Diablo II 1.10 Beta Patch Released

seirui writes "Blizzard today announced the beginning of the public beta test for the Diablo II: Lord Of Destruction 1.10 patch. Conspicuously absent from the downloadable-now beta patch is Battle.net support (both open and closed), but present are a multitude of little changes, including a rollback.bat file for reverting back to 1.09 to play online. Now that hell has frozen over, the quest for items can continue! Here's a BitTorrent link for the 5mb patch." An anonymous reader also points to a hands-on account at DiabloII.net describing the changes for V1.10.

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Windows only for now

[derdesh]

They promise another announcement when the OS X patch is available.

This is necessary

[Rudeboy777]

Speaking as someone who has spent many hours playing D2, I must say this is a good way to beta test this patch. For those that don't know, this will practically be an expansion pack with the amount of changes being made. There are SO MANY factors that go into D2's combat system that balancing is an enormous task that even after 3+ years is not ironed out. The new forums on www.battle.net indicate to me that they will be listening to a lot of userland suggestions. That kicks ass. I know /.ers are supposed to hate Blizzard but I am just too much of a fan boy to go against my gamegeek leanings.