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The rollout of the Diablo 2: Resurrected 2.5 patch yesterday seems to have kicked off an ARG that has players working to decode numeric strings hidden in the game's chat lobby.
The fun began with the announcement that the 2.5 patch had gone live, which included an odd image way down at the very bottom, accompanied by the message, "We were flipping through the old Diablo 2 manual [PDF format] and found this confounding inscription... What does it all mean?"
The scribbled strings of text in the notebook are the obvious highlight but Reddit—because it's always Reddit(opens in new tab)—quickly noticed that one coin in the image is different from all the rest. It bears the words "Keep the Core—Resurrected—???? - 2021," and is also physically identical to the chat gem in the Diablo 2: Resurrected lobby. From there, they figured out that it's a Vigenère cipher, and that by using "resurrected" as the key the three lines of text scrawled in the notebook translate to, "so many gems what do these orange numbers mean."
Something weird is going on in Diablo 2: Resurrected and we have no idea what it is
An ancient Diablo 2 mystery may be on the verge of being solved.
Nice to see Blizzard following up on this mystery. Must be a few old timers left there
