Steam Summer Sale 2019 - Level Bug

[narcoza]

As I'm sure most others have, since the steam summer sale has come out I've spent a ridiculous amount of money on games and I've been working on leveling up my account as when it started I was level 121 on steam.

When the badge was first released, I got it to level 1000 very quickly and at that point having attempted to get it to level 1001 it reset back to level 1, and I started once again leveling it up. However I've now realized when it reset it literally took back all my earned XP and put me at a huge deficit in XP despite retaining my rank.

Here are some links to show you exactly what I mean (you don't need to click these, simply go to my profile and click my level and check out my broken XP counter):

XP Required for level 182: http://prntscr.com/o95btd
SteamDB showing the negative XP ratio: http://prntscr.com/o95c8v

I've submitted a support ticket on steam under "account details" as I literally could find nothing else of use on there. I've tried to post this on reddit with no luck also.

Any suggestions HMU!

[sportakus1]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

sportakus1님이 먼저 게시:

If you refunded or used exploit like soda drinking or smthing, then it make sense why you got punished.

/case closed

Don't spread unfounded rumours.

There was no Starbound exploit - getting points doesn't do anything and doesn't raise your max points cap. No one was punished for using it since it didn't do anything. So someone got 1894795 mil points drinking soda? Oh, but their cap was only 1000? Ouch.

Starbound was actually the worse and slowest option. Idling one game you have loads of achievements in for 30 min would give you more points than you'd ever need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuLsFoNkIs&t=245s

go suck your ego on this video and many of them on youtube regarding starbound soda exploit

stupid

[Crazy Tiger]

sportakus1님이 먼저 게시:

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Don't spread unfounded rumours.

There was no Starbound exploit - getting points doesn't do anything and doesn't raise your max points cap. No one was punished for using it since it didn't do anything. So someone got 1894795 mil points drinking soda? Oh, but their cap was only 1000? Ouch.

Starbound was actually the worse and slowest option. Idling one game you have loads of achievements in for 30 min would give you more points than you'd ever need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuLsFoNkIs&t=245s

go suck your ego on this video and many of them on youtube regarding starbound soda exploit

stupid

And all those points are useless if someone doesn't spend money to get a bigger maximum capacity. So again, not an exploit.

[Bee🐝]

sportakus1님이 먼저 게시:

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Don't spread unfounded rumours.

There was no Starbound exploit - getting points doesn't do anything and doesn't raise your max points cap. No one was punished for using it since it didn't do anything. So someone got 1894795 mil points drinking soda? Oh, but their cap was only 1000? Ouch.

Starbound was actually the worse and slowest option. Idling one game you have loads of achievements in for 30 min would give you more points than you'd ever need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuLsFoNkIs&t=245s

go suck your ego on this video and many of them on youtube regarding starbound soda exploit

stupid

One last time - you could never claim over your cap limit. It was never possible. It's been confirmed. Find me an offical source from either Valve or Chucklfish that shows there was a server side patch. Where did people find out about this patch? Random videos on Youtube isn't a source.

The only weirdness was that some people's max points got reset due to day one server load - it made people believe there was a magical glitch. We know there wasn't because loads of other user were unaffected by the server "lag". Loads of people were very upset that they bought Starbound for no reaseon. And that was all before Steam mucked with the calculations on the infamous 4th day.

[Dead Miside]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

sportakus1님이 먼저 게시:

If you refunded or used exploit like soda drinking or smthing, then it make sense why you got punished.

/case closed

Don't spread unfounded rumours.

There was no Starbound exploit - getting points doesn't do anything and doesn't raise your max points cap. No one was punished for using it since it didn't do anything. So someone got 1894795 mil points drinking soda? Oh, but their cap was only 1000? Ouch.

Starbound was actually the worse and slowest option. Idling one game you have loads of achievements in for 30 min would give you more points than you'd ever need.

In fact there was an exploit which indeed allowed to increas the capacity. It involved using a browser console. It allowed some people to get 28k+ levels on steam. Valve reset the levels for those who got into top 100 steam levels after they fixed it, but those who did it more quietely (that is, took only a hundred steam levels or so) still keep that abused XP. I know a guy who earned 100 levels without spending money, and he still has that badge. So the abusers are real and not all of them were reset.

[Bee🐝]

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it just "happened" - I want to know how it was done, when it was patched and please find me a reputable source for all this. Not just "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

Edit: Apologies to Junylar - I thought we were still busy with Starbound. That nearly gave me a heart attack. Starbound V2....

[trinner]

Junylar님이 먼저 게시:

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Don't spread unfounded rumours.

There was no Starbound exploit - getting points doesn't do anything and doesn't raise your max points cap. No one was punished for using it since it didn't do anything. So someone got 1894795 mil points drinking soda? Oh, but their cap was only 1000? Ouch.

Starbound was actually the worse and slowest option. Idling one game you have loads of achievements in for 30 min would give you more points than you'd ever need.

In fact there was an exploit which indeed allowed to increas the capacity. It involved using a browser console. It allowed some people to get 28k+ levels on steam. Valve reset the levels for those who got into top 100 steam levels after they fixed it, but those who did it more quietely (that is, took only a hundred steam levels or so) still keep that abused XP. I know a guy who earned 100 levels without spending money, and he still has that badge. So the abusers are real and not all of them were reset.

yeah, we know all this, but: starbound has nothing to do with it. i opened my old ZUP games with a lot of achievements for 30min and hat way more points then any starbound-"exploit"-user.

the bug exploit you mentioned was done by some guys who edited the code of the site and sent edited numbers to the steam servers

[Crazy Tiger]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it was done - I want to know how it was done, when it itr was patched, and find me a reputable source for all this. Not "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

That one was actually there, there were a bunch of people with 20.000+ level Steam accounts.

