Gaming

Loot cave and cheesing bosses in Destiny.

In the original Civilization, you would send a settler to improve a resource. It would take anywhere from 1 to 15 turns to complete once the command was given. If you repeatedly reactivated the settler and performed the same command again, you could repeat and have all of that upgrade completed in one turn. I had railroads on all my tiles before the computer finished roads everywhere for example.

In Fallout 4, theres this side-quest where you rescue the hotel dude from diamond city. By the end of the quest his brother gives you some Caps and Chems. But, he gives them mid-dialogue so you can just walk away and repeat the dialogue and he'll still give rewards. This probably works on other side quests but I only discovered it on this one

Borderlands 3, the mail duplication glitch, I felt awesome since it was something I discovered without looking at guides, couple of years later I found out it was a pretty common glitch, still cool tho

In Sonic R, there's a track with an explicit "trap hole", and a long winding path to climb back up. If you just don't climb back up and explore the map, you'll find yourself back at the track's beginning, and it'll count as a full lap. Cuts the laptime in half.

In John Elway football. If you let the play clock run all the way down, your receivers would run a deep route super fast for and easy touchdown

It's a bit hard to remember but I think in FF X-2 you could run infinitely in a corner and encounter enemies so if you had one healer you could just rubber band the stick and hold down X and max out the classes and their skills easily.

Deathloop if you stack melee Regen based skills you can essentially be unkillable.

In Skyrim, Paying Faendal to train you in bows. Then trading with him and just taking your money straight back.

In the same vein. You can pay any trainer to train you in their skill. Then just pickpocket all your money back. Added perk of boosting your pickpocket skill rapidly.

GTA V online, found this glitch where you start a mission and just crouch in this spot for ever and it gave me 1000 dollars practically every second. Made about 20 billion and bought all the cool bunkers, aircraft, cars, and houses. Then rockstar caught us and took the rest of the money we had, but left us with all of the stuff I bought.

Bloodborne’s cum dungeon.

1999 or 2000 maybe? I'm 14 years old. I've recently discovered NEOPETS.

Here's how I became a Neopets billionaire, for 12 minutes.

In Neopets there was a daily roulette game you could play. You click a button, you get rewarded with a random (small) amount of Neopoints. Being a tinkerer, I looked under the hood. It makes an AJAX request, to a URL like wheel.php or something, and responds with the number of points that were deposited on the backend. The backend runs all this logic - you could hit that URL as many times as you like, but it would return 0 if you played more than 5 times that day.

All Neopets URLs were .php, and from other tests I learned that Neopets had variable injection enabled in their configuration. (Or rather, not disabled)

At the time, PHP3 had variable injection enabled by default. So one could add any parameter to the URL (?myVar=123) and set the initial value of any variable in vulnerable PHP scripts. Usually, even if you injected a variable, the initial value would get overwritten by the script anyway, as the result of some action. So with Neopets this never netted me anything of value, but I had occasionally stumbled upon some interesting / unexpected behavior.

My initial goal was to make it so I could request that URL more than 5 times / day. I tried overriding the date, ?date=, ?now=, etc

I tested a bunch of potential variable names haphazardly, and eventually stumbled upon ?win=1. In the flurry of testing and refreshing and doing other stuff, I wasn't positive, but I could swear my Neopoints balance was 1 higher than earlier. I tried again: ?win=100. Refresh. I had 100 more Neopoints.

I thought to myself "This isn't real. This is too easy." But the money persisted, and I was able to spend it. I tested a few more amounts.

While I was hacking away, my friend from down the street rang my doorbell. I got up from the family computer, let him in and said "Dude, you're not gonna believe what I just discovered." I asked "How much should I steal from Neopets?" He said, "5 billion"

I hesitated, because I knew that this would raise some alarms. But, the number was so high (above the 32 bit limit), I actually expected the request to fail.

?win=5000000000. Refresh.

Sure enough, I was Neopets' first multi billionaire.

It blew my mind. My friend thought it was... neat. His reaction brought me back down to Earth a bit. We didn't have time to celebrate. My friend and I had some important skateboarding to do. We left the house for a few hours.

