Apex Legends streamer banned on stream apparently for using \u2018ult dash\u2019 movement exploit Respawn Entertainment\/Taxi2gApex Legends streamer Svend-Erik \u2018Taxi2g\u2019 H\u00f8egh has apparently been perma-banned for using the \u2018ult dash\u2019 movement exploit. In early January, a speed glitch was discovered in Apex Legends that allowed players to boost forward an unlimited amount of times. The exploit involves players triggering their Ultimate start-up animation, then hitting the melee key, and then finally swapping weapons. If the trick is perfectly-timed, a Legend will propel forwards a short distance, allowing players to dodge bullets and outmaneuver their opponents. Despite this, Respawn didn\u2019t respond to the glitch or give any indication that the issue was going to be fixed, so a lot of content creators and players began using it in their matches. One of which was popular Apex streamer Taxi2g who was banned seemingly out of the blue on January 12. Although there\u2019s been no confirmation that he was banned for using the exploit, he and his viewers seem to think that\u2019s the reason for the punishment. Taxi2g permanently banned from Apex on stream While heading into a Ranked game with his squadmates on January 12, Taxi2g was banned live on stream. During the load screen for a match, he received the error message: \u201cThe client\u2019s game account has been banned: Banned.\u201d Of course, this caught Taxi completely off-guard as he had no idea what he had done to deserve the punishment. After receiving the penalty, Taxi realized that he had not received any emails from EA or Respawn notifying him of the reason for the ban. So, he decided to make another account and continue playing. Unfortunately, this account was quickly suspended after a few matches along with the third he made shortly after. It was at this point that Taxi and his viewers began to speculate that his ban may be due to his use of the \u2018ult dash\u2019 exploit. However, with no confirmation from Respawn, it\u2019s hard to know whether that\u2019s the case. On January 13, Taxi did receive a reply related to his ban, saying he\u2019d been suspended for breaking \u201cEA\u2019s gameplay rules,\u201d but there was no specific mention of the exploit. XD thanks for keeping apex a fair and fun game for all! \ud83d\udfe9 pic.twitter.com\/NbD1xA0upO \u2014 Taxi2g (@TaxiDLegend) January 13, 2022 Although all the evidence points towards an exploit ban, some are claiming that other creators have openly admitted to utilizing the \u2018ult dash\u2019 glitch and have not been punished. This suggests it could be related to another in-game offense, but with Respawn refusing to provide a detailed explanation, it\u2019s impossible to know. There\u2019s a possibility Taxi has been banned as he performed the exploit on stream in front of his viewers, but it would be strange for Respawn to only punish streamers for abusing the bug. Either way, let\u2019s hope Taxi gets an explanation for the ban in the near future and hopefully the devs can patch out the bug before any other players are punished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends streamer banned on stream apparently for using \u2018ult dash\u2019 movement exploit Respawn Entertainment\/Taxi2gApex Legends streamer Svend-Erik \u2018Taxi2g\u2019 H\u00f8egh has apparently been perma-banned for using the \u2018ult dash\u2019 movement exploit. In early January, a speed glitch was discovered in Apex Legends that allowed players to boost forward an unlimited amount of times. The exploit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}