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Diablo 4 got a quiet little hotfix on July 10, and if you play on Steam Deck it is the one you have been waiting for. Blizzard pushed 3.1.0c and it does exactly two things: it stops the game from crashing when you boot it on Steam Deck, and it kills an occasional crash in the in-game shop. That is the whole patch. No balance pass, no nerfs to shout about.
Small fix. But the timing is the interesting part, because the big one is right behind it.
Death Awakening needed the cleanup
Season 14, Season of Death Awakening, went live on June 30 with patch 3.1.0. Pandemonium Ruptures tearing open across Sanctuary, a Death Cult holed up in Zarbinzet, the Corrupted Reaper as the new Superior Lair boss, and Solo Self-Found finally becoming a proper, official character state instead of an honour system. It is a good season. It also shipped with a few rough edges, and that is where the past week and a half of hotfixes have gone.
The real patch lands July 14
3.1.1 is the meaty one and it arrives Tuesday. The headline change for anyone chasing Mythic Uniques: the Upgrade to Mythic recipe at the Horadric Cube drops from five Pandemonium Fragments to four. Sounds like nothing. It is absolutely not nothing when you have been sitting on four fragments and a locked recipe for a week, quietly losing your mind.
Fragments get easier to find, too. The Corrupted Reaper will drop up to two of them, scaling with your Torment level, and the repeatable Glints of Hope reputation reward now guarantees one. Deathtoll Chambers will always hand over at least one Superior Lair Key on high Torment, so the boss with the best Mythic drop rates in the game stops locking you out of itself. There is a new Seasonal Reputation Board at Temis as well.
Then the fixes. The Terrorize The Night season rank objective that flat out refused to progress. A Nemesis Lair that sometimes failed to trigger inside the Corrupted Reaper's boss lair. Tower rewards going to one party member instead of the whole group, which is the kind of bug that ends friendships.
So, worth diving back in?
If you bounced off Death Awakening because the fragment grind felt like a second job, then yes. Give it until Tuesday and jump back in with the better drop rates. If you are on Steam Deck, you can at least boot the game now without it falling over on the way in, which is a decent start.
Still running the season? Tell us how the Corrupted Reaper has been treating you in the comments.
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