Diablo III Hotfixes for August 3rd
Posted 3 August 2012 by NizarisMore hotfixes have made their way into the game today. Today’s hotfixes focus on one of the many banes of the online-only aspect of the game - desynch, or “rubberbanding.” It’s always good to see that the teams are looking for ways to reduce what many hardcore players equate to death. I find it interesting, though, that the hotfix is focused on those that already have extremely high latency. It seems that the issue persists even when latency is in the green.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed several cases of “rubberbanding” that could sometimes occur while playing under extremely high latency, when a character changed direction or movement speed, or when a character used certain movement-based abilities (like Tempest Rush or Whirlwind)
- Fixed several game and service crashes.
Lylirra also posted some clarifications:
As always, we appreciate your feedback and reports within the Bug Report forum about these types of problems. If you continue to experience issues with rubberbanding, please let us know (and be sure to check out this guide on reporting: link).
[...]So, yeah — the fixes weren’t just focused on movement abilities (though that was the main issue in this post, which is why I provided it as an example), but on a variety of conditions. 
Ha, I knew something was wrong when WW would rubberband. SO glad to see this addressed!
How much of a coincidence is it that Kriparrian posts a rant and within 24 hours they are promising huge improvements to the AH search and they are hotfixing rubberbanding? I know these things have been talked about in the past vaguely but now we actually see some concrete actions. Same thing with the Barbarian exploit. I’m by no means a Krip fanboy but if there’s any correlation between him pointing out faults and Blizzard finally acting more promptly than he should definitely rant more often.
there is somuch talk about everything on the internet, you will always be able to show some correlation between some things… It’s not like kripparian is the first to rant about these issues…
Best news about Diablo 3 yet….:D
Fixed act 3 so it no longer drops ilvl54 garbage and is rewarding to play
“Oh wait, that isn’t in the fixes”
/Sarcasm off
Are you a D3 Hater?
Diablo 3 working as intended.
The response to “servers can’t always keep up with speed-based skills” is “let’s nerf the hell out of anything that makes the toon move fast”.
No wonder the stock is down after earnings.
At least Inferno doesnt drop lvl 5 gear. The first Gull dagger I ever found in D2 was running Hell Meph.
The difference of course being that Gull is useful at any level, whereas the level 54 things that drop in Act 3 Inferno are at most useful for a level 52-56, and more likely useful for no one.
One of the many things wrong with D3′s item system.
I’ve been experiencing that problem a lot when using Vault + Tactical Advantage
I noticed that they also fixed “service and game crashes.” Has anyone else been experiencing freezing of the game client in act 3/4 of inferno? I have to control alt delete and my computer won’t even shut down the game. I can’t even restart or shut down my computer because it just stops on the shut down screen. The only way I can remedy it is if I manually power the computer off and turn it back on. This has been increasing lately as well, and now is starting for act 1. My computer doesn’t do this for anything else so I don’t think it’s a problem on my side.
Did you try killing it through the Processes tab (of Task Manager)? Very few things can resist that.
The game fun yet?
The AH is still there…