Amazon has released a patch to address an exploit in New World
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The exploit turned item links into landmines for your mouse cursor, causing it to crash and burn. Latest update: Amazon has deployed a fix that should resolve this issue and prevent players from abusing and exploiting this feature. Click here to read more. According to the forum post, this feature should already be enabled in each region. From this point forward, item links should be safe, but continue to be cautious. The original story was as follows: For the time being, new World players may want to turn off global text chat altogether. Some users are able to send messages containing disruptive images and, in some cases, malicious code that will cause the game to crash as a result of an exploit in New World's chat system.
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Early examples of the chat exploit were seemingly innocuous—a blown-up picture of New World's sausage art here, a raw chicken there—when they were first discovered sometime yesterday afternoon. It didn't take long for players to come up with more nefarious applications for the flaw after discovering it. As demonstrated in the video above by Josh Strife Hayes, it appears to be possible to inject code into an item link message that, when hovered over with your mouse, causes the game to crash in a matter of seconds. Amazon Games is aware of the problem and is looking into ways to prevent Diablo 2 Resurrected Items Xbox S from happening again, but there is currently no estimated time for a fix. We recommend that you close your game's chat by pressing Enter and that you switch off channels or mute them completely by clicking on the gear icon above the typing field to avoid being exposed to malicious links or annoying chat images.
Additionally, it appears that players have figured out how to post images other than the art that has already been included in the game, including images that extend beyond the text chat's on-screen borders. The flashbanging of one player in particular has been reported to have been triggered by a server-wide message that covered the screen in bright yellow boxes. The exploit is still in its infancy and is the subject of an ongoing investigation. Despite the fact that Hayes' video claims that the method for injecting code into item links can also be used to duplicate gold, the video did not demonstrate this in action. Unfortunately, because the exploit does not appear to be difficult to use, players should expect the amount of spam and problematic links to increase in the coming days. For the time being, it's probably best to keep your conversations in direct messages.
MMOs have a long history of having issues with their chat systems. Reacting to a New World sausage message on Reddit, Redditor Booner999 shared a memory from when users were posting funny and malicious images in World of Warcraft's chat, and Redditor chinaexpl0it recounted an exploit similar to this from Tera Online. Amazon's problem is certainly not unique in this regard, so hopefully a solution will be found in a short period of time.