{"id":15190,"date":"2011-10-31T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gamers-discover-abuse-invincibility-glitch-in-battlefield-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15190-gamers-discover-abuse-invincibility-glitch-in-battlefield-3","title":{"rendered":"Gamers discover, abuse invincibility glitch in Battlefield 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, it&rsquo;s happened to you already, I&rsquo;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s that one guy, probably a sniper, over on the edges of Caspian Border or Grand Bazaar, who just won&rsquo;t die no matter how many bullets hit him in the face.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s right, boys and girls. Battlefield 3&rsquo;s been out less than a week, and unscrupulous love-plums have already worked out how to make themselves almost completely invincible and spoil the game for everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of deep-cover investigative journalism turned up a how-to, and honestly, I&rsquo;ve no idea how these people even figure this stuff out. It&rsquo;s a confirmed glitch for Xbox and PS3 for the moment, but given the method, it&rsquo;s more than likely also exploitable on PC.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints are turning up over on the official forums, with the suggested interim &ldquo;fix&rdquo; among gamers being to use heavy explosives or knife kills on cheaters, which may or may not work.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, QQ.<\/p>\n<p>While DICE is patching that up, they might also want to reconsider that whole infinite mortar ammo thing too.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders lurking in the bushes 500 metres away, spamming mortars over the M-COM station is pretty much the exact opposite of fun.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19730-Gamers-discover-and-abuse-invincibility-glitch-in-Battlefield-3\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Gamers discover, abuse invincibility glitch in Battlefield 3\"><strong>Gamers discover, abuse invincibility glitch in Battlefield 3<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why we can\u2019t have nice things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}