I was doing uber runs when I died with my weapons swapped, and when I tried to retrieve the stuff I didn’t get all of it since my main weapons gave me strength to carry some of it. I died again, so my stuff was shared between corpses and I didn’t notice that, disconnected and reconnected to get all my stuff back but only got one of the body.
How do I retrieve the remaining stuff I lost because of this bug ? With help from the support with a character retrieval or rollback ?
Only one corpse will be retained across games. Spreading out gear across multiple corpses is therefore very risky, and losing things as a result of it is not a bug.
LOL. You lost your gear. You just learned the hard way. Never equip items after a death. You run naked to retrieve your body back or you quit to restart another game.
Not a bug, Its how the game was designed to handle death. You didn’t have the stats to equip the gear since you swapped thus it couldn’t equip and you didn’t have inventory space. Its the risk you take when you dont naturally meet the stat requirements on gear and instead rely on other pieces of gear to meet the requirements.
Sorry for your loss, they do NOT restore items for any reason.
Is that just me or all those answers are completely stupid? All your posts apply to hardcore mode, not softcore. In softcore when you lose your stuff because you’re dead, it’s a bug. That’s it. Pretty sure the devs are laughing at your comment “look at those degenerates, they think it’s a feature”
Just the opposite. Their answers are for Softcore, not Hardcore. When you die in Hardcore, you lose… everything. (Unless you’ve given a Party member permission to loot your body and they’re trustworthy enough to give your items back. Even then, you won’t get it all).
Before making accusations when people are trying to help you, learn how to play the game. This information has been on the internet for 21 years now:
Do I drop all my items when I die in Diablo II?
Yes and no. Instead of dropping your items onto the ground where anyone could then pick them up, your items remain on your corpse. The gold you are carrying at the time of death, however, drops to the ground.
How do I pick up items from my corpse?
You walk over to your corpse and click on it. Items will automatically try to equip themselves. If an item cannot be equipped (e.g. you already have a weapon equipped in that slot), it is placed in your inventory. If there is not enough space in your inventory, the remaining items will stay with the corpse. Note: If a corpse remains after you have clicked on it, there are still items on it. A player may have up to 16 corpses. For more information on corpses and retrieving items see the Character Information page.
Can I allow other players to loot my corpse?
Yes, if you are using a Hardcore character.
What Happens When Your Character Dies?
In Diablo II, as in real life, death is something you should strive to avoid. If your Hit Points drop to zero during the game, you have died.
If you are killed, your character will lose a percentage of the total gold both carried and stored in the Stash. This percentage is equal to your character’s level but will not exceed 20%. After this ‘death penalty’ is deducted, the rest of the gold your character was carrying falls to the ground in a pile. If the penalty exceeds the amount of gold you were carrying, the remainder of the penalty is deducted from your Stash. In Single Player, dying will not take away all your gold. No gold is lost from your Stash, and 500 gold per character level is exempt from the death penalty. For example, if a 10th level Single-Player character with 5,000 gold dies, he will lose no gold.
As an additional death penalty, your character will lose some experience if he dies while in Nightmare or Hell difficulties. You will lose 5% of the experience required to attain the next level on Nightmare and 10% on Hell, but you will never drop down to a lower level. In games of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, if you recover your corpse at the location of its demise, you can regain 75% of the experience points you lost. If, however, you choose to ‘Save and Exit’ out of your current game in order to restart and recover your body in town, you will not regain any of your lost experience. Nightmare and Hell Difficulty players should ask themselves whether they want to risk losing more experience by attempting to recover their body to regain 75% of their experience. If you die several more times you’ll end up losing more experience than you gain by recovering your body. Sometimes it is safer to leave the game to recover your corpse giving up the experience you might have regained by recovering your corpse.
