A few days ago, the Twitch streamer cArn_ reached Level 100 in Hardcore mode of Diablo 4. Now he has lost his character and numerous hours of gameplay due to a disconnect and has to start over.
Anyone who has ever played a hardcore mode in games knows how much time, sweat, and effort you invest in your characters. With one death, you lose everything, because there is no respawn in that mode.
This is something cArn_ has now also experienced. He was the first hardcore player, who secured a place in the coveted ranking. And due to a bug, he lost his Level 100 Barbarian.
Here you can see how you can get your characters to Level 100 as well:
A disconnect and everything is gone
How did he die? Actually, he didn’t “really” die, as you would suspect in a hardcore game. He didn’t die due to a tough boss fight or from being overwhelmed by many individual enemies or by the feared Butcher.
In a clip from his livestream on June 6, you can see how cArn_ is carving through hordes of enemies with his Barbarian. Suddenly, his character behaves strangely, it jerks, lags, and does not respond to key commands. The screen freezes and then turns black. cArn_ reacts with: “Hello? Are you joking?”
In the stream video, you can see that he couldn’t log in for minutes. In the following video, character creation appears. It quickly becomes clear: cArn_ has no available characters left and must create a new one to continue playing.
On realizing that he has to start over, he reacts with exclamations of “What the hell?” He then creates a new character, initially a Barbarian, but later a Hunter.
The official Diablo account congratulates him. But the death of his character is also mentioned:
“Congratulations, Carndarak. The first to reach Level 100 in Hardcore mode. The first to be engraved in the history of Diablo,” writes the Diablo account.
At least cArn_ was able to secure one of the popular engraving spots on the Lilith statue.
