[Dev] Diablo 2 Fallen mod for Sacred 2

[Flix 5,116]

Thank you very much Flix, hope your mod will be played as it deserves it

 

Just FYI the French translation is still unfinished so it is not included in Beta 7. I hope to release a French patch sometime soon for the mod.

[Flix 5,116]

I decided not to add the new Necromancer pic as it turns out it is directly taken from the new Diablo 3 expansion, which I'd like to avoid copying too much.

Patch 1 for D2F Beta 7 is ready. I'll package it and release it this time tomorrow if there's no last minute bug reports. Here is the full changelog for the patch:

Assassin:

• Dragon Flight - when mounted on the Mobiculum, uses better animations and no longer makes a tiger growl sound.
• Fists of Fire - is now able to hit flying enemies. Also changed the "roar" sfx to a more appropriate martial arts sound.
• Redesigned Assassin's base model to be more robust and menacing.

Barbarian:

• Whirlwind - fixed incorrect animations when Dual Wielding or using Ranged Weapons.
• Fixed bugged animations for Bash, Whirlwind, and Concentrate when using Ranged Weapons while mounted on the Hellhound.

Necromancer:

• Poison Dagger - now hits twice when Dual Wielding while mounted on the Shroud Spider.

Paladin:

• Holy Fire - now gives its Fire Damage +% bonus.
• Vengeance - now hits twice while Dual Wielding (both on foot and while mounted on the Tiger). Fixed incorrect weapon animations while mounted.
• Fixed incorrect animations for Charge and Smite when mounted on the Tiger. These two animations were swapped.

General:

• Revised most buff/spell casting fx so that they are the same on Special Mounts as when casting on foot (e.g, generic mount growls replaced with normal spell sfx). Weapon-based combat arts are unchanged.
• Fixed numerous minor typos and inconsistencies in combat art tooltips.

 

Spellcasting on special mounts should feel a lot less generic now. I don't know why Ascaron decided to give the same 3 generic casting fx to each character when mounted. Now each spell and buff will make its signature sounds and have the full visual effects when cast.

[Bondbug 32]

Cancelled - I was two years late with my comment. LOL typical.

I have your mod running now Flix and it is an incredible amount of work. I was never a Diablo fanatic, but, from what I remember of it, the chars show up, much better here.

Edited November 27, 2016 by Bondbug

[Flix 5,116]

Cancelled - I was two years late with my comment. LOL typical.

I have your mod running now Flix and it is an incredible amount of work. I was never a Diablo fanatic, but, from what I remember of it, the chars show up, much better here.

 

I'm very pleased you got it running. The challenge can be quite steep at times so feel free to stay in Easy difficulty until you get your bearings. I have just released a patch for the mod that fixes several aspects of combat so be sure to grab it HERE and patch the mod.

[Bezlonir 53]

Currently playing a Paladin, and just used the character editor to tweak her to use magic staffs. She is now a beast almost at a BFG level. When she gets Thorns at 75, I think she's going to be a world wrecker. Also playing a Necromancer at 50 with Iron Maiden and Skeletons, will add mages back in at 75. It's good, too. I am planning on trying a Barbarian with a 2 handed lightsaber.

[Flix 5,116]

Currently playing a Paladin, and just used the character editor to tweak her to use magic staffs. She is now a beast almost at a BFG level. When she gets Thorns at 75, I think she's going to be a world wrecker. Also playing a Necromancer at 50 with Iron Maiden and Skeletons, will add mages back in at 75. It's good, too. I am planning on trying a Barbarian with a 2 handed lightsaber.

 

Cool. Though, as of Beta 7, the Paladin should be already able to learn the Magic Staffs skill.

[Bezlonir 53]

Yeah, they can learn it. I just took swords, and I didn't want to reroll.

[laharl9999 10]

Sacred 2 is a really great hack and slash with this mod and still one of the most beautiful with hight settings.However it still has it's inherent flaws :
- No random dungeon, no random affixes on monsters
- Melee targeting really bad : how many times my character is near an ennemy and instead of attacking it directly he walks around him to adjust his position, in the same time the ennemy also moves which maks both characters takes time to find the correct position where they can fight each other.Can't this be adjusted by increasing just a bit the range of melee attacks ?It seems so weird and clunky.I can't believe nobody mentionned it ?

