Gaming

I did not discover it but its the exploit I abused way too much. Collectors map from GitHub for RDR2 back when you knew the location of every trinket every rotation. I spent 2-3h every day for a week if not more collecting every single flower,tarot card etc.. in the end I purchased pretty much everything there was to buy in game and still have some money to spare

Bases loaded for gameboy. Pitch 3 balls and 2 strikes the a fast ball right down the middle. You can load the bases the first inning and part of the second inning. Your pitcher would throw out his arm and pitch slow pitches down the middle on no matter what leave him in and the other team will swap their pitcher out, keep doing that until the 4th inning and they will put in their closer who could pitch for a max (if you don't swing and let him throw a bunch) 5 batters then you get 4.5 or 5 innings with super slow straight down the middle pitches. So many home runs.

In the early Apex days I found out if you used your ult as you got knocked down with Mirage you could still shoot

I was playing Destiny and discovered that enemies won't go past an invisible wall that locks them into an area. You can shoot from afar and they'd never come at you. If they were giving chase, you could make it passed the wall and they'd turn around and leave, then you could keep shooting and kite them to the wall once you re-entered their zone.

Also, in the simpsons hit and run, if you land professor frink's hover car on top of the second player's car, you'll be able fly for a little bit.

I remember Bards Tale 2 there was a way to get unlimited money from the banks with a save exploit

When I was a kid I thought I was the man but finding exploits such as hovering the mouse over the thief to make him go slow, allowing the police to show up.

My friends found an exploit on the N64 Goldeneye multiplayer. The spawn locations seem random but they are not. They memorized it and were spawn camping before the term came to existence.

A year or two ago steam gave out points for their profile asthetic shop for doing certain things in games. One specific goal was to make a can or something in Starbound, so a mod was made that made the recipe cost 1 dirt. A couple hours of this and now I can buy whatever profile effects and such I ever want for the rest of time

Left for dead you could reset your location to where the group is and spawn by pressing the buttons at the same time. My favorite use of this is when they are in the elevator of the hospital and I spawned as a bummer in the elevator with them. It took them a couple seconds to even realize I was there then I threw up right as the doors open. Lol

In Skyrim you could level conjuration by conjuring a dremora lord and a knife, then banishing him with the knife to get a 3rd bonus. I think there's something extra I'm forgetting that's also needed, but I maxed conjuration every playthrough with it.

In one of the old Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance games (a hack and slash), you could basically turn around from your lvl 1 starting spot, enter one of the final rooms in the game, and loot a random level 40 weapon from a nearby chest, which means you’ll be one-shotting most of your enemies for the next few hours.

As if that wasn’t enough, one of the end game bosses (a massive golem) is nearby, though it can’t fit through a doorway to hit you. However, you can use your new weapon to (very slowly) kill it. When you do, you get enough XP to instantly take you to like lvl 20+.

Completely trivializes the first half of the entire game.

Final fantasy tactics you can grind your characters to lvl 99 on the first map by using a skill over and over. Takes a few hours but then you change your characters to monks and can cheese the whole campaign. Have to change to monks because weapons you can get will be so weak compared to random encounters.

Diablo 2 - I discovered a way to crash the IP you were connected to, which enabled duplicating things online.

Wasn't me, but a couple friends of mine in Ye Olde Everquest managed to get an emergency patch pushed through by crashing the entire server. He did this by being helpful :b

More detail. So we have friend 1, character name Falash (the ranger), who's pretty savvy about the game. We also have friend 2, character name Cork (the cleric), who's not savvy but an incredibly nice dude. Cork and Falash are real life friends and Cork regularly lets Falash play his account for leveling and raiding when he can't go, which is really friggin' nice because in EQ you lived and died by the number of clerics you could field.

Anyway, Falash is bored and starts going through Cork's stats and inventory, and makes a discovery. Cork never specialized a casting skill. This is something you did at low to mid-level that greatly reduces the cost and fizzle of a specific spell for your primary archetype and a bit less for secondary archetypes, and for clerics this would normally be healing - so for an extremely long time, Cork was playing with one hand tied behind his back. You only need to do it once and from there the skills level themselves, and he somehow skipped this step.

Falash decides to fix this issue, so he takes Cork's character back to Rivervale to talk to his guildmaster and fix this, and does so - one point into specialize alteration. The server starts getting wobbly, creatures start warping, lag starts spiking, group members start dropping to linkdeath. Within two minutes the server completely crashes.

