1.11 Release Notes

[SideShowBob]

I don't like peace at all. The ctc valk will override possible stronger valks and also make you lose the valk when you most need her.

Actually, I think that Peace provides a nice way to have a Valkyrie and
avoid the Fend "bug" that still hasn't been fixed. It might also be fun to
put one on your merc and pick up a second helper. :lol: Having Critical
Strike as an oSkill is pretty nice for the price of Shael Thul Amn.

 

[Sophitia]

Actually, I think that Peace provides a nice way to have a Valkyrie and
avoid the Fend "bug" that still hasn't been fixed. It might also be fun to
put one on your merc and pick up a second helper. :lol: Having Critical
Strike as an oSkill is pretty nice for the price of Shael Thul Amn.

Peace on mercs = game crash when valkirie is spawned... :thumbsup:

 

[tmorrow]

Please, calm down. Of course you decide what you buy. And Blizzard is well aware of that.

OK, this time they didn't sell you what you wanted to get...

Wait, sell? You didn't have to pay anything for the patch, did you? Let's be grateful we got it. When you bought the game perhaps 5 years ago, you surely didn't expect to get patches over such a long period.

Blizzard did something to have premium content on their server. Perhaps. So what? We still got more than we anticipated when we bought the game.

Future games may be worth paying a monthly fee or not. I for my part will decide that when I see such a game and the price.

Part of the purchase price for the game goes into ongoing support. I don't rate Blizzard's support very favourably. I paid the same price for my game as someone who plays online. On the back of the CD it says I could play SP, up to 8 players over TCP/IP or Battle.net. Nowhere does it say they would selectively treat Battlenet users more favourably. Nowhere is indicated that they would develop extra's for Battlenet and explicitly code in exclusions to deny SP users the same functionality. Blizzard had to do extra work to remove features for SP and that bites. Thus with less effort and lower costs, they could have satisfied more gamers - and they didn't take that approach. Thus, in my eyes they have failed dismally in the support department. I expect and demand equal treatment. If I'd known up front they they discriminate against SP in this way I never would have purchased their game no matter how good it is.

My gripe is not with Blizzard adding new features over 5 years (that's a good thing). My gripe is that they actually make special effort to exclude my chosen method of playing the game, a pretext they sold the game to me on in the first place. THAT's why Blizzard will never get another $ out of me. It's called integrity and fairness, concepts apparently unknown at Blizzard. It's not like they haven't been told, but sadly, it's fallen on deaf ears and blind eyes.

That's ok, there are other games to play once I tire of Diablo 2. I've decided to move away from vanilla (which I've played for 4+ years) and "a-modding I will go" to enable those 1.10 & 1.11 features Blizzard felt should be removed for those lesser customers who are so misguided as to prefer the SP experience.

 

[JihadJesus]

Having Critical
Strike as an oSkill is pretty nice for the price of Shael Thul Amn.

this is pretty much what I thought when I saw it, especially if you combine it with a barb or assasin mastery. With a few plus skills, you're looking at around 60-70% critical. Sweet. Even if it does severly lower the effectiveness of some very nice DS gear.

 

[skunkbelly]

Several of the new runeword armors have bonuses which are terrific for characters *other* than the ones that would get the +2 skills.

It's almost like the intent is to make players choose: do you want +2 skills and mods that may be weak or even useless, or do you want no + skills but access to some skills you maybe couldn't have otherwise (Valk, critical strike, venom, fade, etc.). Clever, I think, the more I think about it. Too bad more items don't work this way.

 

[KrAzY3]

someone should try peace out in an iron golem

I bet it would crash, like it does with a merc. Besides, if I use Metalgrid, the golems don't stick around after I quit the game either

Damn the lost potential!

 

[Liliel]

Just a thought. Maybe someone should make a mod to stop those keys from dropping.

I'm not sure if this has been asked before but... Does this silly key drop affect Countess rune drops? I run Countess several hours a day. She's my main source of runes... so if her rune drops get nerfed I may have to stay out of this patch...

The fact that Blizzard spent additional effort into shafting us really is quite insulting. As well, it looks like I'll have to pat my Fireball Bard in 1.10 before switching, and my Poison/Bone necro hybrid is kaput. Still... there is some good to come out of it. Losing charge synergy sucks, but I guess it's balanced by the fixing of FE bug. Then we get some new runewords... I see some potential in them: Peace for a Fendazon, Duress for my Fallen Paladin, Treachery on a Daggermancer...

 

[Kool69]

...Peace for a Fendazon...

Only problem is whenever the valk is cast the game crashes

 

[Thrugg]

The key drops from Countess Item (H), it does not interfere with her Rune drop at all (although it does have a tiny impact on the already small chance of her dropping a rune from her Item drop, so the chance of a Gul-Lo rune has gone down a tiny bit.

 

[Death_StrikeR]

I had a problem after installing 1.11,
It says,

halt
Location: line #1431
EXpression: Unrecoverable internal error 6f8f15f9

I only copied a cracked game.exe to the d2 directory after
I had installed the patch...
help me guys... I already re-installed diablo and received
the same error again...

