Gaming

The scroll glitch in Oblivion and also the telekinesis glitch in Skyrim

Smash Bros Melee. To get hidden characters, you could unlock based on match time played. There was a never-ending loop that some CPU characters would get into on Hyrule where they would inexplicably leap off the very bottom edge, triple jump back to recover, then repeat. I got ‘em in the loop, left it on overnight for some easy-peasy unlocks.

Smough and Ornstein

I must have died 100 times trying to kill them, then I accidentally bugged Ornstein and found that if you have him with his back to the wall and he leaps backwards, he falls to his death.

I used this to kill them both. I never did it the legitimate way, but a kill is a kill, lol

I discovered a really easy item duplication exploit in Project Zomboid multiplayer about a year ago that's probably been patched by now

All you had to do was log in, take some items out of a container, and then immediately log out. Every time the items would end up in both my inventory and the container's

In early WoW, either vanilla or burning crusade, i can’t remember. I found a way to get through the walls and get out of the dungeon SFK. Then I could explore the whole world whilst still only SFK properly loaded. Young me though that was pretty rad. Anyways, I managed to die by falling from a cliff in ”the other dimension” and was never able to walk to my corpse so i had to Write a ticket to get my chatacter back!

Very old series of games called Wizardry - you had to swap disks between levels depending on how deep in the dungeon you'd gone. I once swapped the wrong disk in when my characters were around level 3. Somehow the game still loaded and each of my characters had somewhere North of 10 million experience points. I put in the correct disk and they kept those XPs, so my characters went from level 3 to level 100 in an instant. The rest of the game was very easy after that.

On the flipside, I did once level a character in The Bard's Tale who had 996 hit points, after he gained a level he end up with 4 since I over rode the integer buffer for that stat.

Quirky things with old DOS games.

Fallout 2, you could run straight from turorial to a town with the best armor and weapons in the game.

You would start the game ss a wasteland god.

In Dying Light, there's a wonderful little exploit where you can glitch your powerful weapons into the Bozak Horde DLC, which makes it significantly easier. However, it seems that this glitch has been patched out, so you can no longer use it(thank god I 100% completed the achievement list before the patch).

To do so, you'd go to the main menu and press X/▪️, make sure the difficulty is set to Normal, and restart from the quest The Museum. Progress through the mission as normal, until you reach a red door with a deadbolt on it that you're supposed to go through. Once there, immediately quit to the main menu. Press X/▪️again and select 'Play and switch to Hard'. The reason for doing this is because on Hard difficulty, opening up your inventory doesn't pause the game. Once you're back in front of the red door, walk up to it and press the inventory button and then interact with the door. If you've done it correctly, your inventory should display over the cutscene. Keep your inventory up until Rais tells his men to come into the room, and then drop everything you want for the Horde. Afterwards, pick up everything you just dropped; Tahir will get some sucker punches in, but if you kill him before you've picked up your stuff a cutscene will trigger and you'll lose everything you dropped. After you pick up your stuff, kill Tahir and then open and close the box that's supposed to have your stuff in it.

Next, go to the tower where the Bozak poster is, and enter the Horde. Upon waking up and checking your inventory, you'll be greeted with all the items you dropped, including your precious grappling hook and medkits.

Discovering how broken enchanting equipment in Skyrim was. I bought a bunch of enchantment potions and drank them all at once used my best soul gems, and ended up with a ring that effectively gave me mana for casting spells and a hammer that would explode with 3 different elements. The Hammer especially was a lot of fun because it would do it's normal damage, then whatever I hit would explode in a ball of ice and fire and drop dead.

In Outward I found a duping glitch by using a second controller, dropping items, then disconnecting a player. I forgot exactly how I did it but it ruined the game for me.

Battle Realms - this was a RTS game with almost no QA testing, because the Sell hotkey worked on enemy structures.

