The best items accessible for the vast majority of builds are Sacred Uniques, which cannot be crafted. The enhanced Runewords are amazing, don't get me wrong, but they're made to be transitionary items until you get that insane Sacred drop. The end-game really is about hunting for that special piece of gear, very similarly to LoD except that they've adjusted the drop tables to make it less asinine to find the gear you want. I'm not saying it's easy, it's a much more difficult game than Vanilla LoD, but more because the fights are difficult than because it takes literal months of gameplay to find a single piece of gear. I'd say it's a great mod which is well worth a playthrough, especially given that it's free. I honestly don't plan to go back to LoD, and I've been playing D2 since 2004.
Some of the Uber bosses get a little out of hand later game but still a lot of fun trying out all the new items , skills and builds. Trying to make a few guides myself but the but the mod has so much to offer and is still being updated consistently with new content.
it ABSOLUTELY is addictive as fuck. after d4 fail and d2r not catching me too much Median Sigma and Project diablo 2 really made me addicted... such good mods omg
@SinisterMinister Yeah thats why it has a different name and as described as being on ectacsy. Do you have a point or are you just sad someone made a mod that hurt you game? P.S. The game still exists.
@SinisterMinister Well... it is diablo 2 in sense that it uses the story, assets and so on. The gameplay is similar. But its upgraded, so something like Diablo 2.1a ?
Thanks for the Direct 3d tip. I was having trouble with screen tearing and the glide setting felt like it cranked the gamma up way too high. Direct 3d looks just like normal Diablo II without the unicorn vomit. MedianXL is much like I remember it, but I'm finding the lack of a loot visibility toggle to be really irritating. Having to hold buttons down for loot and run gets old really quickly.
Are you using D2stats for filtering? I find that somewhat helpful and you can just use the notifier when you want so you don't even need to hold the loot buttons down
@@MrLlamaSC I haven't tried it yet but it seems neat. I'd still prefer just having item visibility as a toggle but I can see the filter being more useful when I get into hell with the sacred items and stuff.
It's much better without the rainbow barf all over the screen, but still a bit too much fiddlefarting about with all that crafting for my taste. Thanks for showcasing it for us :D
At the start I was very hyped. But the entire content from level 1-105 is basically throwaway content that doesn't matter, save for your class charm and the tran athulua charm. So you get relevant content from level 105 - 135, which is ok for a mod I guess. The challenges are varied, fun and challenging till you hit 125 and the purify issue. Purify is a skill that can damage bosses that are otherwise immune to damage. On 120 the skill is ok. But on 125 purify fights against the witch and valthek can range from 10 to 20 minutes and are insufferably tedious due to one-shot mechanics and lockouts. These fights are not fun. Not fun is basically the theme on 130 as well: 2 purify fights one of which has a lockout and one-shot mechanics, while the other lasts for 30+ minutes due to the boss being immune to purify for 90% of the time. The final fight on level 130 consists of a 30 minute wait until 2 bosses kill each other.... it's no fun at all... The game's strongest point is truly 120. 125 is still ok and 130 is shit. Samael on 135 is a decent boss. But beware Uldyssian, Lazarus and the Void on 130. These three encounters might completely break your enjoyment.
"Invinsible and invincle monster that I hate so much" We've been there in d2 as well, those black souls that shoot bunches of lightning out of nowhere especially in act 4 and baal run (at least they are still visible and non invincible) :) I am both love and hate them at the same time. It's quite hilarious to watch my own character died at lightning all of a sudden when I have crappy gears with low lightning resist.
Is there any way to get the enhancements to the engine from Median XL (like the bigger resolution, frame rate, UI and stuff) for vanilla D2? I don't really dig the Median gameplay of filling the screen with shit and crowds of monsters tbh.
Yes, you can use Multires for bigger resolution (but you probably shouldn't go bigger than 1024x768, since the game wasn't designed for higher, and it would be like cheating), and PlugY for bigger inventory with stash pages. The simplest way is to probably use D2SE mod manager program. Getting the new UI is impossible. Frame rate is the same as in vanilla.
It has it's charm, but the changes are far too drastic. The game barely feels like Diablo 2 anymore. I could never really get into it for longer than the first part of Normal, I'd always just return to either vanilla or Eastern Sun, which I consider to be the best mod for D2 of all time (despite some problems).
Playing eastern sun rises currently with my whirlwind barb and dance of death zon. Very enjoyable mod and I recommend it (my character is just around lv80+, still have a lot to explore). Love the skill whirlwind so much basically just grab myself a barb in any mod even though he might not be as efficient compared to aoe dps.
