Gaming

In Fallout 3 I came across the beta Tesla cannon after noticing some height gain from quick saving while trying to enter the bunker in the broken steel DLC. First time I’ve ever discovered an exploit and abused it unintentionally, this was definitely a unique reward.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Tesla_cannon_(Beta)

One thing I found in Skyrim was being able to master vampire abilities while in my normal form. I was going for an assassin at the time with twin daggers with the same enchantment on them. I turned into a vampire lord on accident and turned right back. I noticed one of my daggers was missing, and in my other hand, the vampire lord drain spell. I started using it and got perks for my vampire lord tree. If I ever replaced the spell, I would just replace the daggers and repeat the process. That's when my assassin run ended, and my vampire lord run began. Just stay away from Serana she nerfs your spell.

In Enchanted Arms, you could just save scum before entering the gambling area and bet big on one number in roulette, if you got it, exit and save and repeat, if not reload save and do it again.

I was able to purchase a strong unit early in the game that had an attack that lowered enemies up to 1, I used this to cheese everything that was remotely hard, including the final boss.

I remembered really enjoying that game as a kid, but I didn’t know you could add points to different stats until near end game… so that’s why I had to cheese most bosses lol.

There was a driving game on roblox years ago. It had a donate menu. I discovered a fun little trick - if you put a negative amount in there you could take somebody's money. I quickly became the richest player on the server and some poor guy had negative money because of me.

In Dark Cloud 2, I found a way to duplicate level-up powder. It was pretty weird needed a fish in the one forest biome to get to the backfloors and did some weird item manipulation that I feel was close to the lure manipulation to dupe the level-up (power up?) Powder. I haven't been able to find it on YouTube anywhere and I'm starting to think I'm going nuts and misremembering, but asked my sister and she distinctly remembers me doing it as well like that.

Like I know there's the way to do it in dark cloud 1 with the fish market and ice in Queens but this one was definitley not that.

Also keeping on Dark Cloud, I accidentally found out how to make the broken dagger that allows you to max the weapons stats for any weapon (this does exist on youtube and ive even commented on the different variations depending on what system/version you play on to help out my fellow man). It took me forever to replicate it after I had done it the first time since I had no idea how it happened haha.

Seriously though if anyone else remembers duping in dark cloud 2 respond so maybe we can pull it from the aether!

Zelda TotK duplication glitches pretty much changed my entire play through since i could just dupe for rupees, dupe for quests too

Many moons ago, in the 90'ies Railroad Tycoon had a glitch that you could exploit to hell and back.

You could buy stock in the different competitors and when you had 51% you had the stock majority, and could basically do as you pleased. So, what you'd do was transfer all available money to your own company, then sell a few stocks to get below 50%. The AI would then take out a loan, or a bigger loan. And you would continue this, until the negative value would exceed what would be in an integer (I think it was), and the negative value was now positive.

Originally the idea was to bankrupt the other companies this way, but it turned out to be a money printer. In both cases the game quickly became uninteresting.

I guess I was not old enough to just play it as intended. :)

In Watch Dogs two they added money trucks which were just armoured trucks you would need to hack to get money from.

You would get I think like 250k for doing one which in that game is a lot of money.

When you began hacking one you would immediately have level 5 police on you and it would let other players invade you.

Of course, that was really hard to evade. However I realized that police can’t track you while sitting outside the door inside the bunker staircase in the base on top of the map.

Cops can’t find you in there, you can load the doorway with C4, and you can go one step further and park a truck in front of the doorway to the staircase and blow it up which makes it impossible to get to you unless you walk too far away from the truck so it despawns.

I made enough money I could buy everything in the game and have like 20 million to spare. It was crazy overpowered.

In Ultima Online, my friend and I had discovered that you could identify magic object in the shops before buying them. We developed or identify skill and became merchants and we would buy all the items that had awesome values and resold them to others for much higher. Was an awesome game!!

World of Warcraft OG classic. Paladins had an ability called "Reckoning". You gained a stack every time you recieved a critical hit, and it made you deal an extra auto attack per stack. But they never thought to give it a cap...My rogue friend attacked me for nearly a day straight, to build over TEN THOUSAND stacks. The buff wears off if you instance....but it's a good thing there was world bosses to fight...

When GTA V first came out there was a glitch online where you’d take a car to the garage, sell it, immediately quit out, log back in and you’d still have the car and the money you made from selling it. Me and a mate made millions exploiting that back in the day.

Mass effect 3 if you use a medigel then close and reopen the power wheel quickly you will heal and not use up the medigel. Helped me beat insanity difficulty.

In Techmo Bowl if you choose the Bears there is a unique passing route with Cap Boso that works for 7 yards even if your opponent picks the exact play. He curls slightly one way as a fake then does a an in route. If you hut the ball and run straight back and pass just after the fake when he goes the opposite way he'll catch it every time even with a defender on him.

Command & Conquer: build a sandbag wall from your base into the enemy base. They conduct electricity and don't agro enemies.

