Cheaters Choice Mod

[Alkalund]

And here we have a new project, by Volf:



Cheaters Choice Mod-3- for1.10 final patch
Author: Volf
Credits: goro3d For increased stach cube and inventory
Thanks to Phorozen keep staff and members for help and support.
Contact:
Cheaters choice forum board http://www.volf.biz/phpBB2/index.phpboard=Mod (you can view some screenies in my forum)

Sense meny people have been asking about a exp/drop mod for 1.10 final version, i decided to make this simple little mod based on goro3d´s mega inventory plug-in., the first version was a wery simple mod, the second had a few more features, now the third version is more advanced its more than a simple dropmod!

Changes in Cheaters Choice Mod-3-

Instead of leveling up twise as fast, i have made a charm that you can bye from akara (300-500% more experience from monsters, 10% faster atack speed and level 1 teleport).

All characters have increased run/walk speed.

All characters start with the cube.

Charms can spawn as rare, they can also spawn with sockets.

Mana leech works normally on all difficultys

Repairing items only cost1/4 of normal prise.

Vendors pay fuul prise for your items.

Resistance penalty
Normal +20
Nightmare +-0
Hell -20

Skill Changes:
Multiple shot does full damage
You can summon 2 valkyries
You can summon 2 golems
You can summon 2 grizzlys
You can summonshadow masters



Hirelings:
Do full damage to bosses
Get more str/dex when leveling up
Rouges fire arrow replaced with Immolation Arrow, cold arrow replaced with freezing arrow, all rogues have a chanse to shoot multiple shot.
Desert mercs have a chance to cast salvation aura.
Eastern Sorcerers inferno replaced by hydra, glacies spike replaced with Frozen Orb,Charged Bolt replaced with Nova.
Barb hirelings have a chanse for war cry, Bash has been replaced with Frenzy.



New cube recipes
Desocket runes: any socketed item = same socketed item + same runes.
Socket Unique/set/rare or magical: any unigue or set item + el rune = same item with 1-6 sockets (only works with items that normally kan have sockets)

Levels:-Rouge encampment has an entrance to Graveyard, Graveyard has an entrace to a new level caller Sinners Cavern, in this cavern you will find some nasty creatures.These new monsters are based on all the prime evils but they are alot stronger and they give loads of experience if you manage to kill them.
-Act5 has an entrance to nihlataks temple, and another entrance to the seven sins cavern in this cavern you will have to face all the Senen Deadly Sins.

Griswold drops:
In normal: Civerb's Vestments setitems
In nightmare: Milabrega's Regalia setitems
In hell: Aldur's Watchtower setitems

Bloodraven drops:
In normal: Arctic Gear setitems
In nightmare: Vidala's Rig setitems
In hell: M'avina's Battle Hymn setitems

Mephisto drops:
In normal: Cathan's Traps setitems
In nightmare: Sander's Folly setitems
In hell: Tal Rasha's Adjudication setitems

Korlic (ancient barb) drops:
In hell: Ik set items

Izual drops:
In normal: Sigon's Complete Steel setitems
In nightmare: Cow King's Leathers setitems
In hell: Orphan's Call setitems

Diablo drops:
In normal: Hwanin's Majesty setitems
In nightmare: Naj's Ancient Set setitems
In hell: Natalya's Odium setitems

Baal drops
In normal: Sazabi's Grand Tribute setitems
In nightmare: Bul-Kathos' Children setitems
In hell: Trang-Oul's Avatar setitems

Changes in in Dragonknight's request edition
Griswold in hell Tristram will drop Aldures set items!

Changes in Cheaters Choice Mod-2-

Bosses have better chanse of dropping uniques/sets.

Cows drop better items (more rare/uniques).

Chests have wery good chance to drop set items.

New recipe for cowportal Book of Townportal + Book of Identifying scroll opens cow portal.

Now u can have 500 townportal/identify scrolls in scrollbooks.

Arrows/Bolts stacks increased to 500.

Larzuk sells Jewels.

Gheed sells all gems.

Akara sells all runes.

