Re: 1.13 Test Realm is UP (link)
[highlight]Edit: This post is complete misunderstanding, lies & lack of proper testing. YOU CAN STILL BE TPPK'D!! Yes, I posted in error... people do make errors from time to time (even me!!). You are welcome to read the below, but do not believe it.[/highlight]
I dunno, I've seen lots of people on the b.net forums claiming to have tested it and it works. I assume you tested manually, if so I can think of a handful of ways off the top of my head that Blizzard could have added a delay to prevent manual TPPK without doing a thing to prevent a script from doing it. On the other hand the complaints could just be an echo chamber, I haven't had time to hop on to see for myself yet.
I was playing the part of the 'victim' so basically I was just standing there trying to die. All I know is what Nick told me.
You start the game with 0 cash and 2 TP scrolls. As you can imagine, our manual tppk skills aren't that great. So first we tried manual "run back to town pk". The timing was awkward, but the behavior of the ice blasts seemed to change when he entered town. His hostile skills were slow, but instead of sailing past, the blasts seemed to pop, or poof as soon as they hit me. Almost as if they were being removed so that they couldn't damage me. This was only tested the once, so certainly nothing firm here (could have easily been an optical delusion).
Next we decided to open a TP and try to hostile immediately after entering it (without the added complication of firing missiles first). This was tested twice, the results were apparently:
1) "You must wait a short while to hostile that player"
2) "Impossible"
At that point, we decided that they had added a hostile timer and celebrated. Nick hostiled from town, charged across the bridge and PK'd me. I left the game, went to find more beer, talked to PT and Myk briefly, and almost instantly became bored of playing a level 99 character through act 1 normal.
Maybe we're not the most patient and thorough testing scientist, but unless Nick was outright lying to me about what he was experiencing, as a joke, it does appear that they have added a hostile timer.
-hps