Then just start erecting guard towers inside their base. The AI will divert all resources to constantly replenishing foot soldiers. I beat the whole damn game with that strategy.

Sim City 4: I would build the residential zones air-locked from jobs with a parking garage and bus-only highway. Then put a few tollbooths along the way.

Instant profit! And if I recall, all the bus passengers pay the tolls.

Also, if I had a big project planned, I'd max out taxes for a year. Everyone would begrudgingly pay it, then leave the city. Huge cash windfall and free gentrification! Reset taxes and all the cheap homes would be torn down and rebuilt as mansions.

[Edit] In the Joe Montana Football DOS game, on defense you could spam dive, and as soon as the ball was snapped, you'd dive through the center and instantly sack the QB. It was a joke, and playing two player, you could only run shotgun formations because you couldn't trust the other guy not to dive spam.

On the Wario track on n64, my cousins and I discovered the over the wall hop on accident as one of us got hit by a shell or something and it popped us over the side.

Tons of games have enemies only attack/go after you within specific areas and you can cheese them by dipping in, attacking, dipping out and waiting for them to walk away. I don't know if this is a big exploit but it's often been a good way to defeat enemies while underleveled

Back in the day there was a browser Guitar Hero clone which I don't remember the name, with a leaderboard of course. Very stupid, the more you play the more u rank up. I found out a short song, the keyboard cat meme song, so short it won't fail as long as you register a single stroke. A couple of days and 10 Firefox tabs was enough for me to get 1st place and both song and acc banned for good.

Fable uses a supply and demand system for shop prices, so if you can flood a shop with an item they become ridiculously cheap, and then you can sell them back to the shop at a high price. You have to do this in full stacks though, so sell all of one item high, and then buy the entire stock back for like 1 gold per item.

I found that in certain missions in gta 3, if you manage to start the mission twice (ie have two instances of the missions running, it's possible by glitching the on mission flag), then you can auto pass the mission by doing something that would normally fail it (like dying).

It's called "dupe and fail" and is used in the speedrun.

I'm credited with the discovery even though someone managed to do it before me. It's just when I did it (on a different mission), we were able to put the pieces together to figure out why it worked and then replicate it. We both found it by accident

For a brief, simple, explanation, it works on missions where the objective is to kill someone or blow something up. When you have two missions running and then fail, the game starts unloading assets for the mission. The other instance of the mission is like "hey, that dude you were supposed to kill got unloaded, mission passed"

Speedball 2 : if you got a draw in your cup or elimination game, you replayed the same team. If you kept on forcing draws against the first team, you could collect enough coins to fully enhance your team to max level.

For me it definitely has to be Skyrim lol but which exploit? I’d say the one where you could sneak by the blind guy and keep increasing your sneak. Then there’s always the classic blacksmith exploit

Borderlands 2: the BAR glitch

If you played splitscreen, the primary account would glitch if you went back to the title screen, then into the menu. The result was gaining a shitload of Badass points, and you could easily climb all numbers to a point that certain Krieg builds became unplayable unless you disabled your Badass rank

Not me but my brother was a high level computer programmer by middle school. He literally got a part time job at a bank during summers I think at 14. Anyway this was a while ago. He got into the source code of sim city 2000 and found a way to input any amount of money. Maybe there was a simpler cheat code at the time but that’s not what he was doing. I’d watch him go into dos or something and find values and just change the numbers lol. I thought he was the coolest guy.

In the calamity mod for Terraria the NPC that sells treasure bags can get you infinite mana as soon as you beat moon lord. The contents of a moon lord treasure bags actually is worth more than the bag itself so you just buys bags, opens them, sell the contents, and repeat. A discount card makes this a lot faster.

Back in killing floor 1, the shotgun class (I can't remember the name now) gave exp for welding doors. Steam at the time also had a glitch where if you opened the in game overlay while holding lmb, it would maintain the input after closing the overlay. Cut to having the last few zeds of a round hitting a door while afk welding it for free xp

In Wizard of Legend, there's an item you can get that makes it so that whenever you heal, your special meter fills up depending on how strong the heal was.

There is also another item that makes it so that whenever you use your special, rather than doing the standard special attack it would instead give you a heal equal to your max hp.

You can see where this is going, literally unkillable.

Duplication items in NMS

In Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption you could get your persuasion so high that you could sell things for more than you bought them, infinite money glitch when buying and selling back.

Goes back many a year but Dead hooker money glitch in GTAV.

IRL - Star Wars arcade game at the movie theatre/arcade.

If you held down the red buttons to get your coins back for a refund and slammed your fist on the machines base, a bunch of tokens would just fall out of the machine. Discovered this as a 10 year old and was ecstatic.

Turns out it works with most of the old school arcade games at the theatre with the red refund token button. Ended up spending more time there after the movie was finished than actually watching any movies lol.

