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    Improving the player experience – topic: Cheating & exploits

    From the very beginning of development, our emphasis has always been on the player experience and how good we want it to be. We have great plans for the future of The Division, and for these to succeed we must make sure to provide a smooth high-quality experience. Unfortunately, the gameplay experience was recently impaired by in-game bugs and players violating the rules of the game. In order to bring back a better and healthier environment, we have taken new steps to address the situation.

    CHEAT ENGINES

    Cheating players have been an issue for a number of you in the Dark Zone, and we’ve heard this feedback loud and clear. We are strengthening our efforts to address this problem, as described below.

    First, we have implemented new cheat detection methods that have allowed us to identify many more players currently using cheat engines in the game. We have already caught more cheaters in the last few days than we had in total during the previous weeks. As a result, we will be handing out the biggest wave of suspensions and bans to date over the course of the next few days.

    Second, when cheaters are caught, we will now apply a suspension of 14 days on first offense (instead of the previous 3 day initial suspension). Second offense will always be a permanent ban.

    We anticipate these two changes will noticeably improve your experience. New upgrades on cheat detection are underway.

    BUG EXPLOITS

    What is a bug exploit?

    An exploit is the active triggering and use of a bug or glitch to bypass established game rules in order to gain a significant advantage or skip progression steps otherwise necessary.

    Identifying and fixing bugs before releasing new content is one of the most important parts of game development. This is also the best way to guarantee a smooth and enjoyable experience for our players. Learning from the past and your great feedback, we are currently reviewing our development and testing process to further minimize the amount and impact of these bugs going forward.

    Unfortunately, we cannot simulate the experience that millions of different players will have, and how they will play the game. As a result, some bugs may make it through testing, and may be present when an update is deployed. In the event that a bug makes it into the game, and this bug can be used by players to gain an advantage, we need to be able to react and fix it, but also dissuade players from exploiting this bug until it is fixed. This is why moving forward we will adopt a stronger stance against players abusing exploits.

    Our first step is to give you clearer and more concrete visibility. Should new bugs be discovered, we will quickly confirm if these are considered exploits. All known exploits will be clearly listed in a public forum thread and across our various communication platforms. We want all players to be informed. This will ensure that those caught after an exploit was confirmed are aware of the consequences and actions that can be taken against them.

    Second, sanctions will be implemented for players who repeatedly abuse exploits and will vary depending on the severity of the abuse, as well as the history of the player. Possible sanctions include character rollbacks, account suspensions and permanent bans. Those who encounter bugs during the normal course of play have absolutely nothing to worry about.

    As mentioned earlier, providing a high-quality experience is our priority. Fixing game bugs is one aspect of it, and we are improving our processes to address that. Dissuading players from impairing others’ gameplay by violating the rules of the game is another aspect. We also want to give you better visibility and transparency. We are fully committed to providing an enjoyable and fair environment for all our players, and will take all steps necessary to achieve this goal.

    See you in game!

    The Division Team
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    Wow, very nice. I hope it works out well.

    P.S. Has anyone looked at the stuff I reported to you via PM?
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    Neumeusis's Avatar Senior Member
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    Hello,

    This is a nice official communication.
    Like it !

    Hope the best for the future of The Division !

    Regards,
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    KenKoerperich's Avatar Banned
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    Hope this means you will actually be using YouTube to bust people. 95% post the exploits/hacks/glitches there. Will be nice if you follow through w/ this!

    But, highly unlikely.....
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    what about Spammers? are you gonna do something about them?
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    Fuz Fragstealer's Avatar Member
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    Awesome!

    Although I wish that rules and regulations like these had been made crystal clear from the start - this gives us hope for a better game experience, going forward.
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    This is great news Natchai, for both the players, the dev team and the community as a whole, if you guys are able to follow through on this one it is surely to start turning things around for the better

    Glad to see that my belief in the future of this game is not being put to shame
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    Originally Posted by Fuz Fragstealer Go to original post
    Although I wish that rules and regulations like these had been made crystal clear from the start
    It's as easy as thinking "Is it acceptable to be a ****** bag that cheats and exploits." in whatever you do, gaming or not.
    The answer BTW is a big NO!

    Much easier that way.
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    Very very good! I knew and always was sure Ubisoft won´t allow cheaters to destory that perl of a game! Yea i´m a fanboy! Stop glorifiying Cheaters by naming them as Hackers btw.. ;-)
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    Originally Posted by Doublecane Go to original post
    Very very good! I knew and always was sure Ubisoft won´t allow cheaters to destory that perl of a game! Yea i´m a fanboy! Stop glorifiying Cheaters by naming them as Hackers btw.. ;-)
    It's #C of a game. Bum tsss!
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