What a way to go. A very, very bad way.
as the first player to reach level 100 in the game's unforgiving permadeath mode, streamer Souaïb"cArn" Hanaf's in-game avatar has died in the most ignominious way possible—felled not in a glorious showdown with a powerful enemy, but by a random server disconnection.
cArn was simply roaming the overworld map and beating up trash mobs when it all went wrong."Hello?" he said in early but obvious alarm as the screen suddenly froze."I'm fucking... are you kidding me?" A second later, the screen went black. This is one of the big risks in playing Diablo 4's Hardcore mode, especially during the early days of the game's release, when glitches and server instability are relatively common: A disconnection, for any reason, is essentially a guaranteed death. This isn't really a big deal in normal mode, where death is a very brief and minor inconvenience, but there's no coming back from it in Hardcore: Your stuff is gone, the character is wiped, and you're starting over from scratch.
It's a sad end to one of Diablo 4's great early heroes, and while death eventually comes for us all, this was an especially ugly way to go. One of cArn_'s viewers invoked a famous bad-death scene from the world of movies to sum up the moment:Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
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