I am very angry/upset, i play hardcore and was mfing in my own private game, i went to frigid highlands wp in act 5 hell. As soon as i zone in my character is already dead… This should NOT happen, i shouldnt be able to take damage and die when i cant even control my own character. this is BS…
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This is why I haven’t touched hard-core yet. When blizzard figures out how to optimize the game so it doesn’t take 10 seconds to load between acts, I’ll feel safe enough to actually try.
But all the reports of people dying to Duriel on load screen, and reports like yours make me wait.
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God, I got flashback from 20 years ago. Duriel the great loadkiller. Today my loading screen is less than 1 sec.
Raise a glass to the dead
It is BS but if you were in A5 hell you had to have had the long load time issue before. Honestly, in HC right now my biggest fear is loading screens.
It sucks but there isn’t a ton that can be done about it atm and I’m not even sure if SP would help at all.
I read about this, apparently introduced in the latest ‘fixes’. I just played a new guy today. Hopefully tomorrow’s ‘patch’ will fix this.
RIP the black wall of death claims on other one.
So many have perished.
What do we say to the God of Death? …
Until this is (possibly) sorted out, always, always, ALWAYS, wp into town first then to your destination if moving between acts.
If you were already in A5 then you are sufferimg much longer load times than I and you have my condolences.
I only play hard-core but this makes it almost impossible to play if this isn’t fixed… so disappointing.
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Blizzard is aware of this problem, they wrote about it for a long time, for some reason the fix was not included in the release, apparently in order not to postpone it, it will probably be in the next patches.
Q: Why is my character still attacked while at a loading screen?
A: As mentioned in the Technical Alpha Learnings blog, characters will no longer spawn in a hostile place until the game is fully loaded, preventing characters from getting attacked or harmed during a loading screen. This fix is not in the build for the Early Access and Open Beta, but it will be in the game for launch. We didn’t want to delay the timing of the upcoming tests for this issue.
Ya don’t bother with hardcore guys, I made a post recently about 1 cow killing a character during router reset which means the game keeps you in for an extended period sometimes even on disconnect. It’s not worth the time sink when your internet company can decide to do maintenance at an oddball hour or servers crash.
Hardcore used to be the thrill and excitement over any wrong move can mean game over, but when that is taken out of your control and deaths aren’t skill based it becomes pointlesscore.
I played on hc for years, and this new variant is just not designed around the hc playstyle. I remember having 30second load screens going into tristram with AN SSD. That should not be happening. If someone drags mobs onto any area that your computer struggles to load it’s a gauranteed death on hell difficulty.
With load screens they should have at the very least made waypoints and a few yards around portals invulnerable state areas. You can’t add huge load times and not compensate with something. The hardcore scene is probably going to be dead in a couple of months due to no mechanics being added to protect during extended load times as well as disconnects not happening immediate in that mode when server lacks communication with the player.
How hard is it for the server to notice the player is unresponsive after a load screen and cause an invulnerable state. I remember hearing something about being protected with the new load times, but haven’t seen it in action or any example videos posted.
This is kind of a 20 year old problem tbh, play hardcore on Battle.net at your own risk. At least they gonna fix the loading screen deaths.
No it isn’t I never had this problem in the previous version. Load times were never 20-30 seconds (randomly and certain areas) with an SSD. Also when my characters disconnected near 1 monster I didn’t die typically. Their previous setup to boot characters was much quicker. This one seems to keep your character in the game for an extra 10seconds, maybe 15. It’s far better than D3 which keeps players in games for minutes after disconnect sometimes, but could definitely be improved upon.
All they really have to do is add an invulnerability state on hardcore mode only that activates when players are unresponsive and within proximity of a waypoint/portal. You might think that could be exploited, but when I say invuln state I mean like how town prevents attack. The immediate vicinity of waypoints should be like that now after they added massive load times to the game for some players. I can’t imagine playing this game with a HDD.
Fully agree with OP.
FYI, you can reduce load times by reducing Texture quality.
The load time for changing waypoints is ridiculously long. You can reduce it with a newer faster CPU or ask Blizz to optimize the game code a little bit.
I have a laptop rocking an older i7 4700HQ cpu. I wouldn’t dare to play hardcore on it. Load time getting to waypoints is around 3 secs. On my newer desktop with i7-10700K, the load time is reduced to about 1 sec, which definitely helps in hardcore.
I’ve played d2 hc since the beginning. This has never been an issue.
While waiting for blizzard to fix this you want to always wp to town first and only then to different wps in that act. The biggest load times are between acts.
I play hardcore as a barb… and to be honest in Hell i ALWAYS go out Bo’in my self before using the Wp… To scared of dying by a loading… they really need to fix this asap… Op sorry for your loss ! Hope you had enough strengh to start again !
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I literally just had the EXACT same thing happened to me. I went to Frigid Highlands WP on my MF Amazon the loading screen took longer then usual and by the time I loaded in I was dead surrounded by those hulking thorn guys from Act 3.
I honestly am not sure what to do now as apart from the servers going down and the loading times being excessive I was thoroughly enjoying playing…if i’d died to something that was my fault then fair enough but I died to a loading screen where I couldn’t defend myself…makes starting another character feel pointless.
Pray for a rollback!