Battle.net condoning use of map hack?

[kier]

I noticed something odd on the zeal pic on the areat summit. There were red crosses on the map. I talked to a few people in a chat room and one said that these crosses were on map hack, and showed where monsters are. Are blizzard going to add something like this to the new patch? Perhaps awarding people who have completed each quest with bonuses such as this for the act? I don't know, but it really has confused me :blink:

[Ruvanal]

From my understanding the test mode/debugging mode that is commonly used in the QA for Diablo2 has always had a setting that would show up the monsters on the minimap. It used to be possible to set this up in MPQ-modding till it was disabled around patch 1.04 or 1.05 (iirc). The QA teams need to be able to spend their time testing against the monsters not running around trying to find them all the time. I just hope that part the testing is with same restrictions that the players will be under to see how frustrating some of the things that are set up will be.

[channel1]

Hee-hee, just kidding.

You must just be used to partying up with everyone else the second you join a game. Players who aren't in your party will show up red on the mini-map, no hack needed.

-rcv-

Edit: Okay, my bad. It seems that GF confirmed that the red "X"s in the screenshot were in fact monsters, displayed as a result of a setting in the development version debug mode.