Well
kiddies, it's the 27th of August and as we enter that
sometimes distasteful academic year, we move on to this
week's "sack o' mail."
This week we have a large amount of random feedback and
only four topic-related emails...
But that's ok!
Our Next Topic Will Be:
How do you feel about modifications for Diablo II?
Share your thoughts on ideas for some and/or the probable
impact on the community resulting from the production
of them--as well as what you think the pros and cons would
entail such a "MOD" in terms of creation and
distribution.
Now on to the feedback on last week's topic in
which we asked you about your hardcore character's
death experience and the circumstances surrounding it;
here's what you guys had to say:
From: Charles
Subject: New Mailbag - HC Stories
Hi, as I do have a hardcore character I will take the
time to write a small story of his _cheesy_ death. You
see my 40x CD-Rom is how shoud I say "Yah toute décolisée"
(note: that is in French) [Mais
oui!]. In English I mean that my CD-Rom is not
working and I can only use my Burner witch is alot slower
(24x). Now when playing D2 everything is fine except for
the very few times where it skips, that is what I call
it anyway. What I mean by skipping is that it stops completely
to load everything afterward at an extremely fast rate,
it's like if after the skip loads I can run about twice
as fast for the amount of time it skipped. Usualy it happens
on the death of a unique like Izual for example. Once
Izual dies I actually have no idea of the animation of
his death but it skips every time.
Now to teh death of my character. Here I am doing a 1vs1
agaisnt Izual and once his life bar ran out my kick ass
burner decided to put on a show and skips for me. After
the load my char is caputsky and dead on the floor.
Hayoo, what fun.
Ow.
That's a kick to the stomach. My advice: don't use a CD
burner as your primary disc device...
While I can understand your love for Diablo II and how
you can't stop playing it...you must also realize that
finding out and/or fixing your CD-ROM is more important---especially
when your burner is acting this way.
Another hardcore character lost in vain...
From: Sharky
Subject: Mailbag
Hey, now I know that we can't cuss too heavily, but oh
well! I have a nice little story for ya, Mr. Mailbag Root
person [Alas, that is not my title.
Now get this right Mr. Sharky fledgling person: I am Root,
Mailbag Champion! Master of this here Mailbag. A champion
damnit! Got that? Ok, I'll shut up now]: I was
level 24, playing with two other people. I didn't know
the two, but they seemed like nice people. (As they always
do) We were going to kill the little floating ghost guy
with a funny shaped head, Mophisto. We made our way past
the Counsil and into the temple. I already had a close
call with the counsil, and I was pretty much going to
let my companions take Mophisto's anger, while I was out
of the way, shooting him with Bone Spear. We entered the
last chamber when we all decided to go to town so we don't
get blown up. I was a stocked up on healing potions and
went back through my TP. Suddenly, they both went hostile
on me! The last checkpoint was right by the stairs to
level 3. I already had cleared most of the room of Mophisto's
little buddys, and then came in my "friends." I didn't
care, I wasn't going to take any chances, so I hid where
they couldn't find me. They ran into Mophisto but ran
like mad to get away from him---the cowards! They spotted
me, and I ran a little while, killing one with my blood
golem and bone spear. I thought that I would have a chance
with the other one since he was barbarian, and if I could
run and cast spells, he couldn't get me. Too bad for me
he had a high level leap attack and smacked me a good
one. He had only about 30 hp left when he did his leap
attack again and killed me! I was just like Damnit! Dam...I
mean Darnit! Darnit! Darnit! oh well, he got killed by
Mophisto so I wasn't totally mad. I thought that it would
be lag that killed me, not a stupid barbarian! I got revenge
on them the next day with my level 35 necromancer. They
were trying to kill a lower-leveled sorceress when I totally
kicked their butt! =)
Silly mortals. But justice has been served.
No, I'm not a mortal...I'm Root! The Mailbag Champion!
<End>Arrogant/Narcissistic bickering</End>
From: Thoukydides Kostas
Subject: New Mailbag
Well I just had to share the on of the most anticlimatic
deaths I ever encountered.
I was playing as a necro and I had managed to reach Andariel.
I was using a nice crossbow and had concentrated on summoning
skills and as allways, Andariel had wiped them out easily
so I had to use my meager Xbow to take her out.
I didn't have a very nice poison protection so I had to
run around at 1 health most of the time until the poison
passed and then drink potions. It was one of those times
then that I runned near a fire...
The message "Player was killed by fire" really sucks!
:)
Indeed it does suck to perish via a mindless object (Religious
groups back off! I own a shiny billy club! [which I have
previously used to ward off evil politicians, lawyers,
and various others.])
From: Robert G.
Subject: New Mailbag
Hardcore death story: I was a hardcore sorceress, level
17, I was REALLY CLOSE to level 18 where I get some better
spells like glacial spike and chain lightnong and stuff.
I was saving up some skill points for those. I was getting
good lag, as I had been since they upgraded USEast. So
I was walking around in some desert area in Act II and
fighting those annoying cat things that throw potions.
I saw a hero thing of those potion cats and realized i
was running out of health, and fast! So I started to run
away and I hit one of my belt healing potions, nothing
happened! I was still losing health! So I hit it again
and the same thing happened. By now I was smashing all
the number keys trying to use potions, but it was too
late. I heard *uugghh* and it said "You have died, blah
blah blah." Then I sat there with my jaw dropped (it was
my first HC char) and after maybe 15 seconds it said "Connection
Interrupted." I HATE LAG!
Wait. Back it up. Near the beginning
of your paragraph, you stated a somewhat paradoxical
comment: "I was getting good
lag." In lux of your last sentence, "I HATE
LAG," this would make sense---but, unfortunately,
it does not.
First of all, "lag" is not a measurement of
connection loops. That's "ping." Lag is the
is a negative thing my friend. "good lag" is
unheard of in the known world. So, I suggest you start
using "good ping" instead.
Lastly, considering your "good lag" statement
to mean "good ping" -- why do you conclude with
"I HATE LAG?" Also, not all interrupted connections
are due to lag.
In any case, be nice to your keyboard and don't smash
it. They have feelings just like you and me. No! Don't
you talk back to me! Forget Diablo, this is a matter of
keyboard abuse--a serious problem emerging in the world
today--along with stale tacos and improperly processed
toothpicks (which are already the leading cause of SIGS
[Splinter In Gums Syndrome])
Oh yeah, and sorry about your character!
Can you believe that was the
last of the topic-related emails? Well, I sure did. Wait...um..nevermind.
Luckily, we always have the random blah, so get that pointing
device moving in a roughly southeasterly direction from
this sentence towards that link to the next page!
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