Current Events > The first Diablo 4 character to reach Hardcore level 100 has died after a discon

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https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-first-diablo-4-character-to-reach-hardcore-level-100-has-died-after-a-disconnect/

The first player to reach Hardcore level 100 in Diablo 4 saw their character die after the game disconnected.

As reported by PCGamesN, Twitch streamer Souab cArn Hanaf recently reached level 100 in the games most difficult mode, and was recognised by Blizzard as the first to do so.

However, as cArn continued to play the game to try and reach the final boss, the game disconnected from the server.

If a player dies in Hardcore mode, their character is permanently killed and they have to start all over again from experience level 1.

Because a player could potentially deliberately disconnect when their health is low to avoid dying, the game treats a disconnect as a death.

As such, when cArn rebooted the game, he found that his Hardcore level 100 Barbarian character, which he had been playing as for 82 hours, had died.

Oof.

Oof.

Lmao

At least he still gets his name on the statue

Diablo 4 ftw

I'd never play the game again, tbh.

Memorial_Bench posted...

Because a player could potentially deliberately disconnect when their health is low to avoid dying, the game treats a disconnect as a death.

Lol this isn't that serious. Let people cheese hardcore if it avoids shit like this

I get pissed off when I d/c in WoW and come back dead, so I cant even imagine how angry Id be at this

That sucks but LOL

Luck based gameplay.

Because a player could potentially deliberately disconnect when their health is low to avoid dying, the game treats a disconnect as a death.

Couldn't they just preserve the fucking game state? So even if you disconnect on low health you're still stuck in the same situation when you reconnect, so it doesn't matter.

It makes no sense for a Hardcore mode to depend on your online connectivity. You shouldn't be able to lose days of progress just because a squirrel chomped the fiber cables across the street, you have no control over that.

i will never understand playing hardcore over the internet. you're just begging to be frustrated.

Always online FTW

o7

nice, rest in piss

lmao

Suck it lolz

Axiom posted...

Lol this isn't that serious. Let people cheese hardcore if it avoids shit like this

that completely removes the point of HC if you can just unplug your internet every time you almost die

thronedfire2 posted...

that completely removes the point of HC if you can just unplug your internet every time you almost die

Better than losing a character permanently because of something completely out of your control

Lmao, did Bethesda design Diablo 4's HC mode or something?

You guys are acting like you've never played a Diablo game.

also that article is a bit misleading. a disconnect in combat in HC isn't an "automatic death". if you're playing some sort of build that could still kill the enemies while offline or the enemies were really low you could technically live. it's just very unlikely, and you don't die instantly on DCing, you'd be dying in the last 5 seconds the connection was active right before the server stopped talking to your game

but if you live until the server drops your character you will just be at a checkpoint when you log back in

At least he was recognized, but I would never do a hardcore character like this and especially not online, getting disconnected killing his character that just sucks.

Guys, guys

It's not about the destination it's about the journey

just lol at doing hardcore perma iron-man in any RPG though, with all the jank and RNG and status effects

Avirosb posted...

just lol at doing hardcore perma iron-man in any RPG though, with all the jank and RNG and status effects

I did one in Grim Dawn and died at like level 30 to a boss I knew had a good chance to kill me and I was just like "yup that was a waste of time"

lol

Here's a theory. It was done by Blizzard. So they are sitting back and laughing.

People who play hardcore are usually anticipating this will happen eventually. If he wasn't then that's his fault.

thronedfire2 posted...

I did one in Grim Dawn and died at like level 30 to a boss I knew had a good chance to kill me and I was just like "yup that was a waste of time"

I've died twice in Titan Quest now (trying for a zero-death 'chievo*) but I think I found a cheat.
I simply alt-ctrl-delete the game and it doesn't register. Hopefully Steam won't suss me out either.

*LOL

Avirosb posted...

