/v/ - Video Games

>>15934301

I only briefly played medianXL and think it deviated too much from the basegame.

Did not know it inspired d3, thanks for the info.

A floppy should work

>>15934279

Most /v/ servers in the past have had boosted drop rates, and a few altered area drop rates ie more gems and runes in palace cellars. But I don't think that was a formal mod, just server tweaks. The one you want if you're playing singleplayer is PlugY which gives more storage space and enables ladder runewords.

>People love D2 so much they want to push it to its theoretical maximum and farm for massive power via drops

>Nu-blizz takes analytics and designs entire game around doing massive number of runs for a percentage increase to power

>After a huge backlash, fuck the game up even more by removing auction house and scaling drops to absurd levels for nothing more than having a huge number

>Shills consistently say D3 got fixed at some point

At this point I give up all my pleasant memories of Diablo and Diablo 2 to wipe the cancer that is Diablo 3 and the shills that say it isn't concentrated aids from existence. Diablo 3 is fundamental proof that there are no greater beings in existence, for no being omni-benevlolent or omni-malevolent would allow such an wretched existence.

>>15934279

Looting is a form of free gacha. After you beat the game, you shouldn't keep playing just to satisfy your gacha-dopamine addiction.

>>15934365

>for no being omni-benevlolent or omni-malevolent would allow such an wretched existence

Jesus said not to cast pearls to swines. Remember that. It means he doesn't care if you're a sucker and get burnt: because it's on you to stop sucking just to follow your base istincts.

Eventually you have to say no.

>>15934410

If i'm being entirely honest. I did indeed purchase D3 out of some naive attempt to recapture some of those D2 days. But at the very least I ignored the expansion and every blizzard game since.

These days being a blizzard fan is a mix of perverse joy over the increasing flames consuming their products and heavy sorrow in bringing raw truth to those still in their clutches.

>>15934443

> But at the very least I ignored the expansion and every blizzard game since.

This is the only correct option, once burned, never again

Anyone who considers themself a fan of blizzard would never buy a blizzard game again

So….how about a New Year Diablo 2 GameNight tomorrow at 10pm?

>>15934301

Got some sauce on that? Cause the only time I've seen Median XL even mentioned by Blizzard was when an interviewer brought it up among other ones and they just got a canned response like they found community efforts like this really inspiring or some shit.

>>15934301

Who cares? Brütal Doom resulted in nu-Doom, that doesn't invalidate it it's still a decent mod (it is, it's the obsessive fanbase and sloppy thrown together coding that's the shitty part), as are all the other ones that have come out of that community.

>>15934404

Funny actually, but the item selling from bots are basically proto-gacha. I wouldn't count it as such though because it's more designed to encourage online interactions, and you can definitely beat the game with average gear, and the top-end stuff should be rare with a player base as large as theirs. I dread to think if pay2win stuff had caught on earlier, we'd be really starving for better games.

>>15934713

>Got some sauce on that?

sorry anon, it was several years ago

>>15934716

>Brütal Doom resulted in nu-Doom

no it didn't, Shadow Warrior resulted in nu-Doom and thats due to Bethshitter being fucking retarded

Diablo 2 Fallen Mod

>increase drop rates

it's like you don't even want to play Diablo 2

Median XL is the best mod I've played so far. Bunch of end game content and challenging difficulty.

>>15934830

well yeah, theres only a few good Diablo mods, however Median XL doesn't exactly follow the same old diablo formula

Which is a good thing as you're likely playing the mod because you're bored of the original and want to change it up a bit, but ultimately it isn't better than the original game, just different

Also the sprites they use are retarded, The porcupine druid looks like shit and transvestite demon/dragon paladin is actually pretty funny, albeit they might have changed them since i last played, its been a few years

I didn't like the ultimate skills and the classes felt even felt constricted all over the place

For example take the paladin and mixing unholy and holy, you can't

>>15934869

I can't deny that its far from original in terms of gameplay. I you're also right about the constricting classes. I understand what they were going for though. They wound up solidifying the min maxing meta as part of the core gameplay, which in turn restricted skill investment. They expect you to minmax. I personally love autistically minmaxing but i can see why some people don't like it. But of all the examples you could've mentioned. You chose the one that makes sense. Why should you be able to spec into unholy if you're a holy paladin and vice-versa? Nothings really changed by the way. At least in terms of gameplay.

I've been playing the Eastern Sun mod and am having a good time

Speaking of Diablo, which would you guys say is the better ARPG: Titan Quest or Grim Dawn?

>>15937484

Grimdawn is better than original Titan quest, mainly due to the pacing of combat

However I havn't tried nu-titan quest yet, after they pretty much copied that mod to increase pacing so idk

You should really just stop acknowledging every trace of Blizzard's existence. Nothing good ever came of it, and never will.

>>15940843

>if you don't like Actiblizz you must like blimpf

>>>/resetera/

I played this for some time a ladder ago it was fun.

If you plan to play ladder reset on 18 this month its a good time to start

Live d2 server with increased rates http://europebattle.net/d2/

>b-b-but the teen retrogaymers told me we should be playing Path Of Poxxile because it's le hardcore oldstyl

>>15934716

>Brütal Doom resulted in nu-Doom

I love this, Brutal Doom has effectively replaced the holocaust for the doomworld kikes. They make up new victimization stories daily, to explain that nobody wants to play their lame super weapon mods.

>>15941741

>What exactly had changed in between?

They removed the RMAH, changed itemisation so uniques weren't worthless and added some mode that let's you grind without going through the story. It hardly goes as far as 'fixing' the game though since the game is poor design all the way to the foundations. Anyone playing or defending it is suffering from such a potent case of battered wife syndrome that they'd make even a WoWfag concerned.

I seem to have lost my private server write-up. I no longer find it on pastebin. I'll draft another one this weekend and post here if the thread is still up.

>>15941741

>constant running

press R ; the reason you can walk at all is because its an actual mechanic influencing your block and deflect rolls.

>autopickups

PlugY has that iirc

>keybinds

If there arent enough keybind options for you ingame (like, in the fkn options menu) you can remap the keyboard and mouse completely via the .ini

>wanna see what Im casting

I give you the benefit of the doubt and guess you mean buffs/passives because otherwise this would be the worst part of your issues.

