Quote Originally Posted by Qwazym View Post
Hey guys and dolls!

Before I get started, I would like to advise that I haven't browsed every (well barely any) post on this forum to find the answers, I thought the best option would be to post and get more direct answers!

Considering getting back into d2, after I convince the GF to join me I was looking for a High Resolution mod with servers to check out. Came across this and it looked like a fair bit of effort has gone into this.

I have previously played several thousand hours on D2 + LOD, and probably a good few thousand hours on a mod called Hell Unleashed (might give insight into some of my experience & questions). Due to loving d2 so much, I've also spent around 1000 hours on d3 (maybe more now).

I'm a Hardcore player, who almost exclusively plays hardcore because it's more thrilling and with softcore, you can just throw corpses at it until you win. HC just makes the game more exciting.

AS FOR THE QUESTIONS!

1: What's the Hardcore community like? How many active players are there every week in hardcore? if not many, how about softcore? I had a look at the server active games list and saw that there is definitely a few people playing.

2: Would you recommend playing hardcore in this mod? I've entirely solo'd the other mod (Hell Unleashed) in hardcore up to level 101 which is designed for 6 player parties, and am just curious of the difficulty and if there any bull**** things that happen to suggest I start softcore?

3: I've read about a few of the major changes between this and D2+LOD and know a few, but I didn't see anything in passing about skill changes. Have the skills etc been overhauled as well as everything else or are they largely the same?

4: What resolution does this mod run with?

5: How stable and fast are the servers considering I'm from Australia? what about the fact that they have so many people able to be in 1 game at a time? Will I get smashed for latency in a non-empty game?

Any other things you might think I need to know please let me know. I'll check back here tomorrow to see all of your helpful updates!

Thanks in advance for your help and I look forward to saving the world with you all.

Regards, Qwazym.
Welcome to the server! I think a lot of us here were extreme Diablo 2 players back in the day

1) As Equa said HC could pose to be quite challenging for certain content... but there is also plenty of new endgame content you can definitely do if careful. I think you'll have a blast here, I have put in literally over 1000 hours in developing content alone.

2) Kind of answered that with #1 , there is definitely a HC playerbase, it is quite a bit smaller but it is there! I am always looking to make things a bit more HC friendly in future patches.

3) A lot of skills have been changed in a variety of ways, whether it is the way they function or synergy, you'll see quite a bit has been changed. Each class also has 1 new skill.

4) You can use 1024x768 or 1280x1024, along with the original resolutions. We didn't want to go too high! This can always change in the future.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! We try to put out huge content patches every few patches, so it's never really boring around here I look forward to having you around!