Thanks, Nev, but I think I confused things by mentioning a 3-player team clearing a 2-player GR. Thatâs obviously exploiting.
However, what about a 4-player team clearing a 4-player GR using the same tactics? Thatâs not having anyone outside helping you, etc? Itâs clearly unintended to me, but Iâve already heard folks talking about doing it for 4-player clears.
There was a fix after the PTR to an aspect of it. Players are inventive though. At least that is my current understanding of what happened.
I would take the comments about other forms of cheating being actionalbe to heart. It would be very wise to take it as warning that any and all forms of cheating can result in account penalties.
EDIT -
Nev responded in the THUD thread that Producer Matthew Cederquist commented in. He had reminded folks that actions were coming regarding all third party software and bots and a statement would be made.
A player asked when that would be. Response today.
I think the community appreciates your response. I just hope you mean what was said as most of us can see the cheaters on the leaderboards as it is not rocket science. I enjoyed the first Diablo and purchased it when it first came out and have purchased the rest as they came out. Yea, I am old but I do think as far as play-ability your games are some of the best. Just please keep this game fair to all. Thank you.
Reason : You guys didnt do a proper ptr and he is doing testing now on live servers to tell you guys not to rush a patch without thorough acceptance tests.
Eggman is a highly skilled player. You guys should consider getting him onboard for consultancy purposes.
Oh I know Matthew had a good post about the time frame for actions the other day. I will quote it so players can have all this stuff in one place. The how and when, will never be announced, if I understand Blizz policy.
There are some clans using the exploit to level gems to lvl 140 they are doing it with bad time to hide from blizz eyes. Do gems will get rolled back or deleted too ?
Thanks for the swift response regarding the abuse of the exploit, i just hope that the banning of bots will happen as swift as this was, , just the other day i reported 2 people in my clan for botting, they left their game open to others and was easy to see their chars botting by opening rift guardian on another floor and plus the fact they dont answer chat/whispers and ofc playtime.
Pardon me while I donât hold my breath. Looking over S18 leaderboards and how you did nothing is a joke. Looking at S19 leaderboards and the amount of blatant bots is absurd.
Blatantly false. If that were true, heâd do it once, publish it, and not do it again. He did it repeatedly on basically every class. He was plainly abusing it.
So can you explain the line between LoN WD (the old pet Spirit Barrage Build), Bazooka, using Cow level to get Archon Stacks for bosskill with Hydra and this is? Why are the former three fine while this is considered an exploit. All of the former ones also feel like they shouldnât work.
Also why retroactively threaten people that did this? This is using the game mechanic in a way people pointed out on PTR and it made it to the game.
Not wanting to start a fire or defend anyone, youâre not exactly clear what is considered the âabuseâ in this situation. You seem to condemn the fact that âothers doing the work for youâ is punishable, so you leave open the door for this strategy to be used âfairlyâ by any group/solo doing their proper greater rifts. The fact is, the mechanic of s19 is flawed, and playing around it is imo clever usage of game mechanics.
I will comment on it. While it is most probably exploit⌠well it is exploit⌠Blizzard could do better job of preventing it. But at Blizzards defense I must say that I watched video of it and that I never saw this variation in action before.
The fact they fixed a version of the exploit between PTR and Live should be all the comment you need. Players are inventive though and find alternative ways to do things.