Diablo 2 Resurrected Replace 1.21 Unleashes Terror Zones, High quality Of Life Enhancements

Blizzard Leisure has launched the Diablo 2 Resurrected replace 1.21 patch notes so that you can gawk at, which comes with Terror Zones and a wealth of high quality of life enhancements for the basic dungeon crawler.

This replace is in any other case often called Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.5.

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TERROR ZONES

The journey to stage 99 is a celebrated expertise for gamers and fairly the milestone if achieved—a ceremony of passage, even. We would like the journey to stage 99 to be accessible to a bigger inhabitants of gamers, supply extra selection aside from repeatedly farming Baal, Diablo, and Nihlathak, and most significantly, stay difficult. That is the place Terror Zones are available in. As we get into particulars, please observe that gamers can select to opt-out of Terror Zones if desired.

To unlock the Terror Zones characteristic, it’s essential to defeat Baal per character, per issue utilizing any enlargement character—present characters which have already fulfilled the necessities will robotically have this characteristic unlocked. As soon as Ladder Season Two begins, gamers might want to meet the aforementioned necessities to unlock Terror Zones for his or her new ladder characters.

When taking part in a Terror Zone-enabled sport, each hour, diabolical tremors infused with the Lord of Destruction’s unwavering corruption creep into particular zones, emboldening the monsters inside, and terrorizing them. The monsters in these zones will likely be a minimum of two ranges larger than your present stage or their authentic stage, as much as a most per issue. The expertise obtained and the loot dropped by killing a terrorized monster will likely be based mostly on this new stage—terrorized monsters may also grant further expertise factors.

Listed here are the extent particulars for every monster sort per issue:

Regular

• Base: +2 ranges as much as stage 45
• Champion: +4 ranges as much as stage 47
• Distinctive: +5 ranges as much as stage 48

Nightmare

• Base: +2 ranges as much as stage 71
• Champion: +4 ranges as much as stage 73
• Distinctive: +5 ranges as much as stage 74

Hell

• Base: +2 ranges as much as stage 96
• Champion: +4 ranges as much as stage 98
• Distinctive: +5 ranges as much as stage 99

The bottom participant stage used for the above calculations are taken from the creator of the sport. If the host leaves the sport, a brand new participant will likely be chosen for the bottom as soon as the subsequent Terror Zone is introduced. Upon coming into a Terror Zone-enabled sport, you’ll be told of the present terrorized areas via a message despatched to you by way of the Chat Field. When the time for brand spanking new terrorized zones attracts close to, you’ll be knowledgeable of the approaching modifications by way of the Chat Field.

As well as, you’ll be knowledgeable that you simply’re coming into a terrorized space by a number of indicators:

• Distinctive iconography subsequent to a terrorized monster’s identify
• On-screen textual content and messaging
• Particular audio cue
• In-game textual content on the auto-map
• Distinctive environmental lighting
• Ember visible results

Waypoints have additionally obtained some modifications to help in finding the present Terror Zone:

• An icon will show on the Waypoint menu subsequent to the Waypoint that’s closest to the present Terror Zone.
• The Waypoint closest to the present Terror Zone may have its identify displayed in a purple font.

