Ubisoft Massive released a patch this week intended to remove access to the ladder exploit found in The Division — but the solution is a little more lethal than intended.
The team at Ubisoft Massive are doing everything possible to rid The Division of its many bugs and exploits. However, a fix for one glitch that went live yesterday is proving to have fatal consequences, as it gives certain ladders the ability to kill players who linger around them for too long.
Previously, ladders could be used as the starting point for one of the many transversal glitches that have been discovered in The Division. By running over the top portion of a ladder, players could run around in mid-air, making it possible to access areas unreachable by other means for a tactical advantage.
A patch released yesterday was supposed to remove this exploit from the game. Instead, it simply kills players who seem to be attempting to use glitch — which gets the job done, but isn’t a particularly sophisticated way of enforcing proper play.
Just yesterday, the weekly State of the Game stream saw community managers at Ubisoft Massive were talking up their concerns about the threat of “false positives” — non-cheaters being tarred with the same brush as players that are making use of exploits. However, this solution seems at odds with that perspective.
This exploit doesn’t affect every single ladder in the game, but users on Reddit report that it is completely reproducible in the location depicted in the video below. This kind of problem-solving on the part of the developers adds weight to claims that The Division is broken beyond repair.
