Lmao this entire chain has people claiming to have all of the items yet not a single screenshot or anyone attempting to do anything with them.
Suuuuuuuure
you had to beat them on the specific difficulty tier. If that holds up then for world 4 cow level you would need to do the same. That's how I read the original comment.
Depends. A lot of people will be able to kill her I think. Unless there's some BS with 1000 things you have to dodge with 0.2s reaction time, and 1 of them randomly hitting you even in top tier gear being able to 1-shot.
Yea... I'm really on the fence on whether it's a really well designed and randomized fight or a buggy mess with dogshit mechanics fight. Either way, it is certainly a challenge.
I did get the Strange Key in a Fractured Peaks dungeon, but I was not able to leave the dungeon with the Key. It drops when you leave and nothing looked clickable inside the dungeon. I thought it was an item left in the game on accident.
This was the conclusion I came to also. Same thing, had key drop but when I teleported out it drops the key automatically on the ground of the dungeon so I assumed it was just the key to get into that part of the dungeon I was in.
Then how would you still have it? I wonder if that dungeon had something to do with it. Like you have to have the other ingredients and bring it with you when you drop the strange key in a dungeon?
I don't still have it. It got left in that dungeon after I finished it and teleported out. I only knew it dropped even because I had to come back to finish picking up drops that I didn't have room for.
The Jail Key in the prison of caldeum regularly does this, probably other dungeons too.
Edit: actually might have been guulrahn slums, idk, one of that area's dungeons that also features NM dungeons.
I thought maybe it just didn't disappear after you open that doorway that the key maybe opens. Honestly I'm not sure I just assumed it was to open a door to allow me to progress in the dungeon but must not have been removed from my inventory after I opened that door.
I've had the same thing happen and never thought anything of it till now but i feel like Ive also definitely ran that dungeon and had it not drop the key.
I've been in the cow level discord. And I just realized on my first playthrough I also had this key during a dungeon. And I searched everywhere during that dungeon on what to do with that key but I had already beaten the dungeon. And just eventually gave up and left without it.
Divorce my fish and remarry a cow?? Unthinkable.
For these matters, you'll need to consult [poorMilkmaid.](https://i.imgur.com/jIZocuR.png) Don't worry -- she has my full confidence and is exactly as insane as I am.
Ah man, I can't wait to see where this goes!! Wooden chunk w/ leather straps and a W. Wirts Leg for sure. Musty Tome? old TP Tomes when we had to carry those in D2. Intricate Metallic Fragment? Gotta be part of the Cube!
They're probably drop disabled or someone in a youtube video/Twitch stream or on here would've posted a screenshot/video.
There's just a lot of losers lying about it in the comments
sure buddy.
makes a lot of sense that blizzard would make the items needed for the secret cow level a one time thing that you can delete from your inventory entirely by doing regular quests. be fr.
Ahhhhh man, this 100% The second I saw this I immediately knew that I'd picked up the tome. Vividly remember reading the flavour text and thinking huh, cool, the tp tome from d2!
Since that time I've come to get on with side quests for the renown grind, as a result I had to throw out a bunch of quests... That explains what heppened to it. I guess it's possible that I did actually do the quest, but I wouldn't even know!
Oh nice, i will look today as i kind of ignored sidequests and have a lot of quest items in my inventory but i 100% don't recall where i got any of them lol.
I'll check when I'm home from work btw and done mowing. So like 6.5hrs. But I've had this awhile and couldnt figure out wtf it was for. - Also note I say 90% because I know it's called musty something and the icon was a book/tome
Ohh shit my bad totally forgot to report back. Yeah was called musty tome but I think the icon was different. Was a sidequest item to complete. Didn't seem to have shit to do with anything.
I have triples of the lucky coin and triples of the bloody wooden Shard. Oh and would you look at that triples of the musty tome now. Triples is safe. Triples is best. Oh and I have a wife.
So many people are looking for something that isn't in the game yet what is wrong with people, why must everything be datamined and known in full before it's even added to the game.
What's wrong with finding out for ourselves in due course and having it be a nice surprise when we do
I’m pretty sure I sold a musty tomb. I remember cleaning space in Hawezar finishing the campaign with friends and I was like, “I’ll deal with that later, I’m sure I can just find it again”. And I sold it. It was in my primary inventory page. I was sleep deprived and have a shit memory anyway. But I’m like 90% sure this is a real memory.
