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Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers

BF3Blog has word that some servers have popped up for the Battlefield 3 beta allowing 128-player games. The servers are apparently running the Operation Metro map, but rather than offering the 32-player rush mode like the official servers, they are running a hacked version of conquest mode, allowing 128 players rather then the intended 64. The bad news is that this is, rather unsurprisingly, a "considerably" laggy experience, and worse, they pass along Electronic Arts' warning that playing on hacked servers may compromise your EA account, and may earn you a ban, which can cause you to lose access to your other EA games.

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11. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 15:25 DangerDog
 
EddieTheHack wrote on Oct 2, 2011, 15:04:
I get this random geometry bug. If I use iron sights and then switch out of them I get skinny triangles radiating out in a circular pattern with the end sight as their point or origin. It was funny at first but now it leads to rage.

I get this too, hopefully it's just a video driver bug and gets fixed. I thought maybe my graphics card was melting down but even if I run my cooling fans at 100% this glitch still appears.

Youtube videos showing off operation metro in conquest mode, at least they did away with the park setting but it looks like a poor map to play conquest on.
 
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10. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 15:20 Beelzebud
 
I bought Battlefield 2142 from EA's download service, before they changed the name to Origin, and about 2 months after I bought the game, it started failing the DRM check, saying my cd-key was invalid. Not even calling EA's customer service phone line got the problem resolved, and for the next 2 years I was locked out of a 40.00 dollar game. It was only until they released the final patch for 2142, which removed the DRM, that I was able to have access to the game, and by that time I was too bitter about the whole situation to even give a shit to play.

From that experience, EA will never get another dime out of me. Their DRM literally ripped me off. Never again. I refuse to play any game that uses their service exclusively. If that means I miss out on BF3, and the Star Wars MMO, then so be it.
 
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9. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 15:18 Dmitri_M
 
Am I imagining it or are the graphics not quite as good as the videos they released a while back?  
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8. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 15:16 Hump
 
I played a grand total of 2 minutes. It was apparent that people were using vegetation hacks aplenty (I wont even try to guess what else was being used). Add to that bad performance on my somewhat dated PC (yes, its a beta) and lastly, I realized Im sick to death of military based shooters. I tried the 360 versiom and was bored to death. I waited years for BF3 only to find that I've had enough....for the time being anyhow.  
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7. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 15:12 Suckage
 
My gun just randomly disappears.  
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6. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 15:04 EddieTheHack
 
I get this random geometry bug. If I use iron sights and then switch out of them I get skinny triangles radiating out in a circular pattern with the end sight as their point or origin. It was funny at first but now it leads to rage.  
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5. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 14:56 Wag
 
I'd just be happy to play it on my Tri-Crossfire 6950 setup. There's so much artifacts and weird visual shit it's unplayable.  
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4. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 14:56 EddieTheHack
 
I saw these servers when browsing the servers. Aside from the player count being off there was nothing to indicate that they were anything other than kosher to play on. If ban's are a potential consequence EA must make sure that there is NO possible way a person can ever connect to these servers without taking deliberate actions outside the scope of simply browsing for games or hitting the join match button. If anything this shows that battle log is not ready for public consumption. These servers are gone now but the fact that they ever showed up proves just how poorly implemented and under cooked this entire thing really is. It is bad enough I have to rely on EA's website to connect to a game, its even worse that the site is apparently beyond to scope of EA's brain trust to get sorted out and properly working.  
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3. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 14:40 Moog
 
FFS! If "playing on hacked servers" "may earn you a ban" then they'd better fucking give us a 100% proof way of determining what is a genuine/unhacked server!

I don't think even Kotick would pull a stunt like that!
 
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2. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 14:40 Wildone
 
It can barely do 32 as it is, buggy ridden software right now..  
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1. Re: Hacked 128-Player Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Oct 2, 2011, 14:33 JayDeath
 
Honestly, I'm surprised Battlefield 3 doesn't support 128 ppl servers, at least for the PC. It's 2011. The devs should be developing 128 ppl server mp games.  
I have so many wonderful games just waiting to be played but I can't seem to get away from Skyrim!
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