Richard Lewis reveals \u2018game-breaking\u2019 CSGO exploit that ignores smokes via Xenio YouTube[jwplayer aSfMGDlF]There is an exploit in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that lets players ignore smokes, which could pose as a massive vulnerability for the competitive state of the game, according to prominent esports journalist Richard Lewis. Lewis caught wind of the glitch and found that it was incredibly simple to recreate in game; a worrying part of the exploit since it doesn\u2019t trigger VAC \u2013 Valve anti-cheat \u2013 to flag anyone who takes advantage of the bug. \u201cIt\u2019s not only is it unbelievably easy to do, it\u2019s unbelievably effective,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cAs you can see from this footage, it completely removes smokes unless you are sat in the smokes.\u201d The clip he played showed someone in practice mode buying then throwing a smoke near their position, but when the utility popped, its normal plume of gas didn\u2019t appear. Instead, the sound queue and even the shockwave that naturally emanate from the grenade, go off without a hitch. But the element that is specifically meant to cut off sight lines isn\u2019t appearing after the Smoke Grenade bursts. Lewis said that he already passed off the exploit to the right people at Valve to take a look into a fix, while adding that he made the information public in hopes of getting the problem addressed much quicker. To that effect, he didn\u2019t explain how to recreate the exploit since it could lead to people adopting the bug as a strategy until it\u2019s properly sorted by the devs. \u201cThis is something that, I\u2019m going to guess, a significant number of amateur players have figured out how to do just based on the mechanics of it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been in the game, by my estimation, the last three-four patches, probably longer.\u201d As any casual player or curious observer can tell, this bug leaves a major window of opportunity for someone to abuse in game without detection. \u201cIf you\u2019ve been playing the game and seen someone consistently hitting headshots through smokes but maybe not doing anything else weird,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cWell now you know about the existence of this and should probably put them into the report system.\u201d It\u2019ll be interesting to see how quickly Valve approaches a fix for this exploit since it has the potential to disrupt everything from normal matchmaking to online esports environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard Lewis reveals \u2018game-breaking\u2019 CSGO exploit that ignores smokes via Xenio YouTube[jwplayer aSfMGDlF]There is an exploit in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that lets players ignore smokes, which could pose as a massive vulnerability for the competitive state of the game, according to prominent esports journalist Richard Lewis. Lewis caught wind of the glitch and found that […]<\/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-38850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38850","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=38850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}