Cheaters in Diablo 2?

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I don't know enough about the various cheats to know, honestly. Only cheats that ever really bothered me were item drop and pker cheats. What does maphack do?
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hacks your map.

I think I should elaborate a bit more. The most common maphacks are free (one costs money but is widely cracked now, haha sucker). Recent advances allow maphacks to change the color of items on the ground (the name is green for flawless gems) or completely hidden so they don't even show up. In many cases, these are used to block out flawed gems and arrows and cracked sashes. Other features include full screen light radius, and monsters, missiles, corpses, and chests on the automap, in fully customizeable colors as well. Immunities can be detected on the automap, as well as the perfect sniping tool which allows you to scroll across the screen to see the familiar black wall.

Fact of the matter is, this is a lot of stuff and maphack has even more. But ALL of it actually takes away from the game. What fun is it if you can see the monsters before they attack you? Or if you know that will o wisps are guarding the frozen river or the worldstone keep? Is it really that obvious to see a unique hydra bow laying on the ground surrounded by thousands of gold pieces, hundreds of mediocre polearms and shields? If you know that there is a conviction msle cold enchanted boss ahead of you, then the boss should ALSO know where you are, and be able to prepare accordingly. Of course, this is not the case. It all detracts from the way the game was originally intended to be played.

Some cheating I find understandable, but most ruins the game. Maphack ruined d2 for me, and I'm proud to say that. Well it was a bit more than just maphack, but the principal is the same. A note on starcraft's hacks. The map hacks (notice the space) allow minerals to be placed over and over again over the same spot, allowing "money maps." These maps suck. They detract from the way the game is MEANT to be played. But for rpgs on sc, the map hacks allow more depth, and allow much more to come out of the game. If it weren't for these ums maps, I think starcraft would simply become another nox.