14 DAY TRIAL // The Division Beta will end tomorrow, and it seems to have been a success, but it looks like some PC users have managed to easily hack the game so that they could cheat.
The Division is an online game, which needs to be constantly connected to the servers in order to work. You would think that would make it difficult for players to mess with the game. It turns out that it took PC players only a couple of days to figure out how to trick the Ubisoft servers and how to play with unlimited health or ammo.
The Division Beta started on Friday, so the PC users only had the weekend to find something that Ubisoft now needs to fix until the launch of the game. The problem is that all the data about the player is not hosted on the server but on the client side. When users change this information, the game server uses it as it is, without questioning why and without performing any kind of comparison.
The Division needs anti-cheat
Since the games also boast with a powerful PvP segment, it's easy to see why Ubisoft needs to take this very seriously. Players who are able to have unlimited ammo or medkits in an online game is not something you want.
The information was detailed by players on both Reddit and NeoGAF. From the looks of it, the players' statistics are never questioned by the server, but it's also true that there is no kind of anti-cheating technology implemented in The Division.
The Ubisoft developers have been made aware of the situation after numerous topics have been opened on the official forums, so they are likely to fix this issue.
The thing is that this problem happened after only two days of Beta. What will happen a month after the official release?
