API #unknown bug - EpicKitten/PUBG-Resources GitHub Wiki

The #unknown bug is a bug that hit PUBG and it's servers on March 20th, 2018. This bug prevents the servers (the main menu webpage, game servers, and the API) from getting the player names from Account IDs, forcing the game to use the default name, #unknown. Thought to only affect names in-game and on the main menu, errors in the API proved Player Name Services was having trouble. Some users in the API data may look like this:

{
    "data": {
        "type": "player",
        "id": "account.6544028c9b6e4fe5b70a05e306015088",
        "attributes": {
            "createdAt": "2018-03-31T22:09:51Z",
            "name": " #unknown",
            "patchVersion": "",
            "shardId": "pc-na",
            "stats": null,
            "titleId": "bluehole-pubg",
            "updatedAt": "2018-04-03T05:03:40Z"
        },
        "relationships": {
            "assets": {
                "data": []
            },
            "matches": {
                "data": []
            }
        },
        "links": {
            "schema": "",
            "self": "https://api.playbattlegrounds.com/shards/pc-na/players/account.6544028c9b6e4fe5b70a05e306015088"
        }
    },
    "links": {
        "self": "https://api.playbattlegrounds.com/shards/pc-na/players/account.6544028c9b6e4fe5b70a05e306015088"
    },
    "meta": {}
}

The only way to search these types of users is by they're Account ID (i.e account.6544028c9b6e4fe5b70a05e306015088) from either knowledge of the AccountID or searching for they're name in a Match and then getting the ID from there:

{
	"type": "participant",
	"id": "ed7ec6e5-4765-47a7-ae7a-a99f6690b1bd",
	"attributes": {
		"actor": "",
		"shardId": "pc-na",
		"stats": {
			"DBNOs": 2,
			"assists": 0,
			"boosts": 3,
			"damageDealt": 356.807343,
			"deathType": "byplayer",
			"headshotKills": 2,
			"heals": 1,
			"killPlace": 5,
			"killPoints": 1254,
			"killPointsDelta": 34.85083,
			"killStreaks": 0,
			"kills": 4,
			"lastKillPoints": 0,
			"lastWinPoints": 0,
			"longestKill": 58,
			"mostDamage": 0,
			"name": "dewski",
			"playerId": "account.6544028c9b6e4fe5b70a05e306015088",
			"revives": 0,
			"rideDistance": 1374.667,
			"roadKills": 0,
			"teamKills": 0,
			"timeSurvived": 1001,
			"vehicleDestroys": 0,
			"walkDistance": 1861.03394,
			"weaponsAcquired": 0,
			"winPlace": 10,
			"winPoints": 1063,
			"winPointsDelta": 21.9468136
		}
	}