A new Diablo II: Resurrected patch has gone live, introducing Legacy Graphics Emulation options alongside other tweaks and improvements.

　　Patch 2.4 new Legacy Graphics Emulation options allow the user to choose between 3 different emulation options for the Legacy graphics

　　

New Feature - Legacy Graphics Emulation

There is now an option in the Graphics Settings Menu under 'Legacy' that allows you to choose between 3 different emulation options for the Legacy game graphics. The options are 'GDI', 'Glide', and 'Resurrected'.'GDI' emulates the software rasterization of the original legacy game and does not apply any filtering'Glide' emulates the hardware accelerated backend of the original legacy game with bilinear filtering'Resurrected' uses the Glide emulation with additional fixes in place to address an artifact that would occur with the original Glide renderingThe new Diablo II: Resurrected patch also includes a lot of other quality of life improvements, including AI and gameplay improvements.

　　

General

Added language support for non-ASCII written languageAdded player messaging for when a player tries to launch the game on an out of date patch versionAdded 'Message of the Day' capabilities to the main menu to allow us to share important game updates with all players

AI

Improved the reliability of pets, summons, and mercenaries teleporting to the player instead of being despawned

Barbarian

Updated Barbarian Leap and Leap attack animation behavior to give it a smoother trajectory that should keep the Barbarian on-screen at all times, and reduce jerkiness when he lands

Character Selection

Newly created characters will now sort to the top of the character selection list

Gameplay

When holding down a mouse button to target an enemy with a skill, the skill will continue to execute after that target diesMinimap will now automatically re-open after death if you had it open prior to dyingArrow and Bolt max quantity increased to 500Throwing weapon quantity has been increased by 50%Blocking will no longer interrupt a player while performing a skill or attack. If a player character triggers a block during this time, the damage will still be negated, but the animation will not playChanged how attack speed is determined while dual-wielding weapons. Swapping weapons between hands should no longer result in dramatically different attack speedsCharacter hit recovery will now have diminishing returns when being hit by another playerQuick cast skills behavior has been unified such that left click quick cast skills behave in the way the right click behavior operatedThe Diablo II: Resurrected 2.4 introduces plenty of other changes as well. Full patch notes can be found on Blizzard's official website.

　　Diablo II: Resurrected is now available on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One worldwide.