There is no interface upgrade that does this but noone ever screamed for one. There arent that many buffs/curses in the game and there can only be 1 active of each individual bracket. (Curse, Off.Aura, Def.Aura, CC.Aura which can share brackets with Offense or Defense in some cases and as such will block other blessings.)

Also your casual filter seems to be options menus. Id work on that.

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>>15940752

Please spoiler that pic anon.

>>15942189

As a child I dreamed of being Superman but I never got the chance. Now the computer fills me with video games.

Wheres my money ?

professional unpaid shilling warning

/v/iablo 2 OP Pasta

Recycled edition.

F.A.Q.

>Where can I get Diablo 2, mine's broken, missing, I lost my cd-key, and/or some other fucking excuse to having lost or misplaced the game.

Right here: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6098061

>What version is this?

We're running a slightly different version than the default 1.13c vanilla patch called Konkey Dong

It does very slight changes that increase the difficulty of nightmare and hell, adds the ability to get back into the cow portal if you fuck up and kill the king, and SLIGHTLY increases drop rates. Otherwise everything else

is still very much vanilla. (you'll still want a party to get the good shit)

Go here to download the patch http://www.mediafire.com/?nyc122n77lok2cl and drop it in your d2 folder

>Is it a virus?

No, BUT

You should scan it for yourself like every piece of software you download from the internet.

>Can I hack/bot/use redvex and other gay shit?

Turned off the warden I think so feel free to do it if you can get your shit to work. Just keep in mind that you will be mocked if you use anything other than map hacks.

>Why the fuck does my screen look pink? Fuck this game.

See below for a possible solution.

To install and play the game:

1.Extract it and run d2vidtst.exe to eliminate most graphical glitches. (I recommend you use 7-Zip to do this.)

2.Run Diablo 2.exe.

If problems persist do the following

1. Go here http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html

2. Download the newest version. this is an emulator tool that tricks diablo into thinking your new fancy graphics card is an old voodoo2 compatible card.

3. Run the program

4a. PANIC SHITS IN GERMAN

4b. Dont be retarded and click the second from the bottom option to turn it into english.

5. Run the identificaiton option.

6. Close the program.

7. Drop the .dll or everything into your Diablo 2 folder

8. Repeat the d2vidtst.exe step and select the gfix slide third option this time

To connect to the server:

1a. go here and download the editor http://www.icyhell.net/2008/05/06/blizzard-battlenet-gateway-editor-v3010702

1b. Run BNGatewayEditor.exe.

2. Switch to the SECOND TAB. (IE the Diablo 2/ LOD Tab)

3. Click Add Gateway and fill out the following information:

Name = SRoVQ

Zone = 6

IP = 192.223.31.204

4. Set to Chosen Gateway.

5. Hit the detect gateway button to see if you can connect.

6. Run Diablo 2.exe.

7. Click Battle.net and create your account. (EMAIL REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.)

8. Have fun reaching the top of the short ladder!

———changelog———-

Major Changes:

-You can teleport and use barbarian shouts in town

-Increased stash space

-Monsters in Nightmare have +3 to All Skills, monsters in Hell have +6 to All Skills.

-Cow levels have an increased ammount of cows and those cows are higher in level. Expect a much harder challenge.

-Cow level has a Waypoint (replace Inner Cloyster). You can kill the CowKing and rejoin through the Waypoint. No more worrying about the Cow getting killed

-Typing "/ann message" in chat sends a message to all the server

-Uber Cows (New dungeon with Uber cows that now drop great loot but prove a challenge)

See the links below for the rest of the changelogs:

http://pastebin.com/QTizfccw - v1.3.4? (current)

http://pastebin.com/4Gn3H0r4 - v1.3.3

http://pastebin.com/ZCbEJzAu - v1.3.2

http://pastebin.com/2VUTRtMU - v1.3.1

http://pastebin.com/bqeR0CfR - v1.2

http://pastebin.com/XwLfnSs6 - v1.1

https://web.archive.org/web/20130910004032/http://pastebin.com/beiQC5AQ - v1.0

NEW Cube Recipes (All original recipes are working):

- Create rare item: item + Um + Pul

- Respec token (1 use): Um + TP Scroll

- Lower quality of runes: 1 rune (example, put Um in cube, transmute, receive pul)

- Horadric staff (A2 shortcut): Amulet of the Viper + TP Scroll

- Khalim's Will (A3 shortcut): Khalim's Flail + TP Scroll

- New rare ring: 3 rare rings

- New rare amulet: 3 rare amulets

- Upgrade item: Item + 3 io runes

List of useful commands - These can be used while in chat lobby or ingame:

/ann *message* - Sends a message to the whole server. Everyone will read it, unless they muted you.

/f add *accountname* - Adds that account to your friends list

/f list - Displays your friends list, who's online and where they are right now (game name or lobby)

/con - Lists all the players online, their account names and where they are

/games - Lists all existing active games

Here's also information on how to host your own server if you get fed up with my shit: https://pastebin.com/cdZ4cv2e

Anyone got a maphack that works with 1.13d?

>>15942719

Loli BH off of leddit?

>>15942254

>increased droprates

You have to be a retard to use this. With increased droprates shit items will just push good items out of loot pool.

>>15945195

It's not a global drop rate buff, IIRC only things like HRs were increased. Maybe the nodrop was fucked with as well, but that only increases your chances because it removes possibilities that whatever container you pop contains nothing.

>>15945195

I was going to make a snarky comment about less green breastplates being a good thing, but I realized that I haven't played in so long that I forgot the name of it.

In any case, either what >>15945224 said or manually editing the drop lists or simply adding drop slots would also be possible ways to do it from what little I know of D2 modding.

>>15945195

It's more that I've tried one such mod and it was pants-on-head retarded.

>runes drop in lockstep with what act/difficulty

>you cannot generate the same unique in the same game so it's incredibly easy to force a particular amulet or ring

Also a lot of the top-end equipment should be rare. My favourite is if you have two Dream items on a Sorceress her Lightning Mastery adds to the aura, to the point you are dealing tens of thousands of damage on strike, and periodic wide aura damage. On Nightmare difficulty you just walk and enemies die instantly.

