Ebon,Apr 5 2005, 02:46 AM Wrote:Well I confess I'm an owner of a pirated copy of Diablo 2:LOD, but I intend to buy the original copy as soon as I have the money.
What I'm asking: are there cheaters playing in battle.net? If answer is yes, don't worry, cause I'll still buy it, since the new, post 1.07, patches promise lots of new stuff. Not to mention that I might find legit channels.
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Obviously, yes there are lots of cheaters, as we have heard from adeyke and T, but for the most part, you just have to live with it if you want the true battle.net experience. Now, the true battle.net experience is far from how the game was intended to be played; it was probably intended to be a place where people can just play the game without any knowledge of how the game works and the occasional duel, as well as pker. Of course, that scenario is impossible, as the legit players for the most part know a whole lot more than blizzard intended them to know, mostly because the majority of them are found on the AB (see munkay's post, he posted as I started this) and well, here.
Good luck on your expedition to find legit players, they are out there. I've played numerous baal runs, and from the looks of it, about 1 in 16 players don't have the most popular hack, maphack. Of course, they could be lying because they don't want to run through the worldstone keep. Lazy bastards...
Anyways, as far as major hacking goes, like duping, it is fairly uncommon, but the items last for quite a while (and thus are VERY common among zod runes etc...). Just don't trade for your high level stuff. Might be better not to trade at all.
Botting is another fairly common problem, but due to the lovely actions of njaguar and other bot makers, it now costs money to buy these things, and of course, now blizzard has no problem with it now. Shoot, they might even be getting some of the profit. There are some free bots, but these are difficult to setup, like all bots, and usually end up with the user getting caught or hacked themselves.
Thats the 3 major forms of cheating you can expect. The latter 2 are highly frowned upon, generally detectable, and rather rare. Maphack is like a roach infestation. Its everywhere...