Larzuc sells charms


Changes in cheaters choise

Inventory, stash and cub r increased thanks to goro3d

You level up twice as fast

Gambling uniques is extremely easy, in normal u get normal, in nightmare u get exceptional and in hell u get elite unique items.

You can bye a unique mf charm (150mf 5% faster run/walk)from Acara to increase your chances of finding the good stuff. The reason why i improved the drop this way is simply that i want to give the player the choice--to cheat or not to cheat.

The download page is in my sig
Have fun !

Edited link to forum volf!

[Volf]

Download link:
Download Cheaters Choice -3- here


Need a buddy to play Tc/Ip games with you, in that case check the link below:
Coordinat Tc/IP games in this tread


Edit:
Gathering ideas for CCM4
Well Ninja-Smurf has promised to make some unique items. And i will make a few new maps.
There might be some other new features to but i havent yet desided what to ad.
Anyway people seem pretty happy with CCM3 so it will be a while before i release version4.
in the meantime all suggestions are welcome

Edit 18/1
First bug discovered by a ccm3 player,, Griswold was supposed to drop civerbs set items in normal but instead he dropped magical items.

That bug is now fixed and the updated version can be downloaded from the original link abowe.

[rockworth]

I'm new here and don't know where to post this .But I got cheaters choice it works fine untill after i choice my lvl of game play then it starts to open the door to begin and freezes up on me. I followed the dir. whats wrong with it. I have played mods before but none sense 1.10 whats going on plz help .

[onyx]

You will want to list the error you received in order to receive help. It's located in a log file in your Diablo II directory. Another way to see it is to start the game in windowed mode by adding -w to your mod shortcut's Target filed.

[Volf]

Sorry i didnt see this post earlyer.
For install problems with Cheaters Choice You can check cheaters choice forum board http://volf.proboards15.com/index.cgi?board=Mod
A few simular problems have been solved there and Elexor has made a detailed -direct.txt guide

[rockworth]

Thank you both very much i'll try it and let you know

[rockworth]

Thats weird I can play it in windows but not out of windows? hum,All i did was add -w to the end and it plays fine in windows ,but when i remove -w it won't play. Oh well Thx again

[rockworth]

AAAAHHH, It works when i'm online ,but not when i'm offline It say's Assertion failure
Loaction:D2 Common\DATATBS\lvl Tbls.cpp,line#826
Expression:Error in DRLG related to stairs that connect levels
if you know how i can fix it plz help
sorry i didn't know i could edit,

[onyx]

Well, it's a warp error, but since Cheater's Choice is a drop mod and didn't change levels (Volf correct me if I'm wrong), the problem should be somewhere else. Are you sure you use Diablo II LoD 1.10 final?

[Volf]

Well, it's a warp error, but since Cheater's Choice is a drop mod and didn't change levels (Volf correct me if I'm wrong), the problem should be somewhere else. Are you sure you use Diablo II LoD 1.10 final?

CCM3 does change levels, and another player got the same error a month ago, he reinstalled the game and the mod, after that it has worked without problems, there was propably something from an old mod he had been playing left in hes d2 folder.

I tryed to reproduce the error but never got it, also checked the warp and everything seems fine, there is no objects or monsters close to the warp and monsters dont even spawn on eigter side of the warp.

Still the fact that he can play useing -w seems realy od to me.

Maby someone here has had simular problems, if so id love to hear what was causing it and how to fix it.

Edit:
Now he has reinstalled the game and he sayes it works online but not offline.
This problem is beyond my understanding.

Edit:
This problem was finally solved (was an install problem).

[Alkalund]

Just letting everyone know, I merged a topic related to this mod that was in Member Announcements with this topic. The original post of the other topic is this one.

[Phrozen Heart]

*This topic has been moved from Non-Hosted Mods to Mods By Volf*

[Volf]

EleXor posted a -direct -txt tutorial
View original post

EleXor wrote:
I've seen many people asking how does this "-Direct -Txt" work. Well, i decided to make a simple tutorial for you! So we shall begin...

1. When you are installing CC mod, make sure that your patch_d2 is ORIGINAL (not modified) and there isn't any DATA folders.

