Due to a game-breaking exploit causing users’ computers to crash, Bungie has disabled the Destiny 2 Text Chat. Bungie announced text chat has been temporarily disabled in Destiny 2, following the discovery of an exploit allowing players to crash the games of opponents they are playing in Player vs Player (PvP) matches. Bungie has now decided to disable text chat in Destiny 2 while working on fixing the exploit.
A Destiny 2 bug has forced Bungie to turn off text chat entirely in their games titles. The Bungie Help Twitter also tweeted out that text chat will not be available as the team at Bungie works through the Destiny 2 game-breaking bugs in the multiplayer shooter.
Malicious players are taking advantage of the Destiny 2s game-breaking bug, which allows them to cause the other player’s game to crash, by sending malicious messages in text chat of the multiplayer FPS game. The Player noted in the Player Report that players observed Destiny 2 begin crashing when receiving a series of texts from other players.
The exploit was discovered earlier this weekend, as users reported multiple crashes and error messages within Destiny 2s competitive play types. Starting last weekend Players noted an increase in crashes and error codes in Destiny 2s competitive game types. As detailed on a thread within the game’s subreddit, players shared that the exploit in question involved overcharging text chat characters while pasting in a specific message, causing Destiny 2 to crash.
We have temporarily disabled text chat on all platforms in Destiny 2 while we investigate an issue causing Weasel errors.
Stay tuned for updates. https://t.co/OCf41kjgrP
— Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) July 30, 2022
Some people on Destiny started sending their opponent’s secret messages while playing PvP, causing other players’ games to crash as the messages were too long. This started affecting PvP, especially in game: instead of posting the message in a larger chat, some nefarious Destiny Deviants decided to whisper a text string to their opponents, which caused the other players’ games to crash, ensuring themselves an easy win.
It remains unannounced as to when the developers will restore the in-game text chat once they patch things up, but the fact that commands like this are available for players is troubling to the rest of the Destiny 2 community. For the moment, text chat is gone, and given the timeline involved, it is not likely we will see any actual fixes until the Destiny 2 team returns to the office on Monday.
It appears that for the time being, Destiny 2 players are going to have limited options when it comes to communication, with developer Bungie having pulled the plug on text chat briefly because a game-breaking bug was present. As ridiculous as it sounds, it was actually the first time this had happened in Destiny 2s history and led to the developers disabling (most likely, temporarily) in-game chat for all players in-game.
