sunsetsullivan:

baronvonbaron:

Fallout 76 apparently has no client side file validation, and network traffic is unencrypted plain text

For people who don’t understand, this is absolutely bonkers.

Basically imagine opening up console and typing like “give player_item [the best weapon in the game]” in any other Bethesda game but online and everyone can do that.

You are likely able to just kill people you don’t like by walking around, finding other player’s player_id’s, and typing kill in the console.

This isn’t even getting into hackers using this maliciously steal information or use harmful programs through the game.

This is real bad.