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Baal had set up a clone so I decided to try and find some trap claws for a minute or two till he had disappeared. When I went back in through my tp there were festering appendages EVERYWHERE. Insta-death
R.I.P DiiAddict lvl 69 Trapsin =(
Is this a normal thing to happen? I have never seen Baal do this..
AnimeCraze
24-10-2007, 08:24
Wow, that's a lot of appendages......
ugh, sounds like some kind of glitch, that's not the slightest bit normal. usually something has to be standing there for him to spawn appendages
thats effed up.
Too many, glitch for sure.
AgentMarth
24-10-2007, 11:26
That is alot, but something like that has happened to me before, but not that many in such a small space.
Hmm, TPPK Baal behavior :tongue:
Sorry for your loss
Hp_Sauce
24-10-2007, 11:59
Jesus crap... that's a lot of bloody slimy tentacles.
-hps
drinkturps
24-10-2007, 15:30
That is so wrong. Never seen that before.
I have seen it get nasty with two of them up and I have "re-entered" and seen a bunch that quickly went away but I have never seen then that closely grouped. Then again I never TP near him I always move away and TP.
Well at least it was an interesting death, too bad it happened before I got to hell, was looking forward to walking through each act..
With that cheese ball death I guess I'm just gonna wait till Hellgate comes out =).
come back zinc
24-10-2007, 17:08
I used to get festered to death in SC, though I've never seen a grouping that tight. I know that can happen if you stand in the same place and don't move for a while. It's possible the AI considered you where your portal was the whole time you were gone and spawned appendages over and over because you (the TP) weren't moving. Maybe something similar to how the Bone Prison AI works with Diablo. IIRC he can bone prison TPs?
I've never left a TP that close to the boys, though. Who knows.
Diablo does the Bone Prison and it can be a real *****!
Normal? No. Hilarious? Yes.
I've seen it before on my Zon, though they may have been about to poof right after I came through I didn't leave them up long enough to check.
As far as I know it's the same thing as Diablo Bone Prisoning TP's (as was said) it recognizes portals as a valid target if they're within cast range, so with Baal and his clone spamming them on the portal you can end up with some fun stuff.
I've seen Baal tentacle TP's before with other targets in the room, as I often keep him just barely on screen with my leechers, can only assume it was the same thing and just bad luck overall :(
Sorry to hear about your death mate.
-Tai
Normal? No. Hilarious? Yes.
LOL..........
NightShade
25-10-2007, 05:29
10000 tentacles and one half naked assassin.....I think you might need to look to Japan for an explaination.
Valar-Wrath
25-10-2007, 07:53
10000 tentacles and one half naked assassin.....I think you might need to look to Japan for an explaination.
You, sir, win the internet.
MoUsE_WiZ
25-10-2007, 09:52
10000 tentacles and one half naked assassin.....I think you might need to look to Japan for an explaination.
Curses.
I was just going to comment about AnimeCraze thinking it was a lot of tentacles, beat me to the easy joke ><
Yaksha~tb~
25-10-2007, 10:09
too bad man that sucks sorry for your loss
I had the same thing (the half trillion tentacles part, not the death) this afternoon. Baal also had his clone spawned when I went to town, and I may or may not have left a decoy up. But yeah, it was the same spot on the map, and they were all tightly bunched up like in your picture.
Not sure if it's a bug or just something that happens under the right circumstances.
-Matt
i have been in a very similar situation. my lvl 65ish assassin was doing a nm baal run and i took a tp to town and when i went back to the action about 10 minutes later there were tentacles everywhere! they did major damage aswell, but luckily i managed to juv & alt+f4. really unexpected though, and quite nasty :embarassed:
oakienko
29-10-2007, 10:33
did you have any traps up? just curious.
sanguillen
01-11-2007, 04:18
That picture brings up bad memories. The exact same thing happened to me 2-3 years ago. I TPed and took my fishymancer to town to answer the phone. About 10-15 minutes later I came back and went through the TP. It sounded like my poor necro (and his army) got hit with machine-gun fire - he never stood a chance. And it looked EXACTLY like that picture. I've always wondered if it was something silly, like standing right next to the TP while away. Now I take the long way back down after that long a TP break!
Though I must admit (looking back on it) - seeing the words "Gordon_Chen was slain by Festering Appendage" was kinda funny. Ha. Ha.
The Cow King
01-11-2007, 04:27
wow freaky
I got chills from that pic
I have to admit, that is crappy, but also somewhat hilarious on a surrealness level. And you know, if you think about it, it's a smart tactic for Baal to use!
Sorry for your loss though. I'm glad that hasn't happened to me.
That's a buttload of appendages.... Never seen that many before.
But yeah, lately I've noticed baal's clones aren't disappearing. I run him a lot with my necro in hell, and I generally leave and kill council or something when he clones. But, lately some of his clones haven't been disappearing for me. I'll come back and he and his clone are going ape**** with the appendages.
Just to necro this thread a little but i died a tentacly death last night when i tried to enter the chamber portal, dupe-lag (as i affectionately call it) kicked in and when the screen returned i had entered the portal and been *****slapped by tentacles...no where near as many as nolan16 suffered but it's a ****ty death and moreso when the lag on the severs causes it...that and my lil sorcie was only 47 at NM baal...not gonna rush sorceresses anymore :cry:
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