Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred release times across all regions

Diablo 4’s first expansion, the Vessel of Hatred, arrives alongside the Season 6 update on October 7, bringing players to the Nahantu Region for a brand-new story.

As well as this new region, the Spiritborn class arrives in the game alongside Mercenaries, the Realmwalker event, the Kurast Undercity dungeon, and Dark Citadel activity.

If you’re wondering when you can dive into Vessel of Hatred and Season 6, here’s when it releases in every region.

Diablo 4 Season 6 & Vessel of Hatred release times

Following the announcement of “a small delay” due to some unforeseen trouble with the build, the Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred expansion went live five and a half hours later than expected. The updated launch times are as follows:

October 7

• Los Angeles: 9:30 PM PDT
• Mexico City: 11:30 PM CST

October 8

• New York: 12:30 AM EDT
• Sao Paulo: 1:30 AM BRT
• Toronto: 2:30 AM EDT
• London: 5:30 AM BST
• Helsinki: 7:30 AM EET
• Paris: 6:30 AM CET
• Riyadh: 7:30 AM AST
• Seoul: 1:30 PM KST
• Tokyo: 1:30 PM JST
• Sydney: 3:30 PM AEDT
• Auckland: 5:30 PM NZDT

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred delays explained

Roughly two hours before the Vessel of Hatred expansion was set to launch, Diablo 4 Global Director of Community Adam Fletcher took to X to announce a delay. In responses to players seeking clarity, he estimated “a couple of hours at most”.

General Manager Rod Fergusson spoke up later in the day to shed further insight while advising fans it’s going to be a bit longer yet.

“Due to an unfortunate technical issue, it could be upwards of two hours till we launch Vessel of Hatred,” he explained.

Fergusson circled back and revealed the “new update is nearly finished uploading to our servers. We will give the green light once it’s finished and available for Bnet users.

“We are almost there!”

Finally, after five and a half hours from the expansion’s intended launch time, Adam Fletcher returned to X to announce that the delay had been resolved and the expansion was live.

Both the Vessel of Hatred and the Season of Hatred Rising arrived at the same time. Although the expansion is only available for those who buy it, every player can access Season 6’s content when it goes live.

Vessel of Hatred pre-load times

Diablo 4 players on Battle.net, Xbox, and PlayStation can pre-download the Vessel of Hatred and the Season 6 update. If you’re on Battle.net you can pre-load right now, but Steam players will need to download when it goes live on October 7.

Check out the pre-load times for PlayStation and Xbox:

October 5

• Los Angeles: 4 PM PDT
• Toronto: 7 PM EDT
• New York: 7 PM EDT
• Mexico City: 6 PM CST
• Sao Paulo: 8 PM BRT

October 6

• London: Midnight BST
• Helsinki: 2 AM EET
• Paris: 1 AM CET
• Riyadh: 2 AM AST
• Seoul: 8 AM KST
• Tokyo: 8 AM JST
• Sydney: 10 AM AEDT
• Auckland: Noon NZDT

Download file size

On PC, the Vessel of Hatred update is around 40 GB with High-Resolution Assets enabled. If you untick that box, it comes in at around 25 GB.

With console pre-loading not live yet, it’s unclear exactly how big it’ll be, but it should be in that ballpark.

First thing you should do

Once the Vessel of Hatred and Season 6 goes live, the first thing you should do is make sure you’ve completed the campaign. But, you technically don’t have to, you just have to complete the main campaign’s prologue. We would recommend getting a mount before visiting Nahantu, though.

After that, look for the Vessel of Hatred’s campaign in your quest log which is where you should be able to begin your journey to the new region.