Keep Update 04/29/2006

[Myhrginoc]

Welcome to another edition of the Phrozen Keep News, a.k.a the Weekly Update. I am a day late and a dollar short getting this out to all of you, but it isn't that we have no news.

Median Expansion
Brother Laz has provided some nifty add-ons for Median 2006. Now you can customize your playing experience by playing Median "out of the box" or with any combination of these featurettes. And ask yourself (if you must), would an add-on to a mod of an official add-on to a game constitute an expansion of an expansion of an expansion?

Where Is That Debug File?
When your game crashes, you go to the Diablo II directory and find one of the files named D2yymmdd.txt (embedded date) to see a near-incomprehensible stream of internal data. Havvoric thought this information should appear with the mod, and he stepped up to the plate to make it happen. Users of the d2mod system can now add the D2Mod Log Plugin to make this happen for you. The plugin will only work for v1.10 final.

You Can Get There From Here!
VillageIdiot has been refining his method for creating red portals with cube recipes quite a while, and now he shares his latest findings in this downloadable tutorial. Sample files include pre-edited dlls so no code editing is required to try it out. May not work with features of plugY and one or more d2mod plugins so be sure to test your particular setup.

The Distaff View
Evilsnack returns with an interview of Sanctuary's heroines. While the guys were running around the map tripping over their tongues, the women had to clean up the mess as usual! Find out why committees are no fun when there is a war going on in The Pigs, Jerks, and Creeps of Sanctuary.

Lightning Strikes Twice
DarthDevilous picks up a second pot for $108,000 in the PK:OT Lottery. We always like to see the underdogs win against the Cabal, but don't make a habit of it! (Otherwise they'll hand you a membership card and we will have to boo you too.) And for all you fence-sitters out there, try your hand and help keep Darth's evil pure!

That's all the news we could scrape up...er, announce...this week, so go forth and slaughter!