Genshin Impacts players beware - this hack is "permanently bricking" player worlds
Careful out there, Genshin Impact players – the China server is awash with reports of hackers permanently «bricking» some players' progress.
Whilst not formally acknowledged by developer miYoHo just yet, fans have taken to social media to report issues with some malicious players using third-party software to delete important items like elemental totems, which essentially prevents them from making any progress, even if they delete their install and re-download a fresh version.
Although the issue seems to be confined to Chinese Genshin Impact players for now, all players across the world are being warned not to join «any stranger's co-op room until the bug is fixed».
Take the examples in the Reddit thread below, for instance. According to one comparison, where one unaffected player can see a cannon and an electro tree, there's nothing but a large space in-game for the one who thinks they've been hacked. In another example, a geo pillar has been completely deleted from the game for one unlucky player.
«The new exploit has to do with deleting someone's world exploration points (so things like seele, chests, culi like hydroculus and the likes),» explains Redditor AntonioS3.
«There is supposed to be an elemental totem there in the first seconds of the video, but it's not there because the guy actually deleted it from his world. It is actually an account-wide bug and not just the client, because later in the video, he logs in with his cloud account to check, and they are still not there, meaning that his world/account has been bricked and unable to get 100%.»
The Redditor finishes by warning all players — whether playing on the Chinese server or not — to avoid joining the co-op lobbies of strangers «until the bug is fixed».
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