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Alles zur neuen Diablo 4-Erweiterung Lord of Hatred ! 🔥 Wir sprechen exklusiv mit Matt Burns (Lead Narrative Designer bei Blizzard) über das epische Finale gegen Mephisto, die Rückkehr von Lilith und die neue Klasse: den Paladin.
In diesem Deep-Dive Interview erfahrt ihr, wie Blizzard die cineastischen Trailer erschafft, was uns in der neuen Region Skovos erwartet und warum der Paladin diesmal anders ist als in früheren Teilen.
00:00 Intro
04:55 Die Story
07:30 Wo stecken Diablo & Baal?
08:28 Liliths Rückkehr
12:05 Neue Region
15:30 Neyrelle
17:20 PALADIN Klasse
24:10 Release Datum
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Alles zur neuen Diablo 4-Erweiterung Lord of Hatred ! 🔥 Wir sprechen exklusiv mit Matt Burns (Lead Narrative Designer bei Blizzard) über das epische Finale gegen Mephisto, die Rückkehr von Lilith und die neue Klasse: den Paladin.
In diesem Deep-Dive Interview erfahrt ihr, wie Blizzard die cineastischen Trailer erschafft, was uns in der neuen Region Skovos erwartet und warum der Paladin diesmal anders ist als in früheren Teilen.
00:00 Intro
04:55 Die Story
07:30 Wo stecken Diablo & Baal?
08:28 Liliths Rückkehr
12:05 Neue Region
15:30 Neyrelle
17:20 PALADIN Klasse
24:10 Release Datum
Das ist eine Aufzeichnung aus unserem Livestreaming-Programm FYNG 2026: https://www.gamestar.de/fyng
Dieses Video gibt es auch zum Hören im GameStar Podcast: https://www.gamestar.de/podcast
Den Podcast findet ihr überall, wo es Podcasts gibt!
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3YFfLha
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/403mlPv
RSS-Feed: https://bit.ly/42bmS
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00:00Die Höllenkatze ist aus dem Sack. Diablo 4, Lord of Hatred, heißt die neue Erweiterung,
00:17kommt am 28. April und bringt den Paladin als neue Klasse ins Spiel. Das hört sich alles
00:26ganz gut an. Das Cinematic haben wir auch schon gesehen. Und jetzt haben wir noch die Gelegenheit
00:32mit Matt Burns zu reden. Der ist Lead Narrative Designer an Diablo 4 und kann uns einige Fragen
00:39zur Story und zum Paladin beantworten. Hi Matt, nice to meet you. Hey, nice to meet you. How are you doing?
00:47Very good, thank you. And congrats on the great new Cinematic. Again, a very impressive Cinematic.
00:55as Blizzard is sort of known for. As a principal writer, what was your role in it? Did you work
01:01with the Cinematics team on this one as well? Well, first of all, thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed
01:08it. And to answer your question, yes, we work very closely with the Cinematics team at Blizzard
01:15on all the Cinematics. But for this one in particular, we would sit down every so often
01:23through the process and work with the Cinematics team and give them feedback on, you know, how
01:30should Mephisto be acting? You know, what's the story behind the Paladin? What kind of abilities
01:37should we be showing in the Cinematic so that it matches with what the developers are working on
01:45for the class itself and the class mechanics and stuff like that? And just the visuals and just the
01:51theming and the dialogue that's being spoken. So we kind of worked on all of that together.
01:57Um, and of course the Cinematics team is great. And just the fidelity of everything they can create
02:05to make it look so cool and interesting. They did their magic on it. So it was a fun, um, really fun
02:13process. I've worked with the Cinematics team for a number of years on cinematics. And so it's always
02:23like, I don't know, I feel like they're so talented. Yeah. Um, that I'm always amazed by what they can
02:30do. But for, for, you know, the Lord of Hatred expansion, there are a number of other cinematics
02:37as well in different kind of different mediums of cinematics, like we do in Diablo 4 that we worked
02:42with the different cinematic directors and artists on as well. So a lot of very cool stuff coming.
