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Diablo II 1.10 Beta Patch Released 41

Posted by simoniker from the oink-oink-flap-flap dept.
seirui writes "Blizzard today announced the beginning of the public beta test for the Diablo II: Lord Of Destruction 1.10 patch. Conspicuously absent from the downloadable-now beta patch is Battle.net support (both open and closed), but present are a multitude of little changes, including a rollback.bat file for reverting back to 1.09 to play online. Now that hell has frozen over, the quest for items can continue! Here's a BitTorrent link for the 5mb patch." An anonymous reader also points to a hands-on account at DiabloII.net describing the changes for V1.10.
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Diablo II 1.10 Beta Patch Released

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  • sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet !!!

    I've been waiting for this forever !!

    The patch, not first post that is :)

  • Hell froze over? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04, 2003 @11:38AM (#6367750)
    Diablo 1.10 in Beta!
    Duke Nuke Forever is probably getting ready to go gold then!
  • Guy at beta test:
    "Are these hacked or what?"
    Blizzard:
    Oh nos! Teh hackers are everywhere!

    I think there is a bit too much cheating going on in Diablo II, it's nice that a lot of people got banned(or whatever) some weeks ago, IMO.
  • I mean, come on, Diablo is really just Angband [angband.org] with fancy graphics. Yet, Slashdot feels the need to post on every tiny patch for the Diablo games and Angband doesn't get any mention whatsoever. Jeez.

    And, heck, Angband is actually (mostly) FREE SOFTWARE [gnu.org] for crying out loud! Doesn't that fit with Slashdot's mission? ;^)

    Yes, I'm just kidding. But there is a grain of truth... :^D

  • Windows only for now (Score:3, Informative)

    by derdesh ( 652578 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @12:45PM (#6368166)

    They promise another announcement when the OS X patch is available.

  • This is necessary (Score:5, Informative)

    by Rudeboy777 ( 214749 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @02:36PM (#6368709)
    Speaking as someone who has spent many hours playing D2, I must say this is a good way to beta test this patch. For those that don't know, this will practically be an expansion pack with the amount of changes being made. There are SO MANY factors that go into D2's combat system that balancing is an enormous task that even after 3+ years is not ironed out. The new forums on www.battle.net indicate to me that they will be listening to a lot of userland suggestions. That kicks ass. I know /.ers are supposed to hate Blizzard but I am just too much of a fan boy to go against my gamegeek leanings.
    • But here's the ironic thing about bug reporting, you can't post bugs unless you have an active bnet account, you can't activate a bnet account with 1.10beta since its only TCP/IP, and Single Player. Bugzilla it ain't.

      Thats what I get for sticking to single player until the patch came out. I really should keep my mouth shut though, since the only two bugs I've encountered HELPED my character, my circlet was upgraded, and my Assassin can hit people 5 tiles away.

      • The Assasin is pretty powerful now.

        Try either one of the spinning blades skills. (not the blade shield one). They went from useless to might be overpowered.

  • Disappointed (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Krellan ( 107440 ) <(moc.nallerk) (ta) (nallerk)> on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:14PM (#6369113) Homepage Journal
    I'm disappointed that they didn't do more in the 1.10 patch. A fourth difficulty level, "Inferno", beyond hell, would have been great to have and it would reduce the boredom at high level. The changes they're doing to Act 5 could have been applied to all acts at this new difficulty level.

    There's other nitpicks that make the game still feel incomplete. Act 4 still only has very few waypoints, compared to all other levels. Adding some more waypoints, or even a new area or two, to Act 4 would have been great.

    A much-needed "No Hostile Players" checkbox, to prevent players from going hostile, should have been added to the game creation options. Grief players have ruined many a good game by unexpectedly going PvP.

