"For people who have never had the experience of playing mobile on the PC game before, there are going to be minor differences D2R Items," Diablo franchise general manager Rod Fergusson tells us. "Mouse hover isn't a feature in a mobile game, since you're unable to move your fingers over objects [on a touchscreen]. There aren't scroll bars available in the inventory that you'd see in a PC game."
Fergusson states that"the Diablo Immortal team is going to be paying close attention the PC players' reactions to the control scheme when the beta begins on June 2. Alongside the traditional mouse-driven interface which Diablo games have been using for many years, Immortal is throwing in several other options suitable for Windows players.One is a WASD movement schemethat substitutes the left-click to-move method that was used in previous Diablo games to the direct control movement system.
"WASD came purely as an expression of Diablo Immortal being an entirely mobile game," Joe Grubb, Immortal's lead game designer tells us. "In mobile, you're in direct control of your character's abilities and skills can be activated while moving. It's much more enjoyable to have that interaction."
"Direct control has this immersion quality to it" Fergusson adds. "When you're playing with mouse click - - which is indeed there! - you're sort of this benign god floating around your avatar, telling you to go there to that place, do this do that, do this, do that. '"
Diablo Immortal will also feature gamepad compatibility, first introduced to Diablo with the console edition of Diablo 3. Fergusson stated that his first experience playing the game made him excited to bring that functionality in Diablo 2: Resurrected, and now it's available for both the desktop and buy D2R ladder items mobile versions of Diablo Immortal.
