Your favorite exploits and glitches

[nyankaty]

I've been reading up on fun-to-do exploits for Skyrim and it has me wondering what y'all's favorite exploits and glitches are in games.

My favorite Skyrim glitch is definitely the classic sabre cat flying into heaven glitch that's all over Youtube. That video was actually what made me initially start playing Skyrim and it's been a sordid love affair ever since.

The exploit I love is one I just found out about; where you can exploit the Ritual Stone using the Aetherial Crown and have an army of undead following you basically forever. Last night, I had three giants, three mammoths, three Thalmor, a sabre cat, a wolf, and a deer following me around and absolutely annihilating everything in their path.

And in unexpected glitches, I somehow now have three Standing Stones active - the Mage Stone, the Lover Stone, and the Lord Stone. I am definitely not complaining since I'm trying to level up all my magics to 100 anyway.

What about you, what exploits and glitches have you loved, especially ones that end up with humorous results? And not just for Skyrim, for any games.

Captcha: Civil War. How did you know about the Imperials Vs. the Stormcloaks, Captcha?

 

[Shoggoth2588]

In Halo: Combat Evolved, it's possible to skip a chunk of the end of Assault on the Control Room by high-jacking a Banshee but everybody already knew this. Another exploit is the fact that you can jump up onto the glass somewhat surrounding the entrances to the bridges. At one point you can actually jump from one bridge to the next which cuts out an even larger portion of that level and gets you closer to that awesome Banshee much more quickly.

 

[The Wykydtron]

The Attack on Titan web browser game (AKA the only thing I am even playing at the moment and you should all play it too) has some hilarious bugs. Well not a *bug* bug exactly, it's a wonky physics engine plus the Maneuver Gear = flying out of the skybox. If you can get the momentum and angle right you can clear the entire map in a second, usually utilising the double ropes off two close buildings. Not to mention dodging a Titan's ground slam attack can just straight up nuke you 50 feet up onto The Wall.


No fall damage or everyone would splatter off a wall 5 seconds after the game starts. They start you in an alley and everyone just grapples everywhere at lightning speed, I swear they start you there for maximum "Avengers roll out" awesomeness cuz you can see everyone's ropes and stuff. Then one guy will crash land next to the first Titan and die for the cause immediately. Every. Single. Time.

*sigh*

YOLO culture has not been kind to this game... Especially if you have 10/15/20+ players, people just assume the numbers will auto win and they drop all common sense.

"I'M LAUNCHING MYSELF AT THAT 15 METER ONE'S FACE GUYS, BACK ME UP YO!"

*facepalm*

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Flying land or water vehicles in the Battlefield series. With friendly fire off and a ton of friendly explosives, you get some pretty cash videos.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

The Borderlands glitch that let you clone weapons in Co-op. That one was very useful.

 

[sykopaf]

In Red Alert 1, if you issued a fire command to a grenadier then force fired somewhere else when the animation was loading, you could land a grenade ANYWHERE on the map. Almost like a cheap, highly accurate, mobile cruiser!

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

Item cloning in Oblivion. Melon tidal wave makes all Daedric invasions invalid.

 

[Esotera]

Using timewarp in Kerbal Space Program completely kills any rotation that your craft has in orbit, which is a useful alternative to SAS. My experience with glitches in Skyrim has never been good, they've generally either broken a quest or the game completely.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

There is (was? Unsure, haven't checked recently) an exploit with Star Trek Online. Starting at level 1 (still works if you skip the tutorial stage), go to the Auction house and buy a level 50 weapon for your ground character. Make sure you have no weapons equipped, then go to the mail box and retrieve your purchase. The weapon will auto equip itself, and you can run around at level 1 with a level 50 weapon doing level 50 damage. Doesn't work with ship weapons unfortunately.

 

[likalaruku]

My favorite exploits & glitches are from Oblivion, LA Noir, GTA series, FIFA series, Skate series, various wrestling games, Battlefield 3, Saints Row, RedDead Redemption, & The Witcher.