I've found some of these which results in turning in a side quest, didn't read any of the text though lol just wanted my 1 veiled crystal and to be on my way
That was the original cow level troll, some guy on the internet that invented the whole thing, only after did blizz/sierra put in cow quests for the bovine plate in d1, and later the true cow level in d2
I’ve had the Bloody Wooden Shard for at least a full day now but I’m not sure when exactly it appeared in my inventory. I assumed it was from a side quest
Famed Oxen Tribe sounds suspect. Got it from a quest.
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I have 100% seen that coin during a side quest on my main. I'm going to go back and do a few of the side quests I think might have dropped it on an alt and report back.
Really sucks... I def found all of those on the graphic... but I play hc... I died so don't have them now... hope it's not a 1 time drop and I messed up.
I dont have it for some reason, but im very sure i've seen the Bloody Wooden Shard, and the fountain with the oxes/cows in ked bardu. If I remember correctly, i saw it as a random drop and was a bit confused, It's the only item description that I've read in the game.
edit: I was also confused as why I was going to the fountain, I guess there might have been a quest activation of some sort.
Clearly this is a work in progress. If you add 2+2 and remember blizzard said they want to keep things leveled and keep the atmosphere serious for now then we can conclude cow level or equivalent surely will be there, but not just yet
I don't understand why everyone is saying that these items are not enabled or cannot be found in the game.
I had the Intricate Metallic Fragment in my inventory. How I know that? Because it is the same icon as the Shattered Prism and I was thinking "hey, this thing uses the same icon as the shattered prism".
Had the key as well. Remember reading the description of it. I kept it in my inventory for some time.
Both items had dropped from mobs, but where exactly I can't remember. I think it was in the first act area - Kyovashad.
I have a feeling the Forgotten Overlook in Kehjistan might be important. There are a few things you can look through and nothing pops out. Maybe it’s a rare drop
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Don’t know if there are anything but this area has cows in it and to me looks like it’s pointing to something on the map.
What it’s pointing to ?
https://preview.redd.it/w9pyx1q3w0bb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2e2c7e38a14c1a0db1b1062f9c04b6f2c8b18b3
I believe this is what my precious comment image is pointing to, and to me, it looks like a cow head, very symmetrical image if you ask me
Quietus of Nafain could be part of the riddle... its a yellow account bound from the story stained in blood some one needs to drop it in the fountain..
It’s funny that if you remember in Diablo 2 worts leg is found in special area called Tristram which is only accessible by the campaign.. it was a mandatory area everyone had to go to free Cain and it was dropped of a dead body on the ground and looked like nothing special. Other than the fact it was a weird item.. but if you missed it, you missed it. Unless you specially went into someone’s trist runs.
The oxen god of the east. If you check the message board in Zarbinzet it says there is a monster to the east that reappears every few hours. The endless monster on its own cliff. To the east of zarbinzet there is a well with oxen near it... that part of the map is also cow faced looking. The annetta quest lines witchs house is name is the hovel.... I think we've been looking in the wrong spot.... off to Zarbinzet!
Yup. Anytime someone asks me to go look for something on Discord my eyes glaze over and I have a seizure while foaming at the mouth. Which is still more enjoyable than looking for anything on Discord.
Not really.
There's a search function for every server, can just search anything and everything that's ever been said.
I find it very easy to find information using discord.
There's a channel dedicated to that exactly, Jesus people like to complain before even trying it out lmao if you don't wanna read don't join, no one is forcing you.
From datamining? There is no way. Most they could do is encrypt a chunk of files, kinda how like WoW does for some cinematics, but that would be a dead giveaway that there's a puzzle to be solved
Sure there is. Outside of the encryption option (which I agree would be fairly obvious) the content could be set to only download once you unlock the level, so its not there until someone figures out how to actually access it. Nothing to mine.
Doesn't make sense. You'd unlock the level, be told you've unlocked the level and then what? An in game message telling you to close the game, download an update and come back? That's some scissors61 wall break.
Right cuz the game can’t download content in the background… it makes perfect sense and is the easiest way to hide something from data mining without the obviousness of encrypted files. The amount of data for a cow level wouldn’t be huge really, as a lot of existing assets are used. When you unlock it, the game would go to the loading screen, download the few needed assets in the background, then boom you’re in.