When I search for ''Eastern Sun Rises'' I get nothing that is official though. The only thing is this: d2mods.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63739 It looks a bit hollow at first glance or am I looking at a wrong place?
meh he was just specced wrong i think , after 3 months playing , what i thought was impossible is now super easy, just gotta know what to stacks your stats for as you progress into the the 105/115/125 and up
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So do I have to install D2 2 times in order to keep a vanilla and have also this one? Or copying the D2 folder to another location and installing Median XL there works?
Good reiew. Through the entire video MrLlama sounded like 'medial is good, but...' And this 'but' thing sounded like 'I played Median and it is good, but now I'm back for good old Diablo 2'. Thanks for review. Too blurry, too grindy, too overcrowded. Back for Diablo 1 The Hell 2.
You could have been slightly clearer at the start; This is a full conversion mod. Once installed, even the default launch icon will start Median XL, not regular Diablo 2. That is why you want 2 seperate installs if you intend on playing both.
i know its kind of a necro post but i answer so maybe some one with the same problem sees it :) you can start D2 from the foldor without the launcher for Fullscreen direct3d
My char just was doing the blade spiral and the electric beam from his sword. Both require me to be in melee range, they just have an AOE attached (Which unfortunately is pretty necessary for any character to compete, even in vanilla)
Great game, I don't know if it's still possible but in last version of Median XL I have got Blood mage merc and since he does fire dmg only, I have crafted him amazing +fire dmg gear and enhanced it with full +fire dmg MOs. He was almost doing more dmg than me haha. Try it out if it's still possible.
@@MrLlamaSC A lot of people say to use act 5 barb merc, he is the toughest one in Sigma. He needs full STR gear because of amazing scaling from STR. I cannot test anything since I didn't try Sigma yet (sold pc and bought macbook). I wonder if it's very different from last version of Median. Anyways, I see you doing alright without a merc, maybe just need to tweak your gear more and focus on crafting some BIS uniques or RW :) I wish I could play this, too bad I have a macbook now and cba installing windows on it. I am waiting for POE to come out on PS4 now. I love D3 on PS4, kinda fun to play chilled on the couch. Great streams and videos man, keep up the good job. Been watching you for a few months now and glad I have found your channel.
Llama... shame on you not doing a Blessed craft... When you find a craft you like craft it again with an arcane crystal for even more shrine bonuses...
my largest gripe with this mod is that it essentially destroys the 'thrill of the hunt'. you craft pretty much everything for upgrades, it makes the drops much less interesting or exciting. wanted to love it, but after getting through the newb phase and realizing I have to craft everything , struggling to want to play it any longer :|
that and too many things that require you to look up recipes or how to do things. the moment you have to leave the game to look things up it kinda takes away from the immersion. bummer.
I think the "hunt" is still there in the way of looking for bases that you're going to craft and such (and there are also some really sick unique/set items), but I know what you mean. It's a little different there for sure. As for looking stuff up, ya you do end up spending a little bit too much time outside of the game. I think they could come up with a slightly better solution here to make it a bit more obvious for beginners
Suggestion : when you are describing parts of the game consider overlaying a video showing that. It's very uninteresting to see you talking and your character doing nothing.
i din't like Median XL experience, is too much boom, colors, unnecessary noise and effects. Maybe try it for some fun, but nothing more. I dont like D III; I wait too excitement for D IV.
someone please help me! i run this mod on g4560, don't have a graphic card but it so lag like 10fps. no matter the video mode is 2d or 3d. i can't use the glide mod
Only like a few dozen of people out of thousands can beat all the ubers in this game. So yes, there's lots of challenges. There's some easy, medium, hard and almost impossible uberquests.
Guys is there a guide on how to install this thing... Tried to install diablo 2 from blizz installers and I got a graphical mode error on windows 10. I tried compatibility settings but nothing so far. So I am stuck because I can't even install the game.
Hey Llama, look for AVALON mod. Man that is quite beast, and its still diablo II, unlike MEDIAN XL that changed evrything. For 1st try you dont have to go far. My challenge for you is : Enter Tristram on normal. P.S. Try Gheed (and dont start crying).
