Guild Wars 2

Almost everyone who was at Eternal Battleground today around 22:00 crashed with this crash report:

—> Crash <—
Assertion: index < m_stringsPerFile * m_fileArray[language].Count()
File: ..\..\..\Engine\Text\TextCache.cpp(297)

I can tell because we had an open raid with 60 man in our teamspeak and the same second i crashed more than half of the people on TS complained and reported same crash.

There was multiple (like 100+) reports on our server website with same crash report.

UPDATE: we have contacted the opposite servers in our match up and they’ve reported massive crashes all day long today too – so it’s wide spread issue affecting everyone apparently.

UPDATE 2: We’ve tested turning off chats like /m /t and /w (by going insivible mode) and well as disable the chat bubbles.. apparently this prevents the crash and proves that its malicious CHAT CODE related – god bless TEAMSPEAK i guess.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/PSA-Client-Crash-read-the-edit

This occurred last night as well to several streamers.

The prevalent theory based on that error log is that there is a malicious chat code that will crash a client when it is received. The log itself makes mention of whisper / chat being the source.

Additionally, once we suspected it was a malicious troll, everyone in our party (on live stream) set ourselves to invisible and thus unable to be whispered and the issue ceased completely.

Happend to me twice only today.

Just happend again, twice in 10 minutes. Both Far Shiverpeaks and Gandara confirmed crashed.

Our whole Eternal battleground just crashed – 4 times in a raw in matter of 10 minutes.

Someone in Teamspeak said that apparently is related to some malicious CHAT CODE (like the bugged food chat code) that is making us all crash when someone post if on the chat or whisper or w/e.

As I said in my post above. Set yourself to Invisible and you won’t crash. This is the only workaround at this time.

hybrid.5027:

As I said in my post above. Set yourself to Invisible and you won’t crash. This is the only workaround at this time.

I was invisible all the time and crashed 3 times – this don’t help.

Have to disable the other chats as well as chat bubbles.

I don’t have map/say chat on by default. I also have chat bubbles disabled.

Crashs can apparently be avoided by disabling map- and teamchat in WvW. Me and some guildies crashed as well, until we disabled those chats. Then we ran for like almost 3 hours without anyone crashing. After our raid ended, I’ve enabled teamchat again and was just clicking on the checkbox for mapchat when I crashed yet another time. When I logged back in, neither map- nor teamchat were enabled.

Small screenshot of the report (which Anet probably got since I’ve sent it):

http://oi62.tinypic.com/347b4h1.jpg

Crashed just now in Lion’s arch.

Same errore.

Yesterday 3 times in a row.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2wh8ot/quick_warning_there_is_yet_another_chat_exploit/

+1 it aswell so we get this wider since this has been on for many days now..

Sorry for the bump, but can it be there’s a new variant of this chat-bug?

Doing a SW-run with the guild now and during VW, almost everybody on the map got DC’ed. We knew about the fix for this bug, but maybe there’s a variant on the lose?

We all got DC, without error, so no crash and it happened twice now.