🚀 go-pugleaf

I read this post in the battle.net forums and it seemed to be a
good explanation of what the Map of the Stars is (or isn't). I am
reposting it here for everyone to read.


On Fri Mar 07 01:13, No more questions please wrote:
> In the production version, the Map of the Stars does nothing.  Any players 
> that have this item has a hacked item.  Period.  Blizzard removed this item 
> because it has no relevance to any of the available quests.  
> 
> Blizzard did plan originally, to have this Map of the Stars be part of a 
> quest, in fact the final quest before going down to Diablo's lair.  If you 
> were clever enough to extract all of the movies (including the hidden 
> movies)from the game CD, and played them using Smacker Video (available from 
> www.radgametools.com), you'd see one hidden video in particular that shows 
> stars aligning together and being captured in Diablo's hands.  This video is 
> never used in the game, and can only be found if you extract them from the 
> CD, as I mentioned before.  I don't have url for the webpage that has this 
> extractor, but check previous messages in Ogden's forum to find it.
> 
> Anyway, the Map of the Stars was originally intended to be read by the player 
> in hell, just before the final level (with Diablo).  After reading this map, 
> it would show the previously mentioned cinematic sequence, and the portal to 
> Diablo would be opened.  For reasons unexplained, Blizzard eliminated this 
> quest and allowed players to reach Diablo by killing Lazarus.
> 
> So Map of the Stars does nothing.  It is a hacked item, and serves no purpose 
> in the production version of the game.  Hope that settles all of these 
> questions about the map once and for all.
> 
> BTW Thanks Blizzard for the greatest game of all time!
> Devoted Diablo Addict