Also now that I have a barbarian lv 200 (thanks Quest XP, otherwies it would have been such a time sink !), I can't fin anything more rewarding than farming Nameless guardians and Diablo (near teleport) in free world.Why would I spend time on any other monster?This makes endgame quite boring after a while = same monster in same position with nothing random exept the loot.

Edited November 29, 2016 by laharl9999

[Flix 5,116]

- No random dungeon, no random affixes on monsters

Nothing I can do about that, sorry.

 

- Melee targeting really bad : how many times my character is near an ennemy and instead of attacking it directly he walks around him to adjust his position, in the same time the ennemy also moves which maks both characters takes time to find the correct position where they can fight each other.Can't this be adjusted by increasing just a bit the range of melee attacks ?It seems so weird and clunky.I can't believe nobody mentionned it ?

I too have always noticed this since I first tried Sacred 2. I guess I can try increasing the fight distance parameter for these melee combat arts and see how they respond.

 

Also now that I have a barbarian lv 200 (thanks Quest XP, otherwies it would have been such a time sink !), I can't fin anything more rewarding than farming Nameless guardians and Diablo (near teleport) in free world.Why would I spend time on any other monster?This makes endgame quite boring after a while = same monster in same position with nothing random exept the loot.

Well you said it yourself, you chose a boring thing to do (farming the same enemy over and over) so it's no wonder you get bored. The game map is more full of monsters, quests, and good loot rewards than ever before. If none of that grabs your interest, then... ?

[Bezlonir 53]

So I just found out that Smite with a magic wand will teleport you to the enemy to do the move. I've hit stuff that was far enough away the screen stuck and had to reload.

[grinninglich 2]

Hi Flix,

 

Can I share and host your mod on my site? About the site:

 

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48081

[Flix 5,116]

I made some new icons for the character creation screen using more Diablo 2 art.

 

Choose Light Path...

 

...Or Shadow Path

 

Choose Easy or Normal Difficulty...

 

...And activate Hardcore and Expert Touch modes if you like.

[lordkondemor 3]

And this is how Diablo 3 should have been like! Awesome work, dud!

 

I have but a question: does leveling up all those arts which only get regeneration time plus (like Curses or sumons) also improve them somehow apart from modification bonuses? As dark summoner I'm only rising Bone Spirit...

[Flix 5,116]

And this is how Diablo 3 should have been like! Awesome work, dud!

 

I have but a question: does leveling up all those arts which only get regeneration time plus (like Curses or sumons) also improve them somehow apart from modification bonuses? As dark summoner I'm only rising Bone Spirit...

 

Thanks a lot. Welcome to the forums.

 

I'm not sure if you mean Combat Arts or Skills in your question. Leveling up summoning combat arts like Clay Golem directly increases the level of the golem. Summoned creatures' levels are linked to the level of the combat arts that summon them.

 

If you mean the aspect skill like Dark Summons Focus, you can see on the Golem's page how that skill affects it. Focus skills improve regeneration time and let you level up a combat art higher without getting a penalty (with a penalty the combat art only partially levels up). Lore skills improve combat art casting speed, damage, and usually other stuff like armor and hitpoints.

 

Probably the best thing would just be to look at the Necromancer page for any Combat Arts you're using and see what skills affect them.

[lordkondemor 3]

Already checked the wiki, but found no clue about this issue. I meant combat arts, and clay golem is indeed a good example. About summons is now clear: higher level, stronger fellow.

What about curses? Let's please take the case of Confuse: As I read, increasing it's level will only increase it's regeneration time... and that does not look like a good idea for a confuser, does it?

[Flix 5,116]

Already checked the wiki, but found no clue about this issue. I meant combat arts, and clay golem is indeed a good example. About summons is now clear: higher level, stronger fellow.

What about curses? Let's please take the case of Confuse: As I read, increasing it's level will only increase it's regeneration time... and that does not look like a good idea for a confuser, does it?

 

I'll try to think of something to put in the tooltip for summons that indicates their power increases per CA level. Literally everything about them scales with level: armor, damage, speed, attack and defense, attributes, etc. but I don't know the exact increments.

 

For Confuse, you're right - it's currently flawed. The spell class is limited in such a way that I really only have three parameters to work with: duration, cooldown, and regeneration time. Stuff like range or "chance to confuse" just aren't part of the equation sadly.

