You can play Diablo 4 Season 5 TODAY for one week only

Season 5 brings more endgame activities and a bunch of new Uniques to Diablo 4 in August, but you can access the Diablo 4 PTR right now and test them out.

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If you thought Diablo 4 Season 4 was a huge change to the game, well Season 5 is about to add a seismic ton of content on top of all of that. As discussed in the latest Campfire Chat, we’regoing back to Hell in Season 5with a brand new endgame activity ‘The Infernal Hordes’ and bunch of new Uniques to farm which will open up build creativity even more than the newTemperingandMasterworkingsystems have done so far.The Public Test Realm (PTR) for Diablo 4 is run on a case-by-case basis depending on the magnitude of changes coming with each season, and since we are getting one for Season 5I predicted the devs were cooking up something great.The PTR goes live at some point today, as yet unannounced, but generally it happens around 11 a.m. PT /  2 p.m. ET. While you wait though, if you’ve never played a PTR before you can download itright nowbefore the doors open.The new activity, Uniques and bunch of class changes can also be read in full in thePatch 1.5.0notes ahead of accessing .

How do I access Diablo 4 PTR?

You’ll need to own Diablo 4 or have Xbox Game Pass and be using a PC to access the Diablo 4 PTR. It’s not currently available for console users. Though inour interview with Rod Fergussonwe were told they are looking into console access for the future.

If you are anXbox Game Passplayer on PC, you can access the PTR through the Xbox app and follow the same steps above.

All of these materials are available per character, so you are encouraged to create different characters and classes to fully test the builds.For the first time, you can also use an existing character of your own from the main game, as the Diablo devs have implemented a character copier for this PTR.Nothing from the PTR will be carried over to your main game.

What can I test in the Diablo 4 PTR?

Diablo 4 Patch 1.5.0 will include all of the changes we have already seen in Season 4, such as the new Helltides,  Tempering/Masterwork systems, and Artificers Pit activity. On top of this, there will now be a brand new activity to complete at endgame, the Infernal Hordes. Face hellishly resurrected enemies from Diablo 2 and return to Hell to farm waves of enemies and earn your chosen rewards and even farm brand new Uniques. You will need to go toZarbzinetin World Tier 3 or 4 to start the quest; it’s called’Eyes of the Enemy.'

Go to Zarbzinet to start the Season 5 quest which will lead you to the Infernal Hordes

Go to Zarbzinet to start the Season 5 quest which will lead you to the Infernal Hordes

All of the changes were detailed in the lastDiablo 4 Campfire Chatbut to summarize, you can expect:

All of this, and more can be seen in thePatch 1.5.0 notesand the developer have noted that some things will be missing intentionally as the week goes on so they can individually test certain elements.We will update this guide when we get to access the PTR ourselves with any known issues.

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How to provide feedback on Diablo 4 PTR

Diablo 4’s Season 5 PTR is only live for one week, but boosting your character instantly to 100 means you can get through a bulk of the content straight away and feedback the results to Blizzard. Player feedback will be instrumental to crafting the final version of the changes which go live to PC and console on August 6.You can use the in game feedback tool to report issues and constructive feedback to the developers. Press the ESC key to access the ‘Report a bug’ menu, and use the dropdown filter to select the ‘in-game feedback tool’. Alternatively,join the official Diablo 4 forumsand provide feedback there.

Jen is a News Writer for Windows Central, focused on all things gaming and Microsoft. Anything slaying monsters with magical weapons will get a thumbs up such as Dark Souls, Dragon Age, Diablo, and Monster Hunter. When not playing games, she’ll be watching a horror or trash reality TV show, she hasn’t decided which of those categories the Kardashians fit into. You can follow Jen on Twitter@Jenbox360for more Diablo fangirling and general moaning about British weather.