There’s deaths and then there’s… deaths, and Hardcore is particularly dangerous when it comes to disconnects etc. However, once you’ve finished a Nightmare dungeon, are sitting in the post-finish invulnerability sphere with an Elixir or Death Evasion up and teleport to town – you’d think you’d be safe.
Unfortunately, Quin69 learned that that is not always the case. After the game got stuck on the loading screen, his level 91 Hardcore character somehow managed to die IN the portal to town (or, more realistically, was stuck in the dungeon and something happened to the invulnerability sphere).
Here are the final moments of the character, after spending 172 hours on it:
Then, a few minutes later while Quin was getting back into the game, the moment of realization arrives:
And then, after quite a while of just not being able to believe it, he talked about what happened:
The actual death is logged as “by environment”, as rtwipwensdfds spotted:
Just what exactly happened is very unclear. Some theorize that the invul bubble disappeared and the character stayed in the dungeon during the very long load screen, at which point the Nightmare dungeon affix lightning just killed him very slowly. But we can’t be sure of anything, other than the fact that Hardcore in D4 is… VERY Hardcore.
