Can’t connect to the Battle.net servers in Diablo II Resurrected? You are not the only one. They were disabled due to an emergency repair, and players were stuck in single-player mode.
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D2R players today got a shock when they tried to log into their accounts via Battle.net. It looked as if their characters had been wiped from the servers, but in fact Blizzard shut down the servers Diablo 2 Resurrected for emergency maintenance.
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“We will be carrying out emergency maintenance and the game will be unavailable at that time,” reads a window on the Battle.net homepage. Meanwhile, Blizzard apologizes to players for the inconvenience on Twitter.
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On the official Diablo 2 Resurrected forum there is a thread with hundreds of reports of missing characters. Players sincerely hope that Blizzard will not restore servers to a certain time state.
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This could be catastrophic for anyone creating runes or finding amazing items at the time. In the past, Blizzard has been known to cause considerable annoyance with server restores, but that’s the nature of online gaming.
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How do I restore my character in Diablo 2 Resurrected?
Luckily, there are a few things you can do to fix the disappearing character bug in Diablo 2 Resurrected. First, you can try to exit and return to the game. If that doesn’t work, log out of the Battle.net client and log back in, then restart the game. Then try restarting the client or even reinstalling it.
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If the problem persists, change the region to literally anything other than the one you are in by default, then go back to the game. Ultimately, you can create a new character. For some reason, this sometimes causes your old hero to return.
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The good news about all of this is that singleplayer players have not been affected by server downtime and can continue playing as if nothing happened.
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