Honestly, I probably won’t even touch bnet much, I’ll play a character every ladder or something.
What I’m mostly pumped for is single player using a version switcher. I plan on having characters for 1.06, 1.09 and the current 1.14 patch.
Anyone else planning on doing this aswell?
You’re going to be making a version switcher mod for D2:R after launch? 
Hell no, I’ll be waiting. Someone else will 
With TCP/IP removal, all the top modders aren’t even going to be continuing theirs. Like PD2/Plugy. But you think there will be a version switcher that’ll come out that will also not get you banned? Definitely don’t recommend that considering blizz’s stance on mods and even SP has to connect to the blizz client now.
Good luck with that argument.
I guess it’s SP so who cares?
Single player.
Must be 20 characters.
Edit: and if for some reason they ban people for using sp mods (which they won’t) it’ll take like 30 minutes to download a cracked version with a torrent.
It’s likely you’ll be required to be connected to BNet with an authentic account in order to play even SP. DRM and all. It’s 2021 you know?
You’re confident about your version switcher, but with removal of TCP/IP, any modding support for D2R is unlikely, unless Blizzard pursues a different venue, like gifting a modkit to modders.
Might be best to just stick with LoD if you want to use D2:SE and the like.
No, what you’re imagining isn’t going to be nearly as easy as you’re thinking. Its highly doubtful ANY mods will be out for D2:R for a while because of the removal of TCP/IP. And when some are on shady sites, GL downloading them and hoping they don’t have viruses. lol.
I’d like to see something like this as well, I use the Cactus program for going back to 1.00 and 1.07 in legacy D2. Sadly the creator of Cactus doesn’t support Blizzard after the lawsuit so he won’t port it over for D2R.
I’m not sure if it’ll even be possible to port over the really old versions of D2 to D2R, I mean something like 1.09 (there are modders at PK that plan to remake 1.09) should be possible or a rough recreation of it but older stuff like 1.00-1.08 might have too many hardcoded functions to be fully recreated.
I may be wrong, but I feel like when people say they like older patches, they are generally talking about the item pool and pre synergy skills. If they could mod item stats and what drops plus change skill values and text, but leave the rest as 1.14 I think it would be possible if modding is supported in some way.