I just finished playing this for two days, While i love alot of what they did here, I can't call it good... or even fun after you realize they've decided to go with cheap over challenging. So many stupid things with no means of countering it, ala invisible untargetable mobs that are going to hit you before you even know they are there, Way Way Way more monsters, and they made defenses worse so you just eat damage all the time, no real way to sustain health, Sure you can get some life steal and some life on attack, when 30-150 life on attack is Nothing at all, when you have thousands of hp, and leech is just as bad as all of these aoe attacks seem to only leech from the One guy you hit, base block chance of 1-3 So thats worthless until level 100+ evasion skills get worse as you level somehow, and defense just seems to not work. I had like 30k defense with the character sheen saying 7% chance to be hit, and then would take 20 hits each that stun you and you die.... Also somehow the game just lags....not sure how thats possible on a modern computer but it does, quite heavily at times... all that being said i appreciate and respect all the work and passion that went into this, and i can tell the people who made it love the game. I love the crafting system, new enemies, I just wish they took the time to balance it and make it less of a death fest and more enjoyable/less annoying to play. because losing 2/3rds of your health to poison every 10 seconds with 78% poison resistance is not fun x.x
i play this mod for many years (2009 my first mxl experiance) and i have cleared a few Ubers there in Hardcore if you die to anything e.a. Fireblood is basically a gear check and your defense is weak its pretty important to increase your resistance over 75 i think 80+ is a minimum at least in HC. And it got a lot of End-Game. 30k defense is like nothing :) but yeah its hard to get your first character rolling but once you understand gear progression, crafting and what is important in this mod even Hardcore is pretty well balanced since sigma :)
@@dolphinvoltage3339 its very differen, Path of diablo is basically farming only like maps in PoE "might be more now did only play it like 1,5 year ago and was bored" and median is farming + idk 30 unique bossfights with level progression from 105 to 135 (very hard imo uber elder is a cake in comparison) if you are interrested just go to the Median webpage and look at game/documentation/quest how much there is. they include all the lore and evils of Diablo books like legacy of blood and more. Also one of the first People who worked at GGG is the original founder of Median and i think he did itemisation for early PoE but im not sure.
Your first paragraph is just due to you being a new player that doesn't know/understand things. This isn't a game/mod that you can master in 2 days. Just because you played a bit and suck at the game doesn't mean the game sucks. This isn't one of those modern games that holds your hand and serves you everything on a silver platter. This game is hard and requires you to learn, read and think. Once you get a bit more into it and learn things like how to play, gear, and build your character, those problems mostly go away - you know how to solve them. The same thing you're describing would happen in normal D2 too, and you can prevent it. What probably happened is that you were probably running, which in D2 reduces your defense to 0, so you got hit a lot more than you expected. Or, since defense doesn't help against spells, you might have gotten hit by a spell instead. You get stunned if you get hit for more than 1/12th of your HP - it has nothing to do with the mod, it's like this in normal D2, as well. Once you're stunned (more precisely, put into hit recovery), any of the next hits that land also stun you. So a way to get around this is to not run around many mobs, increase your HP, and get more +x% Faster Hit Recovery stat. You can also get +x% Chance to Avoid Damage, get more defense, level up, get damage reduction/absorb/resistances, keep moving, not get surrounded, etc.
@@ivanjelenic5627 No sir i have thousands of hours in the base game. The simple fact is this mod is a work of passion not of profession. They worked hard on a game they love and as a diablo fan i can appreciate that. The simple fact is they use alot of cheap shenanigans to kill you rather than actual challenge... Not that diablo 1-2 did not but these are outdated tactics. Like i said alot of what they added was really cool. And alot of it is just plain stupid if they make the process of learning the game fustrating and full of cheap deaths. They did a bad job. This is my opinion and i am entitled to it. and you wont change my mind by saying "you suck" Ill meet you have way and say i suck at a poorly balanced mod to a game i love. Im aware of what stunlock is. the problem is not the mechanics its all the stupid bullshit they do to ignore the things you can to do prevent it, like being amped up on crazy juice while untargetable and invulnerable to get a cheap shot on you. Its silly. Its a big stupid really fucking neat, but not very good mod in the balance department. If you say oh those defenses dont work you need to avoid damage mods rather than reduced damage mods, thats just proof that it's poorly made.
Hi, I downloaded the mod Zy El recently but just feel too difficult when starting up and certainly I'm not doing things correctly (so I play other mod called eastern sun rises first before I dive into zy el). Do you have a link for newb guide for this mod? I tried to read the pdf but is insanely long (good thing though because it seems like have tons of depth). Btw is the lv10000 cap is true?( lv10000 seems like have to grind for a very long time; but I kind of wanted to play this mod because of it :) )
Yeah, except this mod is multiple times deeper than vanilla. You think vanilla knows boundaries, you think it's balanced? What about unlimited teleport on 0 cooldown? How is that good design?
This video "review" barely touches upon the game mechanics and doesn't really fully digest what this game is. It doesn't really go through the end-game content of clearing ubers, rifts, and other end game content. This review is 1 dimensional and doesn't really cover how the multiplayer works or other player interactions. This is more like a my impressions video than a review of the game. Either way, glad you like it. Median XL is a great game.
