Hi!
I wanted to ask for something.
Yesterday, I was playing with my friend over LAN. While recording for my crappy youtube channel.
We would like the mod, but there are some excruciating things about it that we wish to address, if it is even possible.
When compared to Diablo 2, the item restrictions are ... insane.
Paladin lances? Why? Assassin polearms? Just get it out of the pocket and backstab with it!
But we don't want these questions answered.
I was going to edit the .txt files to remove these restrictions, but only .bins are available for item and skill editing.
(I DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEND ME THE .TXT FILES. I've read enough posts about that to know that it is not going to happen... unless I'm well enough liked, I guess)
If there is a dev / anybody that has access to the original .txt files and is merciful enough to send me .bin items (weapons, armors) and skills where class restrictions are removed, StaffMods are either randomized for any class (ideally) or removed and skills are not limited to specific types of weapons, only to Meele / ranged, I would give them a shoutout on my channel, if they wish.
For example the Sorceress - the Melee branch - instead of it being limited to "staves, orbs and crystal swords" it would just require a melee weapon.
Also I don't even know how to cheat with this - this is only for singleplayer and LAN (where everybody wants that! As were are constantly encountering gear that we wish we could use, and in vanilla we could, but we cannot, because "someone said so" being the only reason ).
I'm playing as a Barbarian and I always dreamed to play Median XL with a Polearms Barbarian. Halberds, Bardiches, ...
As you can expect, polearms are divided between the assassin, the paladin, the amazon,... so it is impossible.
We just love making insane characters. I've finished vanilla with a Druid wielding (and actually using, no transformations!) two-handed swords (with my friend using a Necromancer with Axes)!
And all that fun is gone, because we are not allowed to play the way we want and wish to play. Because somebody said so.
The challenge is still there (well, not really), because I am using non-class specific spears (there very little amount available), and currently using the only scythe-type item (well, three if you count all difficulties) that isn't necromancer-only.
The challenge not really being there stems from my character being extremely overpowered. I have used only one health potion so far, at the very start of the game, when my health was at half, and it never got so low again. And both me and my friend are capable of killing entire screens of enemies (bosses included!) in seconds. With probably extremely non-optimal builds as well (it's the first time we are playing Median XL - version 1.6.X). Poor bosses cannot even finish their "speeches". Also - recording everything on video, as I have said previously.
Also I got Gothic armor before rescuing Deckard (base difficulty!), and I was fully decked in act 5 equipment (except for a weapon) shortly after rescuing him (BASE DIFFICULTY). Is it normal to have 500-1000 armor in the half of the first act at the first difficulty? It's ridiculous. And the enemies do not pose a challenge.
With all that - why would I cheat? There is exactly zero reasons for us to cheat by how the game currently is.
Also I am willing to pay you money for making a checkbox in the settings that would do the things mentioned (remove class restrictions for all items, change specific weapon restrictions to melee and ranged restrictions for skills and made it impossible for a client to join a server when these settings differ! (thus no cheating... I think, I don't know how it works))
Templayer