Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred expansion: Release Date & Everything we know

The cinematic for the much-awaited Diablo 4 DLC Vessel of Hatred was revealed at Xbox Games Showcase 2024 and shows the return of Mephisto. Here’s all the info about the expansion and its release date.

Diablo 4 had a tricky start to life, and the community made many of its feelings known to Blizzard in an effort to improve the game’s future. Slowly, the roots of progress started to show, and the arrival of Loot Reborn has undoubtedly been a significant success.

The latest seasons including Loot Reborn and Season of Blood gave a new loot system, added Tempering Manuals, and improved the Master working crafting system, plus an overhaul to dungeon layouts. However, players are most excited about the upcoming expansion Vessel of Hatred with the return of Mephisto.

Here’s everything we know about the expansion.

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred trailer

The official release date trailer and cinematic for Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred was released on June 9, 2024, at Xbox Games Showcase 2024. The 3-minute trailer showed Neyrelle suffering with the fate of her choice to imprison the Prime Evil Mephisto in the stone and seek a means to destroy him in the new region of Nahantu.

She is called by a vision of her mother Vhenard who consoles her as she carries the stone to Akarat’s tomb to destroy it. Turns out, the vision is actually Mephisto in disguise trying to take over Neyrelle and break free. However, Neyrelle breaks out of the vision and carries through with her quest.

Players will search for Neyrelle in the expansion as they voyage across Nahantu and become the apex predator of the jungle as the all-new Spiritborn class. They’ll also be able to recruit Mercenaries to aid you in combat, fight together in a new PvE co-op activity, & more.

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred release date & platforms

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred will be released on October 8, 2024. The expansion will dig deeper into Neyrelle’s quest and will allow players a darker gameplay as compared to the core game.

Furthermore, the expansion will be available to play on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PS4 & PlayStation 5 consoles.

Vessel of Hatred sees the return of Mephisto

The latest Diablo trailer confirms that players will be heading back to the jungles of Kurast and exploring new regions.

Confirmed details for Vessel of Hatred line up very well with datamined leaks that dropped earlier last year. In those, Mephisto’s return was implied by the ending of Diablo 4. Both Mephisto and Kurast, where the game looks to be set, are returning from the second game, with the latter’s inspired design one of the more memorable locations from the series as a whole.

Whatever does materialize, it looks like Diablo fans will have until October 2024 to wait to experience what Vessel of Hatred has to offer. Managing the situation up to that point via the seasonal content system will also have to be a priority for Blizzard, with the game finally on a steady heading.

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