I'm lvl 130 now so I could do another review, but I don't think it would change much honestly. Has some interesting boss fights, has some awful gimmicks/mechanics (*cough* purify *cough*), has some really cool crafting, etc. also ya just a single player review.
Median xl Sucks balls. half of the shit just doesnt work. started amazon, Storm call just cant use it. respecc java, skills suddenly stop working saying i dont have a javalin. needed to respec java skills to make them work again. unique javalin with +5 to some skill just doesnt work. skills stop working again. and other bugs and bullshit. first time trying done with it in like 2 hours. shitty game is shit. will never try again.
Jake A i found out that u have a lot of motivation videos in ur secret backyard. Maybe u are having hard time in your real time. Sry about that. I was just trying to be sarcastic. And u just take it the wrong way lol.
Im happy i gave Median Xl a try. Honestly it revived my diablo 2 experiance
The best items accessible for the vast majority of builds are Sacred Uniques, which cannot be crafted. The enhanced Runewords are amazing, don't get me wrong, but they're made to be transitionary items until you get that insane Sacred drop.
The end-game really is about hunting for that special piece of gear, very similarly to LoD except that they've adjusted the drop tables to make it less asinine to find the gear you want. I'm not saying it's easy, it's a much more difficult game than Vanilla LoD, but more because the fights are difficult than because it takes literal months of gameplay to find a single piece of gear.
I'd say it's a great mod which is well worth a playthrough, especially given that it's free. I honestly don't plan to go back to LoD, and I've been playing D2 since 2004.
Black lotus... Black LOTUS... BLACK LOTUS!!!!! XD hahaha sorry, had to comment on the profile pic X'D
Its hard to believe that people spent so much time to design something so cool for peanuts. Theres like 10 people on the team
Some of the Uber bosses get a little out of hand later game but still a lot of fun trying out all the new items , skills and builds. Trying to make a few guides myself but the but the mod has so much to offer and is still being updated consistently with new content.
it ABSOLUTELY is addictive as fuck.
after d4 fail and d2r not catching me too much
Median Sigma and Project diablo 2 really made me addicted...
such good mods omg
Median XL Sigma is basically Diablo II on Ecstasy
@SinisterMinister Yeah thats why it has a different name and as described as being on ectacsy. Do you have a point or are you just sad someone made a mod that hurt you game? P.S. The game still exists.
@SinisterMinister You're right, it's not D2, it's better.
@SinisterMinister Well... it is diablo 2 in sense that it uses the story, assets and so on. The gameplay is similar. But its upgraded, so something like Diablo 2.1a ?
@@zaddyzeeseburgnutz it's not better but it's still good
No it's diablo 2 on steroids
I enjoyed watching your playthrough of Median XL. In the end; more games = more videos = more fun.
if the d2 resurrected is running on the original d2 engine.. does that mean that median xl sigma would work with it?
Little did he know that amulet he missed was a +2 SK that would have rolled a lucky +3 bonus on the first try and he missed it
I cry every night over this
Hey im happy Median are getting so much publicity their mods are really good
Thanks for the Direct 3d tip. I was having trouble with screen tearing and the glide setting felt like it cranked the gamma up way too high. Direct 3d looks just like normal Diablo II without the unicorn vomit. MedianXL is much like I remember it, but I'm finding the lack of a loot visibility toggle to be really irritating. Having to hold buttons down for loot and run gets old really quickly.
Are you using D2stats for filtering? I find that somewhat helpful and you can just use the notifier when you want so you don't even need to hold the loot buttons down
@@MrLlamaSC I haven't tried it yet but it seems neat. I'd still prefer just having item visibility as a toggle but I can see the filter being more useful when I get into hell with the sacred items and stuff.
There is no need to change it to D3D to change the colors, just go to the settings menu and lower the contrast.
It's much better without the rainbow barf all over the screen, but still a bit too much fiddlefarting about with all that crafting for my taste. Thanks for showcasing it for us :D
I agree
fiddlefarting crafting, skill progression quests, and the end game in this is still leagues above d3
btw i love the 3dfx glide version
Yeah saying something is better than D3 is not really saying anything tho
@@NostraFnDamus my bowel movements after eating spicy bacon peanut butter sandwiches are better than D3
Weird seeing you in a non political channel Nostra. :P
Is this on mobile? :P
Why? Don't you have a phone? :D
@@Stoy4ev92 Just my nokia brick
Is this a off season april fool joke?
oooo it was TOMB CURSE I've read TOM CRUISE XD 3:09
At the start I was very hyped. But the entire content from level 1-105 is basically throwaway content that doesn't matter, save for your class charm and the tran athulua charm. So you get relevant content from level 105 - 135, which is ok for a mod I guess. The challenges are varied, fun and challenging till you hit 125 and the purify issue. Purify is a skill that can damage bosses that are otherwise immune to damage. On 120 the skill is ok. But on 125 purify fights against the witch and valthek can range from 10 to 20 minutes and are insufferably tedious due to one-shot mechanics and lockouts. These fights are not fun. Not fun is basically the theme on 130 as well: 2 purify fights one of which has a lockout and one-shot mechanics, while the other lasts for 30+ minutes due to the boss being immune to purify for 90% of the time. The final fight on level 130 consists of a 30 minute wait until 2 bosses kill each other.... it's no fun at all...
