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SoylentGreen77
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posted 02 June 2001 22:52     Click Here to See the Profile for SoylentGreen77   Click Here to Email SoylentGreen77        Reply w/Quote   
Hi all, I am new here and I just wanted to clear a few things up real quick. I heard about this site from a magazine. I think it was PCGaming or something. Well, someone did a review on one of the Mods here and it got me pretty pumped up. It sounded like someone did a really good job and I wanted to try it out. My problem is this though ~ I didnt catch the name of it so I was wondering if anyone knows which mod the column was written about?

And also, I was thinking of downloading a mod, but I am hesitant still. Will it affect my characters on Battle.net? Will I still be able to play the normal game on battle.net unaffected? I was hoping that somebody could clear up the whole mod scene for me before I rushed ahead and downloaded something. Or if it is already written somewhere about how mods affect your battle.net playing maybe someone could point me in the right direction. Thank you for your time.

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 02 June 2001 23:06     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
With mods, you can play on Open Battle.net and Single Player. Closed Battle.net won't function with them. You'l also need to create new characters for specific use with the mod you're playing.

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SoylentGreen77
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posted 02 June 2001 23:24     Click Here to See the Profile for SoylentGreen77   Click Here to Email SoylentGreen77        Reply w/Quote   
So your saying that Closed wont work at all?

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Darkmage
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posted 02 June 2001 23:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Darkmage   Click Here to Email Darkmage        Reply w/Quote   
No, you just back up your regular patch_d2.mpq and then rename the mod's .mpq to that and play. When you want to go back to regular D2, you just rename the mod to something else and rename your backup to patch_d2.mpq again. That's the only file you'll need to mess with for almost all of the mods.

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SoylentGreen77
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posted 03 June 2001 00:02     Click Here to See the Profile for SoylentGreen77   Click Here to Email SoylentGreen77        Reply w/Quote   
Ah, cool. Thanks for the info.

Now, does anyone know which mod was in that magazine? Did anyone else see it?

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ShaiTan
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posted 03 June 2001 00:12     Click Here to See the Profile for ShaiTan   Click Here to Email ShaiTan        Reply w/Quote   Visit ShaiTan's Homepage!
I think you are talkin about the werzion X mod review. Just go to the main site for the keep there is a news bit about it being updated first thing

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Tontus314
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posted 03 June 2001 02:57     Click Here to See the Profile for Tontus314   Click Here to Email Tontus314        Reply w/Quote   Visit Tontus314's Homepage!
Fusion 2.5 was also reviewed in a mag.

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SoylentGreen77
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posted 03 June 2001 03:59     Click Here to See the Profile for SoylentGreen77   Click Here to Email SoylentGreen77        Reply w/Quote   
Ah, I think that it was Fusion 2.5. I can clearly remember the article saying the version number was 2.5. Thanks for the help. I guess i'll try a few out for a while. Thanks again for all your guys help.

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Mephansteras
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posted 03 June 2001 11:38     Click Here to See the Profile for Mephansteras   Click Here to Email Mephansteras        Reply w/Quote   Visit Mephansteras's Homepage!
A good place to go to find out about the major mods here is to go to the Mods Reviewed forum and read the reviews.

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Djinn
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posted 04 June 2001 19:37     Click Here to See the Profile for Djinn   Click Here to Email Djinn        Reply w/Quote   Visit Djinn's Homepage!
quote:
Originally posted by Darkmage:
No, you just back up your regular patch_d2.mpq and then rename the mod's .mpq to that and play. When you want to go back to regular D2, you just rename the mod to something else and rename your backup to patch_d2.mpq again. That's the only file you'll need to mess with for almost all of the mods.

Or you can do what my brother (bkdoane) did. He made a batch file that renamed the CF .mpq file and switched it with the orgional D2 .mpq. He made another batch file to reverse it so he could play CF single- or multi-player at home.
And as to the BNet game: From what I've herd you can only use mods in Open BNet. Realm BNet will tell you something like "Can't find Diablo 2 version."

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posted 04 June 2001 20:00     Click Here to See the Profile for WebXpert        Reply w/Quote   
Actually TeknoKyo has a mod that is aloud in closed realms. You are very limited upon what you can do on the closed realm.

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Mephansteras
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posted 04 June 2001 22:46     Click Here to See the Profile for Mephansteras   Click Here to Email Mephansteras        Reply w/Quote   Visit Mephansteras's Homepage!
Bad Web! Bad!!

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jbouley
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posted 05 June 2001 01:49     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
WebXpert, I hate to do this...but this is your first warning. You should know better than this...the mod in question is designed to give an "advantage" and besides, we're thoroughly against Realms modding b/c, well, Blizzard is against it in a big way. We do not talk about Realm (aka closed bnet) modding at the Keep, we do not give advice about it, and we do not tell people from whom to get such mods. Please refrain from even responding to posts about close bnet/Realms mods in the future. The next time costs you your privileges at the forum...I don't want to have to ban anyone.

Oh, and because of this, this thread is now closed.

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[This message has been edited by jbouley (edited 05 June 2001).]

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