Rebirth Expansion

[Trimayne]

Greetings,

Before I do start to talk about the above-mentioned topic, I wanted to thank you for your tremendous effort Labiri, since it really has been a pleasure playing through this modification, which has surely earned the title 'expansion' for its massive newly-created as well as creative content.

- Topic-Related:

So why do I pose this question, well simply because when using the Skill the following things do happen:

1) All monsters are made visible

2) All items are marked

3) When moving the mouse over a non-identified magical item (on the ground) while StealVision is active one gets to read what it will be in the end (in connection with the newly-crafted affixes-section of your site I'm able to know whether or not I want to pick up a certain magical item before I've even identified it)

4) The Item-Drop-Code is affected by it, since all items, which were dropped by an enemy were magical.. with no exception...25 times a magical item.. the only non-magical item, that I've received was a cap --> was inside a chest. [3 times
alright.. but 25 times that's too much luck for one person in just an hour ]

I suspect, that a lot more people do know that, but might not have considered that an issue, but well even though I'm not one of those people, that do reduce a marvellous game to a simple item-hunt I wouldn't want to find so many magical items at once, but yeah that's just my opinion... let me know, if I've found out about a buggy behaviour or uncovered a secret game-feature

Regards,
Trimayne

[LABiRi]

Hello Trimayne, what a pleasure to read you here Thanks for your comments, always welcome.

Regarding the topic, you are surely talking about first levels: infact, the mummies will always drop a magic item, inspite of experience points (zero).
This kind of "feature" was made to help players in the beginning, but after the first levels this "kindness" ends and all turns normal.
Just a little note about Stealvision: as you would notice, it's composed by two effects: Precognition and Infravision, than can end independently.

Thanks again for coming here
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[Trimayne]

[LABiRi]

Eheh very glad to see all of you guys coming here, that's more of what I expected from myself.

Btw I'll glady accept your help for any correction, just create a topic to list them and version-by-version I'll update
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[Alamara]

[Trimayne]

[LABiRi]

Thanks guys for the tests
Precognition does actually highlight items on ground AND revealing their identified name.
For stealvision, I don't think it really affects magic find, since I checked the code and nothing seems to be shared between these codes.

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[Trimayne]

Yeah, I did only mention in my first post, that highlighting items is also an effect of that skill (one, which I didn't consider to be initiated by some bug )

Concerning that Magic Find - Thingy .. was there any other code-change, that a) might be related to it and b) is thief-only... or I don't know... bow-only? (trying to make up useful scenarios)....

I'll surely get back to this, when I do have enough characters (all three) available to run extensive tests

(20 runs ... several different setups... comparison of the total amount of magical items, that were yielded)

[LABiRi]

[Trimayne]

I certainly will inform you...

[Sj3]

Welcome Trymayne!
Do you remember me?
(Stefanoj3)
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Ehm...

[Trimayne]

Of course I do

How could I not remember someone, who has provided such an useful tool (the Palette-Editor)

But well.. I do have a question, that you could possibly answer:

Where would I find the NPC-Messages, meaning any newly-written REX-only text by (for example) Kryo? ... are they stored in the .EXE? If so, I had a really hard time trying to find them and therefore woud gladly accept any help, that you could offer

Trimayne

[Sj3]

Rebirth's .exe have a little protection
You cant edit/read it like the original diablo's .exe
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Ehm...

[Trimayne]

I see... would you mind copying all the NPC-dialogues then and afterwards either pasting them here or in a private message?

[Surely you would know how to extract that data from the .EXE, wouldn't you?]

Since I've offered to correct the minor typing errors, which they do contain... [I could copy them from screen (ingame), but that definitely takes a lot longer as it necessarily has to take, right? ]

Could you do that?...

I would certainly appreciate it

Let me know.

Trimayne

[Sj3]