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I'm in the middle of another development cycle for this mod, with the intent to release a final version of Diablo 2 Fallen. With all features complete, with all bugs squished. Version 12 will have one of the largest change logs ever. There were three major "features" that have been on my road map since the first release, but have yet to be implemented. Here's my thoughts: Mercenaries. Hirelings are not going to happen. I'm taking them off the list of plans. The reason is because the solution that we implemented to make quest escort NPC's more durable would also affect the hirelings' damage. Your merc wouldn't be able to do any worthwhile damage. The attempt to create an NPC who could sell hirelings (like a mount trader for people) also failed. Hairstyles/beards for Barbarian & Druid. These are actually coded to be fully functional thanks to Dmitriy, I just have to figure how to import the models into the game. Usually Pesmontis had done that in the past, and I don't have 3dsMax installed on my PC anymore. This feature is still uncertain. Character class quests rewritten for the new characters. I'm happy to say this is nearly complete. I've gone through every character's personal quest, Light and Shadow paths, to rewrite the dialogue and journal entries to be appropriate for the Diablo player characters. Along the way I ended revising almost every quest in the game to integrate Diablo-universe lore into the game in every instance possible. With those features out of the way, it just remains to fine tune balance and fix bugs. I'm still finding bugs both with the vanilla game and specific to my mod. There is also a MAJOR balancing pass to all enemies in the game, more comprehensive than any mod has ever done. More on balancing and bug fixing next time.

Thursday was a celebration day here and school made friday school free. So we spend a day at my Mom's place and the town I spend my first 6 years: Wetzlar. Our third has to write about Goethe for a summer holiday project and so we did a little research at Wetzlar. Goethe's 'The Sorrows of young Werther' was inspired by a suicide of one of his Friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther This is the house there Jerusalem suicided. It is now a museum about 'The Sorrows of young Werther'. Did the shot a while ago while waiting for my girls to finish shopping.

Well then, it's a good thing that I brought a generous batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies!