Yeah, the programmer did that to pass certification more easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw
[edit] beaten, oh well
Exploits you discovered on your own that completely trivialized a game
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Yeah, the programmer did that to pass certification more easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw
[edit] beaten, oh well
In the first couple of FIFAs on the Sega Genesis, I figured out that if you timed pressing the shoot or pass button (don't remember which) while standing in front of the goalie just after he would drop kick the ball, you could block it with a header that would either roll into the goal or be picked up easily for a shot. It worked like 90% of the time.
Also, after committing a foul, you could run away from the ref and he would chase you until you stopped running in order to give you the card. You could do this indefinitely and it made for some hilarious multiplayer games with my family.
Also, after committing a foul, you could run away from the ref and he would chase you until you stopped running in order to give you the card. You could do this indefinitely and it made for some hilarious multiplayer games with my family.
Alma was a notoriously difficult boss in the Xbox Ninja Gaiden. I remember they made a big deal about how hard she was in EGM, and I think in a few other magazines I read at the time too.
About two minutes into my fight with her I found out that there's a simple combo you can lock her in. IIRC it was just X, X, roll, X, pause for a second, repeat. After I started that loop I beat her without taking any damage.
It was really anticlimactic.
About two minutes into my fight with her I found out that there's a simple combo you can lock her in. IIRC it was just X, X, roll, X, pause for a second, repeat. After I started that loop I beat her without taking any damage.
It was really anticlimactic.
In the early days of pokemon gen 1, nobody knew about effort values. But my friends and I figured out they existed. We didn't know how they worked exactly, but we knew that fighting more battles lead to stronger pokemon.
Everyone already knew about the Missingo trick, so all the teams you saw back then were leveled to 100 with rare candies, but had no EV growth. So our teams, which were hand raised, ended up with significant stat advantages. It backfired a bit later because I belived that rare candy prevented pokemon from gaining those stats and dindn't leanr how EVs really worked until gen 6. But in gen 1 my charizard was god.
Also i figured out early on that moves with increased crit ratios always hit critically if you were fast enough. So many people wasted time with solar beam and hyper beam while I just razor leaf and slashed my way through.
Everyone already knew about the Missingo trick, so all the teams you saw back then were leveled to 100 with rare candies, but had no EV growth. So our teams, which were hand raised, ended up with significant stat advantages. It backfired a bit later because I belived that rare candy prevented pokemon from gaining those stats and dindn't leanr how EVs really worked until gen 6. But in gen 1 my charizard was god.
Also i figured out early on that moves with increased crit ratios always hit critically if you were fast enough. So many people wasted time with solar beam and hyper beam while I just razor leaf and slashed my way through.
KH 1.5HD Summon Exploit
It's such a weird glitch, we don't know if it's intentional or not but basically after using a finisher in KH1FM with 0EXP equipped, your summons will basically do the equivalent of a finisher per hit. It causes you to literally shred through almost every end game boss, even a super boss.
Mind you this was discovered in 2013 when 1.5HD came out. It is still present on the PS4 so no one really knows if the design was intentional.
It's such a weird glitch, we don't know if it's intentional or not but basically after using a finisher in KH1FM with 0EXP equipped, your summons will basically do the equivalent of a finisher per hit. It causes you to literally shred through almost every end game boss, even a super boss.
Mind you this was discovered in 2013 when 1.5HD came out. It is still present on the PS4 so no one really knows if the design was intentional.
The Pride Rock Exp farming trick in Vanilla KH2. I didn't really browse forums back then and just discovered how you can abuse it on my own. I guess it doesn't trivialize the game but you level up so insanely fast.
I found an exploit in Dragon Age Inquisition where you can get max influence ( I think that's what it was called at least) by buying and selling these scrolls in skyhold like in Fable. I unfortunately also found out if you over cap it, you get this annoying whoosh noise that plays every time you open and close the menu. It. Drove. Me. Crazy!
That sounds like FIFA 2019 to be fair. Every game has some jank like that in it, they often seem to be about figuring out those scenarios where you will score every time, and then simply replicating them as frequently as possible.
I discovered item duping in Oblivion long before I read about it. It's so easy to do I'm amazed it was never discovered by testers. It was also never patched (which does not surprise me, lol. Oblivion got like two major patches and that was it...).
I was one of the first people to find an overflow glitch in Kirby's Dream Land 2: once you max out the score counter, anything you do that would normally award points will instead give you an extra life, making the game almost impossible to lose by accident.
I was also the first person I know of to discover the trick in Halo 2 where, in the Cairo Station level, you could take Sgt. Johnson with you (by meleeing him repeatedly) and he would clear out the entire level for you, since he's invulnerable. It's tricky because, among many other reasons, he will eventually try to move back to his original position, but with persistence you can move him pretty much anywhere. I used this trick to beat the level on Legendary for the first time. (More details here.)
