devilutionX/docs/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Features

Graphics / Audio

• Better use of colors to differentiate players in multiplayer

Bug Fixes

Graphics / Audio

• Music doesn't unmute when focus is lost on level transition with Auto Pause On Focus Lost disabled
• Image ghosting visible on border of map in higher resolutions

Stability / Performance / System

• Crashes related to player graphics rendering in death state

DevilutionX 1.5.2

Bug Fixes

Multiplayer

• Unable to join game due to invalid player data

Translations

• Improve rendering of Chinese/Japanese/Korean texts

Gameplay

• Hellfire items not saving their identified state

Stability / Performance / System

• Amiga: Incorrect rendering of things behind transparent elements
• Android: Game locking up when switching sound output
• Linux: Statically link BZIP2 and libsodium on x86_64
• Stash corrupting when converting a hero between Diablo and Hellfire
• Xbox: Game crashing unexpectedly
• Xbox: Improve performance

DevilutionX 1.5.1

Features

Multiplayer

• Validate player stats
• Update the pvp arenas
• Rename "Loopback" to "Offline"

Stability / Performance / System

• Move hp/mana display and item graphics to gameplay options
• Validate properties when reloading items
• Demomode: Improve replay stability
• Update Discord link
• Display save game confirmation
• Reduce ram usage

Translations

• Update Simplified Chinese translation
• Update French translation
• Update German translation
• Update Greek translation
• Update Japanese translation
• Update Korean translation
• Update Portuguese translation
• Update Spanish translation
• Update Swedish translation
• Update Ukrainian translation

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Being able to enter Lazarus' chamber before opening the portal
• Book requirements not updating
• Some monsters not walking
• Missiles not traveling the full distance at some angles
• Diablo: Incorrect level 4 layout when the Magic Banner quest is active
• Halls of the Blind not being completed by picking up the amulet
• Shareware: Bucklers not dropping
• Player animation stuttering

Multiplayer

• Potions dropped by Divine shrines not being synced

Platforms

• Linux: Add sdl-image dependency for the deb package
• Linux: Include discord dependency
• Xbox One: Missing assets

Graphics / Audio

• Incorrect cursor rendering
• Incorrect outlines at the right edge of the screen
• NPC speech continuing after starting a new game
• Correct various font rendering issues
• Hide the hit indicator when only one player is in the game
• Issues with flashing lights
• Floating number still appearing after death
• Misaligned automap

Controls

• Inconsistencies with placing items into the stash
• Gamepad: Being stuck in dialogs
• Gamepad: Unable to use some scrolls directly

Stability / Performance / System

• Unable to playback new demo files
• Various crashes

Bugfixes for original Diablo bugs

Gameplay

• Durability overflowing when reloading items
• Teleporting onto an occupied tile
• Right-click during dialogs casts spells

Graphics / Audio

• Cursor jitter when interacting with the inventory
• Broken lava tiles

Controls

• Inconsistencies with placing items into the inventory

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Warping onto a solid tile

DevilutionX 1.5.0

Features

Gameplay

• Floating damage numbers
• Option to auto-pick up oils
• Quest items now drop based on difficulty

Multiplayer

• All quests can now be played, enabled from settings menu
• Add chat commands, use /help for options
• Add PvP arenas that can be accessed via /arena #
• Inspect other players' items using /inspect <name>
• Hellfire: Disabled The Cornerstone of the World
• Draw hostile players' names in red in the chat panel

Platforms

• Added support for the original Xbox
• Added support for Android TV
• Added (experimental) support for RG99
• Provide virtual resolutions for systems with only one native resolution
• Android: Support loading data from external storage
• Android: Do not speed up game after suspending if playing alone
• Windows: Digitally signed executable
• Support demo playback on SDL1 versions

Graphics / Audio

• Option to show item graphics in stores
• More fluid lighting updates when moving
• Added map in town
• Add widescreen load screens (thanks to @Chance4us)
• Durability icon gradually changing to red
• Provide sound cue when gold is auto-placed into the open inventory
• Color inventory slot based on item quality
• Show cast animation in town
• Monsters end their invisibility on death
• Make the ground color of small rejuvenation potions distinct
• Add setting for choosing a different audio resampler
• Support for recoloring heroes using trn-files
• Indicate on which difficulty a hero has defeated Diablo
• Use decimal separators for gold and XP
• Improve the monster HP bar for some edge cases
• Only display resolution height when FitToScreen is enabled
• Various text rendering improvements

Controls

• Do not target monster when casting Heal Other and Resurrect
• Improve logic for belt auto-refill
• Adjust the info panel descriptions based on the input device
• keyboard/mouse: Additional mapping options
• keyboard/mouse: Support back button in menus
• gamepad/touch: Improve menu navigation
• gamepad: Controls can now be mapped
• gamepad: Autodetect button layout

Translations

• Update French translation
• Update Italian translation
• Update Japanese translation
• Update Polish translation
• Update Spanish translation
• Update Ukrainian translation
• Synchronize names of existing items with the current game language
• Xbox One/Series: Include translations
• Add --lang for specifying the language

Stability / Performance / System

• Create submenus for setting groups
• Date based screenshot names
• Performance improvement
• Reduce RAM usage
• Frame skipping on low end systems
• Setting for picking audio device

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Attack speed not always being accurate for specific combinations of effects and actions
• Hellfire: Books from Adria's shop morphing
• Petrified monsters shifting position when hit after loading a save game
• Don't consume mana when double casting Mana Shield
• Telekinesis respects the Disable Crippling Shrines setting

