For me/us/we/the company I work for - a bug is something that be tracked, logged, and reproduced and can get, well, "squashed."
All glitches work exactly as programmed... they're just not programmed correctly..
Glitches are mistakes in the code. Exploits use existing features in unintended ways.
nope,
And if they did, then we'd know for sure, but without it, I'd say it's an exploit. Moreover, I'm surprised that you didn't raise this in your first post, since the distinctions between glitch and exploit is a far more interesting one than if what's happening is specifically intended.
Yeah, it's cos the frame rate was so low, it runs about 1 second faster for every 60 seconds of run time if you look at the ground
These are called bugs or programming errors. They're easily reproduced and we generally know what causes them. It's just semantics since it's gradually becoming a synonym for "bug", but the word "glitch" previously meant a random voltage spike or minor transient fault and is by definition difficult to pinpoint.
I'm with you. Exploits are all about how they're used; they're conditional. The existence of a glitch makes it a glitch even if it's not used or discovered.
that's arguably an exploit but definitely not a glitch
In this case, the individual (and directly related) systems are still working exactly as intended. The combined result may not have been accounted for, but nothing is broken. In BotW you have one system fully superseding and disabling a completely unrelated system, so that's an outright bug.
I'm assuming the way the game works (since I haven't played it it ages) is that your character moves faster when strafing, for the intended purpose of being able to move quickly enough to strafe out of the line of fire. I'm not saying it's the most intuitive thing in this case, but I'm sure someone wondered "if strafing makes me move faster left and right, does it just make me faster in general?" And so in my view it's intentional game behavior being utilized in ways not intended (in this case a pretty big oversight), which makes it an exploit.
Carmack's .plan said:
Exactly this. Simply using the existing systems in a way that the developers didn't specifically intend doesn't make it necessarily a glitch, it makes it a "huh, I guess if you add up those things, I suppose it would do that after all - I never thought of trying that".
