Valve rolled out an emergency CS:GO hotfix to deal with lobby-crashing

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players may have noticed a small patch this morning. The hotfix is meant to address a relatively new exploit that allowed hackers to crash game lobbies – but the fix, at least for now, means you won’t be able to use the ‘nearby lobby’ feature for the time being.

From the sounds of things, CS:GO currently has an exploit that allows trolls to crash game lobbies. They’ll join an open lobby through the lobby browser or nearby feature, and then use the exploit to crash the game for everyone waiting in the lobby, apparently because they think that’s more fun than actually playing Counter-Strike.

Today’s patch is meant to address the issue. “We’ve fixed an issue with lobbies causing game crashes,” the Counter-Strike development team posted early this morning on Twitter. “Restart your game to receive the latest update.”

What’s changed is that the nearby lobbies feature is disabled, and you can’t join a lobby – any lobby, reportedly – unless one of your Steam friends is already in it.

It’s a bit of a blunt-force means of solving the problem, and players who rely on the system to, for example, play with lower-ranked friends, are going to be inconvenienced by the decision. As commenters on this reddit thread point out, it’s also a bit of a pain for players in Europe looking for same-language squads to play with.


On the other hand, nobody gets to have any fun at all if bots or trolls can just hop into any lobby they want and crash everyone’s game. On the other other hand, it was possible to circumvent this problem by setting your lobby preferences to ‘friends need invites’ mode.

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Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/counter-strike-global-offensive/lobby-crashing-bug-fix

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XboxPosted:

Sucks to see crashes but nice to see the quick fix.

AnimePosted:

Haha pretty funny but good fix.

CTVPosted:

I'm sure they'll get to fix this fully with time. Sucks people are like that crashing lobbies on purpose.

MazePosted:

Glad this got addressed quick it sounds messed up

AD4MPosted:

I noticed there was a problem last Friday with joining friends private lobbies which they addressed quickly. Very reactive team they have there by the sounds of things.

100ThievesPosted:

Only experienced this one time, but glad they were able to get a fix for it.