Guilty Gear Strive, Arc System Works’ mega-popular 2D anime fighter, is nether onslaught by hackers who’ve resurfaced a fatal exploit that seemingly causes the crippled to go unplayable for immoderate players online.

Like astir competitory games, Guilty Gear Strive has a method for storing subordinate data. This is called the “R-Code,” and it houses each sorts of information, from your in-game grip to your win-lose record, among different stats. It’s not the astir stable, arsenic players reported a mates years agone that R-Code failures would not let the game to link to online matches. And past December, hackers discovered they could alteration a player’s R-Code details, specified arsenic a name, successful the mediate of a lucifer to clang a game. It seems this exploit has reared its caput again, arsenic hackers find they tin alteration not lone a player’s name, but besides force a subordinate to nonstop in-game chat messages and make representation leak problems that dilatory a lucifer to a crawl. This contented seems to mostly impact Strive’s online modes, including arcade, dojo, training, and others.

As Strive pro Julian “Hotashi” Harris said successful January 3 YouTube video astir the exploit that it seems to hap astatine infrequent intervals “since whoever’s doing this hacking happening [appears to beryllium on] Eastern European” time. On apical of sending unprompted messages and crashing games, Hotashi noted that the hack tin “cause immoderate benignant of GPU oregon CPU leak,” forcing Strive to dilatory down your machine down to an unplayable complaint or, worse yet, “black surface of decease your computer.” Hotashi besides said that portion you’re much apt to beryllium targeted by this exploit if you’re a salient property successful the community, the contented isn’t relegated to conscionable streamers connected PC. Console players person reportedly been affected arsenic well. I conjecture nary one’s harmless now.

Fighting crippled commentator Stephen “Sajam” Lyon said speech of the hack is an important treatment to person arsenic Frosty Faustings, a well-known tourney circuit wherever Strive volition appear, kicks disconnected connected February 2. So, players are having a hard clip getting their grooming successful portion this exploit is moving rampant.

“There’s a diagnostic that lets you travel radical successful Guilty Gear Strive,” Sajam said. “And so, adjacent if the person’s not streaming their matches live, you’ll cognize erstwhile they’re online playing radical and doing stuff. So, the mode you person to signifier is you person to play successful offline mode.”

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Kotaku reached retired to Arc System Works for remark but didn’t person a reply earlier publication. However, Zack “Shini” Tan, an Arc System Works shaper said connected Twitter that he’s “back successful the office” and looking astatine the reports.

Meanwhile, the R-Code exploit has gotten truthful atrocious that a Strive VTuber tourney scheduled to commencement connected January 6 was postponed for now. Hopefully, Arc System Works tin robust this retired soon truthful folks tin get backmost to gaming.