Diablo 2: Resurrected - 5 Million Copies sold / Patch 2.4 live

Windows Central reports that over 5 million copies of Diablo 2: Resurrected have been sold. Polygon reports that patch 2.4 fixes 20 year old bugs:

Diablo 2 gets first major update in 11 years, fixes some 20-year-old bugs

Patch 2.4 for Diablo 2: Resurrected is live now

Blizzard Entertainment rolled out a major new update for Diablo 2: Resurrected on Thursday, a patch that made sweeping balance changes to and fixed numerous bugs in the classic click-and-kill action-RPG. Patch 2.4 for Diablo 2: Resurrected is the first major balance update to the game in more than 11 years and fixes some nasty bugs that players have faced since the original game launched in 2000.

Of note are two longstanding bugs with Diablo 2 that would have completely wiped out your character’s mana — making some classes effectively defenseless — or dealt too much damage — namely fire-enchanted monsters. From Blizzard’s extensive patch notes:

• Fixed an issue where Unique monster packs with mana drain were draining way more mana than was intended
• Fixed an issue where fire enchanted monsters were doing too much damage in Nightmare difficulty

Diablo 2: Resurrected developers said last year that they wanted to address bugs like the above, the unexpected results of miscalculations in the game’s code, that have long vexed players.
Andre Abrahamian, former game designer at Blizzard Entertainment and lead design for Diablo 2: Resurrected, said during a Q&A video session that the team in charge of the Diablo 2 remaster wanted to fix "things that are misinforming players," but leave "quirks" that could benefit players or that became part of the game’s meta as-is.

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