Sigma 1.1 Bugs & Feedback

[nofurylion]

-The uber lockdown timer making my d hard. Super fun.
-Astrogha totem corpse need to be removed maybe. With current state, its so hard to not get eye cancer as melee wdm.
-Level progression apparently super fun. I thought it would be annoying. But maybe add variation for 105 rift.

[tranvanhieu]

There is no way to start a level 1 naginata sin now (for someone who only want to use Naginata skill)
Merchants won't sell, I also spent a good 5 minutes just to refresh Gheed's gamble, and no Naginata at all.

Why? I remember every starting character have every basic weapons for all build they need, some patches ago.

[Meddle]

Lobby sound is being muted/unmuted by every M keystroke. CTRL+M mutes/unmutes sound, M should simply print the letter M into a text field (or do nothing).

[Ice[Fire]]

Remove the ledges in Fauztinville... It's a giant middle finger to melee characters. There's so much melee hate in this game already, the main farmable end-game rift shouldn't be so painful to do as a melee character. The ledges literally serve no purpose except to make clearing as a melee character incredibly frustrating and inefficient.

[duysir0]

Bug:
Bug1: Ocationally Autoparty is bugged and you can't see teamate icons on top left or use any buff on them aswell.
Bug2: Sometime need to reequip Tome of Possession for the 0% avoid aura to work with Lucion
Bug2: Sometime Anya create 2 red portals
Bug3: Sometime screen upon deafeating Baal show weird visual with d2 cursors
Bug4: Very rarely when entering area with red portal an error occur (same as old Median XL 17 k3k red portal bug when entering Torajan Jungle)
Bug5: Madking's Spines UHM club only give max of 65% DeadlyStrike (Dont know if this really is a bug or Median DS cap)
Bug6: Bosses icon always block the 10th skill of rmb skill bottom row

Rant & Feedback: Warning: Wall of text; Garbo language

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Rant1: AutoParty is no fun:
It just fells unnatural getting autopartied. Yeah I like the new button that Add this dude to my friendlist, but where's my button to party with the actual person I want to or perhap, the button to let me kill this particular mf who stole my shit or disrespected me hm? Lots of the time, people just doing shit in different locations and to my knowledge your party member has to be close to each other in order to gain more exp,item,etc so it's pointless. Btw, like I mentioned in the bug section, Autoparty is bugged, ocasionally, and when that happens someone has to leave room then comeback to get it to work, it's superfun!. Personally, I also don't like how everyone in the room could know my location and then just enter my portal nonchalantly ; this is a real problem and shit did happen, some batard sneaked into my portal and grab my shit on the ground >:(.
To my experience in sigma so far, theres no benefit whatsoever in Autoparty, it just cause more problems. "Just make a passworded room" ->:stfu:

Rant 2: Ubers flawes:
1) Yshari Sanctum Stages:
-The first boss Melphys was and is always the most tedious boss in this uber. Hes not fun nor challenging. Melp constantly spamming his knockback novas, like 3 waves at a time and there is no counter cuz you can't use teleport to dodge anymore... Awesome news in sigma: "His VeilKing no longer 1shot people..." now TWO! Wow that's definitely helpful right? Cuz by the time you got stuck in the infinite waves of knockbacking bs, you got your ass handed to the swam of 2shot-skelly fuckeries, and that' what I call mad bs.
-The Cellestial Witches in stage 5 are also poorly designed, they either 1 shot you or deal 0 dmg :s. Make them deal less dmg but with more attack rating.
Same case for most of the bosses in this uber.
=>Overall, this uber is like an endurance round. You don't feel fun or learn anything new. Just want to run past every enemy and do it quick as possible to never experience it again. To farm this uber for item and exp? it's laughable, too much effort. Sometime, I imagine the enemies in some place could be made into standalone ubers, but in the end stuck to be involved in a stage of this dragged, over extended uber .

2) Astrogha: OnRealm cancer
-He could be a lil less spammy, as huge ammount small spider will very likely cause a disconnection if playing on realm (thankgod now the uber is closer to town entrance but it's still a bitch to deal with. "Just clear all the spiderling" -> stfu
=> So less Spiderling but with more dmg, more attack rating and we good. Also, I think the Culling of the Herd curse need to be tweaked , I'll get to it later.

