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Save and Exit? Yes, No, Sometimes?
Here is the situation: My rabid summoning druid “Scampersâ€, who was made for the single player “Peasant’s Tournament†(not really important, just providing context) had just entered Hell and was up against Blood Raven. Being a “peasant†Scampers was having a horrible time finishing off zombies (the merc died and the wolves weren’t doing much better) so he ended up doing a lot of hit and run attacks on Blood Raven. About 10 minutes into the battle an interesting opportunity presented itself . . . Blood Raven had run into a corner behind the Crypt and seemed to be trapped. Scampers ran into the corner to try and make the best of his 5% CB and was making great progress but the wolves were getting killed and the zombies were closing in and threatening to trap Scampers too (exhibit a). Scampers tp’ed out of the corner and bought some more potions in town intending to return to the Burial Grounds from the Cold Plains WP but Scampers forgot that the tp was very very hot and went back through it :crazyeyes: (exhibit b). Scampers attempted to reopen some tp’s but they were on the wrong side of Blood Raven. Scampers was now trapped. Killing the zombies fast enough was impossible. Killing Blood Raven before the zombies killed Scampers was also impossible. Scampers had ~1800 life and only two zombies and Blood Raven had access to him, so death was coming, but very slowly. Wolves were resummoned, full juvies were used, and then (in what felt like a moment of weakness) the Escape button was used to escape (exhibit c). Because of how slowly Scampers was being killed I had plenty of time to debate whether I should Save and Exit (preserving my hours of effort) or die on the battlefield (preserving my hc honor). Obviously that did (and should) disqualify Scampers from the tournament.
The question is: Given the choice between death or using the Save and Exit feature . . . what would (or do) you choose to do? Do your feelings change depending on rather it is single player or multiplayer, twinked or untwinked, you were rushed or you walked . . . just wondering where popular sentiment stands these days.
Cheers,
Han
Here is the situation: My rabid summoning druid “Scampersâ€, who was made for the single player “Peasant’s Tournament†(not really important, just providing context) had just entered Hell and was up against Blood Raven. Being a “peasant†Scampers was having a horrible time finishing off zombies (the merc died and the wolves weren’t doing much better) so he ended up doing a lot of hit and run attacks on Blood Raven. About 10 minutes into the battle an interesting opportunity presented itself . . . Blood Raven had run into a corner behind the Crypt and seemed to be trapped. Scampers ran into the corner to try and make the best of his 5% CB and was making great progress but the wolves were getting killed and the zombies were closing in and threatening to trap Scampers too (exhibit a). Scampers tp’ed out of the corner and bought some more potions in town intending to return to the Burial Grounds from the Cold Plains WP but Scampers forgot that the tp was very very hot and went back through it :crazyeyes: (exhibit b). Scampers attempted to reopen some tp’s but they were on the wrong side of Blood Raven. Scampers was now trapped. Killing the zombies fast enough was impossible. Killing Blood Raven before the zombies killed Scampers was also impossible. Scampers had ~1800 life and only two zombies and Blood Raven had access to him, so death was coming, but very slowly. Wolves were resummoned, full juvies were used, and then (in what felt like a moment of weakness) the Escape button was used to escape (exhibit c). Because of how slowly Scampers was being killed I had plenty of time to debate whether I should Save and Exit (preserving my hours of effort) or die on the battlefield (preserving my hc honor). Obviously that did (and should) disqualify Scampers from the tournament.
The question is: Given the choice between death or using the Save and Exit feature . . . what would (or do) you choose to do? Do your feelings change depending on rather it is single player or multiplayer, twinked or untwinked, you were rushed or you walked . . . just wondering where popular sentiment stands these days.
Cheers,
Han