GAME: Skyhammer Airstrike Exploit (MAJOR)


(Ninjadeer) #1

Exploit: Allows you to team kill players with an airstrike when friendly fire is disabled.

Reproduction steps:

  1. Throw airstrike marker.
  2. Swap teams before the airstrike comes in (attackers to defenders or vice versa).
  3. All (former) allies in the explosion will be killed and you will be credited with the kills.

I have not tested this against objectives (i.e.) the EV or other classes with explosives (kira, fletcher, arty, fragger, nader, etc), but I assume that it would probably work the same way (they could abuse it by binding a team switch to a key via console).

There is a lot of potential for abuse and griefing it it becomes well-known.

Other notes:

If a player disconnects from the server after throwing the airstrike the kills will be credited to no one (as suicides). This is how I discovered the exploit when 5 people on my team died to nobody.