That's along the lines of what I was thinking a few weeks ago, and it's great to know someone also thinks this is a workable idea. I would say give followers all the item slots your hero has. Additionally, you can choose how many followers you can have active, and the game's player difficulty scales accordingly.
Do you have to have normal Diablo 1 or does this MOD require Hellfire as well? I only have D1, not sure tho if that cd even works anymore.
Nope, just needs the Diablo 1 disc, and I believe you can (maybe you have to? Don't remember) rip some files off the CD and not even need it to play the mod. I personally made a copy of the Diablo folder in the Program Files and renamed it to Diablo HD Mod.
Aw crap. I tried it and it's quite good, so that's gonna cost me some time.
The resolution gave me head-ache at first (everything is so freakin' tiny!) and kind of kills the atmosphere. And I can't quite get the hang of the necromancer, but they did a nice job. I'm curious to see how things will go on the deeper levels.
Ahh yeah, I can see how it could give one a headache. It's never happened to me, but all that eye strain...ouch.
New locations
New special and randomly generated bosses
New spells
New character skills
New item types and affixes
204 unique items
28 sets with 105 set items
170 crafting recipes
To me, this is sacrilege. Diablo 1 is perfectly fine as it is. No need to slap on a bunch of stuff to make it look like a bullet hell shooter.
Have you at least tried it? I did many months back when DiabloFans had it on its front page, and it made things that the original lacked and did it without being too cheesy. Just think of it as an unofficial expansion like Hellfire
Weird, considering it downloads from patch 1.12 (it may be 1.13, I don't know for sure) which removes the requirement for the physical discs. You ARE downloading it from Battle.net, right? Maybe browsing their support site would help:
EDIT: Also, what operating system are you running? If it's Windows Vista/7, have you tried running it as an administrator? That usually alleviates certain permission issues that may be causing this problem.
I'm with the OP on the "not caring about the console ports" part. However, there are people who are looking forward to its release. Just suffer through it until the dust settles.
Not sure if people character's are being down-rated because of specs as well?
Remember, the system ranks you on a balance of easy + efficiency. Your wife can easily do MP10, but monsters die a lot faster in MP9. From their FAQ:
DiaBro3, why is my optimal MP level so low?
DiaBro3 is determined to make the game fun for you. The optimal monster power level is derived from multiple aspects, taking into account your gear, effective health, and damage. We arrived at the suggested MP by aiming to lower the amount of deaths per run as well as how efficiently you can kill mobs. We know that someone optimized for MP5 could do MP10, however, taking too long on an elite pack is just not optimal.
We do not want to send you to an monster power level you can get by on, we want to send you somewhere you can optimally crush the content.
Also, I think the site has benchmarks that determine where it's going to place you. For example, your wife could be slightyly lower than Diabro's benchmark for meeting MP10, explaining why she's able to do it so easily, and at the same time, being rated at MP9.
As others have stated, the resists are a bit low, but my question is why +armor for the weapon? I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just kind of random, as all the other gems have attributes that would normally appear on weapons. Perhaps switching the helm and weapon stats would make more sense?
I think there should be sapphires and diamonds. They should do the following -
Sapphire - [weapons] chance to freeze on hit, [helm] skill cooldown reduction, [armor] crowd control reduction
Diamond - [weapons] block chance/parry, [helm] damage reduction (melee/ranged?), [armor] all resist (up to 60)
Sapphires focus on strategic decisions that would naturally arise from a gem that mirrors "cold" attributes.
Diamonds have the best, most global kinds of buff bonuses because they're the most precious gems. Diamonds are defense gems.
I have no idea what maximums to put to these, but I think they could all be balanced so they were neither game breaking nor preferred over existing gems for "obvious build" choices.
Hmmm, I didn't even realize until you said something that diamonds are missing too
Pretty much any increase to legendary/set item drops is a welcome change, regardless of the actual numbers. I seriously wish they would fix the setting saving between live and PTR, as it gets kind of annoying to constantly have to delete d3prefs.txt and replace it with a copy that I made previously.
Pretty much any increase to legendary/set item drops is a welcome change, regardless of the actual numbers. I seriously wish they would fix the setting saving between live and PTR, as it gets kind of annoying to constantly have to delete d3prefs.txt and replace it with a copy that I made previously.
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Just don't use this one. Not sure, but maybe the site has an auto-prune for old accounts. Who knows
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Ahh yeah, I can see how it could give one a headache. It's never happened to me, but all that eye strain...ouch.
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Have you at least tried it? I did many months back when DiabloFans had it on its front page, and it made things that the original lacked and did it without being too cheesy. Just think of it as an unofficial expansion like Hellfire
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Merely LOOKING at your enemies will cause them to deteriorate into radioactive goo.
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https://us.battle.net/support/en/games/diablo2
EDIT: Also, what operating system are you running? If it's Windows Vista/7, have you tried running it as an administrator? That usually alleviates certain permission issues that may be causing this problem.
Good luck!
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Remember, the system ranks you on a balance of easy + efficiency. Your wife can easily do MP10, but monsters die a lot faster in MP9. From their FAQ:
Also, I think the site has benchmarks that determine where it's going to place you. For example, your wife could be slightyly lower than Diabro's benchmark for meeting MP10, explaining why she's able to do it so easily, and at the same time, being rated at MP9.
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Hmmm, I didn't even realize until you said something that diamonds are missing too
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Seriously? 16 posts before this? I was expecting this in post #2.
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