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    Target Practice "exploit"

    This is one thing that many people seem to not understand with this one exploit that was recently fixed but now is brought up because people are now complaining about how low the xp is for the practice training which i think is fine and normal because the original xp was crazy high but who knows they might rework things as updates pass.

    This post is just a understanding for those who cant understand what exploiting really is especially when an in-game activity is completed the RIGHT way, with no exploits/bugs being abused.


    Completing an in-game activity isnt exploiting, but failing the activity repeatedly just to infinitely gain xp by failing the activity is considered exploiting, the activity was bugged where you can infinitely fail it while making xp, and ubisoft making the xp too high for the target practice was a mistake by the devs and was nerfed down but never is/or was an exploit because no bug was used to complete the task just simply shoot the targets and get ur overloaded rewards.

    EK1 has difficulties understanding this even having a dev explain to him on twitter exactly what the exploit was. I do agree with the people using any type of glitch should be punished but if the devs made a mistake like ex. the xp being too high for target practice when completed, the devs cant really do much since you arent breaking COC(Code of Conduct) all your doing is completing the activity as shown to do, otherwise if you agree with ek1 argument pretty much your saying that if u farmed the target practice to gain SHD levels, you should be banned/rolled-back because you technically "Abused the game mechanics" even though the target practice xp was set high without the devs realizing at the time, so thats why ubisoft isnt banning those people that did the target practice fair and square, but now the target practice is nerfed and now people are trying to say it was an exploit because of the amount of xp it gave, first off you cant just say its an exploit because it use to have so much exp that u gained from it, its nerf now and people are *****ing about it because the amounts of xp you use to gain is now gone and people cant farm the target practice like last patch and the people that were able to farm the exp didnt get ban which was reasonable because none of us exploited it and there was no need to, so if you cant accept the fact that the practice shooting activity wasnt an exploit to gain xp 'besides the fact failing it repeatedly to exploit more gain of xp', than theres nothing the devs or anyone can do for you at this point sadly..
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    What do you mean? Going to the turret and swapping to my weapon with a perfect timing is a totally normal thing to do. Don't you do that on a daily basis?
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    Originally Posted by swamp.nuts Go to original post
    This is one thing that many people seem to not understand with this one exploit that was recently fixed but now is brought up because people are now complaining about how low the xp is for the practice training which i think is fine and normal because the original xp was crazy high but who knows they might rework things as updates pass.

    This post is just a understanding for those who cant understand what exploiting really is especially when an in-game activity is completed the RIGHT way, with no exploits/bugs being abused.


    Completing an in-game activity isnt exploiting, but failing the activity repeatedly just to infinitely gain xp by failing the activity is considered exploiting, the activity was bugged where you can infinitely fail it while making xp, and ubisoft making the xp too high for the target practice was a mistake by the devs and was nerfed down but never is/or was an exploit because no bug was used to complete the task just simply shoot the targets and get ur overloaded rewards.

    EK1 has difficulties understanding this even having a dev explain to him on twitter exactly what the exploit was. I do agree with the people using any type of glitch should be punished but if the devs made a mistake like ex. the xp being too high for target practice when completed, the devs cant really do much since you arent breaking COC(Code of Conduct) all your doing is completing the activity as shown to do, otherwise if you agree with ek1 argument pretty much your saying that if u farmed the target practice to gain SHD levels, you should be banned/rolled-back because you technically "Abused the game mechanics" even though the target practice xp was set high without the devs realizing at the time, so thats why ubisoft isnt banning those people that did the target practice fair and square, but now the target practice is nerfed and now people are trying to say it was an exploit because of the amount of xp it gave, first off you cant just say its an exploit because it use to have so much exp that u gained from it, its nerf now and people are *****ing about it because the amounts of xp you use to gain is now gone and people cant farm the target practice like last patch and the people that were able to farm the exp didnt get ban which was reasonable because none of us exploited it and there was no need to, so if you cant accept the fact that the practice shooting activity wasnt an exploit to gain xp 'besides the fact failing it repeatedly to exploit more gain of xp', than theres nothing the devs or anyone can do for you at this point sadly..
    Prior to posting that wall of text you obviously asked yourself the question:

    “ Why did the Developers consider the Target practice glitch an exploit and take the time to formally warn users against the use of said exploit?”

    What was your answer to that question, seeing as though you seem to think that the developers were wrong and you are right.........lol
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    Well they warned people about intentionally failing the Target Practices actually, the glitch was fixed back on the 6th of March. It was rewarding full XP for failing, so people were failing continuously. However people swapped to completing them legitimately, fast travelling to them around the map. There was nothing glitchy about it. It was far too rewarding for how easy it was but that's a balance issue, just like the Classic M1A.
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    Originally Posted by Goo-Goo-Man Go to original post
    Prior to posting that wall of text you obviously asked yourself the question:

    “ Why did the Developers consider the Target practice glitch an exploit and take the time to formally warn users against the use of said exploit?”

    What was your answer to that question, seeing as though you seem to think that the developers were wrong and you are right.........lol
    You clearly didnt read what i said LMAO

    First off I never said that the target practice was an exploit XD i just said failing it repeatedly was an exploit but people are saying it was an exploit since they patched the amount of exp you can earn from the activity, but if they just simply nerfed the exp for it, its not an exploit because its like nerfing a gearset or talent and then a week later people are saying you technically exploited the game for using that talent/gearset before patch because it was too OP XD

    So whats the point of your reply?
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    Originally Posted by Kefeng Go to original post
    What do you mean? Going to the turret and swapping to my weapon with a perfect timing is a totally normal thing to do. Don't you do that on a daily basis?
    Wrong exploit,

    Ok.
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