Using mods?

Hi,

I was wondering how mods for the Diablo games would work. I know that with
Diablo 1 they were DAT files that were only usable with v1.07, but in the
case of Diablo 2 mods, like the Gemstone mentioned here, I was wondering
how that would work.

Does it overwrite Diablo 2 files, so that you can't play the original?

Is it single-player only?

Does Blizzard detect it as unofficial software and refuse connections to
battle.net?

Are there separate servers built into the mod?

Thank you,

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On Sep 25, 2:39 pm, AzzMazta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering how mods for the Diablo games would work. I know that with
> Diablo 1 they were DAT files that were only usable with v1.07, but in the
> case of Diablo 2 mods, like the Gemstone mentioned here, I was wondering
> how that would work.
>
> Does it overwrite Diablo 2 files, so that you can't play the original?
>

No.
A lot of mods come as patch_d2.mpq files so you have to swap the MPQs
in and out, but Gemstone is a mod that can be run just by creating a
new shortcut to D2 with -direct -txt as parameters. That way there's
no file swapping involved, just the need to make a second D2
shortcut

> Is it single-player only?
>

It is. Well, you can play TCP/IP with others who have the same mod and
same version.

> Does Blizzard detect it as unofficial software and refuse connections to
> battle.net?
>

Not that I know of, but that's whny you have two different shortcuts,
so you don't try to connect to BNet while running the mod

> Are there separate servers built into the mod?
>

No. That's against Blizzard's TOS.

> Thank you,
>