Asmongold Loses Diablo 4 Beta Character Live on Stream

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Popular Twitch streamer Asmongold began his Diablo 4 early access beta in a tumultuous way, first having his game disconnect and then appearing to lose his freshly made character. The Diablo 4 early access beta began on Friday morning but has struggled with some frustrating initial technical issues. Asmongold was one of the first to dive into the beta, but also one of the first to run headfirst into Diablo 4's frustrating technical problems.

To Blizzard's credit, it's communicated that there are ongoing technical problems with the beta. Issues listed include graphical problems with certain cutscenes, in-game voice chat problems, performance optimization errors, and expected long queue times. It hasn't mentioned in-game crashes, but those have been happening, too. It's perhaps important to remember that Diablo 4 is still close to three months away from a full launch. Blizzard is still hard at work improving the game.

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A clip from Asmongold's most recent Twitch stream captured the streamer's despair over a sequence of unfortunate events within the Diablo 4 early access beta. After spending a good amount of time making a character, one of Diablo 4's Barbarians, Asmongold has reached an early town area. This is just five minutes into the game, at most. Asmongold talks to an NPC, only to suddenly be disconnected. The message «Network Disconnect: your client has been disconnected from the server» ushered Asmongold out of the game.

Luckily, Asmongold's game didn't crash fully. He didn't have to restart his client, so he didn't have to go through the current Diablo 4 server queue. However, it wasn't all good news. For whatever reason, when presented with the character select