'Hundreds' of Battlefield 3 users banned for utilizing exploits
According to the official Battlefield Twitter account, "hundreds" of Battlefield 3 users have been banned for utilizing experience point exploits in DICE's recently released shooter.
According to the official Battlefield Twitter account, "hundreds" of Battlefield 3 users have been banned for utilizing experience point exploits in DICE's recently released shooter.
"This week we've banned hundreds of offending accounts and have stats-wiped accounts for exploiting (such as boosting)," the Twitter account revealed. "We are working on banning as many people as we can as quickly as we can. We have a zero tolerance policy for cheating."
EA's tweet doesn't specify any particular exploit, but according to IGN they are referring to an engineer glitch that allows players to infinitely repair a friendly repair bot in hardcore matches. EA confirms a patch to eliminate the exploit is currently being developed and will arrive "soon."
Shacknews has contacted EA to clarify if the exploit above, and subsequent bans, are sweeping all three platforms Battlefield 3 is available on.
Should using the game's own systems against itself be cause for ban? Hacking a game is one thing, but discovering a loophole that the developer didn't realize was there? As Shacknews east coast editor Andrew Yoon said of the situation: "'Don't be a douchebag' should be a pretty good rule of thumb."
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replyXav de Matos posted a new article, 'Hundreds' of Battlefield 3 users banned for utilizing exploits.
According to the official Battlefield Twitter account, "hundreds" of Battlefield 3 users have been banned for utilizing experience point exploits in DICE's recently released shooter.-
Sorry, but exploiting the game shouldn't be a ban-able offense. Hacking yes, but taking advantage of something the developers are at fault for shouldn't be punishable.
I do agree with the stat-wiping though.-
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Are we including physics tricks like Rocket Jumping and skiing in this...because those are things that make gaming better.
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Like fuckers that exploit map problems. I remember people hiding under the map in WaW. Fuck them and their entire families.
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You are mistaken, sloppy develops and slow to patch ruins the game. The players have no responsibility to play by your made up rules.
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Just because you don't agree with him doesn't mean his argument is fallacious. Also, there is no "spirit of fairness" in chess, the white player has a clear advantage, how is that fair?
While I understand how you feel, I think you also have to understand that while certain systems do have faults and those faults will be exploited, this is not inherently a bad thing. Exploit means playing by the rules but in such a way that was not intended by their original designers. In the end, the ability to discover and take advantage of these exploits is incredibly interesting (like that Portal speedrun) moreso than someone who is just really good at aiming his cursor at someone's head and left clicking.
It's like counting cards in blackjack, technically an "exploit" but kudos to the guy who came up with the idea and was able to do it.
If you think that the ability to do this doesn't have its own merit, then I have nothing more to say.-
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My point is that the rules clearly allow for these kind of scenarios to occur. Same thing applies to Battlefield 3.
Gaining experience by repairing a damaged bot is a core part of the game.
Also, Portal is a single player experience, but competitive speed-running is not. It may not have online leaderboards like Super Meat Boy or Sonic Generations but there is still a "multiplayer" element to it.
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i bet they banned no one
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Xav needs to rewrite his title then.
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Not really.
""This week we've banned hundreds of offending accounts and have stats-wiped accounts for exploiting (such as boosting)," "
They stated they banned "hunderds of offending accounts" (ie hackers) AND "stats wiped accounts for exploiting (such as boosting" (ie people taking advantage of the infinite repair glitch).
Thus no need to change the headline as they did both banning and stats wiping, just for seperate things.-
I said Xav should change his title, because it's misleading Hundreds' of Battlefield 3 users banned for utilizing exploits
I didn't read the official release, nor do I care to.-
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They really should just fire someone at Dice instead. It's not the player's fault you can gain too much xp by playing the game a certain way. It is the developer's responsibility to not allow this in the game.
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Shooting robots and repairing robots is not cheating or hacking. If those two mechanics allows for an exploit I suggests the developers apologize for their oversight and fix the issue.
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And what if the same bug was allowing a player to glitch through the ground and kill enemies while remaining unharmed? Repeatedly every server? Not his fault right?
Slippery slope aside, I understand what you're saying but it's not like the players we're unaware of what they were doing. They were intentionally exploiting the system that DICE had in place and wanted players to follow for a reason.
Having their stats reset seems more than fair.-
Shooting through the ground is not intended and totally outside of the fiction of Battle Field. Repairing is not. Still the developers should feel embarrassed and just fix the problem. Reset stats if they have to.
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Feel free to send it by shackmail.
