It has been sometime since I last played these online multiplayer shooters and I found it helped improved my health and sanity. I remember those episodes of wanting to scream in the middle of the night when I got fragged by some cheater who can has a wall hack or have a too powerful weapon. I was hoping that with all the experiences and lessons learned from the past online multiplayer shooter games that by now game developers already anticipate what cheats that players would try to do to gain an unfair advantage over others.

Unfortunately, the problem remains the same and it’s always a race to fix or patch the game with an update to prevent cheating. The latest multiplayer game to be afflicted by cheating problems is Ubisoft’s “Tom Clancy’s The Division” and here is a video of one player from the Philippines showing the cheating problem:

Apart from fixing the game glitches and improvements in playing experience, Ubisoft will finally provide tools for players to help in preventing cheating. As part of the software update 1.1 that will be rolled out on the 12th of April 2016, Ubisoft will patch game issues such as the exploit where players could shoot through corners of covers and an exploit where players could ignore the fire rate of certain weapons.

For players reported cheating, a two strikes you’re out policy will be taken by Ubisoft. For PC players, they can use "/report [username]" to flag a possible offender for the company to look into. If determined that the reported player/username is up to no good, a 3-day ban suspension will be issued to the offending player. For repeat offenders, a permanent ban will of course lock them out of the game and most probably won’t get refunds.

Update 1.1 is a massive one and has a lot of game changes aimed at improving player experience and even a “hard” setting for all incursions, which is similar to the “Challenge” setting, the hardest difficulty. More gear sets will be added and the first of the four gear sets will be released in this update that are made for marksman, assault or tank builds, and there are specifically designed gear sets for solo Dark Zone players. As for weapons, new high end weapons will be introduced such as the Warlord assault rifle, Historian marksman rifle and the Valkyria submachine gun.

With all these updates, many players are looking forward to cheating to be minimised in the game, as well as new stuff and game difficulties to work hard. Perhaps I will change my mind and try my hand of playing the game as well.