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By Starym
There's been a lot of discussion over at the official forums about how exactly to address the recent "solo" clear exploit using the seasonal killstreak mechanic, and Nevalistis has responded to clear things up. They way Blizzard will be handling this problem is separating the killstreak/Pandemonium buff, resetting it to 0 when a player transitions between "worlds", aka different zones of the world map or rifts. She also goes into why this same system isn't used for all buffs across the board.
Killstreak Exploit Fix (source)
There seems to be a lot of digging into nuance to try to justify some behavior over others, so I’m going to share what the fix is going to be as I think it’s the easiest way to clarify this without giving a how-to guide on performing the exploit. Again, going to warn everyone here: do not post the steps to the exploit on the forums; it is not permitted, and you will lose your posting privileges.
In order to maintain the Pandemonium buff, both the player and the monster being killed must be in the same “world.” Rifts (of either kind) are their own “world,” as are different zones of the world map. I’ve also seen call-outs to other personal player buffs using the same technique. Throughout the years, we have systematically “whack-a-mole” fixed cases where buffs are being generated outside a Rift and carried into it, on a case-by-case basis depending on the severity of the impact. If the behavior feels necessary, even mandatory, to basic gameplay, then it may be worth revisiting the design entirely to fix that.
I’m taking that feedback to the team to discuss further. In the meantime, I hope this provides the clarity you’re looking for.
Players are always going to find things our design and QA teams miss; there’s simply more of you than there are us! When those efforts create degenerative gameplay that begins to feel necessary, that’s a problem. Now that we’ve identified it, we’re asking you do not abuse this problem while we work to address it—for the greater health of the game.
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By Starym
Another discussion has erupted in the Diablo 3 community, with a very specific use of the seasonal killstreak mechanic resulting in technically solo, but not really, Greater Rift 150 clears. The most prominent example is TheUltimateEggman, who has been banned from Twitch after presumably being mass reported by viewers following his Barbarian, Witch Doctor and Monk Season 19 GR 150 "solo" streams, with a little/a whole lot of help from his friends.
You can check out an example of the process in action below, as well as Blizzard's official response - a statement saying players abusing this exploit will be banned, depending on how much they used it, as well as have their runs removed from the leaderboards. They will also be fixing the exploit asap.
Seasonal GR Clear Exploit (source)
It’s recently come to light that there is a method in which players can unfairly leverage the Seasonal buff, Pandemonium, in an unintended and unfair way to progress as a solo player. We wanted to let you know exactly what our stance is and what steps we’ll be taking to correct this.
First, utilizing a group buff to progress in solo Greater Rifts is not intended and will be considered cheating. Players found using this mechanic may have their accounts suspended or closed, based on severity of abuse as well as previous account history. These account actions are between Blizzard and the offending players, so please note we will not be commenting on the status of accounts on a public basis, as has always been our standard practice.
Second, we will be deleting any and all clears from the Leaderboards where we have been able to confirm this exploit was utilized.
Third, we will be fixing this exploit. We ask that you do not make use of this exploit in the meantime while we are working to deploy a patch. Our team is already at work on a solution and, as soon as it’s ready for deployment, we’ll update this thread accordingly. We won’t detail this exploit here, but it takes some planning, know-how, and research to make use of this; this is not the type of exploit you can perform by accident.
Lastly, this is a good time to remind the community of a few things:
Third party addons of any kind are strictly prohibited. While any kind of botting software falls clearly under violation of our Terms of Service, for Diablo III, this also includes any kind of overlay software, map hacks, or any other addons or alterations to the client. Addons are not supported for Diablo III and use of them may result in account warnings or permanent account closure. We are committed to continuing to support Diablo III, including taking action against botting and cheating. Please keep in mind that we do routine actions to keep Sanctuary fair for everyone, and we will not regularly provide public notice of mass account actions. We’re working on resolving this issue as quickly as possible and thank the community for bringing it to our attention, expressing your concerns thoughtfully, and having patience while we remain committed to our Blizzard principles of Play Nice, Play Fair and Commit to Quality.
Thank you.
So what are we looking at here? Well, what he did is go for a toughness build, gather up a massive amount of mobs in the GR, then portal out and head into specific places where his friends had a bunch of mobs waiting. He would then dot those mobs, go back to the GR and have them finish the mobs off, triggering the killstreak effects which then killed the mobs inside the GR, repeating the process several times.
It's good that we've heard from Blizzard directly on this subject, as there was a whole lot of debate happening on whether this was actually an exploit or not, seeing as these concerns were known from the PTR and were not addressed.
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By Stan
Here's yet another video upscaled to 8K using machine learning by Upscale. This time, it's Tyrael's Sacrifice from Diablo III.