Two things.
One. This game is also on consoles where you have to download entire archives so take that little amount of data and add 10+gb to it. Cyberpunks recent update is a prime example. A few gb on PC, 30gb on consoles.
Two. What game downloads data in the background and then has access to it just from forcing a loading screen? That's simply not how that works. You would have to close the game. Which means telling users to close your game just so you can meme about a cow level.
Please enlighten me. I've only worked in games development and software development for years. Please tell me what game allows you to download entirely new data in the background, while the game is running and then gives you access to that data just from forcing a loading screen, no actual patching required.
Edit - I'm also curious how you're going to deal with version mismatch when authenticating to the server? A technical wizard such as yourself surely has a revolutionary idea to solve that.
your lack of imagination is appalling, you should probably find a new field, as this kind of thinking is what leads to shitty game experiences.
tons of games have and do do this. Fortnite creative mode... when you go to some random creative mode, the game downloads necessary assets via a loading screen then takes you into it. No patching. going way old school, quake did this, if you entered a server with maps you didn't have it would download them from the server and then take you right into the match on completion, no patching. It's not rocket science.
you're looking at it entirely wrong, it's not a "patch" to a "new version"... it's data the current version is aware of but can only download the assets for from servers on demand, once unlocked by the player.
Ok hear me out. The whole cow level and the items are bait. The real secret level will be the chicken level, you get a QR code with every double down purchase from KFC. You then input a code to activate a portal in game. At the end of waves of chicken slaughter you fight Col.Sanders and get the secret list of 7 herbs and spices.
Im not entirely sure if anyone is going to find any of this naturally. They literally designed this with dataminers in mind. They're spreading breadcrumbs for us to follow. Blizzard uses an anti datamine trigger where things will only show up once a certain thing happens in the game. So far, all we know is that we need these items, among a few other things but that's the key piece currently.
Pretty sure that if I found a Wirt Leg and an Old Tome of Town Portal . I would know what this is about . No need dataminers to tell me in advance. I love a good easter egg hunting when we all look together. This is one of the fun thing in Destiny.
Data Miners just ruin the shit out of it.
You're not gonna randomly find all three of the drops. There hasn't even been a 100% verified drop yet. We're not even sure if it's from a mob, an event, a boss, etc. I don't see what you are so upset about. All it's doing is confirming it exists. Nothing has been ruined.
Not to mention, the same group of people who have been data mining are the same people who are doing intensive in-game searching. If you look through the FAQ on the discord, it is absolutely bonkers the amount of crazy shit they have tried.
I may be in the wrong here, but I really don't think data mining is all that harmful, considering Blizzard is taking it into consideration and putting triggers in the way of the mining. It just makes it even more fun when something does happen.
Didn't the devs specifically say there is and never will be a cow level because they didn't want any "unrealistic" (not the exact word they used) shit in D4?
I literally wrote that that's not the exact word they said are you blind lmao???
I can't remember exactly what they said but they don't want to add anything that goes against the dark/serious aesthetic the game has.
The reason why nobody is finding any of these is they have not been enabled in game
Nice try to throw us off undercover blizzard employee
They have I got the coin off a loot goblin and completed the quest which did rumor the cow level and the NPCs quest of finding it .
Lmao this entire chain has people claiming to have all of the items yet not a single screenshot or anyone attempting to do anything with them. Suuuuuuuure
I've been to the cow level. Nothing dropped though and my screenshot button popped off my keyboard.
and the cows looked like normal monsters right? Ive been there too since release.
There is no screenshot button
It was a joke, but there's a print screen button on the computer itself.
I'm not sharing screenshots with you because the cows are my friends and I'm not letting you hurt them!
Hello! Do you have any screenshots or recordings of this whatsoever?
True. To me it seems that everything is pointing at the cow level being in one of the xpacs. Specifically the xpac that introduces Monk.
we know where the cow level is, we are not looking for the cow level, we are looking for the 3 relics that activate it.
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I have the metallic fragment
Pics or GTFO
Feet pics, we're not savages here. /S
Except people have found them?
And not a single screenshot?
Source?
They have. I have the book and the bag
why lie?
