Yes please.
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Yes please.
1) Create character
2) Download the same hacks the kiddies are using.
3) Warp into the nearest building
4) Watch what they are doing
5) Ban them.
Pretty simple. Every online game i've ever played had the ability to create GM characters, are they really suggesting Massive just didn't think about it? How did they test the game? Did they have to lvl up characters to do the minimal testing they appear to have done?
Seriously though, with the trusted client model on PC GMs manually banning is the only way they can even make a dent into the problem.
They should have a number of GMs actively switching from instance to instance policing the PC dark zone, banning people there and then, with server announcements just like happens on planetside3.
It would very easy for UBIsoft to enlist the help of Even Balance (punkBuster)
or any other anti-cheat, then UBIsoft could sit back and watch the script kiddies start falling like rocks.
I have been active in the anti-cheat communities for many years now, and never in my 20yrs as a gamer have I seen a game fall apart so fast and so completely.
UBIsoft has shot themselves in the foot, their lack of conviction and inability to stand by, or stand up for their loyal fan base will be their undoing.
Just remember they did it to themselves.
I will never trust UBIsoft again. JMHO
+1
/agree. Don't get me wrong love playing on the Xbox but would really love to fire up my pc copy
They could hire unpaid interns to do it for free. The slave labor pool these days is quite useful.
Nice idea but it requires Ubi to spend money. The reason we re in this mess to begin with is Ubi's desire to give us this game on the cheap. Any solution that requires money out of Ubi's pocket will not happen.
I may have to start looking for a (shudder) Console, to play this game on.
https://mordyt.com/wp-content/upload...Punkbuster.jpg
I've been a member of Cheat Police, back in the days of MoHAA and the first CoD and i also had to check players and report them manually. For me it was sport, finding and watching them and hanging them to dry. Hacking is from all times and it was in those days that Punkbuster was 'invented' and they later became a company called Even Balance Inc. Way back then Punkbuster was a good and decent anticheat tool and it was free untill they got the idea to make money out of it.
Because of the probabilty The Division has a problem integrating an anticheat of their own it might be a solution to use Punkbuster. That will cost money but it will stand out against the way they need to do it now by ingame banning.