I've been using the Undead Crown on my Rogue but the life stealing doesn't seem to be working with my ranged physical attacks. was this changed for the gog version? i swore it worked on retail disk for bow attacks, am i just remembering wrong?

(for the record i'm doing my first playthrough in Diablo, not hellfire, where when i played on retail mostly used hellfire. mentioning this incase maybe it's a hellfire 'upgrade')

I’m almost certain that life steal doesn't work on ranged attacks in vanilla Diablo (without Hellfire).
I never tried Hellfire so I don’t know how it should work with this one.

No game play changes where made to the GoG release, it's the original exe with two functions disabled via hex editing.