Mike

As noted on the release page, new skills are not yet made available for players in release TAINTED-2.2.

Full-HD is unavailable at this time. Please understand that our community project is a collection of diverse teams and often solitary developers. High resolution options other than 1366x768 are being worked on by @Necrolis. We have no estimated date of arrival yet, since Nec has other duties that are of higher priority.

Open source software and our project are tightly knit together, you know...

The short answer is: yes.

Hello @Albraxes That is the intended behaviour. As we noted on the release page: New skills are not available for player use in the TAINTED-2 series of releases. What you can currently see is just a static preview of the skill tree expansions that can't be interacted with in any way. The ability to use the new skills will be enabled in the upcoming release series, TAINTED-3, along with many other new features and bug fixes. Unfortunately, TAINTED-3 is still a ways off, and I can't accurately estimate when it will arrive.

Update: The following community-requested features are now confirmed to be in development: Active 'charm zone' in main inventory Automatic gold pickup Hotkey shortcuts for inventory management

We are pleased to announce that the TAINTED-2.2 revision of the Enhanced Edition is now available. It is strongly recommended that all current TAINTED-2 series users upgrade to TAINTED-2.2. New in this release: Fixed: Issues and crashes related to the inventory and NPC trade panels should now be fixed [fix] Fixed: Gold should now drop less frequently from regular monsters [fix] Fixed: The Summoner's skillset was reverted to vanilla skills. This is a temporary fix to make it easier to progress through Act 2. [fix] Misc: Removed more unnecessary files from Patch_D2.mpq [optimization] Misc: The Enhanced Edition installers should now automatically detect your Diablo II installation folder and install files into the correct subdirectory without the need for manual path entry. Advanced users can, of course, install the files to any directory and manually carry them over to their desired location. [convenience]

Urgent: It seems that inventory issues still persist in some installations. Another hotfix release will be uploaded soon that will, hopefully, eliminate those issues once and for all.

We are pleased to announce that the TAINTED-2.1 revision of the Enhanced Edition is now available. It is strongly recommended that all current TAINTED-2 users upgrade to TAINTED-2.1. This is a hotfix release that introduces no new features compared to TAINTED-2. Fixed: Inventory issues and crashes when using Classic resolution mode (hopefully) Misc: Removed unnecessary files from Patch_D2.mpq D2SE: Glide should now work correctly

Updated the installer to include glide3x.dll. Hopefully this will prevent Glide issues from happening on new installs. Meanwhile, some users are reportedly experiencing issues with the inventory panel, such as an inability to place items in the inventory and crashes when viewing the inventory. We're looking into these problems. We have now confirmed that there is a bug with the inventory, and we are working on a fix. Update: The inventory panel bugs will be fixed in revision TAINTED-2.2.

Thank you for the report. Seltsamuel's D2SE Modmanager should install glide3x.dll automatically. If the file is present but Glide still does not work, it may be helpful to run D2VidTest, found under D2SE's Display Options, and restart the computer.

Thank you for the report. I have a fix for your issue @NxHunter I determined that having the Enhanced Edition render correctly in windowed mode via Cactus is achieved by following these steps: set the "-w -3dfx" flags in Cactus, run glide-init.exe found in your game directory, navigate to settings under Mainmenu, tick the window-mode parameter and close glide-init.exe, proceed to Launch the Cactus platform. If you wish to play in full-screen mode again after that, you will have to untick the window-mode parameter in glide-init.exe, as those settings are written to your computer's registry and apply globally, not on a per-platform basis. Notes: the issue occurs because the Game.exe executable defaults to the unsophisticated DirectDraw video mode when launched with the "-w" flag. The additional "-3dfx" flag is necessary to enable the more advanced video modes, like Glide. However, Sven Labusch's Glide wrapper defaults to full-screen mode, therefore it is necessary to modify the above-mentioned setting parameter if windowed mode is desired.

We are pleased to announce that the TAINTED-2 revision of the Enhanced Edition is now available. Please consult the release notes on the file page for information about features and issues.