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Oh come on.
Sitting at the spawn repairing your buddy's unharmed robot while not providing any support for your team or working towards the objective is just as "unintended" as falling through the ground and using it to your advantage. Trying to justify it otherwise is stupid.
How convenient to see your little checklist for what is acceptable or not keeps getting items added to it as people call out cheating for what it is.-
repairing is part of the regular rules of the game.
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oh it's this argument again
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The rules allowed for gaining xp at a faster rate.
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I don't really see it as cheating. I think unlocks are a horrible game design, and exploits the skinner box behavior that game designers love to use.
If you argue that unlocks offer an advantage to those who have them; then I'll argue that unlocks unbalance the game and favor those who put more time into it. Using the exploit then levels the playing field in a competitive multiplayer environment. Hell the pre-order DLC that unlocked guns could then be considered an official cheat by your logic.
if you argue that unlocks don't provide an advantage to the player, then why do you care? Let people have their unlocks if it doesn't affect you.
Would it help if I called you a hypocrite? http://www.shacknews.com/article/58772/evening-reading?id=20002805#item_20002805-
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but people laugh at me then :( (I got a lol for not playing because of unlocks)
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So if they offer all the unlocks for say 20 bucks down the road, you would be happy to pay?
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There's still something to be said about being lazy enough to leave such an exploit in your game and then getting all mad when people actually find and use it. They should have found it while testing.
Still, less boosters is always welcome.-
I agree with you, this should have been caught in testing. Boosters don't bother me, they actually have to play the game to be able to boost. The glichers on the other hand should get a punishment because everyone knows about glitches but those should not be used to take advantage of other users.
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Resetting their account and patching the exploit is more suitable.
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Agreed.
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Go occupy somewhere else.
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They aren't banning them, read it again. If you are exploiting, I'm sorry but you deserve to have your shit wiped.
Play the game just like everyone else or if you feel that strongly about unlocks play another game. The amount of time it takes to start unlocking weapons is so small, it's a bullshit excuse.
If you're having problems unlocking weapons then I'd worry more about getting better at the game and less about how it's "not fair". -
Valve ignored the people who used the achievement unlocker to get the class weapons after at first being against it.
I'd liked to have seen BF3 with a hybrid system so that casual players aren't fucked over compared to people who put in 12 hours a day. Give a small trickle of points when players are offline that they can top up ingame like normal You log in after a few days and you can unlock a weapon or something even if you aren't captain murder face.
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I thought "oh good" they banned cheaters... and then I realized it was just people grinding dumb XP. Kinda sucks to be those people since they weren't actually hacking.
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What EXACTLY constitutes an "experience" exploit - because the demands on time is fucked up in this game for unlocks - I'm 30 hours in and just did my medic - and it's the fastest to unlock - am I looking at 200 hours for all the classes and still needing a lot more for all the guns?
I don't have a problem with an exploit within reason - the coop one for failing that mission sounds good to me :/-
Because it's not an RPG that requires you to "grind XP"? Just play as you normally would and the unlocks will come. The point of the game is to win and work as a team. The unlocks are just a reward for actually doing something. The "powerful" unlocks come in at about 30 hours for all classes combined. After that, they're just incremental.
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This is good news.
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I say make the matchmaking algorithm such that all the cheaters and/or exploiters play with each other.
Ban them from playing with people who want to have a 'fair' game within the intended mechanics of the game.
I have no problem with this, let them have their fun with other dimwits.
The problem is when they come into normal matches where people actually try to play fair and help each other, as the game intended to accomplish the goals in the game.
That said, I HATE the unlocking crap in this game, but I would never ever exploit ( and that also includes spawncamping) the game to get anything that's not rightfully mine. You see, I hate the unlocks mostly due to the unbalance it introduces, not that I feel I need to level my own soldier.
For example I think I've managed to get into the chopper about 2-3 times totally (in about 25 hours online play time) and Yet I have 0 points for it, due to me not having flares (mostly), I last about 20 seconds before someone blows it up, I never even have time to master the controls. It's completely unfair and unbalanced, by this rate I need to play 100s of hour to get the necessary (for minimal survival) unlocks for the chopper, its such a stupid mechanics and make the game a really boring grind fest, when I just want to hop in and have some fun, and that also includes flying.
I like flying, and vehicles.
Fortunately tanks are easier, mostly due to their easier controls and abundances, so for the moment I just ignore that there are flying things and concentrate on ground warfare, its stupid though, because its not what I really want, I want to be able to use all vehicles.
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get that crap outta here
