Arcade Crashers are back

[warpigxxxL-1483]

why is it crashing my comp whats going on

[Beast-11534]

I just tried opening the custom tab on two computers. Both froze as expected, but neither crashed the whole computer. Not even close. Did you try closing the game? If you dont, it may appear that the whole computer is frozen. I’ve been able to close the game both by clicking “close program” in the “game not responding” popup, and by right clicking the taskbar icon and clicking “close window”. Both worked fine without any issues.

[segfault-1353]

The thing is it just happened a week ago and Blizzard was supposed to fix this exploit completely. Obviously they just hacked around a bunch of garbage or simply removed the offender, which is why it so easily happened again. You know what would happen in a good organization if the same mistake happens twice? Firing.

[Krayz-12654]

Nah I’m assuming a week ago they thought this wouldn’t be a repeat offense after the bogus maps last week were removed.

[DarkIPhoenix-1305]

Rename your title thread to Criminals, instead of Arcade Crashers.

It is criminal act to invade, infect or disable other people’s computers without their consent.

If I went to prison for selling white powder to a few rich middle aged white men on the North Shore of Long Island (which is a consensual act between me and them), he can go to prison to a non-consensual assault of hundreds of thousands people’s property (your computer is your property, and many of the victims are under the age of 18).

“Oh he’s just abusing a security vulnerability,” which is like saying “The tech-guy left your front door open after cleaning your computer, so I walked in and hit it with a sledgehammer, so it’s the tech guy’s fault.”

Throw the book at him

If he’s willing to harm hundreds of thousands of non-consenting people over a balance change to their favorite custom map, what do you think he’d do if something personally sleight him.

[Jared-21124]

Yeah earlier when i logged in and went to custom it was fine at first and went to play an arcade game to do something for a friend it was fine, that is until i exitted the game and my game froze, i pressed windows or tab, to press the close starcraft 2 button, it didnt work, i tried to bring the game not responding bringup, it didnt show up, i tried taskbar the game won’t let it appear at the front of the screen, so in the end i was pretty much forced to restart my pc.

[Jared-21124]

Although i also hope from what i read atop the messages, that whats ever is going on, certainly doesnt affect my pc in anyway, and certainly doesnt get any Details or so from my pc just by being on a game me and a friend tend to enjoy playing together on.

[Medoc-1593]

This stinks! I like to play a custom map, and have to task manager kill sc2 after every match. For a 20 year old game, should have been pretty simple to fix this. hard crash lockup on lobby? so dumb.

[DarkIPhoenix-1305]

But according to the defenders of this cyber criminal on this forum, its your fault you had to restart your PC, not his, because you’re the one that pulled the plug!

That is what they are saying to all the data I lost in Excel due to being forced to restart my computer and announced my intention to sue the attacker for 1$ in small claims court just to drag him through the legal system.

[Beast-11534]

@DarkIPhoenix-1305

because you’re the one that pulled the plug!

That is what they are saying to all the data I lost in Excel due

That what YOU said.
Smh…

[KyleB-11744]

It’s crazy to think that some guy could do this to a game because he was mad

[Leviathan-1945]

@Leviathan-1945

EDIT: Unfortunately, after a custom game, the UI returns to the “Lobbies” tab automatically. So unless people completely close out of the game on the Victory/Defeat/Quit screen, they are going to get frozen.

Just to update:

An extra step can be done to avoid both freezing and force-closing at the end of custom games.

Once a game lobby is open, minimize it and change to Campaign mode. Then click “Return to Lobby” in the bottom left of the screen. After that, just fill the lobby and play normally. When the game is done, it will return to the Campaign UI instead of the Lobbies UI. Thus no force-close and no freeze.

EDIT:
Here’s a guide that goes through the whole process.

Full Work-Around to the Custom Mode Client Freezes

Hey all, First off, no credit goes to me for this. This is a compilation of other community members’ ideas over the last several days all rolled into one. [image] The goal here is to 1) completely avoid the “Lobbies” tab under the “Custom” game mode where exploited map names have a high chance of appearing, and 2) to avoid freezes at the end of games and/or force-closing the client on the Victory/Defeat/Quit screen. So, to do both: When SC2 opens, click on the “Campaign” mode in the upp…

[Roboroadkill-11893]

You have to admire the dedication people have to making others miserable through this game.

[afmghost-1256]

All because some game developer wouldn’t let them cheat on their game. I said it before and I’ll say it again: i wish they’d use that dedication and talent to make something cool instead of disruptive

[Adventurer-16000863]

@afmghost-1256

I said it before and I’ll say it again: i wish they’d use that dedication and talent to make something cool instead of disruptive

It’s way easier to be disruptive than it is to be productive. There are lots of ways to break something but very few ways to make it or improve it. Any idiot can crash a car but basically nobody could build one, let alone from scratch. One requires you have a brain and that’s it, the other requires a degree in mechanical engineering, a rare level of financial security, fabrication skills, and access to rare tools and resources. The incidence of a mechanical engineering degree alone is 1 in 25,000. It’s a lot easier to be disruptive than it is to be productive, that’s just a fact of reality.

This is why the USA is a republic, and not a democracy, by the way. There are a billion ways to break the system for every 1 way to improve it; the ordinary person has a 0.0% chance of improving the system. That’s why representatives are elected and the election process in theory favors the more capable people, and those people have a >0% chance of making improvements. Even so, their probability of improving things is so minuscule that their individual opinions are still integrated via a voting process, and this voting process has extreme restrictions that favor the status quo. So the probability of improving the system is so astronomically low even in a republic, but in a democracy it’s so close to zero it basically never happens and that’s why those systems degrade over time and eventually collapse. Democratic socialists don’t understand basic probability theory because they think the average ordinary person should have direct impact on key systems, like production. That’s why socialism leads to mass starvation.

[Lukenukem-1314]

Easiest workaround just switch server to Europe.

[Leviathan-1945]

That’s predicated on the game one wants to play is on EU since not every author publishes on multiple regions. But it’s definitely worth checking to see if it is.

[abs-2628]

I read on reddit and somewhere on this forum that EU is affected as well. Can’t really confirm if it’s true, since i decided not to launch the game.

[Leviathan-1945]

Yeah. I saw a couple posts about that here and there too.

The exploited maps can be uploaded to any region if they want, so it could potentially affect any of them.

[abs-2628]

I am curious if this bug can even be fixed on Blizzard’s side. If i remember correctly this is not SC2 vulnerability but rather WebDav client which SC2 uses - in such case only developer of this extension can fix it, not Blizzard.