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[IImayneII]

I haven't played the game in several months now because everytime I tried hacking people online they where abusing exploits. Has this been adressed in any way? Because this really ruined online play. Online was really fun until everyone started using them.


I highly doubt anything is actually fixed, but I'm curious and I don't want to redownload the game just to check and be dissapointed.

[DocSnafuuuu]

What exploits exactly are you talking about?

[phoenixred_89]

Nope.. I've just spent the last hour running away from cheaters. Speed hacks is the flavor at the moment. Generally I outrun speed hackers but last night some "legend" has an extremely fast speed hack. I managed to outrun the same Boeing aircraft 3 times in succession just now, that player was a little slow to catch on.

[Anykeyer]

LOL. Basically the guy with fastest CPU wins

[Blasman13]

What exploits are you talking about?

As far as cheaters go (people using trainers to get insane speed, infinite health, etc), in 1vs1 modes, I have encountered only two cheaters in my last 17 hours of "Online Hacking." It is thankfully becoming more rare, but it does still happen.

[Anykeyer]

There's a lot more cheaters in decryption mode

[IImayneII]

I'm not talking about cheaters but the problems with ingame exploits.

Like for example constantly using slow mode to check if someone is in your game. When someone is, queing for an online game so the game basically tells you the location of the guy in your game. Camping on rooftops. Camping on bikes until someone spawns (mostly) behind you on a bike and just 1shot him with the sniper.

Things like that.

I managed to outrun the same Boeing aircraft 3 times in succession just now, that player was a little slow to catch on.

Aircrafts are in the game now?

[Anykeyer]

You dont need to use slow time to tell if someone is invading you. Profiler stops (and it makes a distinct sound when it does) the moment someone enters your game. Also pausing is more than enough to tell for sure. I stopped trying to hack ppl long ago, most of the time I get targets with +50/-250 points and at least average defense. Its just a waste of time.

[DocSnafuuuu]

I'm not talking about cheaters but the problems with ingame exploits.

Like for example constantly using slow mode to check if someone is in your game. When someone is, queing for an online game so the game basically tells you the location of the guy in your game. Camping on rooftops. Camping on bikes until someone spawns (mostly) behind you on a bike and just 1shot him with the sniper.

I'm not sure using focus is an exploit to begin with. You can't expect to slowdown time in a multiplayer game only for you, it just wouldn't work.

The only real exploit the game has is using the phone to select a tailing or hack target the moment you notice somebody is in your game. That puts a circle around the invader and he can't do a quit mission anymore without losing points.

The other stuff that helps the defender is all by design, like the sound the profiler makes, or profiling the target when you damage him.

As for campers, besides a few places there's usually a way to still profile them. Use those 5 minutes wisely.

And players that force spawn you, well, I have no idea why Ubisoft didn't patch that already. But then again, you can always skip their name next time. Same goes for players that jump in a boat or whatever.

[IImayneII]

I'm not sure using focus is an exploit to begin with. You can't expect to slowdown time in a multiplayer game only for you, it just wouldn't work.

The only real exploit the game has is using the phone to select a tailing or hack target the moment you notice somebody is in your game. That puts a circle around the invader and he can't do a quit mission anymore without losing points.

The other stuff that helps the defender is all by design, like the sound the profiler makes, or profiling the target when you damage him.

As for campers, besides a few places there's usually a way to still profile them. Use those 5 minutes wisely.

And players that force spawn you, well, I have no idea why Ubisoft didn't patch that already. But then again, you can always skip their name next time. Same goes for players that jump in a boat or whatever.

I know focus isn't something that can be fixed, just tought I would mention it because it is still an exploit in my opinion, even if its the least annoying one.
And yes you can still profile campers on roofs etc, but that doesn't make it less an exploit. There should be something to stop you from connecting to them if they stay in the same area for too long.

And just with the amount of exploits the online hacking is a severely broken mode in my opinion. Even tough I think the mode was very fun the first few months, after everyone started using the exploits it just turned into an annoying feature.

And the 1 shot sniper was a horrible idea for multiplayer.


I specifically bought WD because of the online hacking mode and I barely played it after a month or two because of all of this. Fixes would have given me hope for WD2. But at this moment I'm not even thinking of buying it because the online modes are so broken