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Good deal. I think the idea of losing my character after all that work would give my a heart attack during boss fights like this.
Congrats! Major respect to him. Hell difficulty and up in Hardcore is ridiculous.
The fact that he did it with a Barbarian (usually considered one of the most difficult classes to succeed with in high-level HC) is all the more impressive.
The fact that he did it with a Barbarian (usually considered one of the most difficult classes to succeed with in high-level HC) is all the more impressive.
Nice! I can't even survive most of A2 Inferno on my Barb, and that's with (extremely expensive now) tons of deaths.
"which is deleted instantly after just one death." That sounds awful, why would anyone put themselves through that?
GREAT news post. Kripp is a fucking bawse. Him and Krippi and gang deserve the praise! Awesome stuff.
The thing I dislike about hardcore is that is has a major motivation counter to what it should be. The best way to truly succeed at hardcore/single death in any game is to play it safe, i.e. to farm things you can easily kill but still gain experience from, and them move up when those things no longer give experience. This greatly improves chances of survival and higher level gain, but it goes against what a "hardcore" mode really should try to encourage.
What hardcore mode really should be is to entice players to fight against the hardest challenge they can face. Make better rewards drop with greater percentage, the higher monster is above the player level. Fighting monsters 2, 3, 4 levels above you would build up a meter, which is the percentage chance increase. Dying resets this meter. Fighting stuff of equal or lesser level decrements the meter. How long it takes to build up the meter to full could be a real deterrent to dying, while encouraging players to continuously fight against things above their level. It might still have it's problems to be ironed out, but at least it would encourage more participation.
What hardcore mode really should be is to entice players to fight against the hardest challenge they can face. Make better rewards drop with greater percentage, the higher monster is above the player level. Fighting monsters 2, 3, 4 levels above you would build up a meter, which is the percentage chance increase. Dying resets this meter. Fighting stuff of equal or lesser level decrements the meter. How long it takes to build up the meter to full could be a real deterrent to dying, while encouraging players to continuously fight against things above their level. It might still have it's problems to be ironed out, but at least it would encourage more participation.
I'm not a Diablo player, but going off of what he said: why are they making the game easier, if the player base(Going off this guy and his friends) wants it to stay hard? Was the game released unintentionally hard, or were the players complaining about the difficulty?
Guy above claiming "he used a lot of exploits to get there" needs to keep his mouth shut. This guy grinded his ass off for WEEKS to "get there". He did nothing but play the game that Blizzard developed. If there were legit exploits used, do you honestly think that the Blizzard devs would support him with a shoutout? AND, the fact that he made it a point to beat Inferno Hardcore BEFORE Blizzard patched Inferno (on 6/19/12) to make it easier.
Some people think that he "exploited" the game because he skipped elites, some parts of Act 3, and grinded for gold using Goblins for hours on end.
In my opinion, anything goes in Hardcore. In fact, the mode is conducive to over-preparation and extreme caution. As long as he didn't use any glitches, I have no issues with what he did. He could have skipped entire Acts for all I care; he still had to beat bosses without dying.
In my opinion, anything goes in Hardcore. In fact, the mode is conducive to over-preparation and extreme caution. As long as he didn't use any glitches, I have no issues with what he did. He could have skipped entire Acts for all I care; he still had to beat bosses without dying.
First he farmed goblins and pots for gear... Then eventually died.
Then he used a glitch and turned in the same quest over and over again after he died the first time to level back to 60 in one day. There's a YouTube video if you care to search for "Kripp exploits".
He's so hardcore man.
Then he used a glitch and turned in the same quest over and over again after he died the first time to level back to 60 in one day. There's a YouTube video if you care to search for "Kripp exploits".
He's so hardcore man.
diablo isnt hard. the hardest part of the game are the elites and champions.
apparently, rumor has it there was a korean guy who actually soloed it before krip (who didnt even solo it).
still great accomplishment!
apparently, rumor has it there was a korean guy who actually soloed it before krip (who didnt even solo it).
still great accomplishment!
"Then he used a glitch and turned in the same quest over and over again"
That's the Kulle method, that was patched out by Blizzard recently.
Honestly, that's on Blizzard to fix those issues, and anyone else could have utilized Kulle Quests to beat Kripp in the race for HC Inferno. He still had to do the bulk of the game's content legit. Just my two cents.
That's the Kulle method, that was patched out by Blizzard recently.
Honestly, that's on Blizzard to fix those issues, and anyone else could have utilized Kulle Quests to beat Kripp in the race for HC Inferno. He still had to do the bulk of the game's content legit. Just my two cents.
He also gets an achievement for being the only one to still care about this disappointing game after 2 weeks.
Yeah, I was watching a different stream on Twitch when he did it, but Twitch made sure that you know he did it by plastering pop up banners on all the streams...
@Chris
"Honestly, that's on Blizzard to fix those issues"
Meeeeeh, not so much. I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with you but Blizzard's own rules state that's not the case. For example, the guy on my server on WoW back at the beginning of Lich King that got banned (perma, if i'm not mistaken) for grinding on mobs that weren't supposed to grant XP in order to get his server first 80.
Ultimately I see your point that he still did most of what makes HC Inferno difficult by legit means, but if he utilized any mechanic that was unintended, I'm a little bit surprised at Blizz's inconsistency for not banning him.
"Honestly, that's on Blizzard to fix those issues"
Meeeeeh, not so much. I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with you but Blizzard's own rules state that's not the case. For example, the guy on my server on WoW back at the beginning of Lich King that got banned (perma, if i'm not mistaken) for grinding on mobs that weren't supposed to grant XP in order to get his server first 80.
