Diablo 3 Release Date Leak

April 17

Also, hello! We are still here! 

Holla'n @ cha

What up, y'all. It'scha boiiii DM. So basically, after the DMCA's @ various posts here, the attatched AdSense account was also attacked and shut down for "hacking". Most of you guys know where to find the latest updates. Based on the last few posts, you probably have figured out by now that the guys working on D3 dev were well-prepared (lemme twitter dat). Obviously I am completely unaffiliated with such groups. I'll just highlight a few things:

The Diablo III friends & family beta started earlier in a few areas, and I was able to find a link to the beta client downloader around the 2nd, but I was busy until around the 4th. The majority of the Internet seemed to figure it out around the 6th, and developments have already come a long, long way and very quickly.

 

I heard there are a few Diablo 3 development IRC channels around (check the forums/BH/Reddit/just about anywhere). Looks like there's a Diablo III directory at BHFiles now, but I don't think much is being uploaded just yet. I heard there was also a project-of-interest being pushed to Github later today/tomorrow.

You've probably seen this all over the Internet by now. It's a couple days old.
It's Spht's personal project, and some Chinese site was ripping it as their own.

l0l~.

There is a wiki that will be going up soon which will hopefully prove to be productive.

crutex was also promoted to Diablo III Moser. h3h3

Another thing I wanted to mention a few months ago around the same time that I got a bunch of DMCA notices from Google was about Ben Boos. He did UI/artwork for Diablo II and gave it that nice vibe we all know so well. He was an extremely talented, passionate artist and an all-'round great br0 that unfortunately died a few months back. He even paid visits to Blizzhackers occasionally before his sudden death.

http://www.benboosmemorial.com/ - His family could really use any small donations, and even buying his books would be helpful. They truly are some sweet books. Very detailed, beautiful, and you can just smell the guy's passion for what he did. I purchased Swords previously, and I believe crutex just did as well. I definitely plan to grab Fantasy for completion when I clear out some of my reading backlog.

As a side note, if Garwulf (Robert Marks) still frequently Googles his name/reads this blog, hopefully this can be a subtle nod to reiterate my point that "we're actually good peoples." If you die tomorrow, bro, rest in peace knowing that your family will at least partially be assisted by a group of dullard game-hacking-hobbyists. We look'n out; stay chillaxed. @:O) *HoNk hOnK*

Those interested in Diablo III should definitely keep watch @ the forums, and even more so, the IRC channels.

:dance:

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance
And if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Because you're one far behind

@Blizzard: Diablo III Beta nearing final push; expectations good!

>:)

Diablo III in a nutshell

Nope, the blog is still dead. :D

In other news, WarCraft 4 now has a projected window of Q3 2016/17 (almost certainly will be pushed back). The only for sure info at the moment is that it will be the next RTS proceeding the release of Titan.

Bonus Track:


edit: also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUxI0fWLoI (from Mesmer)

[SC2] (1.3.5) ValiantChaos Maphack Cracked

[Thread] Another BlizzCrackers release!

To be clear, I haven't been updating the blog as much because I've been getting DMCA notices. The details are undisclosed to me at the moment, and I've yet to take the time to deal with it, but these are the current posts that have been hidden from view:

[Affected URLs]
http://blizzhackers.blogspot.com/2011/05/wc3-126a-kloader-v2-rc1-multi-instance.html
http://blizzhackers.blogspot.com/2011/05/sc2-133-valiantchaos-basic-maphack-102.html
http://blizzhackers.blogspot.com/2011/05/d2-113c-bh-hack-alpha.html

Dear Skillhacker refugees,

I am sorry for your losses, but Blizzhackers and myself do not support hacks with a price tag as you are probably aware. As such, to answer some queries, we will not be providing support for Chaotic's NoAddiction. In fact, Blizzhackers as a collective has nothing to do with NoAddiction, nor do we have access to the project's source code to continue development. The reason you are being redirected to my somewhat deprecated blog is unknown to me and beyond my capacity of control. I have no personal proprietary ownership over either of the SH domains. However, feel free to use our forums to collect during SH's downtime. I know you're all wondering what happened and what happened to Chaotic. As far as I'm aware, Chaotic is in good health -- nothing in that regard has happened as some rumors are stating. Beyond that, let's just say reasons are personal and indisputable, but all one can do is speculate. Also, as far as I know, there was no breach of data or any sort of security attack to the site. All personal data should still be secure, but I am not entirely sure as to the scope of the situation regarding the actual website. I know domain ownership was transferred, but I have no idea about databases or such. Perhaps Warden Cat will revive the site somehow at some point down the road.

