I’ve seen this happen twice where a player’s character model is shown scrunched up like a ball, and usually this results in a bunch of people leaving and joining the match. Everyone leaving might be coincidental though.
I’ve seen it happen in two Mystery Heroes games and I’m curious if one, has anyone else seen this and two, is this a player hack or game glitch?
I’ve been playing for years and I’ve never seen this happen, I think it’s very comical though.
They might by trying to replicate the dance emote bug where heroes can use the dance emotes of other heroes upon spawning into the game.
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Pretty sure it’s the Emote Swap bug - seen in this video
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Sadly, it isn’t the dance emote bug, I wish you could put images in these discussions. The best way I can describe it is the character model but literally shaped almost like a ball with their limbs all messed up.
The first time I saw it, I tried recording it using the highlight feature, but the model was completely still and normal.
To me it sounds like the Hammond dance emote. It scrunches up heroes into a ball.
But, maybe it is a different bug.
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I think it might, it’s only happened when I’ve been in Mystery Heroes, which somewhat rules out the switching back and forth between characters.
The first case was a Mercy who spawned in when we first joined the game, and the second case was when I died and I happened to see Mei. Everyone on my team was saying hi to her assuming that my team could see it too.
Sounds funny yet terrifying at the same time
This is definitely the emote swap bug. People are doing it with the “Hamster Dance” emote and since Hammond himself is so small it scrunches the player model to fit his size.
That’s also why it’s happening in mystery heroes - the bug is only possible to do in modes where your hero is randomly selected.
If it looks like this, its definitely the emote swap bug, and people are leaving because it only works on the first hero your spawned as, once you die it stops working
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Watch them remove this bug despite it being harmless fun in an arcade mode
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It’s not harmless if people keep leaving matches over it
Watch them remove this bug because people are pathetic
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Did it look like this, by any chance? https://i.imgflip.com/4sw4gq.jpg
Oh hey lol that’s the one I did
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Watch them taking 2 years to fix doomfist just like how they took 2 years to fix sombra because they regret coding them
Yes it looks exactly like that. I wonder how they’re able to do it through Mystery Heroes though, it always happened at the beginning of the match.
Very intriguing none the less, thank you for sharing that lol
They may fix it quicker due to a certain heroes dance makes you pretty much unkillable unless hit in the head which is hard to hit on the dance due to the models mesh.
Shame because I find it hilarous making Reaper or Moira do Lucio’s party dance or Ana as her hand just sticks in the air like she is about to raise the roof while waiting for the match to actuall start.
Even Baby D.va has the dances working for her so only dance we see her do will soon be patched :<
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NEVER heard of this but i would actually love to try it! you can only do it on mystery heroes? never play that mode maybe i should now lol
You could do it in the Mei Yeti mode (which is gone ofc). Any mode where heroes are pre-picked for you upon spawning, so basically only Mystery Heroes and Yeti Hunt.
But as soon as you die, it doesn’t work anymore, thus why so many leavers. They’re just there for the emote swap.
Here’s how it works: you spam a looping emote (sitting, dancing) just when the “game found” pop-up appears at the top of your screen after queue. Then, when you spawn, if you press the emote up command on your comms wheel, you will do the selected emote on whatever hero you’re playing as.
The reason people leave is because after you die, the bug resets and your emotes are fixed.