Diablo 2: Resurrected players going wild trying to solve this patch 2.5 teaser
Diablo 2: Resurrected players believe they've found a hidden message hiding in the 2.5 update patch notes.
Right at the bottom of the patch note update on the official website (opens in new tab) – which confirms that Terror Zones have now been rolled out across the main game servers after testing on the Public Test Realm – a photo has been added along with a single sentence: "We were flipping through the old Diablo 2 manual and found this confounding description… what does it all mean?"
The IRL photo shows a ton of cool Diablo-esque props and a book with three codes written on a page, accompanied by a drawing of a pentagram. A real-life ring and a medallion sit on the page, too.
It kicked off a flurry of interest on the game's subreddit (thanks, PCGN (opens in new tab)) which eventually uncovered that the code could be transcribed by using the 500-year-old cipher, the Vigenere Cipher. Using "Resurrected" as the decryption key – well, that's on one of the medallions – the message apparently says: "So many gems what do these orange numbers mean".
After a bit of trial and error, users remarkably discovered that they could get an orange nine-digit number to appear if they kept spamming the chat gem in an online lobby and from there, believe they found a correlation between that code – thought to be a page number, line number, and word number - and a passage in the Diablo 2 manual.
From there? Well, the dedicated group now believes they've transcribed 664 words of the 666-word passage, with just the 026 word still to decipher (although an educated guess surmises it may be "fate").
To play along, a spreadsheet tracking progress can be found here (opens in new tab), and a video discussing how the code was broken can be
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