8 Video Games That Killed You By Accident

7. Inverted Difficulty - Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol

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If there’s one thing that we know more than ever thanks to films, TV, and video games hammering home the point, it’s that war is indeed Hell. Therefore it might be tempting to nudge things in your favor a little when it comes to lacing up and hitting the trenches by dropping down the difficulty in war-based video games.

Well, I’ve got some bad news for you, my friend, because if you were looking for an easy ride in Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol then you’re going to experience a world of misery and pain.

This is because thanks to an issue with coding, the difficulty settings for the highest and lowest challenge were swapped by accident meaning that if you selected “Private” you were going to be absolutely obliterated by crack shot enemies and bullet sponge bosses!

Therefore those looking to ease themselves into the waters of war ended up being drowned without even knowing why!

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