The recent update to Diablo 2 brings a host of changes including the ability to respec characters and improved support for windowed mode. For the 9.31MB, plain Diablo 2, or the 5.18MB, the Lord of Destruction expansion version, check Battle.net in-game for both versions of the patch.
Some major bugs include an item dupe bug, video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater. There was an issue fixed where some players could kill other players while in town. Two issues were taken care of where players could stack auras in an unintended way.
Minor Bugs include Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed before spawning summoned minions. Previously, he would only check for Uber Baal. The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus.
Specific changes/improvement
* Respecialization is now possible! Completing the 'Den of Evil' quest will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in Hell difficulty.
* Increased the drop rate of high runes.
* Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).
* Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items required for Uber Tristam.
* Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level.
* Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character.
* Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters.
* Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal's summoned minions no longer give experience.
* Removed Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse.
* Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%.
* Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb.
* When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound to a unique key: Normal 'R', Nightmare 'N', and Hell 'H'.
* The 'Enter Chat' Button in the battle.net waiting room is now bound to the 'Enter' key.
* Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE).
* Added new command line parameter '-nofixaspect' which allows users to not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode. This lets the game 'stretch' to fill your monitor.
* Added support for '-sndbkg' command line switch. This enables sound in background.
* Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options, '-nosound', '-window', and '-windowed'.
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