is d2 clone walk backward? like s5 to s4 instead of s6

In my image , s5 next will be s6 .

However, I saw this. After s5 , it directly move back to s4....

Is this sounds normal?

Well, in my game it was "Terror is about to be unleashed upon Sanctuary." (5:50 HU/BP timezone) And my game is up from about 21:00 yesterday...

mine is also become s5, it is quick change in between, only about 1 hr.

The game throwed me out (left my PC for hours online) and could not reconnect. Now I am in again and now it is 4/6...
I think I will not spend more time on this event now.

The bot adjust it to 5/6, just made a game to check and it is still 4/6. Something is not OK with this counter now...

This is an old bug.

Each realm consists of many servers (hundreds). Sometimes some of the servers in a realm start misreporting the dclone status on one game mode, while some servers report the correct status. When you create a new game your game is hosted on a random server (well, it may as well be random for all intents and purposes, there's no way to control it). If the game you created is hosted by one of the servers with incorrect status reporting, you will see the wrong status. If your game is hosted by one of the servers with correct status reporting, you will see the correct status. There is, however, always only one actually correct status. From a user standpoint, just by being in a game and using /uberdiablo, it's impossible to know which is correct and which is not. Bottomline is, the servers never go back in status, it's just some servers reporting the wrong status.

When this happens, an automated tracker may also get confused, because it has no way of knowing if it is connected to a server reporting the correct status or to a server reporting incorrect status.

This happens more often on ladder than on non-ladder because there is more dclone activity on ladder.

The problem usually resolves itself (= all servers reporting correct status again) after dclone actually walks next time, but if that takes a while, it can go on for a long time with conflicting status reports. The longest such instance on softcore ladder that I can recall was a few years ago was when it was incorrect on one region for 1-2 weeks. Then there was a walk and it was all good again.

Here are two old (2+ years) threads about the same problem:
forums/scamming-with-dclone-reports-t1415375.html
forums/false-dclone-alart-t1425898.html

Borrowing the thread for a related question. Everything I mention here refers to Americas/LoD/Softcore/Nonladder only.

According to the tracker here (dclonetracker.php), yesterday about this time Americas/LoD/Sc/NL was on level 5/6. Currently the same tracker shows 1/6 for the same region and game mode, suggesting there has been a walk during the last 24h.

However, my game that has been up since this time yesterday still shows 5/6 ("... about to be unleashed ...") if I check with the uberdiablo console command. I also tried right now to go to

Frigid Highlands to spawn him, and only Eldritch with pack was there. I had not previously left town in the game, as I had created it solely for having it up during the walk when I expected to be afk.

Even weirder, if I start a new game on the same region and mode (still Americas/LoD/Sc/NL) the command suggests it is on level "...

Terror spreads..." i.e. 4/6. I tried this twice with the same result. While the tracker both here and on d2emu says 1/6. And my 24h old game (still up) sits at 5/6.

If this bug is what is in play here, and there was no Dclone walk within the last 24h, then it seems both the tracker and my game created yesterday had the same erroneous status. (Edit: But if so, it doesn't have anymore, as the tracker has moved on but not my game.)

Did anyone see Dclone walk on Americas/LoD/Sc/NL in the last 24h? If so, are there other bugs or mechanisms that can explain why my game failed to spawn him?

I only see it in status 1, I am thinking if it's just me miss it during swap game.

No, I didnt see any walk and I am move in and out when I notice it , it's already 1

leox wrote: 23 hours ago

I only see it in status 1, I am thinking if it's just me miss it during swap game.

No, I didnt see any walk and I am move in and out when I notice it , it's already 1

Thanks, so the status you see does align with d2emu tracker (1). Still strange that my game got stuck at 5 and the other two sample games I started yesterday were at 4 (but the latter may be due to the bug mentioned by @ShadowHeart above). I've yet to try logging in today.

Can anyone else verify whether Dclone walked on Americas LoD Sc NL within the last few days?

The answer to that question may narrow down what's going on in my case.

Edit: after some further reading, I found bug #1 in this thread which can explain why progress got stuck for me.

Ok, some more testing, still on Americas/LoD/SNL. The game from 3 days ago is still up, and consistently showing Dclone progress level 5/6 for the char from my mule account that sits in it (keeping the game up until I figure out what's happening or the server reboots, whatever happens first ).

Then, today I started a few new games from my main account (still on Americas/LoD/SNL), and the level varied wildly:

ca 21:30CET - Dclone progress 4/6 (like yesterday), used 2 characters and several games and it was consistent across them. This is inconsistent with d2emu tracking, which shows 1/6 since 2 days. Even if I logged into the game mentioned above, i.e. with a second character, the second char saw 4/6 while the original char in the game still sees 5/6. I.e. two chars saw different Dclone progress (output from the uberdiablo command) in the same game at the same moment.

ca 22:20CET - logged out and in again, making sure the last game open was on LoD/SNL (per bug workarounds described here)

ca 22:30CET - I repeated the test from 21:30, now I get 5/6 for all characters regardless of which game I join (a new game, or the old one that has been showing 5/6 all the time. This still mismatches d2emu tracking.

I am still not sure whether there was a Dclone walk on Americas/LoD/SNL in the span ~Fri May29 - Sat May30 (i.e ~2 days ago)? I saw the progress meter on this site walk from 5/6 to 1/6, however the history on d2emu says the last walk was 2 months ago (not sure if the history is as accurate as the tracking). Can anyone confirm or disconfirm? Thanks