Other Upscaled Remasters
Burning Crusade Intro Wrath of the Lich King Intro Vanilla WoW Intro Diablo 2 Intro Diablo 2 E3 Teaser and Lord of Destruction Intro IKedit Remakes
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By Starym
We have a fix for the recent problems players have been having with whispering others, specifically the "Error 3" message. There's still no eta for the party joining bug, however, as the last fix didn't actually work. We did find out that the party issue will require and actual patch instead of a simple hotfix, so it might be a while until we see it.
Whisper Bug (source)
Hey all,
The Whisper Error 3 should be fixed up as of now. If anything comes up where you still continue to see this error, please exit game and start fresh. If it still continues, please let us know!
Thanks again
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Hey all,
We pushed out a fix for the ERROR_3. If people are still seeing it after logging out and back in please let us know.
Thanks again
Party Join Bug Update (source)
Hey Robdoggierob,
We’re continuing to investigate and internally testing many fixes targeted to squash this bug daily. A bit more difficult to nail down unfortunately, but we have made progress in some areas.
We’ll continue to update, but most likely this will require a new build to be produced rather than a hotfix. Once we have a fix that is 100% internally, we’ll communicate it out to everyone.
Thanks again
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By Starym
It seems there's been a major shift in community management for Diablo 3 as we've noticed over the last couple of weeks, as Associate producer Matthew Cederquist is replying to basically every relevant active thread on the official forums. After a long time of very few responses and poor communication with the community, it seems the Diablo 4 reveal re-prioritized things and we now have some proper blue representation for D3. While a lot of these replies are just "we are aware and working on it", we can't really expect a lot more from the very small dev team still working on D3 so this shift is pretty significant if you take that into consideration. Today we have a look at the topics we've gotten a reply on over the holiday weekend - an upcoming brawl leveling trick, the party XP bug, 10,000+ paragon level Barbarians and Crusaders, addons and bots and, of course, Angel squishiness.
Matthew has been very active over the holiday break and responded to a whole host of popular topics, starting with an interesting one - it seems there's a way to get to 70 in around an hour through brawling! You just set the difficulty to T6 in a 4 player party and brawl away until you ding max level pretty fast. Obviously speed leveling isn't anything new as players can be power leveled by others very quickly anyway, but apparently this method wasn't intended and will be fixed, as you don't need a higher level player to boost you for it to work.
Brawling XP Fix (source)
Hey all,
This definitely isn’t the way we want players to level in the game and will most likely be fixed for the next patch.
Then there's the party joining bug that was supposed to be fixed a few days ago but apparently wasn't:
Party Joining Bug (source)
Thanks everyone for the responses. We’ll continue to look at it and get more things into testing so we can squash this bug.
Sorry for it taking so long with the holiday weekend and all.
There's also been a lot of discussion about balance and Barbarians and Crusaders in particular, with two specific examples being used as a debate/whine point on the forums, as one Barb managed a 142 GR within 12 minutes (and of course was used as proof that Barbs are fine) and one Crusader at 146 GR was pointed out as OP. It turns out both of these are non-seasonal and have over 10,000 paragon levels, but Matthew had two very differing comments for them starting with the Barbarian:
10,000+ Paragon Level Clears (source)
Hey folks,
Just to chime in here. At 10,288 Paragon, this specific Barbarian is +1 GR over the proposed balance of the game. Looks like absolute fantastic design and balance to us.
Thanks for pointing out someone who has immense dedication and awesome gear!
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Definitely not fantastic design and balance. This one particular Crusader at 10,176 Paragon is about +5 GRs above our expected.
Something to look into for next patch!
Not to put too fine a point on it, but at those paragon levels and THAT high a GR clear, with the amount of factors going into builds etc, classes are never EVER going to be that balanced. Not in D3, not in D4 or any other game ever made by anyone. Seriously. People asking for that level of balance in an ARPG are just begging for a watered-down, +0.3% to damage affixes and talents systems, because those are the only ones that can ever be balanced to such a degree. Just accept the fact some classes will be more powerful than others and let there be actual builds and creative uses of them in the damn game and shut the hell up on this eternal balance quest that's basically ruining RPGs.
Ok, not sure sure where that rant came from but I stand by it!
Then it's on to a discussion on addons/mods, with TurboHud being the focus of discussion, and it seems we'll be getting a larger post on the topic of mods soon as well, with bots being in the cross hairs as well:
TurboHud Addon (source)
Hey Dtune -
TurboHud has some cool features, but on the other hand, has some features that give players more of an advantage. In the past, TurboHud fell by the wayside and didn’t catch the attention of anti-cheat programs.
We’ll have more to say on this in the very near future, but to answer your question, TurboHud is seen as a program that should not be used in the game in its current state.
As for bots, their time is coming.
And finally we have an answer to the age old question: Just how squishy are Angels? It seems some players aren't happy with the 500 killstreak ability proc as their feathered friends die too quickly to the Rift Guardian:
Angel Squishiness (source)
Yes. Angels should die to the RG. If untouched, they can also produce massive damage.
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