2. Copy the DATA folder from CC zip to your Diablo II Directory (eg. "c:\Diablo II"

3. Now, there is two ways: Create new shortcut or copy existing one.

-New shortcut-

Click right mouse button on Desktop (or anywhere else) and select new shortcut. Then set the directory to "iablo II\Diablo II.exe" and visa versa.

-Copy shortcut-

If you have already Diablo II shortcut on your desktop, copy it and name it whatever you like. (I use "Mod"

4. Last part - Setting the -direct -txt
Select "Properties" by right clicking shortcut and here is the example of the properties screen:

Target: "Your diablo II folder/Diablo II.exe"

change it to

Target: "Your diablo II folder/Diablo ll.exe" -direct -txt

("Your diablo ii folder/Diablo II.exe"(blank)-direct(blank)-txt

Now, click ok. If you wish to play the mod, use the copied / created shortcut. To play ordinary Diablo II, use Diablo II.exe or Diablo II shortcut.

If you still didn't understand it, i posted the two pictures on net for you to see the system:

For pictures see original post

[Volf]

Post al Cheaters Choice bug reports in this thread and remember to enclude the following information.

-What version of CCm
-The error message (if there was one
-Where did this bug accure

[Myhrginoc]

Here are some other approaches. You can have multiple -direct -txt mods installed using the VB scripts and mod directories.

[Volf]

Well the 4rth version is starting to form.
I tought the inventory was a good plae to start, and thanks to Baron-Josh's discovery hirelings will be able to equipp everything.


New character inventory
New Hireling inventory Full credits goes to Baron-Josh for this one

[Xenast]

CCM3
No Error Message
Occured in Sinners Cavern

After killing either Duriel or Mephisto my level dropped 8 levels, but the used stats and skills remained. I noticed it after I killed these two guys, also I had 37 Experience Charms. The game was also a 2 player game over tcp/ip with a freind.

[Volf]

I still havent solved this problem, but iv been doing alot of testing in ccm4 and this hasnt happend to me yet. My test character is around lv 80 so my guess is that it happens if your a sertain level and have to meny exp charms.

37 charms and each charm has around 400% experience gained so you had around 15000% experience gained.
Well with that mush exp you can easily get back the levels you lost but the stats and skills that remain might cause trouble later on.
Il trye to get rid of this bug in the next version, if i cant then i may have to change the charms.

[Xenast]

I beleive when it happened I was lvl 42, or somewhere in that range. Its easy to gain the exp back, but the skills and stats remain, more of a balance issue.

[Volf]

I beleive when it happened I was lvl 42, or somewhere in that range. Its easy to gain the exp back, but the skills and stats remain, more of a balance issue.

Tested and it happened to me in nm, but with a higher lvl character it didnt.

I think i have a solution for this now, but i wont correct this bug in CCM3 unless it leads to something more serious but i doubt it will (i kindof like this bug)
Thanks for helping out Xenast

[Linethal]

I am not sure if you can do this but if you could make revives for the necromancer permanent like skeletons and golems that would be nice. Thanks.

Sorry, almost forgot, socketable boots, belts and golves too.

[Volf]

Im not shore what you mean with permanrnt necro minions. Do you mean that they would be there until they die even if you exit the game and start a new one.
I dont know if that kan be done but the idea is a good one

As for socketable boots,belts and gloves, i have desided not to do this coz with the new huge inventory you can already carry loads of charms and i dont want to make it to easy

[Acromatic Aria]

I think he means the creatures that can be brought back using the Revive skill. They die after a certain amount of time. The skill uses a duration parameter for how long a revive monster can remain "revived."

[Volf]

I think he means the creatures that can be brought back using the Revive skill. They die after a certain amount of time. The skill uses a duration parameter for how long a revive monster can remain "revived."

I didn't remember that the revives disspear, its been more than a year sense i last actually played d2

Anyway this is something that i could consider changeing in ccm4
Linethal thanks for the suggestion.

Acromatic Aria thanks for clearing up the confusion.

Edit
In CCM4 you can make runewords in al item qialitys exmple
Silence windforce

[Volf]

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