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by FoxBat
Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:18 pm
Forum: General Mod Making
Topic: Poison Bolts + Lightning Mastery interaction question
Replies: 2
Views: 627

Seeing how mastery interacts with elemental damage from items, I'm inclined to think this is merely a display thing...
by FoxBat
Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:16 pm
Forum: General Mod Making
Topic: additional hireling skills
Replies: 7
Views: 1189

Heres a little tip for more advanced modders. It seems with some files that you CAN add extra columns at the *end* of the file. Theres some catches though. Like I said, it's gotta be at the end, you can't go inserting columns in the middle. Every row in the final column must have some sort of entry:...
by FoxBat
Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:59 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: So guess who they killed off?
Replies: 3
Views: 2647

Re: So guess who they killed off?

I'm not sure *how* he survives, but somehow he's just hanging out down a few floors, and yeah you do rescue him in the beta.

Rumor is he will die later though, a little bit of mined data supports the idea.
by FoxBat
Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:45 am
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: Notes from the beta test: General D3 play mechanics, etc.
Replies: 4
Views: 2414

Re: Notes from the beta test: General D3 play mechanics, etc.

Also have the beta here. My thought is that many, many of their decisions are oriented around public mulitplayer. And as one who suffered through D1's horrible public play and generally avoided it in D2, D3's public multi is refreshing, at least for the easy zones of the beta. I expect the entire ga...
by FoxBat
Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:02 am
Forum: Member Аnnouncements
Topic: Netherworld Rises Alpha (UPD 26 Nov 2011)
Replies: 28
Views: 12929

Re: Netherworld Rises Alpha

This mod needs some mad props because it's pretty interesting as is, as far as I've gotten in act 1. A LOT of work seems to have gone into redoing the levels/acts. Every single fixed set piece has been replaced, they all feature new superuniques, and many of them are ridiculous bosses like you'd see...
by FoxBat
Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:42 am
Forum: Member Аnnouncements
Topic: [1.10f] Another Return
Replies: 3
Views: 2197

Re: Another Return

Which version of D2 is this for? I'm getting an incorrect ordinal crash in D2gfx.dll when running "LaunchPlatinum."
by FoxBat
Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:22 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: How can we expect to mod Diablo III?
Replies: 72
Views: 21197

Re: How can we expect to mod Diablo III?

Most advanced mods are still in development dead. Fixed. There's alot of untapped potential in 1.10, without even touching all the great code-editing extension systems that have been made. But there aren't a whole lot of modmakers really actively and intensely working on them anymore. It's always a...
by FoxBat
Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:06 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: How can we expect to mod Diablo III?
Replies: 72
Views: 21197

Re: How can we expect to mod Diablo III?

How would you manage to mod D3, if you remove everything that made D2 moddable? no more soft coded texts to use to mod with? you would only get graphics change/ce mods and that would basically cut down on possible mods considerable. No, tools to use at all. There will still be data/database files, ...
by FoxBat
Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:59 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: How can we expect to mod Diablo III?
Replies: 72
Views: 21197

Re: How can we expect to mod Diablo III?

So yeah, any kind of offline or semi-offline mode has been completely eliminated. Playing anything like "mods" would require first developing private servers as is done in MMOs, and Blizzard will of course frown on this. Not surprisingly they also announced mods are "prohibited." Given the stance th...
by FoxBat
Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:13 am
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: Ok, so a world editor isn't needed. What we do need is this
Replies: 29
Views: 4205

Re: Ok, so a world editor isn't needed. What we do need is this

Voragoth9" wrote:Given the latest revelation from Blizzard that you will have to be connected to battle.net to even play the game in single player....
Wow. Why even have single player then? Completely stupid.
by FoxBat
Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:32 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: New Diablo III screenshots!
Replies: 8
Views: 4561

Re: New Diablo III screenshots!

I really like the direction they've taken colors and textures in act 2. It actually feels gritty and diablo-esque unlike some of the earliest shots we saw.
by FoxBat
Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:39 am
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: Ok, so a world editor isn't needed. What we do need is this
Replies: 29
Views: 4205

Re: Ok, so a world editor isn't needed. What we do need is this

No-one's even tried to make an overhaul mod for torchlight yet, so I don't think your logic follows entirely. D2 hasn't been the best choice for modding for a long time. However there is a relation between the sheer popularity of the base game and mods being created and played. Even if D3 isn't the ...
by FoxBat
Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:57 am
Forum: Diablo II Chatter
Topic: Skills: How to balance them, or attempt to balance them
Replies: 62
Views: 6615

Re: Skills: How to balance them, or attempt to balance them

Make a level 90 character with all max skills and some of the better gear in your mod, and go blow some stuff up in high level areas. That will give you some idea of which skills are better than others and you can adjust to your desired difficulty level. This way you'll end up tweaking numbers/effec...
by FoxBat
Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:04 pm
Forum: Diablo II Chatter
Topic: 1.13...
Replies: 161
Views: 19290

Re: 1.13...