[SC2 1.3.4] Winhack

So, that “private” drophack that was being traded for currency was leaked today on Blizzhackers. Analysis brought up nothing malicious, but I have no way to test and make sure that it works although it looks legit. I heard it was possibly authored by someone in BHDev so it should be all good. Read the thread here and see for yourself. Use at your own risk. The chance for account closure from using this should be more than obvious.

I haven't been updating the blog lately because I'm still on vacaay, y'all 8D.

Whiteevil's D2 1.13c Autotele project was also updated to 1.4.1 recently. [Thread] (as well as ported to BHTK)

VALIANTCHAOS MAPHACK ALSO RETURNED IF YOU DIDN'T NOTICE! [Thread]

Blizz Job Opportunity: Sr. Software Engineer, PS3 Specialist

[via Blizzard]

Case closed...

Senior Software Engineer, Console -- Playstation 3 Specialist

DIABLO III

Office: Irvine, California, United States

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an enthusiastic senior software engineer to be a key contributor on the Diablo team. This position is responsible for overseeing Playstation 3 (PS3) architecture design as well as other PS3-specific game code development to maximize platform performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain game systems to work on the Playstation 3.
• Identify previously unknown issues and offer solutions.
• Be responsible for various systems including the game engine, audio, physics, tools pipeline, etc.
• Work closely with game design to ensure a great player experience.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years game coding experience
• A minimum of 1 AAA shipped title for the PS3
• In-depth knowledge of the PS3 architecture and APIs
• Experience implementing systems to utilize the Cell CPU to the highest extent
• Low level debugging skills (including the skill to read PPC assembly)
• Experience with code and data optimization to improve both memory consumption and performance
• Fluent in C / C++
• Strong math skills (linear algebra, trigonometry, etc.)
• Able to work in a collaborative team environment
• Passion for playing console games

Pluses

• Computer science, EE, Mathematics, Physics, or a related degree
• Familiar with Diablo and other Blizzard Entertainment products
• Familiar with scripting languages

[SC 1.3.4] VCBMH 1.0.3 & 1.3.4 Warden Scan Info

In a bit of a rush so just check out the threads.

[1.3.4] ValiantChaos Basic Maphack (UNDETECTED)
[1.3.4] Warden Scan Info 

[D2] New LLD/MLD Hybrid Runewords Coming To Market Soon

*updated with more entries, added pics; moved all pics to new dir*

Ok, so we know for sure that these "new" hybrid runewords existed well before now, but they are about to be opened to the public market. These are certainly not *all* of the hybrid dualwords, though. To answer some pondering questions, this does not necessarily mean that the 'exploit' to create these wasn't fixed previously. The best current theory could still be plausible. With Gary noting that the servers were apparently rebuilt a while after the first emergence wave of these and the character save file size overflow fixed, the possibility that it was to repair something overlooked by Blizzard (undoubtedly) is still valid. Just because these are recently emerging to the market now does not evidently provide foundation to assumption that they were also recently freshly spawned. Exploiters could've easily stocked a huge cache before the fix, or they could be mass-duping original copies. There was definitely no Rust Storm-esque item filter yet. Just non-Ladder?

Based on previous posts, we know - and many, my self included, predicted - that the next introduction of hybrid items to the market after the initial "test run" runewords lost libido would be with the LLD/MLD in mind. These won't be the last either. Feel free to purchase as many of these as you want from the various chain of item shops. Please flood the market with them as fast as possible. I have a gut feeling that clearer details will surface as we come closer to the Diablo III retail window. hukuk^^

Pointless information to toss around if you're still entertained...

Full list of the newly offered Dualwords after the break.

edit: Heh, I've seen a lot of rage over these. Just to be clear, Actiblizzard is most definitely aware of these items. The team responsible was directly notified by Sixen this time last year (Read). I forgot about it, but before that I had also gone around a few topics before that and trollolol'd while mentioning these 'new' dualwords will be "coming later".

[WC3 1.26a] dMap

Download dMap

Maphack OFF

Maphack ON

as some guys experience fatal errors with yHack and I didn't release anything since some time
I decided to release a basic MapHack made by me.

Code:

Features:

CMapHack:
{
   CMainMap:
      - Reveal Units
      - Reveal Items
      - Reveal Invisible
      - Reveal Illusions
   
   CMiniMap:
      - Reveal Units
      - Reveal Invisible

   CUnits:
      - Reveal Skills
      - Reveal Experience (Heroes)
      - Reveal Cooldowns
      - Reveal Statuses (Building progressions, Training progressions...)
      - Enable clicking of Units/Buildings
};

You can change the MapHack state via the END hotkey to on/off.

