Last month, Blizzard announced Diablo II: resurrected. It is a remastering of the basic game and Lord of Destruction, and is coming to Nintendo Switch and several other platforms this year. If you happen to be a recurring player, you may be interested to know that you can actually use what you saved from the original game on the PC.
Speaking to IGN, game producer Matthew Cederquist explained how support for saving files older than two decades was not originally planned. The team just experimented and worked.
“When we were working on [the remaster], we wondered if the old saved files would work and we kind of pushed and it worked. And we thought, ‘ok, this is the best resource of all time’. “
While there has been no mention of whether this feature will work even with the console versions of the game, the remaster does support cross progression. So, in theory, you should be able to load your old file saved on the PC in the computer version and access it on the console platform of your choice.
Even if you don’t have your original saves, it technically means that you can start leveling a character of your choice in the original PC version (which is available on Battle.Net), since the remastered is the same game with new audio and graphics, and some other changes, such as improved UI, expanded inventory, and renewed staircase seasons.
Do you still have access to your old saved Diablo II files? Are you going to revive your old buildings? Leave a comment below.