The quality of life improvements really help bring the game into the modern age as well.
Of course if you don’t want to play with randoms you can still connect directly with friends via TCP/IP. There is even an Australian server based in Sydney. Still not enough? How about the fact you can play online and participate in Seasons, much like Diablo III? In fact the 1.1 patch heralds the dawn of Season 20. Oh and the level cap has been raised to 150. There is a menagerie of new enemies, a swathe of new locations, and an abundance of end game content that features Uber Bosses, Quests, and Nephalim Rifts. You can craft your own equipment, either a blank slate or an existing Unique, adding a variety of bonuses and buffs, to make the perfect weapon, armour, or item to suit your build. Town Portal is now a ten second cooldown ability.
Instead of the Leather Armor becoming Serpent Armor in Nightmare difficulty, gear is all simply ranked Tier 1 through to 5 (and beyond). Well, apart from the mundane stuff, but even then they have more tiers and grades. An unholy Paladin who summons demons? Easy.Īs far as I can tell all the original equipment has been completely replaced as well. Not by just a little bit, but I mean completely changed. Every single skill in the game for all six classes has been completely changed. The biggest changes come in the form of skills and equipment. You might have heard of Median XL, but what exactly is it and what does it change? Okay, so, you’ve played Diablo II, finished it a hundred times. If you’re like me though and haven’t taken a peek behind the Median XL curtain, now is the perfect time to do so, with Median XL Sigma recently receiving a significant patch and bringing it to version 1.1. So I turned my gaze to the internet and upon the Median XL mod pack, something that a number of people had been directing me towards for some time (years?) now. I knew the game didn’t have enough to offer me to keep me engaged for any meaningful length of time anymore. I craved more, but back in the day I’d sunk thousands of hours into Diablo II. While I was pleased we’d finished the game, I felt unsatisfied. It took us the weekend, but we did it, we finished the game on Normal difficulty.
I’d managed to get it all patched and working on a modern Windows 10 machine quite nicely and being that Diablo II actually allows for up to eight people in the one game (instead of Diablo III’s four player limit) it seemed like the time was ripe for a bit of the ol’ hack-n-slash action RPG goodness. Recently we had a ‘LAN Party’ at the Pixel Pop Network office and for a bit of fun we thought we might go back and complete Diablo II.
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