Gaming

My country has a Uber like app that i used for a while as a driver and i was given a beta version of the app before they started there service and i noticed that you could enter yourself as a "Admin" so i did and that gave me access to review and see all available rides in like a 100+km area so i started planning my day so i allways had passenger both ways i earned like 200/300€ in a 6 hour shift i exploited it for about 5 months before they started asking questions how i could earn 5x more than other drivers in the same town and they just noticed what i was doing so they pulled my license

But i earned about 20k in 5 months so I'm not that angry but i miss the money flow

Circa 2006 there was a RTS game on Armor Games called Colony. Very simple, you had a base with 8 slots, make certain bases to build certain units. You build a unit and they walk across the screen and attack anything they come across along the way.

One of the buildings was the Special Operations center. Which let you make really powerful units with a resource called influence. These were supposed to be sent 3 times per game max because they were just broken.

Through means I can no longer remember there was a bug which allowed you to put units into the production queue, then cancel them and get twice back what you spent. Obviously this just let me make 10,000 of a unit I was only supposed to have a handful of. May have ruined a few people's days.

GTA online car dupe glitch. I used it nonstop before it was eventually patched. I own everything I could want in the game and still have a ton of garages full of cars to sell.

Also, the gold bar glitch in RDR2 that allowed you to just keep picking up the same gold bar indefinitely. I tapped down the button on my controller and just let it run all day.

I used to go to a local Pizza Hut that had a Ms. PacMan/Galaga arcade cabinet up front. During the pre-scripted onscreen demo for Galaga, after one of the ships is captured and shot free, you can move the joystick left or right to gain control of the ship and start playing without paying anything. Eventually, the cabinet either crashes or the demo timer runs out in the background, and you lose control, but it was always fun to play for a few seconds as a kid while the "insert coin(s)" prompt was showing. I found another Ms. PacMan/Galaga cabinet recently that I could still use this trick on, meaning that this glitch is likely present in all of them.

Fallout 4. If you don't install updates you can use a shop exploit to buy power nodes infinitely from almost the start of the game. You can later install updates and the nodes remain in the inventory

In RDR2 there is a mine in the New Austin area. Any NPC that you kill inside the actual mine shaft will have a gold nugget on them. I baited as many as I could to go in and looted a ton of nuggets.

And they respawn, so you can go back and do it over and over. Bet this is somewhat commonly known though cause it was so obvious the first time I went through there. Guys who were laying right outside the entrance had no gold nuggets and vice versa.

In Dying Light 2, my friend and I discovered a duplication exploit when we both tried to take the same item simultaneously.

Diablo 1 and FF7 item duping.

I played SWG full time on the test server. They were testing a new raid type system and were ready to release it after a 3 day weekend. I was playing one of the new raids with my guild on that Friday before release. I was in the middle of a fight against a boss named Lelli and was frantically trying to write a combat loop macro in mid fight. Instead of entering "/target Lelli" I entered "/Lelli".

When the macro was run, it made me invisible, untargetable, immune to damage, and with all of Lelli's abilities, including being flagged to attack other players at will whether they were flagged for pvp or not. Basically I could one shot kill anyone I wanted with complete impunity.

Nothing the in game GMs could do would reverse it. QA was unable to write a batch script to unflag me or a group of players at once. My account had to be manually edited.

If it had gone live the following Tuesday, they told me it would have literally ended the game. QA would have had to manually edit every single account that used the exploit.

I got an email from John Smedley and he logged into the game to personally thank me for finding the exploit before it went live.

In wow wrath classic theres a two person mount. If you have someone as a passenger you can ride up next to the invisible barrier before a battleground starts and force the passenger off your mount. this forces the passenger to bypass the barrier and allows you to cap points, and get to poitns before the game even starts

Me and a couple of friends were fucking around playing Destiny 2 on stadia doing trials of Osiris and we discovered that because no one played on that platform we could always go up against each other and farm god roll weapons from it. Although this was patched when cross play was introduced and stadia was killed.

Pokémon Red, exploiting the multiplying item Glitch along Missingno.

Killing Floor, I remember some Maps back then where you were able to stand safe the entire rounds. Yet, I did not use it myself only once but felt unfair and well, exploitable too much in an online game, obviously.

Other than that, random games with bosses that had dead blind spots to stand by, mostly older games. For example, Early 3D games. But can't put my finger now on any specific one.

Knight online.

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In world of Warcraft you can only kill a raid boss once a week. I found a way to force the boss to respawn after killing them.

Got a nice thank you message from the GMs when I explained the exploit

Since the dawn of Madden franchise mode, you could trade your 1st/2nd/3rd round draft pick for the upcoming offseason to the team with the worst record's 1st rounder at the trade deadline, starting a cycle of dominating the draft year after year for eternity.

The money in the ocean exploit early in GTAV.

You could swim out to 2 different places, dive deep and get money. Switch between 2 characters at the 2 locations. When you switched, the oxygen would reset, and the money would reset.

Just stay underwater and get rich.

The Monster Hunter Freedom Garuda Glitch. Copypasting from gfaqs “Take a spiderweb from area 8 and trade it with the guy in area 7 for a special mushroom. Wait about 20 minutes and a message saying YOU WON THE BATTLE should pop up. Also after u use the glich do the quest again and the garuga should have under 300 hp left”.

Gran Turismo 5. Copy your save file, buy an expensive car, send it to your 2nd account as a gift, remove your game file and replace with the copy, send car back and tada, you have spent 0 credits on a new car

Divinity Original Sin 2.

1. Could steal almost anything if you just had a party member talk to the NPC you wanted to loot to just a different direction while having another going around stealing.
2. You could stack every buff on all your characters(except the caster) before a battle if they were in a dialogue and the caster was not. Cutscenes and what-not would pause buff timers.

The biggest exploit I've ever discovered is The Spiffing Brit.

In Demon Souls you can exploit the last boss by hide my the stairs out of sight. Boss will walk toward you then do a 180 and stand there the rest of the fight then just spam that poison cloud spell. I think there was a ring to regen mana.

UT2003. Boost dodging.

In UT2003 they had double jump, so press jump, and at a certain height, jump again to go higher.

You also had walljumping/dodging, where a double tap away from a wall would, even in mid air, propel you not just away from the wall further than a 'normal' dodge, but upwards slightly too (to give you the extra lateral distance before landing)

Well, people worked out that if, while standing next to a vertical surface, did up/side/up/side in very quick (~0.5s) succession, the sideways and vertical accelerations of both moves got added together, giving you a much higher jump than possible from a double jump alone. Only rocket/shield jumping was comparable in height, and they caused self damage (or weren't available in instagib or while holding the bomb in Bombing Run)

I practiced this like nothing else. I got so good at it I could trigger the effect from vertical surfaces barely above knee height, and sometimes lower.

Was often called a cheater, but I wasn't - just very practiced at that one thing.

Edit: They took it out in UT2004, but added it back in after fan outcry as a mutator. By then though I'd fallen in love with Onslaught and it wasn't nearly as necessary or useful in that.

Skiing in Tribes. Biggest exploit ever that fundamentally changed how the game is played so much that it’s now a staple of the series.

James Pond 2 on the Amiga. You could buy the demo on a magazine and unlock the full game with a cheat

This is oddly specific, but I played on a Minecraft server that revolved around a Pokémon mod and discovered that using a certain block in conjunction with a specific modded one would always hard crash the entire server. Because of the way the game saves player inventory instantly but map data only once a minute, that makes it possible to reliably duplicate huge numbers of items. When I tried to report it to staff I had to argue to get them to take the report in private instead of posting it in open chat where everyone could see it. When I left the server a few months later because the admin was kind of a dick and the whole server was obnoxiously pay to win, it was very tempting to set up a bunch of nearly undetectable server crashing contraptions (I didn’t, but damn it was tempting).

In Civ 6 base game, I found a way to load an infinite amount of jets onto a single carrier, while using no mods at all. I reported it to the devs, but I'm not sure if it has ever been patched.

In Fable 1, the bandit camp had a guy selling a butt load of either jet or onyx, but it was also one of his in demand items. After you buy them all at once, suddenly the price he'll pay skyrockets... Then you sell them to him all at once, and he's got too many, charges a pittance again. 🤣

Bethesda ammo / credit glitch

Mass Effect Novaria morality glitch

Final Fantasy 1 power leveling in the north east peninsula after you cross to the Southern town the first time. Save scum it with cabins

Ski Free point glitch, standing underneath the chairlift and holding up to stay underneath it

In Return to Castle Wolfenstein, if you save a very large non-patternic integer (1759437) and then load it, it would take a very long time to load, which in turn makes enemy encounters funny because AI will die. You will see the enemy's hidden loadout, enemies will fall asleep on the ground, will look around but don't shoot, etc.

You can kill them and then save. However, events won't happen. For example, if a boos should appear, if won't until you quicksave, exit to main menu, and then load the quicksave.

In battlefield 2142 (not the current game), you could take a hover plane and fly right above the flying carrier in a specific spot and get unlimited experience. Never figured out what bug was triggering it though.

