MMO New World chat exploit bug

[Brunlea]

There's currently a serious chat exploit in New World. One exploit lets you insert an image from the game database to a silly size in the chat window, another exploit creates a yellow box on your screen and apparently a fatal one lets you crash the game client of other people when they hover over a certain message in chat.

Who knows what else can be done at this time. You may be best staying off the game until Amazon Games fix it.

Forum post:

Break every chat box

What is your character name in New World: CullanP What server/world did you experience your issue on: Describe the issue you are experiencing: You can break the entire chat for everyone who sees the picture, tested right before the servers reboot for the patch in dms Is this a bug or an exploit...

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[Brunlea]

Issue is now resolved:

[Notice] Image Posting and Exploits through In-Game Chat System

Greetings advenuteres, Earlier today, we discovered an issue where players were able to post images and other links in the chat that resulted in unsavory behaviour. We have enabled a fix that should resolve this issue and prevent players from abusing and exploiting this feature. This should...

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