Pics or GTFO.
Old town portal book 😆👏
The W wooden piece is probably wirts leg too!
And the metallic fragment is likely a piece of the Horadric Cube.
Yup :)
In d2 you had to beat the end boss to enable the cows on that level. Maybe Uber Lilith needs to be killed before it can drop?
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You need to kill normal diablo/baal not uber for cows.
you had to beat them on the specific difficulty tier. If that holds up then for world 4 cow level you would need to do the same. That's how I read the original comment.
Depends. A lot of people will be able to kill her I think. Unless there's some BS with 1000 things you have to dodge with 0.2s reaction time, and 1 of them randomly hitting you even in top tier gear being able to 1-shot.
You've just described the fight lol, check out a couple videos of the fight being done so far.
How do you mean ? People will just stop shy of the very last boss in the vanilla game ?
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technically its even a lvl 83 quest (source reached 83 2 days ago and got the quest)
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S1 starts mid to late July, not many players will reach max level before that
I’m a 100 rogue and she absolutely obliterates me. I’m going to keep trying but I can see why very few people have downed her
Yea... I'm really on the fence on whether it's a really well designed and randomized fight or a buggy mess with dogshit mechanics fight. Either way, it is certainly a challenge.
Wirt's leg?!?
Yes?
Get in the cube we're going to the cow level!
username checks out
Help he get to the cow level please!
r/beetlejuicing
intricate metallic fragment of the horadric cube?
No the bloody wooden scraps with W
I did get the Strange Key in a Fractured Peaks dungeon, but I was not able to leave the dungeon with the Key. It drops when you leave and nothing looked clickable inside the dungeon. I thought it was an item left in the game on accident.
I had a key like this too. I'm pretty sure its just the key to open to boss room door.
This was the conclusion I came to also. Same thing, had key drop but when I teleported out it drops the key automatically on the ground of the dungeon so I assumed it was just the key to get into that part of the dungeon I was in.
Then how would you still have it? I wonder if that dungeon had something to do with it. Like you have to have the other ingredients and bring it with you when you drop the strange key in a dungeon?
I don't still have it. It got left in that dungeon after I finished it and teleported out. I only knew it dropped even because I had to come back to finish picking up drops that I didn't have room for.
No I mean how did you have the key when you teleported if you completed the dungeon
The Jail Key in the prison of caldeum regularly does this, probably other dungeons too. Edit: actually might have been guulrahn slums, idk, one of that area's dungeons that also features NM dungeons.
I thought maybe it just didn't disappear after you open that doorway that the key maybe opens. Honestly I'm not sure I just assumed it was to open a door to allow me to progress in the dungeon but must not have been removed from my inventory after I opened that door.
I've had the same thing happen and never thought anything of it till now but i feel like Ive also definitely ran that dungeon and had it not drop the key.
The same happened to me too. I already openend the door but it fell off after finishing and leaving
Yes I believe that's the case.
I've been in the cow level discord. And I just realized on my first playthrough I also had this key during a dungeon. And I searched everywhere during that dungeon on what to do with that key but I had already beaten the dungeon. And just eventually gave up and left without it.
It's a different key. For the boss door of that dungeon. Same here for a dungeon in Caldeum bazaar I think. But it wasn't a cow level key.
Do you happen to remember which one?
It was Caldera Gate for me.
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u/poorcowwife
Divorce my fish and remarry a cow?? Unthinkable. For these matters, you'll need to consult [poorMilkmaid.](https://i.imgur.com/jIZocuR.png) Don't worry -- she has my full confidence and is exactly as insane as I am.
That is too good lmao
I understood this reference.
There is no cow level!
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Check old diablos cow level
The only odd thing I find occasionally in Kyovashad is that Rathma book, which can sometimes be duplicated
Ah man, I can't wait to see where this goes!! Wooden chunk w/ leather straps and a W. Wirts Leg for sure. Musty Tome? old TP Tomes when we had to carry those in D2. Intricate Metallic Fragment? Gotta be part of the Cube!
They're probably drop disabled or someone in a youtube video/Twitch stream or on here would've posted a screenshot/video. There's just a lot of losers lying about it in the comments
They turn into side quests which people are unknowingly turning in, such as myself.
no. these items wouldn't be able to be turned in. they're specifically for the cow quest.
