Diablo Immortal enters closed beta with full release scheduled for the first half of 2022, and big changes are ahead as developers fine-tune systems while tweaking Diablo's first mobile game and first MMO. One of the biggest changes? A new event that turns an elite player into a raid boss against 30 opponents. The 30v1 event is a new ending to Diablo Immortal's PvP system throughout the season, the Fight Cycle, pitting the elite and small faction of Immortals against a host of rivals, the Shadows. , in the fight for its best insertion. . But now the season ends with an event called Challenge of the Immortal: 30 of the best Shadow players on the server face off against the best Immortal, who grows colossal and lives up to his faction name, taking down puny players with powerful skills.
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(Image credit: Blizzard) But the event doesn't end there. If the Shadows emerge triumphant and slaughter the Immortal, a true ending begins: all 30 players turn hostile and a battle royale begins, with the last Shadow standing assuming the role of the new top Immortal. To be fair, most players who pick up Diablo Immortal may never get a chance to become a raid boss; By design, that's an honor reserved for the best player on the server, like the developers at Blizzard. instructions. But it's a unique highlight in a season of antipathy PvP and a fitting cornerstone for those who have outplayed every other player on the server. If you want to participate in one of the rarest party leaders in multiplayer games, you'll have to be the best.
Being the boss: a proud video game tradition
This is far from the first time that video games have allowed players to inhabit the awesome powers of a boss-level monster, who can forget watching World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade's Black Temple raid on Illidan since its launch. perspective through a Legion. Scene? But the best modern example is the popular horror game Dead by Daylight, which pits four "survivors" against a powerful monster controlled by the player chosen from a list of staple genres, including movie legends like Michael Myers, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger. , Ghostface. and Pinhead, as well as classic video game antagonists like Pyramid Head and Nemesis.
But this boss vs. normals PvP gameplay was honed in on previous games like Turtle Rock Studios' Left 4 Dead in 2008 and its sequel in 2009, which allows players to take control of more powerful monsters to ambush and kill human survivors, especially as The Tank, which scared players as soon as its revealing intro music announced the massive threat. Turtle Rock refined this concept in 2015 with Evolve, a game that had four hunting characters track down and face off against a massive monster, formalizing the 4-vs-1 concept.
The studio has moved on to Back 4 Blood, a spiritual reimagining of the Left 4 Dead game that includes a PvP feature that allows enemy players to inhabit monsters to attack survivors. Along with the release of Resident Evil 3 Remake in 2020, Capcom introduced Resident Evil: Resistance, a similar 4v1 concept with a bit more strategic planning than usual for the genre.
Single player modes have also given players the ultimate power to subvert the usual presentation of the protagonist as an outsider fighting against impossible odds. Unlike his negligible presence in the original Doom games, the player control "Doomguy" is officially known as the "Doom Slayer" in Doom 2016, and lore reveals that his legendary gang of carnage turned him into a creepy man of the world. I bring out demons in the realms of hell. Talion achieves a similar creepy reputation among orcs in Shadow of War and Shadow of Mordor, while the Crackdown and Infamous games have players portraying overpowered humans towering over typical enemies.
In a more literal sense, Devil May Cry: Special Edition in 2006 allowed players to run through the game again as one of the regular version's antagonists, Vergil (a move repeated in Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition 2020). 2's BioShock 2009 put players in the shoes of a Big Daddy, a regular boss from the first game. The Shadow of RAAM DLC for 2011 Gears of War 3 lets you play as the antagonist of the first Gears of War, while the DLC for 2014 The Evil Within gave players control over one of the game's bosses, The Keeper.
Delving into the game's story reveals the niche subgenre of becoming a literal dungeon boss, like the 90s single-player Dungeon Keeper series that puts players in charge of a villain trying to stop NPC heroes from looting his dungeon.
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Diablo Immortal Closed Beta: Final Content Creation for Hardcore Gamers
While most players may never make it to Immortal's Challenge, other events and systems have been added to the Closed Beta to appeal to hardcore gamers. First, there's a whole new class of gear returning from the old Diablo games: set items, which grant bonuses when equipping multiple pieces of the same set (a small bonus for three, or the full bonus for all six). These will not overlap with legendary items and will specifically occupy slots like rings and charms to allow players to equip their favorite kits. There will be four sets in the Closed Beta, and it will most likely be scheduled for full release. Once players have completed all the items on the Helliquary roster, they can unlock Helliquary Raids – 8-person group events to take on tough enemies. And players will have a better idea of the difficulty of the events with the recommended levels of attack and defense ratings. Legendary gems have also received a completely new system for upgrading your favorite gem by "awakening" it (i.e. inserting other gems to make it stronger). Finally, the developers have increased loot drops on higher difficulties, increasing the stat ranges of dropped items in Hell 2, Hell 3, and the new Hell 4. Your Paragon level (the post-level cap progression) will add even more bonuses to the fallen. items, and if you want those items set, you'll have to party with three friends to enter higher difficulty dungeons.