Diablo Immortal: PC players need to adapt

Diablo Immortal is a free-to-play mobile and PC open beta game coming next week. As the developers reveal, the title is “Diablo” through and through, but there are changes for players who are used to the hack-and-slash series on the PC. Because Diablo Immortal is a game from the franchise that was primarily developed for mobile devices, which also affects the user interface of the PC version.

PC players can expect this in Diablo Immortal

“For people who have never had the experience of playing mobile on a PC client, there will be small nuances,” said Rod Fergusson, general manager of the Diablo franchise. “Mouse hover doesn’t exist in a mobile game because you [auf einem Touchscreen] can’t run your finger over things. There aren’t any scrollbars in your inventory like you’re used to from a PC game.”

Rod Fergusson assures fans that starting June 2nd, he and his team will be closely monitoring how PC players react to the unfamiliar control scheme. In addition to the traditional mouse control of Diablo, Immortal should also come up with an alternative offer. One option is to use the WASD keys to control the game instead of the mouse left click known from previous Diablo titles.

“WASD just came up as a way of expressing that Diablo Immortal (buy now ) is a mobile-first game,” says lead game designer Joe Grubb. “In mobile, you have direct control over your character, and abilities and skills can be fired as you move. It’s a lot smoother to have that interaction.” Rod Fergusson adds that direct controls have an immersive factor. The mouse-click movement makes the player feel more like they’re in the role of an overseeing deity that the characters ordered to do certain things.

Matching: Diablo Immortal with PC port: Mobile experience is clearly the focus

There will also be gamepad support, first introduced for Diablo 3 on consoles. Rod Fergusson’s experience with this style of play is said to have led him to bring gamepad support to Diablo 2: Ressurrected and now to both the mobile and PC ports of Diablo Immortal.

Source: Blizzard via PCGamesN