Blizzard reveals how it plans to prevent death by disconnect in Diablo 4 Hardcore mode

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Blizzard reveals how it plans to prevent death by disconnect in Diablo 4 Hardcore mode
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Deaths by disconnection will hopefully become a very rare thing—but not for several months.

—and"potentially" some bugs that have caused Hardcore mode deaths in cases where players should have been immune.

Disconnection deaths are a different matter. They can’t really be “fixed” like bugs because, as Shely said, they can be caused by problems anywhere between the player and the remote server. So instead, Blizzard is planning to add a trigger to Scrolls of Escape that will activate them automatically when the game detects that a player has disconnected.

The plan, then, is to simply add disconnection detection to Scrolls of Escape, so that if your link to the Diablo 4 servers drops for any reason, you'll automatically be blasted back to the safety of town.

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