The game's strongest point is truly 120. 125 is still ok and 130 is shit. Samael on 135 is a decent boss. But beware Uldyssian, Lazarus and the Void on 130. These three encounters might completely break your enjoyment.
I just hit 130 and I'm not crazy excited to do those ubers after hearing about them lol
did you miss that unique amulet at 3:16 ?
"Invinsible and invincle monster that I hate so much"
We've been there in d2 as well, those black souls that shoot bunches of lightning out of nowhere especially in act 4 and baal run (at least they are still visible and non invincible) :)
I am both love and hate them at the same time. It's quite hilarious to watch my own character died at lightning all of a sudden when I have crappy gears with low lightning resist.
Those are at least "Visible" and can die!!
Is there any way to get the enhancements to the engine from Median XL (like the bigger resolution, frame rate, UI and stuff) for vanilla D2? I don't really dig the Median gameplay of filling the screen with shit and crowds of monsters tbh.
Same here, I think I will ask in Reddit?
Yes, you can use Multires for bigger resolution (but you probably shouldn't go bigger than 1024x768, since the game wasn't designed for higher, and it would be like cheating), and PlugY for bigger inventory with stash pages. The simplest way is to probably use D2SE mod manager program. Getting the new UI is impossible. Frame rate is the same as in vanilla.
Wait for Project Diablo 2. It's coming this November.
It has it's charm, but the changes are far too drastic. The game barely feels like Diablo 2 anymore. I could never really get into it for longer than the first part of Normal, I'd always just return to either vanilla or Eastern Sun, which I consider to be the best mod for D2 of all time (despite some problems).
It's definitely not Diablo 2, but I have found a lot of fun in the crafting part of the game!
Is not Eastern Sun abandoned for a long time ago already?
@@BrecMadak recently some community members have started to develop it again as Eastern Sun Rises
Playing eastern sun rises currently with my whirlwind barb and dance of death zon. Very enjoyable mod and I recommend it (my character is just around lv80+, still have a lot to explore). Love the skill whirlwind so much basically just grab myself a barb in any mod even though he might not be as efficient compared to aoe dps.
When I search for ''Eastern Sun Rises'' I get nothing that is official though. The only thing is this: d2mods.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63739 It looks a bit hollow at first glance or am I looking at a wrong place?
meh he was just specced wrong i think , after 3 months playing , what i thought was impossible is now super easy, just gotta know what to stacks your stats for as you progress into the the 105/115/125 and up
How did you optimize this to run so smoothly. I am having trouble with graphics beeing clunky and making me trow up.
I just play it out of the box with windowed mode
12:29 i like how you ignored her and walked away lul
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Hey MrLlamaSC
,
I can not open the game full screen in Direc3D setting, how do you do that? Glide washes out the colours badly...
I play windowed mode instead. I prefer that anyways
So do I have to install D2 2 times in order to keep a vanilla and have also this one? Or copying the D2 folder to another location and installing Median XL there works?
I installed 2 times (copied folders)
Watching with closed captioning on, Llama says, “let me repair my gear first,” captions read, “let me get my girly fist”
Since you suggest following a guide, do you have one in mind? Links would be helpful.
Check on MedianXL wiki, I think there are several builds for each class
Many of the builds are outdated currently, there's only a handful for a couple of the classes in total right now that are up to date.
forum.median-xl.com/
check here.
Can I play it on my Samung Galaxy 2 or do I need to upgrade my rig? :D
Needs an updated one haha. You the man.
Do you have to buy median xl? Or is it free? I have diablo lod on my mac
it is free if you have D2, so you should be good!
Ypur love for Diablo 2 is contagious Bro. God Bless. Keep Uploading more Diablo 2 videos.
Good reiew. Through the entire video MrLlama sounded like 'medial is good, but...' And this 'but' thing sounded like 'I played Median and it is good, but now I'm back for good old Diablo 2'.
Thanks for review. Too blurry, too grindy, too overcrowded. Back for Diablo 1 The Hell 2.
