Uber Diablo!

[Sullla]

Hot off the presses, here is the tale of the druid variant team's battle against Uber Diablo. Believe me, it was quite an experience last night!

http://www.garath.net/Sullla/D2/uberdiablo.html

[CelticHound]

Cool! And a great writeup!

-- CH

[ShadowHM]

Thank you very much, Sulla, for posting such a well-told tale of our adventure.

[Hawkmoon]

Wow! Great writeup, Sullla! Excellent work, everyone - congrats!!

Thanks for posting this - it sounds like you guys are having quite the time, and keeping the RBD spirit alive and kicking.

[T-hawk]

Incidentally, I came across a post on another site saying that the case where everybody gets kicked from the game, but can rejoin with no interruption (Uber D didn't even heal), is caused by one of the anti-duping scanners on battle.net. And this jells with the observation that for once we had a nice stable game server to play on that night, before that one-time kickout.

So it would seem that we somehow triggered the dupe detector in the massive piles of potions and corpses that we were scattering across the landscape...

[Jaffa]

Hehe, that was fun, even if I was lagged to hell through most of the fight. Thanks for writing this up Sullla

[Zed-F]

Yep, thanks.

At least now I managed to find a Glide wrapper so I should be able to continue without nearly so much video lag! Anyone else who is using Direct3D, I can give anyone who needs it a pointer to the link I found (via Amazon Basin.)

[Dr.Disaster]

At least now I managed to find a Glide wrapper so I should be able to continue without nearly so much video lag! Anyone else who is using Direct3D, I can give anyone who needs it a pointer to the link I found (via Amazon Basin.)

In case this does not work out try to switch over to DirectDraw mode with the Video Test tools. I didn't notice any lose of detail doing this other than a small colorshift.

D2/LoD has Direct3D v6.1 implemented which is long ago on a PC-timescale. For me even with a GF7 card Direct3D mode gets choppy at times and i know by the use of more up-to-date games it's not in the responsability of card or driver. In DirectDraw mode its smooth going at a stable framerate even with a ton of critters or effects on screen.

[Deceptus]

Oh boy. That's why I think that in a long run, some of those variants can be unenjoyable... Not for me, I'm not for such a borefest. :P (click-click-clickity-click!)

[Dr.Disaster]

Stumbled over this screenie today. It shows my plaguezon's Dancing_Cloud first encounter with Diablo Clone in August 2007. During the 3 hour fight he created this really nice bone garden before handing over his precious. I'm usually not into taking screenies but this was a sight i had to save.



Dr. Disaster