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Hey, devs. I've been nervous to post about this but I've found it's apparently possible for players on the same server to sabotage another player's island even without being granted editing permissions.

Without explaining how to exploit the bug. It involves a series of glitches such as:

  • Tricking the game to use their phone pass their island barrier.
  • Tricking the game for their island to play without being on their island.

Me and a friend agreed to test this by making some dummy structures without actually destroying any work.

Test results were:

  • We managed to get 40 on 1 player Island. The net ping didn't like it when his were playing with mine causing like 50% continuous packet loss. They don't attack each other just for note.
  • They can destroy another player island structures without being granted phone permissions. (Huge Exploit!)
  • Monsters are immune to other player's phone (delete, copy, move etc). I was curious if we could keep some permanent. Other player would have to use a gun to kill them.
  • Monsters can be sent to Battle Royale Playground Island. However, they... just do nothing but stand there since their AI pathing aren't loaded. They can still hit the player however but can't damage structures. But of course they can on other player islands.
  • I found out the hard way but they can still attack even if boogie bombed. I don't think that happened in S6.

Just to proof, here's the monsters on Battle Royale Playground Island in Tilted Towers: https://i.imgur.com/06yMaVj.jpg

I'm using a temporary account since I'm trapped outside my main account due to 2 Step Verification. Still sorting that out.

I won't explain how to perform the steps unless I know you're an Epic employee. So don't ask. This was just testing ways to break creative, not to course any harm to any other player islands.

The easiest fix is to patch monsters going through any island barriers.

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over 5 years ago - /u/SungGries - Direct link

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I'm sending you a quick message for more information now.