The Division just keeps causing issues for players doesn’t it?
Recently the game recieved its first big piece of major end game content, in the form of Incursions: super-challenging missions with a very good payout in terms of gear. However, a pretty game-breaking glitch has been discovered in one of the missions and the knowledge got out pretty quickly.
The Falcon Lost Incursion mission should only be playable once a week, keeping track of which accounts have and have not claimed the end-game loot at the end. However, players have realised that if you use the portable cover skill just right to slide through a wall, you’re able to skip a large chunk of the mission and gain access to the loot. What’s more, because you haven’t run the sequence of events needed to advance the mission, the game doesn’t register that you have claimed the loot – so doesn’t stop you from re-entering the mission right away to do it all over again.
It’s so bad that the community seems split into two groups – those using the exploit and those who wish to play it straight. The problem is, the first group is now on an entirely new power level to the second one and some ‘straight’ players have reported being kicked out of groups because they refused to use the exploit to cheat the system. That’s made some throw up their hands and say “Fuck it!”, adding to the numbers of people cheating.
On the subject The Division’s community manager Natchi posted: “Obviously it is against our Code of Conduct. The team is looking into what can be done in terms of punishment for those who have exploited.”
Quite how they plan to punish the cheaters though is up for debate. Simply rolling back the game would punish those who have managed to complete the mission legitimately and it seems that a great number of people are using the exploit, including those who tried to play fair and just ended up getting frustrated by being kicked out of groups or destroyed in the PvP Dark Zone by people who had used the exploit repeatedly to get much better gear quicker than they should.
Keep your eyes on this one, I doubt that The Division’s free from problems just yet…
