Blizzard has revealed the patch notes for Diablo 4’s subsequent replace, which can arrive tomorrow, March 18 on all platforms. It is a smaller patch, so don’t count on something huge. Mockingly, although, the most important change has little to do with gameplay.
This patch provides new graphics know-how, and it additionally makes a change that aligns the sport with so many different fashionable releases.
Patch 2.1.4’s largest addition is help for Intel XeLL and XeSS Body Technology. Diablo 4 already helps the picture upscaling aspect of each of these applied sciences, however it can quickly get Body Technology, too.
Though that is good to have, most individuals who care in regards to the tech will possible personal an Nvidia card and make use of DLSS there as an alternative. Regardless, you’ll be capable to flip that on within the recreation’s graphics choices menu.
Now, onto the extra controversial a part of the patch. After putting in it, the sport will now default to enabling decision scaling. In different phrases, it received’t run at native decision by default. The chosen upscaling technique will rely in your {hardware}, in line with Blizzard.
It’s not but clear what kind of settings Blizzard has chosen for the completely different {hardware} configurations, however the follow of enabling DLSS and FSR – or picture upscaling typically, is shortly changing into increasingly widespread throughout fashionable video games. Some video games even default to – and count on – Body Technology to be enabled, such because the just lately launched Monster Hunter Wilds.
Aside from all of the technical upgrades, the patch additionally comes with a couple of bug fixes, together with a repair to a bug that prevented Scour occasions from being accomplished, and one other that trigger herb node icons to vanish from the minimap throughout the identical occasion.
The patch additionally fixes an – admittedly amusing – bug that prevented gamers from having the ability to rename a loadout after they disabled the mature language filter. You may learn the total change go browsing Blizzard’s weblog.
