“Terror Zones” appears like a Stephen King TV present from the early ’00s, however it’s not. They’re a brand new function added to Diablo 2: Resurrected within the just-released patch 2.5, which is designed to make the sport just a little tougher and extra attention-grabbing for these gamers hack-and-slashing their option to stage 99 over and over.

“We need the journey to stage 99 to be accessible to a bigger inhabitants of gamers, supply extra selection apart from repeatedly farming Baal, Diablo, and Nihlathak, and most significantly, stay difficult,” says the patch notes submit.

Enter Terror Zones. Once per hour, corruption will seep into a selected space of Diablo 2’s world, making the monsters inside increased stage and the loot acquired for killing them increased stage, too. The quantity monsters improve in stage is set by the problem you are enjoying on – and you may opt-out of getting Terror Zones solely if the thought would not curiosity you.

There are different modifications on the horizon. On October sixth, Ladder season two will start, providing a contemporary leaderboard for gamers who need to race to achieve stage 99. On the identical date, six new Sundering Charms may also be added to the sport. These charms permit gamers to interrupt particular monster immunity whereas they carry one, thus making extra character builds viable in additional zones – together with Terror Zones, clearly.

Today’s patch additionally brings a sometimes giant batch of quality-of-life tweaks and different fixes, all of which you’ll be able to examine on the weblog submit linked above. Some of the fixes are PC-specific.