Diablo 4 Combat Changes

D4 Combat and Combat Mechanics

Diablo III's visceral combat is the foundation of combat in Diablo IV. Compared to Diablo III, Diablo IV's combat is designed to be more intentional. Tactical decisions during combat will play a bigger role and the developers also try to provide more clarity on the battlefield while increasing the stakes through difficulty.

In previous iterations of Diablo, an AoE or melee skill is a single area of damage that is applied on a single frame. Diablo IV has target areas animated over multiple frames, which allows the animated target areas to be lined up with the animated visual effects that play out. This adds a subtle timing aspect to a variety of skills.

There are various status effects that can be applied to the enemy or the player's character itself. Here are a few examples:

• Cold skills apply Chill to the enemy. Chilled enemies have reduced movement speed. Repeatedly chilling an enemy will Freeze it.
• There are no diminishing returns, for both monsters and players, when it comes to Crowd Control (CC) in Diablo IV. Skills can grant Unstoppable. While Unstoppable, control impairing effects are removed and prevented.

Skill-driven deaths from Diablo III will make a return in Diablo IV. Depending on the skill or element that kills a monster, they can be burned, decapitated, flayed, or crushed, to give a few examples.

Combat Changes D4

To enhance the feel of combat, we have made several improvements to the way damage is applied in our game. In previous iterations of Diablo, an area-of-effect (AOE) or melee skill would be a single area of damage that is applied on a single frame. Thanks to our gameplay engineers, we can now animate target areas (what we call payloads) over multiple frames, which allows us to line up the animated target areas with the animated VFX that play out.

For example, Whirlwind in Diablo III is a cylinder shape surrounding your Barbarian, which applies damage every couple of frames at a rate based on your attack speed. In Diablo IV, Whirlwind is an animated pie shape that animates with your character. AOEs expand outward with time, and melee swings match the motion of your weapon. Animated target areas improve accuracy to the way we apply damage in Diablo IV; it makes combat feel more impactful, and monster ragdolls more visceral. Animated payloads also add a subtle timing aspect to a variety of skills.

Additionally, we have revamped the way we apply hit effects to monsters, so impacts flow with the direction of a spell or melee attack. We use data defined in the animation and animated target area to find the most accurate place to hit a monster, and where to apply a directional physics force to the ragdoll. In so few words, if you hit a goat-man in the knee, the blood spray would come from his knee. The physics force applied to the goat-man’s knee would send it flying as if you kicked the legs out from under him.

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