Translations:General Changes/7/en

Out-of-Game

 * Widescreen support and improved graphics
 * More characters per account (up to 18) and accounts/characters don't expire
 * Global ladder & interaction, regional servers
 * Lobby games are no longer hidden after progressing to the next difficulty and game difficulty is shown, lobby games can be filtered by name
 * Game name/password/description can be auto-filled and game name can be auto-incremented
 * Games now perm in 2 minutes
 * Game servers have rolling resets every ~4 hours (for stability reasons)
 * Customizable item filtering and drop notifications
 * Customizable screen info with options for real time, elapsed game time, and ping
 * Announcements are no longer made every time friends join/exit games (reduces spam)
 * Announcements for ladder accomplishments/deaths (can be muted in-game)
 * Trade site
 * Support for ladder/non-ladder "Battle.net" and singleplayer (including runewords/ubers in singleplayer/non-ladder) ...non-ladder support will begin before the end of season 4
 * No support for non-expansion (classic) or Open "Battle.net", but singleplayer characters can still be played together with TCP/IP by creating a virtual LAN between computers
 * Messages that begin with "!" will not appear above the character's head (was an attack vector for crashing servers)
 * No tolerance for cheating or unfair practices such as botting, maphack, auto-pickup, or real-money-trading (see the full list of PD2's rules)