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The untargetable imp

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pimpampum

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I've seen it a couple of times, when checking my bots, a quite funny ocurrence. After killing the rift guardian /rift boss, when my char tries to teleport, a untargetable imp shows up and straight up hits the toon, stopping the town portal.
Even trying to manually run from him, he chases you and stops your tp again.

The imp is completely untargetable, immune to aoe and pets and followers ignore him.

I honestly don't know what to think about it. If I hadn't see it with my own eyes, and twice, would probably find it hard to believe.

Has it happened to anyone else ? Any explanation for it?
 
pimpampum said:
I've seen it a couple of times, when checking my bots, a quite funny ocurrence. After killing the rift guardian /rift boss, when my char tries to teleport, a untargetable imp shows up and straight up hits the toon, stopping the town portal.
Even trying to manually run from him, he chases you and stops your tp again.

The imp is completely untargetable, immune to aoe and pets and followers ignore him.

I honestly don't know what to think about it. If I hadn't see it with my own eyes, and twice, would probably find it hard to believe.

Has it happened to anyone else ? Any explanation for it?
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I've had two of these on my character.. I don't know what it is for..

Maybe blizz is trying to track bots? Or maybe its a glitch.

I just left the level and started it up again.
 
Seen it and killed me, luckily I was there to watch it, and I spoke in chat to appear "non botted"
 
Arotished said:
its a trap which blizzard have set for botters...
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Not sure if you would remember, but they had a similar thing which was in Act 3, it was an aggressive pixel which you'd attack but not kill, you'd be hitting it for ages!
 
Now could be an interesting time to consider the fucking imp something more than a glitch.
 
Had a terror demon glitch like that. I'd run away and think I'd lost him and he would phase in out of nowhere and scare the shit out of me. Been a glitch for a long time. Since RoS came out.
 
Nymerius said:
Had a terror demon glitch like that. I'd run away and think I'd lost him and he would phase in out of nowhere and scare the shit out of me. Been a glitch for a long time. Since RoS came out.
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But terror demons actually dissapear, and (sort of) teleport to you when you fight them ingame, normally. What I'm talking about is ,an imp (fallen model) that showed up after finishing a rift guardian (with 0 mobs around), exactly were your char is stopped, and hits you whenever you try to teleport to town. It only shows after you started the teleport sequence. You can not target him manually, Aoe doesn't affect him, he chases you around.

Its odd, and I can see an strange coincidence seeing it twice in my bots and getting ban hammered not long after that.

My best theory ( tin foil on) is an invisible GM manually checking accounts could spawn him to see how the bot react. If I hadn't manually moved him, bot would try to tp forever without noticing it was being constantly interrupted. Which stands for a quite clear bot behavior, right?
 
pimpampum said:
But terror demons actually dissapear, and (sort of) teleport to you when you fight them ingame, normally. What I'm talking about is ,an imp (fallen model) that showed up after finishing a rift guardian (with 0 mobs around), exactly were your char is stopped, and hits you whenever you try to teleport to town. It only shows after you started the teleport sequence. You can not target him manually, Aoe doesn't affect him, he chases you around.

Its odd, and I can see an strange coincidence seeing it twice in my bots and getting ban hammered not long after that.

My best theory ( tin foil on) is an invisible GM manually checking accounts could spawn him to see how the bot react. If I hadn't manually moved him, bot would try to tp forever without noticing it was being constantly interrupted. Which stands for a quite clear bot behavior, right?
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I know, this was a terror demon that couldn't be targeted and followed me around popping out of nowhere when I tried to port or whatever. I'd think I lost him and he'd pop out right when I tried to port. I've had hundreds of the imps do the same thing over the last year or so.
 
I think they implemented a number of honeypots this patch. There was a couple times before this last patch(After 6.1 one of the "hotfixes") that id watch my bot chase after a node (I wont get specific sorry) that was floating about 15 yards above the ground just out of reach.

So every1 be careful...
 
How about you set trash to more than 1 in Trinity, it should not aim at this monster.
 
Andongni said:
How about you set trash to more than 1 in Trinity, it should not aim at this monster.
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Correct. In fact, Trinity did not aim at it at all, it never targeted him. Issue being, the monster would keep interrupting you all the time and the bot kept trying to teleport to town all the time until gold timer kicks in.

Which stands for a quite obvious bot behaviour, if anyone were actually looking at what was going on.
 
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