I've noticed a few oddities.
1. You used to be able to click through the entry screens with the Blizzard and Blizzard North logos. You can't anymore.
Beta 2 Edit: This now only fails on my PowerBook. Works fine on the G4. Must be my mouse drivers ...
2. The character selection screen is sorted by last access time rather than alphabetically by character name. Quite disturbing if you have a lot of characters.
3. The old bug where Tyrael can place the end portal in an inaccessible location is back. I had him plop it in midair. It really doesn't matter much, as it gives you credit for killing Baal anyway.
4. Joining TCP/IP games is quite slow, especially between entering the IP address and displaying the character screen. The delay seems to be at least 30 seconds, possibly over a minute.
Beta 2 Edit: It may be a little faster in Beta 2, but it's still excruciatingly slow to pull up the character screen.
5. The game seems to hit the hard disk in brief flurries, stalling the game even in SP mode. The stalls last for a fraction of a second. This behavior is not found in the 1.09 software. It is independent of memory allocation size.
Beta Edit 2: The disk stalls seems to be considerably reduced, but not eliminated.
6. I don't know if Slow Missiles ever affected the Harpy Red Snowballs in the WorldStone Keep, but it doesn't now.
Beta Edit 2: 7. An unbug! I can now understand the Druid when he talks! I never could before.
All on a G4/500 running OS 9.2.2 w/1.5GB RAM.
1. You used to be able to click through the entry screens with the Blizzard and Blizzard North logos. You can't anymore.
Beta 2 Edit: This now only fails on my PowerBook. Works fine on the G4. Must be my mouse drivers ...
2. The character selection screen is sorted by last access time rather than alphabetically by character name. Quite disturbing if you have a lot of characters.
3. The old bug where Tyrael can place the end portal in an inaccessible location is back. I had him plop it in midair. It really doesn't matter much, as it gives you credit for killing Baal anyway.
4. Joining TCP/IP games is quite slow, especially between entering the IP address and displaying the character screen. The delay seems to be at least 30 seconds, possibly over a minute.
Beta 2 Edit: It may be a little faster in Beta 2, but it's still excruciatingly slow to pull up the character screen.
5. The game seems to hit the hard disk in brief flurries, stalling the game even in SP mode. The stalls last for a fraction of a second. This behavior is not found in the 1.09 software. It is independent of memory allocation size.
Beta Edit 2: The disk stalls seems to be considerably reduced, but not eliminated.
6. I don't know if Slow Missiles ever affected the Harpy Red Snowballs in the WorldStone Keep, but it doesn't now.
Beta Edit 2: 7. An unbug! I can now understand the Druid when he talks! I never could before.
All on a G4/500 running OS 9.2.2 w/1.5GB RAM.