Blizzard says the number will depend on 'Whats fun', rather than what they can physically accomplish. However, for LAN games, or for players with fast ISP's, eight shouldn't be much of a problem. Skeptics are worried that eight players will be too much for the system to handle, since four was considerably plagued with lag issues. Blizzard stated that there was no practical reasoning for not allowing so many players in the first game, and so doubling the amount of players in the sequel shouldn't be a big issue. In other words, it is possible that external trainers and hacks will be used to cheat over Lans and modem play.Īs technology has gotten better in the past several years, Diablo II will now allow for up to eight players on. While this is a good feature considering some people won't want to play over, one must remember that a players data cannot be monitored off of servers.
Players can store characters on their hard drives for play over Lan's and modems, but these characters will be saved in a different format than characters (meaning that they are not interchangeable).
Blizzard is also implementing server side character storage, which lets them make sure that save game data cannot be altered by a connecting user. For security reasons, Blizzard will not release any information as to how they plan on stopping the problem, however, we can tell you that it will definitely be based upon a client / server model (meaning that all traffic between players is monitored on s servers to ensure authenticity). Blizzard has since vowed to solve the cheating problem for the sequel, and has now designed Diablo II from the ground up to stop cheaters from ruining the experience for others.
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The problem is that Diablo was never designed with security in mind from the very beginning, an although they can release patch after patch until they can't patch it any more, it can never be solved completely. Since then, Blizzard has done their best to stop the cheating, but has done so in vein. Any Diablo veteran knows the streets of were absolutely littered with cheats and hacks that made for too many dupe loving players, which ruined the entire experience for many players. Blizzard has gotten nothing but bad criticism for their faults in security as far as Diablo goes. Perhaps the biggest improvement in multiplayer games, will be the elimination cheating. Blizzard hopes that this change will help warn players ahead of time what a players true goals are, and hopefully help relieve the player killing dilemma. Whenever one player turns hostile, all the other players automatically turn hostile towards him. Hostile players can attack and destroy whatever they wish, which means that a spell which targets another player, will hit and harm that other player so long as the caster remains hostile towards the recipient. In order for a player to successfully attack another player, he must change his status to hostile. Instead, when a player targets another player with a projectile spell, the spell will instead, target a near by monster. He can be neutral a state which should feel familiar to anybody similar with Diablo, with one exception: it will be impossible to target another player with a spell while one is neutral. Every player has a relationship to another player in the game. To start with, blizzard has incorporated a new player status system into the game. Some 5 months after Bill spoke those words, it seems rather clear what Blizzards player killer plans will be.
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