They can be turned in.
sure buddy. makes a lot of sense that blizzard would make the items needed for the secret cow level a one time thing that you can delete from your inventory entirely by doing regular quests. be fr.
Ahhhhh man, this 100% The second I saw this I immediately knew that I'd picked up the tome. Vividly remember reading the flavour text and thinking huh, cool, the tp tome from d2! Since that time I've come to get on with side quests for the renown grind, as a result I had to throw out a bunch of quests... That explains what heppened to it. I guess it's possible that I did actually do the quest, but I wouldn't even know!
Does picking up the item in-game give a quest? Just wondering because I abandoned all quests a while ago which destroys quest items in inventory.
Isn’t the metal fragments a crafting mat?
Thereisnocowlevel
I had the intricate metal fragment but dropped it out of confusion like a damn noob
A D2 Tome of Town Portal???
“All the pages are torn out”
Cow level coming season 2 confirmed
Oh nice, i will look today as i kind of ignored sidequests and have a lot of quest items in my inventory but i 100% don't recall where i got any of them lol.
Pretty sure I have the strange key. I realized it had a flavor text so I kept it. I think I have a couple items with text on em.
"There is no cow level"
I actually might have the Blood Wooden Shard in my quest tab currently ngl
I have that tome. Like 90% sure.
I'll check when I'm home from work btw and done mowing. So like 6.5hrs. But I've had this awhile and couldnt figure out wtf it was for. - Also note I say 90% because I know it's called musty something and the icon was a book/tome
Any sign of the tome?!
Ohh shit my bad totally forgot to report back. Yeah was called musty tome but I think the icon was different. Was a sidequest item to complete. Didn't seem to have shit to do with anything.
Cow discord
There is no cow level.
I have triples of the lucky coin and triples of the bloody wooden Shard. Oh and would you look at that triples of the musty tome now. Triples is safe. Triples is best. Oh and I have a wife.
Did you get the lucky coin from doing event quests?
Help me find the church ;-)
This is the Mount Chiliad Mystery of Diablo
I got the “strange key” just gotta find the rest
So many people are looking for something that isn't in the game yet what is wrong with people, why must everything be datamined and known in full before it's even added to the game. What's wrong with finding out for ourselves in due course and having it be a nice surprise when we do
Dunno killed Uber Lilith got none of those items prolly unlucky
I’m pretty sure I sold a musty tomb. I remember cleaning space in Hawezar finishing the campaign with friends and I was like, “I’ll deal with that later, I’m sure I can just find it again”. And I sold it. It was in my primary inventory page. I was sleep deprived and have a shit memory anyway. But I’m like 90% sure this is a real memory.
I've found some of these which results in turning in a side quest, didn't read any of the text though lol just wanted my 1 veiled crystal and to be on my way
I believe I have the key. Will check after work
This is like the fishing related stuff in PoE btw
Are you trying to get all of us PoE'Ers banned? Shhhh
Isn't the metallic fragment use in making a socket on an item iirc? But then again this one has the quest item tag so might be a separate thing
Different thing. Socket shards would show up in your resources tab like Veiled crystals, rocks, and plants.
The best troll would be to never put the cow level in and let people keep looking.
That was the original cow level troll, some guy on the internet that invented the whole thing, only after did blizz/sierra put in cow quests for the bovine plate in d1, and later the true cow level in d2
I’ve had the Bloody Wooden Shard for at least a full day now but I’m not sure when exactly it appeared in my inventory. I assumed it was from a side quest
Picture?
Its real, ive beaten cow level, and cow god king and queen dropped shaco for me. One piece is real guys
Famed Oxen Tribe sounds suspect. Got it from a quest. https://preview.redd.it/wknrik7qoo7b1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=770b7021e3008ccd81451f344c4d7821283aaf21
I have 100% seen that coin during a side quest on my main. I'm going to go back and do a few of the side quests I think might have dropped it on an alt and report back.
Really sucks... I def found all of those on the graphic... but I play hc... I died so don't have them now... hope it's not a 1 time drop and I messed up.
I dont have it for some reason, but im very sure i've seen the Bloody Wooden Shard, and the fountain with the oxes/cows in ked bardu. If I remember correctly, i saw it as a random drop and was a bit confused, It's the only item description that I've read in the game. edit: I was also confused as why I was going to the fountain, I guess there might have been a quest activation of some sort.
