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TFT 1st Carousel Glitch/Bug - Entering middle of circle - Why isn't this fixed?

Zenoath·8/16/2019, 6:46:32 AM·9 votes·3,651 views

I just had a game session where 3 out of 4 games a player did this to first pick an item.

This issue has been ongoing since before ranked was launched. Does anyone have any information on this? Has Riot acknowledged the issue? I understand that TFT is still in Beta but this has a HUGE negative impact on early game fairness. RNG is one thing, abusing a bug is another.

In chat people claim it was an "accident", their game "bugged out" or "Eh, Riot the small Indie company hasn't fixed it so it must not be cheating". Unfortunately a majority of the time it looks intentional because the player immediately runs to a bow or spatula. I know one way it can happen because I accidentally did it once; your LL looks like they are scooting across the arena on their butts as the game loads in. I made a point of last picking that carousel because i didn't want to cheat.

It's obviously abuse-able; this feels like a pretty major flaw to the integrity of the competitive ranked experience.

TL/DR: Is this bannable? Do we have an ETA from Riot on a fix?

5 Comments

Triss8/18/2019, 7:18:20 AM3 votes

I've accidentally been bumped into the first carousel multiple times since the release of TFT. Windows 10 desktop, nothing special. Upon entering the circle early I get the whole lobby screaming report/hacker. I really hope to hear back from Riot on whether this is bannable or going to effect honor on our accounts. Its nerve wracking to fear punishment for something I'm not intentionally doing.

Kurthoc8/17/2019, 8:45:11 PM1 votes

I've managed to recreate this glitch on accident in two of my games, I unintentionally abused it the first few times. But in my experimentations I think I have a few ideas on the requirements.

  1. I play on a MacBook Pro
  2. The only times I've been able to recreate the glitch was when using my trackpad
  3. There seems to be a small window of time before the barrier spawns that, if you input a move command inside the circle, you will be able to enter it as it spawns.

I hope this information helps. Best of luck bug fix team!

GaeasGarden8/21/2019, 8:16:31 AM1 votes

Just started my 3rd game in a row with someone doing this...wtf? Riot fix this!

Gr3yps8/23/2019, 8:06:04 PM1 votes

Ok I have been able to replicate the bug for a few games in a row now. If your first click in a game is slightly inside the circle then you are almost garunteed to get inside. I only did it in normals and I didn't pick until the circle opened. I'm going to submit a big report detailing how I replicated it to riot so hopefully it can get fixed.

Subtweet8/24/2019, 11:48:32 PM1 votes

I've encountered this bug 3-5 times now. Still hasn't been fixed.