By Jason McCullough on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 04:46 am:
I installed the expansion last weekend, and I'm just now getting around to playing it. They added an option a few patches back where you can force the game to generate monsters for however many players you want - typing "players 8" in the message box generates monsters with something like 800% the hp that give you 600% the xp.
I highly recommend it; the results are pretty amusing. My barbarian just keeps chopping and chopping away at zombies, like he's hewing off parts for the woodpile. I was also level 5 by the time I finished the Cave.
By Jason McCullough on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 04:47 am:
Whoops, level 5 for finishing the Den of Evil, that is.
By Mark Asher on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 05:15 am:
That's sort of like what you could do with Diablo -- play in Hell mode right off the bat. The warrior couldn't hack it, but the rogue and sorceror could carefully pick off skeletons with ranged attackes and rack up tons of XP.
By Jason McCullough on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 06:13 am:
Yeah, the monsters spew out ludicrous amounts of equipment, too. The ground is completely covered in worthless items I leave behind.
By mtkafka (Mtkafka) on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 07:31 am:
i didnt know about this option... wow i could probably make some character level quicker now. my paladin is still stuck in the mid teens about...
can you do this offline? i mean non battle net... i guess i should take a look at the websites. nevermind!
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By Jason_cross (Jason_cross) on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 08:52 pm:
This only works single-player, by the way.
Online, the difficulty of enemies on the harder difficulty modes is a little different (harder), and you just have to find a game with other real players if you want to fight harder monsters.
By Jason McCullough on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 09:03 pm:
It does work on non-battle.net multiplayer games, though. The Smith took me two minutes of holding down the attack button to kill. ;0
It takes forever to bring enemies down, and I'm getting a ton of xp. I'm around level 20 and about to finish act one.
By David E. Hunt (Davidcpa) on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 11:45 pm:
Quote:you just have to find a game with other real players if you want to fight harder monsters.
By Jason McCullough on Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 01:46 am:
Well, here's a summary of what "players 8" when it's just you whacking monster does for you:
The monsters have 8 times the hp.
They give 4.6 times the experience.
They drop about 3 times as many items.
It doesn't really take 8x (maybe 4x) as long to take down monsters, and gives you ability to cherry-pick only magic items. Aww yeah.