*Serverside patch* duping fixed/connection interrupted ifr

This awesome news, I went online last night and one of my friends mentioned it, but i was still skeptical, someone he knew experienced the "this server is shutting down" message, but I tried not to get my hopes up, but low and behold I come here to find out it true! Not one ftj last night nor laggy game, had a spike or 2 though.

However, it does fully explain why we got 3 seemingly random CI's while trying to walk to Duriel, we were able to rejoin each time, but finally gave up fearing it would kill us(this was in Hardcore Hell, so its matters) Spamming may have been an issue, him with frozen orb, and me spamming amp and CE with 15 or so minions. It nice to see they fixed it, but if I can't spam a bit, its hard to kill.

Nice to see they still care, but they should have tried to fix the a bit better. Damnit, my hopes of a ladder reset have be re-ignited.
 
I do hope they balance those new latency measures. So far it looks like they have thrown the baby out with the bath water :laugh:
 
Uncle_Mike said:
I do hope they balance those new latency measures. So far it looks like they have thrown the baby out with the bath water :laugh:
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:shocked:

I hope you haven't actually done that before. :scared:

Lag seems a bit better for me on Europe today, but it may be just the time of day. Someone also mentioned my lag could be because of distance...I'm not sure if that would affect the gameplay though. :rolleyes:



 
Didn't read the whole thread so I don't know if this was posted already:

My friend and I did some testing yesterday, and we concluded that if you have over 500 ping, you get a c/i. Today we did some uberlvling and the game dropped multiple times. The trick is to "perm" your game (stay 5 mins) and it won't drop when you get ci. We wasted 3 organsets on this so I hope others won't take this for ******** and just wait a few mins in your game before opening your set, as you WILL drop while lvling
 
Uncle_Mike said:
Do you both play single games only? Read again - I would say that 80% of our baalruns got connection interrupted...the anti-dupe measures seem to be far from perfect. We need to figure out what causes games to drop :wink3:

We did have no meteor sorcs...perhaps someone had ctc meteor. It might have been firestorm from torches but that would be bad news I guess...
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I tried playing baal runs with friends and got about 20? or more c/i games :(. no clue why. Unless someone was trying to dupe in another game with the same ip and thats what disconnects everyone then.



 
Guess I'd better start trading for high runes, without the dupers to make more they will become valuable again. It will be interesting if they ever reset ladder, they've changed the game forever. Without the duped runes to make all the uber runewords the hammerdin will be all but obsolete because you'll almost never get your hands on the hr's to make an enigma, I guess the sorc will become the mf'er of choice for most because of the built in tele. Ya it'll be ineteresting, I hate duping but I will miss being able to make certain runewords, so I guess I have mixed feelings about this development. :undecided:
 
MapleBarb said:
Unless someone was trying to dupe in another game with the same ip and thats what disconnects everyone then.
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I hadn't considered that. Maybe that is part of the problem causing all the C/I's. :tongue:



 
I guess the sorc will become the mf'er of choice for most because of the built in tele.
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Ever heard of the fishymancer + an ammy of teleport? :tongue:

Anyway, the theory is that the dupe fix is the first step in a series, with the end result being a ladder reset and a new patch (don't know if this got mentioned, so just throwing it out there). Ruststorm's probably going to happen at some point, so everyone get afraid :P I know I'm nervous about my Duress armor...
 
TTTimo said:
Didn't read the whole thread so I don't know if this was posted already:

My friend and I did some testing yesterday, and we concluded that if you have over 500 ping, you get a c/i. Today we did some uberlvling and the game dropped multiple times. The trick is to "perm" your game (stay 5 mins) and it won't drop when you get ci. We wasted 3 organsets on this so I hope others won't take this for ******** and just wait a few mins in your game before opening your set, as you WILL drop while lvling
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I had a ping around 1500+ today. (I didn't realize I had some downloads on) But I didn't have C/I Actually the game stayed the same for me me and it was like I had no lag



 
Earendil said:
Anyway, the theory is that the dupe fix is the first step in a series, with the end result being a ladder reset and a new patch (don't know if this got mentioned, so just throwing it out there). Ruststorm's probably going to happen at some point, so everyone get afraid :P I know I'm nervous about my Duress armor...
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I've never really understood what a "ruststorm" does. Is it like a program they run that gets rid of duped items, or am I completely off? :tongue:



 
nearly all itamz have an id code thingy, a passive ruststorm checks these against all when you leave the game, full ruststorm compairs against every other item on the relm.
 
Silent Shaddow said:
nearly all itamz have an id code thingy, a passive ruststorm checks these against all when you leave the game, full ruststorm compairs against every other item on the relm.
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Does this mean they are removed completely, sort of like a virus I guess, or do the items remain?



 
Last time the (complete) ruststorm happened, I think only the *hacked* items disappeared.

Anyways, I played 2 rounds of mini-ubers (not Uber Trist) with a friend yesterday. Encountered one ~20second lag spike when we were xferring, one when fighting Lilith (probably because of all the minions) and another when we were in act 5 chilling. Still, I wouldn't attempt anything crazy like Uber Tristing in hardcore. :D
 
Jackson said:
Last time the (complete) ruststorm happened, I think only the *hacked* items disappeared.
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Does that include socket items? Like if a rune used in a runeword was duped, would the rune be "deleted" and the item stays, or the entire item isgone also? Or maybe after it's been socketed it doesnt matter anymore?



 
Uncle_Mike said:
Watch out, uber games are said to be dropping as well today whenever there are many monsters around - again it might be a multiplayer issue.
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happened to one of my friends while ubering, there as 4 people at the game, 2 noobs that we're at town and one smiter and 1 ligth soso, game droped in less then 5 minutes. i hate dupes but if finishing dupes means i cant go to ubers because i'll get CI then diablo 2 is worst then ever



 
Dii Legend, the ruststorm I'm talking about was the 1.09 one that got rid of all Hex SCs, white and ith items. And like I said, from what I know, only the hacked items disappeared (since duped sojs, rares, 1.08 items etc still existed).
 
im not sure about the specifics but im pretty sure that full ruststorm renders and rw containing any duped element useless...
 
Jackson said:
Dii Legend, the ruststorm I'm talking about was the 1.09 one that got rid of all Hex SCs, white and ith items. And like I said, from what I know, only the hacked items disappeared (since duped sojs, rares, 1.08 items etc still existed).
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I might be wrong here, but .08 items didn't have item ids - that was added in .09. Blizzard had no way of determining if the item was duped or not, that is why some .08 dupes (duped at .08 time) are called "perm" and not legit, and that is why duped sojs, rares, etc. duped in .08 did not poof during the ruststorm.


Silent Shaddow said:
im not sure about the specifics but im pretty sure that full ruststorm renders and rw containing any duped element useless...
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this is true



 
I got so excited because I thought diablo would be nice to play again...

First game I join gives me a ftj...

Some people have bad luck, I guess... =(
 
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