Speed was normal for someone with fuel injectors on, tank could have killed it but stopped trying (I think he overheated?) and yet...

Da fawk...

I've never seen AV grenades do that... ever...

Given the vast amount of glitches in this game though, I'm just going to guess it was a glitch. If someone can hack Dust to make their LAV nearly unkillable, I think they'd go for something like 10K HP or something instead of a boring hack like a partially indestructible LAV.

That first AV grenade wasn't even thrown soon enough to hit the thing though.

What I find more inexplicable than an invincible LAV is the frequency with which people claim others hack dust. Given that almost everything on dust is controlled server side it would be rather challenging to hack dust without CCP noticing. Really people, which is more credible, that someone hacked CCP or that DUST514, a game that has experienced some amazing glitches (some of which were very temporary), had yet another glitch.

Because players and hackers around the world don't spend ungodly amounts of time trying to hack games and other networks right? Often succeeding, and shocking the world....

Js

LAV wasn't quite in the redline. But those nades though...




@CCP That sound, when he switches suit at supply depot, only happens in that small socket, and its terrifying.

Please nerf.

What I find more inexplicable than an invincible LAV is the frequency with which people claim others hack dust. Given that almost everything on dust is controlled server side it would be rather challenging to hack dust without CCP noticing. Really people, which is more credible, that someone hacked CCP or that DUST514, a game that has experienced some amazing glitches (some of which were very temporary), had yet another glitch.

Because players and hackers around the world don't spend ungodly amounts of time trying to hack games and other networks right? Often succeeding, and shocking the world....

Js

So you are saying ccp has never claimed ddos attacks because as far as their twitter posts show it happens all to often those are indeed hacks, sending false traffic. This was no glitch but indeed a hack I have seen this same dude perfom similar hacks on many different things I was only able to capture him doing it on the LAV.

Thumbs down to your glitch explanation...

There are hacks that you can do that are not even server side acknowledged. Does not take much searching on youtube and google to find a reasonable tutorial on the subject.

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So, you are wrong. I know, some one on the internet is wrong, it is unbelievable.

You are saying that a DDOS is as difficult as creating a malicious piece of code that tricks a game whose major mechanics (damage tracking, item location, etc..) are all handled in on a secure server into violating several of its fundamental rules. It seems thay you are ignoring the fact that DDOS attacks are such simple tasks that any one can perform them after a simple search of the internet or a trip to a TOR site. They are simple enough that 12 year olds have been caught orchestrating them.

The hack you are proposing, on the other hand, is extremely complex. Sure, it can be done. I won't deny that servers can be hacked. The point is that it would take massive ammounts of effort since you are trying to do something that the server is expressly set up to prevent. A DDOS is easy because it is simply flooding a server with requests and fielding requests is what servers are meant to do. A google search on server side-hacking will bring up pages of internet forums and hacking websites that talk about how this is actually not an easy task. In this case you are also talking about changing a fundamental game mechanic that all players use and applying that change to a single player in a single running instance of the game (or did everyone else playing DUST at that time also experience invincible LAVs).

Mind you, this master hacker you're envisioning has done all of this without CCP saying anything or announcing anything them-selves. When was the last time a creative hack of a company happened without a) the company acknowledging it happened or b) the hackers pea-cocking about how l33t they are.

Once again which option seems more likely? That a malicious hacking team spent hundreds of hours hacking a server just to make a single players vehicle in a game invincible, without getting caught or shouting to the world how amazing they are or...that a game which has a long history of bizarre and game breaking bugs displayed yet another bizarre and potential game breaking bug.

Just in case you aren't convinced that DDOS attacks are really simple I found a reddit thread that has a perfect analogy describing what a DDOS is and why it is so simple. You can read it here.

I love it, you can fall through walls and floors into the abyss until you're forced to commit suicide. One moment you're running down an inside hallway and in the blink of an eye be outside the building somewhere. You can shoot people and have your bullets not register correctly. You can shoot Mass Driver rounds and watch them disappear in the air. I can go on and on and on, this game has a host of issues on occassion. This is Dust after all. I love that a game can have as many players who have quit over the years due to lag and bugs, yet people will still yell Hackers!. It's fukin halarious.

Looks like they got deflected off of the object deflection field that was put in place to push players off of vehicles to prevent vehicle surfing

Iam not questioning the player in question, the tutorials I have seen give you a piece of software to perform the mods, I call them mods not hacks if you think thats a better term. Either way it does happen. Look at all major games you find nothing but modders spending days and hours perfecting there scripts and mods with a custom software.

All I am trying to say is I have seen many glitches in dust and I have seen many mods this was 100% a MOD / hack.

Dude way back when this game first came out I seen hvys firing non stop forge gun shots outa a hmg and your telling me its never been hacked? Also seen tanks firing laser beams out of their blasters. Just a glitch as well?

Do your research not just on outa game material but also by playing long enough to know whats what.

After watching the video. I saw nothing truly wrong. The vehicle was taking damage as expected.

The AV grenades didn't hone in on the car because it was UPSIDE DOWN. That being the only real problem with the video.
The base plates are regarded differently from the top plates.

In the middle portion, the tank was NOT firing at the car until it slid up next to it to poke it a half second the shields went down as epxected, and then the player's camera bounced over the tank. The tank then retreated.Tank had attacked 2 or so dropsuits before attempting to poke the car.

He might have stopped, thinking you wanted to hack it...

It's not just LAv's, I've seen this with drop ships. Not that they don't take any dmg per say just that they recover it instantly. I think something went a bit wrong with the latest patches about shield recharge. I was at a large rail gun turret the other day shooting a dropship. It had about 2k shields but it would recharge to full every time I hit it in the pause between blast. It was way to often to just be a shield booster. A high recharge plus a low delay has made some vehicles nearly un-killable right now to anything but over whelming force.

My guess it wouldn't be to hard to do it on a LAV either. With the speed they have most shots would miss, if you only get hit 1 in 2 or 3 shots by enemy AV your shields would be recharged each time. Add in a hardener and you could do laps threw enemy fire with ease.