Continuous spam of messages freezes client

[justawesome]

By continuously sending /31 a player was able to freeze the game for all others.

Is there a way to enable some spam guard or message throttling to prevent this?

[magge]

Options → Gameplay → Multiplayer Taunts → off

Does this fix it?

[justawesome]

No, the game continues to freeze. The UI is intermittently unresponsive.

[Jip]

I'll fix this with the next release. If people do this on purpose then you can inform the moderators - by all means this is malicious.

[Eternal-]

@jip i think simple counter for same latest message will be enough. No more than 5 duplicates of msg. or smt like that. And yeah, it is only against copy-pasta spam

[Jip]

Yeah - no need for anything complicated

[Ctrl-K]

No, my "Glory to the Princess" spam

[phong]

this problem also exists while in lobby. i remember a few times the chat was flooded with messages and the game crashed. not only /31, plain text works too