We won’t get a release date because they have learned to keep shut. It’s now official, patch 1.13 is currently under scrutiny of the Quality Assurance team and that phase is nearing completion. Regardless, we can’t deny that Bashiok has been very brave facing the wrath of the hungry wolves and has come through updating the community at least once or twice a month, letting us know their internal decisions, unexpected issuess, and diagnostic/analysis outcomes.īashiok posted a new update a few hours ago.

Translation: We won’t get as much info on Diablo II patches until they are on PTR. In retrospect, this patch has been a PR nightmare dragging on for a year, and from this sour experience they have learned to hold back. So what’s holding the patch from being released? Bashiok explained in order to remove the increased stash feature, which by the way was one of their big highlights for this patch, they had to remove a lot of this feature’s code and that takes time, then an internal test of patches to make sure it’s stable enough for release. Still, any number of issues could delay a release so any dates or estimates for release won’t be made available.īy September 30, the Diablo II team was about to release the patch within a few weeks window, but held back that decision to diagnose if the platform would withstand the impact of the increased stash feature. 20 July – The 1.13 patch is very far along so it should only be a limited amount of testing before it hits the Westfall PTR. The latest we got about how far along is Diablo II patch 1.13 was on July 20 when Bashiok said the following: How far along is the development of Diablo II patch 1.13? It is on its final stages or mostly completed, but because of the Warcraft III vulnerability fix those developers involved in the patch were moved to help with the emergency a few months ago. While that’s bad, wait - they can jump straight to quality assurance for whatever else the infamous patch holds. Everyone was excited to hear this patch would increase the stash size, but after months of analysis they have decided not to take the risk of system overload or missing data during peak times. After nigh on a year since we heard of patch 1.13, we get an update that will make both Blizzard and the players sing the blues.

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