CCP Pepe approves exploit?

In the Pepe's live stream, I observed several players from the •ARX• alliance using Shehulk Deathless on more than one podium, which is not allowed in the Coliseum. They exploited a glitch to accumulate more alliance points.

The •ARX• alliance has recruited Pepe's secondary account, but I didn't see him express any disapproval of this exploit.

Comments

HungaryHippo

If you exploit bugs, you get compensation.

CheeseMaster482

Everyone looking to place high abused the bug. Of course kabam won't do anything though, can't be punishing the whale alliances!

ahmynuts

If a bug benefits whales then everyone should exploit the hell out of it in hopes for a good comp

GUEST89756

Always, whales are the ones who abuse mechanics the most and Kabam will do nothing.

Trunko

didn’t u hear, exploiters get max rewards!

Rayven5220

Lmao, ratting people out because you didn't do it?

Brain_X

lmao, is playing the game now called exploiting lol??? 😂

CheeseMaster482

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907836#Comment_2907836

If the humble F2P plebian abused an exploit to gain ranked rewards, they are getting banned. If the Tubby whale alliances abuse an exploit they get a free pass. Just because you are a piggy that eats up the whale slop doesn't mean you can't see the issue with this.

Rayven5220

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907845#Comment_2907845

I don't see the issue with it because if kabam released it so that could happen and it wasn't supposed to happen, I guess they better fix it.

I do however not like the human version or rats.

While I enjoy the rodent type as pets, I despise human rats.

Anotherconcernplayer

So here are a couple of things.

The title is while technically correct it is misleading. A more suitable title would have been "Pepe Exploited Bug"
Now we know why Coliseum Alliance rewards are delay, we can thanks players like Pepe with question ethical standards. Someone like Pepe who is in the CCP would clearly known this is a bug, as it was clear all the official information provided that this was not how it so be played.
There is a massive different between accidental stumble on a bug and activity, intentionally exploiting a bug. You can accidentally open crystals and not know it was bugged, you CAN'T do the Podium 5 times and being in the CCP without not knowing it is a bug. For someone the reply here, while I understand your frustration with Kabam regarding the crystals compensation, this is a completely different thing and shouldn't be buddled up with something else.
@Rayven5220 , Your attempt to bully and insult the OP is more of a reflection on you. When someone doing something that they know is not how is should work, exploited for their own benefits, it can be consider as cheating. So when a CCP known of a bug and instead of reporting in to Kabam, he decided to exploit it and then with very questionable decision make of live streaming the results. Then this is clearly the only out come that could happy.
If Kabam doesn't at least give Pepe a behind the screen a strike one, then they essentially tell all CCP members to exploits known bug and pass it on to all your follow. But as of right now all this is showning is Pepe a well known CCP of Kabam is telling all summoners, you can exploits bug to the max with no consequences .

@Kabam Crashed and @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex not expecting a reply, but personall think Kabam should look into this.

Peregrinus

The line from the ARX chat (see image) amused me the most:

"No repitan personajes en el coliseo... es penalizable"

“Do not use the same character repeatedly in the coliseum... it is punishable.”

@Kabam Crashed @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex , just give everyone the same alliance rewards and rank rewards.

HungaryHippo

If I were Kabam, I would reward everyone who used 5 different champs and played by the rules. But these guys won't do a damned thing; if you didn't use this hack you're a fool (I am in that club even though I managed to score over 24 mil).

JESUSCHRIST

What's new

This is current meta: Exploit and get compensation

SirGamesBond

Tere was a message from officers in my alliance: Don't exploit this exact bug. Top 50 AQ. 5k radiance rank rewards ain't gonna do jack to most people in here. But the principle remains. Exploit at your own risk. Kabam dwells in grey area.... they can do somthing by punishing one bug exploit or leave it to deal in future.

It's your risk, do whatever you feels like. Exploit don't exploit, in the end we all get.

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907907#Comment_2907907

Someone in my ally used deathless she hulk all 5 times and I slid them one of these in the dms: 🫡

Vance2_jr

At the end of the day, this doesn’t fall on anyone’s shoulders but Kabam’s. They continually roll out half-assed content full of bugs. If you don’t want people to exploit/use/play with these bugs STOP BEING SO SLOPPY ON YOUR END. It’s one thing when it’s a random bug here or there, but this is a pattern with MCOC. We’re players, not UX testers. You don’t care about checking your stuff? Then guess what? We don’t care about not taking advantage of it.

Rayven5220

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907858#Comment_2907858

1: correct.

2: alliance ranked rewards ALWAYS come on Monday after the current AQ cycle. That's nothing new, and it's been that way as long as I can remember.

3: agreed.

4: my not liking snitches has zero to do with "bullying and insulting", and everything to do with the fact i hate snitches. I thought that was obvious enough, but here we are.

Also, let's not forget that while obviously Pepe knew it was a bug, 90% of the player base doesn't. Not everybody frequents the forums, YT, Line chats, Discord etc..

Most people had no idea you weren't supposed to be able to use the same champ on all 5, because alot of players are casual players.

5: I'm sure kabam will say something to him, because obviously he knew it was a bug. What, if anything they do other than that is up to them.

I would be more worried about the people blatantly using mods to clear 200 health bars than a few guys using the same champ to inflate their score, though.

Gamer

yes most did know if there knew it because there was only one way to do this explicit

SummonerNR

My question would be.. WHAT was it about this champ that somehow allowed it ???

It obviously was not bugged with all champs, and I wonder if it was really ONLY this Deathless SheHulk (and was it only that Star-Rarity version ?) or were there a bunch of others too (like Electro, WinterSoldier, or others, but that nobody would have even bothered to see if they too were broken) ?

HungaryHippo

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907960#Comment_2907960

Most high tier players know all the champs that worked. Lots of ramp champions (Shehulks, Dark Phoenix, etc) and AAR champs like Crossbones and Onslaught that fail the sleep node.

BringPopcorn

Just once I wanna see Kabam do the right thing, they explained the mode in the livestream and in writing. Dock the points from people exploiting this and give them **** rewards.

Probably won't happen, they should have been docked from solo rewards as well.

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