A TM messages Falash (on Cork's account), while we're waiting in the lobby logon for the game to reset - he's not happy and demanding answers as to what Cork did, and he's ready to start banning bitches. Most people never meet a TM - as far as I'm aware, they're essentially an on-site technician and coder that manages the physical server hardware, and they outrank GMs (the Game Masters who can reset zones, spawn mobs, instarez entire raids and so forth) by a couple notches, so this was real shit.

Falash explains the scenario. Minutes pass, the TM replies back:

(paraphrased)
TM: "I figured out what went wrong. When you train a skill, the skill gives you the point equivalent of your level for the initial purchase. This is fine for primary specialization, but it shot his points way past the limit for secondary specialization. You're only supposed to have up to 50 points for secondaries, and because Cork was level 65 when this happened, he immediately went past the hard-coded limit to 65 and the server took a big ol' shit.

I'm going to restore Cork to a prior save. DO NOT train his specialization until the patch or I will ban you and anyone else involved in this. Any questions?"

Falash: "Nope!"

TM: "Okay, have a great evening."

The emergency patch hit on a Sunday. I think Falash made that poor man work the weekend.

On Super Smash Bros. Melee, you could unlock the secret characters and stages by either beating Arcade or Classic mode at specific difficulties with specific characters, or you could grind multiplayer Versus matches. There's an AI error/glitch with the Level 9 Ness specifically on the stage Jungle Japes where if you stand perfectly still when the match starts, the Ness will attempt jumping to you, but will always fall into the water below and die immediately. You could use this with the One Stock (life) setting to grind Versus matches quickly to unlock all stages/characters.

In Guild Wars 2, you can convert in-game gold to premium gems and vice versa. I discovered you could convert a really specific amount of gold, something like a couple hundred, to a massively inflated amount of gems, like 10x the conversion rate. You could then convert some of those gems back to gold and cycle this for infinite gold and gems.

I didn't wanna get banned, so I did enough to confirm it worked and submitted a ticket - never heard anything from them, but a couple weeks later it was fixed.

Secret of Evermore: Alchemy stacking. Normally you can only cast one attack spell at a time, but when you control the dog you can still access the boy's ring menu and you have a short time period after selecting a spell where you can open it again. By using this you can select another spell. And another. And another. Until the game finally catches on and you cannot select anything anymore or the SNES crashes because of the massive amount of sprites on the screen. But the damage numbers where worth it in boss battles.

When I was a kid playing GTA Vice City, I found out that the cash multiplyer for the firefighter mission goes up pretty fast after some missions. and they also were the easiest/fastest compared to the police and taxi missions. So I played them for some hours. Ended up with hundred of millions of dollars and had enough money for the whole game.

And als GTA but san andreas. But rather a neat feature and not an exploit: There was an empty radio station on the cars radio…or maybe it was just playing comercials … dont know. but the point is that you could go in the games music folders and under radios there were this on EMPTY folder! So I dropped some of my favorites in it back then (german/french/american rap, some LinkinPark, LimpBiszkit etc…). Was such a blast to have your own Radiostation in the car! LimpBiskit - Break Stuff 🚗:D

In one of the old Superpower strategy games, you could set the income tax modifier to 100% and basically break your economy and have a ridiculously high income, though I think if you played long enough it would eventually come back down to "normal", but it's easily enough to get you out of some crazy bad national debt

Pfffft. The Borderlands Armory Glitch. Hats of to Gearbox for duplicating it into the remaster!!!!

Pokémon gen 1 games. There were issues with the way data was stored. I am not double-checking any of these and writing them down from pure memory, so maybe double check the specifics before you try one.

Infinite items: (I want to say 4th slot) if you talked to the guy who teaches you how to catch pokemon and then fly to Cinabar Island and surf in the water along the east edge until you see a missingno.

Duplicate pokemon: transfer a pokemon to PC and then save the game, except when it says saving don't power off, power off. (Also works in 2nd Gen and if that poemon is holding an item it will also duplicate) but it can corrupt your game sometimes so if the pokemon comes out with ???? For stats release it and you'll be good, try again.

Get Mew: Don't talk to one specific person on the path above Misty's gym. Remember that one side tunnel where when you leave and that dude approaches you immediately? Avoid that until you get HM fly. Then go do that, but press start when he sees you and fly away to Lavender Town. The start menu opens on its own but just exit the menu. Walk due west and a lvl 5 Mew appears.

Get any pokemon: I don't remember this one, but it's something with naming your starter with the numerical code of the target pokemon and going to the East side of Cinabar Island. There was also a way to make it work with the last pokemon you saw.

Was less of an exploit but on the Xbox 1 Early Release version of Subnautica if you clicked both the right and left bumper at the same time you got the dev menu

@op there's a quarantine zone that you can finish in like 2 minutes and it gives you 5 of the same things you find in air drops. You can just leave and come back infinitely. It's how a friend and I got max survivor level.

