Saturday, April 21, 2012

Mephisto.

Do you guys think that the map layout of Mephy should be changed?

I mean it's kinda stupid you lure him to the "safe spot" and he stands there like a moron. So much for being one of the Prime Evils :)|||It doesn't really matter because even if you couldn't moat him then teleporting through durance level 2 is still multitudes more difficult than dealing with him the normal way. (meaning not difficult at all)|||Don't care. I always take him head on, and I don't really run Meph anyway. Besides, the stygian dolls in Durance are far more dangerous, so if you can get past them, Mephisto should be easy to deal with in a fair fight.|||i thought you were talking about stupid level 2 design

if they could make it "smaller" i d be more then just happy to droll on him.

On topic, i always take him head on.|||The level 2 design was intentional, to prevent over farming of Meph in NM/Hell but ironically there still is the moat trick.|||The moat trick is unnecessary, any good runners will have a build that can tank him for the short amount of time it takes to kill him. On top of which moat tricking him takes longer than it does for my light sorc to kill him.|||Quote:








i thought you were talking about stupid level 2 design

if they could make it "smaller" i d be more then just happy to droll on him.

On topic, i always take him head on.




Actually it's quite easy to find Mephi IMHO, because the stairs to durance lvl3 are 90% of the time clockwise, just tele clockwise and u will be there.

Only on some rare occasion are they in the middle of durance lvl2.

Usually i go head on if i have strong Merc.|||not for me, its never in same direction.

Error 25: A critical error has occurred while initializing Direct3D

Anyone getting this message?

Error 25: A critical error has occurred while initializing Direct3D

I could play about 3 months ago and now I reinstalled for the reset and am unable to play. Thanks in advance for any help.|||This is usually video card related. Try to run D2VidTest manually from the installation directory and choosing DirectDraw (2D) and seeing how that goes. Direct3D isn't much of an improvement over 2D for a game as old as D2, in my opinion anyway

respecing

i heard in 1.13 you can acctualy restat your chars. is there any truth to this i cant find any information.|||I haven't played the final version yet, but did play on the test realm for a couple of weeks.

In that version (1.13b) you get a free respec from Akara as a reward for the Den of Evil quest, in addition to the bonus skill point. When you use this, you get back all of the stat and skill points you have spent, and can redistribute them however you like.

Also, in Hell difficulty, the Act Bosses would drop "essences", of which there are four types. Collect one of each and cube them to create a Respec Token that allows you to again reset your skill and stat points.

I like the way it works, for the most part, but I think that having Act Bosses drop the essences was a really bad idea. Think of how much variety was added to MF runs by having the Keys drop from three Super-Uniques. I'm hoping that in the final release of the patch (1.13c) they stopped having essences dropped by act bosses. Guess I'll find out tonight.



EDIT: Just learned from another player online that Act Bosses are still dropping the essences. So sad. They could have done so much more with that idea.|||hmmm im excited.

so any char regaurdless of what patch they were created is subject to this, ladder or non?|||Yup, ladder or not, any char.|||im giddy!!!!!

how to make d2 widescreen?

I read in the patch notes that wide screen users could now make the game fit their screen without stretching it all too hell. I dl'd the beta and can't find where i can change the video settings. In game it just gives me the same 800x600 option.|||adjust your monitor settings

or use the glide wrapper

enable desktopresolution and keep aspect ratio

http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html|||Thats just refering to window mode your not going to get more play space in the game with widescreen but the aspect ratio gets corrected.|||Quote:








adjust your monitor settings

or use the glide wrapper

enable desktopresolution and keep aspect ratio

http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html




what does that glide wrapper do? and is it considered a 3rd party program by blizz?|||yes/no

its a 3rd party app, but not detectable by bnet

iv been using it for years without any accts/keys being banned

it converts glide from d2 to opengl

d2 was written for glide (back in the 3dfx card days), d3d is slow but looks pretty, 2d is fast without any pretty effects

basically the wrapper gives the best preformance with all the pretty effects

glide.dll -> wrapper -> opengl

instead of d3d.dll -> d3d



there are 3rd party apps that can increase the visable area in d2, instead of making it fit your monitor better

but those cant be discussed here|||so glide will make its not as stretched on my screen?|||yup

heres what i play at 1680x1050

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x...s1680x1050.jpg

never drops below 60fps|||What OS are you using? I tooled around a bit and couldn't get it to work. Likely user error, though. I'm running windows 7 on a 23" monitor in 1600x900 resolution (1920x1080 is just too small) and from what I've sound, I can either run stretched in full screen (ew) or in a window, where I'm constantly clicking outside the game =[|||If it comes up in a window when you first run it then just press Alt Enter and it will go full screen.|||glide wrapper has a setting to capture mouse, which stops you from moving then clicking outside the window (alt+tab still works)

1.13 beta can be stretched to full screen with -w then doubleclick on the title bar

but double/triple pixel doesnt look nearly as pretty as bilinear filtering

Unrecoverable Internal Error 6fe1dc4c

I've been having trouble playing 1.13 in multiple ways. Anytime I use a 1.12 character or older, I get this error:



I can't use my Battle.Net characters from 1.12, my Single-Player characters from 1.12 and my edited characters from 1.12

1.13 Battle.Net characters seem to work fine, as well as new 1.13 Single-Player characters, however, if I generate a new 1.13 character and edit anything using Hero Editor, I get the same error as my 1.12 characters.

