer Rob Gallerani, who works at Vicarious Visions, a studio now under the Blizzard umbrella.
