Announcement Patch #12: QoL Improvements, Widescreen Support, Color Dyes and More

We are pleased to introduce you to our new realm patch update! Patch notes can be found down below:

• Widescreen Resolution support has been added https://i.imgur.com/WN19kqE.jpg
  
• All tools have been updated to their latest versions http://europebattle.net/d2/tools
• BH Maphack has been updated to the latest version. Supports item stats ranges display.
• Deckard Cain has been placed conveniently near the stash in Act 5, Harrogath as in vanilla server.
  
• Gem bags have been significantly improved.
  
• All gem types and qualities can now be stored in one bag. BH Maphack one-click to remove them.
  
• You can now cube up to 80 gems of any quality in a single transmute. Requires the same gem type.
• Gems extracted from the bag will be automatically upgraded to perfect quality, no need to upgrade each gem individually anymore.
• Gem bags now display the total number of gems https://i.imgur.com/XeWLTWH.png
• Color dyes have been added. Dyes are a new visual customization option https://i.imgur.com/5ByaYE2.gif
• A dye potion can change the color of a weapon, shield, helmet or armor. They are only offered as rewards for various events at the moment and as an incentive to exceptional members.
• Color dyes will look best on a full plate armor (Example: Sacred Armor, Ancient Armor, Gothic Plate, Kraken Shell, etc) and not so good on leather armors.
  
• Increased the max quantity of Keys, Tome of Identify and Tome of Town Portal from 200 to 250
• Significantly increased the max quantity of Throwing Weapons, Javelins, Arrows and Bolts.
• Fixed vanilla font that made the number 5 look like a 6 in game.
• Hidden vanilla runewords Pattern and Plague have been enabled https://diablo.gamepedia.com/Plague_(Diablo_II_Rune_Word)
• Phoenix runeword no longer casts Firestorm on hit. It has been replaced with Fireball. Applies to new drops only.
  
• Hellfire Torch no longer casts Firestorm on hit. It has been replaced with an additional 5% experience bonus. Applies to new drops only.
  
• Act 1 Mercenaries can now equip Crossbows.
• Increased gambling odds.
  
• Increased jewels drop rate.
• Increased set items drop rate.
• The gambling window will now show more items in order to better utilize the remaining empty space.
• Fixed a vanilla bug which caused melee monsters with mana burn to reduce the player's mana by 256 times more than intended.
• Bow skills will no longer consume arrows or bolts. This excludes Strafe and Normal attacks.
• Fixed a vanilla bug concerning Amazon’s Dodge, Evade and Avoid skills by no longer triggering a dodge animation which means it will no longer interrupt the character (reverted back to original)

Important: As always, you must be up to date with the latest patch version in order to create and join games and there are two ways of doing that:
1. Restart the client and let it auto-update to the latest patch version
2. Visit our website and re-patch the game by downloading our custom realm patch from http://europebattle.net/d2/join
Run the game as an Administrator.

Please let us know your feedback or if you find any bugs regarding the mentioned patch notes, before the ladder reset.
Widescreen resolutions are experimental, make sure to read the text notes that come with the archive you download. Use glide-wrapper in order to play in full-screen mode!

I would like to thank everyone for your continuous support and contributions to this community. My special thanks go to these exceptional people for helping directly or indirectly with the patches and updates RandAlthor, Necrolis, Whist, Planqi, IAmTrial, Nefarius, Kingpin, Devurandom, PKCommunity and to our entire staff team. Hopefully I didn't forget anyone, send me a message in case I did. You're all awesome!

 

For now, they will be rewarded on various forums and in-game events. A guide with additional screenshots will be posted later on.
You can see how the result looks like here https://i.imgur.com/5ByaYE2.gif

You don't have to use the -3dfx parameter to run the game in widescreen.
Simply download the required files and copy them inside of your game folder http://europebattle.net/downloads/D2WideScreen.zip

 

It is active, your client should have auto-updated to the latest version already.

 

That must be a weird coincidence, the GM team has been brainstorming over the patch notes for several months.
Some ideas got implemented, other ideas got rejected.