The Hardcore option is available whenever you create a new character in Diablo II: Resurrected (D2:R), and it can be selected at any point during the character creation process. By default, this field is left blank to prevent spamming. This box should only be checked if you are genuinely interested in participating in Hardcore. There is no way to change your play mode once your character has been created.
The following are some of the distinctions between non-Hardcore and Hardcore gaming environments:
Character death is inconvenient, but it is not irreversible in games that are not Hardcore. Death is a permanent state of affairs in the Hardcore universe.
Characters in both the non-Hardcore and hardcore modes are placed on separate Ladders to differentiate between them.
Diablo II's Normal (non-Hardcore) Mode is comprised of the following features:It has been brought back to life.
You will experience the following consequences if you die in Diablo II's non-Hardcore mode.
When your character appears in the town associated with that act, he or she will be stripped of all equipped equipment as well as any minions. Your body is still lying where it fell, and you'll have to figure out how to get it back to where it belongs.
The amount of gold you're carrying and the amount of gold in your personal stash (as opposed to your shared stash) are used to calculate your permanent gold loss. The percentage taken is determined by your character's level, and it can reach as high as 20% in some cases. Everyone's possessions, including every ounce of gold they had on them, were dumped beside your body in a pile next to your corpse. Because the first 500 gold is exempt from this penalty in Single Player mode, lower-level characters may end up incurring no gold penalty at all, depending on their level and the amount of gold they have in their possession.
It will be necessary for you to recover all of your equipped equipment, inventory items, and fallen gold from your dead body in order to recoup your investment money. This type of operation is referred to as a CR, or the dreaded corpse run, in the military community.
Be sure to transfer all gold from your personal stash to the shared stash, and then back to your personal stash before you depart from the city. If you die again while attempting to recover your corpse in this manner, you will not lose any more gold than you already have.
As soon as you click on a corpse, the game will make an attempt to re-equip the equipment, though this may or may not be successful. If you have Diablo 2 Powerleveling that require +STR or +DEX to equip, you will need to manually re-equip them in order to meet the minimum equipment requirement. If you do not have items that require +STR or +DEX to equip, you will need to manually re-equip them. Any additional Diablo 2 resurrected runes will be added to your inventory as they become available.
In order to recover all of the items you've lost during the process of retrieving your first corpse, you may have to die again before you can retrieve your first corpse. If this happens, you'll have to start over from the beginning of the process. As a result of using this method, you may find yourself with a large number of corpses to retrieve during a particularly heinous run. You can only have a total of 16 corpses in your inventory at any given time; if it takes you more than 16 attempts to recover your body, you will lose access to the corpse that was originally geared.
One of the most important things to remember when dying is to try to get away from any large, dangerous mobs as soon as possible so that you don't re-aggro them when you go to collect your corpse. When a corpse is in the possession of a powerful adversary, it is nearly impossible to recover it successfully.
Even though restarting the game is faster than using the CR, you will only be able to recover the gear from your most recent dead body if this is the route you take. Each and every ounce of gold that has fallen to the ground will be lost for all time. There is no way to recover any lost experience while in the Nightmare or Hell modes of play. When you play on Normal difficulty, you will not lose experience, so you can use this without fear of incurring a penalty. However, you will still lose gold when you do so.
Penalty can be felt in the Nightmare and Hell Difficulties, among other things.
In addition to losing all of your gold and leaving all of your gear on the body when you die on the Nightmare or Hell difficulties, you will also lose some of your accumulated experience on these difficulties.
However, rather than your overall experience level, this percentage is calculated based on the amount of experience you'd need to accrue in order to advance to the following level. If you die while playing on Hell difficulty, for example, and you need 100,000 xp to advance from one level to the next, you'll lose 10% of that total, or 10,000 xp, as a penalty.
Instead of getting 100% of your previous experience back for each corpse you recover, successful corpse runs give you 75% of your previous experience back. The loss of 10,000 xp in the previous example will be reduced to 2500 xp by retrieving your body in Hell mode, as opposed to the previous example where you would have been forced to pay 10,000 xp.
For players who have not gained much experience by the time they reach a certain level, restarting the game to retrieve a geared corpse may be an attractive option to explore further. It may be worthwhile to sacrifice a small amount of experience points in order to save time in the long run.
When creating a new character in D2:R, you will be given the option of creating a Normal (non-Hardcore) or a Hardcore character. Normal characters are less difficult to create than Hardcore characters. However, while the vast majority of players will be more comfortable in the non-hardcore mode, some players may prefer to take on the additional challenge of playing in Hardcore mode.
Since Diablo II, this mode has been available to players, and it has been carried over into Diablo 3. It uses the same mechanics, encounters the same mobs, drops the same items, and so on as non-hardcore; the fundamental gameplay of Hardcore is identical to non-hardcore. It is not the environment that makes a difference, but rather the personalities of the characters that do.
Hardcode mode, on the other hand, may come as a surprise to those who have played other games in the past and are not familiar with the restrictions.
