ChaosEmpire MOD
for Diablo 2 Ver. 1.10 English + German
from 31.12.2004 22:30
7.51


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Contents:

 

Important !!!
Before installing read this page carefully

See Version Info at end for latest changes.
I won´t answer any longer questions that are already covered in this file!

In case of any trouble, press the credits button on main screen to check for your installed version,
also check Hkey_Local_Machine\software\chaosempire for version info.

You MUST first deactivate any MOD-Version of ChaosEmpire (<7.17) via ChaosEmpire.exe before upgrading!
Also you must delete the Data folder after this!

If you don´t do this, your original game files (D2Client.dll, D2Common.dll, D2Game.dll, D2Lang.dll, D2win.dll)
will be overwritten and you have to reinstall.

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General changes:

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Character modification:

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Mercenary:

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Game Balance (Difficulty):

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Map Changes:

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New Monsters:

Diablo Clone

New monsters already in Diablo2 but normally hidden (some are not working completly thats the reason for hiding)

Monster aus Diablo1

Other

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Items, general:

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New Items:

The following items transmogify with right-click into...

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Cube Recipes:

You get if you put in....

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Description of Gem-Bags:

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New Titles (Softcore(N,NM,H); Hardcore(N,NM,H)):

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Version-History:

Version 7.51 (Patch based on 7.50):
- Experience loss on death is now: 10 / 25 / 50%
- Bartuc Set Level req increased, Gloves got higher chance for MindBlast
- Soulstones and UberAmu got higher resistances
- Anti-Rush Feature improved
- Warcry synergy decreased to 20%
- Volcano gets one second cast delay
- Druid can summon 10 raven
- Assassin can cast up to 6 traps
- Stats of Goldskin and Silk of Victor little bit changed
- Experience of Diablo1 and Acid-Beasts improved
- Damage and Life of Diablo1 improved (little bit below butcher)
- Lam Esen Quest 16 Status Points instead of 5
- All elite claws can now have 3 sockets
- Moved Lazarus to another location
- Fire Enchanted Damage of SuperUnique Bosses inhell decreased
- Tomb Viper Missile changed, only instant killed by multi poision boss (tested with 7k life)
- Book of Wisdom recipe changed, you now need all 7 character dolls to get three Book of Wisdom
- Book of Wisdom increased to 10.000.000 experience
- Diablo Clone will drop less "Diablo 1"-Potions in normal, more in nightmare, and most in hell
- Game Port changed to TCP: 7501

Version 7.50 (Full Release):
- 23 new RuneWords from Blizzard Realm implemented
- Item Upgrade recipe needs only item + Moderator Doll
- Socketing items now need double amount of perfect gems then wanted sockets, instead of socket+1 in perfect skulls
- Jab, Strafe, Fend are interuptable
- Party Exp Bonus fixed
- New s
ystem for upgrading the MOD, therefore you MUST delete the DATA folder before installing

Version 7.49e+:
- Charsi imbues into unique if possible
- In all Acts enough Gold
- Chance for Exep/Elite in all Difficulty identical (gambel in Normal!!!)
- Exp Loss on death increased to 5 / 15 /25
- Character specifiic Items
in Gamble possible
- Perfect gems in Surprise Eggs

Version 7.49e:
- Barbarian-Screams in town fixed
- Ring of Ormus ilvl changed to 29/66/101
- Bat from Act4 replaced with Gargoyle
- Some skills rebalanced
- HIreling skills reworked

Version 7.49d:
- 16 new monsters (names and sounds not correct at the moment, make suggestions)
- Entry to the new levels moved to another place, but now always there (Act 5)
- Find Potion Skill changed
- Find Item Skill changed
- Reward of Bird Questin Act3 changed
- Reward of Gidbin Quest in Act3 changed

Version 7.49c:
- Changed Hireling Aura of Act3 + Act5
- New Egg Recipes

Version 7.49b:
- 21 new levels
- One woody Item from a special place and special drop from two persons can be cubed to doll stash
- Vitality- and Energy Potion rebalanced
- Barbarian-Belt "One-Row" issue solved (use eg. "x" as shortcut instead of "~""

Version 7.49a:
- New Energy-System (no Bonus-Mana per LevelUp, more Mana per Energy Point, Vitality gives a little bit more Life per Point)

Version 7.49:
- New Startlogo
- Inventory increased by 3 rows
- Tradescreen expanded 1 row
- Character starts with Identification-Book, 2 Townportal Scrolls and 3 Horadric Scrolls
- Act 3 Hirelings with additional skills
- Malah quest changed
- Hellforge quest drop changed
- Akara reward changed
- Global resistance decreased -25/-110/-250
- Global: Many Cast delays changed
- All stashes moved out of town
- 2 seals in act 4 moved
- SuperUniques moved/rearranged
- New Backgroundsounds in special areas
- Some new monsters
- Rare Items have special Recipes for One-Time Upgrade
- Runewords in rare items possible
- Teddy recipes deactivated
- A few LOD original recipes deactivated cause there a new CE recipes
- New egg recipes
- All start sets changed into 3 item sets
- 12 new sets
- ~ 50 new Uniques
- ~ 12 new sets
- Added Doll Stash (if your character looks like "FADE", stash is full, dolls dont have effect after this)
- Chimera and Damien dolls also don't drop any longer
- Faster cast and swing possible on charms
- Rings with +1 all skills possible
- Rings with character specific skills possible
- 7 Character specific Items added
- 3 Character specific Weapons added

