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)
- Announcements are no longer made every time friends join/exit games (reduces spam)
- Announcements for ladder accomplishments/deaths (can be muted in-game)
- Cosmetic rewards for the first 3 players of each class to reach level 99 or defeat uber bosses in each ladder season
- Trade site
- Support for ladder/non-ladder "Battle.net" and singleplayer (including runewords/ubers in singleplayer/non-ladder)
- 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)