Wild Arms - A PS1 RPG with the "Have two characters use a potion in battle when you only have 1, and underflow into infinite potions" trick. It also had potions that gave permanent stat bonuses.

The details are somewhat hazy, but iirc, in Oblivion, you could re-enter a gate multiple times until you got to one specific tower where you could just jump up on the outside and then drop down a couple of levels on the inside. Took only a couple of minutes to close the gate that way, and you only ever had to do that one variant.

In Jedi Academy, you could pick which mission you wanted to do next among five missions, but you had to do at least four of the five. Some of the missions just plain sucked. If you saved before finishing the fourth mission, quit the game and restarted, you could pick among the good ones again.

never had one.

Back when minecraft was just startingish, me and my friends were binging. An update with the pistons or the sticky blocks came out so I was messing around with it. I stumbled on the exploit where a sticky piston combined with rails made some awesome duplications. I could copy a block once every second or so, and the same for tracks. So I built a nice big factory and soon we all had diamond and steel mansions.

Ok so in Fire Emblem Awakening I found a way to break the player character.

Get to level 10, change to Dark Mage or whatever its called. Get to level 20, change to Grand Master. There are skills that make it harder for enemies to hit you. Grand Master has skills that make it harder for enemies to hit you. Equip those and some spells. Pair the character with a high mobility character, like a Cavalier or Wyvern Rider. Go out to middle of a fight, switch so that the player character is in front. End turn, hit start, everything dies as they try to attack, miss, and get countered.

In an old mmo back in early 2000’s (WW2 online?) there was an update that messed with my graphics settings that caused all foliage to go semi-transparent. Apparently it was only the specific card I had in my pc at the time and nobody reported it for at least a month. I’m not proud of this gaming moment, but I just camped in a lot of bushes for that month and helped hold so many territories.

Shadows Of Doubt.

Buy a house, put two diamonds in one spot sell them in menu. Infinite money. Idk if they patched this yet

In Skyrim before it got patched, Oghma Infinium was used to become max level. This was before the skill tree rework. Reading the book from the book shelf wouldn’t consume it.

I have ungodly "luck" for stumbling into broken stuff. Had some notable bugs that could be exploited for gain in mmo's . At this point, i don't remember what it was exactly, but few times I decided to not even let my guild know a about those (was worried that if they got curious we'd break half of the market), just tested, made a report to gms, noted how much i made approximately, broken down per item in case if they want to roll back my credit, and just kept quiet about it.

Usually, I realised a week or two later just how big of a deal those were, after someone made a video on it and economy made a backflip instantly.

Not really an exploit but in the original Tenchu, if you initiate a stealth/scripted kill then pause the game just as the kill begins and enter any cheat, your character resets and doesn't go through the kill animation but the enemy does.

Rare candy bugs on yellow Pokémon old skool

FIFA 95 on mega drive. shoot from the corner of the box, or the edge of the centre circle and you would score. The keeper didn't have animations to get to where the ball went lol.

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Also, Wave Race 64: press pause just as you hit the water from a jump, gave you loads of extra points.

How has no one mentioned Halo 2

Going through the campaign, end a level with an empty energy sword and you start the next sequential mission with an infinite Energy sword.

One of the first things I did the in RDR1s online mode was see what happened if you used deadeye with throwing knives.

There were people in a fort poking their head up, getting one hit killed by Me lol...

Dayz arma 2 mod... Figured out how to dupe with tents and had secret caches glitched into buildings all over the persistent map.

Good times. Hah

When you go to self-checkout at Target bring alcohol with you to the register. Scan and bag half your items, then scan the alcohol. It'll show a message saying you've gotta be 21, then hit cancel. It will clear out your entire cart. Scan and bag the rest of your items, pay and leave.

In destiny 2 beyond light on day one of the launch of deep stone crypt I accidentally glitched into the wall when hiding in the corner. We quickly found this avoided the basement wipe mechanic so we didn't have to rotate people in the basement of the encounter. Our clan ran that exploit as our main strat for months before bungie patched it.