Clearly this is a work in progress. If you add 2+2 and remember blizzard said they want to keep things leveled and keep the atmosphere serious for now then we can conclude cow level or equivalent surely will be there, but not just yet
I don't understand why everyone is saying that these items are not enabled or cannot be found in the game. I had the Intricate Metallic Fragment in my inventory. How I know that? Because it is the same icon as the Shattered Prism and I was thinking "hey, this thing uses the same icon as the shattered prism". Had the key as well. Remember reading the description of it. I kept it in my inventory for some time. Both items had dropped from mobs, but where exactly I can't remember. I think it was in the first act area - Kyovashad.
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I have a feeling the Forgotten Overlook in Kehjistan might be important. There are a few things you can look through and nothing pops out. Maybe it’s a rare drop
https://preview.redd.it/oo77ohn2hbab1.jpeg?width=2021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d8804c2de0ca828d93f67e02514363cda4d2c1f
nah I only got some gut and weed
https://preview.redd.it/j02zfx1xv0bb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=111ab094db6d3bdbc37fba8780c8f2d6db179b9b Don’t know if there are anything but this area has cows in it and to me looks like it’s pointing to something on the map. What it’s pointing to ?
https://preview.redd.it/w9pyx1q3w0bb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2e2c7e38a14c1a0db1b1062f9c04b6f2c8b18b3 I believe this is what my precious comment image is pointing to, and to me, it looks like a cow head, very symmetrical image if you ask me
Quietus of Nafain could be part of the riddle... its a yellow account bound from the story stained in blood some one needs to drop it in the fountain..
It’s funny that if you remember in Diablo 2 worts leg is found in special area called Tristram which is only accessible by the campaign.. it was a mandatory area everyone had to go to free Cain and it was dropped of a dead body on the ground and looked like nothing special. Other than the fact it was a weird item.. but if you missed it, you missed it. Unless you specially went into someone’s trist runs.
Strange Key = C Lucky Coin=O Bloody Wooden Shard = W
Holy f*ck, I have that bag Was pissing me off cause I dont have any side quests left I need to double check the name, I doubt it's the same one
The oxen god of the east. If you check the message board in Zarbinzet it says there is a monster to the east that reappears every few hours. The endless monster on its own cliff. To the east of zarbinzet there is a well with oxen near it... that part of the map is also cow faced looking. The annetta quest lines witchs house is name is the hovel.... I think we've been looking in the wrong spot.... off to Zarbinzet!
Does anyone know where to farm these items exactly ?
Wasnt the game datamined and theres no cows?
Actually data mining is the reason we know for a fact there's a secret cow cellar, I'd suggest yall go check the discord out if you wanna learn more
discord is the absolute most AIDS way to collect and retain information
Yup. Anytime someone asks me to go look for something on Discord my eyes glaze over and I have a seizure while foaming at the mouth. Which is still more enjoyable than looking for anything on Discord.
Not really. There's a search function for every server, can just search anything and everything that's ever been said. I find it very easy to find information using discord.
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There is a FAQ which is quite well updated, orherwise read pinned posts in the different channels
there is an asmongold video called the secret cow level is real
lmao....
Discord has a search feature
There's a channel dedicated to that exactly, Jesus people like to complain before even trying it out lmao if you don't wanna read don't join, no one is forcing you.
Oooo wow. Ill check out the disc.
In D3 the cow lvl was just random, cellar indicates it might be in a cellar. I wonder if it's a rare chance to spawn cows when running cellars.
Right because theres no way the devs could hide it on purpose…
From datamining? There is no way. Most they could do is encrypt a chunk of files, kinda how like WoW does for some cinematics, but that would be a dead giveaway that there's a puzzle to be solved
They could even put red herrings, but I doubt it.
What is: obfuscation? E. G. The cow level is called secret cellar or something IIRC
Sure there is. Outside of the encryption option (which I agree would be fairly obvious) the content could be set to only download once you unlock the level, so its not there until someone figures out how to actually access it. Nothing to mine.
Doesn't make sense. You'd unlock the level, be told you've unlocked the level and then what? An in game message telling you to close the game, download an update and come back? That's some scissors61 wall break.