You could have been slightly clearer at the start; This is a full conversion mod. Once installed, even the default launch icon will start Median XL, not regular Diablo 2. That is why you want 2 seperate installs if you intend on playing both.
very true. Changes up everything!
Totally! Better remake the video! :)
Guys i need help when i try to join the sin war i appears the thing access violation c0000005 what can i do?
Glide is visually much better than Direct3D ... my opinion. And this is probably the best mode for Diablo 2.
And you can change the settings in glide to make look even better
Man,when i put direct3d, the game wont go fullscreen and it has some horizontals lines from top to bottom
Any help?!
I play windowed mode with direct 3d... try that?
i know its kind of a necro post but i answer so maybe some one with the same problem sees it :)
you can start D2 from the foldor without the launcher for Fullscreen direct3d
are you MrLlamaSC that i seen in op SENMON the other day?!
;)
Llama you gotta review MedianXL 2.0!!! It's insanely improved and tweaked.
As i said on a previous comment. Is that supposed to be a frigging melee Char ? Spaming Magic and orbs right and left doesnt seem melee to me.
the magic orbs were enemy attacks. The only move he was using was the spiral of daggers
My char just was doing the blade spiral and the electric beam from his sword. Both require me to be in melee range, they just have an AOE attached (Which unfortunately is pretty necessary for any character to compete, even in vanilla)
does anyone know why the uptiering recipe without a rune exists? is it literally just a noob trap?
It's for tiered bases. Not sure if it works on honorific bases but it might? Either way, it's not too important once you get into Sacred gear.
Ooo game look tight AF
Great game, I don't know if it's still possible but in last version of Median XL I have got Blood mage merc and since he does fire dmg only, I have crafted him amazing +fire dmg gear and enhanced it with full +fire dmg MOs. He was almost doing more dmg than me haha. Try it out if it's still possible.
My mercenaries are just dying instantly :(
@@MrLlamaSC A lot of people say to use act 5 barb merc, he is the toughest one in Sigma. He needs full STR gear because of amazing scaling from STR. I cannot test anything since I didn't try Sigma yet (sold pc and bought macbook). I wonder if it's very different from last version of Median.
Anyways, I see you doing alright without a merc, maybe just need to tweak your gear more and focus on crafting some BIS uniques or RW :)
I wish I could play this, too bad I have a macbook now and cba installing windows on it. I am waiting for POE to come out on PS4 now. I love D3 on PS4, kinda fun to play chilled on the couch.
Great streams and videos man, keep up the good job. Been watching you for a few months now and glad I have found your channel.
MrLLamaSC, did you liked HellGate?
never played!
soooooo cant bot and do 24hr baal runs?
Llama... shame on you not doing a Blessed craft... When you find a craft you like craft it again with an arcane crystal for even more shrine bonuses...
I did that! But it was 200ED already so I blessed it with something else I think...maybe AR or something
Dunno if it's from my monitor.. But he looks stoned as fuck
jesus why wont mine work
POD light?
Oh wow! This looks so cool! 🤩
I need help getting this mod please help me
my largest gripe with this mod is that it essentially destroys the 'thrill of the hunt'. you craft pretty much everything for upgrades, it makes the drops much less interesting or exciting. wanted to love it, but after getting through the newb phase and realizing I have to craft everything , struggling to want to play it any longer :|
that and too many things that require you to look up recipes or how to do things. the moment you have to leave the game to look things up it kinda takes away from the immersion. bummer.
I think the "hunt" is still there in the way of looking for bases that you're going to craft and such (and there are also some really sick unique/set items), but I know what you mean. It's a little different there for sure.
As for looking stuff up, ya you do end up spending a little bit too much time outside of the game. I think they could come up with a slightly better solution here to make it a bit more obvious for beginners
@@EntaiIIe End game are sacred uniques. Those are uncraftable.
@@THE_BASED_GOD thanks - maybe I put it down too early then!
My amazon cant run, can someone help me out?? :(
Suggestion : when you are describing parts of the game consider overlaying a video showing that. It's very uninteresting to see you talking and your character doing nothing.
i din't like Median XL experience, is too much boom, colors, unnecessary noise and effects. Maybe try it for some fun, but nothing more. I dont like D III; I wait too excitement for D IV.
Unique amulet drops randomly and he just doesn't care enough to even pick it up :p
someone please help me!
i run this mod on g4560, don't have a graphic card but it so lag like 10fps. no matter the video mode is 2d or 3d. i can't use the glide mod
Yeah it is a very nice Mod !!
I have been playing this for quite sometime, it is really fucking hard
Is this mod even challenging for 2 best friends to beat together?
