“It seems the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, as soon as once more, affected by a hacker downside,” experiences Kotaku:
As a substitute of doing completely absurd quantities of harm, this time hackers have discovered how you can acquire entry to unreleased characters and skins. And writer WB Video games is reportedly issuing DMCA takedown notices towards any belongings which have discovered their approach on-line.
As reported by IGN, one hacker found how you can play as Deathstroke, one of many 4 characters developer Rocksteady Studios teased for an upcoming Suicide Squad season… There have been additionally unreleased skins for The Joker and King Shark that people have in some way accessed, all of which started circulating on Reddit and X/Twitter on April 4.
Not lengthy after, the belongings had been eliminated, with people believing WB Video games was behind the strikes. YouTuber TrixRidiculous, who primarily covers DC- and Marvel-related RPGs, had their posts on X/Twitter swiftly taken down by a DMCA strike.”I posted three pics to Twitter,” TrixRidiculous informed Kotaku over e mail. “Inside in all probability half-hour, I obtained a DMCA strike from WB Video games [Kotaku saw a screenshot of this notice]. Please simply carry consideration to the truth that the leaderboard is riddled with hackers/cheaters which have gone unbanned since launch, as that is all I used to be attempting to do anyway.”
This sentiment is shared throughout the sport’s official subreddit, with people posting about “dropping curiosity” in Suicide Squad as a consequence of hackers flooding the leaderboards.