PTR on D2R?

Was this ever selectable? Can't remember the option being "live" or i'm imagining things..

It was "live" when D2R development was still active and there were PTRs, there hasn't been one since Jan/Feb 2023 or so when most of the D2R team left Blizz or were moved to D4 and other projects.

I think it's highly unlikely we see another PTR for D2R due to lack of any substantial patches that would warrant said PTRs.

This we know but..

I only just noticed this option all of a sudden at the menu.

Maybe as i said..i'm imagining things ?

Can't say I've had reason to actively check again recently but I seem to remember they simply never removed the option again after the last PTR. Merely shut down the PTR itself.

Hence it remaining selectable, the version remaining dated and there being no server to connect to if you did try it.

I def. remember trying it once or twice after said PTR was gone just for the hell of it and everything was still there/worked up until trying to connect to a non-existent server. So prob. still just the same thing.

So i might probably be grasping at straws here.

Hope is a powerful but often ultimately disappointing thing

There is still Hope

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

There is still Hope

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Cooley did a video very recently sharing there is a rumor of potential actual updates. I really hope there is because I can't sustain this roller-coaster of emotions much longer!

Knappogue wrote: 4 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

There is still Hope

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Cooley did a video very recently sharing there is a rumor of potential actual updates. I really hope there is because I can't sustain this roller-coaster of emotions much longer!

wow this is HUGE!

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

wow this is HUGE!

Yea he released it in the last couple of days (I can't remember exactly when). Said he couldn't verify the rumor, but that material updates were allegedly happening.

So...same unverified rumor that "everything anyone has ever been asking for is coming with S7!"? *cough*

For the sake of remaining realistic..I'll believe it when I see it. Not expecting anything beyond maybe another "OMG WE'RE ADDING MASSIVE CHANGES, PATCH NOTES COMING SOON!!!!........ok, we're actually just rephrasing the Korean EULA a tad, f off playerbase!"

Schnorki wrote: 4 months ago

So...same unverified rumor that "everything anyone has ever been asking for is coming with S7!"? *cough*

For the sake of remaining realistic..I'll believe it when I see it. Not expecting anything beyond maybe another "OMG WE'RE ADDING MASSIVE CHANGES, PATCH NOTES COMING SOON!!!!........ok, we're actually just rephrasing the Korean EULA a tad, f off playerbase!"

yes, the same roller-coaster I keep unintentionally getting on...

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

There is still Hope

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That's patch 2.7.3 that released with Season 7, old news.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... 7-now-live

Blizzard wrote:

On May 21, at 10:00 a.m. PDT, a change to the age restriction in Korea goes live with Patch 2.7.3.

Gameplay
Access to Diablo II: Resurrected in Korea has been updated to allow access at 19 years of age.
May your Ladder race be filled with fiends to eviscerate and bountiful loot.
-The Diablo II: Resurrected Team

I know it says "Beta" but it's not, they release it for all the "clients" or w/e for some reason. See how it says it updated for the PTR too even though there was no PTR that day? Also the site for anyone curious: https://blizztrack.com/

DarkMaster wrote: 4 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

There is still Hope

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That's patch 2.7.3 that released with Season 7, old news.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... 7-now-live

Blizzard wrote:

On May 21, at 10:00 a.m. PDT, a change to the age restriction in Korea goes live with Patch 2.7.3.

Gameplay
Access to Diablo II: Resurrected in Korea has been updated to allow access at 19 years of age.
May your Ladder race be filled with fiends to eviscerate and bountiful loot.
-The Diablo II: Resurrected Team

I know it says "Beta" but it's not, they release it for all the "clients" or w/e for some reason. See how it says it updated for the PTR too even though there was no PTR that day? Also the site for anyone curious: https://blizztrack.com/
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Counter productive to update something that's disabled. And i was wondering why it appeared on the launcher when i never noticed it before.

Unusual.

They just got a Community Mgr to handle Immortal. I think it's a good sign and i take it as positivity in that sense to add more involvement in the franchise.

That vid will surely be forwarded haha...owing to the number of likes. I hope they watch it.

Knappogue wrote: 4 months ago

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

wow this is HUGE!

Yea he released it in the last couple of days (I can't remember exactly when). Said he couldn't verify the rumor, but that material updates were allegedly happening.

Let this cook until further notice..

Seriously?
Not gonna lie, adding sunder-based balancing changes now, after requiring 6 full freakin' seasons of "feedback collection" as a delay would be even more sad than just not doing anything ever again.

(Still won't believe any of it until it happens tho ^^)

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

Counter productive to update something that's disabled. And i was wondering why it appeared on the launcher when i never noticed it before.

Unusual.

Yeah, I asked the BlizzTrack owner (Helba) why deprecated (that was the term used at the time, it was later changed to disabled) clients are updated and this is what they said (note that this was over 2 years ago almost to the day, 2022):
Theoretically it could be a beta, but given the circumstances that there's no known D2R team anymore (I don't trust this "Evan Campbell" random that I've never heard of and Google didn't bring anything up about him either) and Blizz is all hands on deck for the D4 expansion I'm not convinced that this isn't some hopium overdose (and this is coming from a guy that was huffing the hopium, I was a believer that they'd do patch 2.8 in the next season after the first non-patch season, but alas here we are three non-patches later). :')

I'm expecting that it's nothing but a cdn config/build change and that there'll continue to be no changes to D2R for the foreseeable future, if there does turn out to be a patch this upcoming season then I'll eat crow I suppose.

^ thanks.

This is a helpful post, certainly.

I will update this thread again once something factual to back it up is revealed.

The source vid that alluded to an update isn't on the internets it seems.

Yeah there will be a hive of activity for VOH i'm sure. It's all hands on deck.

Skaijuice wrote: 4 months ago

The source vid that alluded to an update isn't on the internets it seems.

Yeah I tried pretty hard to find it, reverse image search, keyword (in quotes) search on Google with time restriction, etc. and nada. Seems the only place showing that clip is DarthMicrotransactions and a mention about said clip here from PezRadar:
https://x.com/PezRadar/status/1818858786586869966

If it was on the internet at one point it might've been scrubbed or maybe only one or two people uploaded it or something and it's just buried on X somewhere. Alas, guess we'll see regardless.