3) Vijzun: Need to reduce Mines damage, it's hard enough dodging the stuff that's barely visible and is often placed on top of ya.
Also, don't know if it's intended but the mobs hanging at Genesis portal are annoying af. They make each Laz attempt a chore.

4) ARCHBISHOP LAZARUS : Awesome fight that put you gaming sense to the max but flawed by the notorious Totem. Why is that?
-First of all, I'm glad that you guys fix most of problem with the totem.(For anyone has no clue, in the past Laz totem is often put in very unfair locations which makes it cannot be destroyed unless you're standing in the right angle or near it enough, that my friend, will warrant an easy and super lame death.)
-It's deffinitely better now in sigma, but I once experienced something similiar as I was clearing out totem ,I got popped by an inviso totem that stuck close to the wall. It only shows up when I'm right next to it and by then I'm already dead wtf . I figured it's probably not the Laz AI that's so smart and asshole enough to deliberately throw totem into dicky places, but the problem is the buggy arena tile and wall that allow such bs thing to happen.. Maybe the CotH curse was also too harsh?, is fully heal Laz and slow you down to a crawl not enough? Or maybe I'm suck at this game idk
"People beat this guy in 10 mins so why are you bitching" -> yeah right

5) Soul of Envy: Unbelievably annoying fight
-Being the culmination of Envy, this guy sure is shy as fuck. After hours of Xazax, Zorun and Astrogha, I think my tolerance of bs has maxed out by 9000 but this guy put the frustration metter to a new level. Yeah hovering through terrain is cool but why tf do he need to has a teleport ?? His minions, well, they are just Veil Kings but in different shape and move slow that's all; good thing they don't take after their master and just hovering through terrain or i'm gonna lose my shit. To conpensate for his minions 'lack of damage', the Soul of Envy ocationally add heat to the battle with multiple Flaming curse novas which reduce your hp to 1 in matter of second (bring back memories of the good ol' Bellial fight :lul:). Not to mention his new healing ability, he heal real fast when ur not damaging him, and heal ton of health after each kill, that's alway fun right. I don't care man but this fight is not healthy, at all
=> Make his AI agressive , cut his flying bs or sth. Change his curse, lower minions dmg or health.

Rant 3: Curses: Bring back curses, fix CotH
-Porkchop, Chicken morph, Bugmorph, Unsellie curse, Deathknight curse: these are all cool and unique curses in median xl, could potential made into strong and thematic boss curse, why the complete removal?
+Witch: I think she could use Unsellie curse for a change? She is mad easy at the moment with the purify dmg buff (Im kidding, nerf her pounce dmg pls okei? )
+Soul of Envy: Remove the Flaming Nova curse. Give him Chicken Morph and Porkchop, that's best for thematic :kappa:
+Astrogha: Bugmorph upon destroying totem
+Soul of Sloth: Deathknight curse when struck :kappa:
-Culling of the herd: man, it's sigma already, why thiss still a thing?
+on Astrogha: it's a lil annoying. Should be change into Bugmorph instead of +instakill debuff. Heal on destroyed statue could stay. Reduce player defense to 0 (so the spiderling could start hurting you).
+on Lucion: it's a joke, basicly a green light disco for characters with healing abilities. Shoulda kept the Slow or instakill :kappa:
+on Laz: too harsh, for the mechanism of the fight (bs totem placement, unavoidable tremor and massive slow as the cherry on top). Should only slow, and/or heal laz, the instakill debuff could go fuck its face. "Too easy if nerfed"? Well my proporsal on the totem is this: Keep the Heal laz part, Tremor is fine, and proc blastwave nova when destroyed. the knockback from blastwave has the potential to fuck u up if not careful enough while not being to harsh with all the other bs there is.

-On side note, could Mahasattva(?) curse be made available as a proc on death blow as well Pretty please

Rant 4: Bring back Peal of Wisdom:
-With the horde of new d2 player comming to sigma. I can't help but fell that Peal of Windom would be a nice addition. Put in small cube receipes, some tip and trick (the stuff aahz/or someone else? put on Discord, those are nice thanks man). Its small stuff, but deffinitely show new players that you care for your playersbase. Also, people will be able to play sigma without having to regularly check online doc, theres alot of ppl play d2 offline and rarely have access to internet. Also, I'm sure people'd love to read cute and helpful little stuff.


