Rumor: Diablo Immortal Technical Alpha

I was informed that Capt. Logun of the Keelhauled Podcast recently tweeted that his friends were invited to the Diablo Immortal Technical Alpha.

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I reached out and he responded quickly. The “friends” he referred to are Blizzard employees. I’m in the process of validating, getting in contact with one of them, but thought it was appropriate to share for now as “rumor.”

Capt. Logun himself has a reputation at stake here with this rumor. He agreed to allow me to share his tweet, and he has been a podcaster for some time; and recognized by the Microsoft/Rare Limited‘s Sea of Thieves developers — who immortalized Capt. Logun with an NPC back in 2019 — read the Rareware interview with Capt. Logun at their official Sea of Thieves website.

We know that the Diablo Immortal internal test started in August 24, 2020.

In November 2, during the 2020 Fireside Chat, Blizzard president CEO J. Allen Brack said: “We recently conducted our largest ever internal playtest, and we’ll be sharing more of our plans as the work progress.”

That, right there, told us the internal test had ended. However, as the list I keep to track each Google Play update shows, the Diablo Immortal app has been quite active with updates since November 2.

DIABLO IMMORTAL - UPDATE HISTORY

INTERNAL ALPHA

1. Mon, August 24 2020

2. Wed, August 26 2020

3. Mon, September 14 2020

4. Mon, September 21 2020

5. Thurs, October 15, 2020

6. Fri, October 16, 2020 Approximate time Internal Alpha ended (Referenced at ATVI Q2 investors call -- oct 29)

REITERATION TIME

7. Mon, October 26, 2020

8. Thurs, October 29, 2020

9. Fri, November 6, 2020

10. Tue, November 10, 2020

11. Thurs, November 12, 2020

12. Fri, November 20, 2020

13. Thurs, Dec 3, 2020

14. Mon, Dec 7, 2020

15. Tue, Dec 8, 2020

16. Thurs, Dec 10, 2020

17. Fri, Dec 11, 2020

TECHNICAL ALPHA

18. Mon, Dec 14, 2020 (Technical Alpha streamers secretly invited)

19. Thurs, Dec 17, 2020 (Technical Alpha begins in Australia, plus press/fansite/streamer invitations go out)

20. Tue, January 5, 2021 (Technical Alpha ends) Android at 3pm PST / iOS at 5:48pm PST

POST-TECHNICAL ALPHA UPDATES

21. Thrus, January 7, 2021 (client updated: Necromancer & Crusader datamined)

22. Thrus, January 21, 2021

23. Thrus, January 28, 2021

24. Thrus, February 26, 2021

25. Thrus, Mar 5, 2021

26. Thrus, Mar 11, 2021

27. Fri, Mar 26, 2021

28. Mon, Mar 29, 2021

29. Tue, April 6, 2021

30. Thurs, April 8, 2021

31. Fri, April 16, 2021

32. Mon, April 19, 2021

CLOSED ALPHA

33. Wed, Apr 21, 2021

34. Tue, May 11, 2021

35. Tue, May 17, 2021 (Added Japanese and Korean language)

36. Thurs, June 10, 2021

Closed Alpha Test ended in USA, Japan and South Korea on June 30, 2021. In USA/Australia it lasted from Apr 21-June 30.

37. Thurs, July 8, 2021

38. Thurs, July 15, 2021 Closed Alpha begins in China

39. Thurs, July 22, 2021

40. Fri, July 30, 2021

Mon, Aug 2, 2021 -- Diablo Immortal China test ends

41. Thurs, Aug 5, 2021

42. Thurs, Aug 13, 2021

43. Fri, Aug 20, 2021

44. Fri, Aug 27, 2021

45. Fri, Sept 3, 2021

46. Mon, Sept 13, 2021

47. Fri, Sept 17, 2021

48. Fri, Sept 24, 2021

49. Wed, Oct 6, 2021

50. Wed, Oct 13, 2021

51. Mon, Oct 18, 2021

52. Thurs, Oct 21, 2021

Diablo Immortal Beta started October 28, 2021 - in Canada and Australia

53. Thurs, Nov 11, 2021

54. Fri, Nov 12, 2021

55. Sat, Nov 13, 2021

56. Sat, Nov 19, 2021

57. Thurs, Nov 23, 2021

Diablo Immortal Beta started on China, Japan and South Korea on November 25, 2021

58. Fri, Dec 10, 2021

59. Wed, Jan 5, 2022

60. Thurs, Jan 6, 2022

Diablo Immortal Beta ended January 7, 2022

61. Thurs, Jan 20, 2022

62. Thurs, Jan 27, 2022

63. Tue, Feb 15, 2022

Wed, Feb 23, 2022 (Closed Beta Learnings blogpost)

64. Tue, Mar 8, 2022

65. Fri, Mar 11, 2022

66. Thurs, Mar 17, 2022

67. Thurs, Mar 24, 2022

Mon, Mar 28, 2022 - Diablo Immortal pre-registration opens in iOS App Store (2 blogposts)

68. Wed, April 6, 2022

69. Fri, April 8, 2022

70. Fri, April 15, 2022

71. Thurs, April 21, 2022

Mon, April 25, 2022 - Diablo Immortal release date announced: June 2

72. Thurs, April 28, 2022

73. Wed, May 11, 2022

74. Fri, May 13, 2022

75. Tue, May 17, 2022

76. Mon, May 23, 2022

77. Wed, May 25, 2022

78. Thurs, May 26, 2022

79. Fri, May 27, 2022

June 1, 2022 - Diablo Immortal Live

80. Tue, June 7, 2022

81. Wed, July 6, 2022

82. Wed, July 27, 2022

Recently, the Diablo Immortal app’s December 3 update added an internal minimum requirement list (not viewable by the public) which rendered many mobile devices as “Incompatible.”

I posted in Reddit to ask members to volunteer their compatible and incompatible devices and specs. This allowed me to narrow down and list the range of devices’s CPUs and GPUs that can play in the upcoming Beta.

The Reddit thread prompted Diablo community manager PezRadar to clarify what the December 3 update did, and to notify fans that it is just a temporary compatibility list for the upcoming initial beta test phase. No date for Beta was shared though.

Now this tweet by Capt. Logun seems to reveal a Technical Alpha is in progress, behind-the-scene.

Blizzard Entertainment has not officially or unofficially announced Diablo Immortal Technical Alpha at the time of this article.

I’ll provide an update if or when I can validate this rumor as true, or debunked. Hopefully, soon.

Last time, I was able to get a scoop from ASUS_Gustav to debunk the ASUS ROG and Canada regional test rumor within 24 hours. Follow me @blizzplanetcom for updates.

Update: The Blizzard employee declined to comment. Therefore, this will stay open as a “rumor.” Keep your eyes open for any further potential leaks or official statements. Let me know.

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