I was one of the first people to find an overflow glitch in Kirby's Dream Land 2: once you max out the score counter, anything you do that would normally award points will instead give you an extra life, making the game almost impossible to lose by accident.
I was also the first person I know of to discover the trick in Halo 2 where, in the Cairo Station level, you could take Sgt. Johnson with you (by meleeing him repeatedly) and he would clear out the entire level for you, since he's invulnerable. It's tricky because, among many other reasons, he will eventually try to move back to his original position, but with persistence you can move him pretty much anywhere. I used this trick to beat the level on Legendary for the first time. (More details here.)
Obtaining the Rocket Punch power up in Pikmin 2 and realizing I can just run through the annoying-ass caves and kill just about every enemy by punching the shit out of them with Olimar while the Pikmin sit and wait and the spawn point.
Does that count? It's certainly not what the developers intended, but I didn't give a shit. Fuck the caves.
Does that count? It's certainly not what the developers intended, but I didn't give a shit. Fuck the caves.
My friend told me about custom spell glitches. I could conjure a skeletal warrior for 1 second (cheap af spell), but if I looked straight down while casting it would not expire until hp reached 0. I then conjured dozens of skeletons and dealt with single-digit framerates to have an army fight for me. Turning around to face them would result in less than 1fps. Never locked up though, so kudos to you xbox...
There used to be an exploit in how viewing the free ads for premium currency in Rayman Adventures worked where if you kept trying to view ads even if it told you to come back later, you could quickly get it to force ads again (i think if you checked like 5-10 times in a row) and if you kept at it consistently for a few minutes you didnt even have to sit through the ads. You just tapped to view, tap to close out of the post-ad banner, collect currency, repeat. Once you amassed enough currency you could just pay your way into collecting all of the incrediballs (the games "progression")
I figured out a fast leveling exploit in Super Mario RPG:
There's a save point at Lands End at the start of the underground cave, and two stars (one purchaseable).
Use the stars to kill all the enemies on the map and die on purpose to belome. It sends you back to the save point with your EXP intact, and everything else reset, including the stars.
Repeat.
There's a save point at Lands End at the start of the underground cave, and two stars (one purchaseable).
Use the stars to kill all the enemies on the map and die on purpose to belome. It sends you back to the save point with your EXP intact, and everything else reset, including the stars.
Repeat.
It was less about it being the final area and more that it was an area where your party members act like NPCs. Since you need them in order to use drive forms, you automatically revert to normal Sora and the devs were kind enough to give you a full drive meter to compensate, as opposed to draining it to 0 or having it remain where it was before you entered the area.
You can easily replicate this at any earlier point in the game that has areas where your party acts like NPCs. With enough forward knowledge you can be very efficient in how you level up your drive forms.
The rifle-line in the original Final Fantasy Tactics. I made everyone carry guns except a couple of people riding cleanup, advanced carefully keeping everyone together to cover each other, and decimated every fight I used that tactic in. I stopped using it fairly quickly because it made the game boring.
Javiks dark channel on shepard breaks mass 3.
It lasts forever and primes EVERYTHING.
Combine with a biotic team or a vanguard shep and games braindead even in insanity.
It lasts forever and primes EVERYTHING.
Combine with a biotic team or a vanguard shep and games braindead even in insanity.
The Bourne video game had one 3-hit combo that was absolutely unstoppable. Either the enemy would eat the combo or they would get locked in a block. Repeat that combo non-stop, build up your takedown meter, use your takedown, lathe, rinse, repeat, lament on not being Matt Damon.
Jade Empire: the Storm Dragon stance was meant to cause a stun status so you could switch to another stance and get a power hit in, but if you just stayed in Storm Dragon you could stunlock the majority of enemies and just whittle them down without fear of counterattack. Even worked on the final boss.
Unreal tournament on Dreamcast: there was a wall on one of the towers of 2 worlds with no collision box so you could go inside the wall and shoot Rockets at enemies while being hidden. I'm not quite sure how many others knew about this since this was in 1999 before checking online for exploits wasn't common.
Mortal Kombat trilogy for n64: not really an exploit but I figured out scorpion's third fatality (giant skeletal hand) through lots of trial and error. This was not listed in any strategy guide or anywhere online at the time. I see that it's listed now when I checked a few years ago but it wasn't for a very long time. It's forward, forward, back, low punch by the way. I'll never forget that sequence lol.
Mortal Kombat trilogy for n64: not really an exploit but I figured out scorpion's third fatality (giant skeletal hand) through lots of trial and error. This was not listed in any strategy guide or anywhere online at the time. I see that it's listed now when I checked a few years ago but it wasn't for a very long time. It's forward, forward, back, low punch by the way. I'll never forget that sequence lol.