A couple of recent screenshots taken at 1920x1080, from the internal development build. Please note: what you see is a work in progress. Also note: these are actual gameplay screenshots (with ReShade), not some ESRGAN-upscaling shenanigans

If you have any feature requests, post them in this topic. A community wishlist is being compiled that will help guide the project's development. Community Wishlist: unique abilities for each class after doing a special quest [post link] special gems mixed with Horadric Cube (example: Ruby + Sapphire = Charoite) [post link] body parts obtained through PVP battle to craft gear with alchemical properties [post link] expand/revise the Horadric Cube crafting system (Hit Power, Blood, Caster, Safety items) [post link] revise ethereal items [post link]

Creed: Staying fanatically true to the game's core mechanics, lore and aesthetics Currently planned in-development features include, but are not limited to: Engine extensions [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Kingpin, Szumigajowy and Ogodei Interfaces rebuilt for 1366x768 (and 1024x768), which scales beautifully to 1920x1080 [in progress] ↳ Interface art remade for HD by Mike Millaire ↳ Temporary high resolution solution coded by dav92 currently in place ↳ New advanced graphics driver being worked on by Necrolis A comprehensive character statistics panel [mostly done] ↳ Statistics panel extension coded by HarvestWombs ↳ Interface layout by Mike Millaire Expanded personal inventory storage capacity [mostly done] ↳ Temporary high resolution solution coded by dav92 currently in place Expanded personal stash storage capacity (16x15 vs vanilla 6x8) [done] ↳ Temporary high resolution solution coded by dav92 currently in place Expanded Horadric Cube storage capacity (8x8 vs vanilla 3x4) [done] ↳ Temporary high resolution solution coded by dav92 currently in place PlugY multi-page stash and shared stash compatibility [compatible] ↳ PlugY stash is a temporary solution (PlugY is unstable and prone to errors) ↳ New stash solution being worked on by Szumigajowy Sven's Glide wrapper compatibility [compatible] ↳ Sven's wrapper is a temporary solution (was designed with 800x600 in mind) ↳ New advanced graphics driver being worked on by Necrolis ALchemy 3D sound compatibility [compatible] 200+ new skill additions (note that all original Diablo II Lord of Destruction skills and builds are intact) [in progress] ↳ Skills being worked on by Mike Millaire ↳ Skill icons by Lorc, Delapouite, Carl Olsen, Skoll, Zeromancer, cla$$ics and Mike Millaire Ability to reset attributes and skills [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Szumigajowy Ability to enhance items [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Szumigajowy Unique graphics for each Unique and Set item [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire ↳ Item graphics contributed by Nephretes, Radament, Barby, AlphA and Mike Millaire New Unique items [not started] New item Sets [not started] Addition of new items to existing Sets (where it makes sense) [not started] Throwing potions made viable [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire More explanatory labels for mercenary companions [mostly done] ↳ Mercenary label extension coded by Myhrginoc An AI overhaul of mercenary companions [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire and Ogodei Fully equippable mercenary companions [in progress] ↳ Temporary solution coded by dav92 currently in place New mercenary companion types/classes [in progress] ↳ Design being worked on by Mike Millaire ↳ Code being worked on by Szumigajowy and Kingpin An option to hire multiple additional mercenary troops ('cannon fodder' different from equippable mercenary companions) [in progress] ↳ Design being worked on by Mike Millaire ↳ Code being worked on by Szumigajowy and Kingpin An in-depth overhaul of the Lord of Terror encounter [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire An in-depth overhaul of the Summoner/Jazreth encounter [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire Other boss encounter overhauls [not started] Addition of new boss encounters [not started] Revision of troublesome areas (the Arcane Sanctuary and Maggot Lair in particular) [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire Addition of new optional areas to explore [not started] Additional NPCs to interact with in existing areas [not started] Addition of NPC allies to hostile areas [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire New quest system [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Kingpin and Szumigajowy NPC system extensions [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Kingpin and Szumigajowy Addition of new content/storylines for Nightmare and Hell difficulties [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Mike Millaire Active 'charm zone' in main inventory [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Szumigajowy Automatic gold pickup [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Szumigajowy Hotkey shortcuts for inventory management [in progress] ↳ Being worked on by Szumigajowy Please note that feature completeness and availability may vary greatly between releases. Features may be added and/or removed from this list at any time as development progresses. Features frequently requested by our community (under consideration, may or may not be added to the above list): Bypassing 25 FPS limit NPC gambling inventory refresh button If you have any specific feature requests, please post them in this topic.