Died from disconnect... I thought you didn't die from this?

Hey all,

Just lost my level 64 champion from lagging =/ I had full hp with no monsters around, and my game just sort of froze (the type of freeze where your character stops but animations keep going). Tried logging out and closed PoE, but I'm in standard now with one death.

So I have three questions...

1. I thought "tcp disconnect" saves you from this crap happening.
"If you die to anything that doesn't crash your pc and you don't die instantly, the tcp disconnect will save you from it." https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/4os1ux/dying_to_lag_disconnect_or_anything_else_that_you/

No monsters around, tons of hp. No way I died instantly.

2. How long does your character stand around before he disappears from the map after you disconnect? Again, with full life and no monsters and lots of defense, I don't see how I would actually die, yet here I am.

3. What do you hardcore players do when something like this happens? I'm debating between rerolling another hc char, playing standard, and playing my character on standard until he actually dies.

FeelsBadMan

sounds like a animation slow motion then speed up scenario... this is CPU/GFX related from my personal experience.. if it seemed like cutting in and out of motion than that is your internet connection

either way this is most likely a problem on your side, stay away from HC if this sort of thing bothers you

If the server doesn't know you logged out, it will take a while before giving up on trying to connect to you. So logging out (or using a 'tcp disconnect macro') has no effect unless the server gets the message. So if your graphics are lagging, logging out will save you. But if your internet is lagging, then you have to just hope.

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Bradytribe wrote:

3. What do you hardcore players do when something like this happens? I'm debating between rerolling another hc char, playing standard, and playing my character on standard until he actually dies.

Rage, blame everybody else, blame yourself, rage again, take a few deep breaths, and then re-roll a toon with even better defenses.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

If the server doesn't know you logged out, it will take a while before giving up on trying to connect to you.

This is really, really surprising that it waits so long to give up when it's not receiving any messages. I understand a few seconds, but it must have been at LEAST 15-20 seconds for me to die.

Oh well, I guess part of playing hc is dying to lag.

Its not 15-20 sec.

You´d disconnected automatically after 6sec at most.
But that doesnt matter. Buffed by nasty map mods even a few white mobs will kill you in split secs...

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Bradytribe wrote:

1. I thought "tcp disconnect" saves you from this crap happening.
"If you die to anything that doesn't crash your pc and you don't die instantly, the tcp disconnect will save you from it." https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/4os1ux/dying_to_lag_disconnect_or_anything_else_that_you/

No monsters around, tons of hp. No way I died instantly.

Not sure what type of problem you had. But not even logout macro during stable connection is 100%.

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Bradytribe wrote:

2. How long does your character stand around before he disappears from the map after you disconnect? Again, with full life and no monsters and lots of defense, I don't see how I would actually die, yet here I am.

Common claim is 6 seconds. There is some evidence that it can be a lot longer: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1906926/page/5#p15297916

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Bradytribe wrote:

3. What do you hardcore players do when something like this happens? I'm debating between rerolling another hc char, playing standard, and playing my character on standard until he actually dies.

Hasnt happened to me yet. I have had some disconnects while playing but (so far) survived all. Part of my build decisions/choices are based on how likely the char is to survive a disconnect.

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In my thread there is lots of random stuff about disconnects: Option for Customizing Disconnect Timeout