If you’re on any of the discoords for said shenanigans you would know what happened.
There has been an explosion of botts in the past 4 days and its fixing to get way way worse.
There are a couple of us on JSP trying to kill bots. There are a couple post up RN, we’re trying to link them all together…
The problem is these botters have 100k-500k JSP FG.
The botting is fixing to hit an era like when Honor buddy went public with dummy proof instructions on how to run. The only thing that stopped that was blizzard taking them to court.
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My hope is lobby 2.0 has some backend improvements, bare minimum the ability to finally or at least in a timely manner dispatch the spam bots. I am willing to see what improves but I’m not betting on them removing all bots, impossible, but some kind of control over the others
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Any idea where I can get a nice simple Pindlebot?
All ARPGs and MMOs have rampant botting, tell me one that doesn’t. Dont kid yourself, blizzard bans as many as they can but most botters are ok with buying more keys and just trying again. Has been this way for 30 years now starting from the 90s… You’re just wasting your time and energy trying to fight against them, just play the game and enjoy it amongst yourselves and friends otherwise better go outside with a loud speaker and start preaching against criminals and greedy richers too.
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The game is old, stale and boring. What do you expect to happen? I can only stand to farm for an hour before dosing off any more. Everytime I get on D2R I question my life choices.
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D2R to me is an occasional dip into old memories, I never expected or hoped for more. The lobby is a shame but hopefully rectified, past that all hope is on D4 being tolerable.
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I definitely stopped making public games when the only people that would join were bots that stole the loot before it hit the ground.
Bots don’t join your public games. Why are you making up stories?
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So you’re saying people have reflexes enough to pick up only the rare loot and exit the game before it hits the ground? No. I barely even have enough time to notice that the loot taken was a rare item. It and the “player” are already gone.
Bots were joining public games over 10 years ago. Why wouldn’t they be now?
You talk about „pickit“ and not bots. The only bots that joined others public games were spambots, never farming bots.
And people without pickit can also be fast and latency on ping or monitors can also make it seem like people pick things before you see them on the ground.
It seems to me that you are just slow at the looting part and you don’t know a lot about the things you bring up
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WTF is pickit?
So someone joins my game. Never responds to me when I try to talk to them, picks up loot at the speed of light and exits just as fast as the loot is picked up and that’s not a bot?
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Pickit is a auto loot script/tool/cheat that instant picks up loot.
And yes people do that. They pick items and leave because they don’t have inventory space and have the item on mouse pickup and leave to drop it in a solo pw game.
Also Controller player have a different loot/pickup mechanic and can pick loot before it’s on the ground. Not a cheat, but very annoying in baalruns for example
Pickit has been there since 2000, and it is/was the core looting system of the bots of the era. You’d have a script telling it what to pick up, unid’ed items and it would fill your inventory with it while you were sleeping or at work…
It was there before bots even were a thing and people used it while playing to instant grab items. Ofc it was used on bots up till today but was a standalone from the beginning.
from what i’ve heard blizz is actually proactive about scooping up and banning bots.
Tell that to g2g Chinese sellers with millions of bers
im not saying its not an issue or not happening. things like that are always a cat and mouse game. the important thing is that blizz is actually playing that cat and mouse game, which from what ive heard, they are.
Probably more by behaviour than detection. Blizzard on WoW at least, allow (encourage ?) multi-boxing, which allows for virtual machines, and a complete disconnect between physical user and game client(s). As an example, you could also be playing by remote access to a virtual PC, at the other side of the world, and you are doing nothing wrong.
i dont see this as the same thing. in the case of multiboxing you are simulating having two machines both running the game legitimately. idk the ToS and im not doing it but it sounds legit to me.