Offline items disappear…🤬

So I just logged onto my fire Druid, saw cows was terrorized, thought I’d do some farming on my

Nova sorc.

So I put my anni and cta in my shared stash, oh I also noticed the game was a bit laggy so I restart the program before logging into my sorc… now the cta and anni are gone…

W T F

I tried restarting a couple times…nothing

I haven’t messed with my console’s clock for like a month… grr

I even tried to set the clock back to access an older saved file, maybe get them back that way… nothing

The whole point for playing offline was to keep this from happening

I think this might be the end of my d2r playing, I technically could just make another cta and use another soj to get another anni, but damn

that bug from last year apparently affected offline and online , haas it been fixed?
forums/d2r-bug-deletes-your-items-t562910.html

That is rough. Sorry to hear. If only there was a way to import save files from PC to console..

Yea it may have been due to internet connectivity or quickly transferring items to the shared stash and restarting before the game auto saves… but damn

Just glad it wasn’t something like my Enigma or Infinity… then I really woulda went into rage mode

Well tears of the kingdom will be out soon, and I was probably going to reduce d2r playing anyways, plus unless something major changes in upcoming patches I’m still overall happy with everything I’ve done in d2r

The funny thing is that in the previous patch notes, it read as if the 8 KB local stash problem was addressed, but a closer look suggested that they applied the "fix" to the wrong stash—the shared stash which didn't have a low memory limit.

What happened to Nate here doesn't quite sound like the same thing. The shared stash is supposed to be the safe haven. This occurrence is more similar to how I lost a 5/6/4 CTA due to a laggy game, and I still claim that I might have duped a quiver of

Arrows in the process because I was trying to negotiate weapon switching between three weapons in a game that was seeing extreme lag spikes due to what I later discovered was my connection. I feel like Battle.net detected that and just reverted the character to a previous save, but not all of it.

At the end of the previous game, I had CTA and Spirit in weapon slot 2, but upon starting the next game, I ended up with only a quiver in slot 2 and Harmony was inside the cube, which makes no sense at all. At this point, I no longer remember if there was another quiver in the cube, which if so, meant the slot 2 quiver was duped. Spirit was in my inventory, CTA was gone, and thankfully nothing happened to slot 1 or the 15/2 superior Faith (or its quiver ).

That's the last time I ever used CTA on my bowazon, and despite trading for another 5/6/4 CTA, it was more about not accepting the game making an item I personally rolled just disappear.

Snakecharmed wrote: 1 year ago

The funny thing is that in the previous patch notes, it read as if the 8 KB local stash problem was addressed, but a closer look suggested that they applied the "fix" to the wrong stash—the shared stash which didn't have a low memory limit.

Fairly certain that was entirely unrelated (or..semi-related) and not intended to fix the "disappearing items on overrun" bug so much as it was to address the "post-season dupe marathon!" bug, seeing how the mechanics for that one were made public shortly before said patch.

Schnorki wrote: 1 year ago

Fairly certain that was entirely unrelated (or..semi-related) and not intended to fix the "disappearing items on overrun" bug so much as it was to address the "post-season dupe marathon!" bug, seeing how the mechanics for that one were made public shortly before said patch.

That makes sense. I remember that exploit now.

Guess it's too much to ask of these guys to fix actual game-breaking bugs rather than cover their asses, even when the issues are adjacent to each other in nature.

Since Blizzard's recent releases, largely D4, servers have become much slower everywhere. So much slower that my Uber Keys have been building up because the last thing I want to do is open 3 portals and then get disconnected. I have Fiber Optics which is fast and isn't affected by the ups and downs of bandwidth that affect cable connections. Thinking it might be an eastern server issue I used a fast VPN that has me loading on west coast servers and the load times were still slow. So packet loss is quite possible.

mhlg wrote: 1 year ago

Since Blizzard's recent releases, largely D4, servers have become much slower everywhere. So much slower that my Uber Keys have been building up because the last thing I want to do is open 3 portals and then get disconnected. I have Fiber Optics which is fast and isn't affected by the ups and downs of bandwidth that affect cable connections. Thinking it might be an eastern server issue I used a fast VPN that has me loading on west coast servers and the load times were still slow. So packet loss is quite possible.

Maybe its a problem in your region? I have no problems with the servers at all. Everything is green as always (50k Cable/Germany).

Greys_Prey wrote: 1 year ago

mhlg wrote: 1 year ago

Since Blizzard's recent releases, largely D4, servers have become much slower everywhere. So much slower that my Uber Keys have been building up because the last thing I want to do is open 3 portals and then get disconnected. I have Fiber Optics which is fast and isn't affected by the ups and downs of bandwidth that affect cable connections. Thinking it might be an eastern server issue I used a fast VPN that has me loading on west coast servers and the load times were still slow. So packet loss is quite possible.