Press the Esc key after dying to restart in town. Your corpse will remain in the place where you died. You will have to return to your corpse in order to retrieve your equipment. When you find your corpse, left-click on it to pick up and re-equip your items (hint: when you are near your corpse, it will appear as a purple “X” on your Automap). Make sure you have room in your inventory to pick up all the items on your corpse, though – if you don’t, any items you can’t hold will remain on your old corpse. Be sure to collect any gold you might have dropped when you died, too.
If your character has no corpse when he dies, one will be created, and your equipped items will remain on that corpse. If your character already has a corpse, another corpse (up to a maximum of 16) will be created and your most recently equipped items will remain with the new corpse. Be careful about equipping valuable equipment when you already have a corpse out in the field, if you exit a realm game with more than one corpse on the ground, only the corpse having the most valuable equipment (gold equivalent value) will be saved. Also, if you die and you already have 16 corpses, your items will fall to the ground, and anyone can take them. Unequipped items, however, will always remain in your inventory.
When you find your corpse, click on it to take all of its equipped items. Only you (and anyone you permit) can loot your corpse.
After re-equipping your items, you might want to confirm that you are using your weapon of choice, and not your “backup” equipment or some item you accidentally picked up from the area surrounding your corpse.
If you exit a game without retrieving your corpse, one will be placed in town in the next game you create or join.
NOTE: A “Hardcore” character cannot be reincarnated if it dies – you will simply return to Battle.net chat as a ghost. Hardcore characters cannot create or join games once they have died.
Multiple Corpses/Losing Items!
A player may have up to 16 corpses.
Realm Characters: The corpse with the most gold value (in items) will be saved between games. So keep this in mind when putting on equipment to recover your corpse. Your original body with your equipment should save unless you manage to equip yourself with a greater value of equipment, die, then leave the game.
Open Characters: Only your oldest corpse is saved between games. Make sure you go back and recover your original body with your equipment before leaving the game.
Source: Arreat Summit - Basics: Character Information: http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/faq/skills.shtml
Yeah thanks, everything goes in the direction of my opinion, if you loose in hardcore, you’re screwed, I’m fine with that. Otherwise if you’re in softcore, you risk to lose more and more xp if you keep trying
Got the spirit, I’m fine with losing xp, that’s ok, that’s a fair punishment for softcore.
but
The general spirit is, you will keep the best equipment you had in your corpses. If you gear up to pick that juicy body you might end up losing what you geared for that purpose. Here again it’s fine.
but
He picked up his body while naked, couldn’t take everything because he was on weapon swap and therefore didn’t have enough stats to pick some gears. This created a second body, with half the stuff.
now from the previous quotes, the aim in softcore is to give you back your stuff, at the cost of xp so the expected behavior is as follow:
1 - you die, everything you have on you end up in your corpse
2 - you come back naked, pick it up
3 - you have everything on you
Here is what happened:
1 - he died, everything went on the ground in his corpse
2 - he came back naked pick it up
3 - he only picked half his gear because he was on weapon swap at this point and the second set of weapon couldn’t give him enough stats to pick everything
4 - everything that wasn’t picked up stayed on the ground
That’s a bug.
Solution: Those items should be picked no matter what and put into the red state where they doesn’t provide anything. Just like when you have them on you without enough stats.
You need to reread the OP. They picked up their items, then died a second time. They did not retrieve their items from the second corpse. And I quote:
The items they could not equip went into their Inventory. When they died the second time, what they had equipped would have been on the second corpse. They would have retained what was in their Inventory. They did not check their second corpse and lost those items.
No, it is not. This is how D2 death works. And it has been documented for 21.5 years.
I don’t need to reread the OP mate, I was in the damn game, I’m the friend he was doing uber with but maybe I haven’t been clear on what happened exactly.
We started to enjoy uber runs and someone contacted us to get him through ubber, he wanted to discover the content. We did hesitate to do it because the servers were unstable at that time (I had to retry multiple times to connect to the game). But we managed to get in the game and decided to try it (hell why not play the game when we can right? and the guy who wanted to discover the content was available for an hour, so we had to do it right?).
