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