Multiplayer

• Items held by cursor lost due to lag cursor
• Items lost due to various desync issues
• Fix multiple desync issues
• Don't show hostile players on the map
• Player animations sometimes not being in sync
• Better handling of latency

Platforms

• Windows: Fix ZeroTier always failing for Unicode usernames
• Vita: Items lost when tapping outside the inventory
• Fix gold withdrawal on SDL1 versions
• macOS/iOS translate system texts
• Translation support on BE systems

Graphics / Audio

• Top of screen not being rendered at some resolutions
• Correct alignment of lightning and inferno
• Make item labels take UI into consideration
• Adria's "you have nothing to recharge" being misalignment on an empty list
• Monsters sometimes not being rendered
• Lighting missing for some areas after loading a saved game
• Hellfire quests being removed from the quest log when completed

Controls

• Hero sometimes not willing to drop an item even when there is still room on the ground
• touch: Missing buttons on low end devices

Stability / Performance / System

• Allow using the built-in screenshot function during text input
• Various crashes
• Resolve a few bugs and edge cases with the stash
• A rare freeze when loading hell levels
• Various issues with cursor rendering
• Some additional validation of items when converting saves from Hellfire to Diablo

Bugfixes for original Diablo bugs

Gameplay

• Several issues that would cause missiles to miss when they shouldn't
• Some wall tiles not blocking missiles and vision
• The player can spawn in an incorrect location on some levels
• Missing the extra stats at level 50
• Guardian not calculating its damage correctly
• Diablo not giving the intended XP on Hell difficulty
• Fireball/Elemental not doing damage when monster is not in line of sight
• Lightning spell being able to pass through some walls
• Double casting of spells
• Low quality items on quests after using a town portal
• Monsters on Nightmare and Hell having too little HP
• Monsters being immune to non-player missiles
• Stairs up to level 6 not working sometimes
• The Deadly Hunter bow not dealing the correct damage
• Spell remaining unavailable after using a stone shrine until reequipping the staff
• Fast and faster hit recovery stacking
• Incorrect calculation for max charges lost with when using the recharge skill
• Not getting XP after damaging a monster if it dies from a trap
• Fire Arrows causing monsters to stop healing

Multiplayer

• Trapped doors rearming themselves when returning to a level
• Resolve some sources of dsync

Graphics / Audio

• Incorrect Armor Class in Char Panel
• Petrified monsters turning to face the attacker
• Petrified monster sliding after having been stone cursed
• Show portal animation in town
• Broken corners on some cathedral levels
• Inconsistent lighting on quest levels
• Light smearing when walking in certain directions
• Unique monsters light not always following the monster
• Unique monster light being left behind when they are removed
• Minor rendering bugs in UI panels
• Center 2x2 items that go in 2x3 slots
• Player moonwalking when talking to monsters
• Tavern Sign playing the wrong sound when dropped on the floor
• Poisoned Water not appearing in the quest log if discovered before talking to Pepin
• Camera shaking when loading a save game after Diablo's death
• Add scrollbar to help window

Controls

• Unable to pick Golem spawn location when right-clicking the scroll
• Casting spells during level transition will target the old position
• Help panel staying open while talking to NPCs

Stability / Performance / System

• Town portal not always returning to the correct quest level
• Items lost when triggering a portal while picking them up
• Optic Amulet and Arkaine's Valor sometimes being misaligned
• Minor stability issues

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Prevent oil of death damage wrap around
• Reflected damage sometimes being too low

Multiplayer

• Desync in Nest when cow quest is enabled
• Being unable to pick up quest items if you didn't start the game
• Quest going out of sync

Graphics / Audio

• Gillian saying the grave quest start line multiple times
• Buggy lighting in Nest and Crypt
• Description of jester's item saying 500% instead of 600% damage
• Typos in subtitles

DevilutionX 1.4.1

Features

Graphics / Audio

• Play gold sound effect when depositing in stash

Controls

• Add setting for showing item labels
• Add setting for zoom by default

Translations

• Update Chinese Translation
• Update French Translation
• Update Japanese Translation
• Update Polish Translation
• Update Russian Translation
• Update Ukrainian Translation

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Correct behavior for elemental damage on weapons
• Fallen retreat in the wrong direction
• Show correct requirements for books in stash

Multiplayer

• Issues with joining multiplayer games
• Refreshing store inventory on new games

Platforms

• 3DS: correct C-stick axis mapping
• 3DS: Package info
• iOS: Compatibility with Sideloadly
• iOS/macOS/iPadOS: Show translated error messages
• OpenDingux: Fix game not starting on some devices
• PS4: Crashing on startup with no config file

Graphics / Audio

• Fix wide screen scenes missing on some platforms
• Minor graphical issues
• Misaligned player animation

Controls

• Quick cast interrupting the current action
• Touch: Action buttons sometimes showing the wrong icon
• Touch/Gamepad: Correct usage description for some spells
• Touch/Gamepad: Fix targeting berserked monsters

Stability / Performance / System

• Improve general game stability
• Incorrect handling of player names
• Names on ears not being correct in some translations

Bugfixes for original Diablo bugs

Gameplay

• Fallen not seeing each other in a northern direction
• Lazarus level resetting when using town portal
• Shrines effects not being random

Multiplayer

• Solve more sources of desync

Controls

• Make spell feedback consistent in town and dungeon

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Monsters not reacting to being attacked by berserked monster