I've added antidetection for the current way Warden detects MapHacks (credits to Dark_Madeth for support & bugfix)
As this antidetection is something like the one YourName actually uses, you all know how it works:
Once connected to battle.net, you cannot exit/enter battle.net again without restarting WC3.

Asap YourName has time to fix his hack, you should use his instead, as I won't update this.

If someone has trouble with this MapHack, leave a comment here.

Usage:
You have 2 options on how to use this hack:
1. Put both files (exe and dll) into wc3 directory, then you can start WC3 from dMap.exe which automatically calls dMap.dll into WC3's process.
2. Put both files into the same folder (desktop for example), start wc3, minimize, start dMap.exe, tab back towc3 and enjoy.

Code:

Changelog:
19.05.2011 03:52 - Initial Release

Greets.

More Hiccups In The Console Platform

As well as Sony falling prey to yet another vulnerability, now Microsoft is looking to compensate for some nasty mistakes. With the PSN being phased back into existence in the past few days, users were, as expected, required to reauthorize with new passwords. Finally getting a successful login to the PSN resulted in a mandatory prompt, but Sony also pandered to customers by allowing resetting their passwords through their website -- only to come under attack by a new exploit. Armed with only the victims email and date of birth, the primitive reset mechanism could be exploited quite easily. From what I can tell, it went something like this:

• Password reset page via store.playstation.com
• Don't validate the confirmation with proper token yet (was found at the end of the url "...action?token=%s")
• In another window/tab go to one of the alternative subdomains to password recover
• Enter target's email and DOB
• Use token to bypass actual email confirmation and reset password

Massive fail. Of course with the big previous attack, obtaining proper email and DOB was already done for a number of accounts. This issue is currently being addressed by Sony. They have also decided what games they will use for their "Welcome Back" compensation package. Based on region, users will be able to choose 2 games from a list of 5 old, but decent titles (LBP, inFamous, R&C:QfB, et al.) - not some shitty arcade games.

Sony's competitor, Microsoft, has also faced quite a nasty bump in the road. While they are continuing to phase in their updates from the new XGD3 disc format and firmware/dashboard updates (Read: http://blizzhackers.blogspot.com/2011/04/xbox-microsofts-new-xgd3-format.html ), users not in the beta are starting to receive the trickle of updates as well. Turns out that one of those firmware updates kind of killed a bunch of the older Xbox 360 models by bricking the DVD drive. The funny thing (not being reported in other news articles and blog posts, but I can confirm) is that this very problem was reported repeatedly by beta testers in the private preview forums, but the issue was apparently not addressed before it was pushed out. The forums have since been removed from view. However, I'd consider the luck to be anything but poor to victims. Microsoft is offering a free replacement with the newest Xbox 360 S model as well as an entire year of live for free. That's a pretty good deal; certainly better than their past compensations (lol, Undertow).

[WC3 1.26a] yHack v1.2a

Download yHack v1.2a

*updated*

Usage:

Code:

- Extract with WinRAR or anything else that does the job
- Put "yHack.mixtape" into your Warcraft 3 folder (yes, directly into it, no subfolders or anything)
- Start Warcraft
- ????
- PROFIT!

Features:

Code:

- Reveal units (main-/minimap, invisible, illusions)
- Reveal items
- Remove fog (full/shared)
- Show skills and cooldowns
- Show enemy resources when clicking on their buildings
- Enable trading
- Show enemy minimap pings
- Color HP bars from units under fog grey (purple when on low hp)
- Color invisible units pink
- Roshan & Rune Notifier
- Manabars
- Antiprotection to stay safe from Warden for now

Available chat commands:

Code:

/commands             - Lists all commands
/maphack [on|off]     - Turn the maphack on or off
/distance [x]         - Set camera distance to [x]
/setfeature [x] [y]   - Set feature [x] to state [y] (x being the feature number you get from /features, state 0 = off, 1 = on and 2 = special for shared vision)
/features             - Lists all features and their corresponding numbers
/savesettings         - Saves all current settings.

Screenshots:

[SC2 1.3.3] ValiantChaos Basic Maphack

Download VCBMH

ValiantChaos Basic Maphack v1.0.0 for StarCraft II v1.3.3.18574
by ValiantChaos a.k.a Zynastor




Instructions:

1. Run VCBMH.exe while starcraft 2 is closed
2. Have fun playing!

Features:

• Warden Protection
• Configurable hotkeys
• 3 State Maphack
• Camera Lock
• Enable observer panel

Hotkeys:

F5 (or Ctrl + F5) - Toggle 3 state maphack off, lite and full.
F8 - Toggle camera lock off and on.