>>15945235

It's just breastplates in general because they are the only item in their treasure class that isn't class-specific (1/3 drop rate)

If anyone wants to hop on right now I'll give you a rush to act 4 which is where I'm stuck.

>>15945261

Would be nice to have generated runewords at start of the game with increased droprates for runes. So you have to find runewords instead of using a wiki.

>>15945599

A find a in-game book with Runewords

>>15945599

Brute forcing new runewords isn't feasible, so what you're asking for is items which tell you how to make runewords right? If the only realistic way to get the recipes is through a random drop, isn't that just adding an extra arbitrary step to getting a good item? I don't really see the point. It also seems like a lot of work to mod the game enough to do that.

I have now installed the game, but it's version 1.14 and PlugY only works with 1.13. Is there a way to switch to an earlier version? I know people are doing it somehow, but it's like the entire Diablo II player based is possessed by a form of autism that prevents them from explaining things to normal people.

>>15945855

Why not just apply an earlier patch?

http://plugy.don't use link shorteners/Patch/LODPatch_113d.zip

>>15945819

>a lot of work to mod the game

Not really. It basically requires one external exe to run and generate the list.

>>15945862

Oh, so I just get LODPatch_113d.zip, unzip it where I installed the game into and that's it?

See, this is the shit I'm talking about, why can't anyone put it in such plain term and write up proper instructions? Either they assume you already know it and provide no instructions at all, or they provide instuctions for retards that go into how to create a folder and are worthless if your setup deviates even slightly. Those instructions are useless for me when I'm running in Wine.

>>15946236

Oh, one more question I forgot in my spergout: is it possible to "downgrade" without actually overwriting any files? Is this what d2se is for? That's another thing I cannot figure out what it's supposed to do.

>>15946236

>>15946239

I advice to install d2se instead of fucking with patches.

Yes, it also have video settings and allows you to install different mods on same game installation and often has built it pluggy.

>>15946269

Neither the patch nor d2se work, both say that d2data.mpq is corrupted, even after I try substituting my own original back in. I guess that's what I get for trying to have fun.

>>15946331

clean download of any version of d2>d2se>mods in folders inside d2se folder

>>15937452

Eastern Sun is excellent as far as gameplay changing mods go. Far better than Median. It's very faithful to the original game while adding cool new stuff.

>>15945855

>>15946236

>>15946239

D2SE just manages your installs so you don't have to fuck about with files manually like you did with the patch. It's not incredibly complicated. If you want to play a mod that only works on 1.12, then you can do that with the click of a button instead of switching out files yourself. Sounds like you fucked up your install and should start over.

I finally played Diablo 3 for the first time the other day and I don't really understand all the autism surrounding it. To me it just seems like every other ARPG in the genre that I've ever played. Are all the complaints about it in regards to super high level high difficulty play and gear grinding autism (that most people like me will never touch)?

Only thing I really noticed is that it was giving me skills automatically rather than letting me choose them from a tree, I guess? I can see how that would maybe limit the replayability. The fact that it's the only ARPG type of game I've found that allows me to play with my little brother on the same machine really adds some value to it in my eyes though.

>>15946633

>To me it just seems like every other ARPG in the genre that I've ever played

Worse than diablo 2, GD and poe, nioh.

>difficulty

Its linear. All gear is the same. Gear drops all the time. You cant really build anything interesting, you just play whatever and everything playes exactly the same. Progress is behind super duper uniqe items with same stats but there is more of them. Its extremely shallow and easy. There are no difficult encounters, everything is exactly the same. You cant even choose what to do, you have to do all the chores in order to do other chores.

>its fun with friends

Duh, almost anything is fun with friends.

>>15946633

Games like D2 are entirely based upon cool gear and the possibilities of interesting or "hidden" builds made by combining gear and character builds. D3 literally takes all of this away and says "Here's your hamster wheel, goy. Enjoy getting your next weapon which will be gaurenteed to give you more of your primary stat, more vitality, and maybe if you're lucky some kind of uncalled for World of Warcraft reference because apparently our employees are so autisric that that is all they can identify with."

You don't understand how finely tuned Diablo 2 is to be good. The loot tables are fucking excellent. Autists playing on competitive ladders will obviously do tons of boss runs but if you play through the game "organically," the drop rate feels pretty good and it makes getting good gear feel more valuable. The game isn't perfectly balanced but there are enough viable skills and builds to make it interesting. It's sad, but it seems like every other game after D2 has failed to find this balance.

>>15946331

I finally got it running from my old CDs. I installed it from CD, then manually patched it to 1.13d, avoiding the downgrading mess. What drove me up the wall is that my system did read all CDs fine, but during installation when it came to the third CD it would not read it, even though it did read it before installation. I ended up copying all contents of all CDs to my hard drive and then I hooked up those folders are virtual CD drives in Wine, that did the trick. It's all such a fucking hassle with these games sometimes.

>>15934365

>fuck the game up even more by removing auction house

You're an idiot. The auction house was a mistake from the beginning and wrecked the entire game play dynamic. While the game still has flaws, it is immensely improved without the auction house.

>>15947448

>auction house was a mistake from the beginning

It only made them few millions.

>>15947615

And probably cost them far more in the long term due to player players renouncing Blizzard, refusing to buy the expansion, loss of faith from fans, and loss of credibility as a company. That's what happens when suits make the decisions.

>>15947615

"A few millions" is a flop in the modern AAA market.

>>15947639

Pretty sure AH is still running in chinese f2p version. But I only know that chinese version is f2p, so its just speculation. And its not like AH was the only problem. And blizzard dont have fans, they had drones which they are alienating right now.

>>15947671

Few millions is also just a speculation on my part. I am more than sure they maed a lot of money from d3.

>>15947683

surely it will make billions from Diablo M because everyone has phones!

>>15947683

Chinks spend an exorbitant amount of money on anything that has a cash shop. Especially if it features pay to win mechanics. Mobile games have a ton of these.