DevilutionX 1.4.0

Features

Translations

• Added support for Ukraine 🇺🇦
• Added Greek localization
• Added Japanese translation
• Added Swedish translation
• Fix some items causing crashes for Spanish and French translations
• Improve Bulgarian localization
• Improve Chinese (Simplified) localization
• Improve Croatian localization
• Improve Czech localization
• Improve French localization
• Improve German localization
• Improve Italian localization
• Improve Korean localization
• Improve Portuguese localization
• Improve Romanian localization
• Improve Russian localization (optional dub by Stream)
• Improve Spanish localization

Gameplay

• Added a stash at Gillian's house
• Suppoort for thousands of missiles
• Added settings menu
• Added xp share indicator to monster health bar
• Added option to see exact health/mana

Platforms

• Added support for iOS
• Added support for Nintendo 2DS
• Added support for PlayStation 4
• Added support for Xbox One/Series
• Discord Rich Presence
• Android: Auto Backup
• Android: Added game data import shortcut
• Windows: Auto detect language
• Windows: Prefer Direct3D 11 for upscaling
• macOS: Embed assets
• OpenDingux Lepus: Enable ZeroTier

Graphics / Audio

• Always draw hotkeys on spell list
• Do not stop music when navigating in the main menu
• Don't hide automap when opening help screen
• Don't restart music if the same track is played
• Match unique monster's missiles color to their owner's
• Show game Difficulty in Automap
• Use unique unused graphics for Long War Bow
• Display numeric max resists on character panel
• Add additional emojis
• Mute videos when minimized
• MP3 support
• Remove stippled transparency option

Multiplayer

• Improve how public games are displayed
• Revamped chat
• Added a chat log
• Enable dungeon messages
• Prevent spells from targeting other players in friendly mode

Controls

• A large number of actions can now be mapped to custom keys
• Increase spell hotkeys from 4 to 12
• Quick cast option
• Added support for touch controls on all devices
• Slightly more responsive player control
• Add support for multiple lines in quick messages
• Make main menu react to mouse button up instead of down
• Android: Auto hide touch UI when not in use
• mouse: Support for extra buttons
• gamepad: Hold button to repeat action
• gamepad: Make scrolls usable from the inventory
• gamepad: Graphical circle menus
• touch: Spend stat points when clicking the buttons
• touch: Disable stand button when in town
• touch: Enable navigating the spell book
• 3DS: Add support for the C-stick

Stability / Performance / System

• Fine grain control of startup splashes
• Load custom assets from save folder instead of last known MPQ folder
• Reduce default debug output
• Reduce memory consumption during movies
• Support compressed MPQs

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Durability overflow not behaving as expected
• Diablo: Correct Diablo's HP
• Diablo: Correct the number of items sold by Adria
• Hellfire: Berserked monsters not fighting each other
• Hellfire: Ring of Engagement having too high armor penetration

Platforms

• Android: Remove broken quit menu
• Vita/Switch/3DS: Fix support for voice packs

Graphics / Audio

• Colored border showing around hardware cursor
• Hero flickering briefly when dying from a barrel
• Only use Hardware Cursor if supported
• Various text rendering improvements
• Windows: Restore default audio driver (WASAPI)
• Windows: Fix window scaling

Multiplayer

• Correct network error messages
• Improve handling of high latency
• Multiplayer being paused after minimizing during loading

Controls

• Fix some joysticks not working
• Item highlighting getting stuck when walking on top of items
• Missing OK button on error screens
• Targeting entrances below the original panel height
• macOS: Mouse confined to a portion of the screen
• gamepad: Minor improvement to UI navigation

Stability / Performance / System

• Fix multiple crashes
• Improve multiplayer stability
• Support systems with no GPU

Bugfixes for original Diablo bugs

Gameplay

• Add gold to inventory in a consistent manner
• Correct cow collision box
• Final Dungeon Message not playing
• Knockback being able to push monsters on top of each other
• Lightning Arrow extra damage not always being applied
• Mana Shield effectiveness not improving with spell level
• Minor rounding error in monster damage
• Negative stats incorrectly preventing use of items
• Shrines incorrectly lowering Life/Mana below the minimum
• Some empty tiles in hell blocking movement and missiles
• Some levels changing layout after loading
• Some monsters were placed on top of doors

Graphics / Audio

• Align various game texts
• Center panel text when holding red items
• Correct death animation when wearing armor
• Missing torches near traps

Multiplayer

• Fix multiple desync issues

Stability / Performance / System

• Various stability issues
• Various item corruption issues
• Various typos
• Game freezing if low level hero interacts with the slain hero

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Mana Shield effectiveness decreasing with spell level
• Torchant and Hellbat damage range being ignored
• Monsters dying multiple times from Reflect + Thorn
• Monk's staff did not take damage when blocking

Graphics / Audio

• Blocked arrows always rotate south

Multiplayer

• Main quest items disappearing
• Cow quest getting stuck
• Auric amulet affecting all players

Known issues

Platform

• PS4: The games fail to launch without a default ini, please see https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/issues/4443
• Clicking an empty hero slot will crash the game
• Xbo/s: Missing translation files (download and add devilutionx.mpq)

DevilutionX 1.3.0

Features

Platforms

• Added support for Android (please leave us a review 🤗)
• Added support for the original Nintendo 3DS
• Added support for Lepus - jz4760/RG300 with multiplayer support
• Switch: Added TCP/IP multiplayer support
• Vita: Added TCP/IP multiplayer support
• OpenDingux: Added TCP/IP multiplayer support
• 3DS: Added TCP/IP multiplayer support
• 3DS: Add launcher sound

