This bug has been around forever. Now my level 97 almost 98 nova sorc died due to charbug while not even in-game?.. can you fix this junk, that’s an hour or two in a good terror zone to get back.
What “char bug” are you referring to? Did you get in a sticky situation and try to chicken with a quick save/exit?
No, we do baal runs while TZ runs next to it. And they finished baal so I just quit where I was in the TZ which was not an unsafe area just a few mobs nothing special. Then I tried to join the next run and got “character already in-game” so I restarted the entire game and when I joined back in I was dead. Wasn’t any ALT-f4 or abnormal disconnect.
That sounds like packet loss… The server (Blizzard) didn’t get the game clients (your computer) packet saying “Hey, I’m leaving the game!”… Since the game is hosted on the server, the server just saw you standing there until you eventually timed out… During that time, any monsters around you likely killed your character.
If you want to do more to avoid this, TP/WP to town, then exit the game.
True, but it wouldn’t be that difficult to add a verification check that has some sort of if you get hit 9 times without interacting in any shape or form they verify if you’re there or not. Not that difficult to implement in some way.
Oh yeah, I’m sure Blizzard could do something to improve the horrible netcode of this game. But that involves work on a game that no longer generates them any appreciable amount of revenue, so it will likely never happen.
The only thing you can do is make sure that you have a good landline based ISP that doesn’t oversell their bandwidth, and don’t use WIFI. And if you’re not the only one using your internet connection, having a good router capable of quality of service to prevent overloading your available bandwidth.
You know what else isn’t difficult?
TP’ing to town and exiting the game from a safe location.
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dont leave untill baal is dead