Many Guilty Gear Strive streamers have said the game is currently “unplayable” because of hackers taking advantage of a recently discovered exploit.
The bug currently allows hackers to remotely alter the names of other players in the middle of a match, causing their games to crash (via Vice).
The hack uses a player's unique ID (or R-Code) which contains information about stats, activity and match history. When a Guilty Gear Strive player appears online, they can be targeted by the hack. Despite many streamers attempting to hide their R-Code, it can be easily viewed by any certainly one of their in-game followers.
The exploit also reportedly allows hackers to proceed chat messages that appear to be like they’re from the affected players. The current inclusion of crossplay to Guilty Gear Strive means both PC and console gamers can be targeted.
Guilty Gear Strive pro Hotashi claims that hackers are actually while using exploit to “cause the GGST client to possess some kind of leak, slowing the game to an unplayable crawl. This happens even in training mode, and doesn't happen with steam in offline mode, they wrote on Twitter.
“I’m going to be reducing of Strive before the R-Code exploit gets fixed. I'd like some more communication from Arc System Works about this as more and more streamers are getting hit,” added streamer Remi Celeste.
Despite weeks of reports about the latest R-Code hack, Arc System Works has yet to deal with the problem or to produce fix. However, producer Zack Shini did take to Twitter yesterday to confirm he was “back in [the] office [and] looking through all of the reports.”
While hacks are never fun, this one for Guilty Gear Strive comes in a particularly bad time since the qualifying period for Arc System Works' grand tournament is nearing its end. The final qualifying tournament for the Guilty Gear Strive event, which will come having a lb166,000 grand prize, takes place next month in front of the top level in March.
In other news, atreamer MissMikkaa has finally defeated two versions of Elden Ring boss Malenia, throughout a challenge that sees her playing the games simultaneously using different controllers – such as a dance pad.
