Diablo 4’s rogue reveal trailer was rendered in the game engine

By now, you've in all likelihood seen the reveal trailer for the Diablo 4 rogue class – starting off in a church with an offhanded confession, it wraps up with a great 'ewww' moment as the cleric stretches a cut off ear onto a hook in his extensive collection. We've learned now that the trailer was created in Diablo 4's game engine.

Snowstorm official that the prevue was spurting in the Diablo 4 engine during an consultation nowadays at BlizzConline. Diablo 4 art director John Mueller says the engine is capable of doing things well beyond what's required for gameplay, and that the team is still looking at new storytelling applications for it. It's a departure for the series, which has to date used pre-rendered cutscenes when it's needed to shift the perspective from the RPG crippled's isometric view.

"It's something that we haven't actually called out very such," Mueller told us during a group interview February 20. "But yes, that was our game locomotive that was rendering the rogue announcement trailer."

Hither's that trailer again, rightful just in case you missed it before:

"Patently, Blizzard has a long tradition of cinematic experiences, you be intimate, the like the ear on the hook," Mueller says. "Candidly, they [the cinematics squad] do things with our engine that I genuinely preceptor't know they do, because with the game we don't do a allot of those things. Only, like the stretch skin over the hook? I experience to ask Doug [Alexander, Blizzard Vitality's director] how he did it, because that's pretty fashionable."

Given that Diablo 4 will give players the chance to customise their characters first, information technology's exciting to think decisions about characters' appearances may comprise echolike in the story cinematics. Mueller said the Diablo 4 team is "definitely exploring how to use our engine in really interesting ways."

We still don't have a Diablo 4 release date yet – but Activision told investors that 2022 would be "a big year" for Blizzard particularly during a Recent epoch earnings call. We've got everything we bon about Diablo 4 classes and Diablo 4 skill trees assembled conveniently for your perusal meantime.