Now the first run went smooth, no worries, the person we carried through uber enjoyed the content. He had another key set, asked us to do it again. Hell, why not, we all enjoyed this, let’s do it again.
Now on the second run, my friend died, this can happen right?
Now normaly in that case he would’ve disconnected and I would’ve wait for him to reconnect BUT, as said earlier the game was unstable at that point, so he was worried he couldn’t reconnect and finish the run for our new friend.
Not something you wanna see happened, so he tried to pick up his body by going naked. Unfortunately he died again instantly after picking his body, lilith can be rough. I tried to managed her so he could get back to his body, but I failed, and died, so he disconnected as we were left with no options.
Then he reconnected and took his body. Half was missing. We understood after that JUST because at the time he picked the stuff after the first death he was on weapon swap and couldn’t pick all his gears because of stats requirement.
So I disconnected, reconnected, picked up my body, did manage to get lilith out of the way. No body, no dropped item on the ground, everything was gone. The same game hey?
I don’t see this situation being well documented at all. The fact that you optimize your character stats shouldn’t result in you losing your stuff on death in softcore. That is not an inteded behavior. In all the documentation you sent, the general idea is, if you die on softcore, you’re gonna lose xp. This situation is not normal. ESPECIALLY when we had to change the way we usually play because of server issues.
That is by definition a bug.
What piss me off the most is to see dogs comments like this one:
Nothing was learned here but the fact that blizzard (if we can still call the people hunting for money and hiding behind this prestigious name like that.) doesn’t care at all about unfairness due to poor design on their side, both for code and infra. They’re not gonna give you back what’s yours.
You can’t hide behind the “that’s how it always worked”. They fixed stuff for D2R release, but they didn’t fix the unfairness behind that bug you call a mechanic.
Here I’ll have a quick fix for you “blizzard”: just put everything back to where it was on body pickup and set it to the red state where it doesn’t grant stats, just like when you’re alive. You’re welcome, it was not easy to solve, you just had
Don’t worry, we gave that guy we carried an unid, we might be half naked because of you “blizzard”, but we’re not assh*les.
First of all, I apologize if I misunderstood exactly what happened. But, you and your friend need to be more clear when reporting what you believe to be a game bug.
Your friend said he “disconnected and reconnected”. And now, you just said “he would’ve disconnected and I would’ve wait for him to reconnect”.
“Disconnecting” and “reconnecting” are totally different from “leaving a game” and “joining the game”.
This kind of confusion could be avoided if you use the correct terminology. (If English is not your native language, I can understand the problems in translation).
English is not my native language, I apologize for the mistakes I make
He would’ve come back in the game just like he always do when he dies if there was no issues connecting to games at that time.
So thank you, you let me get all my salt out, at least someone listened.
I have no problems with difficulty, as long as it’s fair. I’ve been playing starcraft II at pretty high level, for many years.
That was hard, but that teached me lessons, and god I loved the fact that you made a game too hard to master. You were my heroes, you didn’t care about money that much, you did it for the game.
A lose was a lesson, it made me humble. A win made me proud, and pushed myself to progress even more to see what I was capable of.
What happened to my friend isn’t fair. It’s because of servers instability and poorly designed mechanics. I could forgive you that blizzard, if you were ready to admit in this case you made a mistake. But no answer, just a short “we don’t do rollback for items” in your support section. An army of sheeps coming to say “haha you learned it the hard way” I feel ripped off. You just don’t care. You’re not blizzard anymore.
This company is just gone, I knew it deep inside, I just have to admit it.
I will treasure the memories you gave me blizzard. Those frauds doesn’t deserve your name.
It’s not a bug. It’s not fixable. This was in D2. Get over it. You can say what you want, but this isn’t a bug. He should have reconnected. I’d rather risk the reconnect and lose out on an uber session than miss out on my gear.
And yes, if he merely left the game and rejoined that game, his second corpse should have been in town with the rest of his gear. (As long as he had recovered his first corpse).
I too, hope that Blizzard fixes all the little game bugs and the serious server issues soon.
