Nefarious players are exploiting a critical Destiny 2 bug that allows them to crash another player’s game by sending them a malicious message in the in-game FPS text chat. Bungie has temporarily disabled the in-game text chat feature on all platforms while they investigate the issue and prepare a fix.
The text chat bug was originally reported on the Destiny 2 in-game forums and subreddit. Players noted that sending a certain text string to a chat window would cause the game to instantly crash, unload the game, and return a text chat message. Weasel bug.
In particular, this began to affect PvP in the game: instead of posting a message to a wide chat, some evil Deviants in Destiny decided to whisper a line of text to their opponents, causing games to crash other players and They will ensure an easy victory. for themselves. Some players have reported that even disabling your chat doesn’t fix the issue, as messages are still being sent to your character, but not appearing to you.
While gamers are apparently reluctant to share the post in question, multiple people have reported that the culprit is a lengthy “copy and paste” meme that was translated from English to Chinese, exceeding the expected in-game character limit for a game. single message. Since Chinese characters generally require a bit more memory for each character, this causes a memory overflow and causes the game to crash.
Bungie tweeted that it was investigating the issue and shortly after announced that have “temporarily disabled text chat on all Destiny 2 platforms while we investigate the issue causing the Weasel bugs.” I hope this is resolved soon so players can send each other sweet messages of thanks and support again, as I’m sure they always have.
Bungie announced this week that Destiny 2’s skill-based matchmaking system is coming to select Crucible playlists in the space game. A big reveal in August is expected to show off the future of Destiny 2, where Bungie is expected to show off the Lightfall expansion for multiplayer.
Source : PC Gamesn
