Global Community Development Director Adam Fletcher took to Twitter to announce that PvP deaths in Hardcore mode will now lead to the loss of your character in Diablo 4. Two years ago, in an interview with content creator MrLlamaSC, Blizzard stated that dying in PvP in Hardcore will not lead to permanent death, but that they are open to feedback on changing how the system works.
Recently, we also covered that the developers didn't design the open world PvP zones, called Fields of Hatred, to be fair. You can read more about that in our news article below! Diablo IV's Fields of Hatred «Not Designed to be Fair»
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