D2R has a ladder system and for the players who enjoy such a thing it does matter regardless of who thinks it’s hardcore enough to matter.
It was a rhetorical question. Modding is an intended feature, and if some mods work online, it can be taken as acceptable.
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Says you. And if you get banned because you are detected modding the game, then don’t expect anyone to care about it when you inevitably come crying about it.
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Clearly, you have trouble paying attention.
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Can you adjust the opacity on my eth Dweb please??? Lol I didn’t pay a billion dabloons for one only to have it look like a regular Dweb. My eth blackhand key looks cool as hell though, maybe I just switch the art file.
Alsoo why are y’all crying over this? It’s literally cosmetic. And you can’t gain more of an advantage than the people with automatic loot pickup software. Some people picking stuff up so fast in pub games I don’t even see the words on screen.
Also characters look so dorky with grim helms on 
Lol the only art direction I didnt like. I kinda like the grissled features of the amazon and necro.
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I know exactly what you said. I’m also not the one posting to the forums trying to make a case for myself for why MY mods shouldn’t be bannable.
F-around, find out.
Lol ladder… competitive
That mechanic that gets won by bots and cheating streamers
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Kinda the whole point here. Whether or not people think it should be bannable is pretty irrelevant.
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I can see the desire for such a mod. Graphics, in particular the body armor, is not very pleasant. The equipped body armors do not match the icons… everything else matches, why not body armor…
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And yet all those issues wouldn’t be if blizzard did the right thing. And Op mostly wouldn’t need that mod
Make gear appearance alteration a mechanic of the game
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In this case, if they just said something along the lines of: You may not modify any game files that affect the official game servers, period. The case would be closed.
Nah, I would still tweak the single player, at least. With practically any game I regularly play, I tinker with mods as well.
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Hopefully models and particles get figured out and opened up for modding, that’ll open so many possibilities! 
Bonesy from D2RModding did figure out how to import models but can’t get any textures to stick to them. Hopefully that can get figured out eventually.
I think I might’ve mentioned that to you in a previous forum post already now that I think about it. 
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he gunna get bannered lulululul
i have seen plenty of asian players with skin (even different audio clips for rune drops) while playing online. but i would still take some pre-caution…
I have seen some strange ones posted also, is this allowed?
i.imgur (.c)om/8PVimCh.jpg
Mind sending me a PM of some of these cosmetic mods?
I absolutely loath most* of the character and armor models they’ve added and this would be an absolute breath of fresh air to the game.
oof sorry dude, but you’re definitely on the next banwave list. you shouldnt have done that.
Does this also apply to changing the keybindings? I don’t use the default F-keys, does this give me an unfair advantage?
Or changing the graphics settings to find a good balance between details and framerate, I’m pretty sure I don’t use the same settings as you are.
I also disable the Windows-key on my keyboard when playing, is that grounds for banning? This is a setting outside the game not available to everyone.
And as far as everyone having access to keybindings but not mods, that’s the point of these threads and posts, to get an answer to whether it is allowed to play online with these types of mods, in which case it would be available to everyone. Or an answer saying that it is not allowed and then we would not use them.
It’s the first one: it works. It’s using the tools they specifically designed for modding, even mentioning in interviews that they have added new things to D2R that can be ‘softmodded’ through this method, that required much more work in D2:LoD.
The problem is that the we have not been told the rules. We have been given specific tools for modding and have been encouraged to use them.
The game has been changed to enable modded files to be used in online games.
If I recall correctly, in D2:LoD you could change many of these same things but when you joined an online game it would ignore these files and use the original unmodded files.
But with D2R they have actually changed the game code to use some of the modded files.
This type of modding could theoretically be done using only your OS, not even the 3rd party software Notepad is needed. Copy and paste the ‘bone_helm’ model/texture folder to the ‘wormskull’ folder and change file names (these are all default OS operations) and then we have the normal Bone Helm graphics for Wormskull, Vampire Gaze etc
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that doesnt make sense because the same keybindings are available to all players and its not against tos.
not allowed on closed bnet though. closed bnet servers are meant to be competitively fair. if you feel the need to add tyreal wings to your female pally, then do it offline. ridiculous to think modding should be allowed on something like ladder…
And the same copy/paste functions are available to all players and the same text edits are available to all player as long as the developers make an official statement saying that it is ok. Or if they make a statement saying that it is not, in which case we will know and then won’t start using them.
This is what the modding community is asking for, not a way to cheat or gain advantages, but to know if it’s allowed and then to provide those mods to everyone.
But as long as it’s not clear we will have some people who use mods because they believe it’s allowed and others who don’t because they believe it is not allowed.
To me it seems like this lack of response from devs is resulting in what you are trying to avoid: different conditions for different people …
What is this based on?
The EULA is vague on whether this is allowed, it’s not a 3rd party tool, not reading from RAM, not gaining an advantage etc. (unless you really consider the ‘removal of arrows on summoned skeletons’ to be an unfair advantage, in which case I really don’t know how to proceed)
The closest thing to an official response has been a Korean representative saying during a stream that it is allowed as well as a pre-release interview explaining that they allow and provide tools for some mods (but not if it applies to online or offline).
But if you have any other source that is clear on this, could you please share it?
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