When I got back, I found that my wallet had been completely drained. Zero points. I also found an email from Neopets in my inbox. Something like:

"Thank you for discovering that vulnerability for us. We've taken action to correct it. Have a great day!"

The email was sent just 12 minutes after we left the house.

I responded asking for some sort of bounty. Even to restore the points I had pre-exploit. They replied with a simple "Nope."

What's biggest exploit you ever discovered?

TORRENTING Games for free

In WoW I found a way to duplicate your lefthanded weapon into your right handed weapon, and it worked with copper bought weapons. Obtained a abundance of gold but never overdid it as to arise suspicion. Used it for months to buy stuff and then they fixed it.

Dying light 2 had a couple of shops where buying an item would basically cause the shop to restock (not including the item you just bought). This mean you could buy all the rare components, then buy 1 common which restocked the rare components and repeat. This made getting a bunch of crafting materials really easy.

In Fallout 1 and 2: Get gambling skill to 51+, find a card table, initiate gambling, place something heavy on the 1 and 4 keys on your keyboard, then go to sleep/work/school. When you come back, you'll be rich.

Mlp ios game years ago on my ipod touch had no check for the daily reward to see if you were online so you could just set the date forwards I ended up with near max premium gems and got everything in the game in 1 days

Worth it

Many years ago I played some Flash browser game, I forget what the actual game was about, maybe building a town or a tower or some such. When I finished the game, it posted my score to the online scoreboard. But I noticed that my browser showed an extra item in its browsing history, and checking that entry, I found that it had a URL with my score as a URL parameter. I copied the URL, changed the parameter to 9999999999999, pasted that back into my address bar, and got my name near the top of the scoreboard. (Not quite at the top, but the top few entries had evidently done the same thing with larger numbers.)

Yeah you can also repeatedly pickup and drop an item on a table and have the 2nd player pick up a duplicate repeatedly

In FFVII if you maxed out Reflect materia, you could simply cast a spell on yourself and it would reflect 3 times into the enemy. Added to All materia it was so OP.

Ogma Infinium infinity exp exploit.

13 year old me thought i had solved the Matrix.

On PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale for the PS3, if two Raidens activate their Level 2 Supers at the same time, they will permanently have them until they lose a stock. https://youtu.be/KbMFB_gTClo?si=XU2WYxK973Vjl9y3

If two Sackboys use their Level 2 Supers at the same time, whoever drops theirs first takes over both of the supers. https://youtu.be/dC0tEmudUEE?si=UaNxx6Oe4qlqTDVv

On Fortnite, around 5 years ago now, if you picked up another item right when you threw some remote explosives, you would not consume a remote explosive charge, essentially having an infinite amount. https://youtu.be/Lcg_qOpdSn8?si=pHUxJW4SbMmf3ZGL

Bump ‘n Jump on Colecovision. Max accelerate to start each level, then jump sideways so you land offscreen. You are invulnerable as long as you stay there. Easy way to finish level after level.

Also on Colecovision - on Donkey Kong. When you are on the first level screen, go to the first broken ladder. Go up the ladder, then down, then press down again. If you do it right, Mario’s feet will sink into the girder. Run towards the next ladder, and you will fall through to the next level, scoring a great bonus.

And not really an exploit, but…. On B-52 Bomber for Intellivision, you could use the player two controller to drop all the first player’s bombs during the mission. Used to do this with my friends to tick each other off. 😂

Yeah, but that guy had like a 160 of them or something, and was the first time I had a decent chunk of money.

In Battle Realms, when you play the Snake Clan, you can use the Ronins special blades to attack trees and farm lots of Yang without fighting to recruit any hero possible.

Dangerous Dave - roof walk to bonus treasure off screen!

When they introduced jungle pets in league of legends, as far as I'm aware I may have been the only player to exploit a bug with Viego. It was two patches later that it quietly was fixed.

Long story short I was attempting to make unsealed spell book viego work in the top lane. TLdr I quickly figured out if you killed and possessed the enemy jungler before you bought your own jungle item/pet, when you finally did buy the jungle item, the pet would instantly fully evolve.