02:48Yeah. I mean, it's, it's always sort of like been a trademark for Blizzard, these very high fidelity
02:55cinematics, uh, starting with the earliest, uh, Diablo games, Warcraft games, and so on. What do you
03:01think is like the secret ingredient for, for Blizzard cinematic that makes it so special?
03:09Um, I, you know, I think that one of the principles, again, just from my own experience working
03:17on cinematics before there was always this drive to create something handcrafted, give it a handcrafted
03:26feel, right? Like go in and, you know, adjust and massage every detail, even things that when you're
03:34watching the cinematic, maybe you're happening so fast, right? But I think subconsciously you're still
03:39picking up on just the, the, just the level of detail and the quality of everything. And I think
03:45when it all comes together, that's what gives it this special extra, you know, oomph that just makes
03:53you go, wow, that was really cool. So, so a lot more in store for, uh, the story of Lord of Hatred
04:01in terms of cinematics, since it's not just the announced cinematic, but also the cinematics in
04:06between, I think that players always love with the game.
04:11Exactly. Yeah. We, you know, as you saw in vessel of hatred or in the Diablo four base game, we have a
04:19number of cinematics throughout the, the campaign and different kinds of cinematics too. You know, we have
04:26the ones that are more like the top down, um, view, but there's very unique animations for the characters going
04:34on. And then we have the more like traditional cinematics that are going to happen. So like with the
04:39previous expansion, we're going to have a lot of those in Lord of Hatred.
04:44Yeah. The Inarius Lilith, uh, cinematic at, uh, towards the end of the game, that was like
04:50one of the most epic things I've seen in a long time. That was really amazing.
04:54Yeah. All right. Let's, uh, let's, uh, let's talk about the, um, the story of Lord of Hatred with,
04:59which of course, of course is your main expertise that you're working on. Um, with the base game
05:05and with a vessel of hatred, we, uh, in both, uh, we've sort of seen like a more open-ended ending.
05:13Like, of course you had the ending to the story, but there was always this, okay, and this is how it's
05:19going to continue. I already sort of know where it's going. Um, did you like, what lessons did
05:25you take from that? And is it going to be similar with Lord of Hatred or is Lord of Hatred sort of
05:31going to end this Mephisto arc? Of course, of course, without spoiling too much.
05:36Sure. No, that's a great question. So yeah, for example, vessel of hatred was a very important chapter.
05:46Um, and it, it was always intended that it's going to lead directly into Lord of Hatred,
05:53which as you said, yes, it is this culmination of everything. It is this, um, final chapter to the
06:01story of Mephisto and sort of in this age of hatred that we, um, call like the, the, the story so far
06:08of Diablo four. So, you know, there was that cliffhanger ending in order to set up what's going to happen
06:15in Lord of Hatred, but really for Lord of Hatred, that our goal is to wrap up all these threads,
06:22bring this story to its final exciting, um, ending and have this epic showdown against Mephisto that
06:31I think, you know, throughout the course of Diablo four, people were kind of waiting for and expecting,
06:38right? You know, we've been, Mephisto has been around kind of messing with us, doing certain
06:42things and now we're going to face him. Yeah. For real. And also, I think nobody really thought
06:50that Narell's plan was gonna completely work and she's just gonna go away and never hear anything
06:56from him again. Right, right. Yeah. You know, it's, it's hard to, uh, it's hard to deal with primevals.
07:04Yeah, sure. Like it's, uh, it's not easy. Yeah. Speaking on that, um, since it's all very focused
07:11on Lilith and Mephisto, uh, of course you're not gonna like spoil anything, but can you give us a
07:18little hint at what the other prime evils might be doing at this, at this point? Um, are we maybe
07:25gonna see some of them, uh, at a later time? Can you tell us anything? So sure. I can tell you that,
07:36you know, Diablo and Bale are still around, you know, they're not like gone or anything like that,
07:43but we've really just been focusing on Mephisto as part of this Age of Hatred overarching story.
07:52So for Lord of Hatred, it really is about Mephisto and, and bringing that story to a close.
08:00Diablo and Bale are not a part of it, but like I said, they're, they're still, you know, out there.
08:08Yeah. Not gone or anything like that. It's just, we really wanted to focus in on Mephisto and
08:13all the, the other characters revolving around him, right? Like Lilith, his daughter,
08:17you know, and Arius and, and all those characters and really just kind of home in on them.
