A new Diablo 4 patch has arrived with a number of welcome fixes and bugs, including adjustments to the UI that will hopefully cut down on the number of unintentional premium battle pass activations. But there's one change it makes to the game that, to be blunt, I am very disappointed by.
First things first, the good stuff. Complaints about the Diablo 4 interface surfaced earlier this week: The Digital Deluxe and Ultimate editions of the game include one premium battle pass unlock, which can be used for any season—the problem is that the button to activate it appears as soon as the Season Journey menu is opened, and worse, the cursor automatically centers on it. That led to a number of people using their unlock by accident, and accusations that Blizzard was using elements of "dark design" to encourage misclicks.
In response, community development director Adam Fletcher said Blizzard had a «temporary» fix in the works «that will at least ensure the cursor isn’t defaulted there and will instead be defaulted on Season Journey.» As it turns out, Blizzard has actually gone a little further than that: The new patch puts the default focus on the Season Journey button rather than the premium battle pass activation button, as promised, but it also adds a confirmation pop-up to the battle pass activation—something that was inexplicably missing previously.
Other issues addressed by the patch include changes to the color of werebear and werewolf fur to reduce their brightness in certain situations, a fix for a bug that was causing movement problems with some controllers, another fix for an issue that was causing players to stun themselves when they combined the Dark Dance and Punishing Speed Malignant Powers, and various crash fixes
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