Lucioball is the latest mode in Blizzard’s highly successful, ever-in-controversy Overwatch, an online competitive shooter. It allows changes the title to a more Rocket League-style game, and is centered around the Brazillian rollerblading, parkour-ing character, Lucio, whose moveset seems to be fir for this mode. However, due to a glitch, it is possible for a player to enter the mode as another hero, which is not meant to happen. I mean, otherwise we’d all have Bastion as the goalkeeper. And Tracer would make a cool cheerleader, but I digress.
At first, the bug seemed to occur at random, but some players have apparently figured out how to make it happen intentionally, which in turn has rendered Blizzard to issue a warning against the players who seem to be doing so.
“Apologies for this bug. We’ve attempted to fix it numerous times and have had unrelated issues preventing the fix. We hope to have a fix this week,” Game Director Jeff Kaplan has written in the Battle.net forums. “In the meantime, we are in discussions with our Customer Support group to start taking action against those deliberately using the bug to play heroes other than Lucio. Please do not exploit this bug. Fair warning.”
Though there hasn’t been a clear mention of what exactly will happen to the players who are using this exploit, there is definitely an “or else” in his message. And while a straight up ban may seem unlikely, but Blizzard isn’t afraid of putting its step down when it comes to fair play. Reminder of this may be the fact that they actually took strong action against players cheating in the highly competitive game, also issuing permanent bans. The same for using a silly exploit in a single mode may come across as being too hard, but they might end up banning you on that specific mode. You’ve been warned.
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