Btw I appreciate the changes you guys made in the game. Big thanks for making this game alive again. Those rants is just the personal experience i had while playing the game, no big dealio.

[goldy]

First, wonderful job! Median is looking better than ever
not sure if it has been mentioned, just coming back to this and havent played since xvc, but one feedback thing

1) would also love to have a hotkey for map fade, though there is the option in the preferences file

[malderun]

Feedback:
I am one of the new players to this mod and I must say it's great. Currently at lvl 140 and have most of the Ubers done minus the last few. I have about a month of experience pre sigma. You have done a great job however I feel the game is missing something. A true end game dungen for people to test their power creep
of new set ups and gear.

My suggestion:
If possible as I am not versed in your limits of the game engine.
A dungen requiring 130-140 range to enter that has multiple randomized lvls each becoming harder than the next a true dungen crawl that you can attempt Solo or with friends. Each level increasing in monster lvl and rewards till you come to a point that it's practically impossible to do. Kinda like a cave level that never ends. Maybe as you go further the environment changes into a more hellish theme sort of revisiting those first days of when Diablo 1 came out going into the labyrinth. When I first saw the sigma trialer and I saw "rifts" this is what came to my mind.

Just my 2 cents give people something to use their amazing gear on and eventually get crushed then forced to think up new stuff.

[HechtHeftig]

Sun Strike is sooo freaking bugged....

The hit box is so weird. It's not the arrow, but instead the "trail of flames" or rather the glowing balls in the air it leaves behind. That way it's possible to hit enemies close to you twice with 1 attack, and enemies further away not even once if they are in a lucky position (which is nearly always the case since enemies move to you, which means very often it's completely useless as an attack and does 0 damage provided that the enemies are near the edge of the screen)

Also, it's not a trail of flames. The description is wrong, please update it.

[whe123]

I don't know if this is a bug but I just killed Hell Andariel for the quest drop and only got 1 arcane shard, a sur rune, some crap gems, and some crap magical items. No uniques. No rares. This was on multiplayer.

Edit:
Since I've already posted I'm going to rant a little. Why do oskill summon skills seem so weak? On my single player necro I've found the entire Santanic Mantra set, yet the Overlord oskill it provides dies even quicker than a skeletal flayer and same with the summon sirens oskill provided by an Auhe runeword wand. The Overlord even has around 33k health but I have to keep resummoning it if I want to use it and the Satanic Mantra set. The sirens have around 16k health and 300 damage, both of which are bad compared to my flayers' 35k health and 1.5k damage with the same items, and the charm chance is nothing when a siren can't last 20 hits from mobs. Very sad skills when so much +minion life and damage have to be sacrificed for the Overlord and how one of a great rune runeword's defining features is basically useless.

TU grim wand's summon darklings oskill is also somewhat weak but feels balanced enough considering how it's a TU and the summons don't look like it's supposed to be strong. However, the darklings have around 6k health and 400 damage with 900 damage thorns and 800 damage reduction and the TU wand also has a +party damage oskill, +cast rate, 70 +minion damage, and +4 necro skills, making it more useful than a great runeword wand with the same +4 necro skills, a weaker summon oskill, +1000 def, +mana regen, and the extra bonus of reducing max minions.

An extra complaint is how weak the lamia skill becomes later in the game. I started off putting 15 points in it because I knew early on I was going to be a summon necro. I reset my skills much later because lamias do only 400-500 damage with +120 damage from doom yet flayers did 1-1.2k damage at that time. Once reset, I could put much more points into totems and into much better summons and lamia still did 100-150 damage with +1 doom, barely a change from before but much better spent skill points.

I will say that the necro's Tower set is fun to use even if it's weak compared to the Lazarus set.

I believe I saw in the patch notes that devs didn't have time to revamp the necro summoning skills. I can suck it up on my necro until then if that's the case but here's some feedback.

[FREEZER]

Interface
Bag №1 - The belt has transparency
Bag №2 - You can not drink cans from the belt with the right click


Tagaze
Bag №3 - You can jump through the trees and be at the edge of the map + in this place the monsters spawn


Judgement Day
Bag №4 - Edyrem can not go to the edge of the arena


Bag №5 - Invisible object interferes with walking