Blizzard Releases Diablo 4 Hype Trailer as Season of the Malignant Begins

Hell's gates are wide open

by Khayl Adam Fri 21st Jul 2023

Diablo 4's first onslaught of post-launch support has officially begun, with the excellent action RPGs Season of the Malignant now live. Blizzard has released a hype trailer, extolling all true believers to return to the service of the Cathedral of Light and do some damned demon slaying.

Expected to run for around three months, Season of the Malignant introduces a new dungeon, boss, Unique items and Legendary Aspects, in addition to the new Malignant Hearts mechanic, which will likely result in extraordinarily broken builds that should actually keep players happy. Blizzard probably nerfed your build into oblivion, along with many of those most beloved by the community, with something of a mea culpa planned to try and soothe the currently outraged hardcore community.

If you plan on answering the call, consider checking out our in-depth Season of the Malignant guide, which should get you started on the right foot. Have you had a chance to boot up Diablo 4 and track down any Malignant Hearts? Let us know in the comments section below.

[source youtube.com]

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent of PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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Northern_munkey
Fri 21st Jul 2023

I'll be giving this a good work out over the weekend (and the rest of the decade.) You may want to mention that blizzard are rolling back the latest patch according to various tinternet stories because a few people were upset by the changes made. Happy days 👍

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HonestHick
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@Northern_munkey it’s really good, i hit level 18 tonight with the Druid. I have a 54 Sorcerer, 42 barbarian and a 33 Rouge. Loving Diablo 4. I seen where they said PS5 users were having crashing problems, not sure if thats true for many players. I am playing Diablo 4 on Series X and i logged in and stayed in with no trouble. But i did notice a lot of players. So much fun. 😊

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Shinnok789
Fri 21st Jul 2023

with something of a mea culpa planned to try and soothe the currently outraged hardcore community
No, with carefully planned corporate BS.
As soon as I saw the patch 1.10b notes, it was as clear as day why they made the nerfs: money
They nerfed the Eternal realm as hard as they could by lowering defenses across the board (among many others), then with patch 1.10b they went ahead and added armor on every malignant heart. Ths way all those players that were not gonna play the season because Eternal was good enough, will be "herded" to migrate to the season.
Let me put it this way: Want to make that "actually survivable" Sorc build? Play the season, it's the only way to get more armor on it! And while you play the season, why don't you buy Deluxe and Ultimate versions of the game to get the best experience while looking as cool as possible?
There's no way to wash this out with today's campfire.
The only thing they will do is give back some buffs, which too were planned a long time ago, to actually arrive at the desired level of nerf they wanted all along.... And this way the players feel happy and thankful that "Blizzard listens to the community" (yeah, right...) while gladly accepting the remaining nerfs, and obliviously falling for one of the oldest psychological trap in the negotiation business...

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Northern_munkey
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@HonestHick i've had no crashes...yet 🤣

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Toot1st
Fri 21st Jul 2023

I spent 2 hours queuing to get In a game last night gave up

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NinjaNicky
Fri 21st Jul 2023

Now add an offline mode and thousands of others will buy the game 👍🏻

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HonestHick
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@Northern_munkey good to hear. What character did you choose to use for seasonal?

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Darude84
Fri 21st Jul 2023

What do ‘seasons’ in gaming entail? Is it like free DLC that’s temporary available? And is it like this for other games as well, like Halo Infinite?

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Cutmastavictory
Fri 21st Jul 2023

I only made it to level 10 or 11. Played when I got home from work. The server issues were sorted by then. Everything seems fine so far. I don't feel like doing renown but we'll see how upset I get with it over the weekend. Oh... and world boss beat the crap outta me lol

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Cutmastavictory
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@Darude84 you make a fresh character to re- level and experience the new seasonal mechanics. For some new people it sounds like a waste of time I guess. For me I love it. Makes the game fresh. You don't have to delete a character unless you have no available character slots which diablo 4 you have 10 slots. Poe you at least have 20 lol.

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Northern_munkey
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@HonestHick i've not decided yet but i may go with the rogue...uhhmm decisions..

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HonestHick
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@Northern_munkey Rouge and Druid are my two favorites. rouge is so much fun and as someone that beat the game with Sorcerer, Barbarian and rouge. Range characters are just way more fun and versatile. I really struggled with the close range combat. Could just been my build. But i am not sure about that. Whatever you pick, just have fun is the most important thing. 😊

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Michael2008ish
Fri 21st Jul 2023

Played it until about lv12. Didn't really interest me tbf, as the only things you can take back to the eternal realm are cosmetics.
Plus i wanted to play an ice sorc and the only unique sorc aspect forces a fire build. So no thanks.
Good luck to those that enjoy the cosmetic side of gaming though 😉

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Michael2008ish
Fri 21st Jul 2023

@honesthick Sorry to be that guy, but it hurts my eyes.
Please spell 'Rogue', correctly. I've read many of your posts and think of lipstick.

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djlard
Fri 21st Jul 2023

Maybe I'll give it a try, but I'm still let down by account shared map... It feels like I've completed game so there is no need to start new character.