I have enjoyed this in single player previously, but have been away a bit. So, when I tried to start the game today, I was forced to log in to battle.net to “verify” sumthin’…
Little did I know of the horrors in store for me there.
I was forced to update the game, which now seems to permanently have broken each and every mod that single player enjoyable.
So, question is simple: has the game been “updated” so that it is not possible to install mods now, even in single player?
What happens now is a black screen for a few seconds, followed by CTD.
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Not sure how this is for D2R, but in my experience most bigger mods break after lot updates on games.
You might just need to either reinstall the mods or check the download location and see if there is a new version being made for the game.
When Skyrim Updates, everyone on the nexus jokes that the update broke more mods then the bugs it fixes.
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Ah well. That was the final nail in the D2R coffin for me (at least for now). Uninstalling.
This has been very disappointing. I’ve (been fool enough to have) purchased this on both PC and PS4, and on both platforms there are problems that greatly have diminished the enjoyment of the game. Single player modded was the only thing that actually worked, but now that doesn’t work anymore either. I’ll wait a few months and try to reinstall, maybe the mods I used have been updated so that they work again by then.
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Ya mods not working aren’t a problem of blizzard, go to the mod creators and complain to them
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Why not just…update your mods? I mean you can uninstall if you want, I just think it’s sorta a silly reason.
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If they have to update files, it’s going to break mods. How would they possibly keep track of all mods out there?
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Why force an update for single player though? Let players choose if they want to update.
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Because those players will inevitably forget they turned off updates and complain about things on the internet and to their support team that were fixed long ago. And then people will make fun of them for asking about something fixed ages ago and they will sue Activision Blizzard for causing them extreme emotional distress.
As of now, several of them simply aren’t compatible with the new version, as I understand it. Judging from what I read on the Nexus, I am not alone with this problem, either.
That’s maybe what YOU would do. 
Personally, I simply play other games that work modded or no, and wait until the D2R mods have been updated so that I can try again.
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This might come as a shocker but mods have always broke on new patches. This isn’t anything new, I promise you.
We’ve always had to wait for the mod owners to update to the latest patch, and that isn’t changing.
Chillax bud.
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I do agree with you on one thing.
fk Irenicus.
Oh really? I had no idea.
Sarcasm aside, what I find completely bonkers is that I am forced to verify the game I’ve purchased by logging into battle.net every 30 days or so, AND FORCED to download updates when doing so, in order to be able to play a local.single.player.game. That’s just DRM gone completely mental.
(Of course I would have to accept that if I were to play online, but I am not interested in that - I just want to play the game like I used to, single player, with some improvements Blizzard so far has failed to provide. The forced download of updates thus should be linked to playing multiplayer/battle.net games, not using battle.net to verify the product).
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You are uninstalling because you lack basic knowledge how mods and game patches work? This is pretty much normal for any game.
But yeah i would agree that game should not force update if you dont want to but honestly is that not the way how most games works now?
Having modded IE games, Neverwinter Nights 1&2, Dragon Age 1&2, Morrowind and Oblivion (admittedly to a lesser extent), and in fact also D2R somewhat, I would say I am not completely lacking “basic mod(ding) knowledge”. However, I do not possess the skills required to make the mods others have created working in a new version of the game, no. That’s why I have to wait a bit and see if the mod makers do update their versions - and if they do not, at least I will not have a lot of old garbage on my hard drive when I decide to install D2R again.
You must understand that my decision is based on the fact that this product has had so many problems (some of which could have been easily avoided if Blizzard didn’t assume everybody only wanted to play online multiplayer games). I purchased this both on PC and PS4. The latter is hardly playable at all; it takes about 5 minutes from when I fire up the game to be able to actually start playing it (in comparison, D3 starts within about 30 seconds). The former forces me to do updates required to play online EVEN if I do NOT want to play online (in other words: I understand that I have to remain updated if I want to play on battle.net - of course I have full understanding that I need to update D3 for that reason, since that does not work offline anyway). When they said that this game can be enjoyed in (offline) single player like the old game, I really did not expect forced updates, though I can understand why I must verify the game now and again.
I confess myself DISAPPOINTED (to quote one who must not be named).
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As someone who actually makes the mods for this game, I thought I’d chime in.
Yes, Blizzard seems to have permanently made it impossible to mod the game any more. The tool that is needed to extract the files and mod them, CASC Viewer, is no longer able to load Diablo Ii’s storage.
So yes, to answer the Op’s question, modding is no longer possible. And to everyone else, no, the mod creators can’t simply wave our magic wands and update the mods for you.
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Are you so poor you can’t even get internet access once a month? You’re mods not working is the mod authors problem, not Blizzards, they have jobs and lives too, you need to be patient, they are providing you a free service.
For a while DRM required internet connection, period, there was no offline. Now blizzard decides to be nice and only require a check in once every 30 days and you still whine.
2021, having a computer that can run this game, yet no internet access?? i mean wtf…
Because this is modern bloozard and they need to have control over everything and dictate to you how you play the game you paid for of course. They could have allowed players to vefiry the game without forcing them to download the latest patch but they didn’t do that, because they suck and hate their players.
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If you don’t have anything more “colourful” to add than that, you might as well let it be. 
Whenever have I said that I do not have an internet connection? Do you even read before you post?
Actually, you should read this - the post above your feeble attempt at trolling.
I don’t know what’s more sad. The fact that Blizzard forces updates on players who only want to play the game in single player mode or the fact that there are so many people defending this situation.
For all the trolls and smart mouths out there who come with the “it’s normal for updates to break mods”, “why don’t you wait for the modders to update?” or “players who forget to update the game will sue Blizzard” excuses, I have one question: why are you simping so much for Blizzard?
If I paid money for a game which I play in offline mode and I want to use mods (because the game developer couldn’t be bothered to get some inspiration from pluggy), why cannot I have the option to disable updates so I don’t have to wait a few days or a week for the modder to make an update? What happens if the modder drops the project and there won’t be an update? Should I just scrap the saved games I played for hundreds of hours to farm some extremely rare items?
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