Respawn says a modified client crashed Apex Legends lobbies by duplicating an optic

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 07 Oct, 14:05 UTC

Respawn has described what was crashing Apex Legends matches, and it comes down to one copied item. A modified game client duplicated a weapon optic “far beyond its intended limits” through an ability the studio names as Ballistic’s Sling passive, and the load that generated took the server down…