It seems the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, as soon as once more, affected by a hacker downside. As an alternative of doing completely absurd quantities of injury, this time hackers have found out tips on how to achieve entry to unreleased characters and skins. And writer WB Video games is reportedly issuing DMCA takedown notices in opposition to any property which have discovered their means on-line.
As reported by IGN, one hacker found tips on how to play as Deathstroke, one of many 4 characters developer Rocksteady Studios teased for an upcoming Suicide Squad season. The hacker is allegedly the highest participant on the sport’s leaderboard, so anybody who logs in and checks the rankings ought to be capable to see them. There have been photos floating round of this, although no character mannequin was on show, simply Deathstroke’s title and brand. There have been additionally unreleased skins for The Joker and King Shark that folk have by some means accessed, all of which started circulating on Reddit and X/Twitter on April 4. Not lengthy after, the property have been eliminated, with of us believing WB Video games was behind the strikes.
YouTuber TrixRidiculous, who primarily covers DC- and Marvel-related RPGs, had their posts on X/Twitter swiftly taken down by a DMCA strike.
“I posted three pics to Twitter,” TrixRidiculous informed Kotaku over e-mail. “Inside most likely half-hour, I obtained a DMCA strike from WB Video games [Kotaku saw a screenshot of this notice]. Please simply convey consideration to the truth that the leaderboard is riddled with hackers/cheaters which have gone unbanned since launch, as that’s all I used to be making an attempt to do anyway.” This sentiment is shared throughout the sport’s official subreddit, with of us posting about “shedding curiosity” in Suicide Squad attributable to hackers flooding the leaderboards.
Kotaku reached out to WB Video games for remark.
This comes not too lengthy after Suicide Squad kicked off its first season, which went reside on March 28 and launched The Joker as a playable character. Sadly, gamers have been instantly mad in regards to the content material choices, decrying the grindy battle cross and the shortage of plot for the clown prince of crime and hyucks. Issues don’t appear to be going too effectively for Rocksteady Studios’ newest title recently, which WB Video games mentioned “fell wanting expectations” in February.