One player made a photo mode for The Division, Ubisoft banned him from playing
More and more games today have the supporting option for a photographic mode in which you can stop the scene, rotate the camera and add different effects before the same scene you capture in the photo, or screenshot. But this is not so feasible in online or multiplayer games where there is no pause for the game. That is, it is not feasible without modification of the game alone.
Exactly this kind of modification for The Division put together Matti Hietanen, author of Cinematic Tools for numerous games. His tool, which essentially is a photo mode, allows to remove the interface in the games, also controls of changing the weather conditions, or time of day. Cinematic Tools for The Division was made two years ago, but after a recent update, it was convicted from Ubisoft itself, while to his author was permanently denied access to The Division.
However, the tool alone was based on the Cheat Engine so that Ubisoft definitely had the justification for this kind of move. The author of Cinematic Tools attempted to exploit this omission by prohibiting the use of the same in the Dark Zone, in PvP part of the game. But that was obviously not enough for Ubisoft's compassion.
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