The Division's PC version needs new netcode rewritten from the ground up to employ a server-authoritive network model instead, he added. 'I sincerely hope this is not the case, because if it is true, my opinion of can this be fixed is basically no. 'Here we have a client-side cheat program that is poking memory locations and giving players infinite health, infinite ammo, and teleporting players around the level,' Fiedler continued - all of which point to the aforementioned trusted client model. But then, I saw this.'įiedler linked the following video, which shows a user playing The Division on PC and simultaneously using a code editor to hack the game.

not a great thing to see in a shipped game, but also not the end of the world. 'The first videos I saw were the usual overly smug glitchers out there, super proud to have discovered things the QA department should have probably picked up when testing the game. 'So much so that it's starting to hit mainstream media. 'A lot of people are complaining online about cheating in The Division lately,' Fiedler wrote on his blog. On PC at least, copies of the game can be hacked to edit this data, giving users an unbeatable advantage. This information can include a player's position in the game, how powerful they are, or what abilities they have - such as being able to walk through walls. Simply put, it trusts the job of tracking key gameplay information to individual players, rather than the server. on the game's many recent problems, Fiedler criticised Ubisoft for developing the game with what looks like a trusted client network model. His last five projects were Journey, PlayStation: All-Stars, God of War: Ascension, Titanfall and, most recently, this year's Titanfall 2. Glenn Fiedler has an 18-year career in the game industry at developers such as BioShock and Tribes studio Irrational Games, LA Noire outfit Team Bondi, Mercenaries maker Pandemic, and Titanfall team Respawn.įiedler also spent nearly five years as lead network programmer at Sony Computer Entertainment.

Instructions on how to hack The Division's PC version are easy to find online.

An experienced video game networking coder and long-time programmer has issued a damning appraisal of The Division's problems with exploits and glitches.

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