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EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster

Posted by simoniker on from the cheetos-used-up-entirely dept.

Thanks to Got Game? for their posting discussing the in-game slaying of Kerafyrm, aka The Sleeper, in PC MMO EverQuest. This event, commemorated with a screenshot on the site of one of the guilds involved, is notable because the players "...killed what Sony Online Entertainment intended to be unkillable. But rather than actually make it untargetable, Sony just gave it a hundred billion hitpoints. For those non EQers out there a reference scale: a snake has about 10 hitpoints. A dragon has about 100,000. A god has 1-2million." So, it took "close to 200 players almost 4 hours to beat the thing down into the ground", after an earlier failed attempt where the guilds "beat it down to 27% and then it mysteriously disappeared. Without dying. It seems that one of the Game Masters at SoE reset the zone because 'they thought the encounter might be bugged'."

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  1. Re:The Result? by roche · · Score: 5, Informative

    The last line in the first article says, "Oh, and God drops no loot."

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    roche
    Bah Humbug!
  2. Re:Those were the days. by Violet+Null · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ummm. Not quite.

    1) This happened during betatesting, before the game went live.

    2) Lord British died, not through the guy exploiting a bug in the client, but because British's "Invulnerability" flag had gotten lost during a reset.

    3) He was not banned from UO, he was banned from their beta testing, since he had (unrelated to killing Lord British) exploited bugs in the client without reporting them.

    http://www.aschulze.net/ultima/stories9/beta.htm

    (Or google for 'ultima online killing lord british')