THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on June 12, 2008, 01:26:40 AM
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I am reinstalling Diablos II right now. Other EB people who wish to join me are more than welcome. Despite the hundreds of hours I've put into this game, only a fraction of that was multi. Join in!
RULES:
1) We're playing with locally stored characters, not Realm (Battle.net) characters.
2) This doesn't mean you can be a character hacking assmunch.
3) We're playing on Open Battle.net
Game Name: evilbore
Password: himumu
Diablos II: Play it again for the first time! (Or in Himumu's case, for the first time.)
Open Battle.net Configuration
Diablo II uses year 2000 Internets, so it can be tricky to get working. Follow these steps:
1) Add Diablo II.exe to your Firewall Exceptions
2) Add Battle.net ports to your Firewall Exceptions (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21219)
3) Configure your router to forward ports 4000 and 6112-6119 to your computer IP. (Both TCP and UDP.)
Characters
Herod - Barbarian, Synthesizer Patel
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I thought we were playing TQ! WTF!
I lost my Diablos II case. :(
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You can still play TQ, MAF is not joining me in D2
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But it won't be as sexy now. :(
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Vista is a total cockfag, and refuses to install D2.
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Why would you not want to play on b.net? That's crazy
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Why would you not want to play on b.net? That's crazy
We'll play on b.net, but as "Open Battle.net" using our single player characters, rather than pure Battle.net characters.
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oh dios mio!!
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(http://i32.tinypic.com/25p3477.jpg)
:bawl
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I'll just not participate and give you a summary of what would have happened if I had:
OMG check out the screens of my sorc!
act1 finished, yay
act2..falling asleeep will finish tomorrow
act3...fuck this, shit game
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I'll just not participate and give you a summary of what would have happened if I had:
OMG check out the screens of my sorc!
act1 finished, yay
act2..falling asleeep will finish tomorrow
act3...fuck this, shit game
Nailed it.
Baldur's Gate 2 > Diablos 2
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(http://i32.tinypic.com/25p3477.jpg)
:bawl
Copy the contents of the CD to a folder on your desktop and run from there. If you get a CRC fail again while copying data, then your disk is teh fubar. Just borrow one from someone (you know all your friends have this game too), or, uh, 'acquire' another copy of the disk for installation (probably 10 mins tops on your favorite p2p client). The game will still play fine off a disk that fails CRC checks on .mpq files.
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I'll just not participate and give you a summary of what would have happened if I had:
OMG check out the screens of my sorc!
act1 finished, yay
act2..falling asleeep will finish tomorrow
act3...fuck this, shit game
Nailed it.
Baldur's Gate 2 > Diablos 2
They're not even the same genre!
Act 3 :(
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Copy the contents of the CD to a folder on your desktop and run from there. If you get a CRC fail again while copying data, then your disk is teh fubar. Just borrow one from someone (you know all your friends have this game too), or, uh, 'acquire' another copy of the disk for installation (probably 10 mins tops on your favorite p2p client). The game will still play fine off a disk that fails CRC checks on .mpq files.
Disk is fuxed, already tried that.
"Acquiring" a "copy" right now for installation purposes.
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Act 3 :(
Act 3 is just impossible for me to finish. I think I've done it like ONCE out of the last four or five times I attempted to play through D2. It's just that bad. Act 2, with its endless expanse of tiled desert and bug caves, is only marginally better.
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I think I finished Act 3, but then I dropped my loot for some reason, and then saved and exited without picking it back up. I had built my character around that wand. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK
I never played the game again.
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Act 4 is short and punchy, tho, and Act 5 is the bee's knees :hyper
I'm gonna take my Barbarian at least through Normal, folks are welcome to join
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I have a CD-R of D2, I will try to install it
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Synthesizer Patel, are you using Lord of Destruction or just vanilla Diablo II?
I'm only level 3 right now, so I'll wait a while before joining the EB game.
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Synthesizer Patel, are you using Lord of Destruction or just vanilla Diablo II?
I'm only level 3 right now, so I'll wait a while before joining the EB game.
LoD because I'm not an r-tard. and like I said, I'm L4, so join away :)
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Why would you not want to play on b.net? That's crazy
I remember playing Warcraft II on Heat.net. Good times (not really).