Maybe its a problem in your region? I have no problems with the servers at all. Everything is green as always (50k Cable/Germany).

It's possible a lot more games sell earlier and quicker in the Americas than they do in Europe or Asia. What I do know is that before the release of D4, I experienced no lag and everything was green here too. I'm not the only one experiencing some lag, especially during peak hours, and the lag began right on the release of D4. Coincidence? Anything's possible.

Release of D4 isn't until June though. And afaik there is no pre-download either so even that can't interfere.

Unless you're talking about the open beta but that, too is long done and not interfering with anything.

Blizz servers going through phases of "exceptional brokenness" (even by Blizz standards) is nothing new and happens on and off throughout their games' lifetime. Sometimes globally. Sometimes regions. Sometimes specific sub-servers. As a result, certain folks (geographies) may be more affected than others. I know a few folks complaining about the same thing as you as of late. At the same time, Asia is more reliably bugged than ever before (esp. with regards to dclone counters/messages). And yet for most folks (myself included) performance/latency is basically the same as always.

Doesn't mean "D4 broke it", they've killed the servers a few times well before any first D4 beta was on the horizon. It merely means they're bad at server maintenance. And scaling. And bug-fixing. And optimizing. And communication. And...well, the list goes on.

Schnorki wrote: 1 year ago

Release of D4 isn't until June though. And afaik there is no pre-download either so even that can't interfere.

Unless you're talking about the open beta but that, too is long done and not interfering with anything.

Blizz servers going through phases of "exceptional brokenness" (even by Blizz standards) is nothing new and happens on and off throughout their games' lifetime. Sometimes globally. Sometimes regions. Sometimes specific sub-servers. As a result, certain folks (geographies) may be more affected than others. I know a few folks complaining about the same thing as you as of late. At the same time, Asia is more reliably bugged than ever before (esp. with regards to dclone counters/messages). And yet for most folks (myself included) performance/latency is basically the same as always.

Doesn't mean "D4 broke it", they've killed the servers a few times well before any first D4 beta was on the horizon. It merely means they're bad at server maintenance. And scaling. And bug-fixing. And optimizing. And communication. And...well, the list goes on.

Since I haven't purchased D4, I'm really not certain of its release date and I just assumed that downloads were causing the issue, and Blizzard's push to sell D4 brought that to the forefront of my thoughts. That being said, I've never experienced consistent slowdowns with D2r like those I've experienced recently, and to me that suggests Blizzard's servers are being taxed. It could be something people are downloading since a single download will use up far more bandwidth than that used by several players. It could also be that servers are being readied for downloads. Adding to the thought is Blizzard's decision to shorten ladder season 3, and my skepticism about the recent DDOS attacks which to me sounded like a convenient excuse.

Perhaps Blizzard is just readying the servers?


https://blizzardwatch.com/2023/04/20/di ... beta-test/

So I did log back on for a bit today, sold my spare soj and got a decent anni (forgot to put the players setting down to 1 so it took a while for my smiter to kill dclone, but got it done)

Farmed cows for a bit, no crazy finds but got a new cta base, then tried to log onto another characters for some transfers…and couldn’t access a number of my characters…weird… so I restarted to game … and everything I did in the last session was lost… the game reverted back to a previous file…stuff that was lost is still lost and nothing new was there.

W T F

The program must be corrupted or something

While I wasn’t going to do big farming sessions like I did before, I was still going to sit down for a bit and play from time to time, but not now, not if anything I do or find just won’t last more than during that specific session… damn

I guess all good things must come to an end

scan and repair?
PC launcher has this option

I’m on console - Nintendo switch,

I suppose I could delete and reinstall, but if I’m just going to start back from square 1 I’ll wait until a future patch makes some more notable changes, then maybe I’ll try playing on ladder.

Im not a expert in such things, but could it be a damaged part on the harddrive from the switch? Or corrupted D2R data. Would definitive try to reinstall. Do you use cable or w-lan? Maybe connection issues. Could be everything. If there is no other one asking for help with the same problem in the blizzard forums with switch, i dont think a patch will fix this (could be possible, but i have doubts).

No clue about consoles these days but since they're basically just pre-configured, limited PCs by now..do you not get a file explorer on them at all?

If you do, it should be simple enough to pull/restore a backup of the save files you need.

I think technically I could plug it into a computer and access files on it that way. Problem is I don’t have a computer these days, went to iPad a while back, so options like that aren’t something I can do anymore. Don’t know if 10 year old me would believe me if I described our world to him, haha