Thought I'd share me and my friends mod "Netherworld Rises" with everyone here at the keep. It is currently in alpha but that includes quite a lot so far. (I'll go into it more later).
I would recomend playing with a friend over hamachi in a tank and cannon style team. Some things can be very tricky solo.
First, I'm a huge Terry Goodkind fan so anyone familiar with his books will notice that alot of inspiration is taken from The Sword of Truth books. The goal of the mod is to eventually completely convert everything, bosses, skills, monsters, maps and items.
Currently, the main map work is done including:
Act 1 is completely converted to the Desert theme with you starting in the town of "Altur'Rang". When you start you must cleanse the defiled tomb before fighting back the evil in the forgotten valley and opening the sealed tomb guarded by the Lizard Prince. throughout these lands, the 4 twisted kin of deccard cain hide in tunnels and tombs.
As you journey on, you will free trapped earthen spirits, fight sisters of the dark in the shadow palace, and eventually fight through the Valley of the Lost to find the forgotten tomb whare andariel has been sealed away.
Act 2 completely converted to the fields/woodland theme with you starting your journey in "Hartland". Evil lurks in the graveyard connected to town that must be banished!.
Once you leave town you must cleanse a corrupted rogue camp. Banish the Thieves from the area. Navigate the deadly "Hagen Woods" in search of evil wizards, Kill the general of Anderith and explore the Anderith Library. Finally, gain entry into the gold mine Outside Anderith and destroy Duriel the Stone Beast
Act 3 is mostly unchanged looks wise, though the outdoors have been expanded, lots of new sidequests are located here with new bosses and a level challenge (The City of Caska).
Act 4 is changed to the "Mountain Siege" theme in outdoors. With you starting outside "The City of Aydindril". As the act progresses you delve deep inside the frozen caves of the mountain, and deeper still into demonic tunnels and eventually the gates of The Netherworld whare you fight Na'Krul to cleanse the palace of death to use as your base for assault on the Netherworld.
Act 5 is changed to "The Netherworld" in this act you Start in the cleansed palace of death. As you start to go deeper, you fight through each of the prime evils plains (Plains of Hatred, Terror, Destruction). Killing the 3 prime evils and collecting their soulstones to create a gem stone that opens the way to the Burning Rivers. Their you face the 3 princes of evil seeking to take diablo, mephisto and baal's place and down below to finally fight "The Keeper".
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Netherworld Rises - base patch version 1.10f
Netherworld Rises is a total conversion mod for Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction. Currently in Alpha phase:
The following is included in the current version:
Many of the maps have been changed to fit in to our new world
All 7 Character classes have an array of new skills to use.
Unique items have been disabled for the most part
Many new bosses have been added and almost all areas in act 1, 2, 4 and 5 are completely redone.
A number of quests have been changed and the rewards improved.
rare items have been greatly improved.
Items can be socketed by the player, the more basic the item, the more sockets it can hold. (max sockets on white/magic, half as many on rare for example)
Tons of new monsters have been added,
Potions are removed
High resolution enabled
Improved Mercinarys
A new orb healing system is added
Characters also start with 2 skills that must be cast repeatedly to recover health/mana out of combat
Preview of a locked doors system
Caster damage is based mainly on energy rather than skill synergies allowing for multiple element builds
Enemys now come with counter attacks/skills
a number of new sidequests have been added including a level challenge and a survival challenge
Many new craft recipes added.
many new item properties added
some new music added
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Special Thanks To:
Seltsamuel - forum hosting and answering numerous questions + providing the fantastic D2SE Mod manager
Phrozen Keep - amazing modding knowledge base and a very nice community to be a part of
Necrolis - answering my questions on code edits and many other things
Dav92 - many great new D2Mod plugins including high resolution and answering my questions
Nefarius - for the many code editing threads that helped me achieve a number of goals
SVR - D2Mod System and a numer of D2Mod plugins
Infinitum - many monster animations
Myhrginoc - Book of Lore Plugin
Inventheria - a number of item graphics
Diabolic Cartography - Many maps and DT1's
Volf - Ds1 Editor and multiple map plugins
Ki4m - UI work+ more
Soulmancer/AKA Terry McDonald - for the Hell Unleashed mod that got me in to modding
Blue Myriddn - A number of item images
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Visit the homepage for all runewords, items and cube recipes HERE
You will also find a begginners guide in English and German that covers everything you need to know.
The mod comes as a D2SE plugin that I'll link here once its uploaded and maybe I can get a PK mirror for it?
D2SE Mod Plugin: D2SE_Netherworld Rises_0.4.0q_sfx.exe
303MB download
357MB on hard drive
Edit: After downloading the plugin above, please download this small update (I left some WWing bugbears in act 1
also added some potions that remove the barbs charge up skills states so you can switch between them faster;
The small update can be found HERE
Instalation Instructions, see HERE
A couple screenshots for now here
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