Look at it from another perspective. If chinks are willing to shell out their life savings, meager they may be, at the drop of a hat when it comes to a game with a cash shop it makes a lot of sense to start shifting everything towards Asia. Remember, there are a fuckton of gooks and if everyone of them paid just USD$1…this isn't even including SEA countries

These days I enjoy ARPG's a lot but only ever got a bit further than act 2 (I think, sewers and a desert IIRC). I've seen both 'Eastern Sun' and 'PlugY' be recommended, seems like the former adds more content.

Which would you recommend to someone that hasn't played much of the game?

>>15947701

>They wouldn't be scrambling to make D4

They dont. Freemium games are the future!

>>15947755

Clean install lod with plugy.

>>15947759

I still have the .iso files I downloaded years ago and it also has a 1.13d patch I can apply, I see that it's supported by the mod, should I patch it to that?

>>15947755

Don't do a first playthrough with a mod that makes large changes to gameplay. If you have a short attention span, I'd recommend playing something that doesn't only start getting good in the later levels. Sorceress, Paladin, and Trap Assassins all do very well from the start. Barbarians remain crap until you get end game loot, ESPECIALLY in the 1.10+ patches. Necromancers play differently from everything else and don't start coming together until the end of normal. Shapeshifting Druids struggle like Barbs do, but Elemental Druids are fairly decent. Amazons need some farming and crafting to get going, but once they do they're damn good; it just depends on if you want to farm early on or not.

>>15947992

>>15947877

Oh and as you can see I'll give the Sorceress a shot. I'm guessing I'll want to focus on one element since there will probably be %X element increase gear besides maybe some support skills from the other trees.

Are all of the elements viable or would I be better off with a specific one? Not really looking for a full build guide or anything just some general suggestions.

Will I be stuck with the skill points I choose?

>>15946842

I think some of it is the belief that the loot needs to be a treadmill, and that you need to change equipment constantly. The most cancerous way this can manifest is the power level from Destiny and Martyr. The one thing that I will give some games, is that Nioh and games like it have more difficulty with making creative, viable and fun game changers. You can change the game in some ways, but most break it because it is built about a particular combat system.

>>15947877

How difficult is it to finish the game with an Amazon if I'm not willing to farm and this is my first time playing it fully?

I really like spears, so that's why I'm asking.

Like the other anon, I only played until the desert chapter and then left the game.

This happened multiple times, and I don't remember why.

>>15948014

Did you install the nGlide wrapper? It allows you to use 3dfx Voodoo mode in the video options and translates those API calls to modern graphics libraries. I believe it also has a config that allows you to change stuff like resolution.

>>15948045

Javelin Amazons get the option of both ranged and melee with one-handed spears and they get a shield to boot. I'd say they are a decently noob friendly option but I am not a big Amazon player.

>>15948014

>max out one element

Yes but keep in mind there will be elemental resisting and even immune enemies late in the game. Luckily there are options for you to get past this, including gear that gives you spells you don't have and your mercenary companion.

>Will I be stuck with the skill points I choose?

Yes, but as long as you pick one or two skills and max them out to 20 points, then level up the Synergy skills for those (they're listed in the tooltip), you should be fine.

>>15948053

Thanks for suggesting nGlide, works in fullscreen and runs better now. I saw and chose the option to play it at desktop resolution and while it works, it's still rendered at 800x600 with letterboxing, this is fine and way better than before but I still thought I'd ask if there's no way for it to upscale or whatever it would be called.

Also I saw in the FAQ that singleplayer is capped at 25fps, should I just host my own local lobby and play alone for the best experience? Any downside to this?

>>15948077

Alright cool, I'll just browse the trees a bit and see which ones have spells that sound more appealing.

>>15948134

You can upscale it, but you have to install a game hack to do that. I haven't really kept up with those hacks since they change the size of the UI and I'm used to the current UI. It's also considered "cheating" because you can see more with the camera at once.

>>15934279

>playing a game about getting gear

Maybe you should play an actually fun game instead, like Diablo 1

>>15948156

Eh, I'm okay with this resolution, especially since the program runs in 1080.

I played around with some settings after reading their explanation in the readme but stuff like supersampling and changing the static size doesn't seem to do much.

>>15948065

All right, thanks.

>>15948165

The sad thing is, I like absolutely no other games in the genre. They just don't click for me. But I can always go back and play D2.

>>15948269

You should enjoy Path of Exile if you ever put some proper autism into D2.

>>15948281

I've tried it several times, it doesn't click for me and I usually stop playing after Act 3 or so. The biggest thing about PoE for me is the skill web, most of them feel very inconsequential, and none of the skills feel great for me. It might be that I think there's too much recovery lag on most of the attacks and skills.

>>15948290

Meant to say none of the active skills feel great.

>>15948269

>>15948290

Grim Dawn is mentioned pretty often so chances are you've already tried it but that's one of the best modern ones in the same genre. Better than PoE unless you're into the MP aspect and ladder climbing after resets.

I've played plenty of PoE but wouldn't really want to recommend it after the Chinese takeover, however skills become a lot more satisfying to use once you get access to more support gems and the 'recovery lag' gets circumvented by increased attack and cast speed.

>>15947810

Install game from iso, install d2se. Should work immedeatly and for any future mods.

>>15948323

>but wouldn't really want to recommend it after the Chinese takeover

Nothing changed for better or worse. Current league is goodbut SC only.

>>15948323

It was okay. I may need to go back and play it more.

>>15948077

>>15948014

>Will I be stuck with the skill points I choose?

<Yes, but as long as you pick one or two skills and max them out to 20 points, then level up the Synergy skills for those (they're listed in the tooltip), you should be fine.

Wew plugy to the rescue, turns out that with it I can change both skill points and stat points.

I get that some people may find it cheating and as if your 'choices don't matter' but I like the extra freedom to experiment. There are plenty of classes to replay the game with, I don't feel like remaking a Sorceress just because I somewhere along the way chose a path I ended up disliking is very fun.

Some spells and skills can sound great fun on paper but turn out to not be at all what you want to use.

>>15948014

You'll want a single element and another spell of a different to handle immunities and high resist mobs. Going Cold of Fire and using Static Field as your "off" element is usually a safe choice.

