Race Season Three Details

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Antilogy wrote:

I was hoping to get into racing this season but as I work 40+ hours a week it's not looking great. Last season looked like it had a great amount of race times to choose from.

I echo this. I raced as much as I could in Seasons 1 and 2, but struggled due to work commitments. Season 3 looks worse in that regard. I realise everyone can't be catered for though, so I'm not too upset about it (honest *sobs)

I wish there was a permanent time trial league in place. That way I would be able to race on my terms, rather than some pre-ordained most likely unsuitable time. You could even cap the attempts to stop people running over and over until the drop some sick gear and luck an amazing score. Anyway, I live in hope.

On the plus side, I am looking forward to Descent. I love soloing and love rogue-likes so, god damn, sign me up!

When season 3 got announced i was thinking about getting into races again but my main problem is that im playing in onslaught now and the rewards go to the hardcore league. This totally defeats any reason for me to try to get rewards as i wouldn't be able to use them anyway.

In my opinion there should really be a way of chosing to which league you want your rewards to go to. I don't think it would an unfair advantage to get the race rewards in onslaught/anarchy cause you would probably find more valuable stuff farming maps in the meantime anyway.

I might try out some descent races to see how they are but i don't see me doing any other races this season.

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KoTao wrote:

having the integrity of the races permanently compromised because ggg made the ridiculous decision to send the entire map seed to the client then trust them to incrimentally reveal it (as if we didnt have enough evidence from over a decade of maphacking in d2 to see how this was going to turn out) is pretty discouraging.

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KoTao wrote:

send the entire map seed to the client then trust them to incrimentally reveal it

No offense, but that would be so in-fucking-credibly stupid in terms of security practices that I honestly can't believe it until I see some kind of independent confirmation.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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KoTao wrote:

having the integrity of the races permanently compromised because ggg made the ridiculous decision to send the entire map seed to the client then trust them to incrimentally reveal it (as if we didnt have enough evidence from over a decade of maphacking in d2 to see how this was going to turn out) is pretty discouraging.

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KoTao wrote:

send the entire map seed to the client then trust them to incrimentally reveal it

No offense, but that would be so in-fucking-credibly stupid in terms of security practices that I honestly can't believe it until I see some kind of independent confirmation.

That is how its done.

Well it is clear to me that GGG heard the feedback from racers from the last seasons, sadly it wasn't the feedback that anyone I know or play with in the race community would submit.

2 x 135 minute races, yet 5 3 hour races (a race format that should have gone the way of the Dodo with the Act 3 implementation).

This says it all to me. Consider me severely disappointed.

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Morsexier wrote:

Well it is clear to me that GGG heard the feedback from racers from the last seasons, sadly it wasn't the feedback that anyone I know or play with in the race community would submit.

2 x 135 minute races, yet 5 3 hour races (a race format that should have gone the way of the Dodo with the Act 3 implementation).

This says it all to me. Consider me severely disappointed.

Same boat here, along with the people I play with. That schedule is brutal for me.

Oh well, Better luck next season.

Dear GGG,

Please consider improving races density. There was never any problem with it in the past.

Some days in the schedule are just depressingly empty, and it's harder to accommodate more players of different time zone with such number of races per day.


Nevertheless, looking forward to racing this weekend