A thread on Reddit I quickly found: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/c5splq/steam_needs_to_reset_all_the_grand_prix_badges_to/
And the group they made: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/20000collector
With a discussion post and a Youtube video they made with accounts on 20000+: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/20000collector/discussions/0/1639789306537892005/

[Bee🐝]

trinner님이 먼저 게시:

Junylar님이 먼저 게시:

In fact there was an exploit which indeed allowed to increas the capacity. It involved using a browser console. It allowed some people to get 28k+ levels on steam. Valve reset the levels for those who got into top 100 steam levels after they fixed it, but those who did it more quietely (that is, took only a hundred steam levels or so) still keep that abused XP. I know a guy who earned 100 levels without spending money, and he still has that badge. So the abusers are real and not all of them were reset.

yeah, we know all this, but: starbound has nothing to do with it. i opened my old ZUP games with a lot of achievements for 30min and hat way more points then any starbound-"exploit"-user.

the bug exploit you mentioned was done by some guys who edited the code of the site and sent edited numbers to the steam servers

Is that what he's on about? Thanks for clearing that up.

Crazy Tiger님이 먼저 게시:

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it was done - I want to know how it was done, when it itr was patched, and find me a reputable source for all this. Not "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

That one was actually there, there were a bunch of people with 20.000+ level Steam accounts.

A thread on Reddit I quickly found: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/c5splq/steam_needs_to_reset_all_the_grand_prix_badges_to/
And the group they made: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/20000collector
With a discussion post and a Youtube video they made with accounts on 20000+: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/20000collector/discussions/0/1639789306537892005/

Yeah, totally misunderstood the what he was talking about. :)

[Ebyl]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it was done - I want to know how it was done when it was patched and find me a reputable source for all this. Not just "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

It was definitely possible to inspect and change certain values. Valve addressed it in a vague way with one of their early announcements.

[Crazy Tiger]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Crazy Tiger님이 먼저 게시:

That one was actually there, there were a bunch of people with 20.000+ level Steam accounts.

A thread on Reddit I quickly found: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/c5splq/steam_needs_to_reset_all_the_grand_prix_badges_to/
And the group they made: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/20000collector
With a discussion post and a Youtube video they made with accounts on 20000+: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/20000collector/discussions/0/1639789306537892005/

Yeah, totally misunderstood the what he was talking about. :)

No worries. This event had so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crazy things that I can imagine we forget things quickly.
As my friend Start_Running said, this has indeed a Wacky Racers vibe.

[Dead Miside]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it was done - I want to know how it was done when it was patched and find me a reputable source for all this. Not just "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

https://steamdb.info/stats/toplevels/
Earlier this list contained people with levels up to 29k. Here is a screenshot of it just after it was fixed: http://is2.4chan.org/v/1561507359093.png (EDIT: Jesus, they even censor the name of the site, but whatever, people above provided enough PROOFS already)
But of couse it's all LIES and the screen is photoshopped by the evil bourgeoise enemies of the people, this event is flawless and so on.

As for the guy, I could have provided a link to his profile, if it wasn't against the rules of steam community.

[Bee🐝]

Junylar님이 먼저 게시:

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it was done - I want to know how it was done when it was patched and find me a reputable source for all this. Not just "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

https://steamdb.info/stats/toplevels/
Earlier this list contained people with levels up to 29k. Here is a screenshot of it just after it was fixed: http://is2.4 chan.org/v/1561507359093.png
But of couse it's all LIES and the screen is photoshopped by the evil bourgeoise enemies of the people, this event is flawless and so on.

As for the guy, I could have provided a link to his profile, if it wasn't against the rules of steam community.

Thanks - I apologised at the top but I'll do it here as well.

I thought we were still busy with Starbound. That nearly gave me a heart attack. Starbound V2....Sorry.

[trinner]

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Wait, now there's a browser console exploit? This one is totally new. I can't wait to hear how this actually worked. No, I don't want to hear it was done - I want to know how it was done when it was patched and find me a reputable source for all this. Not just "a guy".

Everyone always knows "a guy". Weird that guy never comes along or shows how he actually achieved it.

it´s no info from "a guy" than anybody knows, is was duscussed in some threads, not much information in this though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/c5ksev/users_banned_exploit_steam_summer_sale_2019_levels/

[Sendo]

sportakus1님이 먼저 게시:

Beezzi님이 먼저 게시:

Don't spread unfounded rumours.

There was no Starbound exploit - getting points doesn't do anything and doesn't raise your max points cap. No one was punished for using it since it didn't do anything. So someone got 1894795 mil points drinking soda? Oh, but their cap was only 1000? Ouch.

Starbound was actually the worse and slowest option. Idling one game you have loads of achievements in for 30 min would give you more points than you'd ever need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuLsFoNkIs&t=245s

go suck your ego on this video and many of them on youtube regarding starbound soda exploit

stupid

Youtube are full of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I mean the one who showed soda trick made 20 min video about it, I wonder why. he was milking it, its easy to get points but the problem is max capacity, u can have 1 million points and still, you're gonna claim only 1k lol

[Bee🐝]

Sendo님이 먼저 게시:

sportakus1님이 먼저 게시:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuLsFoNkIs&t=245s

go suck your ego on this video and many of them on youtube regarding starbound soda exploit

stupid

Youtube are full of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I mean the one who showed soda trick made 20 min video about it, I wonder why. he was milking it, its easy to get points but the problem is max capacity, u can have 1 million points and still, you're gonna claim only 1k lol

The original guy was a YouTuber by the name of SpiffyBrit - he has a series where he, for the sake of comedy, tries to "break" games using weird mechanics. He's been doing it for years. No one has ever taken it seriously. He once planted a gazillion trees to build a prison in a game. Basically, the video went viral so there's little he can do now.