>>15948045

All melee except Paladins suck in 1.10+. Unless you're twinking or going to spend dozens of hours farming each boss as you advance in nightmare+, you'll have a real struggle on your hands. In any case, pure melee Amazon has always been pretty bad. Javelin Amazons (Javazons) are fairly good since they can handle packs well and still kill bosses decently fast. You'll still need to get yourself good gear. No way around it.

>>15948290

>>15948292

Agreed. You can add chains and forks and bounces and multishot all you like, but at the end of the day the skills look, feel, and sound boring. And that's just one of the many, many issues the game has. PoE's for trading/grinding autists more than anything.

>>15948896

>not gay men having sex with hats on

>not ZNES

Apply yourself.

>>15948936

The Reddit one was just an afterthought, I'm tired as fuck. I promise to do better next time. good night anon, thanks for helping me improve. I love you

>>15948595

I agree, D2 builds can be slightly unforgiving. PlugY is definitely a great all around addon to have.

>>15948987

I have played this and enjoyed it. I need to play it more. It has its own server ecosystem and everything. I felt like I discovered a secret society when I heard about this mod.

I must be retarded, but I cannot find the nGlide settings. I installed it via the installer, and it does work (I am getting the 3Dfx logo when the game starts), but I have no clue where the configuration program is supposed to reside.

>>15949550

Never mind, found it: C/windows/system32/nglide_config.exe

Gee, is it this hard to include proper instructions with your program? And no, a readme embedded in the installer program doesn't count.

>>15949554

>>15949550

Just use d2se.

>>15941452

>I love this, Brutal Doom has effectively replaced the holocaust for the doomworld kikes. They make up new victimization stories daily, to explain that nobody wants to play their lame super weapon mods.

I'll have you know that Brutal Doom gibbed my entire family and I survived the gibs chamber 6 million times doomgoy!

>>15949717

You must be using a different Glide wrapper, I used nGlide:

http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

Although to be frank, I don't see any difference. What is the advantage of Glide supposed to be?

>>15949814

Oh yeah I am, didn't realize. I found this one:

http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/

He prefaces the readme with this:

>To make it short: i was disappointed about the performance Diablo2 shows in the Direct3D-mode.

>Because of the fact that the game runs far better in GLIDE-mode, I tried to find a way, to make the game run in GLide-mode even on my computers at home. There were two problems:

>1. Glide-Device-Driver exist only for Voodoo-graphiccards. Diablo2 needs at least a Voodoo-Card of the Voodoo-Rush-type, but my computers had "only" Geforce2MX-cards.

>2. there are many GLIDE-wrappers, but I haven't found any that runs fine on my computers.

>The patch 1.10 for the game didn't bring any improvements, so I decided to write my own wrapper, where I again want to point out:

>This GLIDE-wrapper is explicitly written for the game Diablo2 (and its expansion "Lord of Destrucion", of course;)). You have to assume that it won't work together with other programs or at least that it will produce incorrect output.

Then later gets more technical:

>What this wrapper makes such different to the Direct3d-mode:

>1. the Direct3d-mode of Diablo2 creates far less textures than the Glide-mode, so the Direct3d-engine has to reload the textures more often.

>2. the wrapper uses OpenGL, the Direct3d-mode DirectX6. DirectX6 does not support 8-bit-textures.

>3. the texture-administration differs between DirectX,OpenGL and Glide:

>The overhead for administration in DirectX is enormous, compared to OpenGL or Glide. So OpenGL and Glide have their advantages when using dynamic textures. And here's the key: Diablo2 has so much textures, that they won't fit on any graphiccard, so nearly all of the textures have to be loaded dynamically. And in this point Direct3D fails totally: the dynamic loading of textures is damn slow (in OpenGL its average).

>As a work-around of this issue, the wrapper has to create some more physical textures , than are used in Glide. It is posssible, that the wrapper creates 24MB physical textures, when it it set to emulate only 16MB voodoo-texture-memory, but this depends also on the settings.

I'm not really that versed in this type of stuff but I appreciate all the extra options it offers and enabling the use of fullscreen.

>>15949814

You generally only want the glide shit if you can't run the game any other way.

>>15949578

I went through the Dropmod's "Readme" file, and it's pretty damn good for a Vanilla Single Player mod. Thanks a lot for bringing it up

Bampu~~~

anyone got it working with direct3d?

i can only get it to work with directdraw which is buggy

>>15956256

Try reloading test, usually it works after some fucking over. And some modes only work in fullscreen and different patches have different effect on this.

>>15956412

Direct3D gives me an unhandled exception when started in fullscreen (which is the only mode it supports).

>>15947701

>>15947769

Yeah, don't compare apes and Harambe to niggers.

plya like 3.5w straight d2, then modded, pod and currently most happy with diablo 2 resurgence, has a slight hi-res option, unique/set reworks, cool crafting system, end game farm locations, reworked skills

they nerfed necro tho, so yeah. better than pod in any case

>>15959358

>Why do they have fucking custom launchers

Diablo2 base really hates any substantial changes and if you want to change anything you have to rewrite everything or make a monstrosity of clutches.

>>15949914

What's the difference?

>>15947992

necromancer is pretty fun in unmodded D2

just get 3 raw points into skeletons and skeletal mages, while getting 1 point into corpse explosion and attract while getting all the prereqs for summon resist and revive, as well as 1 point into summon resist and revive, and then max your skills in this order:

1: skeleton mastery

2: raise skeleton

3: raise skeletal magethese are extremely underrated, be sure to never keep more than 1 poison mage, if any

4: revive

5: summon resist

and be sure to get a thorns, might, or holy freeze merc from act 2 to go with your summons; might is preferable, but I made the mistake of getting a thorns merc, which works out okay

a necro with that build will blow through normal, nightmare, and hell difficulty with some vitality and resistances; don't spend too much on energy, if any

the only genuinely hard parts are the parts where enemies have piercing ranged attacks, such as will-o-wisps and guest monster ranged spearcats; you don't even need decripify and you almost never gotta cast corpse explosion

in fact, the first time I faced hell andariel, I set players to 7 before entering catacombs level 4 and wiped the floor with the whole room… very slowly, and without dying even once

but yeah, summon necros play very differently from all other builds, except pre-nightmare summon druids

they're very passive, unlike all other builds; summon necros are almost like playing a different game

>>15960845

It's actually better to get Summon Skeleton to max before Skeleton Mastery. The DPS of those many, weaker skeletons is higher than of the three strong ones.

