48 Hours of Diablo 4 Play Down the Drain as Disconnect Kills Season 1 Hardcore Rogue Seven Levels From 100
A Diablo 4 player saw over 40 hours of game time go to waste after his new Season 1 Hardcore character died after a disconnect.
Diablo 4 YouTuber and streamer Wudijo, widely considered one of the best Diablo players in the world, saw his level 93 Hardcore Rogue die after a disconnect seconds away from the completion of an event in a Nightmare Dungeon, and just seven levels away from reaching the 100 level cap. The entire event was captured in a Twitch livestream.
Hardcore mode adds permadeath to Diablo 4, which means if you die, your character is gone forever.
Diablo 4’s first two months of life have been punctuated by the death of Hardcore characters following disconnect, adding fuel to the fire of complaints about Blizzard’s controversial decision to make the action role-playing game always-online.
But this latest death is slightly different in that Wudijo suffered a brief power cut of some kind that sparked the disconnect — a situation outside of Blizzard’s control. However, that didn’t stop Wudijo’s chat from hitting out at the always-online nature of the game.
“It’s over. There is no appeal,” a clearly downcast Wudijo said on-stream. The Hall of Fallen Heroes screen, which lets players know how their Hardcore characters died, revealed Wudijo’s Rogue was killed by a Revenant.
Wudijo, like many other Diablo 4 players, had joined the race to hit Level 100 with a new Season 1 Hardcore character (you need to start a new character to engage with Season 1 content). That race ended on July 22 when two players hit level 100, Icy-Veins reported. Wudijo’s level 93 Rogue died after 48 hours of playtime, and just 53 hours after Season 1 launched.
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