Anyone have experience with this mod? What are your thoughts?
I'd say it's one of the favourite mods of the SPF. It's more like a whole new game than a mod really; which can mean it can be a bit intimidating.
However, Laz put some hard work into it and it really shows. If you're looking for a new take on D2; go for it.
Link to download in the Stickies (IIRC).
EDIT:
Apparently I don't recall correctly.:facepalm:
Can anyone give a little more info?
Are the graphics changed? The characters? Stats, skills, cube recipes, everything?
Characters same, but everything about them, the skills, stat distribution, gear is different.
It's a good mod, you should give it a try. Here's the official site with very good documentation: http://modsbylaz.hugelaser.com/
It's quite overwhelming, and can sometimes be very challanging. Know that you can get uber awesome and pwn if you put the time in. Read the info in the website. Esp the cube recipes page. And good luck.
I wanted to start it awhile back, but had other projects on the go and all in all it was really intimidating. It really is like an entirely new game, but with the same D2 feel about it. Movement is much faster, and right off the bat all the enemies and summons and everything are crazily different. I would at the very least open it up and play a bit to see if you might like it.
Just imagine what it would be like if you were playing D2, but everything within the gaem was totally different, and thus every single item drop is something to ponder at, rather than the "doesn't sell for much, can't have good mods, not unique, etc." which inevitably happens, and can hamper D2 interest.
Does it have HC? And is it possible to MP?
I played MXL a while back and all in all it is a very good game, but I'm not really the target audience. I like to play the game doing full clears everywhere and I completely loose interest after killing Hell Baal, but this is where MXL really kicks in with insanely hard bosses. The game may have changed over the last couple of years, but here is what I remember of it. Even in Act 1 Normal if use went into the wrong dungeon there would be instant death, so HC would be a frustrating experience. I know some people use to MP, but unless Laz has changed things, it was designed as a single player experience. The game was truly dramatic with lots of on screen action, more poor old computer simply couldn't cope, this more than anything so probably why I didn't continue with the game. If you like getting insanely powerful and fighting ever more insanely powerful monsters, this is the mod for you.
Hmm, then I don't think its the game for me, if it has insanely hard bosses. In that case I'd just play Prince of Persia instead - it consists of extremely lame monsters and hard bosses. If I ratchet up the difficulty from normal to hard then the normal enemies still remain lame but the bosses become impossible. A great part of the appeal of D2 to me is that most standard monsters in boss packs can be incredibly hard and challenging while the act bosses are mostly really lame run targets. In addition, the difficulty from normal->nightmare->hell is not just a matter of changing hitpoints and damage ( like it is in most games ), but instead involve changes in immunities, monster modifiers and other AI. It's totally different.
MXL is an incredible mod. It's not insane difficulty, but it is challenging, you may actually get engaged with the game if you play something other than a summoner (I love the melee Barbarian!).
Monsters range from cannon fodder, to elites, to veterans. All of them unique and deadly in their own ways.
Act bosses are revamped from dumb tanks to something you might actually fear. All of them have new tricks.
The uber levels are amazing. Effectively, the uber levels are the end-game, and they're also the best half of the game to experience.
It does have HC, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's much harder to complete a character, and you'll probably never complete any of the harder uber levels. I find it just as rewarding to play SC in this mod, as someone who has played HC in vanilla for years.FredOfErik
Re: Median XL
Does it have HC? And is it possible to MP?
MP is definitely possible. But I don't think it was designed to be balanced in MP: overlapping spell damage has some crazy potential from even just 2 players. I'm weird and like SP MXL, so I've got no mo info aboot it.
The ones that say "DANGER! UBER LEVEL!" on them?TheNix
Re: Median XL
Even in Act 1 Normal if use went into the wrong dungeon there would be instant death, so HC would be a frustrating experience.
okay... so I was under the impression that to play Median you had to run a mod that is essentially a hack? (I'd name it, but then Thy would just edit it out & yell at me) Is it as simple as just making another install & just running said hack for that install? I thought said hack pretty much permeated everything D2 (like it didn't contain itself to just a single folder, but searched out & loaded all your D2 files)...
Kinda interested if it doesn't... I need a new game for when I get bored of D2 & SC2
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