>>15960845

Reminder that due to engine limitations, reflected damage killing a monster will yield no experience or items

RIP /v/.net

How to play online with pirated copy?

>>15960845

Summon necros are easy to use and fun to command. They're probably the most noob friendly build since they don't need expensive equipment (or equipment at all). There are some fine variations for them including "Summon + Bone" and "Summon + Poison Nova" if you want a more active role in your army, and you don't mind your army being a bit weaker.

>>15960845

>no more than 1 poison mage

You know, these deal one damage per minute?

>>15964848

>if you want a more active role in your army, and you don't mind your army being a bit weaker.

If I remember correctly you only need like 50 points into skeletons(and must have stuff) and you left with 50 to put everywhere else. Your army is not getting weaker unless you put points into retarded shit like mages. What you need to make army stronger is auras. While hybrid works (because skeletons can do all the work) its not that great.

>more active role

You need to curse shit, move around, use teleport on swap to position army, cast CE when appropriate, its not fucking passive.

>>15964945

>"its not fucking passive."

I meant it like being more than a commander, which I concede, it's a very active and fun task.

>"use teleport on swap to position army"

>tfw played Diablo 2 for more than 10 years and never got a "Jah" or "Ber" rune to make an enigma for my bone necro

Why did you have to put salt on old wounds, anon?

>>15965032

Vendor sells teleport wands, I am 90% sure.

>>15962969

gateway editor

>>15965597

Actually, I do have to amend this statement, I have one complaint, and that's the drop rate of blues/yellows is way too high compared to D2 vanilla. I've already obtained several, more than a few from standard minions, whereas in old D2 I had been able to go miles without seeing blues or yellows drop unless they were powered minions.

>>15965607

It's really hard to keep a nice balance regarding loot. I dropped a lot of mods I've played once I felt the game was handing me unique/rare/set items like it was nothing.

Apparently there's a new version of medianXl coming out soon. It's great fun if you've played diablo 2 to death.

>>15934279

>How to play diablo 2 today?

Same way you played it before. Run around spamming the same move mindlessly and collecting your lootboxes.

>clicking simulator 2

>implying clicking simulator was ever good

>>15980291

Holy shit something actually came of all that hubbub like six months back about them finally cracking the game open properly.

>>15934703

I get a copy of the full LoD game+ and building a Necromancer. Don't know if this can multi-player without battle.net shit. Also, playing on Linux Feels nice

>>15983456

boy i sure wish lord of the skeletons necromancer was viable. It took me like, ten tries (running back to early acts and raising skellies there) to finally take down Diablo on normal as skeletal lord necromancer because I had no golem.

is /v/.net still up?

>>15983456

>"…unfortunately bonemancer damage is pretty pathetic end game so you end up relying on corpse explosion to do anything" Fortunately you can just cast confusion/attract with a couple of bone walls and you can start making your first corpse for exploding with ease. Fortunately some mid-tier equipment like a Spirit sword, Lidless Wall, Lore Helmet and Skin of the Vipermagi gets you enough +skills and Faster Cast Rate to make it through Hell. Bonemancers and Trap/Kick Hybrid assassins are the most fun classes I've played.

>>15965347

Wait, so runes in Diablo 2 work like spells words in Treasure of the Rudras?

>>15983260

you can just hamachi with a bunch of peeps no problem

>>15983456

>cast bone prison on faggot zealer

>declare hostility

>cast iron maiden

>laugh maniacally as the brainlet one-shots himself by whacking on my bone walls

>>15948290

dont even bother

animations are a complete joke once you start attacking 5-8 times per second

>>15934404

And gacha is simply a form of operant conditioning, which has been incorporated into game design for over three decades and is a driving force in the dopamine release that tells your brain that a game you're playing is fun.

Nothing wrong with grinding as long as you play video games in moderation and there aren't any microtransactions.

>>15984144

Aye, scroll up. If it's not up let me know and I'll restart it.

Anyone got experience with the Diablo 1 mod Belzebub? Adds support for high resolutions and quality of life stuff like stash size increase and puts in quests that were supposed to be in the original game but were scrapped.

But it also changes the balance a lot, adds items and 2 new characters (assassin and barbarian).

I'm struggling to enjoy it, just feels very poorly balanced along some other stuff which may just be Diablo 1.

>Rares/magic/bosses are damage sponges that shit out damage, they're pretty common and they drop shit despite the tough fights (a bit of gold and a magic item mostly)

>Good loot is very sparse, using a lvl 6 magic shortbow with 74% damage increase and 16% knockback at lvl 20 and haven't found anything better

>My armor is almost exclusively rare quality and has pretty good stats but the highest is my chest at lvl 9 with others being lvl ~5. Not found competetive replacements

>Skills don't feel worth using, barely any damage increase and forces me to chug mana potions

The difficulty didn't really shit itself until level 8 or so of catacombs where I died 7 times to the same pack. 4 or 5 Possessed Skeleton Knights and a rare boss version of those poison spitter with haste. The knights also had cold damage to slow/stun me.

Ran into some rooms with ~10 of those poison spitters of the magic variety along a boss twice now that just spam the entire screen full of projectiles.

Currently trying to kill the Smith at lvl 10, it has haste and damage increase modifiers, runs faster than me, mini stunlocks me with a single attack making him land ~3+ hits before I can get away dealing (I have 70% recovery) ~20-30 damage per hit (I have ~125 HP) and I am unable to land even a single shot from my bow without him catching up and attacking.

I have 36 strength, 90 dexterity and 40 vitality right now I believe.

>>15959358

It has its own servers and shit, which D2SE doesn't manage, so it's easier to just use their launcher and use D2SE for other mods. D2 wasn't exactly designed for mods. PoD is actually enjoyable from what I did play of it though.

