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Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
Yo for some goddamn reason I want to play this again. I couldn't ES working no matter what I tried so I guess I'll have to play vanilla. What server is everyone using, US East?

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Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
Hot dog my laptop boots into windows 7. It took me a couple of weeks last time to figure it out though. Think I might reinstall D2.

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.

dis astranagant posted:

Median is basically a whole new game in the d2 engine. It has all its own items, enemies and areas. I don't know about windows 10 but it installed pretty easily on 8.1.

What was your process for 8.1 cause I tried for days.

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.

dis astranagant posted:

I followed the directions on the forum, which installed it as a d2se plugin.

Which forum, this one?

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
ES question:

I don't know if I missed it in the database, but is there someway to get a set titania crown for Noir's in nightmare? NM chits won't give me elites as far as I can tell and the titania crown is the highest of the elites so gambling would be a waste of time I think.

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
I don't suppose anyone would know why in my ES install I have pretty much everything except a fully-equipable merc? It shows all the spots, but when I over over anything with gear that's not the standard stuff it just shows red and doesn't let me drop it in.

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.

dis astranagant posted:

You need plugy for the equipable merc

Well I mean I have the shared stash and other PlugY stuff, and two extra pages on my character info sheet (but it doesn't look like the way I remember it looking when I played on Eastern Goons).

Target Practice fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Sep 17, 2016

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
Okay I found that and tired it, which didn't work. I think I was loving something up because I was trying to use the stuff on Mad Brahmin's site along with everything else. I think I just don't know enough to try and reconcile Mad Brahmin's d2loader and es launcher with the PlugY stuff. I guess It might be a case of choosing between the PlugY changes or the D2HackIt plugins?

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.

dis astranagant posted:

Pretty sure the d2hackit stuff requires a realm.

Nah, it works in SP when you use his SP instructions, but it requires a D2 loader and modified ES launcher. Using those everything with ES works, but I couldn't get the merc stuff to work. Now I see how you're supposed to uncomment the mercmod.ini. You also lose the greatly expanded inventory that straight PlugY gives you, but that's not a dealbreaker.

Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
Okay, started the process over again. Installed ES using the VM on the front page of the ES wiki. Installed the stuff from Mad Brahmin's site as per the instructions under "For Singleplayer Users".

This is what my current mercmod.ini looks like. I'm not sure if I'm editing this correctly, or if i am, if it's even being loaded into the game, since I'm using MB's D2loader.

I just tried the first one, thinking that would have to be the Rogue, and it's currently not working.

Edit: How do you find what these loving numbers mean, like the class and item codes, I guess?

code:
;; mercmod.dll settings
;; This file comes commented out - the commented options are the default
;; settings.  Uncomment and change, or add a new uncommented line.

[mercmod]
;; Controls loading of mercmod.mpq, which contains the inventory graphics.
loadmpq=1

;; inv1 and inv2 override the specified inventory.txt records, which control
;; where and if the inventory graphics are drawn
;; record number, then the data from inventory.txt (separated by commas, spaces, or tabs)
inv1=19 -1,-1,-1,-1,0,0,-1,-1,-1,-1,29,29,20,75,4,116,55,112,136,191,64,147,55,83,251,307,4,116,56,112,136,191,3,59,55,56,208,233,32,58,25,26,93,118,121,147,25,26,208,233,122,148,25,26,136,191,154,178,55,24,251,306,122,178,55,56,20,75,121,178,55,57
inv2=23 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,29,29,100,155,64,176,55,112,216,271,124,207,55,83,331,387,64,176,56,112,216,271,63,119,55,56,288,313,92,118,25,26,173,198,181,207,25,26,288,313,182,208,25,26,216,271,214,238,55,24,331,386,182,238,55,56,100,155,181,238,55,57

[merc1]
;; The class to override
class=271

;; classes to allow for class-specific items, comma/space/tab separated
allow_class=0

;; allow 2-handed weapons to be equipped
allow_2h=0

;; item types to allow dual wielding with, comma/space/tab separated
;dual=

;; item types to disallow completely
except=2

;; Item types to allow if they pass the basic checks.
;;
;; Items not listed here will still be allowed if there were allowed before,
;; unless they are denied in 'except' or 'deny'.
;;
;; Note that you must include ring/amulet/glove/boot/belt if you want mercs
;; to be able to equip them.
allow=47,56,10,12,50

;; Item types to deny if they don't pass the other checks
deny=45

[merc2]
;class=338
;allow_class=3
;allow_2h=1
;dual=
;except=2
;allow=34,33,10,12,50
;deny=45

[merc3]
;class=359
;allow_class=1
;allow_2h=0
;dual=
;except=
;allow=30,10,12,50
;deny=45

[merc4]
;class=561
;allow_class=4
;allow_2h=1
;dual=28
;except=2
;allow=46,10,12,50
;deny=45

[merc5]
;class=560
;allow_class=4
;allow_2h=1
;dual=30
;except=2
;allow=46,10,12,50
;deny=45

[merc6]
[merc7]
[merc8]
[merc9]
[merc10]
[merc11]
[merc12]

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Target Practice
Aug 20, 2004

Shit.
Well I made the changes that I think I needed to make, based off the last post. Still not working. I really think the reason is that I'm using MB's stuff and it will only load stuff with D2HackIt.dll, and the custom launcher is reflective of that. D2HackIt only loads .d2h files, and renaming the .dll files to .d2h obviously doesn't work.

I mean I'd rather have the autostocker stuff, pick, ammoguard, etc. than a fully kitted-out merc and the larger inventory space I guess but it's still kind of a bummer.

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