08:23Yeah. So I was one of those players and I think there were many that, uh, at the end of Diablo
08:29Fear were sort of like, oh, is this, where's this going? Like, will we maybe even be able to join
08:35Lilith and fight against Mephisto with her? Uh, I would have gone for that, uh, a hundred percent,
08:42by the way. So, um, so what role was she playing now in Lord of Hatred? Will you, will she sort of
08:49help us against Mephisto? Is she, she one of the good guys now? Like,
08:53like, so, you know, we, we were fed her blood petals, right? Yeah. In base game. And she's a part of us.
09:03And even though we defeated her in hell, there's something of her that lives on inside of us. And so,
09:10you know, as she said, um, there would be no victory, you know, without her, she's right. Like
09:19I think when we, when we're going to go and face Mephisto in Lord of Hatred, Lilith and our blood
09:27bond with her will be a very important and key part to dealing with Mephisto or trying to deal
09:34with him. Right. So, um, we are going to have this relationship with her. It is, as you might expect,
09:43a tense relationship because she's a powerful demon and, you know, demons aren't ones to just
09:51be nice or to forgive because we did defeat her in hell and we ruined her plans. Right. Um,
09:58so it'll be really interesting. I think it's, it's a very fun part of the game, a very interesting part
10:05of the, the game, um, the story where we try to, to use this bond with Lilith to help the world and
10:14to stop Mephisto. But she has like always, she has her own motivations. You know, it's, it's,
10:21it's not like we always see eye to eye on everything. So this sort of tension, um, is always present.
10:28And also this question of like, you know, we, we, as the, the children of Lilith, like what is our
10:38destiny in this world? Um, how much influence does she have over us really versus, you know,
10:46how much of that of our agency is our own. Right. Yeah. But to all those Lilith fans out of there,
10:54out there, there will be more of her to see in Lord of hatred. Yes, definitely. Yeah,
10:59that's cool. Definitely. There there'll be, yeah, there'll be a lot to see of her. And also,
11:06um, you're going to learn things about her that you didn't learn about in base in, you know, Diablo 4
11:14or, or vessel of hatred. I mean, mostly Diablo 4, the base game, you're going to learn new things
11:19about her and the same goes for Mephisto too, because he's such a big part of it as well.
11:24We're going to be learning things about him that until now we kind of only scratched the surface.
11:30Right. But, but in Lord of hatred, there, there are so many more details and elements of their past
11:38that are going to come out. Right. That's cool. Also because these characters are sort of like
11:43multi-layered, they're not just like, okay, he is just completely a bad guy or maybe he's a bad guy,
11:49but it's, it always seems like there's more to it. And so it's interesting to learn more about him,
11:55I think. What I also find very interesting is, um, I'm a big fan of Greek mythology and, uh, the new,
12:01the new area Skowos seems very, very much, um, yeah, inspired by Greek mythology. So what can you
12:09tell us about Skowos? How is life there? How will we, uh, go there and what will we experience?
12:18Yes. Skowos is a very cool place. It's, this is where when Lilith and Anarius and the other rebel
12:27angels and demons created sanctuary, they came, they kind of hung out in Skowos at first,
12:32and this is where they created humanity, where they created the firstborn. And so Skowos is cool
12:39because there are all these very ancient firstborn ruins everywhere. Um, but combined with sort of
12:46more modern, you know, dwellings and cities that are made by the, the Ascari who are the, that's the
12:54culture that currently lives there. Right. And so, um, we're coming to this place where humanity all
13:03begin in order to decide what humanity's fate will be going forward. Right. Because Mephisto in the body
13:10of Akharad is also coming here to do something, do something in this ancient place that he thinks is
13:17going to, you know, change the fate of humanity as he wants it changed. Right. It's not something that
13:24we'll want, but, um, but yeah, so ton like Skowos has all these different islands. They each have their
13:31own unique and exciting flavor. Um, when we go there, we're going to learn a lot about the culture
13:37and how it functions. We're going to see the Amazons kind of the dual casts of, or the dual orders of, um,
13:44Skowos. They have the Amazons who are kind of like the military, um, of, of Skowos and the,
13:52the Oracle order who are more like the spiritual leaders and how they work together, but also how
13:58Mephisto is when he comes here, how he's like messing with the system. Right. And, and kind of
14:03trying to break it so it doesn't get in his way. Yeah. So there are some interesting new characters,
14:10for example, a queen Adriana, um, who is the Amazon queen. Um, but we also have the old characters
14:18coming back like Nerel, uh, and Lorath, right? Yes. So we have a great combination of new and old
14:26characters. So like you just said, Queen Adriana, she's the, um, she's an Amazon who's queen of Skowos.