 

Spells can be made to have their cooldowns reduced as they level up. I'll try to work in that property as well as a duration increase as Confuse levels up.

 

No other curses have this problem. They all improve in various ways as they level up:

 

Lower Resist

• Increase Enemy Sensitivity: 15% + 0.5% per level
• Damage: 3-3 Poison
• Poison Damage over Time: 42 + 21 per level
• Duration: 9.95 s + 0.5 s per level

Decrepify

• Debuff Enemy Stats: 19.8% + 0.2% per level
• Slow Enemy Speed: 80% + 2% per level
• Reduce Enemy Physical Armor: 50% + 2% per level
• Duration: 10.0s + 0.05s per level

Attract

• Damage: 3-3 Fire
• Reduce Enemy Defense: 90 + 10 per level
• Other enemies will attack the cursed target.
• Duration: 13.95 s + 0.5 s per level

 

Iron Maiden

• Damage: Physical 9-9
• Chance to Reflect Close Combat: 35% + 1% per level.

[lordkondemor 3]

perfect answer! Didn't even like vanilla version but gotta love D2fallen, hope to see more coming

[Flix 5,116]

Here's a small quality-of-life change coming to the interface in the next patch. Enemy names will now fit better in the "Last Opponent" window without getting prematurely cut off.

 

[gogoblender 3,066]

Here's a small quality-of-life change coming to the interface in the next patch. Enemy names will now fit better in the "Last Opponent" window without getting prematurely cut off.

 

 

You have no idea how much that used to annoy me when seeing them cut off... this is polish Flix, great work!

 

gogo

[Unicorn7204 5]

Hello to the masters of Sacred

I tried to install this Mod but I got a problem with it. My sacred 2 is installed in german and now I dont know how to change it in english without making a new instalation of sacred (from patch to patch.....) You know what I mean^^

-this is what I see when I start a new charakter....

-the old name from gods (Tesla, Lumen etc.)

-the old charakter names ( Seraphim, Hochelfe etc.)

-the old name for combat arts ( Konzentrierter Angriff, Blitz etc.)

It makes no sense to play it like that.....

Pity I can not try the mod.

but it is a graet work

perhaps someone tries a german translation......would be awsome, I think

Greatings from Germany

And thank you the warm welcome at Dark Matters

[gomagon 11]

I am sorry I am not good at English...

There are English locale files in C:\xxxxx\Sacred2\MODS\Diablo 2 Fallen Beta 0.X\locale\en_UK
Copy all files to C:\xxxxx\Sacred2\locale\en_DE
Try this! (do not forget to backup original locale files)

[Flix 5,116]

I am sorry I am not good at English...

 

There are English locale files in C:\xxxxx\Sacred2\MODS\Diablo 2 Fallen Beta 0.X\locale\en_UK

Copy all files to C:\xxxxx\Sacred2\locale\en_DE

Try this! (do not forget to backup original locale files)

 

 

He's right. Anyone who can read English but has a different language installed: you can copy the locale files from the mod into your language's locale directory. Just back up the original files first.

[laharl9999 10]

Is there any way to have a 100% stun immunity ?
It seems to be multiplicative instead of additive between gear and skills (aura).
Against the Nameless guardians I keep being stun by the guards even if I have the berserker aura that grants stun resistance.

[Daniat 57]

I think stun works the same way as spell intensity/resistance, but im not sure, if so that means in case you have +100% Spell Resistance then your base value is doubled, for example from 400 to 800, but if a boss enemy has higher spell intensity value than your spell resistance then you wont block the spell and it will deal more damage the higher the difference between the values.

If I remember well I also was able to block the stun attack from Nameless with Chance to Block/Reflect: Combat Arts, cause the stamp its actually a CA, btw does Berserk really give stun resistance?, in the wiki the only who grants that effect is Natural Resistance

[Flix 5,116]

Yeah I think he means Natural Resistance. It's the buff of the "Berserk Combat" aspect.

 

The problem is likely that the Temple Guardian mobs use Untouchable Force, which has a chance to stun. Even though the chance to stun is low and the damage pulses are only about once every 4 seconds, if you let yourself get surrounded by them, you will get stunned too often.

 

My strategy is this:

Destroy the teleporter pads that spawn the temple guardians.

Destroy all the remaining temple guardians.

Lastly, focus on the Nameless Guardians.