99 lives trick in mario

I couldn't beat Nelo Angelo's final fight in the original Devil May Cry on max difficulty. He does massive damage and takes only tiny chips off from your attacks. You have to make split-second dodge/block decisions and then make an instant counter attack and any mistake will cost you 2/3 of your health. I spent days trying to get past him and got him below half numerous times, but never really got close to a win.

One strategy I tried was Holy Waters. They AOE the whole room and cause him to flinch. I was hoping I could use that to create an opening, but the HW animation was too slow and he recovered as fast as I did. Then I thought "go to the shop and max out on them and just crack them all at the start to give myself a leg up". It helped but not much. But then I noticed, because there was a holy water between the store and the fight, I was able to pick up, that the limit only applied to purchased Holy Waters. You could still pick them up from the world. Also, inventory carries over between plays/level select on the same file.

So, I level-selected and cranked it down to Very Easy and speed ran a middle section of the game over and over where I could pick up like 5 or 6 Holy Waters. Once I had like 50+ I loaded back to the fight and just burned him down entirely with Holy Water.

Taipan! (1982): if you borrow from the lender and then repay a higher amount, you start to accrue crazy interest on it. Guaranteed win in the top category.

Summer Games (1984): for the pole vault event, if you land on the mat before the bar it counts as if you went over. Allows you to set crazy records. My sister was pissed I didn't tell her how I was doing that.

Not a gaming exploit per say, but, as a kid I wasn't allowed to play games on the pc very often, this was windows XP era, which meant parental controls. Super annoying when all you want to do is play Runescape. So, to bypass this bs I would go into safe mode and just flat out remove the user password. Parents couldn't prove or rationalize how I could possible be doing this. Eventually when I got my own user account I would just give myself admin power when ever I wanted to download a game, it was amazing. Thinking back to it, I find it hilarious a 10 year old figured out how to completely break windows security/password protection just to play video games.

Back in my EverQuest2 days, they launched an expansion that had zones that auto scaled in level with you. Most of these zones didnt have a spawn point in them, but I found one that did. In this same update they added a "mentoring" feature where high level toons could mentor lower level toons and scale down to their level.

I'd make a level 1 on a new account and bring em in, mentor them, and then use a macro program to throw AOEs from my main. As I killed the waves, the lowbie would level, and next spawn would be the higher level baddies.

I could AFK a toon from level 1 to max level in about 30h. I started throwing a full set of rare crafted gear on em and selling accounts. Made a few thousand bucks off of it!

One time I was running around in a pub game and met a newbie. I hooked him up with some gear spent like 4h that day just helping him get going. Turns out his next door neighbor was an actual admin for EQ2, and he popped in and caught me AFK farming. He went back and placed all of the loot from the Master Chests (rarest drops) that had rotted while I was AFK into my inventory, said thanks for being so welcoming to his buddy, and that he'd hold off on reporting the exploit until the next big patch was scheduled before he sent it to be patched LOL. I got like 4 more weeks of farming before it was shut down.

So there’s only one mobile app game I ever found playable when I was in school, that was Injustice (the first one, second is deeeefinitely worse). There was a glitch where you could buy any booster pack you wanted for the cost of the cheapest one ((from like 300,000 in game credits to 8,000). And in those packs were 3 expensive characters so you always had the option to sell one (as long as you already had one) for usually pretty high price. It was a way to get newer cards/repeat for upgrades and get a lot of in game money.

Not an exploit but the MW2 1887 akimbo loadout was insane and I literally just stayed in a building an entire match and mowed down anyone who try to enter and consistently would get 50+ kills in a match.

Also the commando knife lunge with the pistol magnum knife was hilarious. Once had a friend that was falling lung UP to knife a friend in the window and we all just stopped playing and busted a gut at how stupid it was.

I miss the OG MW2 type of fun.

In Maplestory as a kid I discovered during a Christmas event you were brought to a map Where you weren’t supposed to be able to drop Items in the map. I attempted to drop an item and it dropped but the item didn’t leave your inventory. You could then pick up the item.

This was an exploit to duplicate any item in your inventory. This exploit wasn’t discovered for a few days so I did what a few teenagers would do. I duped a ton of items, made perfectly scrolled gear, and carried everything over to a separate account.

Main account got banned which sucked but the separate account did not. To my knowledge only 183 accounts were banned from this exploit. The damage wasn’t large scale, but a lot of items made it through the cracks.

Playing Lego Indiana Jones when I was a kid and somehow my friend and did some glitch that gave us infinite studs. To this day we have no clue how we did it but it made the game so much faster I remember.

