An invulnerability exploit

noxious · 2004-02-07, 02:08 PM

Before reading this post please take into consideration I am not an idiot, and I am not angry because I got owned.

I was playing on Hossin yesterday with dogtag. We were Magriding like we like to do when we play togeather. I was driving, he was gunning. We were working around the Acan area when a couple Vanguards and a Skyguard forced us to retreat. We retreated in the northeast direction and dogtag managed to pick off the skyguard. We were able to outrun the Vanguard (the second Vanguard didn't give chase) going over the water and using our significant speed advantage. We stopped to repair a half an SOI outside of Chac and seconds after hopping back into the tank the Vanguard that had been chasing us apparently hadn't given up, and begun firing on us. I knew there was no way to run this time so we went head on, firing both cannons. We died. Nothing strange here, one expects that to happen going head to head with a Vanguard.

We respawn at Chac and grab another Magrider. The same Vanguard is now outside engaging the wall turrets. Two wall turrets are hitting it and I figure this combined with both cannons on the Magrider should have no problem destroying it. We engage it at near point-blank, sustaining fire on it for well over a minute.The entire time, the tank continues firing on the turrets. Once they die, it begins shooting us, and kills us.

It becomes apparent that this tank is not being damaged... by anything. The tank continues to roam Chac's courtyard and eventually a pair of reavers engage it. They rocket spam it and it doesn't even shoot back. The Vanguard just drives around, occassionally firing a bit at the reavers. After a long while it kills both reavers. I'm not sure where the Vanguard went after that however it was very apparent the four of us had witnessed some kind of exploit. Using advance targeting, we unveiled the name of the driver and appealed him along with the gunner, along with an explaination of what happened.

Anyway, I'm posting this so that people will be on the lookout for this exploit/cheat. Some exploits are not a big deal to me, like the reload exploit or the flickering implant exploit (both of which are fixed now at least), but when you render yourself entirely invulnerable, that's going too far.

Rbstr · 2004-02-07, 02:13 PM

I've seen this happen with a TR Prowler a few weeks ago, and before that An VS AMS, and mag at the same time, it realy though a kink in our plans

VashTheStamped · 2004-02-07, 02:19 PM

ive seen that happen too.

dscytherulez · 2004-02-07, 02:39 PM

Man, that really sucks...they better fix that asap...

hazzer2007 · 2004-02-07, 02:41 PM

How can you cheat? Do they change the program?

Rbstr · 2004-02-07, 02:48 PM

Yeah those type of things are unmentionable.

I would assume its a bug, and not a hack though

SilverLord · 2004-02-07, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Yeah those type of things are unmentionable.

I would assume its a bug, and not a hack though

Agreed.

Suiciderunner · 2004-02-07, 03:08 PM

This happened to me awhile ago. I was playing on Werner with my outfit when a vs vanguard rolls up on us at se Gunuku tower. After 30 minutes, we finnaly got it. But for those thiry minutes it was around, it drove around the area and never stopped. Every time we shot it, the action when you hit a shielded vehicle showed up. Pissed me off.

worldvengence · 2004-02-07, 03:26 PM

i just hate it when people come into the sanc. and bitch about an invunerablilty exploit, and expect everyone to care, then they refuse to submit a bug report....i mean, it isnt like there is anything we can do about it

00AgentDuck · 2004-02-07, 03:59 PM

Yeah I've seen this happen once before, it even happened to a VS vanguard my friend hacked I think it was on konried before the server's joined. Anyway, since he doesn't have the tank cert he has another guy drive it for him. Meanwhile I get a magrider of my own and I follow them. We got into a large group of enemies and I was blown up but the vanguard was not, despite all the damage I saw it take. So I go back to where they are driving around and see it still has full health, so I thought that they just repaired it. Around this time my friend also noticed that he was gunning an invincible vanguard so he got out. It was temtping for him to stay in, but he didn't want to get in trouble and it would be very cheap if he did stay in. So the driver drove off and we later saw him in an enemy base being shot at by many turrets and still remaining in tact.

I also hope that they fix this bug soon, most people who have had this happen only stumble appon it by chance.

Peacemaker · 2004-02-07, 04:12 PM

Yea it seems to happen to a jacked vehicle most of the time.