Gameplay/High quality of Life

• Added further warning textual content to the mercenary affirmation immediate in case your earlier mercenary nonetheless has gadgets geared up.
• Injury worth for the Paladin’s Thorns aura is now current on the character menu.
• Useless Finger Mages now reset appropriately to their authentic state when revived by Necromancers.
• Mounted a difficulty the place casting delays might desync at very excessive ping.
• Mounted a difficulty the place monster distinctive mods have been triggering from one other distinctive mod’s set off. For instance, monsters that have been each lightning and hearth enchanted created an explosion each time they have been put into hit restoration (Ex: repeatedly hit by Warcry).
• Mounted a uncommon situation the place merchandise names on the bottom would erratically flicker and shift whereas pathing round them.
• Mounted a difficulty the place gamers and monsters have been capable of stroll via doorways that visually appeared closed.
• Mounted a difficulty the place sure Rune Phrases couldn’t be repaired in the identical sport session they have been created.
• Mounted a difficulty the place loading a personality on a console that was created on PC was inflicting texture and lighting points on console.
• Mounted a difficulty that might happen when binding a talent to a multi-key binding (Ex: Ctrl + X, Alt + X) the motion sure to the primary key turned unbound from that key.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the sport identify and password weren’t correctly updating and displaying in-game when toggling the setting for displaying it.
• Mounted a difficulty the place updates to statistics, expertise, or quests have been displaying when no updates have been obtainable.
• Mounted a difficulty the place hardcore character names weren’t displaying in crimson textual content on the character record.
• Mounted a difficulty with the Legacy Graphics gamble refresh icon containing graphical artifacts and corruption.
• Mounted a difficulty the place single and dual-wielding fundamental assaults with Claw weapons might have inconsistent assault speeds.
• Mounted a difficulty the place flags related to earlier characters (Ladder, Hardcore, and Traditional) would persist for newly created characters within the Legacy Graphics Character Creation Display screen.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the “purchase” button legend within the vendor window wouldn’t show on the primary weapons tab.
• Mounted a difficulty the place sure VFX have been inflicting graphical corruption when combating Uber Diablo.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Iron Golems might lose the aura granted by the merchandise they have been created with when the Golem was frozen.
• Chosen sport settings now persist in foyer sport creation and filtering fairly than being reset.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Iron Golems created in a earlier sport would disappear as an alternative of teleporting to you.
• Mounted a difficulty the place performing a weapon swap throughout a commerce would generally freeze the sport.
• Mounted a difficulty the place visuals results granted by set bonuses would generally toggle on and off.
• Mounted a difficulty the place environmental screen-space VFX weren’t taking part in.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Iron Golems summoned via a cost of the talent (Ex: granted by Metalgrid) would disappear when performing a listing replace.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Iron Golems created by a charged talent wouldn’t save between video games.
• Mounted a difficulty the place gamers on console and controller would generally get the red-flash indicator for well being loss whereas performing a listing replace.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Horadric Dice couldn’t be quick-dropped if there have been gadgets in it when taking part in on console or with a controller.
• Mounted a difficulty the place comparable gadgets weren’t grouping collectively when auto-populating into the belt whereas utilizing a controller.
• Mounted varied points when quick-moving a belt with gadgets within the further belt slots it offers whereas utilizing a controller.
• Mounted a difficulty the place you generally couldn’t quick-equip an merchandise that has its requirement met by one other geared up merchandise.
• Mounted a difficulty the place an merchandise with requirement reductions would generally nonetheless present as necessities not met when geared up on a mercenary.
• Mounted a desync with mana values when the consumption and regeneration of mana occurred in a brief body window.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Fast Forged would generally restore the earlier talent to the fallacious mouse button.
• Act V Twin-Wielding mercenaries now precisely animates two assault swings as an alternative of 1.
• Mounted a difficulty the place there have been no corresponding Suicide Minion variations of the three visitor Minion variants. These visitor Minions will not visually remodel right into a skeleton and constantly stack explosion injury when whipped by Nihlathak or an Overseer.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Fist of the Heavens might unintentionally be used when it was sure on controller or assigned to left click on on M+KB.
• Mounted a difficulty the place pets summoned by “probability to forged” expertise on gadgets would disappear after performing a listing replace.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Ravens summoned by charged expertise would disappear after a couple of seconds.
• Necromancer
  • Problem penalties for all times drain now apply to the Blood Golem’s assaults.
  • Mounted a difficulty the place Blood Golem was not appropriately stealing life from a PvP opponent.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the expertise sharing calculation for an eight-player get together would hardly ever overflow and award much less expertise than regular.

PC-Particular Fixes

• Added performance to revoke and undo good friend rejection so it’s not a everlasting rejection.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the “/buddies record” chat command was being truncated after 256 characters.
• Eliminated the power to bind the Print Display screen key.
• Mounted a difficulty the place if the gamers opened chat after dying with Legacy Graphics lively, all controls stopped functioning.
• Mounted a difficulty if a linked merchandise in chat exceeded one line, the merchandise was unable to be chosen and proven.
• Mounted a difficulty the place if a participant entered the foyer, then entered a sport, the problem choice could be clean upon returning to the foyer.
• Eliminated the scroll bar and buttons from the autosuggest menu for chat instructions.
• Mounted a difficulty the place if a talent was sure, then the important thing was faraway from the talent binding, the unbound talent would nonetheless show with out a binding.
• Improved the scrolling on the ladder season, ladder sort, and sophistication drop-down within the ladder tab within the on-line foyer.
• Mounted a tooltip that incorrectly said “Present sport identify and password” to appropriately state “Present sport identify.”
• Mounted a difficulty the place the latency indicator visible within the foyer was off heart.
• Mounted a difficulty the place if the participant prompts controller mode whereas within the foyer, the latency indicator visible would disappear.
• Expertise can now all the time be set to the left or proper slots, no matter for those who meet the necessities to make use of them.
• Mounted a difficulty the place rings have been all the time quick-equipped to the right-hand slot, even when the left-hand slot was open.
• M+KB can now quick-equip and quick-unequip gadgets to and from their character and mercenary.
• Mounted a difficulty the place dragging an merchandise onto a mercenary’s portrait was not swapping their at present geared up merchandise.
• Textual content-to-speech now makes use of Voice (put in on Home windows) which corresponds to the voice language chosen (Set in Battle.web launcher).
• Textual content-to-speech choice reads out all chat instructions no matter channel.
• Textual content-to-speech, when studying an merchandise hyperlink, will now solely learn the merchandise textual content as an alternative of together with varied numbers and letters.
• Added an in-game icon to symbolize buddies who’re on-line taking part in Overwatch 2.
• Mounted a difficulty the place whispering somebody in a distinct channel wouldn’t robotically convey the person to the whisper channel with the opposite person.

