A video explaining just some of the glitches New World has faced of late.
Anyone who follows online gaming knows that new titles often have a few issues at launch and that those issues can need a few post-launch updates to iron them out. Still, Amazon’s long-delayed New World has played host to some surprising bugs, security issues, and exploits in recent weeks.
This weekend, reports started filtering in from players who had discovered how in order to insert and process their own HTML code inside New World ‘s chat box (thanks, apparently, to some improper input scrubbing). This resulted in some amusing visual trolling, as gamers could use specific HTML to be able to spam giant pictures of in-game sausages or even display large yellow boxes above their characters to block the other players’ in-game ui view. Other trolling was more severe, like gold duplication exploits and HTML code that could crash the game if a player hovers over the certain bit of text .
On Friday, New World Community Manager Luxendra posted that the team had just that day “discovered an issue where players were able to post images and other links in the talk that resulted in unsavory behaviour. ” Luxendra added that the developers “have enabled a fix that should resolve this issue plus prevent players from abusing in addition to exploiting this feature. ”
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