Graphics / Audio

• Animations are now updated at render time for high fps visuals
• Added support for hardware cursor (solves cursor lag)
• Quests being ordered logically in the quest panel
• Quest panel now lists completed quests
• More fine grained volume slider
• Added option for pickup sound
• Shrine reveals map in a different color than your own exploration
• Automap has drop shadow for better contrast in some levels
• Added font with support for Extended Latin, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
• Item outline color now matches rarity
• Use gold color to indicate unique items in stores
• Improved XP bar visuals
• More widescreen loading scenes
• Mac: Icon now follow Big Sur style guide

Multiplayer

• Added built in support for ZeroTier (no need for port forwarding, no need for an extra application)
• Added support for unencrypted public games
• Added auto discovery of public games over ZeroTier
• Share map exploration (in a different color than your own exploration)

Controls

• Press alt to show items on ground with labels
• Added option for stopping the hero with a key-press
• Hold click to continue to attack/walk/consume
• Click ctrl-click to drop an item
• Click shift-click to swap to the clicked weapon
• Limit the max width between panels
• Center align panels
• Rune bomb and crypt map can be used when standing next to target
• Added option for disabling crippling shrines
• Improve inventory filling order
• Added option to refill belt automatically
• gamepad: Equip equipment when pressing [use]
• gamepad: Operate object as last option for primary controller action
• gamepad: Allow applying oils with secondary action button
• gamepad: Inventory now takes object size into consideration
• gamepad: Add joystick dead zone range to ini
• touch: Add input hint to virtual keyboards

Stability / Performance / System

• Add support for translations
• Run in self-contained (portable) mode if diablo.ini is in the same folder as DevilutionX
• Chat now supports Unicode, including emojis
• Several actions can now have their key bindings remapped in the ini
• Added key bind options for quick save/load
• Show additional logging with --verbose
• Start directly in Hellfire mode with --hellfire
• Support for MPQs with compressed audio
• Log errors to the terminal as well
• Added options to adjust audio quality to ini
• Update Shareware help text to match retail version
• Automatically pause and mute the game when put in the background
• Allow for multiple heroes with the same name
• Only update diablo.ini if there are changes
• Windows: Auto detect location of MPQ files from GOG installation

Translations

• Added Brazilian Portuguese
• Added Bulgarian
• Added Czech
• Added French
• Added German
• Added Italian
• Added Korean (requires the additional fonts)
• Added Polish (optional dub by professional voice actors)
• Added Russian
• Added Simplified Chinese (requires the additional fonts)
• Added Spanish
• Added Traditional Chinese (requires the additional fonts)

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Fix small rooms missing from some levels
• Golem's to-hit being incorrect after loading a save game
• Diablo: Correct spells mana cost for the Sorcerer
• Diablo: Armor piercing was 2x of what it should be
• Diablo: Barbarian missing his armor piercing bonus
• Hellfire: Elemental spell was missing
• Hellfire: Firering spell not creating the correct shape

Platforms

• Switch: No longer reacts to touch events

Graphics / Audio

• Corrected directional sounds for distant sources
• Fix sound cut off when exiting game or starting the intro video
• Entirely new audio mixer to solve audio issues and lower memory usage
• Fixed rendering issues on 8bit outputs
• Hellfire: Clearly indicate if it's in shareware mode

Multiplayer

• Reverted melee damage, when friendly fire and friendly mode is on
• Do not show XP bar when chat is open
• Do not show unbound status in place of game name
• Show host version when incompatible

Controls

• Gamepad: Prevent wasting stat points on maxed out stats
• Gamepad: Do not reset cursor position when switching between mouse and gamepad
• Gamepad: Unable to open crypt and hive
• Gamepad: Close cathedral map when pressing B-button
• Touch: Open virtual keyboard when text input is needed

Stability / Performance / System

• Correctly reset game state if not saved
• Compatibility with shareware save games
• Correctly handle folders with non English symbols in them
• Free network connection after ending game
• Never require write mode for MPQ files
• Allow for comments in ini file
• Load assets from a folder called assets next to the application if not found in data paths
• Added listfile to our MPQs
• Add ini option for showing FPS
• Fix name filtering
• Correct minor memory leaks
• Further reduced memory usage
• Performance improvements
• Windows: Only show network errors once

Bugfixes for original Diablo bugs

Gameplay

• Player becoming immune to stun while using manashield at low health
• Monsters and players are no-longer immune to missiles when moving horizontally
• Fix missiles hitting multiple times
• Fix missiles sometimes skipping hit checks when passing a target
• Fix charging monsters disappearing from the game if changing levels while they were charging
• Fix negative AC bonus resulting in +1 AC
• Do not attack dead monsters
• Show more accurate To hit value in char panel
• Wake up minions when their leader wakes up
• Disallow swapping gear while not standing/walking to avoid animation lock
• Switching of spells during casting changing the cost of the cast
• Not being able to pick up items after starting a new game for a short amount of time
• Persist shop inventory shop items when saving and loading
• Diablo's chamber opening with one lever after level loading
• Thaumaturgic shrine not restocking trapped chests
• Scavengers/Gravedigger were only able to search for corpses south of them
• Scavenger leaders getting stuck if minions started eating
• Quest monsters level being increased twice
• Fix gold piles with 0 gold from incorrect treasure room generation
• Avoid using temporary missiles for game state tracking
• Object interactions stacking while other actions are being performed
• Quest items sometimes not being picked up when clicked
• Teleport spell failing for some valid positions
• Phasing spell sometime failing or sending you outside the level
• Phasing not working in Lazarus' chamber
• Too many monster slots being allocated for golems on levels with quests
• Golems spawning on top of the player
• Fix Zhar's bookcase resetting a golem instead of Zhar
• Zhar saying his line twice in a game
• Fix stairs up to level 8 sometimes taking the player to town instead
• Fix random tiles being explored on automap
• Fixed various typos

