Announcement Patch #13: QoL Improvements, Charm Inventory, Server Selection and More

I got the launcher and game working, I posted about it here for anyone else trying to use Linux: http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/patch-13-launcher-on-linux-info-fixes-non-working-bits.546680/

I have noticed the game takes significantly longer to launch now. The gameguard checking takes longer, the game its self takes longer (more screen flickers than before, probably related to resolution switching), and the checking for updates on the bnet login screen takes longer than before. Creating and joining a game is actually slightly faster, though not enough to offset the extra loading time.

 

Soon, I might have to switch from windows to linux, and already thinking, how to play under linux with autotele plugin loaded. Until now, my best idea is to use VMWare 16 Player (free for personal use), install a win XP / Win 7 under it, then install D2 there. Not sure of your system config and performance, but you might give it a check.

 

And I am not a game either for hunderds and thousands of players to play with. Whatever is a game, that should watch out for values, like design. This new "design" - or whatever I should call this uggly sh*t - made things chaotic, and ugly. I think, it should be reverted. Even the whole patch should be reverted if there is no other way. But you know, devs invested a lot of workhours into it, and it would be disrespectful to tell them the truth: they just made things worse. If I would not stick to social behavior, I would ask for their contact emails and tell this to them myself. But since we are a peaceful gaming community here, I do not do that. Instead, big kudos to devs and all. Yet, I have no idea whoever thinks of chaos and ugliness as a superior entity. Whoever does, should not participate in game development. Just my personal opinion.

 

Besides the trade-off aspect that I mentioned in a previous post, there is another important aspect to this issue: the 'ugly' UI is only a stepping stone to a full 8 x 10 inventory + vanilla looks (I hope I understood what @Gix wrote correctly; if not, I will stand corrected). Probably most of us agree with your point that it looks ugly, but let's focus on what is truly important.
I will gladly ignore the character equipment area (unless I have something to change) and work with the extended inventory (less overall muling time), and wait for a fix of the looks when possible, rather than get stuck in complaining about looks. Just look away from the screen for a few minutes and ponder what would you choose: 1. vanilla looks + 6 x 10 inventory for all chars (more mules + time invested in muling), or 2. uglier looks for a while + 8 x 10 inventory + promise to fix the looks eventually. This is what it boils down to, after all.

 

I have never used an auto-teleport hack, so I dont feel a need to get it working. The fact that the most recent injector actually found the game means it has potential to work, with the right setup if someone ELSE wants to work on that.

My laptop plays the game just fine (as does my desktop, but thats easy to do) using wine, so there is no need to run any virtualization.

I sure hope no one is running winxp or win7 on a network connected computer, that is just asking for trouble.

 

I think the inventory is good because if you can use all your inventory for charms most of the time you are picking items with opened inventory and putting them in to cube no one wants to sacrifice his character power for some empty space. This way you dont want to sacrifice any of your farm speed for picking gems or jewels or large charms you are gonna pick only runes and late game items everything else you are gonna purchase via trade. Old inventory for me is huge because if you 6x10 this means you can have 60 small charms and every one of them is grinding for a month or so to be a decent you almost never gonna have a decent full inventory small charms for a season like for instance full 3/20/20 or 20/5@ or 20/11r or 20/17. Remember this is only for one hero you will get bored playing only one I am sure what about grinding every class and so on.

I want to also add why do you complain for inventory space ? The cube is only 4 slots and is 8x10 doesnt that means you can already cheat?

About hardcore and changes in inventory: You already should be thankful to the server because none of the monsters will curse you with lower resist in chaos sanctuary. Maybe it doesnt exist at all here.
(Its not server issue just played Diablo 2 resurrected 2 months ago, it was much more hardcore even on softcore , but didnt like it at all. I dont like this new 3d style my head starts to spin and giving me headaches. You have option there to play it the old way but it looks so horrible its impossible to play it.) With this new changes to graphics the new way to run it I dont have problem with the old or the new inventory I am just here to have some fun and chill. Every update on the server I like I cant dislike anything you do for sure.

 

Hi, i like the new changes you've made.
i wll comment the new inventory for charms only.
My opinion is that if you decide to let this charm inventory 10x4 stay , you need to change the pvp rules as well, if somebody is using 10 max rez + absorb now, he will be very difficult to kill, not like before when u could've use 19 skiller
i like the new thing cuz look PvM freindly and will return the classic nostalgia back but with a bonus half inventory for junks to pick up and half full with your skiller and charms.
Of course there will be lamers who will use this new inventory with advantage to himself probably ( using potions probably , or items for absorb or max rez ), but anyway even with the old inventory that was still possible.
Barbs will use the whole inventory for pre bo gear, es sors can use it for cathing the 95 % es... this is not very nice only.
Whatever you decide i am ok with both new and old style

 

ur right anyone can do same thing with old or new inventory dont matter bcz no one will duel with u if u use potions or anything else. u think u cant keep cube in old inventory if u want switch gear? ofc u can but who is blind to not see it or use inspect mh
if u think for this u dont play duels with him its easy but from my experience many ppl play fair duel. like ppl say this is name for respectable rules and if 1 person dont respect it u dont duel him
for me i like any decision same with @Outwk

 

A little bit confused about this new patch / new loader / dot net / vc redistributable thing. I installed a game client on VM XP. Used a file "DiabloII_113_Portable.zip" that I downloaded from website on 2021 nov 28 14:50 pm c.e.t. That D2 client still runs on the XP. Gameguard downloaded some update like two days ago. Not sure. On that XP, I am using no new launcher, there is no VC redist installed, no dotnet installed. I can login, can create game, can play. Did I miss something?

 

1. Could you be so kind to consider the suggestion about GOLD bags, please ? For goldbarbs and for gold trading would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

2. In reality when we farm we collect only few items. On this server only the "perfect" items are valuable, the rest are "trash". The whole space you offer us to pickup items isn't necessary useful because we collect (maybe) only few items per run.

3. I love the idea to limit the number of skillers we can use. No more mega OP builds. Drawbacks: in few weeks everybody will complete their builds and the server will be empty (hope to be wrong). I suggest 6 months or 1 year for each ladder reset.

4. Stacking uber keys - amazing idea.

5. BH Maphack has been updated to the latest version - can't wait to test this asap (today)

Overall decent changes, thanks a lot for your hard work.

 

Hmm, not sure, what do you refer to. The game update was automatic, additional (plugins and so) was always manual, and the launcher does not ask for anything to start the game. It works the same way as it did like months ago. I see nothing changes until I log to the game selection screen (now, there is a server list that was not there before). What should I setup on the old launcher? It does not give any opportunity to setup anything.

Is there any required task only the new launcher can do? Or can I just safely ignore the new launcher? (So far, it seems to me that I can.)

 

@Gix what will happen if inventory was 5x10 all space usable peoples can have 10 grand charms 1 anix 1 torch and 17 small charms instead of 10 small charms 9 grand charms annix and torch the dmg of the hero wont be that high like 19 skillers but character stats will be a little bit boosted with that space for the small charms I think everyone will be happy than ( or maybe im just an idiot and im wrong) Peace !

 

Or 41 (if that's do-able, although I doubt it), to have room for 10 gcs, 8 scs + anni + torch