I don't know of any current outstanding critical bugs that need to be fixed in Diablo, so I don't forsee a patch at present unless a patch is made necessary by a future Blizzard product.

Oh well.  Of course, I don't think he's aware of the two obscure bugs known that are guaranteed to crash the game instantly...are YOU?  They're in the DSF Buglist...look for the bold text.

We have modified the Middle Earth Mod a bit. We found out that the "holiness" effect does not work on bows. Could have thought of that earlier, since "blood" and "vampires" do not work, either :-)  We thus modified some unique items which had the "holiness" effect to now use a different effect, but we did not take the suffix from bows, since this could cause item morphing. For fun, we also put in some new sound effects. To hear them (and in order to play the game), you need to download the new "sounds.zip" file and unzip it into your Diablo directory (with subdirectories). The sounds should go into the "monsters" and "sfx" directories. You do not need to download the "graphics" file again, it has not changed. Only the dat (or exe) and the sounds file.

On another note, my apologies for the lack of updates.  I've been taking a semi-vacation from the site for the last three weeks.  Frankly, when I started this site, I had expected at least the D2 Beta to be released by now.  As the delays mounted, I found it harder to keep the same enthusiasm.  Add that to schoolwork (the life of an Electrical Engineering student) and...distractions (cough, Final Fantasy VIII) and you have a neglected website.  Things will pick up around here again.

- we threw out anything we felt was not "middle earthish" in the original Diablo 1.07 game. Well, at least everything we could throw out, that is :-)
- new monsters. Some of them even with new graphics (that is why you have to download so much)
- tons of new bosses. Many of them will seem somewhat familiar if you are a Tolkien fan :-)
- new base items
- new prefixes/suffixes
- new unique items. LOTS of them. Every single one has been replaced.
- other than with the "original" 1.07 mod, we balanced the game to our liking right from the start. So, for example, in this Middle Earth mod we put more emphasis on the lower armour types - i.e. leather armour and chain mail are much more important than plate mail. You will have trouble even finding a plate mail armour (of course we adjusted the AC ranges of chain mail etc. a bit to compensate). Two handed weapons have been improved somewhat. For a beginning warrior, axes are far more interesting now than before, for example.

Check out more about this exciting release at V&K's new Diablomods site!  Be sure to read the download instructions as there are technical issues with the large download size.

In other news, the STSI feature of the site may need to be put on hold for a time due to server space limitations.  More space is being allocated, but that might not be for a week or two.  Thanks for your patience.  Update: well, that got fixed fast.  More room, more STSIs.