Graphics / Audio

• Monster light not updating when monster teleports
• Correctly shorten item names depending on visual length
• Missing dirt corners on map
• Wobbling map indicator when walking
• Fix screen position jumping after loading some saves
• Some lava still animated despite game pause
• Fully close the dialog screen when pausing game
• Changed player saying "Not enough mana" to a more fitting message when using a level 0 spell
• Draw belt item number for unusable scrolls

Multiplayer

• Correct desync caused by incorrect vision range for other players
• Sync monster active state
• Player attack speed being out of sync
• Desync when switching items without sufficient inventory space
• Compensate for desync cause related to player movement
• Golem desyncing if owner leaves level
• Prevent golems from fighting each other
• Play the correct sound when a player is hit by missiles

Controls

• Controls [ + ] stat point buttons sometimes not responding to clicks

Stability / Performance / System

• Keyboard layout is now correct when entering chat messages
• Validate network messages to harden security
• Fix corrupt save games for levels with large amount of entities
• Game now remembers the last selected hero
• Added menu for switching between Hellfire / Diablo
• Make menu navigation wrapping consistent
• Corrected multiple crashes and stability issues

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Range monsters cannot hit target at melee range
• Monsters could not see firewalls if covered by lightning wall and vice versa
• Armor piercing affix on ranged weapons decreasing hit chance instead of increasing it
• Fix stuttering when running in town
• Firering spell damage not being based on the caster
• Firering spell giving XP to the wrong player
• Solar shrine time was off by 1 hour, and did nothing between 4 and 5 am
• Reflect spell not working after loading a save game
• Potion trap was not degrading rejuvenation potion into mana or life
• Barbarian's skill not correctly updating health points

Graphics / Audio

• Fix missing player lights when loading Hive level 3
• Apply lights to all berserked monsters after loading save game
• Remove light when killing a berserked monster
• Blood star becoming invisible when blocked
• Rotate arrows in the appropriate direction when blocking
• Candles around the storybook sometimes missing in Crypt
• Celia now leaves after her quest ends
• Update Celia and Complete Nut graphics when completing their quests
• Only play "Uh uh" sound the first time you pick up the cathedral map
• Glass breaking sound sometimes not playing for the potion trap

Multiplayer

• Open Crypt from the start
• Restrict access to Hive and Crypt based on level
• Reflect spell not being synced
• Search spell affecting all players

Known issues

• Switch/3DS: Polish dub produces static sounds
• OpenDingux: Now requires Beta

DevilutionX 1.2.1

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Gharbad not having to go out of vision before progressing his quest
• Diablo: Items with negative AC morphing in multiplayer
• Diablo: Griswold and Wirt selling unusually expensive items
• Diablo: Gold not going directly to inventory
• Hellfire: Some monsters having lower than intended HP
• Hellfire: Auric Amulet not taking effect in most scenarios

Graphics / Audio

• Windows: Glitchy audio

Controls

• Vita: Inability to edit hero name on the creation screen

Stability / Performance / System

• Quest panel crashing the game for some quests
• Windows: Some systems getting a sensor permission error
• Windows: Stability issues and item morphing in Hellfire

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Rage/Search/Lightningwall not factoring in the hero level for the first player
• Sparkling Shrine dealing an incorrect amount of damage
• Items with negative AC morphing in multiplayer

DevilutionX 1.2.0

Features

Gameplay

• Hellfire support
• Shareware support
• Fully migrate saves between Diablo and Hellfire
• Gold picked goes to stack even when inventory is open
• Pepin automatically heals
• Show other players on the map
• Preserve list position when buying and selling items in stores
• Preserve hotkeys and active spell across games
• Set default active spell for new heroes
• Experience bar (off by default)
• Monster health bar (off by default)
• Auto equip all item types on pickup or purchase (off by default)
• Auto pickup gold (off by default)
• Run in town (off by default) (also in multiplayer)
• Disable friendly fire from arrows an spells (off by default)
• Disable quest randomization (off by default)
• Adria refills mana (off by default)
• Barbarian and Bard heroes in Diablo (off by default)

Controls

• Use belt via the numpad
• Close panels when pressing ESC
• Shift-click to spend all stat points
• Shift-click to clear readied spell
• Shift-click consumables to move them between the belt and inventory
• Shift-click equipment equip/unequip them
• Controller mapping
• D-Pad / Left stick navigation now works in all menus and is more responsive.
• START + SELECT now opens the main menu.
• Right stick mouse emulation has been improved.
• Gamepads plugged in while the game is running can be used.
• All connected gamepads can be used (previously, only the first one).