Can anyone help out? I'd be greatly appreciated.|||Quote:




and edit anything using Hero Editor




thats your problem|||Fixed it now, and if anyone runs into the same error, I just re-installed and it worked right after.


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thats your problem




Uh huh.

What does this mean?

Reading the game notes for the new patch, and it

says added the widows system buttons to the game

min, max,close . What does this mean and how does

it work?|||if your d2 shortcut has -w added to the end of the target line

you will have _, [], X at the top of the window, to _ minimize, [] maximize, and X close d2|||They should made a change like that in game. Like they have

on a web site.

Amazing, simply amazing!

Alright, i open up my computer, log in to diablo and enter a game.

After i leave it, i get lost connection to b.net and i am told i have a tempban.

/rage

Also, note that i only joined ONE game and left it after around 2 minutes.

It was first time i logged in on the whole day!

What did i do wrong?

Edit, lol it only lasted 10 minutes. GG blizz|||Thats anti bot protection (but works as anti mule/fast baalrun protection).

It can last from 10minutes up 2 12hours:)|||Quote:








Thats anti bot protection (but works as anti mule/fast baalrun protection).

It can last from 10minutes up 2 12hours:)




The thing was that i logged in and got temp banned immediately after leaving the first game i joined, not after doing fast muling ect, ect.

Also i do know what it is, i just don't understand what it is, i just don't get why i would get it for reasons above. |||slow down your actions while changing chars

wait 5-10 secs between actions

doing that quickly will give temp bans too|||The way I understood this was that nurman didn't even have time to change characters. Just leave the first game you're in, and instead of appearing in chat like you should, you get booted off Battle.net, with a temp ban as a courtesy detail.

I've had this happen numerous times. I'm betting that Blizzard has a standard action in their code for all exceptional situations. Whenever something goes wrong, whether it is a server bug, a network issue or something the player actually did, the result is that the player gets booted with a ban. And yes, I do feel that the whole approach is stupid and counter-productive.|||Quote:








The way I understood this was that nurman didn't even have time to change characters. Just leave the first game you're in, and instead of appearing in chat like you should, you get booted off Battle.net, with a temp ban as a courtesy detail.

I've had this happen numerous times. I'm betting that Blizzard has a standard action in their code for all exceptional situations. Whenever something goes wrong, whether it is a server bug, a network issue or something the player actually did, the result is that the player gets booted with a ban. And yes, I do feel that the whole approach is stupid and counter-productive.




Yup, this is what i was trying to tell you guys. |||Do anyone remember the unbelivable waiting time there was during the 1.09 to enter games?

Well, this approach, that can seem very bad, solved that problem. We simply have to learn to do things slowly.

- Do not stay in a game for a single minute or two. Stay at least 4-5 minutes

- Wait 5-10 seconds before moving after you enter a game

- Do not change characters immediately after leaving a game

- Do not enter a game immediately after chosing a character

- Simply do things SLOWLY. Always wait 4-5 seconds beteween EACH of your action (Login, choose character, open channell/chat, open game search window, enter game, start playing)

If you do your things quite and slow, you're going to have MUCH less problems... That's the price to have much less lag than times ago|||problem is that under blizz penalization is very very things, but they use just few notices before or during penalization. so many times its very confusing, cause u dont know why or what system sais is totaly nonsense...|||Quote:








Do anyone remember the unbelivable waiting time there was during the 1.09 to enter games?

Well, this approach, that can seem very bad, solved that problem. We simply have to learn to do things slowly.

- Do not stay in a game for a single minute or two. Stay at least 4-5 minutes

- Wait 5-10 seconds before moving after you enter a game

- Do not change characters immediately after leaving a game

- Do not enter a game immediately after chosing a character

- Simply do things SLOWLY. Always wait 4-5 seconds beteween EACH of your action (Login, choose character, open channell/chat, open game search window, enter game, start playing)

If you do your things quite and slow, you're going to have MUCH less problems... That's the price to have much less lag than times ago




Seriously read the thread first. I know your just trying to be helpful but at least be on target of what was said previously in the thread.|||Did you scroll through your skills really fast? That can land you a temp ban.


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I do feel that the whole approach is stupid and counter-productive.




It doesn't really matter to them what's smart or stupid. Regardless of any issue with the game, they'll NEVER upgrade their servers to allow such features. Their solution to the fire lag bug? Disconnect you if there is too much torch procs/meteors going on all at once. They COULD just upgrade their servers, but they won't. They barely make anything off of this game anymore, and the cost of upgrading their servers would just be a wasted expense, speaking from the perspective of a business.

All in all though, it really is a pointless measure. We all know bots thoroughly dominate this game, and their measures have done nothing to stop them, nor will they ever implement measures to stop them. The only thing they've managed to do is make this game a pain in the *** to enjoy for the legitimate players.