Diablo 2 player seethes for eight months after hardcore betrayal, befriends one of the gankers before obliterating their character out of nowhere: 'Now we're even'
We've all had frustrating experiences in multiplayer games. Heck, it's not that unusual for the worst of them to upset you in real life for a brief spell, and perhaps inspire some intemperate messages or uncivil voice chat. But for one Diablo 2 player, KrimzontheRed, the insult dealt by a bunch of gankers in the game's hardcore mode was simply too much. They wanted revenge and, even in hell, that is a dish best served cold.
Krimzon tells their own story in a post on the Diablo 2 JSP forums, and something that very quickly becomes clear is that this is not a joke: boy does this player have receipts. After the Diablo 4 beta weekends had re-ignited their interest in Diablo 2 Remastered, they decided to try their first-ever Diablo 2 hardcore run in April this year.
«I got a lot of help from the Community along the way, which unfortunately gave me a very false sense of security in Hardcore,» writes Krimzon. «I jumped into my first Hell Chaos runs at level 70, and learned a valuable lesson…»
Krimzon was open in chat about being inexperienced in hardcore and asking for help, which is probably why a group led by a player called Don fixed its sights on him. Rather than ganking Krimzon directly, however, they led him to a «dirty» teleport with a whole host of hell's nasties on the other side and Don made the in-game call that it was safe for Krimzon to go through.
Krimzon's under-geared character died almost instantly. «It felt like most of the other players in the game were in on it,» writes Krimzon. «One of the players joked about checking [Diablo forum] JSP to see if I’d made a post about my death [...] That same player decided they would post on my JSP thread, offer to give me a couple of starter items to get back on track,
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