Graphics / Audio

• Widescreen menus
• Scroll subtitles at the same speed as narration reader
• Apply sound volume to videos
• Improved transparency (on by default)
• Auto-equip sounds (off by default)
• Show monster type (off by default)
• Disable walking sounds (off by default)

Stability / Performance / System

• Document ini-file options
• Reorganize ini-file
• Allow for up to 99 save games of each type
• Much lower memory usage (now in line with the original)
• Configurable network port
• Performance improvements
• DIABDAT.MPQ may now be upper case
• Support for portable installs
• Support file paths longer than 259 characters
• Add --ttf-dir and --ttf-name to allow for specifying a different UI font
• Switch Windows releases to 64-bit
• Added support for Nintendo 3DS
• Added support for PlayStation Vita
• Added support for DragonFly BSD
• Added AppImage for Linux

Bugfixes

Gameplay

• Catacombs doors never having traps

Graphics / Audio

• Incorrect graphics under cave doors in multiplayer
• Minor color issues in some videos
• Command-line output missing on Windows
• Correct visuals and function of the joining-game-dialog

Controls

• Mouse jumping to the top of the windows when using the menu
• Mouse not releasing when exiting the window
• Dragging on touch devices

Stability / Performance / System

• Multiplayer host crashing after beating the game

Bugfixes for original Diablo bugs

Gameplay

• Base damage not being updated when leveling up
• Player vision radius not updating properly before changing level
• Tiles not properly being marked as out of visibility when walking
• Scavengers/Gravediggers taking damage when eating on higher difficulties
• Flash only dealing 10% damage in some directions
• Not getting XP for the first monster placed on a level
• Not getting XP from monsters hit by golems
• Monsters going inactive when fighting golems offscreen
• Monsters with hiding ability fleeing in the wrong direction from golems
• Fallen fleeing in the wrong direction
• Monsters charge directions being biased for some angles
• Monsters not being able to properly judge the location of firewalls
• Some unique items morphing on a new game
• Incorrectly seeing legit items as duplicates
• Items being destroyed if held in cursor when entering dungeon
• Being able to waste gold on red scrolls when not having room for them
• Gaining mana from reading books despite wearing an item with corruption
• Gold piles will be filled to their max, before starting a new one
• Inconsistent repair prices caused by rounding errors
• Arkaine's Valor brought from previous games breaking the game state
• Several issues causing Arkaine's Valor to enter a broken state
• Black Mushroom quest not resetting between games
• Randomly being teleported from level 15 to Lazarus' chamber
• Several bugs in Lazarus quest when re-entering the teleport
• Town portals appearing on two levels when cast in a quest level

Controls

• Inconsistent mouse behavior when opening/closing various panels

Graphics / Audio

• Gold icons graphics are always correct
• Arrows graphics not aligning with the move direction
• Wrong death sound when monster/golem kills another monster
• Lights not always following unique monsters
• Lights added on map update not working (Arkaine's Valor, etc.)
• Player light radius not readjusting when a player is knocked back
• Loadscreen colors on entering the Poison Water quest
• Lava pools sometimes having roof tiles in them
• Doors sometimes missing in Halls of The Blind
• Broken outline on some inventory items

Stability / Performance / System

• Fix more stability issues

Bugfixes from Hellfire 1.00 - 1.01

• Monster hitpoints overflowing in Nightmare/Hell difficulty
• Gharbad the Weak not dropping his item when killed by a golem
• Some stability issues

Bugfixes for original Hellfire bugs

Gameplay

• Firewall damage calculation being too low
• Firewall/Lightningwall damage being based on the dungeon level instead of spell level for the first player
• Right-hand item's decay suffix being applied to the left-hand item in multiplayer
• Town Shrine would always cast TP from the first player instead of the user
• Oily Shrine and Sparkling Shrine would cast their traps as if the first player was doing it
• The farmer would always think he was talking to the local player
• Scavenger/Gravedigger AI being stuck for a round after eating
• Sync available quests in multiplayer
• Correct spell level being ignored for Search and Rage

Graphics / Audio

• Monster attack sound sometimes not playing
• Missing sounds when bards and barbarians talk to cows
• "0 Gold" sometimes spawning on The Cornerstone
• Minor typography corrections

Bugfixes from Diablo 1.03 - 1.09

• The Hidden Shrine freezes when not holding an applicable item
• Memory corruption when casting town portal
• Crashes associated with Black Death
• Players getting stuck in a wall when using Town Portals
• Some Hell difficulty monsters being too easy to hit
• Mana Shield bugs that could make a player invulnerable and/or invisible
• Disarming skill not working on levels 13 through 15
• Mana Shield permanently using up level missiles
• Corrected behaviour of Thieves, Speed/Haste, Balance/Stability/Harmony, and Piercing/Bashing/Puncturing
• Mana Shield becoming less effective with increasing spell level
• Excessive damage when a Mana Shield expired due to an attack
• Bows with fire damage prevented the Gargoyles from healing
• Right-clicking belt item 5-8 not working while the Spellbook is open
• Mana Shield and Nova not appearing for other players
• Shields disappearing when worn after wielding two-handed weapons
• Adria's books appear white even when the player can't read them
• Equipped shields not appear properly to other players
• Monster health not appearing correctly on Nightmare and Hell difficulty
• Diablo's scream being muted if you load a save game during his death throes
• Multiplayer character files are now located in the data directory, and may be moved between computers
• Some stability issues

Known issues

• Save game difficulty does not carry over from 1.1.0
• Amiga builds are currently unstable

DevilutionX 1.1.0

Features

• Proper widescreen (and other aspects) support
• Select difficulty in single player (remembered in the save game)
• Adjustable game speed in-game
• V-sync can now be disabled in the ini
• Better line drawing function used for the automap
• Support for loading custom Hell level maps
• Make all objects and monsters available to custom maps
• Added support for joining a game via hostname instead of IP

Bugfixes

• You can now enter and exit fullscreen also when the game is paused
• [Amiga] Fix double-clicking in menu

Original Diablo bugs

• Fix some monsters AC and to-hit values on Nightmare/Hell ending up as 0
• Fix player base block resetting to 0 after loading a save game
• Correctly render trees in front of the player
• Fully render sprites that are larger than the floor tiles
• Fix objects disappearing when walking on the opposite wall
• Duping via belt has been fixed
• Correctly detect if the mouse is clicking the world or UI in some areas
• Minor typography corrections
• Corrected name of Chamber of Bone in automap
• Correctly align the inventory slots