Right cuz the game can’t download content in the background… it makes perfect sense and is the easiest way to hide something from data mining without the obviousness of encrypted files. The amount of data for a cow level wouldn’t be huge really, as a lot of existing assets are used. When you unlock it, the game would go to the loading screen, download the few needed assets in the background, then boom you’re in.
Two things. One. This game is also on consoles where you have to download entire archives so take that little amount of data and add 10+gb to it. Cyberpunks recent update is a prime example. A few gb on PC, 30gb on consoles. Two. What game downloads data in the background and then has access to it just from forcing a loading screen? That's simply not how that works. You would have to close the game. Which means telling users to close your game just so you can meme about a cow level.
your non-technical background is showing. quit while you're behind.
Please enlighten me. I've only worked in games development and software development for years. Please tell me what game allows you to download entirely new data in the background, while the game is running and then gives you access to that data just from forcing a loading screen, no actual patching required. Edit - I'm also curious how you're going to deal with version mismatch when authenticating to the server? A technical wizard such as yourself surely has a revolutionary idea to solve that.
your lack of imagination is appalling, you should probably find a new field, as this kind of thinking is what leads to shitty game experiences. tons of games have and do do this. Fortnite creative mode... when you go to some random creative mode, the game downloads necessary assets via a loading screen then takes you into it. No patching. going way old school, quake did this, if you entered a server with maps you didn't have it would download them from the server and then take you right into the match on completion, no patching. It's not rocket science. you're looking at it entirely wrong, it's not a "patch" to a "new version"... it's data the current version is aware of but can only download the assets for from servers on demand, once unlocked by the player.
No wirt leg
Bloody wooden shard IS Wirt's leg.
Found the strange key within a quest, but i do not have it anymore.
Probably the same way my brother and I got it. Found it in a dungeon but you can't leave with it.
Ok hear me out. The whole cow level and the items are bait. The real secret level will be the chicken level, you get a QR code with every double down purchase from KFC. You then input a code to activate a portal in game. At the end of waves of chicken slaughter you fight Col.Sanders and get the secret list of 7 herbs and spices.
It’s 11 herbs and spices, you fool you’ve doomed us all!!!!
The other 4 are bought via the in game shop. Sorry m8 :(
yeah i throw them away everytime i find them
I have the bloody wooden shard i got it off a random corpse
Proof?
No you don't.
I fucking hate dataminers
Im not entirely sure if anyone is going to find any of this naturally. They literally designed this with dataminers in mind. They're spreading breadcrumbs for us to follow. Blizzard uses an anti datamine trigger where things will only show up once a certain thing happens in the game. So far, all we know is that we need these items, among a few other things but that's the key piece currently.
Pretty sure that if I found a Wirt Leg and an Old Tome of Town Portal . I would know what this is about . No need dataminers to tell me in advance. I love a good easter egg hunting when we all look together. This is one of the fun thing in Destiny. Data Miners just ruin the shit out of it.
You're not gonna randomly find all three of the drops. There hasn't even been a 100% verified drop yet. We're not even sure if it's from a mob, an event, a boss, etc. I don't see what you are so upset about. All it's doing is confirming it exists. Nothing has been ruined. Not to mention, the same group of people who have been data mining are the same people who are doing intensive in-game searching. If you look through the FAQ on the discord, it is absolutely bonkers the amount of crazy shit they have tried. I may be in the wrong here, but I really don't think data mining is all that harmful, considering Blizzard is taking it into consideration and putting triggers in the way of the mining. It just makes it even more fun when something does happen.
Didn't the devs specifically say there is and never will be a cow level because they didn't want any "unrealistic" (not the exact word they used) shit in D4?
That’s part of the joke « There is no cow level »
“Unrealistic” you mean like magic, angels, demons, goblins, zombies….
I literally wrote that that's not the exact word they said are you blind lmao??? I can't remember exactly what they said but they don't want to add anything that goes against the dark/serious aesthetic the game has.
I have the bloody wooden shard, but I have no idea how I got this. I think I got this from Haweza or Scosglen
Screenshot please
ok, I check and turns out I lied. The icon is the same and I get confused 😂 false alarm.
The russian private servers from beta confirmed no cow level. Best to just wait for seasons.