The surround sound mastering is new, but the sound effects themselves are not. "We're taking the atmospherics on earth up, and that means that Diablo 2 Resurrected Items you may hear the breeze blowing through the roads along with the rustling in the jungle," Fergusson says. "But we are not changing those iconic sounds, like placing a skull to some socket or putting a potion in your belt. The things you have those Pavlovian response to, knowing it's Diablo 2. Those are the sounds you are still going to listen."
A shared item stash: Say goodbye to mule characters. You will now have a shared item cache to use between multiple characters, so that you won't need to dedicate other characters into the task of schlepping and storing gear. It's probably the largest quality of life change within the original game.
Auto-looting along with other QoL upgrades are optional:"Auto-gold is a feature we've added that you may turn on or off," says principal designer Rob Gallerani, who functions at Vicarious Visions, a studio now under the Blizzard umbrella. "If you would like to pick up gold by clicking on it, then you can still do that. If you would like to run over it to pick this up, you can run over it." You will find new hotkeys. There's an auto-party system for mechanically linking games and automatically inviting people to your sport, but it's optional. If you wish to type"pp" in conversation the old-fashioned manner, you still can.
Completely remade cutscenes: This is the 1 place where D2R really is a vampire. The cutscenes are fully redone rather than upscaled in the original files, but with involvement from people who worked on the cutscenes back in 2000. "We wanted to shoot this dramatic story and take all 27 moments of the cinematics... and remake them from scratch using contemporary technology and CGI," says Fergusson. "So it is going to look fantastic. But again, same performances, shot-for-shot, should it cut from Cheap Diablo 2 Items one scene to another in the original it is going to cut that instant in the remake of those videos."
