Groucho

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/beta/

Have fun!

BigPete

People still play this? Hasn't every possible nook and cranny been probed yet?

Cornfed

The beta patch cannot be used on Battle.net -- it's only for single play and TCP/IP modes.

I haven't played Diablo II in at least 6 months. This new patch has restored some interest for me. It seems like the game is getting an overhaul.

victant

This patch has been a long time in the making. There's still tons of people playing this on bnet. It's pretty addicting once you start getting back into it. I wonder what the changes are in the beta 1.10.

young

i never got into diablo 2. loved the first one but i thought the 2nd wasn't as engrossing. the graphics looked crappy to me (not sure if it was b/c i bought a much larger monitor). and the respawning monsters was really annoying.

anyway, i think my bro-in-law has it and he's done so i'll probably borrow his copy and try it out again.

TheMadMonk

ditto.

JNielsen

Wow, when this first came out played it non stop. After a while I slowed down and lost my characters do to inactivity. Then the expansion came out and I played it non stop agian. Now its been at least a year since I've touched it. Maybe I'll check it out again.

areacode212

Woo! I'm glad they're throwing us a bone and giving us the patch, even a single-player beta, over the long weekend. I'm looking forward to all the changes...I've been logging on and keeping my Bnet characters active for this patch, but I'll probably end up making new ladder chars anyway.

glassdragon

oh by the way.... if you read the fine print.. it says if you install the 1.10 beta then you will not in any way be able to play on battle.net unless you use the batch file with it to revert back to 1.09 or reinstall the game
..the 1.10 beta patch apparently disables battle.net

edstein

Any details on the contents of this patch?

edstein

Answered my own question:

http://www.diabloii.net/features/v110-play-test.shtml

OtherAdam

man this patch has been in the making for almost a year now. I stopped playing last summer and I don't plan on starting again. This game seriously eats up your life once you get into it...

shizawn

Yeah, I wanted to get back into the game once I heard all the changes they were putting into 1.10. It's almost like a minor expansion. Tons of new items, skill changes, monster changes, etc.

It seems like they were right about increasing the difficulty. I played a little bit yesterday and had a lot more trouble with a solo Barbarian than I remember.

areacode212

I've gotten pretty bored with the beta...once you're used to playing on Bnet, it's incredibly tedious to do a single player run, mainly because the skills in the early game aren't all that different (the synergetic bonuses don't really make much difference until later in the game). I played single player three years ago, I don't especially want to do it again. I'll wait until the full 1.10 is released.

I am curious to see the new items and the "world event". One of the necro sets make you look like a vampire (y'know, the firewalling bastards from the Arcane Sanctuary) if you complete the entire set. And if you complete one of the assassin sets (the Natalya set?), your character becomes partly transparent. I think I'll be squeezing out quite a bit more playtime with this patch, once it hits Bnet.

Groucho

They've just put up a list of the changes in the patch...it's a good read:

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/bet...hchanges.shtml