While it’s unclear how Bungie will punish those responsible for exploiting the chat issue, in recent months the company has taken cheating and harassment particularly seriously. This is happening right now on several #Destiny2 Twitch streams.īungie is looking into this exploit. The replies to Bungie’s announcement include several clips demonstrating the exploit in action, which includes one video of a player appearing to use the exploit while streaming.Īpparently, there’s a text string that if you send to someone via the in-game chat will crash their game. Unfortunately, some members of the Destiny 2 community were using this bug to disconnect their opponent from the servers in PvP matches – which meant that the cheater was automatically awarded a win. We have temporarily disabled text chat on all platforms in Destiny 2 while we investigate an issue causing Weasel errors.Īs detailed on a thread within Destiny 2‘s subreddit, players shared that the exploit in question involved overloading the text chat’s character limit by pasting a certain message, which resulted in the game crashing. Just over 10 minutes later, the company added that it has “temporarily disabled text chat on all platforms in Destiny 2 while we investigate an issue causing Weasel errors.”
On Saturday (June 30), Bungie announced that it was “investigating” an issue involving text chat in Destiny 2 (via PC Gamer). READ MORE: ‘MultiVersus’ preview: no need to break the bank to enjoy this brawler.Bungie has announced that text chat in Destiny 2 has been “temporarily disabled,” after an exploit that allowed players to crash their opponent’s game in a player versus player (PvP) match was discovered.