Only like a few dozen of people out of thousands can beat all the ubers in this game. So yes, there's lots of challenges. There's some easy, medium, hard and almost impossible uberquests.
Is this LOD expansion?
llama bro...how stoned are you in this video lmao
Lmaooo you reckon?
What makes you think he's stoned? :P I didn't get any stoner vibes at all
Not stoned actually, just your average morning wake up for me
yeah sry haha,meant no disrespect...just the eyes look really shut and red,but we'll chalk it up to just having woken up ;)
@@slunkling9794 hes super 'tired'
first time viewer.. downloading the mod now... but man.. is it just me or are your eyes a little glazed :D
Not only is this the THE BEST D2 mod. It's better than the vanilla game.
next version will be Median XL Ligma... :D
My right ear wants its money back!!!!
Guys is there a guide on how to install this thing... Tried to install diablo 2 from blizz installers and I got a graphical mode error on windows 10. I tried compatibility settings but nothing so far. So I am stuck because I can't even install the game.
after playing Median XL for years .. normal D2 HC is like a joke to me :D
player should play until level 120 so you will fell you have started playing median xl.
How do u install stigma
Yeah so this is d2 meets path of exile... why am I only finding out about this now lol
Ha, nice that my comment actually got through to you :D
That looks so COOL!
Doe Sigma work on iOS?
*What is Sigma?*
D2 Mod - aka this game here
This is how D2 suppose to look like,awesome game:)
Hey Llama, look for AVALON mod. Man that is quite beast, and its still diablo II, unlike MEDIAN XL that changed evrything.
For 1st try you dont have to go far. My challenge for you is : Enter Tristram on normal.
P.S. Try Gheed (and dont start crying).
never heard of it, might give it a looksie
@@MrLlamaSC you gonna love it, cos its not POE till lvl 80-ish. I can give you few hints and you´ll be still suprised ;)
I just finished playing this for two days, While i love alot of what they did here, I can't call it good... or even fun after you realize they've decided to go with cheap over challenging. So many stupid things with no means of countering it, ala invisible untargetable mobs that are going to hit you before you even know they are there, Way Way Way more monsters, and they made defenses worse so you just eat damage all the time, no real way to sustain health, Sure you can get some life steal and some life on attack, when 30-150 life on attack is Nothing at all, when you have thousands of hp, and leech is just as bad as all of these aoe attacks seem to only leech from the One guy you hit, base block chance of 1-3 So thats worthless until level 100+ evasion skills get worse as you level somehow, and defense just seems to not work. I had like 30k defense with the character sheen saying 7% chance to be hit, and then would take 20 hits each that stun you and you die....
Also somehow the game just lags....not sure how thats possible on a modern computer but it does, quite heavily at times...
all that being said i appreciate and respect all the work and passion that went into this, and i can tell the people who made it love the game. I love the crafting system, new enemies, I just wish they took the time to balance it and make it less of a death fest and more enjoyable/less annoying to play. because losing 2/3rds of your health to poison every 10 seconds with 78% poison resistance is not fun x.x
i play this mod for many years (2009 my first mxl experiance) and i have cleared a few Ubers there in Hardcore if you die to anything e.a. Fireblood is basically a gear check and your defense is weak its pretty important to increase your resistance over 75 i think 80+ is a minimum at least in HC. And it got a lot of End-Game. 30k defense is like nothing :) but yeah its hard to get your first character rolling but once you understand gear progression, crafting and what is important in this mod even Hardcore is pretty well balanced since sigma :)
ReTLoM is path of diablo better than this mod also gameplaywise what is different for this mod and Path of diablo?
@@dolphinvoltage3339 its very differen, Path of diablo is basically farming only like maps in PoE "might be more now did only play it like 1,5 year ago and was bored" and median is farming + idk 30 unique bossfights with level progression from 105 to 135 (very hard imo uber elder is a cake in comparison) if you are interrested just go to the Median webpage and look at game/documentation/quest how much there is. they include all the lore and evils of Diablo books like legacy of blood and more. Also one of the first People who worked at GGG is the original founder of Median and i think he did itemisation for early PoE but im not sure.
Your first paragraph is just due to you being a new player that doesn't know/understand things. This isn't a game/mod that you can master in 2 days. Just because you played a bit and suck at the game doesn't mean the game sucks. This isn't one of those modern games that holds your hand and serves you everything on a silver platter. This game is hard and requires you to learn, read and think. Once you get a bit more into it and learn things like how to play, gear, and build your character, those problems mostly go away - you know how to solve them.
The same thing you're describing would happen in normal D2 too, and you can prevent it. What probably happened is that you were probably running, which in D2 reduces your defense to 0, so you got hit a lot more than you expected. Or, since defense doesn't help against spells, you might have gotten hit by a spell instead.