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Why would you not want to play on b.net? That's crazy
I remember playing Warcraft II on Heat.net. Good times (not really).
i loved WC2 heat.net edition because it ran on my pc where as the previous iterations did not
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Act 4 is short and punchy, tho, and Act 5 is the bee's knees :hyper
This I can agree on 110%, both act 4 and 5 are high quality stuff.
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Synthesizer Patel, are you using Lord of Destruction or just vanilla Diablo II?
I'm only level 3 right now, so I'll wait a while before joining the EB game.
LoD because I'm not an r-tard. and like I said, I'm L4, so join away :)
I'll swing by once LoD finishes installing.
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is LoD its own install? i saw it on sale at GameStop... but it just said it was LoD, and didnt come with the original.
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you need both base D2 and LOD to play
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I'm in USWest, but every time I try to join the game it says "Invalid Name". :-\
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Oh man. I've been re-playing this with friends but they're so busy. Can we playw ith Expansion Content? None of my friends have it and I'm ALL SET. I'm ready, yo, let's play!
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I'm in USWest, but every time I try to join the game it says "Invalid Name". :-\
that's cause I'm at WORK and not PLAYING right now
if the game's not up, just start it with the name/pass in the topic
again, we are using SINGLE PLAYER characters with OTHER MULTIPLAY
these are NOT BATTLE.NET CHARACTERS
any suggestions for a Barb build? I'm thinking I should go dual-wield and heavy into whirlwind? Plus a few points in Warcries to help the party. 8)
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So how does this work? Is it like MMO? Will you all be playing at the same time (assuming other people are on)?
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:bow burned discs :bow2
Let's hope my LoD disc isn't fucked as well. :omg
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it's like PSO or something - small, instanced games that you play with other people
no overworld or anything
I suggest that people always make a multiplayer game with the name/pass in the OP while they're playing so that other people can join
we can join together pretty easily
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my LoD case is gone, i have no cd key :'(
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I'm not willing to play a non-expansion character, sorry - LOD adds that much
Yeah, the D2 movies are still the best thing Blizzard cinematics has ever done, tonally
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I spent the past couple of hours cruising through various fields and dungeons, taking out chumps and getting the phat loots. So far I've only really found one item that's really all that good, it's a sash that's ZOMG AWESOME and worth a hefty sum of cash, not that I'd part with it anytime soon. I'm at level 10 and getting close to level 11, just save Deckard Cain.
I'll probably be back online in an hour or so.
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I played it some not too long after it came and finally beat the last dungeon. It's been a long time since I played it, so I can't remember too much about how long I played although I do remember that I did some multiplayer.
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LADDER RESET the 17th (iirc), gonna start back up amassing the small fortune I got this season, had some pretty fucken kick ass shit :tophat
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As someone who has never played a Diablo before, do I need to start with 1? Skip 1 and go straight to 2? Give me the rundown
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As someone who has never played a Diablo before, do I need to start with 1? Skip 1 and go straight to 2? Give me the rundown
skip 1 and go straight to 2
and for the love of all that is good and holy, install Lord of Destruction
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I'm in; join if you like
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I can't find your game. Also, I have a game under than name going for the past hour...
So what the heck is going on here?
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I dunno. I'm on Open Battle.net?
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Which gateway are you using? Apparently it does make a difference.
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I have it set to US West, but I'm going to Other Multiplayer -> Open Battle.net
as I said in the OP and many times since, I'm using a single player character online, not a "pure" Battle.net chara
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That's exactly what I've been doing too. I even had a game going in Open Battle.net called "Evilbore"!
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okay, once I hit the next waypoint, let's figure this shit out
k, I just made a game called Evilbore on Open Battle.net. my settings are US West, though that shouldn't matter. can you see/join it?
when I create it, I can't modify the max players - it remains empty and greyed out. could that be part of it?
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Okay, the game is definitely there, but every time I try to join it will load for a few seconds and then give me an error message that says "Failed to Join Game". Maybe I could create a room and then you could try to join it?
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try it again right now if you could...
I changed it to evilbore/himumu (all lowercase, to reduce chance of error)
try typing the game name/password in directly into the slots at the top, not looking for it in the list
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That's what I'm doing. It finds the game and then starts loading it, but as soon as it's almost finished loading the game kicks me out and I get and error message saying that it failed to load. I tried going into a random game and it worked just fine, so I don't know what's going on.
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okay, create a game name/pass and tell it to me and I'll look for it now
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Alright, I'll have it up in a couple of seconds.
