Teenagers on their computers pulling apart their favorite games to learn something and get free loot, sharing knowledge and power. Most of us used to find dupes/exploits in D2 because it was fun. It’ll be like every other game these days: no public cheats, just fully private and some subscription ones. With the game engine being the same, I expect to see private versions of the same old bots doing the same thing this time around. Eventually these places just ran thousands of bots using a fully custom D2 client that ran headless (no game engine locally at all, just data traffic). His post insinuated that this was what the item selling sites did. That one took advantage of the fact that character state save actions for the entire game were not done in a single transaction-if a gameserver crashed after the first character save completed but before the last character save began, you got a dupe of any item dropped by the last character and picked up by the first. That was the “unfixable” dupe “recipe” (more of a thought experiment) that was posted by EvilCheese not long before he left the scene (IIRC).

Of course Blizzard is a huge company so they have to go through an extensive QA process before those changes would become external.Ĭrashing servers in save cycles to cause item dupes. By the time they ramped up the modders on the situation of what's going on, they could have fixed it internally themselves. The systems in place I would imagine would be completely different. It's not like the modders are using existing shared stash code, they wrote it themselves, like Blizzard did. They could even be malicious and not tell them about something very specific in hopes to keep a dupe method to sell items online. Even if the modders wrote new code for them, that code would likely be filled with bugs too and would need to be thoroughly tested. The reality is programmers make a lot of mistakes because they're not robots, you can know exactly what to do and still miss things. Honestly any indie game developer could solve this problem easily by themselves, I'm pretty sure Blizzard has the expertise for game dev 101. They need a more modern validation system.

Going through the same system will leave open the current exploits that D2 already has. Last updated at 14:00:17 UTC Weekly Help Desk RAGE Loot Thread Trade Thread

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