Battlefield 3 Beta Hacked, DICE Threatens Banhammer

In what's starting to sound as unavoidable as death and taxes, IT seems someone's managed to hack the Battlefield 3 beta presently underway, unlocking choice game modes, namely support for prepared to 128 coincidental guys running through the streets of a certain famous Gallic municipality, guns-a-blazin'. That's the…shall we allege intriguing news.

The high-risk news, is that if you share of this ill-gotten feature, you may see your EA Origins bill abeyant, lockup you outer of not just the Battlefield 3 beta, only everything other—legitimate or no—associated with the business relationship.

Intelligence is, hackers discovered a way to fiddle the player cap on Operation Metro, one of the maps in the of import (also shown at E3 this summertime), raising IT from 32 to 128. The map itself involves ye olde gunfight between U.S. Marine Corps and Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units staged end-to-end amidship Paris. I know, some developers will do anything to get the Eiffel Tower in chatoyant, simply then this isn't a referendum on DICE's absurdist field license.

Alternatively, information technology's a monition: A DICE rep dropped into an authoritative forum thread along "hacked servers and stats boosting" and recognized the cut up, encouraging players to "delight try to continue on official servers."

Writes DICE rep Bazajaytee: "Please avoid temptation and stay on on those official servers while we work to have these servers dealt with. Playing along those servers commode cause your bill to suit compromised, stats to be altered or different issues to arise which May lead to having your account banned by EA."

And in a second base post, added a few transactions later: "If your answer for gets banned it does mean whatever EA gritty you have your account would also be unavailable."

How official whatsoever of that actually is remains to be seen, as the position has since reportedly gone poof.

At least united blog suggests that DICE's reaction is a bit some. You know, because it's obligatory companies to let gamers act up any they want. Exploratory testing with strict control variables (look-alike user caps on maps) to troubleshoot issues that only occur within specific shimmer parameters? World Health Organization inevitably it! Heck, let's just give Anonymous and LulzSec a call and ask them to unlock the glutted game or something. Why not? Beta testing's just a corporate smokescreen and everything's working completely 100% microbe-free already anyway, right?

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/477041/battlefield_3_beta_hacked_dice_threatens_banhammer.html

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