Corruptions are another pot of comic gold. I recommend looking on Youtube for HelixSnake & Vinesauce (not to be confused with unrelated Vsauce).

 

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I looooove glitch hiking, where you find yourself out of the collision boxes or skyboxes, wandering the empty glitchlands. Then you see some strange, low res artifact off in the distance and head over there to see what it is. Sometimes they have little secrets on them too.

One of the glitches I explore frequently is in Zelda: Twilight Princess. If you drown Link in quicksand and reset the game at just the right time, you appear on the bridge in the version of Hyrule Field that's present at the title screen. It's totally empty and silent and you have nothing but basic gear. You can however find Epona if you use a whistling grass, and ride her out of the entrances and exits to the other parts of the game, but you just keep going and eventually find yourself out in the glitch wastelands around the field with tons to explore. If you ride around to Hyrule Castle it's quite creepy, as the turrets and building in the model just sweep down as long points into the nothingness. But it doesn't stop there. If you kill yourself while in the glitchland, you'll respawn on the bridge again and perform a series of out of sequence boss fights with King Bulbin. If you defeat him and save Colin you move onto the twilit version of Kakariko Village, but still in human form. Both pieces of music play over each other. There are tons of pathways to take from there. I still haven't seen them all, but they all have something strange to see and can involve being forced to play the game in odd ways.

Shadow of the Colossus is fantastic for this too. I haven't found any myself but there are people who have found entire cut sections of the game hidden off in the glitchlands. Cool stuff to explore.

Halo CE (and basically the whole series) was great for this too, and you'd often find something worth your trouble. The amount of amazing secrets hidden in those games is phenomenal. I suppose they aren't glitches or exploits in themselves, but usually require them to find.

Ahhh, I do adore glitches. I'd like to make a game revolving around glitch hiking someday.

 

[OneCatch]

I looooove glitch hiking, where you find yourself out of the collision boxes or skyboxes, wandering the empty glitchlands. Then you see some strange, low res artifact off in the distance and head over there to see what it is. Sometimes they have little secrets on them too.

One of the glitches I explore frequently is in Zelda: Twilight Princess. If you drown Link in quicksand and reset the game at just the right time, you appear on the bridge in the version of Hyrule Field that's present at the title screen. It's totally empty and silent and you have nothing but basic gear. You can however find Epona if you use a whistling grass, and ride her out of the entrances and exits to the other parts of the game, but you just keep going and eventually find yourself out in the glitch wastelands around the field with tons to explore. If you ride around to Hyrule Castle it's quite creepy, as the turrets and building in the model just sweep down as long points into the nothingness. But it doesn't stop there. If you kill yourself while in the glitchland, you'll respawn on the bridge again and perform a series of out of sequence boss fights with King Bulbin. If you defeat him and save Colin you move onto the twilit version of Kakariko Village, but still in human form. Both pieces of music play over each other. There are tons of pathways to take from there. I still haven't seen them all, but they all have something strange to see and can involve being forced to play the game in odd ways.

That is amazing. I'm tempted to break out my wii to give this a go.

As for me, probably my earliest and funnest exploits were those from Rome Total War. Stuff like collapsing your own walls on siege towers to instakill assault units, exploiting unit pathfinding to kill entire armies as they meandered around settlement walls, using high-impact units to throw enemies off walls and bridges or out of the map, trapping elite defensive units on top of walls, exploiting the drowning mechanic in river battles - you name it I did it.

 

[Hero of Lime]

In Halo: Combat Evolved, it's possible to skip a chunk of the end of Assault on the Control Room by high-jacking a Banshee but everybody already knew this. Another exploit is the fact that you can jump up onto the glass somewhat surrounding the entrances to the bridges. At one point you can actually jump from one bridge to the next which cuts out an even larger portion of that level and gets you closer to that awesome Banshee much more quickly.

For the longest time I thought getting a Banshee was the only way to get to the control room. To this day, I've never seen the part you are supposed to go to after crossing the bridge.

