when you enter the battle.net the patch will automatically download. at the time it is 1.09d since september 2002 we are waiting for 1.10. all skills will be rebalanced, new items, hack and dupe softwarescanner will be implanted.
Lynx
p.s.
and like jvb said in hardcore mode you have only 1 life. When you are dead you can´t play with this char anymore. all items are gone.
in softcore you can play after you´ll be killed. You restart in the town, and you have to save your corpse, or leave the game and get into a new game then you start in the town with your corpse at your feets. you´ll loose only exp and gold then.
