This happens during TZ runs like Chaos or Baal. I usually just lose my spot in run, Today I exit game join next in lobby and it says “already in game” I restart D2r and come back to dead char and lost 1 bar at 98, another bug they won’t fix. If they would just put in some effort I would buy all the titles, kinda done ready to jump to POE at least they try
Been an issue since OG game launched in 2000. It’s because of the terrible net code the game has. Everyone has been complaining about this for 24 years and seen no results so don’t expect a change now.
The thing about Y2K compared to now is the available bandwidth for your average player has increased at least 50 fold. The data stream is the same as it was, tiny and able to stream through a 28.8k/33.6k baud dial-up connection.
With all of that extra bandwidth comes a workable advantage… Something as simple as doubling the data stream while keeping both streams out of phase, and perhaps a third parity stream would help reduce problems caused by packet loss. Packet loss is by far the largest reason for the majority of those wonderful “Your connection has been interrupted.” screens, along with character position desynchronizations, characters/monster warping, etc. Excessive ping jitter can cause similar issues, but it’s nowhere near as bad as even just a small amount of packet loss.
Improving the resiliency of the netcode against light amounts of packet loss is a solvable problem, but it would require some work on Blizzards part to implement. And that’s the problem, Blizzard working on this game.
I agree that it’s definitely something they could and should have solved. However, it’s too late. It would take development cost and this game isn’t making them any more money.