>Median-XL site goes down right on new version's release

Hot damn there must have been a lot of people excited for it.

>>16010289

>Dropped D2SE compatibility because of the new engine

Fucking shit, setting up mods on Linux with WINE games is a pain in the ass.

Is anyone playing Sigma? I can't even get into the game, just get an unhandled exception error each time I press Play

>Be me building up a pure spear Amazon for weeks

>Already in Hell Mode and got stuck with a Demon's Arch that I got by hunting on the Crypt

>Been killing monsters left, right and bloody center in hopes to get War Traveler, Ravenfrost, Cat's Eye, 2 Ist Runes, a Ber Rune and a Vex rune

>Then one night, something unique dropped, it's the Kira's Guardian

>MFW

>>16012218

What new engine? Did they write a new game engine for Diablo II (where is the source code dammit?) or is it just a mod that's so large that they call it a new engine even though it's just a mod?

>>16012695

Works on my machine.

>>16013577

It's just a mod. The changes are a mixed bag.

>internal resolution raised and locked to 1024x768, monster AI changed to match

>new UI which is mostly just ugly, has some better functionality while somehow losing basic things present in LoD

>many serious bugs fixed like integer rollover and projectile ghosting

>no death penalty (besides hardcore), need to wait at least 5 seconds before respawn

>TP is an inherent skill

>items auto-identify, Cain is totally fucking useless

>>15962338

are you sure about that? theres more to it that damage

theres also having your skeletons not die to the act bosses

>>15962338

>>16014252

oh, and also, mastery makes your mages stronger too, not just the melee skeletons

in fact, putting points into mastery makes your mages stronger per mage twice as fast as putting points into mages after the first one does

>>15964945

poisoned enemies don't regen, and that poison can last for upwards of 5 minutes at not-that-high levels; it has its uses, especially for enemies that were already physical immune and are part of a stoneskin pack

>>16014228

Yeah, but I'm talking about a standalone mod for that.

>>16012695

Holy shit sigma is out already? I'm hyped up and I haven't even read up on it.

I miss crafting in median… Honorifics, shrining, and breaking gear down and rebuilding it with rare modifications.

>>15964945

>You know, these deal one damage per minute?

Is that real??? What the fuck

>>15960845

I seem to remember being able to use blood golem + iron maiden to become unstoppable but that was removed in a patch.

>>15960845

>the only genuinely hard parts are the parts where enemies have piercing ranged attacks, such as will-o-wisps and guest monster ranged spearcats

And Duriel, who seems designed from the ground up to fuck skellymancers.

so whats the goal when it comes to multiplayer for diablo 2 anyway?

Do people just speed run to a boss for loot?

Is loot improved when you play online? Does playing online while running solo improve loot also?

>>16026233

You need minion health mystic orb'd onto EVERYTHING. Summoner can work very well but requires extensive crafting.

>>16026241

+13 to skills and around 300% more life and my minions hp from 8k to 17k. They all die the same from boss aoe unless you jump portal and heal everyone in town every 10 seconds(depends on luck).

Sure its possible to progress if you want to spend 10 seconds in boss room and 30 seconds in town resummoning your shit and that repeat that tens of times.

Or you can play normal class which do not require any of that shit to function.

RNG things people get overexcited about

>rare lootbox drops

>shiny pokemon

>unique drops in diablo

>>16026315

6 uniques even from a bugged act boss is pretty astronomically rare though

>tfw you will never play Diablo 2 with /v/bros ever again

I'd play on the slashdiablo server if it wasn't for the redditards stupid rule of "No bots or automation" yet they allow maphacks, either allow all cheats or none.

>>16037485

Why even bother if you're going to cheat that much? You may as well just be watching somebody beat it for you with that little challenge.

>>15934301

Kind of like Brutal Doom made many of the trash mechanics put into Nu-Doom.

>>16037357

I'm glad I left forums and never looked back. Identitarian bullshit is absolute cancer for any community.

>>16037357

why look for builds in a game with such simple builds?

just look up the runewords and some unique items, and then look at your skills and use a talent calculator; you'll basically only max out 5 skills, and the 5th one might be only near 20 points

>>16037707

oh, and you don't have to max out any skills; thats just how I'd like to do it

>>16037707

Synergy is a thing.

>>16037707

Because I have no idea what's good, some skills are impossible to appraise by their tooltip, such as Frost Orb or summons. Ontop of that, most skills are either useless or garbage. I wonder if I should just play Median XL, it seems they know how to make classes with more than 5 useful skills.

>>16037725

>>16037707

PS not to mention all the internal mechanics of the game. Lihe how much ias you need to him mim frames for attack or how block works.

>>15948014

>Will I be stuck with the skill points I choose?

No you get one free respec from akara for every difficulty. So 3 in total.

I've tried Median XL and it lags when I use the shockwave melee skill of the necromancer or druid's spine barrage. Do abilities cause lag in vanilla Diablo 2? I'll try out sorceress and if it lags too I'll have to drop the mod.

>>16041278

>question asked 22 days ago

>>16037660

Isnt 10000 magic find bad?

If i remember correctly, too much magic find is a bad thing

>>16041532

Try configuring glide. You are using win10? If so than its your own fault. Otherwise there are myriad of possible reasons for that and often fix is "just wait and hope it unfucks itself".

>>16041591

doesn't help you in combat now but let's you find that vital piece of equipment easier..

>>16041591

Its bad only if you understand how it works.

>>16041718

>finding that vital part of equipment

Sure, whatever makes you feel better.

>>16041641

Win7 and Glide is configured, I think they fucked up something when coding those abilities. Sorceress' ice and poison spells don't lag so far, so I'll play that, I guess.

>>16037366

Median XL is trash, as are most mods. Diablo 2 is already a damn near perfect game, the only real mods you should use are minor fixes like PlugY to add Ladder content to singleplayer (I actually moderately disagree with PlugY's storage space enhancements since it removes a lot of decision making on what to keep and what to sell but I guess I can forgive it on the basis of singleplayer having no trading). If you install some faggot modder's idea of how the game ought to be it's just about guaranteed their vision is far inferior to Blizzard North's.

