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MSLE
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posted 30 December 2001 07:21     Click Here to See the Profile for MSLE        Reply w/Quote   
Can it be done?

I referred to the Idiot's Guide to add a few strings in patchstring.tbl in order to replace existing ones. I successfully changed the name of the Blood Lord vampire subclass to "Abyss Lord". However, Mephisto's name tag didn't change at all. I wanted to make it display "Mephisto, Lord of Hatred" instead of only Mephisto. Is it because it is an act boss? What should I do?

Oh, a side question: On the realms, if I have my mod activated, will I see Blood Lords as Blood Lords or Abyss Lords?

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NefariusDX
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posted 30 December 2001 07:50     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
strings, graphics and speed values are client side that means they will all work on closed and none hosted games as well, mephisto probably has more then one entry, search for mephisto in your tbl editor and replace EVERY entry it finds and it should be fine

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posted 30 December 2001 08:04     Click Here to See the Profile for MSLE        Reply w/Quote   
That's exactly what I did, and there's no .tbl file that has an entry for Mephisto but not for the Blood Lords. Unless there's one I didn't see, of course... but that'd be surprising. Oh yeah, and there's only one entry in string.tbl and none in expansionstring.tbl

[This message has been edited by MSLE (edited 30 December 2001).]

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posted 30 December 2001 08:34     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
this is what you need to change:

extract:
PATCHSTRING.TBL from patch_d2.mpq ENG folder
STRING.TBL from d2data.mpq ENG folder
EXPANSIONSTRING.TBL from d2exp.mpq ENG folder

next replace any mephisto entry you probably misspeled the name he appears only in string.tbl but blizzard might have added his string to the others aswell

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posted 30 December 2001 09:19     Click Here to See the Profile for MSLE        Reply w/Quote   
According to the Idiot's Guide, any entry found in patchstring.tbl overwrites any entry in string.tbl and expansionstring.tbl. So basically, I can use that file only to change what I want. I tried that with the Blood/Abyss Lords and it worked perfectly, but it won't with Mephisto. I'll give it a try with Andariel, since I changed her too.

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posted 30 December 2001 09:22     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
not every thing that is inside guides is recent most of the guides are way outdated since they where made for d2c, patchstring.tbl cant contain some data such as npc text etc, it is best TO ALWAYS edit the source file, and if there is a entry in patchsting.tbl that would ruin you work simple OVERRIGHT this and this only, then return and edit the rest in string.tbl

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posted 30 December 2001 09:35     Click Here to See the Profile for MSLE        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks, it works now!

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