Diablo Speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random Dungeon seeds to remove the old Speedrun record for two decades

A group of Diablo Speedrunners has spent months searching for the Diablo RPG Seed of 2.2 billion -dollars of RPG to find the layout used at a foolish luck that they suspect is illegal, a new report from Kyle Orland of Ars Technica.

The second, 12 -minute witch is operated by Maciej “Groobo” Maselewski first uploaded to accelerate the storage of demo versions in 2009. See it “feel like looking at someone winning the lottery,” Orland wrote, thanks to a random seemic series of Dune and escaped right next to GrooBo was lucky to return to the ninth floor, taking the fastidious items of Naj necessary to exploit it later.

Starting “Earnest in February last year,” a group of tools to support Diablo Speedrunners began to try to recreate activities, using their own custom map to build up by “reversing techniques of a Diablo can be executed”. From ARS:

The tool can take any random seeds of the game and quickly determine the map layout, distribute items and the mission position available in the saved file created. A scanner was built on the top of the tool that could then quickly look through the prisoners created for the dunes that could be optimal for speed.

The original goal of the team here is to learn from Groobo’s Run, even for their own agility and as a test case to ensure the scanner operates. Problem? The seed they are looking for does not really exist. In other words, Groobo has created the whole. “We only have a lot of curiosity and resentment that made us deepen,” a runner named Staphen told Ars. “The betrayal may be another way to describe it,” the Ajenbo member added. “To find out that this has been illegally done … And that person has received and many praise for their achievements.”

From ARS:

In their efforts to find Groobo’s stored run (or at least once similar to it), the TAS team made a distributed search in the about 2.2 billion valid RNG seeds of the game. Each of these seeds represents a different second on the system clock when the Diablo file is created, from January 1, 1970 to December 31, 2038 (a valid only day accepted by the game).

After comparing the unable to create a re -creation of Groobo’s Darkness containing Naj’s Puzzler decline, they started searching “unable to” – “” can only be created by using modification tools to tie a creative day after 2038 “. Finally, they found dungeon with a decline in the right place, using seeds in the 2056 and 2074 years.

They also discovered that Speedrun was originally assembled from many different runnings. “Finally, we only found two levels from the same run, so at least 13 runs (perhaps 15) were paired into a video, a lot for a game with only 16 levels,” Ajenbo told Ars.

Other evidence (some of which are quite obvious in late awareness) began to pile up later, but read the full section of Ars Technica for that. Why go to all these problems for a 27 -year -old Speedrun? “It was harmful,” Speedrunner Cecil told Ars. “Groobo’s accused fraud in 2009 completely stopped interested in this type of genre [of Diablo]. No one tries, no one can. “

If it is all that you feel exhausted by the deception inherent in the male soul, then this is an indie inspired by the free Diablo where you act as the mayor of Tristam – a prominent chapter of all calculations.