I've died twice in Titan Quest now (trying for a zero-death 'chievo*) but I think I found a cheat.
I simply alt-ctrl-delete the game and it doesn't register. Hopefully Steam won't suss me out either.

*LOL

I think TQ still does local saves so you can just make a backup if you want >_>

Tyranthraxus posted...

People who play hardcore are usually anticipating this will happen eventually. If he wasn't then that's his fault.

Jfc this. You guys think the first person to hit max level on HC hasn't been playing HC, and doesn't likely have dozens if not hundreds of deaths under his belt?

Hoodroar posted...

Couldn't they just preserve the fucking game state? So even if you disconnect on low health you're still stuck in the same situation when you reconnect, so it doesn't matter.

It makes no sense for a Hardcore mode to depend on your online connectivity. You shouldn't be able to lose days of progress just because a squirrel chomped the fiber cables across the street, you have no control over that.

They can't preserve the game state. It's a perpetually online game, in which anybody at anytime (unless you're in specific story based areas) can just walk up to you and help you fight.

Now, I'm not defending the game here. It's a shit system and it results in shit things like this. Always online requirments are almost always shit. But it is a fundamental part of the game, and so long as that's the case, then merely saving the state of the world is simply not possible.

Like, if he was involved in a global event on the world map, there could be a dozen other completely random players fighting alongside him. How do you preserve that?

See the thing is there's a scroll of escape that instantly teleports you out of the dungeon. Blizzard also has said the item should automatically activate in the case of a disconnect to save the player but it hasn't been doing that. There's been quite a few people who lost HC chars to disconnects and the scroll failing to kick in. Shroud lost his level 100 Hc druid to a dc and died to a maggot last night.

Huh.

Seems like that beta never ended.

Always online is a joke

82 hours? wow. that chair is permanently coated with ball sweat

Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

82 hours? wow. that chair is permanently coated with ball sweat

Can't ball sweat on something that no longer exists

FolkenRawr posted...

Can't ball sweat on something that no longer exists

The chair no longer exists? Huh?

also whats with the emoji tag at the end of your messages?

is it like.. I dont know man?

Zonbei posted...

The chair no longer exists? Huh?

also whats with the white male tag at the end of your messages. I assume thats what that is supposed to be.

I read it as 'char' not 'chair'

And that's just what happens when you do the shrug emoji on GFAQs.

buddhamonster posted...

Now, I'm not defending the game here. It's a shit system and it results in shit things like this. Always online requirments are almost always shit. But it is a fundamental part of the game, and so long as that's the case, then merely saving the state of the world is simply not possible.

Every Diablo game is like this going back to the first one. It's entirely why 'hardcore' mode is a thing.

The original Diablo 2 wasn't 'always online' but if you wanted to be considered a legitimate 'hardcore' player you had to play online (because some 'clever' people backed up their hardcore characters offline and nobody saw that as legitimate). Getting killed by lag/disconnects is just part of the 'difficulty'

oh and D2 had the desync problem that would cause you to die too. running along and all the mobs disappear and then 30 seconds later your screen resets and your dead body is surrounded by a whole cave full of ice yetis

If youre dumb enough to play trash games, you will rightfully suffer.

Skankhair posted...

If youre dumb enough to play trash games, you will rightfully suffer.

We're taking about Diablo, not your weeb shit

bsp77 posted...

We're taking about Diablo, not your weeb shit

You got me confused for someone else

I find it funny how people just assume it's the games fault when it could just be his internet provider

Respacio in pastacio.

Aztex posted...

I find it funny how people just assume it's the games fault when it could just be his internet provider

the part where the return scroll didn't activate sounds weird though

Always online, for the win!

I know in Grim Dawn I never bothered after a rare spawn near the bandit coliseum hit me with a full spread of Stun Jacks, probably dealing enough damage in a split second to kill me 5 times over.

Hardcore, or 'Dead is Dead' playthroughs are something I might self-impose, to allow for exceptions in cases like the game crashing, but wouldn't participate in within a game's framework.