RE 6 you get pills that show you where all the items are. Simply save before the area you want to canvas, pop em, run through everything and locate the items, die/reload, repeat.

In Witcher 3 you could craft crossbow bolts and sell them to buy more ingredients to craft crossbow bolts and make unlimited money. They patched this out to where you could no longer sell crossbow bolts.

Up up down down left right b a

In Perfect Dark's multiplayer map Sewers there's a room with an elevator on the second floor.

Have one player stand on the elevator in the back corner hugging the wall then have another jump on top of them from above (yes you can ride on people's bodies in this game kinda).

When the elevator reaches the top for some reason the characters will get stuck in mid-air. The game seems to still think your still riding the elevator so when it comes back up after this the characters will start rising higher.

So now your characters are stuck together in mid-air standing on nothing and you can go all the way to the top of the maps skybox.

The AI can't reach you cuzz they can't see you so only some other human player would need to shoot either the bottom character or the top.

Bonus points if you kill your bottom friend as the top player you can walk completely out of bounds and fall through the map xD although you do die upon landing at a kill plane.

Old Apple Monocrome game with horse racing. SUPER basic but normal odds. Found you could bet a negative number and it'd pay out positive $$$. Broken shareware!

When Star Wars Galaxies came out I found I could use a script command to buy anything I want from the trade post at any price I wanted. This is how I destroyed my servers economy overnight.

In WoW not long after it came out I found I could use a script command to set my parties loot threshold to a non-existent type and if anyone tried to leave my party using the UI it would crash their game as soon as they clicked the button or right clicked themselves. I charged them 10 gold to leave my party, this is how I afforded my Epic Riding.

In City of Heroes I discovered that you could clip your camera through reflective surfaces or walls and then teleport party members through the map. I trapped about 30~ people in the 'reflection' of the dome in City Hall.

In City of Heroes I discovered that all building interiors had a hidden place on the map where their interior actually was and if a player was close enough you could use your teleport on it. I started teleporting high level werewolves into the hospital in a newbie zone and people were dying for hours. I later found out like 5-10 years later that one of my best friends I hadn't yet met was there that day and trying to clean up the mess.

Playing Halo CE online back in the day, I was playing CTF 2v2. My parents said dinner was ready so I glitched into the wall with the flag, went and had dinner, game back a half hour later to finish up the game.

This is gonna sound fake but I discovered that with earthworm Jim 2 for the sega genesis that if I shook the cartridge and then hit reset the startup screen would be garbled. Once the first level started you couldn’t see him and could move the camera to anywhere in the level if you pressed A Jim would be dropped at the cameras location.

This meant you could basically skip the entire first level.

Sega Master System , Ghost House -Clip through wall trick

I discovered a bookshelf item duplication glitch in RuneScape. You would drop an item near the bookshelf, and it would phase into the shelf, you had to telegrab the item to retrieve. For some weird reason if you spam clicked, it would give you the item on the ground and then telegrab it to your inventory. When I discovered this there really wasn’t huge reasons to dupe to my 11 year old brain. I reported it and got lifetime membership for that account. Fast forward to last year, got that account banned for calling someone a cunt. 😂

Counter-Strike 1.5 and 1.6, may have worked on earlier version.

You know when you join a server and it bounces you around to different spectator positions on the map while waiting for you to pick a team and skin?

Found if you tab and select T or CT fast enough (using 1 or 2 to pick, not clicking the team) at the right time you'll join T or CT, pick your skin AND be stuck teleporting between the default spectator cameras.

So you would spawn in, buy your weapons quick then be teleported away and every few seconds be teleported to the next spectator camera.

The Lightning dodging minigame in FFX (you’re gonna have to stay with me on this one)

During the minigame, you get like a second to react. BUT, you can double that. All you need is a real PS2, a tube TV, and an AM radio, all on the same plug, preferably only a few feet from each other. If they are, and you’re listening to the AM radio, it will pick up the initial lightning signal before the TV can give it, giving you twice as much time to react. Only way I could ever have done that challenge.

