Lost Connection on Hard Core SSF, Death

Reference ID: 1,942,151,214

While playing on hard core, solo self found mode, my character (level 79) died in an end game map during a lag spike. This happened after I had pressed "escape" to pause the game as the latency issue resolved itself.

During the lag spike, the game screen went mostly black and showed a loading sign, and I could see just enough game content to know that my character had begun moving to the left and would not stop moving left in the same direction (I did not direct the character to do that).

While this was happening, a monster (rare) began hitting my character until the character died. I was unable to control the character throughout this process, and pressing escape did not pause the game either.

I am hoping to be restored to hard core mode, but I am not sure if that is possible, so I figured I'd report the issue anyway.