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Hello everyone, been a while since the site has been updated With Diablo 3 on the horizon, people seem to have forgotten Diablo 2 modmaking, with a few exceptions. So here we go:
WARNING: HANDLE WITH CARE If you need new explosion graphics for your mod, use TryingToLive can help you. He has released a small pack of two new .dcc animations - one fire and one ice explosion. Download the pack from here
SCRABBLE Volf has been hard at work in the last months, and his new version of D2 Scrabble is coming along nicely. To tease all the players who are awaiting his release, Volf revealed a number of short videos to demonstrate some of the new features in the mod. Check them out!
BACK IN BUSINESS This is a bit old news now, but anyway - the Dark Alliance mod site has been relaunched! You can check the site out here. If you wish to discuss the Dark Alliance mod by kingpin, then visit its forum here in the Phrozen Keep.
THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING! After patch v1.13a was taken down from the Public Test Realm of Diablo 2, it was time for v1.13b to shine. The new test patch features a number of interesting fixes, most notably the TPPK fix and the 27 states bug fix. It also has some undocumented features, like fixes for the lock bugs with Charge and Leap Attack. So waste no more time - connect and play! You can read more about v1.13b here.
DEADLY GALS On to some Diablo 3 news - just several days ago Blizzard finally revealed the in-game models of the female Monk and Barbarian. So if you've been living under a rock and haven't seen them yet, then do so - Female Monk and Female Barbarian. Blizzard haven't yet added the models for female Witch Doctor and male Wizard to their site, but we all hope they do so soon.
That's all we have to present this time, see you when the time comes for the next Phrozen Keep update
byonyx, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:10 Read all (3 Replies)
Keep Update 01/04/2010
Hello and Happy New Year to everyone! Here comes the first update of the Phrozen Keep for 2010 and we bring some exciting news:
FILE PLANET NO MORE Everyone who has been on this site for more than a month knows very well about our repeating problems with File Planet and the way it served our downloads. Well, this has changed. File Planet decided to remove our files from their servers without prior notice, so we were forced to move them to a new host. All our downloads, including those of the resource files, are now hosted on Huge Laser. I'd like to thank Volf for the assistance with the move of the files, as well as Alex "Raptor" Dobie, who provided the webspace needed. This fully ends our relations to Gamespy/IGN and no component of the Phrozen Keep is currently hosted on their servers. Volf's File Center has been reworked, so it points to the new locations of the files on Huge Laser and as far as I can tell, the downloading goes smoothly. In addition, the History of the Site article has been updated to feature this (big) event in the site history.
INTO OBLIVION The new year brings a new mod release. Russian modmaker andsimo released Oblivion Knights v1.13. Don't get confused by the version number - the mod only work on D2 LoD v1.10. Here's a brief list of some of the mod features:
Any monsters drop only unique and rarity items, and a little magic items
Increased unique boss monsters quantity
Act bosses and quest sub-bosses may be found in the variety locations and in the different acts
Characters start game with Horadric Cube
Characters use giant inventory and stash
All hirelings use full equip
You can download the mod from here. Andsimo also provided two YouTube videos to showcase the features of the mod, check them out here and here.
TUNES Andsimo has been busy lately, as he also provided us with a music patch to replace the tunes from the original game. The music in the patch is taken from a french team called Space. The album name is "Magic Flight", released in 1977. Also, some tracks from Final Fantasy VII are included. Download the music patch from here.
ABOUT TIME The v1.13 patch beta has been live on the realms for a while now and people have already began modding it, so they certainly needed a datafile to include the newly added files in the .mpq. Volf included the new filenames in the old datafile and here it is - the v1.13 beta datafile. Now you can finally extract that Token of Absolution image!
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS Diablo 2 modmaking has been going on for many years now, but no one ever managed to complete a future/urban themed mod. It appears Volf has taken the task seriously this time with an ambitious project called Sanctuary 2000. The story takes place 2000 years after the Three were defeated and the world has changed a lot. Here's an early preview screenshot of what's to come in this project. Definitely worth to be included in our Screenshot of the Week gallery, isn't it?
That's all for now. My best wishes to all the Phrozen Keep users and their loved ones in the new year!
byonyx, Monday, 04 January 2010 10:02 Read all (0 Replies)
Keep Update 12/20/2009
Diablo II 1.13 Public Test Realm is LIVE! Just a few hours after previous news update Blizzard decided to release 1.13 to their new public test realm for diablo 2.
Diablo 2 have once again been in focus on websites around the world. Alot discussions have been around if this is a good or bad patch. Why not make a judgement of your own? all you need to do is have a clean 1.12a patch installed and connect to classic battle.net realm. That will upgrade your patch to 1.13 ptr (it works in solo game once you patched it up aswell). You can easy downgrade to 1.12a by visit any regular realm.
D2scrabble mod 4.0 for 1.13 patch by Volf D2scabble mod have been updated to 4.0 and is compatible with the 1.13 ptr patch.
Some of the changes in 4.0: -A gembag has been added. -Level restrictions on scrabble recipes has been removed. -Cow King and hell diablo can drop Annihilus charm. -Mod Updated to 1.13 ptr patch. -The new 1.13 respec items can be dropped by the prime evils in hell difficulty + some other bosses can drop them in nm and hell. -new unique items. -A new major feature is an item compressor that enables you to pack your items to a tiny 1x1 item for storage.
A new mod is born: PowerDiablo by saervos Since the previous update both the initial release 1.0 and 1.1 patch have been released.
- This mod focus on speed up the booring time until end-game. You gain experience points alot faster (+300%). - Equipment drops have been rebalanced to give access to higher quality equipment earlier in the game. - Low-level uniques and sets are actually useful now as you find many of them earlier in the campaign. - Gambling odds have also been increased to: 2% unique, 12% set, 25% rare. - All monsters have been improved to offset the better gear and higher level players, and to add an extra level of challenge to the game. Monster levels are increased 2X across the board (1.5X in Nightmare and Hell) to keep pace with the player experience curve. Monster damage and defense are increased 1.5X as well.
You can read more about the mod in the annoucement thread here and also download the mod here.
Another new mod released Doom shadows by Evilpanda The initial release 0.1 beta have been released.
Some of it's features: - new characters Warlock (replaced sorceress), Vampire Mage (replaced necromancer), Fenrisian (replaced druid), Dark Elf (replaced assassin), Lamian (replaced amazon), heretic (replaced Paladin), and Possessed (replaced barbarian). - max level of 130 and 6 stat points per level. - maps are darker and more atmospheric. - monsters, some new ones with new graphics, new varieties of existing types, most of original made harder or have new abilities on harder settings- game progress is intended to be slower than vanilla. - superuniques and bosses are faster and tougher on harder settings, many based on Doctor Who
Read more about it's features in this thread. Wanna try the mod? download it here
This was all news for this time and until next time have a great Christmas and enjoy Diablo and the new mods.
bykingpin, Sunday, 20 December 2009 13:35 Read all (8 Replies)
With Diablo 3 on the horizon, people seem to have forgotten Diablo 2 modmaking, with a few exceptions. So here we go:
You can check the site out 