Detailed information:
-
Warden protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software)
If you don't know what Warden is, read the link above. I will not go into details with how my protection works or what techniques I have used to help prevent detection, but know that it's there and working to protect you.
-
Configurable hotkeys
Open the file VCMH.ini and edit the key code value to what you want.
-
3 state maphack
Shows all units on mini-map and main-map except for cloaked units when in viewing range. Also, comes with 3 different modes which are off, lite and full.
-
Camera lock
This feature locks the camera x/y coordinates and current selected in position for replay viewing so you can take a look at your enemy without worry. Also, all future selections while on are client sided and not saved into the replay. Automatically turns off when you try using any of your units in case you accidentally leave it on.
-
Enable observer panel
Enables the replay observer panel thats located at the top left of screen. To change the display mode using one of the hotkeys you will need to hold down the Alt key. That way it won't interfere with any unit button hotkeys or anything else.
--

This is just a basic maphack I decided to share with the community, as the name says it's only basic and no other advanced maphack features will be included, so as always use at your own risk and enjoy!


If missing "mscvr100.dll", install this...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=A7B7A05E-6DE6-4D3A-A423-37BF0912DB84

[SC2 1.3.3] QaZZy's Maphack (QMH)

Download QaZZy's Maphack

[Windows] QaZZy's SC2 Maphack (QMH) for Version 1.3.3


Description:

Unlike my other software this is INTERNAL, and internal hacks a much greater risk of getting detected. So use this hack at your own risk. I am not liable for your actions.

That being said this is maphack that only reads memory, and draws the information to the screen. It will work in ANY display mode (including Fullscreen!).

The map needs to be calibrated only ONCE unless you change the SC2 resolution. After calibration it will work on all maps.

As of right now there are not settings to configure anything, this is still a work in progress. I just assumed the most common settings. Only displaying enemies etc.

Features:

• Map with unit positions, destinations

Screenshots:

Calibrating the map


After calibrating the map

Changes:

Code:

1.0.478
- Initial release

Setup:
[Installing the hack]
1) Run QMH.
2) Click install.
3) Navigate to the StarCraft II installation folder.
4) Push OK. Done with the loader.

[Using the hack]
1) Push F5 to start calibration.
2) Move the mouse to stretch the map.
3) Push F5 to stop calibration.

Also can use F6 to move the map.

Mirrors:
- (new) Download QMH from SourceForge.net

[SC2 1.3.3] SC2 External Maphack v1.9.485

Download SC2 External Maphack

[Windows] SC2 External Maphack for Version 1.3.3

Ranks are temporarily disabled.

Description:

This is an external maphack that uses overlays. Each and every map needs to be calibrated, the settings are saved so you should only have to do it once for each map dimension. It will be changed in a future future that will allow all dimensions to work after 1 calibration.

This program does not inject anything into SC2 or modify the process/files in any way so it's 100% safe from warden. It only reads memory, so you will never get banned. However if you play stupid and always counter your enemies etc, they can ban based of obvious maphacking.

This maphack only works when SC2 is in Windowed mode -Map or Windowed (Fullscreen) mode - Map and Screen.

It may also be ran at any time.

The resolution has NOTHING to do with the minimap. You will have to size it up regardless. And most of the time the red box will be larger than the UI box.

In order for the screen stuff (not minimap) to draw you must use one of the following supported desktop resolutions:

1920x1200, 1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1600x1200, 1600x900, 1440x900, 1366x768, 1280x1024, 1280x800, 1280x720, 1024x768

And I repeat you only have to have a supported resolution for SCREEN not MINIMAP. the MINIAMP will show up regardless of what sc2 reslution you are in. But for SCREEN you must be in a supported one.

And if you don't know what SCREEN and MINIMAP is:
SCREEN: The area of the screen where you select units at and see fog of war etc.
MINIMAP: The bottom left area where you see a mini version of the map.

Features:

• All features are customizable
• Units drawn on screen to scale and with unit destination
• Map with unit positions, destinations, and player's camera
• F5 hotkey to move the map around
• Viewing resources information for each player
• Viewing league icon for each player (NA right now)
• Viewing number of each unit for each player

Screenshots: 

TO PREVENT FLICKERING ON XP
POSITION WINDOWS LIKE THIS!

Changes:

Code:

1.9.485
- Beta version of observer panel style of displaying units.

1.9.485
- Fixed issue where enemies weren't being drawn on minimap.
- Fixed issue where settings weren't being saved to correct location.
- Added a Hotkeys tab in the Options. Can configure repostion and previous/next panel.