Oh and boosting in MW2 (2009) lobbies

Bethesda has two that I always utilize:

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion counts any attempt to sneak up on an unsuspecting body and adds it to your stealth skill, and when I say 'body' I mean any creature in the game, meaning you can become a master at stealth by grabbing a horse, parking it somewhere behind a lone wall in the wilderness, then keep trying to sneak up on it from the other side of the wall until your stealth is maxed out.

Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money DLC, if you want to never have to worry about caps again, there's a way to use the game mechanics to escape from the Sierra Madre vault with its entire stash of gold bars, even though the DLC is set up to supposedly make that impossible. It involves the following:

- Bring about 20-30 landmines into the vault area with you.

- When you reach the vault itself, grab up all the gold, then walk around to the other side of the little area where Father Elijah enters. There's a second door that's blocked by a forcefield here. Drop all the gold bars from your inventory in one go to exploit the game engine's design of rendering multiple identical objects as one in-world object.

- Go around to the door Father Elijah enters from and litter the stairs and the area around the vault door with the landmines.

- Set the vault's turrets to target anyone.

- Save your game (just in case) and go through Father Elijah's final dialogue.

- Run back to the second forcefield door and grab the gold bar (the full amount will reappear in your inventory).

- Walk into the second forcefield door. If everything goes correctly, Elijah will drop both forcefields for a split second as he enters, allowing you to exit the area at the same time.

- Allow the landmines and the turrets to kill Elijah so the self-destruct system triggers and the vault's exit door (which should now be about a foot and a half away from you) unlocks.

- Leave the vault with the entire gold stash.

- Sell the gold as you need to to stock up on caps (the Gunrunners vendor is a good option since they stock 8,000 caps as standard, meaning you can buy a few weapons or equipment to get that total over the 10,000 cap value of a gold bar, then sell one of the bars to them to recoup everything).

Fable 2 lets a 2nd player drop in at any moment, I believe they have the same exp as p1. When player two left all their exp would fall on the ground for the other player to pick up. Rinse and repeat for infinite exp

Duplicating your car while selling it on GTA Online.

I bet they'd ban your ass now since shark cards are a thing

Dying light again, there’s a challenge where you’re given a shotgun with unlimited ammo and you have to kill a bunch of zombies before the timer runs out. Thing was, the dead bodies wouldn’t despawn if you failed. So you could indefinitely restart the challenge and loot them for money and crafting materials to make Molotov’s, med kits, firecrackers, etc.

When people cared about gamerscore on the 360, 11-12yo me and my older cousin, we used to grind achievements, especially the Halo and Gesrs ones. But I had been messing around with save editors on Fallout NV for my 360 saves, this was the closest we could get to modding at these times. I discovered the software I was using had the ability to unlock all achievements of every game my profile touched. I did not know this could get accounts banned at the time, but that doesn’t matter.

We unlocked all of these achievements, but what this did that we had no idea of, it unlocked all the golden guns in Gears of war 3(is that the one that introduced to retro lancer?). So we were blinged the fuck out on gears, with guns that were preorder exclusives. You couldn’t say shit to us in game.

Never got banned btw.

In the first Rome Total War, phalanx units are brokenly OP. If you put them behind where an enemy is about to break through a wall, they turn the hole into a meat-grinder.

In Sim Theme Park you can set the price of arcade games, chances of winning, and the prices of the prizes. Turns out park guests will play at any price if the reward is worth it and they have a decent chance of winning.

So a $2 ticket for a 30% chance of winning a $5 stuffed bear became a $200,000 ticket for a 30% chance at winning a $500,000 stuffed bear

All of a sudden I wasn’t running a theme park. I was running a casino…

In Stardew Valley multiplayer, if 2 or more characters harvested an item at the same time, you could both get a copy of whatever it was you were picking up

In either X-Wing or Tie Fighter, the skill level of your wingman was critical. If your wingman does, obviously this made things harder in subsequent missions. Once you had a top ace wingman, that was just a file on your HD. Make a copy of the file!

I played Ragnarok Online when it was in open beta. There were a bunch of classes and each one had a bunch of skills and subclasses. When you earned skill points you could level up skills, but past some basic prerequisites there were nearly no restrictions on what skills you could level up when or how much. I went with the assassin subclass, which gave me access to a passive skill that increased your crit chance and another that gave you a free extra hit of damage. The percent chances on both were relatively low, but I found out after testing for a while that your "extra hit" from double strike could also crit...and if it crit you could get another double strike. So I sunk every single point I got into those 2 skills. My individual hits did horrible damage, even worse if the target had decent armor or resists...but once I got a hit, it would just spam hits like a chainsaw until the target died.