Dark Lord - white to golden text

[oli25]

It's super weird that last boss has white text color. Can we change it to golden?
If it's not going to make it into DevilutionX can somebody please tell me how to code it?

[julealgon]

The color depends on the monster being classified as a "boss", and Diablo is not. So the question here is not specifically about the color of the text, but whether or not we want to "convert" diablo into a proper super boss unit (like Butcher, Leoric, etc).

My vote is yes.

If it's not going to make it into DevilutionX can somebody please tell me how to code it?

I suspect this would have good acceptance, but the change should be easy: search for the flag that indicates whether an enemy is a unique boss, and turn it "on" for Diablo. The gold text color should follow naturally.

[Korth999]

Diablo already drops trash, like any other "normal" monster. Some of the time.
There's no great need to "fix" anything since nothing he could drop is really worth sticking around to collect.

[ChaosMarc]

It's not so much HIS drop but the drops of the monsters surrounding him. In vanilla you always have to take care of collecting everything on the ground before killing him because afterwards you can't pick it up. I often had magical items lying around after clearing his "box"

[AJenbo]

How can you even manage to do that in the few sec before the game ends :o

[ChaosMarc]

sometimes the time suffices but most of the times when I saw an item too late and had to reload and do the fight again just to collect the item up front... IMHO this is horrible game design.

btw. I now have a fork in which I added an option to stay in the game after killing diablo. It works as expected and I can't find any problems in SP nor MP. The only thing thats bothering me still is the fact das Diablos dying animation is playing indefinitely. Not sure if this would be an acceptable fix or if something other has to be found but I fear I would need help for anything more sophisticated 😇

[DakkJaniels]

It's not an acceptable fix, if it was, it could have been done at any time (I'm sure others have implemented it before me, but Middle Earth mod had that in over a year ago, I think).