14:35And then Oracle Sierra is kind of like the other leader of Skowos. You know, like I said, she's the
14:40spiritual leader. Um, and they're, they're very interesting and they play a big part in the story.
14:47And yes, as you said, Lorath, Nerel, and like we talked about earlier, Lilith. So we have
14:53yes, familiar faces coming back, the new faces. And in a lot of cases, like there's a connection
15:00between them. So for instance, um, something I can mention is Lorath has been here before,
15:07or like decades ago, he came here, um, with some other Haradrim, you know, he had an adventure
15:13here and he met Queen Adriana when she was younger too. And he formed a bond with her at that point.
15:19So it's not, it's not a completely new place for some of the characters. Um, it's, um, there's,
15:26there's, uh, there's different layers going on between their relationships and what this place
15:32means to them. So is Nerel, is she still, is it still an ongoing theme that she's sort of
15:39fighting against that Mephisto corruption or is that something that's been cleansed completely off
15:45her? Like, can we, can you already tell us something about that or is that too spoilery?
15:51Um, no, I can talk about that. I mean, Nerel definitely has moved to a different
15:57state in since vessel of hatred, you know, she overcame this sort of psychological, um,
16:05um, attack that Mephisto was doing to her right. And so really like she's stepping, it's more like
16:13she, she has stepped into this role, um, of Haradrim even more so than before and putting the needs of
16:20of sanctuary before her own. And, you know, I think that
16:29rather than kind of cower from Mephisto after everything he did to her in vessel of hatred,
16:34she's, she's eager to find a way to strike back and she's, it's more like she's on the offensive
16:41rather than, you know, scared or concerned about what's going to happen. But the one thing I would
16:47say though, is that even though she's not, she's not like corrupted or, you know, infested by Mephisto
16:54or anything like that, as, as we saw in vessel of hatred, where he's sort of getting into her head,
16:59you know, Mephisto is always going to be messing with the people that he has encountered including,
17:07you know, not just Nerel, but everybody. Yeah. Um, so it's not like you can just cut the bond that
17:14easily between, you know, uh, a mortal and, uh, a primeval. Okay. So it'll be interesting to see how
17:23that will develop. Uh, let's talk about the, the Paladin, um, which is of course like this huge
17:30iconic character in, in many, many fantasies and also, uh, has been in Diablo, whether it was the
17:38Crusader or the Paladin, uh, how did you guys envision this character now in, in, in this new
17:44game? Uh, how does he fit into this world of Diablo four? Yeah, sure. So I can talk a little bit about
17:54the Paladin. It's very cool class as you saw, um, in the cinematic, just with some of the abilities
18:02that the Paladin has and familiar abilities to, right? So, um, what I can say about the Paladin is,
18:10um, as you just said, there have been Paladins throughout the different Diablo games and throughout
18:18the lore of Diablo, right? And so this Paladin is a little bit different because rather than
18:24being a part of the Zacarum church or some other big institution like that, these Paladins are more
18:33like a, an independent order of warriors of light who are going out to do good in the world because
18:40they've, they've seen like what has happened in the past to the Zacarum and these other, like I said,
18:46like big institutions and how inevitably there's like a hierarchy gets formed and it leads to
18:51to corruption and things like that. And so they've decided, Hey, we're not going to do any of that
18:57kind of stuff. We're going to stick to, you know, these truths of what the light means and how a
19:04person can find it and use it. And we're going to go and make right what is wrong in the world. So
19:11they're, you know, um, they're like these wandering warriors of light who stick to these strict oaths
19:20in order to prevent themselves from being, you know, corrupted or led astray by any dark forces.
