Customers seen that the survival sport Stranded Deep had a peculiar glitch the place it mechanically unlocked the host’s trophies for anybody who joined the session. However after weeks of straightforward Platinums, the glitch has lastly been addressed within the newest Stranded Deep replace.
Stranded Deep gained’t hand out Platinum trophies anymore
As famous by the patch notes on the sport’s official web site, the fifth bullet level states that “the replace has “mounted shopper (Participant 2) unlocking host achievements when becoming a member of a multiplayer sport.” The replies even name out to the one who initially introduced this bug to the eye of developer Beam Crew Video games.
Whereas doubtless within the sport since round Might 30 when the earlier replace dropped, this bug grew to become extra broadly recognized since round July 8 when a PSNProfiles thread blew up after asking if it was regular for the trophies to mechanically pop when becoming a member of a co-op session. This gave customers round three weeks to squad up and unlock all the sport’s trophies, which was hotly contested in lots of trophy communities. Some claimed it cheapened the expertise of those that had earned it organically, whereas others identified that it didn’t matter, particularly in lieu of the various shovelware video games that give gamers a Platinum after just some minutes.
Many gamers took benefit of this glitch. In response to The Wayback Machine, solely 915 PSNProfiles customers and 0.1% of total gamers had the Platinum trophy for the North American model as of Might 26, 2022. As of July 10, 2023, simply because the exploit was selecting up steam, that had risen to 2,442 customers and 0.3% total. That quantity greater than doubled by the point the glitch was mounted, because it at the moment stands at 6,513 Platinum achievers on PSNProfiles with an rarity of 0.4% on PSN.
Many had been doubtless in a position to unlock it as a result of it’s at the moment on PlayStation Plus Further and had been a PlayStation Plus sport (the tier that will grow to be PlayStation Plus Important) in Might 2021. Stranded Deep just isn’t a giant obtain, both, because it is available in at simply over 2GB.