    This wishlist was made 2 years ago, when rumours of 1.10 first began:
    [krellan.com]
    http://www.krellan.com/rant/diablo.html

    A shame that so little has been done in so long.
    • "Act 4 still only has very few waypoints, compared to all other levels. Adding some more waypoints, or even a new area or two, to Act 4 would have been great." That's a little more than they could do in a patch... they're only able to edit the game's features to an extent.
    • I say get rid of that stupid Secret Cow Level and create a Secret Pig Level or a Secret Walking Crossbow level or something remotley stupid and annoying like the Cow level. But new all the same.
    • "I'm disappointed that they didn't do more in the 1.10 patch. A fourth difficulty level, "Inferno", beyond hell, would have been great to have and it would reduce the boredom at high level."
      They've increased the difficulty of more than Act 5. Supposedly level 70 is going to be high level.

      "A much-needed "No Hostile Players" checkbox, to prevent players from going hostile, should have been added to the game creation options. Grief players have ruined many a good game by unexpectedly going PvP."
      PKers are

    • A "No Hostile Players" checkbox at game creation time is one of the best D2 ideas I've ever heard.

      Not sure about your necro ideas though. And apparently [diabloii.net] they are nerfing necromaners even more. Or were at one time anyway.

      Ravi

    • 4 difficulty levels are fine for me. Took me 4 months to get to hell in SP. Took me 3 months to get to hell in uswest, with absolutly no twinking, rushing, or nonlegit items. Died several times, got very angery, was happy.

      I might be assuming much here, but I'm guessing you get rushed to hell, then barter for all the best things, then complain your bored. Like 90% of bnet.

      And actually if you actually play a character in hell mode, you'll realize that it is PLENTY hard now. My Druid has been killed abo
    • There is another difficulty level, it's called Hardcore.

      Pass Hell difficulty on Hardcore, THEN come around asking for yet another difficulty setting.

      • Re:Disappointed (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Krellan ( 107440 )
        About Hell and Hardcore:

        I played the game 3 times through to reach the end of Hell mode, not being rushed. It is more fun that way. I didn't do every quest, but I later went back and mopped up the remaining quests after getting to Hell. A lot of other players just get rushed, that's true. One day I saw a Level 1 character on Hell!

        Adding another difficulty level beyond Hell probably wouldn't improve the current situation, unless rushing is nerfed. There's lots of ideas to make it so that high level ch
    • Have you tried playing Hell yet? It's not really so easy, dude. You can't make the game harder unless you make the resistances -200% and give everybody MSLE.
  • i wonder if they got rid of that little dealy where people trick nOOb's into droping their prized weapons that they think are so cool. Something about buying a bunch of keys and a belt or something like that. I fell for that and lost 2 SOJ's and the IK set. Boy i was ticked. Hackers is why i quit diablo 2 LOD and started play Tribes 2 instead.
    • You were told that by doing those steps you could dupe your own items. Your own greed cost you those items, not the jokers who pulled it on you. You got what you deserved.
  • I think the timing points to something sus. Two main Blizzard people bail only days before a public beta is released? Not the world's best portent.

    Meanwhile, I've patched one of my PCs and I must say I'm fairly dissapointed. Not only have they seriously nerfed my only two characters that actually made it through to the end of the game, but characters that were part way through Hell difficulty are now struggling in Nightmare. There are critters in Act V Nightmare that hit as hard as the next version up o

    • You mean your characters arent godly anymore? The game is more challenging? The new skills system has ruined your previous method of twinking?! THIS IS FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS! HOW DARE THEY IMPROVE THEIR GAME!!??
      • Hey dude, our original thread finally closed. Continue here? Are you monitoring this post?
  • I havent played lod in a long time, but after playing the beta for a couple of hours i must conclude something went wrong with the memory.

    On a 128 MB 850 Mhz win98 machine it is swapping bad in (tcp-ip) multiplayer. And this game is supposed to be playable in 64 MB! They better update that in the readme.

    I know 128 MB is not a lot these days, but this is our 2nd pc, and I am not supposed to touch it since it my wifes PC.

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