One of the aspects of the Diablo 4 beta I enjoyed the most was exploring the initial snowy from yansihan's blog

One of the aspects of the Diablo 4 beta I enjoyed the most was exploring the initial snowy, mountainous zone. It’s one area of the Diablo 4 Gold game that feels like a pretty significant upgrade from past games, full of interesting things to discover, be it side quests, world bosses or dungeons.

Well, if you like that, the rest of the map looks like it is a whole lot more of that. The above image is the entirety of the current Diablo 4 map. I’m not sure where this originally came from but I found it via Jez Corden.

Essentially what we can see here is that the initial zone we experience in the beta is probably no more than a fifth or sixth of the entire landmass, which makes sense, given the general five-act structure of Diablo games. I think we’re looking at five total zones here of various sizes, and the one we just played may in fact be the smallest one. Which is pretty good, given how vast it felt in the beta, I thought.

Plus, this map does not include all the unseen areas in the game. The dungeons, where things get into full procedurally generated maps. And story missions, some of which may be procedural, some of which won’t be. In short, this map is enormous. And of course, if Diablo 4 makes an expansion, which it almost certainly will like Lord of Destruction and Reaper of Souls before it, it will add to this map even further.

The map was one thing I was unequivocally impressed with during the beta. Both in terms of what there was to discover there, the array of interesting encounters it set up so it wasn’t just trash mob clusters with rare chance at Treasure Goblins, and also how it used verticality to mix things up, something past games didn’t do in the same way, as close to everyone felt like it was at the same height, most of the time. Or at its worst, some Diablo 3 zones felt like some sort of MC Escher painting that sort of warped your perspective of height as you traveled. Now, that’s gone and replaced by something better.

I am definitely excited to explore the full Diablo 4 map, especially after seeing its full size and how that compares to what the beta offered. Looking forward to more diverse zones and enemies, and we’ll see what the entire package feels like two months from now in June.

The Diablo 4 pre-order beta has come and gone, and now everyone is gearing up for the open beta which arrives just a few days from now. Then it’s time for the full launch of the game in June, which does not seem headed for buy Diablo IV Gold a delay, against all odds.