Blizzard has shared a list of key issues, including errors and crashes, in the Diablo 4 early access beta that it's currently tracking and working to resolve. With Diablo 4 scheduled to launch in early June, Diablo fans likely expected this first March beta to have its issues. That has certainly proven true, with Diablo 4 beta players experiencing lengthy queue times, random disconnects, and hardware performance problems. Blizzard is capitalizing on the opportunity to improve Diablo 4 as fast as can be done.Blizzard is holding two beta sessions ahead of Diablo 4's launch in June. There's the ongoing Diablo 4 early access beta, which will last through the current weekend, and then an open beta starting March 24 and lasting through that weekend. As exciting as it is to be able to try Diablo 4 months ahead of the game's launch, it's clear that Blizzard's intent with the betas is to stress test the game in a live environment. It will be able to take what it learns from the betas and apply fixes to the full launch of Diablo 4.In a list posted on Blizzard's Diablo 4 forums, the studio shared four key issues that it's aware of and working on. These issues are on top of Diablo 4's queue problems. The first issue is that players are unable to join a party while in-game. The second issue is players are disconnected and told that their party doesn't exist. The third issue is rubberbanding or being blocked while transitioning between areas. The fourth issue is high RAM and GPU usage on select hardware.
To be clear, these are issues that Blizzard is actively working on, according to its forum post. It's not just taking notes and dealing with these issues prior to launch. Whether Blizzard can solve them while the Diablo 4 early access beta is ongoing, or prior to next weekend's open beta, is unclear. But Blizzard is at least trying to fix them or make them less pronounced.
Diablo 4 players have shared positive news regarding the beta's queue times, now that the second day of the beta has begun. Queue times had peaked over two hours at one point on the first day of the beta, shrunk down to around 80–90 minutes, and are now often below five minutes. It's possible Blizzard was stress testing on the beta's first day, as improvements have been made quickly.
There are certainly more than four issues that need to be fixed in Diablo 4's early access beta. There are balance issues, as Barbarians struggling with Dungeon bosses understand, and graphical errors aplenty, as well. For the most part, however, the Diablo 4 beta can run very smoothly at times. It's a great sample of the ARPG, and is undeniably building up excitement for Diablo 4's full release.
Diablo 4 releases June 6 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
