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Diablo 2: Resurrected remaster

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I have been getting strong urges to play this. D2R is an amazing graphical update. One thing that really bugs me about D2 is the skill tree advancement though. I always disliked it. It's a step down from both Diablo 1 random classless book drops and Diablo 3 variation unlocks. How long it takes to get feature complete and the right gear also bugs me. Despite that, I do have a lot of fond memories with this game. I look at D2R videos and think maybe I could still.
 

damager

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Nah man D2's skillsystem is way better than D3

You don't need to have a "feature complete" build to have a functional char and fun in the game. The journey is the destination!
 

Gregz

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So classes are still???
Nigger
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I don’t understand why nobody has made a reskin mod to fix this. The animations are also worse, but a reskin would be enough.

1) Blizzard deliberately made modifying D2R extremely tedious, and in some cases almost impossible. Try implementing new oskills with controller support, for instance.

2) Mods like the kind you are proposing will get you banned from nexus mods, moddb, etc.
 

Hace El Oso

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1) Blizzard deliberately made modifying D2R extremely tedious, and in some cases almost impossible. Try implementing new oskills with controller support, for instance.

2) Mods like the kind you are proposing will get you banned from nexus mods, moddb, etc.

I know. But I thought with the popularity of D2, someone would at least make a ‘restoration’ reskin, like a very miniature American Krogan.
 
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So classes are still???
Nigger
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Chinese woman
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Lard ass
Goth Kid
Sorceress
Amazon's the worst one. They didn't just nerf her looks, her animations look markedly worse. She marches around like a linebacker. The dodges and attacks don't have the agile, cat-like animations that original D2 had. Same thing with the Assassin- her running animation doesn't convey the same sense of speed as her sprites used to.

When I was big into D2:R a couple years ago I would mostly switch to 'classic' graphics. But from a gameplay perspective that puts you in a disadvantage because it's not widescreen and it displays less items on the ground.
 

Hace El Oso

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Amazon's the worst one. They didn't just nerf her looks, her animations look markedly worse. She marches around like a linebacker. The dodges and attacks don't have the agile, cat-like animations that original D2 had. Same thing with the Assassin- her running animation doesn't convey the same sense of speed as her sprites used to.

The Paladin doesn't lift his knees when he runs anymore, so he also has the Frankenstein's Monster March going on.
 

Jermu

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project diablo 2 next season starts in couple of weeks and closed beta today
no need to suffer playing shit like d2r this mod is pure incline
 

Jermu

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class balance is very good its not such a balance clusterfuck lod is. I would say pala might be the weakest class for end game grinding (other than bossing) but its not far behind other classes. barb is my favorite class I have played it the most with amazon

pala for example has charge desyncing / getting stuck fixed so its smooth now. melee splash makes phys melee chars competitive compared to your typical casters for grinding

most of skills are pretty viable so there is not just 1 build that outperforms everything else in each class
I would say top 3 builds for barb are whirlwind, war cry and double throw | pala charge, fist of heaven and holy x aura builds
 

ArchAngel

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Ok, I've setup offline version of Project Diablo 2 of Season 9 and I already noticed some important stuff Path of Diablo does better.
1. No comparison in inventory with equipped items and also you cannot see exact speed of weapons but they are still using old Very Slow to Very Fast system.
2. No Currency tab in stash.. the amount of time and effort and pointless stash tetris this tab saves you from is hard to descibe..

Do you have any recommendation for upscale shader to use?
The default one was terrible so for now I switched to some more basic one that makes game look mostly like original (anti-aliasing\aa-shader-4.0.slangp (2 passes) )

Huge advantage of PD2 is quickcast, PoD does not have that.
 
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eXalted

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Do you have any recommendation for upscale shader to use?
The default one was terrible so for now I switched to some more basic one that makes game look mostly like original (anti-aliasing\aa-shader-4.0.slangp (2 passes) )
Have you tried this - https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx ?

I remember using this in the past. The high FPS makes the game feel so smooth.
 

Jermu

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1. use advanced stat screen where you can see attack speed breakpoints its significantly better than pod one (ias frames)
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2. yup it might get added later, personally I don't care too much about that I just sort em once and thats it

no idea about what are good graph options I just use default ones looks good to me
 

Spike

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1. use advanced stat screen where you can see attack speed breakpoints its significantly better than pod one (ias frames)
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2. yup it might get added later, personally I don't care too much about that I just sort em once and thats it

no idea about what are good graph options I just use default ones looks good to me
I am so hype for S10. I will be making a new paladin. I got a barb solo to I believe A5 NM. But I'm hype, let's do this.
 

Spike

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patch notes. season 10 starts in 11 hours

paladin got some cool stuff this season tested vengeance in closed beta and its very strong
I saw that, it's S- tier I think according to that twitch guy. I will probably roll that. I like melee-centric abilities. Barb is bottom-tier again :deadtroll:
 

Jermu

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yeah that guy is not very good and his tier lists are shit

just buy 1 of these its pretty much free and you are good to go for early game
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