DevilutionX 1.0.3

Bugfixes

• Fix keyboard input in the menu

DevilutionX 1.0.2

Features

• Support for integer scaling
• Controller: Map Start + L1/R1 to char/inventory
• Added --save-dir to allow for specifying the save game folder
• Correctly scale the game on systems with a non-standard DPI setting

Bugfixes

• Some cave levels were generated with an incorrect layout
• Firebolt mana cost is now correct
• Allow players to join Nightmare/Hell games without first creating a game
• Correctly load the full white color
• Correct navigation in the difficulty select screen
• The window can now be resized after exiting fullscreen mode
• Fix memory leak in audio code
• Fix hanging for 20 sec on the error screen

DevilutionX 1.0.1

Features

• Toggle fullscreen at any point by hitting alt+enter (mouse grab can be disabled in diablo.ini)
• Controller: B button closes the currently active panel.
• Added a navigation menu for controllers
• Focus on the exit item before quitting.
• Minor performance improvements (save/load time and main menu).
• Add a list of known mods

Platforms

• Added support for 32bit PowerPc
• Added support for Amiga
• Added support Clockwork PI GameShell
• Added support for GKD350h
• Switch to OPK for RetroFW (requires 2.0)
• Update OpenDingux/RetroFW build root

Bugfixes

• Game crashing on systems that do not report monitor refresh rate.
• Fixed belt not working correctly when holding shift on us keyboard layouts
• Always keep track of the latest hero level when selecting difficulty.
• Correct screenshot path
• Turn the screen red for 200ms when taking screenshots.
• Fix town load screen missing on the first load.
• Fix minor HOM issue at some houses in town.
• Allow for space as text input
• Fixed a couple of typos in error messages

Original Diablo bugs

• Fix belt not working correctly when holding shift on *non-*us keyboard layouts
• Fix one more rare crash.

DevilutionX 1.0.0

Features

• FPS no longer capped at 20hz; smoother mouse and transitions
• Full-featured gamepad support
• All movies can now be skipped via ESC
• Implement --help, --version and --data-dir
• Implement FPS counter (-f)
• Force windowed mode with -x
• Skip startup movies with -n
• Implement scroll wheel navigation
• Implement touch support
• Load assets from the same folder as the mpq
• Faster loading

Platforms

• Added Nintendo Switch support
• Added Retro Gamer Handheld (OpenDingux/Retrofw) support
• Added OpenBSD support
• Windows version is now build as GUI an app and has an icon

Bugfixes

• Fixed random missing sounds
• Fixed NPCs not talking about the right quest
• Error messages implemented in GUI
• Fixed having to restart the game between network sessions
• Fixed game not working on some Radeon GPUs
• Fixed panel missing after minimizing game if upscaling is disabled
• Fixed clicks in the left letterbox being incorrectly handled
• Fixed end movie not looping

Original Diablo bugs

• Fixed a large number of rare stability issues from the original game
• Correctly take open panels into account when casting spells
• Fix sound some times being muted after Diablo dies

DevilutionX 0.5.0

Features

• Sound is now accurate to the original
• All in-game issues fixed
• Delete hero, inline dialogs and scrollbars are now implemented
• Screenshots now have different names
• Multiple simultaneous dialogs fixed
• All builds are now 64bit (except for Windows and Raspberry Pi)
• Memory leaks and crashes fixed
• All keys are now mapped
• UI text now has correct shadows
• Much lower CPU usage
• diabdat.mpq can now be loaded with read-only access

Known issues

• Error dialogs not implemented in main UI
• The game must restart after hosting multiplayer

0.10.0

June 22, 2019

• All functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version
• Fix buying from Wirt
• Replace many magic numbers with constants
• Fix a handful of minor issues
• Add toggle fullscreen with alt+enter in debug builds

June 21, 2019

• All functions are now binary identical to Diablo 1.09b

June 1, 2019

• MVG posts a video about the project and releases a Nintendo Switch port

DevilutionX 0.4.0

May 20, 2019

• Fixed flickering mouse in caves
• 32bit ARM build (Raspberry Pi)
• 32bit FreeBSD build
• 32bit Haiku support (see HaikuDepot)
• Included font for rendering credits and progress screen
• Upscaling quality can be adjusted or fully disabled in diablo.ini
• Windowed mode can be set in diablo.ini
• Mouse capture can be set in diablo.ini
• Direct file access implemented (mods won't need to pack their files in an MPQ)
• Music and speech memory leaks fixed

0.9.6

May 19, 2019

• 96% of functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version
• Fix several item corruption issues introduced in 0.9.0

0.9.0

May 2, 2019

• 90% of functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version
• Mute buttons now work correctly

April 15, 2019

• Code is once again compiled as C++ as some parts appear to require despite the indications in Rich header

0.8.0

April 12, 2019

• 80% of functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version
• Fixes a few minor issues with generated items

0.7.0

April 9, 2019

• 70% of functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version

April 9, 2019

• The last of the compiler flags are figured out

March 22, 2019

• Devilution appears on Phoronix

DevilutionX 0.3.0

March 20, 2019

• Fix dialog volume
• 32bit macOS build
• Fix crash in town during multiplayer
• Screenshot implemented

0.6.0

March 19, 2019

• 60% of functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version
• Added a guide for people wanting to join in Cleaning the code
• File size is now only 968 bytes (0.13%) larger than the original Diablo 1.09b.

