Using Hunt: Showdown’s LeMat exploit can get you banned

pcgamesn.com:

The Hunt: Showdown community hates the LeMat Mark II revolver right now, thanks to an exploit that makes the pistol incredibly overpowered. Crytek says it’s working on a fix, but that in the meantime, taking advantage of the exploit can get you in trouble and potentially banned from the multiplayer game.

To understand the problem with the LeMat, it’s important to know why it’s a unique weapon. The LeMat Mark II is a cap-and-ball revolver with nine chambers, but the way they’re arranged is what makes the pistol special. In the centre of the cylinder there’s another chamber, which accepts a shotgun shell. This fires out of a second, smooth-bore barrel that lines up underneath the main barrel.

Practically speaking, this means the LeMat can be used for precise firing at pistol range, but can also pack a wallop of a shotgun blast when enemies get close. However, this secondary fire mode is where the issue has cropped up. It turns out that it’s possible to get the gun to glitch so that when the shotgun shell is fired, each pellet is treated as a full metal jacket pistol bullet.

These bullets don’t have the normal spread of shotgun pellets, so the LeMat can effectively be made to fire a whole handful of FMJ pistol rounds at a time, without the spread or range constraints you’d normally have with a shotgun shell. Naturally, this makes the LeMat absurdly overpowered, and players have been frustrated by the proliferation of the exploit.

Hunters,

We are aware of the issues relating to the LeMat. The team are aware and have been actively working on resolving the bug, and will release a hotfix in the coming days.

Keep an eye out regarding news for server downtimes to deploy the fix. pic.twitter.com/ifEbAghETK

— Hunt: Showdown