Console-Particular Fixes

• Character names are actually appropriately proven within the Recreation Particulars display.
• Traditional characters can not create a sport concentrating on any non-classic content material (Ex: Act V) within the Recreation Creator menu.
• Up to date the icon on the Recreation Creator menu to additional differentiate from the Search Menu.
• Up to date the magnifying glass icon within the Recreation Listing Search to match the textual content shade.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Ladder Season finish message was incorrectly displaying on the entrance finish.
• Mounted a difficulty the place connecting a second controller that logs into a distinct person would trigger the sport to lose connection.
• Improved the Ladder leaderboard loading on PS4 / PS5.
• Mounted a uncommon situation the place Unknown might seem in console’s language if language was modified whereas in-game.
• Mounted a difficulty on Swap the place the hunt log tab textual content was being reduce off in Italian.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Ladder finish time displayed the time inaccurately.
• Mounted a difficulty the place dying would disable the Emote Wheel.
• Closing the stock on controller with an merchandise in your cursor will now attempt to place the merchandise in your stock earlier than dropping it.

Localization

• Up to date gender pronoun strings that referred to the participant from “his / her” to the impartial counterpart “their.”
• Added a prefix for on-line Uber Diablo messages obtained in offline video games.
• Added localization translations for the automap tooltip.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the utmost gold in-game textual content for Polish, Russian, Mexican Spanish, and Portuguese languages have been exceeding their bounds within the UI.
• Mounted quite a lot of geared up talent names that have been exceeding their bounds within the UI for the Russian and Polish languages.
• Eliminated pointless spacing between tabs on PC within the quest log, waypoints, and participant stash UI screens when taking part in with a controller whereas utilizing the massive font choice.
• Modified the date formatting for Japan to be displayed as Yr / Month / Day.
• Mounted a typo within the Japanese translations for fast equip and unequip to mercenary tooltip.

Stability

• Mounted a crash on PC that occurred when resizing the consumer window whereas within the foyer.
• Improved sport be part of and sport create backend request for a smoother participant expertise.
• Varied sport stability enhancements.

Modding

Now we have made some modifications to boost the offline single-player modding expertise. Whereas these modifications will trigger compatibility points for present offline single-player mods, they are going to enable for additional customization choices for mod builders.

• Added a brand new file: LevelGroups.txt. This file permits ranges to be grouped collectively for the aim of condensing Terror Zones messages.
• Added a brand new file: hirelingdesc.txt. This file defines hireling knowledge particular to the monsterclass however not the hireling statblock. At the moment it solely controls voice sort.
• Varied mercenary UI attributes are actually modifiable via knowledge. This consists of talent icons, stock slot backgrounds, and sophistication names.
• New AI parameters have been added to the mercenary’s AI for the aim of eradicating hardcoding. See monai.txt for particulars.
• Eliminated hardcoded relationships for beltable gadgets. Comparable gadgets are actually decided by spell sort for scrolls and merchandise sort for the whole lot else.
• Mounted a crash on controller when utilizing new participant expertise which might be listed after the vanilla expertise.

Save Knowledge Adjustments

Some modifications to save lots of knowledge have been made in “ItemStatCost.txt”. If an present single participant mod has edited these values, then their mod’s saves might develop into corrupted when migrating previous saves to the brand new save model. It is strongly recommended to create backups of present saves earlier than loading them.

1. “damageresist” and “magicresist”
   1. Save Bits: 8 -> 9
   2. Save Add: 0 -> 200
2. “fireresist”, “lightresist”, “coldresist”, and “poisonresist”
   1. Save Bits: 8 -> 9
   2. Save Add: 50 -> 200

Textual content File Column Adjustments

Builders of present offline single participant mods can remake their modifications with the brand new knowledge, or they’ll add the brand new columns earlier than merging.

ranges.txt

monstats.txt

• “CannotDesecrate”
• “NoShldBlock” -> “ShieldBlockOverride”

skillsdesc.txt

soundenviron.txt

[Source – Diablo 2 Patch Notes]