Act IV: The Cathedral Of The Damned

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Act IV: The Cathedral Of The Damned

There are many folks who have no idea what the Cathedral of the Damned is because they have never seen it.

It's an "island" that only occasionally spawns in the middle of a "lake" in Act IV, the City of the Damned and it's accessible only by a single bridge.

I was running my new Strafezon through Normal and the Cathedral spawned...only the third time I've seen the Cathedral in...what, 7 years of playing?

For those who don't mind losing their current map, the seed is [highlight] Seed removed - Do not post map seeds for any reason. - Cat[/highlight].

Be sure to check out the stained glass windows...they bite back.
 
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uhh... where's the screenshot(s) for those unwilling to use the -seed command?
 
Im not unwilling, but how do I use the seed command? Id like to see it.
Edit: Is changing the seed a frowned on practice? Ive never seen anything on it.
Edit: I made my statement more understandable.:thumbsup:
 
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I'm not unwilling, but how do i use the seed command? I'd like to see it.


1. put "-seed <XXXXXX>" in the shortcut you use to start the D2 application.
2. start d2, choose your character & difficulty
3. once the character finishes loading, [highlight]immediately save & exit[/highlight]
4. [highlight]Completely close the D2 application[/highlight]
5. remove the "-seed xxx" argument from the D2 shortcut
6. restart D2 with the same char/difficulty.

Note: If you skip steps 3-5, you will die a horrible death in real life. Oh yeah, you might be flamed by the rest of the SPF too. :undecided:



Edit: Made smilts' quote readable :grin:



 
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Ugh, got curious and ended up doing 47 runs looking for this... Nothing...
Oh well I'll look more tomorrow, would someone please provide a screenshot of the entrance to the place?

I just can't imagine that I've never seen this place in all my years of Diablo...
 
I've seen it couple of times and I think it was bit more common before the expansion came out. Used to see it quite often, now that I think about it.
 
More likely, it was seen more often because people ran Act IV back in the good old days. I had completely forgotten about it. Thanks for the memory boost!
 
I've seen it once, too. Kinda spooky a place, that one. I wonder if there are any other similar things in the game. :scratch:
 
Here's the image that goes with the map seed in the original post.

The Cathedral Of The Damned

The City of the Damned WP is barely visible bottom center in the on screen map.

I apologize for the dark colors of the image but that's the way it appears in game. My merc kept knocking out the windows so I had to snap the screenie pretty quickly.
 
I HAVE seen that before. I never thought much of it, just thought it was another feature of the landscape. And you people are really gonna hate me, but the first char I ever got to Act IV, I was running him around City of the Damned looking for the stairs to River of Flame...he found the Cathedral. Heck 2 or 3 other chars I made found it too. I remember it because of the windows that could be broken.
 
But here's something I've only seen once, and likely never will again.

Yeah, that happened a few times to me, too. Didn't pay any special attention to it though, because I didn't know that the cathedral was so uncommon.

BTW - Concerning the seed: I thought sharing seeds is not quite accepted here...at least that's what is said in the stickies. Didn't someone already get banned for that? Skull Captain, IIRC? Maybe someone should ask Hrus or Cattleya?



 
BTW - Concerning the seed: I thought sharing seeds is not quite accepted here...at least that's what is said in the stickies. Didn't someone already get banned for that? Skull Captain, IIRC? Maybe someone should ask Hrus or Cattleya?
I don't think it's a big deal in this case. This is just to see something cool in normal difficulty. Sharing map seeds is unacceptable if they're for really good MF maps...gotta do the work yourself.



 
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