Ultimately I see your point that he still did most of what makes HC Inferno difficult by legit means, but if he utilized any mechanic that was unintended, I'm a little bit surprised at Blizz's inconsistency for not banning him.
@Trist
Yea, Blizzard is notorious for being super hard on their WoW fanbase, and letting some things slide for their other titles.
Yea, Blizzard is notorious for being super hard on their WoW fanbase, and letting some things slide for their other titles.
Now let's see our world first HC clear without exploiting, getting all of his or her gear and gold donated, and skipping all elite and champion packs. Elites and champions are the most difficult part of the game, and I see it as kind of cheap to just skip all of them. While 1.03 did nerf the overall difficulty of those mobs, it also nerfed players and buffed bosses. They didn't even play the hardest parts of the game; the "difficulty" that they wanted the glory of challenging pre-nerf. So 1.03 potentially makes Inferno even more difficult.
With all of that said, it still doesn't change the fact that this is an amazing achievement. We still have a long way to go before we see a "no skip" HC Inferno clear, and I look forward to seeing that.
With all of that said, it still doesn't change the fact that this is an amazing achievement. We still have a long way to go before we see a "no skip" HC Inferno clear, and I look forward to seeing that.
No no no no! For the love of god this is the very epitome of horrible journalism.
The spin here is all wrong, to the point that its pretty much clear who watched the stream and who didnt.
those that did will know, that actually, he didnt do anything but run around, bait things for his party (that fed him tons of gear in the AH). As if that wasnt enough, it was a 100% exploit run.
And as if that wasn't enough either, if you go to the right places they also used bots to fund this.
Really ANY research should have been done, maybe even WATCH THE STREAM, before the "all glory to Kripp!".
The spin here is all wrong, to the point that its pretty much clear who watched the stream and who didnt.
those that did will know, that actually, he didnt do anything but run around, bait things for his party (that fed him tons of gear in the AH). As if that wasnt enough, it was a 100% exploit run.
And as if that wasn't enough either, if you go to the right places they also used bots to fund this.
Really ANY research should have been done, maybe even WATCH THE STREAM, before the "all glory to Kripp!".
"Meh... he used a lot of exploits to get there. Not really that impressive."
Get the fuck out of here
Get the fuck out of here
Wait wait wait, if I am reading the comments correctly he exploited because he didn't fight some mobs..... and used the AH......
........ Woe to the next person who completes the game in hardcore and gets called out because they didn't break all the pots and check 100% of the weapon racks. That and D3 sorta centers itself around the AH.... get used to it.
As for the quest exploit to get back to his previous lvl after getting killed, if true that is a bit more of an issue....
Then again if we look back at D2 the first player to reach cap was GerBarb (if I recall correctly) and that wasn't one person it was a group of people playing 24/7 in shifts.... we gonna call shenanigans on that too?
........ Woe to the next person who completes the game in hardcore and gets called out because they didn't break all the pots and check 100% of the weapon racks. That and D3 sorta centers itself around the AH.... get used to it.
As for the quest exploit to get back to his previous lvl after getting killed, if true that is a bit more of an issue....
Then again if we look back at D2 the first player to reach cap was GerBarb (if I recall correctly) and that wasn't one person it was a group of people playing 24/7 in shifts.... we gonna call shenanigans on that too?
He's better than any of you pretentious fucks at this game. Stop complaining about his method.
He beat Hardcore Inferno. Deal with it.
He beat Hardcore Inferno. Deal with it.
Jealous assholes all around these comments. Stop being butthurt because you suck at this game.
Cgratz for the guys that did this. Great video too ^^
Cgratz for the guys that did this. Great video too ^^
You know why he used exploits? Cause he didn't have a choice, inferno was balanced improperly and literally the only way to pull this off was to use all these exploits, the gear given to him, he didn't put a gun to anyone's head, his viewers donated it all because they wanted to.
Leave it to gamers to be a bunch of jealous babies because someone did something they never will.
This was impressive as fuck, good for them.
Leave it to gamers to be a bunch of jealous babies because someone did something they never will.
This was impressive as fuck, good for them.
@Tek
No no, no arguments. I was making a little joke and some people didn't get it. Meh.
I actually am impressed by this dude - I don't know how big of a deal it is since I have yet to play D3, though.
No no, no arguments. I was making a little joke and some people didn't get it. Meh.
I actually am impressed by this dude - I don't know how big of a deal it is since I have yet to play D3, though.
Hydra heals makes this feat a little less impressive. Speaking from personal experience, I had act 4 on farm with the hydra heals.
He did do it in Hardcore, but it is counterbalanced by his cheap powerlevelling exploit and community gathered equipment. Nonetheless impressive that he did it. If he could do it in 1.03 with Krippi, even more so as there are some pretty massive nerfs to the Wizard.
I for one will no longer be playing/participating in Diablo. The franchise and the company are dead to me. The blatent cash grab that was 1.03 is just plan offensive.
He did do it in Hardcore, but it is counterbalanced by his cheap powerlevelling exploit and community gathered equipment. Nonetheless impressive that he did it. If he could do it in 1.03 with Krippi, even more so as there are some pretty massive nerfs to the Wizard.
I for one will no longer be playing/participating in Diablo. The franchise and the company are dead to me. The blatent cash grab that was 1.03 is just plan offensive.
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