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Austin Wood

Genshin Impact dev bans hackers "disguising themselves as victims" of game-breaking co-op exploit that permanently deletes dungeons

Genshin Impact

Imagine loading up your favorite RPG and dipping into some casual matchmade co-op only to find that one of your teammates has stolen the powers of some dark god and used them to permanently delete key dungeons and quest fixtures from your game world.

That's the nightmare Genshin Impact players faced over the weekend as reports of malicious hackers spread around the community. Developer Hoyoverse says it's now not only fixed such exploits, it's also banned the players responsible and is pursuing legal action against the plug-in creators behind it all. 

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