[BLOG] Blizzard To Punish Those Who Used Mei Ice Wall 'Exploit'

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[BLOG] Blizzard To Punish Those Who Used Mei Ice Wall 'Exploit'

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As Overwatch continues to be played by many and new updates are applied to rebalance the meta and introduce new characters, as well as add content for events, so will bugs also slip in every now and then. Some become known as exploits to allow people to do things they shouldn't.



A new one has come to light in the last few weeks, in which players found a way to use Mei's ice wall ability to push players through walls into areas designated as out-of-bounds. Obviously this allowed for hiding players to attack enemies without much danger to themselves, and that sort of ruins the match for everyone. Now Blizzard have located and apparently squashed the bug, and have promised that those found to have been intentionally using the exploit to give themselves an advantage will see punishment.



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"This bug was surprisingly tricky for us to track down but we believe we have identified a fix." wrote game director Jeff Kaplan on the game's forums. "Our hope is to have it fixed... but there is always the chance that our fix could fail. We're currently testing to verify the fix. This bug is clearly an exploit and we consider this cheating. Do not attempt to reproduce this bug. We will be taking action against those who abused this exploit... exploiting game mechanics like this comes at a cost to those you are competing against. We take aggressive action against people who abuse game mechanics, hack or cheat. This case is no different."



Already people are reporting that they've found their accounts suspended for having used the exploit, and one Reddit user has reported that they're on a week long ban for it.https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5m461p/mei_wall_glitch_users_have_now_been_suspended/

Just as they said when they launched the game and have proved time after time, Blizzard take a hard line on people cheating in their PvP shooter game.
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