How did I discover this? Mid day AM baseball.

The item duplication glitch on minecraft xbox 360-ps4

Could end up having millions of ores, wheat, slime and a couple other blocks.

Completely ruined my servers economy

Not sure how well known it was, as I rarely saw anyone else use it. But in PVZ Garden Warfare 1 and 2 I used a trick to almost always get revival master in a match. If you jump at the same time as you start reviving someone, you keep the momentum. If you keep jumping you can keep going so you're less likely to stay in an open area.

I randomly stumbled upon it in pvz gw 1 and was really proud of myself back then.

I assume it was known, as they fixed it in PVZ Battle for Neighborville.

Pretty basic, but I don't normally figure out hacks/exploits on my own .

In Battletoads for NES, on the level where you ride the huge snakes shooting around the screen, there was a point where you could run and jump over a snake's head before it climbed too high and thus skip to the end of the level and avoid a few snakes.

I also believe there was a point in the swimming/pipe level where you could jump up and out, and skip a chunk of that level too.

In Kingdom Come Deliverance you can use the fast travel feature to find a Knight who will ask you duel him. Decline his offer and than stab him in the back or knock him out with a sneak attack. Easiest full set of armour in the first hour of the game. Too bad you would still need to level up your skills to make it useful.

GTA Vice City Stories, if you saved the game after getting paid by your businesses (at 6:00 am ingame if I remember correctly) you get paid again. Keep saving the game continuously for infinite money

Leisure suit Larry. Save the game just before you go into the casino. Bet everything, if you win save, if you lose reload previous save. Repeat until you have enough money to pay the girl at the end.

Adding on for dying light, there is a contaminated zone (I don't remember the exact name anymore) in a mall that has an ambulance right outside. You can get 4-5 of the same packages that you get from the airdrop without needing to fight a single zombie, and when you leave and re-enter they respawn.

Additionally, you can do the zones on easy and switch to the hardest available difficulty to trade them in since the higher difficulties give more xp for the trades.

Lastly, there are some spots near safe zones that volatiles climb up from only a single spot on the roof. You can easily grind combat xp by standing at that spot and knocking them back down.

If you hold gold in your cursor, and pick up more gold from the other side of the wall in tristram, you can. Drop the held gold and it'll both be on the ground and in your inventory. Doubling your gold. Infinitely.

You could create server lag and drop hrs and soj's on the ground for multiple characters to pick up if you use Mirc to coordinate with 6-8 ppl and make free hrs and soj's aplenty.

Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum. You could interrupt the game and type RUN nnnnn, where nnnnn was a program line number. It would immediately say you had won the FA Cup, give you a load of money, and continue where you left off. Needless to say, I had star players in every position on day 1!

The spiffing brit has entered the chat

In Battlefield 1942 the lighting system, draw distance, and a few parts of the environment could create circumstances that rendered a player invisible even if someone was looking directly at them with a sniper scope.

In El Alamein there was a bush on the left side of the German airfield that if you laid prone behind, not in the bush (which was a very common tactic), then players in the hanger waiting for aircraft to spawn couldn't see you, but you could see them. It greatly help that most people looking for snipers looked up at the ridge and would wait in the hanger in areas that weren't in line of sight if you were on the ridge, but were in the open if you were looking from the airstrip itself.

Much more commonly known, at a certain distance crossing a doorway had a similar effect where a player inside the building could see outside, but players outside would just get a blackish greyish door frame.

In Halo 2 multiplayer, there was the "face painting" technique. The way the game registered hits and accounted for lag meant that the battle rifle and sniper rifles essentially fired a sweeping beam registering hits on everything in the path between where the reticule was while the shot was in progress. So headshots could be done at distance by flicking the reticule across the someone's head rather than needing to hit it dead on.