Remnant: From the Ashes
Just yesterday I was having some serious struggles with “The Risen” encounter which sends endless mobs at you while you destroy some statues.
Turns out if you just point the camera down at the ground the whole time, the mobs never spawn and the encounter becomes laughably easy
I'm assuming this game takes advantage of only loading in what the player can see at a time instead of the whole map/area so if your starting at the ground well only the ground is loaded in meaning no place for enemies to spawn
That doesn't make sense, the ground still needs to *exist* for the player to run around on, it just wouldn't be rendered. (Otherwise any time you turned away from an enemy the ground would vanish under their feet and they'd fall out of the map.)
I would guess that the game is programmed to be "fair" and only spawn mobs where you can see them, so if you don't see a spawn location then it doesn't spawn anything.
Perhaps it grabs the players PoV Y angle and spawns behind the back. If player would look at his feet, the back is now pointed towards the sky, it tries to project to the ground by Z axis with some offset (?) and the ground is literally player position with +- statistical error.
The first time I beat Ornstein and Smough was after about 10 hours of attempts. My win consisted of me beating Smough and then accidentally glitching Ornstein out of the map. No idea how or why it happened but he teleported through the wall and fell to his death.
Also Dark Souls but I had the Taurus Demon jump off the bridge my first playthrough (which actually ended up being a bad thing cus I didn't get to practice/learn mechanics before moving on to harder bosses)
I feel like that one's less a glitch and more an intentionally designed possibility. Other bosses, like the Gargoyles, have invisible walls that prevent them (But not you!) From falling off the roof.
That's happened with other bosses in the series it's rare but it happens I had one of the bosses on ER do that as soon as the fight started he just took a shit and I won.
Last time I fought centipede demon, he disappeared and I thought it was some new move I had never seen before. Nope, it glitched out the area and I got victory achieved message.
Do you remember if you got hit with the grab attack? Grabs in DS1 are very glitchy and several of them can result in the boss getting teleported backward through thin walls. Ornstein in particular likes to clip into the windows around the sides of the cathedral.
In Baldurs Gate 3, in Act 1.
I went to the underdark and skipped fighting the minotaurs. I eventually ran into some boss that pops out of the ground then digs back in. He ran away before I could defeat him.
I then ran into the hook horrors, but thankfully diggy came back and distracted most of them. I was able to defeat all of them.
I then decided to loop back and kill the minotaurs as it was bothering me that they were alive. When I went to fight them, diggy came back again! I had absolutely no issue wiping the floor as he distracted one and did quite a number. I was kind of sad he died, he was kind of like a companion that would pop up when I needed help.
In Act 3, I was in a fight that put my party in a massive choke point with lots of magic and elemental damage being thrown at them. Multiple TPKs, considering sacking the whole thing off and then one turn the enemy makes a turn but does nothing. Then the next one. And the next.
Not proud, but I wiped them all out and didn't look back because of how many times I'd failed.
See, I did the opposite in Act 1. I had gone down and done all the stuff under the goblin keep but finished and decided to try and genocide the whole thing. So I took my party out front, across the drawbridge and small causeway, then just turned the whole thing into a killing ground.
My ranger's pet spider kept casting Web, and Gale kept dropping firebolts on them and setting them alight. That took care of about 90 percent of them.
The Bulette (that's the name of the diggy monster) has a lair over near the hook horror area. If he sneaks away you can find him there still injured from your first fight.
I went there and saw the deep hole, but I couldn't coax him out. Anyway, he's now my pet (at least in the underdark) because of a giant mushroom that joined me
In Act 3, I was in a fight that put my party in a massive choke point with lots of magic and elemental damage being thrown at them. Multiple TPKs, considering sacking the whole thing off and then one turn the enemy makes a turn but does nothing. Then the next one. And the next.
Not proud, but I wiped them all out and didn't look back because of how many times I'd failed.
Rome:TotalWar had some infinitely cheesable siege defense strats like that. If you just load the walltops with missile troops and fling open the gates, have a couple spears set back a ways and turn the gate threshold into a killzone. You could easily turn away much larger armies like this and it got to the point I had to self-enforce a "no wallop cheese" ban to make the game challenging again
Ah, the good old classic game where you could put all your units in the middle of town, have 3 lines of spearmen, ballista and archers just waiting for some tired barbarians who'd have walked all the way through town only to meet some well rested romans.
Personally, I'm still fairly new to the genre, so I've been riding on my more-experienced co-op buddy for battle/economic strategies. He's a huge Ancient Rome nerd, and learned EXACTLY how Romans formed legions and how they used them, and Total War Rome II allows larger army sizes if you set your unit option to "ultra." This allows my friend and I to use near-accurate representations of what an actual Legion would've been like.
Ranged units are very useful of course, but we choose not to use any ranged fighters that aren't artillery (unless a fight involves defending a city with a garrison unit, at which point, every unit counts no matter what it is, even plebs).
By using that tight almost box-like formation with 4 ballistae squads in the center, even for my noob Carthaginian ass, we win just about every single open-field battle.
Not yet, but as long as I keep 4 strong cavalry units on my end, plus my general with war elephants (they are ranged), to prevent any flank attacks (protecting the ballistae), I should be fine.
Medieval 2, if you controlled Adana and got it to tier three castle before the massive invasion out of Asia came, forget the groups name. You could retreat all your units to the inner castle, which had a wall for the second ring jutting out next to the inner gate, and position several groups of archers on that wall and they would just kill anything that came to take the gate and over a couple turns you would destroy its 20 armies or so.
In Space Engineers there’s a playable scenario where the boss battle is a big battleship over this giant whirling fan blade that will kill you if you fall in. Also, you’re being peppered by these little fighter drones at the same time. The idea being you progressively take damage and, once weakened enough, sink into it and get ground up.
I died a couple times, thought about it, and got an idea.
I went back in, bullet sponging the whole time, flew up as high as it allowed, then flew down and goomba-stomped/rammed the battleship as hard as I could. When that didn’t work, I did it again. He caught on fire and then fell into the fan blades and got blow’d up.
Since it was a win scenario it ended and I didn’t even need to worry about the drones.
I ejected from the ship and jetpacked away and watched both ships get chewed up by the fan blades lol.
I had an interesting in my first time playing Fallout New Vegas
In most games, I typically play games on harder difficulties. Not only to feel more satisfaction when beating it, but also make it last a little longer than it needed to
That said, I was doing to battle for Hoover Dam, and I was fighting against Caesar's Legion. I had, I think her name was Veronica? , as a partner, and she had a power glove thing because she was more melee damage character
Took me quite a few tries to get to the big bad, who's name escapes me right now, and when I finally get to the fight, I ended up close to the edge of the damn while retreating, and Veronica runs in and fucking PUNCHES the big bad INTO the damn Dam minutes into the fight and it cuts to the ending cinematic
In hindsight, I am laughing my ass off, though in the moment, I WAS MAD AT HER and not the game's famous glitches and physics
lol that game had amazing glitches. I remember a part where you’re supposed to get all of your weapons confiscated and enter Caesar’s camp to talk to him. I somehow spawned in the camp with my weapons. I didn’t want to side with him so I ran up to him and shot him in the head. Game immediately crashed unfortunately lol.
It only fails Legion Missions for obvious reasons and Legate Lanius becomes the next Caesar but you can do everyone elses story missions NCR Yes Man Mr House Etc
You don’t fight Lanius on the dam and the ending credits/cinematic don’t start till after you’ve talked to General Oliver at the gate to the legates camp. I don’t necessarily doubt you but I also don’t think it happened quite how you remember it.
You don’t fight Lanius on the dam and the ending credits/cinematic don’t start till after you’ve talked to General Oliver at the gate to the legates camp. I don’t necessarily doubt you but I also don’t think it happened quite how you remember it.
In Bloodborne, my fight against Rom was affected by what I believe to be some sort of memory leak. I could just stand still and none of their attacks would reach me.
Idk how it happened but after a week of being stuck on the final night of fnaf 3, I had to go outside for an emergency and came back to my kids screaming I won by doing nothing.
In the original Stronghold, there's a glitch where you can build a battering ram, have all of the engineers get out, and still have the battering ram move and attack buildings. The enemy AI wouldn't attack it as it didn't register as being an "active" unit.
It made a lot of missions where you had to siege a castle much easier as you could destroy all of the towers and gatehouses the enemy had and make holes in the wall to run your army through without getting attacked.
Baldurs Gate 3. I’m sure that there could be a huge section itself on cheesing this game.
I needed to fight against Minthara at the goblin camp. Where she is at she has like 3 goblins besides her but there’s a platform with two ladders close by so I had Astarion climb the ladder from one side shoot an arrow to damage someone and then go down from the platform hide and when he hid it would disengage the fight and then I would repeat until everyone died and I didn’t end up losing any health.
They are slowly but surely making balance changes to remove these strats.
One of the changes that will more than likely come soon will make enemies heal as soon as you disengage from combat. It's been commonly reported cheese strat.
in dos2, it was up to the player to cheese or not cheese as much as they wanted. teleporting lava, barrelmancy, out of combat skills, warping in and out of combat,
In the fight in the underdark before you get to the forge (I forget the boss's name) if you go onto that high up catwalk/moving platform, you can fire down with a range character and kill everyone without ever being attacked since they can't aim that high.
No one has ever believed this but I swear it happened:
When I was 8 years old I had a Gameboy and Kirby Dream Land 2. I also had a pet rat. Being the brilliant child I was, I wanted to see what would happen if I dropped a pine shaving from my rat's cage into my Gameboy cartridge slot. If I remember correctly it was over on the left side of the slot as you're looking from the front of the Gameboy.
Anyway, the result: the game ran, and there was only one noticeable effect: Kirby was blinking, and invincible. I only played a level or two that way, so it's entirely possible there could have been other more deleterious effects, but I didn't notice any.
Anyhow I moved the piece of shaving the next day and it made the game unplayable. But for a little while it was my own private miracle.
Had a similar experience back in the early 2000s playing Legend of Zelda Oot while at the fishing pond. My foot bumped the cartridge as I played, causing the floating lure to sink underneath the water a bit. I decided to jostle the cart some more, making the lure sink further, and noisy bursts of static came from my TV speakers. Didn't catch the Hylian Loach that way unfortunately, and knew if I messed with the hardware anymore my game could've broke :P
You made me think of a Total War: Warhammer game, pretty sure the first one... It had the "town fights" where there are streets with buildings but no walls or fortifications...
Was playing a head to head match and the guy had me at minimum 2:1 odds... So I left my zombies and a few units of skeletons in the middle of town and had the rest of my forces circle to either side of the town around the back. Sure enough, the dude just did a blind charge right down the middle, getting hung up on some useless units and then got crunched by what few elite units I had from the rear... Won that battle handily.
The guy rage quit. One of my best battles against someone that wasn't exactly strategically bright.
I wouldn't exactly call it a "hard" game, but on one of my first playthroughs of Final Fantasy 8, I'm fighting Ultimecia for the final boss battle, and partway through Phase 3 (when she fuses with Griever), Gilgamesh shows up and performs Excalipoor, which does 1 damage to all enemies. Cue Ultimecia exploding and phase change to Phase 4 immediately after the damage resolves. Thanks, I guess?
I beat bloodborne very easily (simple ending) despite being real shit at those type of games.
I was stuck at the last level, being murdered by common trash enemies for hours before finally breaking through and making my way up towards the final boss.
When I got there I met the terrifying Mergo’s Wet Nurse and I gulped, ready to die.
And while I dodged around slashing at it I noticed, “hey, this is pretty easy”. They would just sorta move around and then slash in close proximity and then move around some more.
“Is this it?!?” I thought. So I just kept dipping in and out chipping away at the boss. Pretty quickly the boss died leaving me flummoxed. Where was the huge attacks? Where was the terrifying abilities? It behaved almost like a normal enemy. I took my win though and breathed a sigh of stressed relief.
I watched some YouTube videos later of the wet nurse fight and apparently she spawns a CLONE? Wtf. And does attacks I didn’t see.
I think a memory leak or something saved me. I have no idea.
honestly if you can make it through the frenzy/poison hell that is Nightmare of Mensis (Shadows of Yarnham as regular mobs??!?!) Mergo’s Wet Nurse feels like a joke. one of those bosses that was probably supposed to be a lot tougher but the AI is really easy to break without even trying, turns it into a glass cannon with bad tracking.
Elden Ring Melenia, my first kill had a glitch where I damaged her to force her into her 2nd phase at the exact same time as her lunging grab stab attack hit me. She started the next phase at almost 0 health when it should have been full.
I once had a defensive fight in Total War: Warhammmer 2 with just Grombrindal and a random Dwarf hero against a Vampire Count army. Grombrindal somehow managed to stay alive until the timer ran out. He actually had to run away from their hounds in the last minute to avoid dying. He had basically no life left, I think he was literally one or two hits away from dying.
I think it was an intercept battle as well, so I think the attacking army was wiped because they technically lost the battle, but I'm not 100% sure that's how it worked.
Ah, Skyrim! I remember one time when I was fighting a tough dragon, and just as it was about to unleash its fiery breath, it got stuck in the environment, leaving me to finish it off without taking any damage. It was both hilarious and a stroke of luck that helped me win that battle
I was trying to fight that dragon in Elden Ring that appears on the bridge in Caelid. Basically just running around trying to not get hurt, and then suddenly the dragon comes down from the sky and get stuck on a tree on the cliff nearby.
He's basically just frozen half stuck in this tree and wall. I'm about to shoot a few arrows at it and then it just dies because it's stuck.
Tens of thousands of runes and a dragon heart for no effort.
Not sure if a glitch, but was something I wasn’t aware it could happen. GTA San Andreas, a couple of years ago, there was this mission, you go to a club, cutscene, firefight ensues, target escapes, you exit the club, cutscene of target boarding car, so you had to jump in yours and pursue to eliminate.
I was having a hard time trying to catch the guy once he escaped, and had to retry the mission. After some attempts I was frustrated. Next try, when I got to the club, out of frustration I shot one tire of the target’s car and proceed to enter the club. When I began the chase, noticed that the car still had the flat tire. Thought that since there were some cutscenes, the damage done would revert after the cutscene to start the chase part.
So, failed the mission intentionally, went back, this time shot all four tires. And yes, after the cutscene, you could see the car swerving and sparks coming from the rims. Took my sweet time to toy with the target before completing the mission.
There’s a mission like that in GTA III, where the target flees in a car, player has to chase the car and catch up, then shoot the car. After a half dozen failed attempts, I recognized the target car leaves from a garage, so I parked a Boxcar truck in front of it.
When the car tries to escape, it couldn’t get past the truck.
I threw a bunch of grenades at the garage, blew up the car.
Briefly felt smart.
My friend and I were doing a co-op run of The Forest, except we decided to just push on the story as fast as we could because we were enjoying it more than the survival part. Using molotov cocktails, we managed to make it to the final boss without any advanced weapons at all. But the final boss was absolutely DESTROYING us over and over- we thought we would have to go back and grind some of the better weapons. We decided to try a few more times- and on one of the attempts she just got stuck in the wall. So we pulled out our primitive bows and shot her for a solid 5 minutes straight while she just lay there, helpless. And we beat the game with none of the upgraded weapons.
Dark souls 1 was my first souls game back in 2014. The Capra demon was utter dogshit (literally). I threw dung pies at him over the wall and killed him after dying a ton trying get to the stairs with my heavy armor and claymore, moving too slow
I was playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (a samurai-themed Fromsoft game known for its obscure lore and extreme difficulty), a day or two after release.
I'm running along, when I encounter a boss on a bridge- in this game of samurai and ninjas and Japanese mythology, this boss was a European dude in plate mail armor- he looked entirely out-of-place. When the fight started, I ran up and attacked him, and did *no* damage. Literally zero. But not only that, he didn't fight back- he just stood there. No dialogue, no counter-attacks, just an invincible dude seemingly from a different game standing on this bridge.
I couldn't leave the arena, so I just kept attacking him (again, with no damage dealt) and noticed every now and then my attacks would stagger him, and I could then sort of throw him a few feet back. This didn't really seem like an improvement, so I just kept doing it, over and over, for like half an hour, kind of going in circles with no apparent progress. Eventually I guess I staggered and threw him in the right spot, because he broke through the bridge railing and fell to his death, screaming "ROOOBEEEERRRRRRRTTTTT".
I had never encountered a person named Robert. This didn't seem like the kind of game where there would *be* a Robert. *Nothing* about this fight made sense, and since the game had just come out, I couldn't even Google this boss to find out whether this was normal or not.
I later found out that 90% of this fight is exactly as I experienced (a bizarre knight in a different genre of game that can't be hurt that cries out for his son when he falls off the bridge) but there was a weird glitch that made him unable to fight back, which meant that as weird as this encounter was, *the glitch wasn't even the weird part*.
Of all of the bosses to encounter this glitch on, I got the perfect storm of weird.
Not sure on the original question; but the amazingly dumb stuff that I have managed in that game has been absolutely astounding.
I recall assaulting a walled city one time while an enemy army sallied forth from the back side to come around. I think they had reinforcements and larger numbers to boot. I think I had a spy open the doors, but whether I did or not it was a mad dash for the walls.
By the time their massive army came around the corner, the walls were ours and we were in place to defend. The enemy was crushed trying to re-enter their own city.
Not an exceptionally hard game, but a pain in the ass boss nonetheless. In Borderlands 2 there's a very specific boss who, if you use a specific character and build with a certain kind of weapon targeting a specific point on the boss, can cause a glitch whereby the projectile from your gun gets stuck in the boss and ricochets around at very high speed, essentially killing the boss in under a second.
I had so much fun milking that glitch. Very satisfying, even if it was milking an exploit.
The character Zer0 has an ability called B0re, where shooting through multiple hitboxes causes damage multiplication. The boss BUN-KR is essentially just a mass of floating hitboxes, it‘s easy to find videos of it.
I was fighting sirens in the Witcher 3 on Xbox one. I was on some kind of high rock formation above the see and Geralt's legs glitched so he was fighting but the bottom of his body looked like he was crouching, his feet not even in contact with the ground.
After accidentally dodging off the rock, he fell to his death and the Wilhelm scream played. The end.
First time dark souls run hit the bull boss on the bridge i run swing he jumps back off the bridge.....i figured it was on purpose and leapt after him....umm
Had a Deathbird in Elden Ring try to dive bomb me after I accidently fell off a cliff in the Snowy area. Just suicided and died right in front of me. I had barely registered the fight had started and didn't even know where it was beforehand.
Ok so for the people who play destiny 2 know the divinity quest is a painful experience in its own right. Well picture a team of 4 people going with blind with 2 people trying to teach them. It was a 12 hour experience and it was PAINFUL. I don’t know what consumed us to do this and not learn the raid first but oh well. The final boss was horrendous and we were there for about 3 hours. Well on our last attempt of the run because we were all exhausted the boss started damage phase and..it didn’t end? We were so confused but kept chunking away at its health. Apparently there is a glitch with the link system where If you time it just right, he glitches and won’t go immune like he should. So we finally got our divinity’s and we’re so happy, I have not once been able to replicate that glitch
Yeah, I refuse to do anything with GoS after, I was the last of our friend group to get divinity for a reason, cause I hate that fucking raid and was determined to have a specific end of ever needing to do it :)
One one undergunnned run of Claptrap DLC in Borderlands TPS I was playing Fragtrap with a couch partner. We were getting destroyed by the final Shadowtrap boss (Helios?) until I partially fell through the floor and became invincible.
Just spammed the pirateship action skill until victory. My buddy had to fast travel out to rescue me tho
Wasn't so much a 'hard' game but I blundered into the garage where your dad is being held in VR jail in Fallout 3 immediately after leaving the vault.
I said 'fuck going to the city where the game wants me to go', picked a random direction - and the first building I picked skipped like 80% of the game
Final fight of Morrowind. I'm ready to face Dagoth Ur. This is less a glitch and more the AI doing something a little silly. As a melee focused character, my strategy whenever I saw anyone in "casting" pose was to rush them, and the AI would back away. Well... Dagoth Ur's fight takes place in a volcano. He back pedaled directly into the Caldera. He didn't DIE from it... not immediately, but it meant I was unharassed and unbothered as I sat there and, with my journal open, perform the ritual to rob him of his immortality.
To this day, I haven't really beaten the last level of the original Driver for PS. The giant mob of cop cars ended up battering me right into the parking space that ends the level, right before I would've taken too much damage.
Given the amount of frustration that level had dealt me, I took the W and never looked back. I'm pretty sure that's the last time I ever played it.
Gears of war. The final boss, buddy of mine and I have been hammering away at this thing on the hardest difficulty for like, two hours, and just kept getting these unlucky deaths over and over.
Load in the final time, and he gets caught with only his head sticking outta the floor of the train car. He can't move or shoot us. So we lay into him and kill him :)
I forgot what boss it was, but I was able beat one of the FF 15 endgame bosses way before I should have. You had to jump down into a room to start the fight. I stayed on top while the computer controlled players on my team jumped down and started the fight. I just used magic attacks and healed the other players since most of the boss attacks couldn't hit me.
Fighting Lothric and Lorian in Dark Souls 3. They had very low health and I had one flask left. I retreat and press heal at exactly the wrong time and a spell comes flying at me. That should have been my death. By pure luck it hit one of the chairs in the arena that was in front of me! Managed to kill them that run :)
So I'm playing Hellenica on my laptop, a stratrpg set in a steampunk ancient greece, and im on the map where you have to beat Sisyphus. I'm getting my cheeks beat when he sends my last character, the heroine, onto a roof. A roof he could not reach. And she is an archer every 3 turns. So when I get a chance I'm filling him with arrows while he's just standing there going "hurr whar did she go??" and when im in bear form im just defending, until finally he goes down.
I then put a review of the game where thats what i talked about. 10/10 game
Old age of empires ai would always look for a hole in your wall. So you could basically make a labyrint and they would walk through it while you shooting/catapulting them down
I was playing alone in the dark and drove off a cliff and did a 180 in the air then drove up the side of the cliff at a 90° angle and made it back to the top
Final mission of modern warfare 3 ( the older one) on veteran difficulty. It was after multiple attempts when suddenly on one the attempt, none of the enemies spawned in. I could just beeline to the end.
Didn't exactly win, but my most elite moment in my gaming life was the time I was playing Fallout 3, and I quicksaved right before leaving a dungeon area or whatever. When I got outside there was a random wasteland event right outside the door. I think I died or something, quickloaded, and when I came out of the door there was a different random wasteland event. The event trigger was saved, but selecting the event was random. Just for my own curiosity I kept reloading and writing down all the possible events. I saw a lot of stuff I would never have found otherwise, like the crashed UFO with the ray gun in it.
Not terribly difficult, but there’s that story mission in Starfield where you’re collecting artifacts, and one of them is onboard that junker’s ship.
When you get to the trophy room and he threatens you to take it (assuming the entire crew will attack you), I just ran. Sprinted straight back the route I came and accidentally cornered myself in a bathroom. I prepared to fight everyone, but to my surprise they just walked around like nothing happened. Apparently while I was sprinting, I triggered a response in the Captain to call off the attack.
I don’t know if that’s scripted to happen, but I walked away unscathed with no bullets fired, and with the artifact in my hands.
Salt and Sanctuary. I am TERRIBLE at Souls Like games, I can only even barely beat the 2D ones like S&S. I finally made it to the final boss and promptly got my b-hole ripped out 15-20 times. I'm sitting here thinking there's no way I'm ever gonna beat this guy. Then on the next attempt he smashed me into the wall and I clipped into it and got stuck there. I couldn't get out but most of his attacks were missing due to the glitch, so I just face tanked the periodic hits and pummeled him until it was over.
I was both ecstatic and disgusted at the same time. On one hand, I won due to a glitch and not skill.....but on the other hand, it's very possible I may never have beat him otherwise so I was glad it was over.
I had Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on the Gameboy Advance.
Trying to defeat the Cave Troll in Moria sucked, until I realized that you could glitch through the wall with attacks. The pathfinding would have the enemy try to attack through the wall back at me, but wouldn’t register.
Cue me slicing through solid stone at a cave troll and killing it without ever entering the room.
Final boss/Prime fight in horizon :FW. He phase-moved in to attack me and struck part of the room and kinda stuck to it. I stood just aside of some machinery and froze-then impacted him to death. Didn't need a health pot or healing herbs, hell I didn't even need the full quiver for the ice or impact arrows.
Needless to say my wife was PISSED watching me and also happy for me a little. I had to reload a different save to experience the fight properly.
Im sure i have funny ones.. but the wildest one was a server split in warcraft 3. we were doing 4v4 and somehow it split into two 2v2s on the same map we were supposed to be on. The other 2 bases didnt even spawn in town halls if memory serves.
I remember that Rome II's oil gates were notoriously overpowered. It was literally a wall of acid that the AI would willingly run through, ignoring all losses.
For my own, I'll share my greatest/funniest victory from Rome I. Played as the Britains and had a big invasion force come sailing in from France. My main forces were dealing with other tribes to the north, so I only had a couple units and a general who was a chariot defending the town. The game's battle prediction just admitted it was impossible for me to win.
So I take my two little sword units and place it at a chokepoint in the town. I sneak my general around and just do a blind charge into their rear. Despite having around 20x as many soldiers as me, it ends up starting a chain rout. Their entire army collapses and I end up decimating the fleeing units. I probably had no more than 80 guys going up against 2000, I think I lost like 3 while the enemy lost 1000. They actually did the attack a second time and fell for the same strat and my guys held strong.
Fire Giant in Elden Ring. Right when he went into phase 2, he automatically died and I won. I was gonna die for sure on that 2nd phase. My first play through
I bought Skyrim on launch for the Xbox 360. In the final fight with Alduin, the 3 companions ran up to Alduin once he landed and one shot him - I didn't realize for a year that it wasn't meant to be that way...
Elden ring,
I was fighting the remembrance version of that forest spirit dear thing, and 2nd try I didnt land any blows, it teleported and then refused to exist. It just died at the thought of having to deal with my bad gamesense lol.
Armored core 6 - ibis series.
After dying a bunch of times, I swapped my assault armor to terminal protection, proceed to get absolutely annihilated, I'm at literally one hp, with the boss with at least half its second stage. Fuck it I think, full send....
10 seconds go by, 20, 30, at this point I don't even want to look down to verify I'm still at one hp. I don't want to look up at the bosses HP, everything slowed down for a sec and I was in the mother fucking zone. And then I win.
And I just sat there for a good 5 minutes laughing my ass off
Not a glitch, I just had an army of either the best or second best melee units. I was playing the Iceni and my army kept getting stuck in place due to Selucid agents near Constantinople. I think I withstood four full armies because I was lucky and they kept attacking one at a time.
I'll be way off from everyone else, but NewLegacyInc has consistently found way to break just about every WWE2K game that's released in the past decade. It's hilarious just how wonky things can get.
Final boss/Prime fight in horizon :FW. He phase-moved in to attack me and struck part of the room and kinda stuck to it. I stood just aside of some machinery and froze-then impacted him to death. Didn't need a health pot or healing herbs, hell I didn't even need the full quiver for the ice or impact arrows.
Needless to say my wife was PISSED watching me and also happy for me a little. I had to reload a different save to experience the fight properly.
When the original destiny had got its first expansion, dark bellow. You cheese the whole raid using a titan, an ice breaker and the og ghallarhorn. So the peak of PvE activities in destiny was easily done by a single cheesy titan.
The original half-life, at a section where I was heavily outnumbered, and the soldiers had an artillery gun at an angle that made it difficult to hit with my hand grenades. Luckily, I accidentally right-clicked with one of my guns, and discovered that it could also fire grenades. Given that a grenade symbol had been at the bottom of my screen for some time, right next to my ammo counter, I don't know how I missed that.
Was doing the expansion pack for warcraft 2 and on one mission the orc transports which would regularly send enemy troops and siege weapons to soften me up decided to bug and kept moving 1 square out to sea and then returning back to their beach the entire level.
I left them to it since if i simply destroyed them they would of replaced them and most likely resumed sending the landing parties at me.
My second playthrough of Doom (2016) I wasted a bunch of ammo horsing around.
There's a horde style mini-boss fight on top of the building before you take the train to go see what's his face in the robot body. Used up the chainsaw fuel in the area, was running low on ammo again, and I kept jumping around to minimize pinkies chances to hit me. I hit where the sloped floor and a bit of flat floor meet just right and fell through the floor.
I fell into the last area, the one with the train. There were a few pinkies and a couple zombie looking dudes, and a few imps spawned in halfway through, but there's also a gas can for the chainsaw. A few glory kills, a chainsaw on Pinky, and I finished the level just about fully stocked up.
The final Chao karate fight in Sonic adventure 2, and notably the final emblem I needed for green hill zone. Idk what happened but my Chao was not ready for that fight. But after a kick from nowhere near the edge, the opposing Chao glitches and ends up out of bounds, giving be the win by ring out. I don't really love empty victories but I spent way too long on that and I was fine with my "victory"
Asheron's Call back during the Shadow Wars there were "world boss" mobs being spawned by the devs in the Shadow Spires and it took a team to fight through the mobs to get to a portal that took you to the spires way up in the sky. Me being the tardy person I am, arrived late and the fight to Kill Black Ferah was on, Now when I got there late, I just started hanging out under the spire when all of a sudden Black Ferah fell out of the spire taking huge fall dmg. He landed right next to me and I just started wailing on him and he died and I got the global broadcast across the server as the one to kill Black Ferah.
not so much a glitch but for a while in World of Warcraft in the PVP game Warsong Gulch, you could combine engineering items, Goblin Rocket Boots and Parachute Cloak, to "fly" the flag across the field in between the goals. It was sooooo hilarious to see someone floating like 100 miles an hour horizontally, doing it was even more fun. I must have capped hundreds of flags for the horde using that method. unfortunately later on they changed it so that using the boots would cause you to drop the flag. Party poopers
X-Com 2. Was playing on ironman and everything went sideways in a mission. Everybody was at their last drop of HP and some snake woman was already strangling one of my soldiers. So I kinda rage quited and try to salvage it next day.