19:27And they also have compared, I think to other Paladins that we've seen or the Crusaders,
19:32they also have this unique, um, kind of, uh, belief in what the light is. They know what the light is.
19:40They know that angels exist. And so they see, they don't worship angels, but they see them as these
19:47like aspirational figures that are like, Oh, these are creatures of pure light. Like maybe
19:53they don't always have our best intentions at heart, but there's something, you know, to aspire to.
19:58And so it's almost like they have any even closer connection with the light than Paladins of the past.
20:05Cause they, they can sometimes even like hear the song of the light that exists out there in their heads.
20:13And, um, so yeah, they're, they're pretty interesting. Um, and I think like really fun to play and
20:23kind of like a cool slight evolution of what we've seen from Paladins in the past.
20:30Yeah, that's cool. Also because like the Paladin with being this figure of light, he is sort of
20:36like the natural, uh, the natural opponent, the natural opposite of Mephisto, which is
20:43like this Lord of deceit, deceit and hate. Um, how, how would that play out in the story? Like,
20:49will the Paladin have sort of a unique outlook on what is happening in the game? And also,
20:54of course you can start the base game with the Paladin now, if, if you wanted, um, will he have
21:01something to say about the story of the base game, um, that maybe gives another perspective on things?
21:08Yeah, we do have these moments throughout base game vessel of hatred and in Lord of hatred where
21:17the different classes maybe have their own opinions about certain things. Like, um, there, there are certain
21:23spots right throughout where that comes up. So the Paladin will definitely have those kind of moments
21:30as well, um, where they can express maybe what they think about something going on or how they feel
21:37about something going on. Do you have any, like, maybe a fun fact about the Paladin? Something you can
21:45share with us, um, on top of that? Um, so something to share about that is, so I'll share like a,
21:58a backstory, you know, narrative fun fact. Okay. Um, one, and you know, it's like,
22:07what I'm about to say is true of some Paladins. It isn't true of all of them necessarily, but we
22:15kind of imagine that the Paladins go through this training process where, you know, established
22:23Paladins might be wandering through a town one day and they, they meet someone and they see some
22:27potential in them. Right. Yeah. And they, they take them under their wing and they train in, um, how to
22:35become fighters. But then there's sort of this rite of passage at the end of it all, where they're asked to,
22:41um, basically climb up this mountain, go through this arduous, um, task. And once they reach the top
22:51of it, you know, sort of exhausted and maybe, you know, starving and sort of in this push to the edge,
22:59right? They, some of them can sometimes hear the, what we call the light song, which is something from
23:06Diablo lore, which is basically like the, the sound of the light in the, in the universe,
23:12you know, it's like this music and then hearing it, it sort of changes them. Right. And, and gives
23:19them this insight into the light itself. But I mentioned that because, you know, it's like a
23:24background lore thing that, you know, maybe, uh, isn't, isn't necessarily obvious. Like if you're
23:33playing the Paladin in the game itself, but yeah. Yeah. I'm very excited. And also, um, please,
23:40if you talk to them, uh, congratulate the, the art and character design team, because I'm a Paladin
23:46player. I play Paladin on almost every game I play and I've seen the artwork and this looks like,
23:54like the coolest Paladin I've ever seen. Like with the hood and the, the big plate armor,
23:59he just looks so cool. And, uh, yeah, I, I really want to play that class. So please,
24:06no, I think, I think you're going to love it. Yeah. Yeah. Please, uh, please, uh, give my regards
24:10to the team who made this. Uh, it, it looks just awesome. I will. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And thank you
24:18very much, uh, Matt, uh, for talking to us about, uh, Diablo fear for a lot of hatred. Um, yeah,
24:24yeah, we're excited to see more of it and, and to play it next year, uh, when it launches, uh,
24:30April 28th. Cool. It was my pleasure. Thank you so much for having me on and chatting with me about it.
24:37Yeah. Anytime. Anytime. Bye. Bye. All right. Bye.
24:42Und euch da draußen auch vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen und oder Zuhören. Wir sehen uns im nächsten Video wieder. Bis dann.
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