[Updated] Season 19 Abuse of Game Mechanics

But, can Blizzard detect TurboHUD? I have no clue and would never in a million years cheat and use it. Just curious is all.

Those are called Community Managers. Blizzard laid off many during the Feb cuts. Diablo as a franchise has one now. For everything across all Diablo games.

I can promise they are not going to give an answer to that. We will find out when and if they take actions.

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Reading between the lines I think they can. Taking no actions against it after public statement as strong as this one would harm their reputation.

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Great news for you metro. They cannot detect turbo hud which is why its never been banned without an admission or some other self incriminating evidence.

Its a sad state of affairs they allow botters to accumulate so much paragon or so much bounty mats. But feel the need to punish people like eggman who only used the game mechanics blizzard dedigned in a way they may not have intended, but definitely knew that the mechanics were working in this fashion from the PTR.

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Please don’t whack the Eggman. Be proud to still have elite players clinging to this rather old game who think up complex mechanics like this and have the skills to pull them off. The streamers, elite players and influencers are the backbone of the community.

Just fix your game and remove the leaderboard entries.

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Free the eggman!..

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Way too vague. One keypress = one in-game action?
But can it be a different one with each keypress? IsBoxer is considered not a cheating program and blizzard officially tolerate multiboxing, but it can precisely do that : change the action on each keypress.
So a macro cannot do 3 skills in one push, but you’re authorized to roll your mouse wheel constantly and have all your skills pressed differently with timing? (IsBoxer can do that too, change your key depending on a timing).

One keypress = one in-game action is absolutely not sufficient.
PoE in this case is much more precise and stipulates :
1 action per keypress, and this action cannot change at all for a specific bind.

This stance would remove any kind of possible automation using mouse wheel, which IMO shouldn’t even be a possible bind at all, like rolling your mousewheel to spam loot is fine (1 finger muscle movement), but having one macro key (1 finger muscle movement) do the same isn’t?
This would also effectively definitively ban IsBoxer from being used in D3 and end any kind of possible multiboxing.

The ball is in Blizz camp.

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like eggman cares, he was playing on a brand new account knowing that what he was doing would result in a ban so rather then get his main account banned he bought a fresh one,

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This is really sad, banning player who found clever ways to use game mechanics that had passed PTR testing… Making the run unvalid, I understand, but banning is way overboard.

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you knew of it on the ptr, its not a exploit

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The what now?

Kids these days. Stop making up fancy words, miss!

You milleniuls have no respek for the American English language! :joy:

A wise man said : degenerates being degenerative degenerating the game-play.

Blizz has Kolaches??? sign me up.

Yes, and they fixed what they knew of between PTR and Live. They clearly did not intend this. Players are clever though, and find new ways to cheat.

And most know way better than to use an exploit, much less stream themselves doing it. Blizz is harsher on them than on the average player most of the time, because they have a far broader reach.

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I hope that 3rd party add ons includes save wizard on console, it is ruining that experience.

here’s hoping if they punish him they do so on his main account and not on a brand new fresh account

Normally they only penalize the account that executed the exploit. I don’t know if the circumstances will allow a change to that. He used a smurf account to execute and spread an exploit over a broadcast audience and avoid real repercussions on his main.

It certainly FEELS like it should be a stronger punishment.

I don’t know what the Blizz rules are though on something like that. I know smurf accounts being used to manipulate other Blizz games are considered for consequences but I assume it is a case by case basis.

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“This Season, we’re taking action on the great feedback we received from the community about Season 18’s Triune buff. With the killstreak mechanic, we can make sure the benefit is always traveling with you and something you won’t have to constantly reposition for. There’s still more room for exploration and innovation in the future, and in the meantime, we challenge you to push these killstreaks to their limits and discover its ultimate reward! We think you’ll find it devilishly delightful.”

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I have been told that this can be done without the help of other people –

Please do not assume that fixing the multiplayer aspect of this will fix the issue

The fix has to mean seasonal buff stacks erase upon reentry of Greater Rift whether by front door or town portal the entire legitimacy of the season will be in question. Next fix the two Screen Reuse.

I really do appreciate the expedient response @Nev, Dev/Diablo team and your help as well @MissCheetah but I do feel it necessary to point out that this issue, while mended from the PTR was not actually addressed directly… The attempted fix was simply directed at nerfing the Angels damage, instead of fixing the real problem - which I don’t need to reiterate as I did state the fix above, but if I may put my own opinion on a related problem, perhaps we shouldn’t HAVE A SEASONAL BUFF THAT CAN 1 SHOT RIFT GUARDIANS?? just maybe. for the future. cause like I used to really like playing this game and all.

I mean this is just pandemonium… hold the Rim Shot

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See you’re thinking about this all wrong, you’re pointing out something they said and you’re trying to turn it into them trying to tell us something…

Don’t have to go that far back to remember
Developer Note: We never intended for this item to be used in a way where you farm stacks for an egregious amount of time (5+ minutes) and then watch all their health disappear in less than a second. It’s not an engaging style of gameplay, and we don’t want that experience to be the best way to play the Necromancer.

(In the same patch) Lets give Heaven’s Fury a … 4 * 201 = 804 * multiplier on a set, despite it having cleared 130 with LoN 97.5% which is the ONLY other skill that had an item that literally stacked infinitely (except this one was based off of your APS so it stacked faster than Bone Ringer)

sorry slightly tilted… ~related But I do think you should consider the fact that the guy who did these 150 solos… had reported the issue on PTR. Even if I think it was pretty stupid for him to do it on stream, during season, with help, it is better that it was addressed early in season, because there will be “legit” 150 solo’s (I use quotations there because even in these seasonal killstreaks do most of the damage) this season and this could have been exploited without it being obvious on the Leaderboards

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