 

[Zarhrezz]

I had a problem after installing 1.11,
It says,

halt
Location: line #1431
EXpression: Unrecoverable internal error 6f8f15f9

I only copied a cracked game.exe to the d2 directory after
I had installed the patch...
help me guys... I already re-installed diablo and received
the same error again...

Re-install again and forget the no_cd patch. It looks like the no_cd that worked for 1.08 through 1.10 (iirc) doesn't work anymore, so it'll be some time for a new 1.11 no_cd patch becomes available.

That brings me to the next point (I can't check myself since I can't find my disc...I used no_cd the past 4 years or so): is anyone able to check if the Manaburn bug was fixed? I doubt it, but it's a rather vital issue for ES sorcs and since I wrote the guide for them, I might as well check to see if I need to update it for 1.11 (though seeing the lack of changes/fixes, I doubt I will).

As for the whole "I won't buy from Blizzard ever again" ranting: I agree that it's a bad public-relations move to pretty much say "yeah, you SPers got shafted, get used to it" and go through trouble keeping certain stuff out of SP. I can understand they have battle.net only content so that the data/statistics involved can't be extracted from the mpqs, but deliberately excluding stuff that's there already is a slap in the face. But I still give Blizz credit for supporting a game for as long as they have. About 2 years ago, the game was old enough to be discarded by them. Everything since then is pretty much good service.

Will I never buy from Blizzard again? That depends on what the bring out in the future. If it's online-only, I won't buy it. There's plenty of SP games that I'll enjoy playing, so they'll have to make it worth my while. But seeing Hellgate: London developing, a possible DIII will have to be a hell of a game to be able to compete...
And then there's FFXII, FFVII: Dirge of Cerebrus, Tales of the Abyss, Grandia III, The Roots and Gothic III...just to name a few. Without the Flagship guys, I'm not so sure a Diablo III can handle itself agains the competition, but I guess only time will tell.

 

[Death_StrikeR]

i had back-up the game.exe from the 1.11 patch..
and re-copied it onto d2 directory...

the real problem is.. it is asking for the d2 cd...
(eventhough its already there)

 

[parawizard]

i had back-up the game.exe from the 1.11 patch..
and re-copied it onto d2 directory...

the real problem is.. it is asking for the d2 cd...
(eventhough its already there)

Your gonna need a new crack. The game.exe is different now.

 

[parawizard]

Only problem is whenever the valk is cast the game crashes

Valk works fine for me? On my pally I thought it only crashs the game if you put the armor on your merc and it is cast. I havent gotten any crashs with this armor on my characters.

 

[Kool69]

Valk works fine for me? On my pally I thought it only crashs the game if you put the armor on your merc and it is cast. I havent gotten any crashs with this armor on my characters.

Hmmm maybe I got some faulty information then....

 

[Zarhrezz]

Your gonna need a new crack. The game.exe is different now.

Also the new CD-check is not fooled by mounted iso's in virtual drives.

I guess this is the actual goal of this patch...getting people who haven't purchased the game in the past to pick up a copy now, as not to loose their bnet accounts =)

 

[Death_StrikeR]

so.. anyone can provide me a working game.exe for 1.11?
Or else, I'll just return to 1.10

 

[Zarhrezz]

so.. anyone can provide me a working game.exe for 1.11?
Or else, I'll just return to 1.10

I doubt it'll be available before the end of this week, earliest.

 

[Colorless Green]

I'm going to refrain from the ranting in general, but I want to bring up a point about the "a private bnet game is just as good as SP" comment that I haven't seen yet.

For some of us (myself included,) the choice to play purely single player isn't *only* because of all the stereotypical 14-year-old-1337speaking-haxx0rz and lag and such.

I have very rare internet access. And when I'm on the internet, I very much doubt I have enough bandwidth to use battle.net (free dialup. You get what you pay for.) So, I do not have the option to go on bnet and play a private passworded game just to get access to these features.

And, incidentally, I bought both D2C and LoD twice each. For single player, in both cases.

-Isch

 

[parawizard]

I'm going to refrain from the ranting in general, but I want to bring up a point about the "a private bnet game is just as good as SP" comment that I haven't seen yet.

For some of us (myself included,) the choice to play purely single player isn't *only* because of all the stereotypical 14-year-old-1337speaking-haxx0rz and lag and such.

I have very rare internet access. And when I'm on the internet, I very much doubt I have enough bandwidth to use battle.net (free dialup. You get what you pay for.) So, I do not have the option to go on bnet and play a private passworded game just to get access to these features.

And, incidentally, I bought both D2C and LoD twice each. For single player, in both cases.

-Isch

First game D1 bnet = hacked
First lvl 70+ character in D2 bnet = guy drop hacked everyone in the game

I dont want my items to all fall on the ground along with everyone elses in the game again and watch someguy walk around and pick them up because none of us could respawn. I have bought every blizzard game released for PC. Except WoW. I wont pay for that game its ridiculous. Im never buying another blizzard game if its gonna be net only. I want to be in control of my save files so I know they are safe. You have to put time into games and I do I dont want to go on crap.net and lose stuff or lose my account or character. Or get temp banned for muling etc. :thumbsup:

Blizzard is going the wrong way...