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Diablo 4 Dev Confirms That if Hardcore Players Die in PvP, They’re Dead Forever
Be careful, because playing PvP in Diablo 4’s hardcore mode can result in permadeath
If you’re planning to try out PvP in Diablo 4 during a hardcore mode playthrough, be careful, because if you die, that’s the end for that character.
Hard game modes aren’t for everybody, and Diablo 4’s hardcore mode certainly won’t be either. That’s not just because the game will be tougher than normal though, as Diablo 4’s global community development director Adam Fletcher confirmed that playing in PvP on hardcore mode will mean you have permadeath to worry about (thanks, PCGamer). Fletcher responded to a question from a fan asking, “if you’re playing hardcore and you die in PvP, is it permadeath or…?” responding with a simple “Permadeath.”
Thankfully Fletcher did clarify just a smidge more, as he said that if you die in PvP while playing in hardcore mode, “you will have to make a new character.” If any of you are worried because you want to play on hardcore but don’t want to lose your character, don’t worry, as Fletcher also clarified you can avoid the Fields of Hatred, the area where PvP takes place. Permadeath in hardcore is mostly notable because previously it was believed that hardcore players don’t have to worry about it in PvP, but obviously something changed along the line.
Hardcore Diablo 4 PvP is just that, so don’t die
Hardcore Diablo 4 runs are just that – hardcore. If you’re looking to delve into the competitive world of PvP in the action RPG game then you had best be prepared, as Blizzard has confirmed that if you die in combat, it’s permadeath. Ouch.
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Valheim is getting a hardcore mode along with customizable difficulty
Valheimis about to get a bit harder, if you want it to, thanks to a new hardcore difficulty mode.
When this mode is used, and the death slider is maxed, you will lose all progress and items forever should you die. Also, not only is combat harder, but monsters will raid your base more often, and you won’t have a map and can’t use portals. Hardcore indeed.
Hardcore is mostly about losing progress, but you can scale things to however you like now, such as easy, casual, or even very hard, which is an upscale of current mechanics.
Valheim is getting a creative mode and some truly brutal hardcore difficulty options
How to Switch a Minecraft World from Survival to Creative to Hardcore
When you create a Minecraft world, you select your game mode, and that mode is fixed for the lifetime of the world. Or is it? Read on as we show you how to sidestep the game mode lock to temporarily or permanently change your game’s mode.
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Max Hardcore dead at age 66: Controversial porn star Paul Little who was jailed for his films dies after health battle
CONTROVERSIAL porn star Max Hardcore who was once jailed for his adult films has died at age 66.
The actor, whose real name was Paul Little, died on Monday from septic shock and pneumonia after a cancer battle, his business partner said.
Little, who was known for his extreme and degrading adult film scenes, had been receiving radioactive iodine treatment following a thyroid cancer diagnosis in March 2022.
“He was almost at the finish line for the chemotherapy,” Little’s long-time office manager and business partner Paul Munoz said.
“He went in and did the surgery and he didn’t want to spend the weekend at the hospital, so he came back home and that’s when things went south for him.
“His wind tunnel ruptured and air started going into his neck and his neck started swelling up.”
Little was put on a ventilator at one point and spent a month in the hospital before things appeared to start improving in February.
“And then this past Friday, he suffered some kind of infection in his throat and downstairs,” Munoz said.
“This infection wiped him out because his immune system had not recovered from the last time in December.”
Little was still making efforts in the adult entertainment industry up until he was diagnosed with cancer.
He had a nearly three-decade long career with more than 500 performing credits and 360 credits as a director.
His movies were often slammed for their extreme and degrading nature.
The films landed him in legal trouble in May 2007, when he and his production company Max World Entertainment were indicted by a grand jury in Tampa, Florida, on charges of distributing obscene material through the U.S. mail and internet.
He was sentenced to 46 months in prison in 2008, however, he had supporters who believed that the charges were unjust.
“At the time, most journalists and bloggers saw Little as a victim – a man whose freedom of pornographic expression had been labeled criminal by the U.S. government,” Forbes’ Susannah Breslin wrote in 2011.
“Max did it his way. He walked the line and didn’t give a f**k if he fell off of it or not,” said Munoz.
“He knew he had a lot of people who didn’t like him.”
Still, many reviled Little for what they considered “abuse” in his films, as reported by Daily Mail.
Feminist Julie Bindel said that she celebrated Little’s death, tweeting: “I don’t believe in evil, but the feeling I got when I was once within hearing distance of this bastard was that I was in its presence.”
Other Twitter users shared their concerns over the material he produced in the thread, with one saying: “The world is a better place without him.”
Little is survived by his sister and two brothers.
If you want a real taste of hell, you should play Diablo 4 on Hardcore mode
You might be tempted to dive into Diablo 4 and play it easy – scope out this ruined world, find your bearings in the hellscape fantasy that Blizzard has cooked up this time. But, if you’re after a true challenge, you need to boot up the game on Hardcore mode, from the off: in many ways, it’s the game the developers intend you to play. Let me explain.
The first question is: Why risk perma-death? Because Blizzard wants you to, and the developer is prepared to reward you handsomely for the risk you undertake. Even the Dark Souls games don’t punish you too hard for dying – not really. Sure, you may lose Souls and have to retrace your footsteps without perishing again in order to reclaim your valuable prize, but beyond that, the eternal ‘live, die, repeat’ loop loses some of its bite.
Permadeath, in Diablo, has serious stakes. Anyone that braves Diablo 4 on its imposing, intimidating, incredibly challenging difficulty sets out to do so in the knowledge that, at some point in their doomed character’s career, they will find themselves staring certain death in the eye. And the loss of all progress, gear, and experience along with it.