Quote (Marieusz @ Feb 13 2017 06:58pm)
Why do idiots think this was an update to prevent bots? There was absolutely no intention of that, the developer working on the illy name fix made a mess of the code and it screwed up the character login process, now they have to spend weeks debugging it and trying to unscrew the situation
It had nothing to do with bots, everyone is affected equally by it, they have already stated multiple times they are working on trying to find a fix but don't expect it to be quick, they are stabbing around in the dark. Do you really think they would try and combat bots by using a system that can be beaten by adding a 15 second delay at the character selection screen in the entry script? A system that destroys game play for the legit users too
I don't even know why they hired that retard, literally noting has happened in the past year except more server and game play issues from attempted updates, they should have just left it at 1.13d and fixed dupe methods that get leaked like they use to
As for that stock response of: 'We are looking into a long term solution to prevent bots while at the same time not effecting actual players', they've been copy/pasting that for over a decade and have made no progress in that time, any time they try anything they end up hurting the actual players so much more because it's almost impossible for them to differentiate between them unless they actually start moderating the game like many years ago
That's true, but let's not be too hard with the poor fella messing with d2 code, shall we?
D2 is probably written in some non-standardized c++ nobody knows anymore. All those old farts who created d2 long-long time ago have been gone for good leaving behind very little and poor documentation.
Bliz has been dealing with d2 bugs in an easy way for years: instead of actually fixing things they simply added some more code to prevent smth from happening. Like: überleveling still exists, Bliz just added some code that prevents that exp to be transferred to your char. The whole code is probably full of such "fixes" making it ugly as hell and as well as unmaintainable. Nobody exactly knows what's gonna happen when the poor fella tries to change the simplest thing in the code (mercs becoming "invisible" etc).
I'm not jealous at him at all.
Let's just hope Bliz is not going to "fix" anything in d2 soon....