Blizzard is working on 'character lockouts' bug in Diablo 2: Resurrected

This is actually Baal, the Lord of Destruction, from the Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction expansion

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Yesterday's launch of Diablo 2: Resurrected was not the smoothest rollout ever so. Shortly after it went live, reports of disappearing characters began rolling in. Snowstorm took the brave offline for a spot of "unexpected maintenance," and a couple hours subsequently it appeared that everything was sized.

Not quite, as information technology turns out. In an update posted today, Blizzard same that it intends to release a permanent fix for the hemipteron on Personal computer nowadays and "curtly thereafter" for consoles. In the meantime, it recommended that players use different name calling for online and offline characters, Eastern Samoa using the same name for both "is related to this bug."

"Furthermore, our team is working to resolve the issue of character lockouts," Diablo 2 community manager Hooley explained. "Many an of these characters are already in the mental process of being unsecured. We anticipate this process will engage few hours to complete."

"For players unable to create or join game lobbies, we've been evaluating activities that have prevented them from existence able to play in those sessions. We're actively working to find a solution to these issues."

Blizzard is also working on crash bugs and an AVX way out that's preventing players from starting Diablo 2: Resurrected, and is "observing" various new issues and bugs. An update on that frontal wish be distributed once the bigger issues above are purloined care of.

If you're novel to Diablo 2 and not struggling with any of the in a higher place issues, we can help get you off to a strong start: We've got an in-depth guide to entirely the Resurrected classes, other on identifying items, and a third explaining what that "muffin activated" business substance.

Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting Eastern Samoa a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there helium graduated to the nimbus days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Dreamer and in some manner managed to avoid getting pink-slipped until 2014, when he coupled the storied ranks of Microcomputer Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.