Blizzard's Diablo Community Manager, (Bashiok), says:
Bashiok wrote:Update - 8/5
The Warcraft III patch has been released but in order to resolve some persistent issues work is not yet moving to the Diablo II patch. Again this involves some very high priority issues that need to be resolved before work can continue on D2 1.13
Lanaya wrote:Awesome, no more need for optimizing... max map size is now 8mb
They upped the limit on map sizes? Awesome!
That's nice, but optimization is still necessary. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't feel like spending ages waiting for people to finish downloading maps.
Besides they failed to fix "return bug" x) 1.24b ftw
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