Immersion - The Phrozen Keep (2024)

Immersion v1.04e is now available. Download it.

Aesthetics
• The new and improved user interface screens greatly enhance the visual appeal of the game.
• New item graphics and an improved item color-scheme enhance the visual appeal of the inventory and character model.
• Text throughout the entire game is less confusing and descriptions are written more sensibly. Font has changed and font size has decreased.

Skills
• Skills require energy exclusively. There are no longer prerequisite skills or level requirements.
• Characters have 61 new skills to select from and many skills have new synergy bonuses.
• All skills have cleaner descriptions and new skills have colorful icons.

Enemies
• You can test your mettle against new monsters, new superuniques, and improved traps. New boss fights also await you.
• Enemies are stronger, tougher, quicker, plentiful and varied. Many have more aggressive AIs. Some have new skills.
• Bosses never drop nothing. Even the Ancients now drop treasure when killed. The Countess can drop any rune on hell difficulty.
• All unique enemies have new randomly-generated names. You will never again fight "Mind Maw the Slasher" or "Dire Slime the Quick".

Areas
• There are no longer any dirt paths running throughout the wilderness of Act 1. You must forge your own path.
• There is a wildly different secret level to discover and there are no restrictions whatsoever on returning to it in the future.
• Shrines no longer reveal their true purposes until used. Their effects stack with each other and are no longer nullified by curses.

Character
• You can embark on 25 new "sub-quests" known as "Gheed's Scavenger Hunts" across all 3 difficulties.
• Character life no longer naturally replenishes and potions are both less abundant and less effective.
• Character base movement speeds have been increased, so you walk and run much faster.

Hirelings
• Hireling resurrection costs are decreased to keep them alive and hireling movement is increased to better keep pace with characters.
• Hirelings purchased in earlier difficulties have a better statistical progression, while those purchased later have better skills.
• Hireling-Only items (uniques, set items, runewords, etc.) give your merc new advantages in combat, but devour your life if you equip them.

Economy
• Items are sold to vendors at 1/4 their prices. Vendors no longer sell magic items and it's likely they won't sell yours back to you.
• Gold is far more scarce than it used to be. Gold is more likely to drop from chests and barrels than from monsters.
• Gambling odds (Rare, Set, and Unique) have improved on Nightmare and Hell difficulties. The Gambling price of jewelry is lower.

Gear
• Level requirements are non-existant for non-unique and non-set items, which have a required level of only 6.
• Characters have an expanded inventory, stash, and horadric cube. If that isn't enough space you can install PlugY 8.00 for unlimited storage.
• Alchemical potions are sold by vendors, while weaker potions are only dropped by enemies. These varieties work well together. Belts hold potions by difficulty.
• Global treasure tables have been optimized for challenging, fast gameplay. Many new affixes and magical properties enhance items found throughout the game.

• Unique Items: You can find all of the original unique items and 187 new unique items. Characters start with a special new unique: the Horadric Soulsphere.
• Set Items: You can find all of the original item sets and 11 new item sets. Each class has a new exceptional set and the original class sets are now elite.
• Runewords: You can create all of the original and ladder runewords along with 87 new runewords and new jewelwords/soulwords.
• Equipment Crafting: Over 150 crafting recipes can enhance your gear beyond what you'd expect. Like the original, except better.
• Equipment Tempering: You can purchase tools from a vendor and add the statistics you desire to your choice of equipment.
• Superior/Inferior Items: High quality items can spawn with improved properties and a cube reagent can vastly improve the low quality stuff.
• Inventory Charms: All charms are retitled and most have new graphics, Battle Standards (new 2x3 Charms) are introduced.
• New Equipment: Including socketed jewelry, bone armor pieces, hide armor, shurikens, lodestones, and 14 new varieties of ammunition.
• New Supplies: Including new gems, class gems, class tomes, runes, souls, glyphs, reagents, and treasures.

Plugins
• PlugY 8.00, by Yohann: PlugY is optional, but greatly enhances gameplay if installed.
• Recolored Act 1 Caves, by SheX: The caves throughout Act 1 are amazingly vibrant now.
• Compact Lut Gholein and Compact Kurast Docks, by Dyze: The Act 2 and 3 towns are easier to navigate now.

Installation of PlugY 8.00 for Immersion (v1.04 - v1.04e)
1. Install PlugY straight into your Diablo II directory (..\Diablo II\) choosing the 'Standard' installation method.
2. The following files will be created:
• Diablo II/PlugY/(etc)
• Diablo II/PlugY.dll
• Diablo II/PlugY.exe
• Diablo II/PlugY.ini
• Diablo II/PlugY Uninstaller.exe
• Diablo II/PlugY Readme.txt (3 Versions, in 3 languages)
3. Run PlugY.exe rather than Game.exe to play Immersion.
• The desktop shortcut created by PlugY will have the wrong target path. Delete the shortcut or change it's target.
• PlugY 8.00 is not compatible with Diablo II v1.12.
• All players in a TCP/IP game must have the same version of Diablo II: LoD, Immersion, and PlugY.

TCP/IP Game Organization
If you're interested in playing Immersion with others, feel free to post your contact info here or in the Multi-Player Matchups forum. Also remember to include your version information, including the version of Immersion, LoD, and PlugY that you're using, if applicable. Posts in the Multi-Player Matchups forum are deleted after 10 days, while posts in this thread are permanent.

Media
• v1.04e: D2Immersion.com Screenshots

• v1.04c: A New Sword Screenshot

• v1.04b: Item Text Screenshot
• v1.04b: Gems and Souls Screenshot
• v1.04b: Gameplay Video 2 - Direct Link
• v1.04b: Gameplay Video 2 - YouTube

• v1.04: Inventory GUI Screenshot
• v1.04: Skilltree GUI Screenshot
• v1.04: Magical Properties Screenshot
• v1.04: Calligraphy Reagent Screenshot
• v1.04: Rogue Camp Entrance Screenshot
• v1.04: Izual's Suffering Unique Screenshot
• v1.04: Gameplay Video 1 - YouTube

• v1.03: Title Screenshot
• v1.03: Fire Nova Skill Screenshot
• v1.03: Eighth Eye of Arachne Unique Screenshot

v1.04e Known Bugs
• New belts, including the Barbarian river tattoo, have hidden belt slots. (D2 Engine Limitation)
• Alchemical health potions do not auto-stack in belt slots. (D2 Engine Limitation)
• Durability exists on bows and crossbows for tempering purposes and firing does not decrease their durability. (D2 Engine Limitation)
• The selling price of thrown items is very low because it is impossible to control. (Unfixable until a future release)
• Crafted items still have level requirements. (Unfixable until a future release)

Want to Contribute?
• Visit Immersion's Official forum here for more immediate help.
• Post your bug reports, comments, complaints, or suggestions here or via PM or Email. (Demon9ne@Yahoo.com)
• Holler at me via AIM. (Demon9ne)

Thank you for your interest in the project.