Something weird is going on in Diablo 2: Resurrected and we have no idea what it is
The rollout of the Diablo 2: Resurrected 2.5 patch yesterday seems to have kicked off an ARG that has players working to decode numeric strings hidden in the game's chat lobby.
The fun began with the announcement that the 2.5 patch had gone live, which included an odd image way down at the very bottom, accompanied by the message, «We were flipping through the old Diablo 2 manual [PDF format] and found this confounding inscription… What does it all mean?»
The full image is very high resolution, so everything in it is clearly visible.
The scribbled strings of text in the notebook are the obvious highlight but Reddit—because it's always Reddit(opens in new tab)—quickly noticed that one coin in the image is different from all the rest. It bears the words «Keep the Core—Resurrected—???? — 2021,» and is also physically identical to the chat gem in the Diablo 2: Resurrected lobby. From there, they figured out that it's a Vigenère cipher, and that by using «resurrected» as the key the three lines of text scrawled in the notebook translate to, «so many gems what do these orange numbers mean.»
That doesn't make much sense in itself, but of course that wasn't the end of the chase. Pop into the Diablo 2: Resurrected chat lobby and start clicking the chat gem to activate and deactivate it, and eventually (it might take awhile) you'll be given an orange number. It looks like this.
It took me a solid three minutes of clicking like a fiend before that number popped; more industrious fans have put together macros that auto-click multiple times per second, saving wear and tear on both mouse and finger.
Like old book-based DRM, those numbers—and again, this is entirely Reddit figuring it out, I am terrible at ARGs and can claim no
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