In dragon age origins on 360 you could hand in the blood vials (of you get them but dont finish the area in ostagar) infinite times, allowing you to be max level before the tutorial ends.
Then in the first town you could sell/craft an infinite ammount of traps for infinite money too.
Then in the first town you could sell/craft an infinite ammount of traps for infinite money too.
Noticed in Resettear that NPC's would often buy stuff from vending machines with each purchase, regardless of what was in the vending machine. So I bought the largest vending machine and stocked it with the most expensive item: vending machines. I didn't mind when the little girl came in asking to buy an apple below cost price because she'd almost always go past the vending machine on the way out and buy an over-priced vending machine from it!
Bloody Roar: Primal Fury
One of the characters can immediately start the match with a lunging tackle that will roll and throw the opponent out of the ring. Used this ad nauseum to annoy a friend. Good times.
One of the characters can immediately start the match with a lunging tackle that will roll and throw the opponent out of the ring. Used this ad nauseum to annoy a friend. Good times.
Metroid Prime
It doesn't completely trivialize the game, but you can extend a sidestep while messing with the lock-on to fling yourself. I did it by accident off Samus' ship and landed on the ridge to the double jump boots early.
I saw it used in a speed run many years later and laughed.
It doesn't completely trivialize the game, but you can extend a sidestep while messing with the lock-on to fling yourself. I did it by accident off Samus' ship and landed on the ridge to the double jump boots early.
I saw it used in a speed run many years later and laughed.
In Rogue Galaxy, there was a combo skill with 3 characters (Like Protagonist + Main girl + Pseudo Han Solo dude) that just killed every group of regular enemies in the game for no cost. I didn't even tried to find it, it was like the easiest to find exploit ever.
Balancing in this game was so shitty lol
Balancing in this game was so shitty lol
If you circle-strafed enemies in Severance: Blade of Darkness (old PC game), the AI couldn't really keep up and it made the game a trivial experience. I would circle-strafe, move in and attack, go back to circle-strafing, move in and attack, etc. It took all the fun out of it, tbh.
The freeze/napalm attacks in Twisted Metal 2. Accidentally figured out the Ice attack and then goofing around we figured out the fire attack by switching up the first two directions of the input... used that in like in some twisted metal tournaments at a local game store we had near me and won a few free games. I don't even know if it's a secret, probably in the manual or something but nobody we played knew about it.
There's an island in the World of Ruin with high level monsters on it. I literally used this tactic to grind, went and killed the last boss on my first try.
In Bioshock, there are set of abilities (tonics) that you can equip that make you invincible: Base wrench damage increase (like +500%) + Invisible while standing still + Increased wrench damage to unsuspecting enemies (+200%) + Freeze status effect to the wrench + Vampire effect to the wrench + Electric shock to enemies that melee you + Increased speed and wrench swing speed.
I initially went a lot with the wrench since the shooting is very janky, and it totally pays off to stick to it. Go up to the Big Daddy and just spam wrench.
I initially went a lot with the wrench since the shooting is very janky, and it totally pays off to stick to it. Go up to the Big Daddy and just spam wrench.
Xcom 2 PS4. if you play the game long enough without restarting the game, a bug will trigger where enemy won't be moving at all. Might trigger faster if you're reloading the save quite frequently. Once it triggered, it'll carry over to next missions as well, until you quit the game.
By restarting the game and loading back the save, the game will run normally again. I stumbled the bug a couple of times during the playtrough as I reload the saves quite a lot. Not sure if the bug is fixed or not.
By restarting the game and loading back the save, the game will run normally again. I stumbled the bug a couple of times during the playtrough as I reload the saves quite a lot. Not sure if the bug is fixed or not.
Yes, that's a good one. I abused that a lot to get through trickier areas.
EDIT - another one was passing an item on to a friend, letting them exit back to their game and shutting your game down from the menu before it could save, so they got a copy of your item and you kept it. I did this to help a couple of people out with the Pure Bladestone.
The Suikoden 1 Marco money trick.
Played the game on my Vita, camping in Australia, without any Internet whatsoever, and discovered this trick.
I finished Suikoden 1 rich as fuck.
Played the game on my Vita, camping in Australia, without any Internet whatsoever, and discovered this trick.
I finished Suikoden 1 rich as fuck.
I found out by myself first that in Valkyria Chronicles 1 you can just rush the flag with scouts.
There's a dungeon in DQXIII that has enemies called Phoenix, that will revive each other pretty frequently. Killing them gives you XP... every time...so I just mashed attack, killing them and letting them revive over and over, which can level you up multiple times in a short period. I could max out some abilities and steam roll the last bit of the game, as well as the main portion of the post game.