Alright! Time for a new update. Again sorry to those who've been disappointed by delays, I hope you find this satisfactory. The new version is a complete package, so you should remove any previous versions of the mod to avoid conflicts, and as always its a good idea to back up your original files even though the included installer is designed to preserve them.
The download is also available with music and without, though I strongly recommend downloading the music version. It does add quite a lot to the atmosphere of the mod.
TBC Alpha 0.7.4 WITH Music
TBC Alpha 0.7.4 WITHOUT Music
- Features/Change-log
- Added a snazzy new font and new text color. Note that certain other objects have their tint adjusted- these changes are intentional with the exception of cold damage, which now displays as gray. Unfortunately there was no way for me to define this separately from the 'enhanced' text color.
- Added New Items
-New slots include wrist, legs and shoulder (replaces rings and amulet- I've never liked jewelry)
-New Cloth, Leather and Chain/Plate armor. These armors have stats designed to suit caster/ranged/melee class builds respectively.
-All item qualities added, please note that at present it is not possible to get items of better quality than Elegant (rare).
- Vendors no longer sell armor/weapons and they cannot be gambled for (on that note to prevent crashes when gambling there are still rings/amulets, do not buy them they are worth nothing and a total waste of gold).
- Item Crafting has been implemented
-added 5 grades of cloth materials (cotton, silk, frostsilk, flameweave, manathread)
-added 5 grades of leather materials (hide, leather, yetihide, demonskin, dragonscale)
-added 5 grades of metal materials (bronze, steel, mithril, titanium, adamantium)
-added 5 grades of wood materials (lumber, cherrywood, stonewood, etherwood, ancientwood)
-added 10 grades of 'enchantment' materials (mystical powder, enchanted sphere, astral powder, infinity essence, twilight crystal, infernal heart, vortex powder, eternal sphere, void crystal, sliver of infinity)
-added 19,840 crafting recipes (please enjoy them)
- Completely redesigned the monster TC's. Please be patient if it seems off-balance, this is an alpha- any feedback is appreciated.
-removed most miscellaneous items from monster drop tables. Potions, crafting materials and gold are almost the only drops now. This should reduce clutter on the ground, also materials are designed to be useful for every class (some more so than others). Selling unneeded materials should be a major source of income now. Overall gold acquisition reduced considerably.
- Re-re-redid the armor function and quantity on items, it should function better now and not conflict with any magic properties. (Its much cleaner than before)
- Further adjusted monster health/damage/level. It should be much more challenging over all though not too difficult (i did have a hard time as a paladin from level 1-10 though, I'll be looking into redesigning might (probably will have +damage based on strength)).
Soon I will be appending this message with a table containing the crafting recipes to craft armor and weapons.
Edit:
This recipe table is taking much longer than I thought it would so i will briefly explain the core system here.
6 of almost any material will create the next grade of material, so 6 cotton > 1 silk. This works in most cases, but not for higher level enchanting mats. To create armor you need a pattern and X number of one kind of material. X will always be 1, 3, 6, 12 or 24. The lower quality the material the more you need. (obviously higher quality mats produce better armor.) To make weapons you need a different combination of materials depending on the weapon type. 12 total for one handed weapons, 24 total for 2 handed weapons. The materials needed are sort of a compilation of what the weapon is made of. This is mostly logical, but kind of something you will have to figure out by trying it. Also, the materials for weapons and armor need to be of the same grade for each recipie. (ie: lumber, cotton, hide, bronze. Or cherrywood, steel, silk, leather. Etc)
For a freebie I'll tell you how to make a one handed sword and a bow.
Spoiler: "
One Handed Swords: 2 wood, 9 metal, 1 leather. Bows: 14 wood, 3 leather, 7 cloth."
Also you can use enchanting items to upgrade any armor/weapon. The quality of item determines how many and what quality enchants are needed. Also enchants can be used to improve the stats of any output when combined with another recipe, I'll leave it up to you guys to figure out which enchants to use.
If needed I will supply a list of all cube recipes, after all the crafting system is designed to make game play more dynamic and allow better itemization. Not to leave player scratching their heads.
Next patch its really up in the air at this point, it may be soon or take some considerable time. I have a lot of ideas, and i need to do some testing before I'll know what i can do and not. If things work out as planned the next update will be quite substantial. If not, the update will most likely include a few skill changes and a huge amount of unique/set items.
Redoing the level setup and boss fights is sort of on the back-burner for now, but i have some solid ideas on what i plan to do with it, just dont expect to see these features in the next week.
Also I want to remind everyone they can download
Hamachi and join my network: 'D2 Playground', no password required.
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. Still, cannot find how to make good items. When we will have some guide at least ;(
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