Diablo 3 Hardcore Death Exploit?
Posted 5 June 2012 by XanthIt’s an area of much debate on our forums, but one of great interest to the 
Hardcore community. What constitutes an exploit and when is it okay? Kungen has found his way into our news again this time due to his avoiding death.The original post from the forums that grabbed my attention was:
Kungen (Swedish meaning: The King) is rerolling his barb, and he has gotten to hell Diablo. During the fight he lags or such, and on low hitpoints he gets caged and picked up by Diablo. Certain death.Kungen pauses the game. On another comp beside him, he logs into Diablo III and into his account. This kicks him from his paused game and voila, he did not die.
You can view the video of the exploit here.( the exploit in question is about 23 minutes in) They gray area of this whole situation is the bug on Kungen’s end. After being trapped by diablo in shadow form he then proceeds to the final phase still stuck. As his health fades he has someone log into his account which forces him to log off and saves his character from it’s demise. It seems as if he uses one bug to remedy another. Now I don’t want to go into a diatribe about ethics and whether this was a right or wrong choice.
What should be talked about is how this should be fixed. With many hours spent on characters you don’t want to lose them, having personally just lost my 60 WD I would have loved the option Kungen had. However, this cheapens death in Hardcore. Now when things are looking grim you can always pause and live yet again.
Blizzard needs to stop this fast. Not everyone who uses this will be bugging out or lagging, it is taking the risk and the death out of Hardcore.
What do you think about this bug? Have you used it?
EDIT: I misreported that Kungen pauses the game in order to do this. He does not pause but has someone log in to interrupt his session. I have no data as of yet whether pausing and doing this will work but feel free to let us know!
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Diablo’s grip leave you at 1 hp instead of killing you outright? In other words, you’re able to drink a potion as soon as you regain control of your character.
Its. Just. A. Game.
This has absolutely no bearing on anything, ever. I play HC for the challenge. If I want to pause the game and keep my character alive, well thats my choice. Ive actually done something similiar before, but Ive also lost several characters, a 52, a 42 and a 30. So its not like I havent taken my licks, and the character that I did it on died anyways later on.
Seriously, out of all the other issues in the game, I think this would be the last thing people care about.
For the record, I love this game, but it feels a lot like D2c. I want my runewords and shaftstops!
I really like this site, but with news posts like these, with lots of unchecked rumours posted as facts I doubt I will return much. Only takes a 4th grader to see that this is on his Monk and the quoted description is full of errors. Please get your facts straight or stop posting crap like this…
Just a reminder to all who are critic on Kungen because of doing this: we have paid for a product, and thus it should be free of bugs.
I find perfectly valid the option to conpensate a bug with another bug.
Sure but do you have any evidence that he does not do that in ANY other situation when he could die , even a no bug one ? If so this is a real issue.
oh… so people found another ‘BUG’ in Bli$$’s perfect online only game…
What your problem people…. It’s his game copy… he paid for it. He has a right to play it any way he likes, be it exploiting or taking advantage of bugs. People asking for deleting these guys who use this trick are morons… you hear ..MORONS.
EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO PLAY THE GAME IN HIS/HER OWN WAY. OR DID I MISS BLI$$ARD CHANGING IT’S NAME TO “BIG BROTHER”?
EDIT: You know, this is exactly what Blizzard underestimated when making the game online only… it was to prevent cheating right…? Dupes and Bots are cheating and I think they are somewhat far of right, for now anyway.
So now people have discovered new ways to “CHEAT”. doesn’t that void the whole point of the DRM?
just wait for the RMAH on the 12. Then the real horror stories will come to pass.
Where was that downvote button again?
In r/diablo, get back there.
That was bugged as hell, I think using an exploit to save yourself from losing dozens of hours due to a game-breaking bug has its merits. Kungen explicitly stated that he would not try to cheat to save himself if he’s dying in a regular ingame situation.
Why bother with second PC etc, when pause menu Ctrl+Alt+Del end D3 process will do the job just fine.
I think one issue that is overlooked in the discussion up to now is that he (or his friend) is doing that really quick, and without time to think. They didn’t go through any kind of, “wow, I’m dying, but it’s due to a bug, so it might be OK to log in from another PC to survive” kind of thought process, there just isn’t time for that. That means they had everything set up to use this exploit, and someone was checking on him to execute it if necessary. I can’t see them making any kind of agreement that it would be OK to use this time, so I have to assume they would do it everytime they got the chance for it. And it’s a bit hard to believe that after they agreed later on that the death was in fact not due to lag or bug, he would go back in and suicide his character… So it feels a lot like they were doing it with inferior intentions, and only this time there is some justification for it..