Last I tried it a few years ago it still worked sometimes too! The employees get a lot more upset now that I’m 26 though…

In dying light theres also a way to farm the volatiles/night hunter before the mission to chase Rais or before the sewer run. You do this by going on a night run, alert some volatiles then run in a fast pace and do some parkour normally (this is a great way to level your stats if you dont mind getting raced and chased)

Once you're near a river wait for them to pounce at you or lunge at you, if you're good enough a simple side dash can mitigate the damage but ive found letting them hit guarantees they'll fall into the water and just die. (Bring lots of meds I brought around 10 with enough to sideboard with materials before doing this) Once they fall over thats boom instant I think 500 to 1k exp per death on them I havent played DL1 for a long time so idk if they patched this out but it let me get the finisher and drop kick perk very early on. And also silent executioner.

Mechwarrior 2 you could jump jet forward and then shutdown your mech but you’ll keep moving forward (no longer using jump jet fuel nor generating heat). This also allowed you to clip through terrain and enemies would ignore you mostly.

On the golden n64 version of Ocarina of Time; If you press the reset button during a part of the final boss fight (you were angry not me), you're able to use weapons on horseback in the overworld. It will let you grapple into the sky box and things. Had a friend who had a later version and it didn't work.

Mind was blown back then.

Any game with a .ini file you could change all sorts

In Vanilla World of Warcraft playing as a hunter if you sent your pet to attack something and then used a flying route while your pet was on transit, it would mount you onto the flying mount but not put you on the flight path effectively making you invulnerable. You couldn't attack while you were mounted and the mount didn't fly but you could just waltz into the enemy capitals on an eagle before flying mounts existed ingame and watch everybody freak out and follow you around.

I wish I could remember how but in Soul Reaver I managed to get Become Material at any time in any place. No more navigating the intended paths to look for a matter portal.

Playing Keith Courage in Alpha Zones back on the Turbografx, I found out that when you jump into the boss room, there is a spot you can land on that won't start the boss's attack sequences. They'll be there. You can hit them, but they won't attack. It only worked on a couple of them, but those were hard fights! Little six year old me was so proud!

Final fantasy 6 or 3 in the states you could cast X zone or vanish with death and it would kill anything in the game including the final boss. Some people have used this glitch to speedrun the game

I was living in Japan when Dark Souls 2 came out, so I played the JPN version. Not sure if this bug exists in the NA version or not, but there was a respawning Soul of the Hero or one of those big ones in the place with all the cursed pots. Cant exactly remember the name of the place but I abused it and gained about 25 levels.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind; Buckmoth Legion Fort near the beginning has a person in the basement that sells a spell damaging a skill. Buying it and going to a spellmaker, you can craft a spell to drain a skill for 1 second on self 100 to 100. You can make one for every skill and use that spell to reduce your skill to 0 for 1 second. Cast it in front of a trainer, and it will only cost you 1 gold to train and raise your skill level. Then, the spell will wear off restoring previous skill points, so you've raised your skill for one gold. You can raise every skill to 100 pretty easily, and it even works on Xbox so that you can be OP without the use of the command console.

If you hold down fire and tap the aim button in GTA3 (and possibly VC/SA I can't remember), shotguns become rapid fire and gain auto lock.

In Elite: Dangerous there were trading exploits using personal carriers that allowed you to rack up billions of credits in a fairly short amount of time if you knew people to do it with.

I managed to glitch out Zelda a link to the past, never could recreate it but it was very cool at 12-13

Oh boy. Only one I ever found by myself was in GTA2. If you had grenades, you could go to a roof top, step off the ledge and repeatedly hit the "shoot button" to essentially fly. The grenade animation required you to hold the button for just a bit to throw it. Spamming the button wasn't enough to throw the grenade but it started the animation over and over, letting you hover in in place. You could still use the arrow keys to move, you just couldn't gain any elevation after the initial jump. If you were really good you could still throw a grenade while spamming the button and stay in the air.

I killed at multiplayer in our school's computer lab until people caught on.

This became popular at the time but I discovered it by accident and told my mates about it. Basically it was an unlimited draft on fifa. If you conceded you had to dashboard for 10 seconds, return to the game and you can go again

Disney Crossy Road on iOS had a glitch where you could get infinite amounts of the premium currency.

I have a couple, actually.

While common knowledge even the, I discovered quantum stockpiling in Dwarf Fortress before ever reading about it. I found out that dumping zones could be used to hold an infinite number of "marked for dumping" items. Made storing stone after big excavations way easier.

In Dark Souls 1, I realized that most enemies could be beat by holding up your shield and circle-strafing around them. Kinda boring, though.

While confirmed not to actually be an exploit, I was one of the first people to find out that, in Baldur's Gate 3, the Pact of The Blade Warlock's extra attack stacks with other classes' extra attack. This meant that a 5 paladin/5 Warlock/2 Fighter could deal out 6 attacks in a turn... not even counting haste or anything. When news got out about it, there was a lot of arguing over whether or not it was going to get patched as an exploit. However, Larian ended up confirming that it was intended.