Many of the cosmetics of the game can be edited user side to work on battle.net without
using third party programs. After a little time spent learning to read and navigate through this stuff this is what i learned you can do.
Edit a items name or class color.
Remove a items name to reduce its name footprint to a tiny dash when displayed.
Edit the names of magic prefixes and suffixes to just be what they give.
Remove weather. This one is questionable to change because it borders on providing an advantage.
I wouldn’t mind learning how to lower the weather effects. When you have nystagmus + just one eye to see with weather effects can be extremely eye straining.
This is an interesting bit of news, although a bit cryptic.
Looking at the game install folder I see no relevant non-binary files that can be easily edited so I’m a bit curious on what OP actually found.
@Luke, mind sharing a few details with us?
Thanks!
This guy has a series of videos that shows how’s its done. He is more about single player modding so some things he talked about wont work on battle.net due to them being locked server side, like drop rates and but those things are pretty obvious to spot and skip over. He does explain and link what’s needed to open and edit the file formats used for the game to get started.
If that true why wont Blizzard say that? The guy in this video researched the matter and couldn’t get anyone from blizzard to say it was banned.
Blizzard has announced support for the modding community and actively removed the system that used to automaticity revert the game to its original state when on battle.net.
Well mostl likely because they dont want to openly allow it as they cant tell what exaxctly player changes as some changes could alert their anticheat system. Generaly sopeaking you should not be going online with any mod.
What do you mean by reverting system to original state? Diablo 2 lod had nothing like that. I know it very well because i was able to mod files and play with it online. In same way people do it now with some modding.
If only Blizzard ran other another game that has so much modding support that they literally started tuning raids around it. Almost like Blizzard knows how to allow cosmetic mods on an online system.
I was referring to changes in the txt. files like changing the graphics monsters use. You can change a Quell Rat to look like any monster in the game while on battle.net and I didn’t think you could do that before.
Yeah i understand what you mean but you could do that before. I was able to mod skills.txt to hit charged strike on monsters from far away or to show certain stuff on map. Some hacks works with similar stuff. So i would be very careful to use abything like that online.
well to be fair, anything that they don’t like to be modded is usually on the server side, otherwise they are well aware that changing a text file can change the game.
Would be stupid if they didn’t know, right?
Might be a grey area but it is their game, they can ban you for whatever you do anyways.