1.8.6.480 beta
- Beta version of observer panel style of displaying units.

1.8.6.480
- Updated offsets for drawing units on screen.
- F5 hotkey now toggles reposition.

1.8.5.425
- Updated offsets to 1.3.3
- Rankings have been temporarily disabled.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes units were still being displayed when dead.
- Increased the distance to determine if screen stuff should be drawn for a unit.
- Fixed an error where people with no ranks were showning up with a red X.

1.8.381
- Fixed a possible crash when watching replays.
- Added a check to see if aero is enabled, should fix black screen problems.
- Truncated the player's name if it exceeds past the minerals icon to prevent overlapping.
- Added league icon to the player data GUI, and it's only updated when it's done loading.
- Added a backup proxy if sc2ranks bans you.
- Tweaked height calculation for the player data GUI.
- [UNTESTED] Added support for rankings other than US.
- Added an option to draw ranks.

1.7.375
- Added a missing file for the resize image.
- Fixed the crash from previous release.

1.7.373
- Added drawing the player's ranking icon next to the name based off game type.

1.6.362
- Buildings are now displayed on a new row in the production tabs.
- The resolution warning is not displayed when sc2 is not in windowed mode (fullscreen).
- Fixed the moving and resizing isssue of overlays because the taskbar height wasn't included in the calculation.
- Removed drawing the red outline.
- Added mineralfields to be shown.
- Removed showing of creep.
- Removed larva from production overlay.
- Added overlords to the end of drawing.
- Added food supply buildings to the end of the drawing.
- Added a black background to the production tabs to make the lettering easier to read.

1.5.326
- Draws player's windows with their player color.
- Added support for 1920x1080, 1680x1050.
- Added drawing units from starting on the left side instead of the right.
- Changed the order of drawing units on the production tab. Units first, Buildings second, then workers last.
- Fixed the black screen problem with XP (still flickers).

1.4.2.316
- Updated offsets to patch 3.1.2

1.4.1.295
- Fixed a possible crash when drawing units on the screen portion if the user is not using a supported version.

1.4.294
- Fixed the repositioning bug.
- Fixed a bug where the neutral player was being displayed sometimes or duplicates of players.
- Added saving the map position of each map dimension.
- Added drawing of the units's texture on the main screen.
- Added drawing of the units's destination on the main screen.
- Added scaling of textures on the  main screen.
- Added options for drawing on screen.

1.3.285
- Fixed the XP JIT bug, was caused by using Aero which is only in Vista and 7.
- Fixed the black screen problem if Aero is disabled in Vista and 7.
- Fixed a bug where units wouldn't show up on the production tab if the map was turned off.

1.2.1.284
- Added a icon to the program.
- Added a loader for the people who can't figure out how to open it.
- Fixed a bug with the toggling color of Reposition.

1.2.282
- Added an options form.
- Added drawing options (Camera, Units, Unit destinations).
- Fixed a bug with camera not scaling.
- Fixed a bug with resizing the map.

1.1.278
- Added an better indiciation on where to resize the window.
- Added a better way to resize and scale the map.
- Everything is being drawn and will be changed to settings based.

1.0.274
- Initial release

VirusTotal:

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/...cf1-1303867818

Mirrors: (Recommended: Vista, Windows 7)

- (new version) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc2e...5.msi/download

- (old version) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc2e...5.msi/download

- (beta version) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc2e...a.msi/download

XP USERS READ THE NOTES BELOW!
DO NOT ASK WHY IT FLICKERS!

Credits:

- (Lead Developer) A person who wishes to be unnamed.

- 2csUG

Support:

Having errors or problems?

Update C++ Runtime (Required for the loader)
Download details: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)

Update DirectX Runtimes (MUST INSTALL TO RUN EVEN IF YOU HAVE NEWER! Also run the setup after files are extracted.)
Download details: DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)

Getting a black screen on Vista / 7?
- How to Turn On and Enable Aero in Windows 7 (Enable Aero Peek) « My Digital Life
- Update your graphics card's drivers
- Still having a black screen? I don't know why then.

Update .Net Framework (Required for the files)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...0-ac39b33fd8ab

Map Calibration Settings File:

Place these in:
$DRIVE:\Users\$USER\AppData\Roaming\SC2 External Maphack\settings.ini

$DRIVE = drive letter
$USER = current user

1920x1080

Missing:
Delta Quadrant
Slag Pits
Scrap Station

Notes:

If you don't want it to flicker you will have to play SC2 in windowed mode, and place the overlays OUTSIDE of theSC2 window. The SC2 window and overlay windows must NOT overlap.