Edit: I'm in there now.
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damn, got the same error
entering, loading ... Failed to Join Game :/
should we start over with Realm characters? blehhh
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Well that's just great. :-\
I'll start a game called "GreatRumbler" without a password, see if you can join it.
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google suggests this is a port forwarding thing and we need to fwd port 6112. let me research
EDIT: unpassword protected games on open battle.net != good idea
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I know, I just wanted to see if it would work.
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Failed to Join Game
I'm:
1) adding Diablo II.exe as an exception to Windows Firewall
2) working on forwarding port 6112. you can get directions at www.portforward.com
Can you do the same?
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Okay, I've set Diablo II.exe as an exception on the firewall.
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try joining evilbore/himumu again...
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Alright, I'll try to join your game again.
Edit: Are you in the game now? I'm putting in the name and password, but it's not recognizing that there's a game available with that name.
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I'm def in. arrrrgh stupid year 2000 network infrastructure
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I keep getting the "fail to load game" message. I'm going to mess with my router some, so stay in the game.
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I'm gonna go work on my router too ... I never got that port correctly fwded. brb.
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Wow, this doesnt even work. I'll be over at the Titan Quest table if you need me.
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I'm able to join other people's games, so that's something at least.
I'll start a game evilbore/himumu and wait for you there, Patel.
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I'm able to join other people's games, so that's something at least.
I'll start a game evilbore/himumu and wait for you there, Patel.
bleh - I opened up the firewall and fwded all the ports and am still getting the error :/
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:'(
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okay, one more try - followed these instructions
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21219
let me know when the game's created
EDIT: I JOINED SOMEONE ELSE'S GAME!!
EDIT2: Okay, I made the game. Join if you can. Also updated OP with port instructions
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Okay, I'll try to join in a few seconds.
Edit: Nope, still getting the same error message.
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siiiiiiiigh
but I was able to join someone else's game :(((((((((((((
screw this for tonight
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This is incredibly frustrating.
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this same problem occurs with warcraft 3. you can join anyone's game, but you have to configure some stuff to create your own. iirc, you go to connections and properties on your connection, then on the network tab you have to check all the options. you also have to deactivate windows firewall or add the program to it, though i can never do that right.
that only works if you're using a bridge though. with a router, you have to manually open all the tcp and udp ports used by wc3 - or in this case, d2 - to be able to host.
when i used to play this with my friends, one of us hosted and the rest joined by connecting to his ip manually. why don't you just do that?
to see the ports it uses: http://portforward.com/cports.htm
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okay ... ONE more try ... I've created the game ... siiiiigh (I changed to a different router...lol)
EDIT: tomorrow, then. yay L12 barb
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Onward to Act II!!
Also, deserts are awesome.
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Good lord, just wait until the ladder reset and play on battle.net servers. I'm going to get back into it when that happens.
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awesome, another game for you guys to obsess over for a couple weeks then totally forget about
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awesome, another game for you guys to obsess over for a couple weeks then totally forget about
um, it's called "playing games"
are we supposed to play nothing but D2 for 18 months? smh
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PD's too busy imagining what a dick feels like in his mouth and talking about sin scars
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awesome, another game for you guys to obsess over for a couple weeks then totally forget about
are we supposed to play nothing but D2 for 18 months? smh
I jsut about did that once. :-\
yeah, really that should be
"are we supposed to play nothing but D2 for 18 months...again? smh"
there's nothing wrong with 2-4 weeks of renewed D2 fun every 2 years or so tho :hyper
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If it wasn't fireworks season AND my brother paid me back, I'd totally be on this train. I have only played Diablo 2 for two hours in my life. I played a demo for Diablo on my 200 MHz P1 way back when.
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I'm playing a barb, it's awesome
MIGHTY LEEEEAP
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I don't mess around with girly moves like "leap", I got straight for the ax mastery and concentration. Just bash away and grind the numerical keys, works every time!
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I don't mess around with girly moves like "leap", I got straight for the ax mastery and concentration. Just bash away and grind the numerical keys, works every time!
is Axe Mastery what I want? I figure I need to choose one mastery and stick with it (of course)
I'm mostly saving my points for a WW build
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I started with ax mastery and just dumped a lot of points into. You probably need to stick with one: ax, sword, or mace. Otherwise your points get diluted.