You get stunned if you get hit for more than 1/12th of your HP - it has nothing to do with the mod, it's like this in normal D2, as well. Once you're stunned (more precisely, put into hit recovery), any of the next hits that land also stun you. So a way to get around this is to not run around many mobs, increase your HP, and get more +x% Faster Hit Recovery stat. You can also get +x% Chance to Avoid Damage, get more defense, level up, get damage reduction/absorb/resistances, keep moving, not get surrounded, etc.
@@ivanjelenic5627 No sir i have thousands of hours in the base game. The simple fact is this mod is a work of passion not of profession. They worked hard on a game they love and as a diablo fan i can appreciate that. The simple fact is they use alot of cheap shenanigans to kill you rather than actual challenge... Not that diablo 1-2 did not but these are outdated tactics. Like i said alot of what they added was really cool. And alot of it is just plain stupid if they make the process of learning the game fustrating and full of cheap deaths. They did a bad job. This is my opinion and i am entitled to it. and you wont change my mind by saying "you suck"
Ill meet you have way and say i suck at a poorly balanced mod to a game i love.
Im aware of what stunlock is. the problem is not the mechanics its all the stupid bullshit they do to ignore the things you can to do prevent it, like being amped up on crazy juice while untargetable and invulnerable to get a cheap shot on you. Its silly. Its a big stupid really fucking neat, but not very good mod in the balance department.
If you say oh those defenses dont work you need to avoid damage mods rather than reduced damage mods, thats just proof that it's poorly made.
Hmmm people.play online?
Curse of Tristan is much better tbh, still pretty buggy but for it being worked on by one person in their spare time. It's very impressive.
haven't tried that one out yet
I will play this to oblivion.
Are you still playing this trash mod?
@MrLlamaSC you should try Zy-EL - makes more sense then this psychedelic (not any more Diablo)
Hi, I downloaded the mod Zy El recently but just feel too difficult when starting up and certainly I'm not doing things correctly (so I play other mod called eastern sun rises first before I dive into zy el). Do you have a link for newb guide for this mod? I tried to read the pdf but is insanely long (good thing though because it seems like have tons of depth). Btw is the lv10000 cap is true?( lv10000 seems like have to grind for a very long time; but I kind of wanted to play this mod because of it :) )
Looks like sht. When people do "serious" mods, they never know the boundaries. NEVER.
Yeah, except this mod is multiple times deeper than vanilla. You think vanilla knows boundaries, you think it's balanced? What about unlimited teleport on 0 cooldown? How is that good design?
Less is always more.
This video "review" barely touches upon the game mechanics and doesn't really fully digest what this game is. It doesn't really go through the end-game content of clearing ubers, rifts, and other end game content. This review is 1 dimensional and doesn't really cover how the multiplayer works or other player interactions. This is more like a my impressions video than a review of the game. Either way, glad you like it. Median XL is a great game.
I'm lvl 130 now so I could do another review, but I don't think it would change much honestly. Has some interesting boss fights, has some awful gimmicks/mechanics (*cough* purify *cough*), has some really cool crafting, etc.
also ya just a single player review.
The stash! Mrllamalove
The class guides on median XL suck so bad. Except for 2h Barb one.
Sigma is very different from previous versions.
not a lot of guides up yet due to the newness of sigma
you are good
Best game is d2lod classic and plugy
looks like a mess
Made by the people who think more is good. Not sure if I agree.
Speedrun this shit
@3:15 ...
That's when I stopped watching
lol RIP Ammy
Man what a bad review. It’s more like his basic thoughts scatter brained over live gameplay
Can't expect much from streamers
My man u got 2 do an example of everything u talk in the Review ... all that most Diablo2 fans know :s :s :s ... arrrggth
This is not a review, this is just you talking. Ridiculous
its too much
More like XL Ligma.
#1 :D
I prefer the versions of the mod made by Brother Laz, this offshoot looks terrible, ugly UI changes and too many special effects.
Median xl Sucks balls. half of the shit just doesnt work. started amazon, Storm call just cant use it. respecc java, skills suddenly stop working saying i dont have a javalin. needed to respec java skills to make them work again. unique javalin with +5 to some skill just doesnt work. skills stop working again. and other bugs and bullshit. first time trying done with it in like 2 hours. shitty game is shit. will never try again.
When d2 trying to be d3 lol
Jake A i found out that u have a lot of motivation videos in ur secret backyard. Maybe u are having hard time in your real time. Sry about that.
I was just trying to be sarcastic. And u just take it the wrong way lol.
hopefully things get better for him