Beware, Diablo IV adventurers, for darkish whispers communicate of a horrific beast of nice energy that may spawn ungodly numbers of clones and completely fuck you up. It’s not a lie! I’ve seen it occur to many of us, and never all have returned to inform the story.
Diablo IV’s launch has been fairly rattling uneventful and clean, which in 2023 is definitely spectacular and newsworthy. But no recreation, particularly not a recreation as contemporary out of the oven and big as Diablo IV, can launch in an ideal state. So after all there are some bugs and different points in Blizzard’s newest action-RPG. And maybe the funniest includes an enemy named Darcel who can—and appears to typically—spawn dozens and dozens of himself.
In Diablo IV there’s a reasonably easy, not-too-exciting side-quest known as “Stolen Artifice” within the area of Scosglen. The quick side-quest asks you to search out a giant baddie, kill him, take his runic appeal, and convey it again to somebody. This is your bog-standard online game fetch quest, of the type you’ve probably completed variations of extra instances than you may keep in mind at this level. However, there’s presently a bug with “Stolen Artifice” that results in clones of the search’s boss—Darcel—spawning nearly endlessly, inflicting issues.
On Reddit and YouTube, gamers are sharing clips of Darcel spawning 20 or extra variations of himself in seconds. These clones are all as highly effective and lethal as the unique, and may rapidly—like a demonic swarm of locusts—overwhelm even essentially the most highly effective gamers.
“I went to kill Darcel and there was like 200 of him standing there, fix?” posted one consumer on Blizzard’s official Diablo boards. Another participant jokingly posted a clip of the glitch on the Diablo subreddit, including that they “did not expect Diablo IV [to be] this hard” and that it was “one too many Darcels for me.”
Kotaku has contacted Blizzard concerning the bug.
Some gamers are reporting that Darcel will simply spawn endlessly, inflicting crashes or making it unattainable to complete the search. Some have had luck defeating Darcel, the neverending monster, by killing the unique Darcel earlier than he can spawn far too many copies of himself.
While this bug is fairly rattling humorous to look at, I can think about somebody enjoying a hardcore-mode character (which has just one probability at life, and is gone endlessly upon loss of life) discovering this bugged quest and screaming in terror as they notice, far too late, that they’re about to get wrecked by a clone military of Darcels. RIP to these poor souls.
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