Diablo 4 Preview Season of Blood, Blizzard Announces Steam Release Coming on October 17th

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 Diablo 4 pulled back the curtain on the vampiric scourge that will descend upon Sanctuary on October 17th in Season 2. Blizzard will also release Diablo 4 on Steam the same day.

The team held its latest Campfire Chat stream, and there’s a lot of reveals to whet your appetite for what’s coming. There’s a new seasonal questline, new companion, the vampire hunter Erys (Gemma Chan),a new Battle Pass, the Season event, and a lot more, including new Uber Endgame bosses.

This time, there will be a new platform to get your slaying on — Steam. Diablo 4 is the next game that Blizzard and Valve have revealed for release on the platform as part of their deal.

Word has been spreading about a new threat, this time of brutal deaths, scattered at first, but more recently, greedy and spreading rapidly. The most recent murders draw even more attention and now it's your turn to check everything out and see what's going on. 

The vampire Lord Zir is what’s going on. But the vampires aren’t going to go quietly. So you’ll have to take the drastic step of killing enemies, collecting the new Potent BLood resource and the new Pact Armor to acquire Vampiric Powers for yourself and wield them against your enemies. The armor pieces you have, coupled with what types those pieces are, will open up your pool of powers. There are 22 Vampiric Powers in Season of Blood, usable by any class. 

Turning their powers against them by using their blood you'll be able to continuously build and progress Vampiric Powers through the seasonal questline and the seasonal event, Blood Harvest. Blood Harvest will offer many opportunities to get blood and packed armor, by slaying as many enemies as you can, and earning reputation to get yourself some new rewards. We