>>16041776

Maybe you have something running in background. I had 2 fps in cnc2 because I had flash player in browser.

>>16041996

Too bad David Bravik thinks its really impressive and he dislikes a lot of regular diablo 2 and median xl is the 1st diablo2 mod he ever played(even if its only a little).

>descision making

>am I lazy enough to drop this good shit or will I log in into a mule

The only game with better decisions is mass effect andromeda.

>>16042042

Too bad that doesn't affect it being a garbage mod that severely detracts from Diablo 2's quality. Brevik himself turned into a reddit-posting bearded numale in later years so it's no surprise he'd like a mod that shits all over his own work.

>>16042060

>opinion of game creator is irrelevant anyway

Ok.

>>16042082

He's probably just being nice.

>>16042042

You're right, it was because of the browser.

>>16041996

>their vision is far inferior to Blizzard North's

Fanboy or nostalgiatard?

>higher res

>new side and end content

Prevents burnout.

>more than 5 useful skills per class

Vanilla sorceress has 1 good frost spell, 1,5 good lightning spells, 2 good fire spells, that's 3 viable builds (I+F, F+L, L+I). Median XL sorceress has 5 fire, lightning, ice, poison, magic, melee, and unlockable/specialisation skills. There are about 8 viable tree combinations and several times more builds depending on which skills in the trees you focus on, because all of them are good.

>>15997721

Restart the server

I'd rather bot in a dead server than to play on a plebbit server

>>15934279

>so you don't have to do a billion baal runs to get gear

but that's what diablo 2 is

>>16053881

what about the part before you do a billion baal runs?

>>16053881

>implying

you also do a lot of Pindleskin, Lower Kurast, Area 85, Mephisto and Travincal runs

diablos are horrible garbage, back then and totally today. play dungeon siege 3 nigger, much more enjoyable

>>16066499

What a waste of good dubs

>>16074087

Meph runs are fine until you get better gear. Unless you are a hammerdin.

>>16074087

LOL

>>16074087

>meth runs

>useless

yea if you're a massive faggot that puts on 500 mf and gets OHKO'd by the council pack you fucking retard

>>16074087

get a naj's on swap on any char and reset till u get a sub-10 tp doh2 map

get a gull or alibaba to swap in inventory

congrats you just made meph a fucking breeze

>>15937452

eastern sun is pretty amazing. If you want d2 but don't want to play a Diffrent strain like median xl its breddy fun.

Eastern sun feels like a remix but still d2 while median xl feels like a remix but a diffrent style of arpg.

>>15947615

steve bannon laundered a lot of Russian money there

Hope you goys don't mind if I discuss Grim Dawn here. Grew up on D2 and enjoy it immensely but I can't get into any of the modern games. They add too much random bullshit for the sake of it. In Grim Dawn I'm picking up 1/3rd of an item which amounts to nothing more than a socket gem. Why the fuck would I find that fun or interesting?

Level design is really linear. It's all hallways and corridors with houses on the side. Does it ever open up or is that it for the entire game? Diablo 3 had the same problem and PoE has the opposite where it's just a complete void with no personality. It's like a MMORPG map from a different angle.

Does the combat ever feel good in modern D2 games? Titan quest felt decent, but I've yet to find another which had the weight you need to compensate for the simple gameplay.

>>16087123

The item fragments are overall across the board annoying but later in the game when you start getting good items for socketing and new crafting recipes and consider the value of some of the items in those crafting recipes the item fragments start making sense. It lets you acquire those items a bit more reliably rather than hoping you stumble across a full item dropping. Keeps the rarity but lets progression towards certain items be steadier.

>>16087123

IIRC GD's level design more or less stays that way. There's hidden paths and quests and shit you can discover, and later on you'll enter Rift areas and high level dungeons which are more open.

As for the combat, once you start filling out your divination points and start adding some effects to your skills, then they'll start feeling weightier. GD's somewhat floaty animations and gibs having low grav made the game feel weird for me too

>>15995520

Never played that game, but if it involves specific runes/whatever being socketed into an item in a specific order to create a unique item, then yes.

https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Runewords

That has a full list of runewords, if you want to find them out for your self then don't click on that or just read the first few paragraphs. The important bit is that it only works on unenchanted items, so don't waste your runes in magic armor if you're trying to create a runeword. They're generally the best or close to the best items in the game.

Notably, the high tier runes like Zod are pretty much impossible to get through normal play and can only realistically be obtained through the cube.

Real disappointed to only see one mention of Path of Diablo. It's literally Diablo 2 but better in every way with active devs, an online community and every QoL change you could want.

Been playing MedianXl but fuck me I do not remember this many stun lock enemies.

>act 5 normal

>dying over an over to frogs

fuck it I'm doing a ranged character

>>16088065

I really hope you mean Nightmare or Hell Act 5, because theres no reason you should be having trouble at all on Normal. How much defense and resists do you have? If you're melee you should have max resist NO EXCEPTIONS. This isn't vanilla D2 where elemental damage didnt mean anything. Your defense should be AT LEAST 200k by the time you hit Act 5 nm. Also did you know you can upgrade tiers of uniques and even turn non unique items into uniques as well? And now that i think about it, you probably have low resists. Taking high elemental damage will stun you. Thats probably what's killing you. Because there's actually only like 2 or 3 enemies in Act 5 with real stuns. Quit being a pussy and struggle through it, melees have amazing endgame damage and survivability lategame.

>>16087555

Path of Diablo is for fucking casuals who are scared of getting 1 or 2 shotted.

>>16088190

Yeah you were right.

diablo 2 is one of the worst games I've played, I will never understand why people like it

>>15962834

But does it have titty sambo?

>>16088065

Median XL is really good. Levelling is fast and does not feel boring because you got some challenges in between and the endgame uber areas and challenges that require you to adapt are very well made. It blows my mind, the last arpg I played was POE from 2011 to 2016 or so, while the gameplay was good in the beginning it has really degenerated.

>>15934716

>Brütal Doom resulted in nu-Doom

That's false, they play nowhere close. Fuck your doomworld lies, you envious kike.

>>16078235

but then you can't fill your inventory to the brim with charms!