This is a glitch that causes the vehicle to move faster than normal. This extra speed is not visible on the speedometer. A speed-glitched vehicle going 570 kph will be moving faster than a non-speed glitched vehicle also going 570 kph. This bug occurs more frequently in old-gen consoles (PS4 and XboxOne) but can happen on any platform. This bug is not allowed to be used in leaderboard submissions outside of the named category.
If you submitted your run to a different category and it was moved to the speed glitch category it was determined by the moderation team to have the speed glitch.
Is there a way to prevent it from happening on oldgen/tell whether a run has it before you submit it?
@Soupsy there doesn't appear to be a great way to prevent it from happening at the moment. Epic is aware of the bug and is working on a fix.
As far as detecting if it has the glitch, there are some signs that point to the glitch occurring (ex: the start of race countdown not happening at a constant speed) but it's mostly from experience of either playing a bunch or watching a bunch of high level runs that it is apparent that something is wrong.
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