OT: The Fierce Deity Glitch in Majora's Mask. Want to run around Termina as a powerful, 10 foot tall demi-god? Now you can with a few easy/somewhat difficult glitches!

 

[Poppy JR.]

Item cloning in Oblivion. Melon tidal wave makes all Daedric invasions invalid.

This.

My favorite was the sword brothers glitch in Symphony of the Night on PS1, even though it's technically cheating. Getting over the limit on game percentage is oh-so sweet.

 

[The_Scrivener]

As a speedrunner, I have hundreds:


-The Donkey Kong Country skip
-FF Tactics JP Glitch
-FF7 Midgar Zolom exploit/Zolom scene skip
-FF8 Rinoa Skip
-Bioshock Infinite Raffle Skip
-Bioshock Infinite Factory Skip
-Bioshock Infinite Suicide Exploits (Hall of Heroes being the favorite)
-Super Mario Bros. has a ton and they're all entertaining
-Super Mario Bros. 3 7-1 clip
-Earthbound Threed Cave Out of Bounds to Anywhere Clip
-Super Mario World Yoshi clips
-Mass Effect "float" glitch
-Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the entire thing at this point.
-Mario Kart 64 finish line scumming.

That's probably enough for now.

 

[Comocat]

In Final Fantasy 3/6 on the SNES, you could cast vanish and doom on an enemy and it would instakill them, including bosses. I breezed through the game as a kid like that.

I had forgotten about this one, but it is probably the one I have used the most. I think I remember there being an island with some invisible mob that was ridiculous to kill without this trick, but game insane amounts of whatever the XP was for learning skills. It kind of broke the game though- yeah I could kill this boss, or I could just vanish him and get it over with.

 

[NoMercy Rider]

Got another Halo:CE exploit that I used extensively. Using grenade explosions to propel weapons across the map in multiplayer. My favorite one was obtaining the rocket launcher on Hang 'em High. With the level layout, the "honest" way of acquiring the RL required you to risk your life on a narrow catwalk. With this exploit, you could stand in the relative safety of one of the bases, chuck a well placed grenade, and watch in glee as the RL flew right into your eager hands.

This exploit could be used everywhere. But the Hang Em High Rocket Launcher exploit was the biggest game changer. Sadly, Bungie nerfed the ability in later titles. It was a sad day.

 

[COMaestro]

One funny glitch that took me a while to get right was in Uncharted 2 multiplayer. It has long been fixed but it was funny while it lasted. One of the maps had a cliff section that you could fall off and die, but if you jumped and hit the cliff wall across from it just right, you would end up inside the map clinging to a ledge. You could move over to a section that placed you in the middle of a walkway, but under the map. In Uncharted, you could get insta-kills by pulling people off a ledge, so you'd wait for someone to run by and grab them, pulling them through the map floor and killing them.

It happened to myself and my brother-in-law, so we watched our replays until we could do it too. We found it more humorous than annoying when it was done to us. We'd only do it ourselves a couple of times before suiciding, because it really wasn't fair, but it was funny as hell hearing someone freak out over being pulled down into the map and killed.

 

[Madmonk12345]

In Paper Mario, The Thousand Year Door, you can take Flavio with you out of chapter 5 using a specific glitch involving taking a warp pipe before you are supposed to. Flavio then follows you all the way the ending of the game which... well, just watch.

http://www.twitch.tv/almolicious/c/2893484

If it has to be a specific glitch that I enjoy using, I guess superswims in Windwaker with dry storage. As a kid, I always wanted to swim between islands, and now I get to do it before the other island even finishes loading. Doing those superswims quickly isn't so much fun though.

 

[nyankaty]

That Twilight Princess glitch sounds amazing and I am going to try it as soon as possible.

And not a glitch or an exploit at all, but I love using the Become Etheral shout in Skyrim and launching myself off of The Throat of the World. It's fun to tumble down without dying.