You could play softcore to prevent the permadeath

As a hardcore player i see no issues with this. If you are in a group that doesnt protect you from issues like this dont play!
Just adds another set of guidelines to follow. If someone drops or dcs wait for them to come back or clear the cata and make a new game

I fully assume I can lose gear/prof, etc by playing HC.

But this is just giving up on HC, we are not talking about diying while trying to fight an ep or a 9 wave at 85, we are talking about diying from a DC that is not caused by anything I can control.

How is this even fair lol ?

Power went out at my house last month while working on 1.31. Came back 30 minutes later, I wasn't disconnected from Ladder Slasher until I reconnected by clicking Login after the power came back and my pc rebooted (saw this in the logs). If I had been in catacombs combat, it would have fallen back on the idle disconnect timer to boot me to town. This is still active in 1.32. This is normal, not all disconnects are immediately recognizable anyway, which is why the idle to town was implemented years ago. This is outlined in post #1, and you can observe this behavior on the beta that has been running since Monday.

This functionality is not changing. It was never intended to be able to disconnect to avoid combat once catacombs was introduced, regardless of whether that was intentional or otherwise. This mechanic exists in multitudes of games, including World of Warcraft, which is a pay to play game.

You've had over three days to observe this on beta so far, and I have yet to see a single person complain of an actual issue that happened, only these hypothetical ones that you're imagining in your head that could just as easily happen in any of the previous versions (see my explanation at the top of this post). Even groups can have the same effect today, if you have to go afk for a second, and they continue without you, for just one instance, or even the above, where you're disconnected and it's not recognizable for a while afterwards.

[insert chicken little sky is falling gif here]

Lmao yea like in beta when you DC and we all went to the back row and got you killed on purpose

11:15 There are 12/15 users online, and 1/0 groups. 8/3 players are looking for a group.

So where is the HC Ladder??

I can only see SC

Or do I have to be a HC char in order to see it?

EDIT

To answer my own question - Yes. I can now see HC ladder by making a HC char

Would be nice to see both though - as one char on HC is seriously approaching MQ

This post was edited by Paparick on Oct 15 2020 08:25am

i went to take dogs out, i didnt d/c
but i would trust that group to save me in hc!

Remember to avoid teams put together by TJ — Noted**

Honestly i don’t have a problem with it either way. Now one of these screen freezing lags soloing will just be my retirement instead of an f5 and continue just makes me want off this warlock that much more.



I think it would be hard to convince 4 hc players to do that

This post was edited by Cheeya on Oct 15 2020 08:23am

Ahh ok. I mixed them up. But when you disconnected I remember you still continued to stay in catas and get experience. So the way it works is if you had taken hits during that DC period after so many hits you would go to town? I forget how it works.

Yeah ingame you only see the core that you're currently on.

This is taken from a HC character: