Median XL 2016 Announced

[Warren1001]

There is no plan. The reason is to get players to play on the realm.

[Marco]

It is important to note that these runewords are empowered versions of existing runewords, they're not "brand new runewords". Basically, runewords that use vanilla runes (zod and below) will have a level 121 version. So far only the weapon runewords have been implemented, and these 60 new will be the ones that correspond to armor.


They might make it into single player at some point in the future, but certainly not before sigma. This is because they are meant to be level 121 and single player MXL will stay at level 120 until sigma. Why? Because there is no way to limit the experience ancients give without using custom dlls. So levels 121-125 become pointless if you abuse ancients quest. This is something that can be fixed on realms but not on SP because it breaks mac compatibility, it also breaks compatibility with patches that are not 1.13c, so yeah, it's a bit problematic.

[Segolia]

Oh, thats how you edited the ancients. I was scratching my head at the txt files so long wondering how you could of possibly changed them

[whist]

- some less relevant uberquests rework, such as azmodan & belial

Is it related to the thread I had in the private section on old forums? <3

This is something that can be fixed on realms but not on SP because it breaks mac compatibility, it also breaks compatibility with patches that are not 1.13c, so yeah, it's a bit problematic.

Not to mention players could just remove the dll and be like "lol, wrekt". In the case of Sigma it's another story because the way the mod is done in txt files does rely on the sigma dll being loaded, while with small changes such as nerfing ancient xp changes, that's an easy "I remove the dll and the game runs just fine". Although one solution to this would be to intentionally implement a bug in the files and have the dll fixing it.

[Loluthinks]

what exactly you guys did with sigma?, did you changed the game engine enterelly?, or you modified the way the game use the files for load, because i see you are confident about sigma when is related to the files, you manage to find a way to edit and code files easily?

[RollsRoyce]

im really hoping for the zod-xis barb helm to get a morph ( rest of the stats are op already), with this item a caster barb can finally shine again and i could update the corresponding guide !

[kaos78414]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification

[MUS01]

We get a bit of hope for SP... We will wait, but now there is hope.

Interesting pratial changelog.

[Mechazawa]

Is it 2016 in the sense that the release candidate is actually a year behind what the title is, like in MADDEN or Fifa? One can only hope

Exactly that's the point. Everyone would assume it's a 2015 release, but if everything goes wrong, I still have 365 backup days.

9 more days until we know if everything went wrong.

[Rishab]

Is it 2016 in the sense that the release candidate is actually a year behind what the title is, like in MADDEN or Fifa? One can only hope

Exactly that's the point. Everyone would assume it's a 2015 release, but if everything goes wrong, I still have 365 backup days.

You actually have a 366 days backup in 2016, its a leap year