Back in the original gta, you had to collect sort amount of cash to get transported to next city.

What I've discovered, was cash generation machine.

Basically, I've somehow managed to stuck my car over river and in other end of river there was building. If you did it correctly, car would shake alot and started to generate money.

I was like 6-7 years old, so at least that's how I remember it.

Everquest. Found a way to solo Sont from the zone in a long long way off, died and dropped what you needed for sleepers tomb. Took forever and needed endless quiver. The dragon never aggrod at all. That lasted about two days. Someone came into zone and saw me shooting and then ran by Sont and saw it on low health. Patched.

Shining Soul 2 in gba. Once you get over max amount of money in one bag, you can combine another bag in your storage. It will duplicate your money.

There’s a book in elder scrolls Skyrim that you can save glitch to max all your skills

In the SSX game for the XBox 360 the game had a rewind feature that you could use to rewind about five seconds so you could not mess up your landing, not go off the map, etc. there were also these things called 'geo tags' that you could place while rewinding. The geo tags worked like this: for up to 24 hours they would build up XP and money, other players could see them and if they were able to pass through it then they would get the accumulated money/XP, but if it hit the 24 hours mark then your account would get the money/XP.

My roommates and I found out that a specific mountain peak on a certain map was just a graphic and not a solid object like all of the other ones were. So we would launch ourselves off the map, through the mountain, and kept dropping geo tags inside of it. Since no one could see them they wouldn't try and collect them so they would all cash out. Also the turn in question was really easy so it was unlikely that anyone else would accidentally fly off and discover our secret.

We made over one billion dollars and purchased everything in the in-game shop. Hahaha

This is going to sound like a lie but my brother and I were once playing BF4 and on one of my respawns I didn't have a marker over my head. My teammates shot at me for a while with no damage.

Went into some tunnel where all the fighting was happening and I started noticing I wasn't getting hit with anything. Enemy grenades and rockets just shook my screen. So I just walked into this chaotic hallway blasting people completely invincible. I ran out of ammo to find out that I couldn't interact with anything on the ground. Ammo crates or other people's kits just didn't show as an option. Went around knifing people for a bit and I only went down when someone got a meele kill on me. Lasted a good 10 minutes and it was complete chaos.

Never experienced it again and still have no idea how it happened.

When bf4 was popular, me and friend found a glitch that can make you spawn under the map. EVERY MAP

Many years ago there was a BBS door game called Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD). My memory of the exact exploit is fuzzy, but the game was expandable and the sysop had installed some expansion where I could get gems early on and quite easily, which I could trade for potions that would increase my stats. This led to me having a level 1 character with no armor and a stick -- basically starting gear -- that was unstoppable. But instead of levelling I'd leave the character like that and all the other maxed out players couldn't defeat me in duels, and they were all big mad and complained to the sysop.

Eventually he figured it out and I think changed the config for the expansion so that gems were not so easy to come by. But for a good few months I was at the top of the leaderboard.

Silver platter

I discovered on my own the hidden merchant chest in Skyrim, the Dawnstar one as I was looking around for either flowers or ore. I also figured out the merchants restock if you save, hit them and then reload save. Both I imagine lots of people found out but these are the only two off of the top of my head

Elder scrolls oblivion: crafting your own spells. Applying fire, electric, or ice damage to the spell. If you apply over 25 of one damage type, you'd need to have an advanced Destruction skill level to use that spell. But if you apply 24 of all 3 damage types to one spell, you could still cast it at lower Destruction level. So you as a low level destruction mage could be casting a 72 damage spell that uses all 3 damage types, but you can't cast a 25 damage spell that uses one of those damage types.

Edit: the downside was the 72 damage spell would probably use up all your mana in one attack, but hey it was still a useful damage exploit

In an MMO called Tera, I found if you deleted a certain Terrain file in your games folder and entered a certain endgame dungeon that was easily solo-farmable for expensive leveling materials at the end but really quite long, you could spawn in and immediately fall right into the boss room skipping a 30m loot run.

Not that i did that of course.

When I was a kid I've got my hands on the pirated copy of GTA Vice City and after playing for some time I've learned that you can mod it with custom cars from some websites. Part of mod installation included changing some lines in 'handling.cfg' config file. I've figured out how the entire file works and started modifying the existing cars for different effects. The best one was Hotring Racer with infinite mass and acceleration that instantly exploded any other cars that it touched.

GoldenEye on N64. Pistols were laser accurate and you didn't even need to stop and aim - as long as it hit, you could continue shooting them until they died.