Actually it's worse than what the glide wrapper can do, just playing around with it and indeed it's using video card to smoothly stretch things. :) That already has options like capturing the mouse so.... yeah, no point. :p
by FoxBat
Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:27 am
Forum: Diablo II Chatter
Topic: 1.13...
Replies: 161
Views: 19290

Re: 1.13...

Don't know how you get it, but the reward is some kind of respec-granting item. That implies mods could shower respecs all over if they wanted, or anything inbetween. I was interesting in the blitting but it looks terrible, zero smoothing at all, no better than what the d2 glide wrappers can do. At ...
by FoxBat
Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:05 am
Forum: Diablo II Chatter
Topic: 1.13...
Replies: 161
Views: 19290

Re: 1.13...

No increased resolution, no increased stash, no new "content" (a la ubers).... just what is this patch supposed to have of any interest?
by FoxBat
Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:46 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Torchlight
Replies: 39
Views: 3683

Re: Torchlight

So I've been browsing the editor and it's pretty sweet. - Near all skills softcoded, has at least as much flexibility as D2 "auras", but setup well for AoE attacks and effects too. (Albeit no complicated calcs) - Add new skills, classes, spells, monsters, etc. easily. Monster abilities and even poti...
by FoxBat
Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:13 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Torchlight
Replies: 39
Views: 3683

Re: Torchlight

The game is really good, and I'm looking forward to the editor release. Far too lazy to even open excel anymore... dragging points on a curve to control monster difficulty sounds more my cup of tea. :P
by FoxBat
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:03 am
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: Deeply concerned about multiplayer options.
Replies: 47
Views: 6405

Re: Deeply concerned about multiplayer options.

The key is log in to B-Net. I think that connecting to B-Net will check that you are running there version and if you are playing a mod it will kick you out. Good point. In D2 MPQ-only mods that are updated for the latest version will pass the version check, but we have no idea how D3 would handle ...
by FoxBat
Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:19 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: Deeply concerned about multiplayer options.
Replies: 47
Views: 6405

Re: Deeply concerned about multiplayer options.

Interesting article on Diablofans: Psuedo-LAN for SC2/DIII Basically for SC2 they are developing a "LAN" system so you still have to log on to bnet for your "friends/achivements/etc" (but really CD-KEY), and yet the game will connect peer-peer over LAN for low-latency play. The same thing has been m...
by FoxBat
Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:35 pm
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: Mod Support Deemed Too "Ambitious"
Replies: 17
Views: 2492

Re: Mod Support Deemed Too "Ambitious"

WoW doesn't have much for modding either, other than the UI, which they've already commented was kind of a mistake in complicating the user experience. The real point is they want you to play on battle.net and aren't going to invest major resources into supporting the SP element beyond the bare mini...
by FoxBat
Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:24 am
Forum: Other Diablo Games
Topic: The Monk Officially announced!
Replies: 26
Views: 3661

Re: The Monk Officially announced!

I'm pretty confident that if Blizzard were going to require an online check to play, they'd just eliminate the single player portion altogether. As is they're already going to try and force your new character onto battle.net unless you explicitly opt-out of it. (or at least, if you have an active in...
by FoxBat
Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:12 am
Forum: Diablo II Chatter
Topic: 1.13...
Replies: 161
Views: 19290

Re: 1.13...

Respecs are planned to be included in 1.13 patch . My guess/hope is that this would be implemented through the cube. Say a cube forumla output that just takes all your invested skill/stats and moves them to an unspent pool, so you can reassign them freely, much like plugy. This lets blizzard play a...
by FoxBat
Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:26 am
Forum: Member Аnnouncements
Topic: Release D2MultiRes
Replies: 118
Views: 114896

Re: Release D2MultiRes

T Nopes. I configurated the wrapper to work in windowed mode not fullscreen. You might be doing something differently than me, but configuring the wrapper to work in windowed is done in the glide-init program, then you just run it with -3dfx or normally. Running -w sticks me with software mode rega...
by FoxBat
Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:39 am
Forum: Member Аnnouncements
Topic: Release D2MultiRes
Replies: 118
Views: 114896

Re: Release D2MultiRes

That's because -w forces software rending mode. You aren't actually seeing glide. (I think)

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