DevilutionX 0.2.0

March 17, 2019

• Fully implemented audio (all issues from 0.1.0 fixed)
• Fully implemented multiplayer
• Windows 32bit build
• Gameplay is fully featured and plays like the original
• Memory leaks fixed
• Most known crashes have been fixed

March 7, 2019

• GOG re-release Diablo

DevilutionX 0.1.0

February 27, 2019

• Linux 32bit build
• Basic audio
• Video playback
• Basic menus
• Graphics
• Gameplay
• Basic multiplayer over TCP/UDP
• Persistent settings
• Encrypted network connection with password protection

0.5.0

January 14, 2019

• 50% of functions are now binary identical to the 1.09b version
• #456 Assets can now be loaded directly from disk (no need for MPQ-files when modding)
• #528 Code ported to C (can still be compiled as C++)
• #111 Rich Header no longer contains incorrect sections
• #182 defined a Code Style with accompanying clang-format definition
• Diabloui.dll is now also part of the source tree
• Added Contribution Guide
• Added PDB build option for comparing with devilution-comparer
• CI now runs the original build chain
• Most magic numbers are now replaced by enums
• The code was reduced by 10,000 lines
• Fix a few issues, mostly relating to multiplayer

November 17, 2018

• An older and more original PSX symbol file is discovered

October 1, 2018

• Compiler version is confirmed to be correct by discovery of the Rich header

September 18, 2018

• Merge nightly back into devilution

September 3, 2018

• Travis is configured to report the overall project delta to 1.09b on every change

September 1, 2018

• Devilution-comparer is developed for comparing binary diff in compiled functions

August 28, 2018

• The correct compiler combination is found by trial and error plus a bit of luck

0.4.0

September 16, 2018

• Fix crash
• Get the first functions bin exact
• Fix render issues
• Introduce debug functions from the 1.00 debug release
• Fix missiles
• More consts, sizeof and defines
• Fix several issues with dungeon generation code
• Fix multiplayer
• Fix error messages
• Correct names based on PSX symbols and DX SDK

August 20, 2018

• Created nightly fork where code clean up can take place until major bugs are fixed in the main project

July 6, 2018

• Setup a Discord channel

July 1, 2018

• Diablo 1.09b is determined to have been compiled with the /O1 flag

0.3.0

June 28, 2018

• Windows binary can now be compiled under Linux and Mac OS X
• Windows binary can now be compiled under VS 5.10
• Fix multiple crashes
• Remove cheesy copyright notice
• Set up continuous building via Travis and AppVeyor
• Icon added
• Fix Zhar quest, monster squelching and golems
• Use consts for various values

June 20, 2018

• The media catches wind and several articles appear

June 18, 2018

• Devilution gets posted on Y Combinator

0.1.0

June 6, 2018

• Devilution is unleashed upon the world! Version 0.1.0!

June 3, 2018

• Polishing things up for final release
• Added a cheesy fake copyright notice to dissuade monetary gain
• Properly integrated Storm and DiabloUI into the project

May 28, 2018

• Fixed bugs with save files
• You can now load Devilution saves in the vanilla game

May 25, 2018

• Finally! Figured it out and now monsters spawn correctly
• The game can be completed from start to finish with a few tricks

May 21, 2018

• Took a week break, begin working on monster code again
• Nearly all quests work now
• Fixed a bug with Adria

May 8, 2018

• Fix bugs with character drawing
• Fix bugs relating to item affix generation
• Towners no longer crash the game

May 7, 2018

• Port debugging functions from the debug release
• Still can't figure out the zombie problem

May 5, 2018

• Begin fixing quest code and testing completion

April 26, 2018

• Zombies are spawning in all dungeon types... sigh

April 20, 2018

• Split code from IDA's C file into separate CPP files
• All dungeon types can now be entered
• Objects are now mostly working
• Begin uncommenting monster code and fixing them

April 11, 2018

• Begin fixing up dungeon generation and objects

April 4, 2018

• Fixed many crashing bugs when in town and dungeon
• Items, missiles, and spells are now drawn

April 1, 2018

• Finally fixed the render bug, everything draws correctly!
• Character animation now draws correctly
• The cathedral is now mostly working

March 29, 2018

• Fixed tons of bugs
• You can now walk around in town
• Entering the dungeon almost always crashes

March 27, 2018

• Uncommented and fixed lots of broken code
• The game screen now appears, although very glitchy

March 22, 2018

• Control panel and inventory now work almost flawlessly

March 21, 2018

• Temporarily commented out tons of broken code
• You can now get past the loading screen and into town
• Music also works
• Control panel mostly works but game screen is black

March 18, 2018

• The title screen now works
• Freezes during the loading screen

March 16, 2018

• Fixed enough bugs that you can now launch binary
• Crashes during title screen

March 14, 2018

• Fix remaining errors in code
• Code now compiles and produces a non-working binary

March 13, 2018 -- ! SPECIAL DAY !

• Dump the database to C code via IDA

March 8, 2018

• Correct various function signatures
• Correct struct names and types
• Plug in enumerates
• Finish correcting and documenting data sections

February 26, 2018

• Finish documenting functions
• Begin correcting names to match PSX

February 18, 2018

• Begin adding enumerates
• Add more minor structs
• Clean up data sections

February 15, 2018

• Almost finished adding every function
• Begin working on major structs

February 8, 2018

• Add more functions
• Begin adding data from Sanctuary project

February 4, 2018

• IDA disassembly begin
• Start adding function names from Sanctuary project

January 15, 2018

• The concept of Devilution is born
• Research into Diablo's code and mechanics
• Research from Jarulf's guide