There were many games I'd convince my team to invade just so I could suicide into the enemy jungler. Or if that failed I'd leave lane early anytime there might be a skirmish between the junglers.

I've never seen a post here on reddit, or on YouTube about the bug, so as far as I'm aware I could be one of a small handful that ever encountered it

THE LOOT CAVE in Destiny. Loved that thing

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In the GBA Pokémon games. I realized the Safari zone counts steps, but not shifting directions in the same square. But the chance to encounter Pokémon occurs when you shift directions. So you can tap up, down, left, right and change direction in the same square and have an infinite # of Pokémon encounters without taking steps. It made catching rare safari zone Pokémon much easier.

Champions of Norrath. You can import secondary character at any time, drop items and sell or keep by first character. Infinitely.

Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms. Similarly, but with some restrictions.

Evocrom mercenary, was playing with a bunch of friends having fun, and I found a nebula, and inside the nebula a station that was selling nukes.

Usually the nukes were incredibly expensive but there they were cheap, like 1k instead of 1M, needless to say, in a matter of minutes I was filthy rich reselling them in the closest station.

Until then we were mining and doing low level stuff, cant remember well, but I appeared with the fattest ship launching nukes everywhere including my friends, after a while I told them about it.

We had fun for abother hour, then got bored and unnistalled.

Atari 2600 space invaders Double Fire.

In Sonic 3D Blast you could get the level select screen after nudging the cartridge.

Well most games I play I end up finding at least one exploitable bug/glitch. Mainly item duping kind of stuff.

Gothic 2 - anything over head height + bow = free kill

The more money I put into my favorite gacha game the more powerful I become

Skyrim, sneaking under the map and opening chests and pickpocketing people

It was so widespread at the time that it was almost like it was built into the game

COD 2 had some super fun and very difficult jump tricks that gave you access to high points, roofs, etc that would let you absolutely wreak havoc.

I'll always fondly remember WoW's Stormwind glitch that let you get underneath the city. Used to have fun parties down there.

In Zelda 2 one of the earlier enemy encounters will infinitely spawn a single bird that flies across the screen at you if you stand in a certain spot. Combine this with a turbo controller, vice grips, and a timer and you can easily max out your levels really early on

Dead Island. Not a good game, but a fun game. Decided to do a challenge run, no weapons, fists only. Kept noticing zombies randomly just dying, even with most of their HP?

Turns out, if both their arms are broken and you kick them to the ground, the game is like "oh fuck how can they get up with no arms" and they instantly die. Three hits to kill all normal walkers.

That run turned out to be way easy.

I remember leaving the tutorial in Skyrim at level 50+ the day of release. You could sneak attack your forced companion in the bear cave for infinite experience. They didn’t die since they were marked as essential.

Just keep killing them.

KCD. You stand on a carriage, tree or any other kind of "unreachable" elevation and boom, only the archers can hit you. It's so stupid.

Staying in the Elite: Dangerous starting zone farming materials that I suspected I would eventually need. Once you leave you can't go back. Inventory management is not a concern at all for these mats. So while other commanders were out wandering the galaxy and forever complaining about farming mats, I was already maxed out when I needed them, and they were much easier to find while also learning the ropes in the starting systems.

There's currently a £7 off deal on deliveroo in London UK if you spend £20... So we just do 2 orders and get £14 off to feed 3 of us

There is a part in Fallout where an NOC with you is fighting other NPCs. They don’t stop fighting until you fill the chamber with gas or something. More enemies keep coming until you do.

I let the game run that for a few hours, hit the gas button, then went in and collected a king’s treasure trove of weapons and ammo. I broke my game because of that.

The original selling a car glitch for gta5 when it launched. Holy shit that got exploited like fucking crazy by everyone.

Screenwraps in Zelda 1 and TMNT,
Wrong warp in Zelda 2,
Out of bounds gliches and many, many more things in A Link to the Past.

That fun one in FFTactics Advance where you pump your Negotiation clan skill so you can get a knife that teaches Thieves the “Steal: Ability” ability super early, which then gives you access to OTHER abilities way ahead of the curve.

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.