In hindsight, Maselewski’s seemingly impossible time of 3 minutes and 12 seconds did seem well… impossible.
Anyone with a cursory understanding of the mechanics of Diablo will understand how improbably fortunate the run is.
As you’re able to imagine, this allowed rapid progression through the level.
This is the only valid date range that Diablo accepts.
This will be important later.
Interestingly, this wasn’t the original intention of the team.
The community never suspected Masewlewski of cheating, so nobody saw any reason to investigate the run further.
Using custom-made analysis tools, the group automatically checked “billions” of valid Diablo seeds.
As it turned out, Grobbo’s impossibly lucky seed didn’t even exist.
Or rather, it doesn’t exist legitimately.
However, that wasn’t the end of Grobbo’s game manipulation.
The run’s levels aren’t consistent with one specific seed, even the illegitimate ones.
Rather, these levels come from multiple different seeds spliced together to create an incredibly fast run.
After this evidence was published, Maselewski reportedly claimed that he never hid the spliced nature of the run.
“This big running community just stopped trying to run this game in that category,” he said.
“For more than a decade, this had a chilling impact on that community.”
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