Summary
When the controller setting “accelerate vehicle with thumbstick” is enabled, vehicles can gain extra speed when turning with the controller thumbstick. This exploit can be done with almost any vehicle WHEN it is affected by a movement modulator set to any speed above 1.0. (This was reported fix in V30.40, but it did not account for vehicles affected by a movement modulator)
Most people wouldn’t find this a problem, but I host competitive races in Creative and UEFN, and having controller players have a competitive speed advantage over keyboard and mouse players is a big issue. I have to tell people to not use the “autorun” speed exploit to keep it fair, but its is hard to enforce because I can not see peoples screen to see if they trying to hide the fact they are using it or if they won fair and square.
Please select what you are reporting on:
Creative
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Devices
Steps to Reproduce
Place a Sports Car spawner (Or other vehicle), place down a movement modulator and set it to 2.0 or higher, and use a controller with the accelerate with thumbstick option enabled, and you will see the vehicle gain extra speed when turning with the thumbstick.
Expected Result
Using controller autorun should not give the vehicle extra speed when turning
Observed Result
Players using controller autorun and acceleration with thumbstick have a speed advantage over people who do not use controller
Platform(s)
All
Additional Notes
If someone from epic could make sure this exploit is noted and set to be fixed eventually that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this post.