Version 7.16:
- Changed a shortcut in act1
- Crushing Blow not /players dependend
- Gold only lossed from inventory, not stash
- Gem Button now also in german with correct text
- Teleport is blocked in some maps
- Global resistance changed -25/-85/-200 (Issue with display at -100)
- Monster AR increased to 20/40/60 and AC to 10/20/30 , BasisDmg now + 20/40/60
- Many skills modified
- Bloodmana would be casted more often
- Set-Recipe changed
- New unique belt BulKathos
- All dolls could be carried more then once
- New dolls added
- Soulstones modified
- Uber-Item modified
- Negative Über-Unique Items removed
- Uber-Uniqes Items can be carried more then once (not soulstones and rings)
- Sockets on all Set/Unique Items removed
- Books only can carry 10 scrolls
- Egg shells added
- Lightning and fire resistance potions added
- Black Key from Baal Quest, or from Clone, not an always Drop!
- Runeword Wind added
- PlugY 2.05 added

Version 7.15b:
- Added runeword Duress, Prudence and Splendor
- Scrolls + Books no longer buyable
- Seals in Act4 rearranged

Version 7.15:
- Fixed display bug on some new items
- Fixed/changed some item graphics
- Fixed Chimera 1Hit issue in Hell
- Relocated Chimera, Damien
- Rare Charms added
- Added a few dolls, and improved logic of morph recipes
- Improved Boner Skills (50% more damage probably it will decreased a little next time)

Version 7.14:
- New Installer
- Telekinesis fixed
- Some skills are left button possible
- Some skills work in town eg BO
- PlugY 2.01 added
- D2mod.dll added, which helps to add code
- Party Exp range and value changed
- 16 new low Level Unique Items (2 per charakter)
- Windforce and Eaglehorn modified
- Bows now also as etheral possible
- Butcher, Damien, Chimera, and their morphs implemented
- Teddy-Recipe changed
- WorldEvent will drop Book of wisdom instead of Uber-Unique
- Increased base damage in Nightmare and Hell to same value as normal

Version 7.13a:
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Fixed a cube recipe with Izual doll and amulet
- Morph items now need a rare amulet

Version 7.13:
- Added 100 unique Info scrolls (first rollout, many will follow, dummy text is replaced automatically in next patch)
- Replaced two monster graphics
- Changed/added some cube recipes
- Acid Beast are always magic immune
- Removed the buggy level: Sinners
- Doubled skill rewards from quests
- Added some more Morph-Items

Version 7.12:
New build with new StartUp Item graphics
If you don´t see them, your installation is not correctly done and you can drops in games
You only need this package
Before installing, see Important notice at top of file
Deinstall old MOD per MODuninstall.bat of old MOD

Version 7.11:
Only repackaged, no changes done
There is a second 7.11 which contains a zip file for Non-Eng/Ger LOD Owners
Look into Version 7.10

Version 7.10:
Increased Battle Command +skills to 5
Fixed the broken recipe to generate unique weapons
New recipe to create the book of wisdom, one part is Blood Raven´s doll, you have to find out the other needed stuff
(the book is worth your search, think about  5 Mio. Exp without cap)
Change drecipe for making your item etheral
Decreased the gamble chance for exceptional items
Fixed a typo in Experience.txt
Increased the Experience penality on death to 5% / 10 % / 15% (N / NM / H)
Implemented DLL Changes to support additional Levels in future
Changed extension of modded files in ZIP, you can savely delete all files with extensions MOD in your Diablo2 folder

Remember that you MUST uninstall the MOD before installing any newer version, and extracting the new files into your Diablo 2 folder

Version 7.03:
Fixed Anti-Rush Feature in Act2, now it blocks correctly
Removed Book Tomes out of Town
Fixed drop of Acid Beats in Act5 (before accidently act1 drops)

Version 7.02:
Improved the Anti-Rush features
Fixed a crash problem on
D2Maniacs

Version 7.01:
Fixed some broken recipes

Version 7.00:
Changed version counting, reason for many little versions is, I wanted a stable MOD so all learning is done step by step (which means version). I recommend all new Modders to do it that way.
Your tester will really be thankfull for a slowly stable developed version

Implemented many DLL changes, to make the game a little bit more challeging and tactical
Cause of that, the whole balancing has been redone (Tnx to all my BETA Testers)
Added the new "Trademark" of ChaosEmpire, our all beloved Teddy...
Skills possible up to Level 30
Added some Start and Uber Items, Increased stash, cube, inventory, done some little changes on characters, ad te whole things, to get a little better balanced
Increased Gamble-Chance
Made the Unique Item recipe much harder to work, so you have to play.
Added some modified/new maps
Implemented Anti-Rush features for MultiPlayer and yeah...that´s the Uber-News:

On 4th of april 2004 final 7.00 has gone online at D2Maniacs (Tnx to JEB and Sunny)

Version 6:
Added some monsters from Diablo1 (Tnx for all the 1.09 PlugIn´s)
Hellfire Oils, Diablo 1 Potions, the new Gem-Bags and something more...

Version 3+4+5:
Added Uber-Diablo in different ways, to let it look a little bit like a World-Event
Added some of the hidden original items, which never found their way into the game
Get much fun during holiday in modding, so I decided to learn modding...
At this place many thanks to all people in MOD Forum of Ddiablo2.de and Phrozenkeep

Version 2:
Main change have been cube recipe to make it harder to get uniques/set

Version 1:
Based on my little Single-Player MOD for LOD 1.09d, I started a new version for LOD 1.10
Experience is tripled, and there a recipes to make it a little bit easier to get better stuff, so you have the same chances in Single-Player mode as on Blizzards Realm

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Credits:

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