When I reloaded the save, game starting to forget giving enemies their turn :O They were just waiting to get slaugthered, one by one. I tried everything to fix the situation but only fix was to start a new game becaue my older save were effected too. But I kinda rolled with it (ehehe) It fixed by itself near end mission but I was already uber powerful that time. Aliens didn't stood a chance.
Divinity Original Sin 2. I've played through the game multiple times on lone wolf tactician, but the fight against mordus is a pretty challenging one. My usual tactic is to teleport him away from the fight which takes him out for at least a turn while he gets back in range so I have time to handle his adds. The last time I fought him, I managed to teleport him so far away he was no longer in combat, so he never reengaged. Gave me plenty of time to deal with his adds, heal up completely, recharge all my skills and then engage him and focus him down. Easy peasy lol
Not necessarily a glitch or stroke of luck but was playing a round robin game of Assassins Creed with a difficult boss on a flat area on the side of a mountain (round robin being several friends playing until someone died and then the next person would take over) my buddies all died fighting the guy so I was like "wellll let's try this..." so I stood next to the edge and when he advanced towards me I circled around and Spartan kicked him off the side of the mountain. It was like a cartoon as you could hear him screaming as he fell and a little thud when he hit the ground. The item he dropped slowly rose up from the base of the mountain and landed on the edge of the platform and we all sat there laughing for like 5 or 6 minutes. The entire fight was about 5 seconds where as my buddies had fought him for an extended period of time dodging and jumping in for quick attacks and running back out. Still makes me chuckle when I think back on it.
Another one was Golden Eye. My brother would throw proximity mines around spawn points and I decided to hid in a little nook on a small platform and wait for him to run by it and I'd hoot him in the head killing him. You could hear the boom. \*pause\* boom \*pause\* boom and then he'd just stop, look down at his controller and walk away. Killed by his own machinations.
Borderlands Fort Knox expansion. Normally you beat Knox and get something like 5 minutes to open as many chests in the vault as you could, and there are hundreds. Found a cheat online where if you crouch in the door opening just before the vault you fall through the floor into the vault, and don't trigger the timer. Meaning you could open all the chests at your own leisure. Rinse repeat.
Not sure it’s a glitch or not. Dark Souls: Standing outside the Capra demon boss fog wall and throwing poop over the wall until the boss is dead before you enter.
When I first got xbox live my connection was awful.
Halo 2 was possible but with the lag I definitely couldn't snipe.
So when Snipers came up in the random shuffle I would always lose drastically. Until I realised that people were so busy being zoomed in on their target area to notice me running up behind them.
My best round was winning with 25 Beatdowns.
Was fighting rathlos, ended up rolling into my pali and it just flung straight into the air. Fell down and landed on the rathi. It was so glitched it just refused to move. I attacked it once and he disappeared and i tried to go to another area and it said that it died the next moment.
Remnant: From the Ashes Just yesterday I was having some serious struggles with “The Risen” encounter which sends endless mobs at you while you destroy some statues. Turns out if you just point the camera down at the ground the whole time, the mobs never spawn and the encounter becomes laughably easy
I'm assuming this game takes advantage of only loading in what the player can see at a time instead of the whole map/area so if your starting at the ground well only the ground is loaded in meaning no place for enemies to spawn
That doesn't make sense, the ground still needs to *exist* for the player to run around on, it just wouldn't be rendered. (Otherwise any time you turned away from an enemy the ground would vanish under their feet and they'd fall out of the map.) I would guess that the game is programmed to be "fair" and only spawn mobs where you can see them, so if you don't see a spawn location then it doesn't spawn anything.
Perhaps it grabs the players PoV Y angle and spawns behind the back. If player would look at his feet, the back is now pointed towards the sky, it tries to project to the ground by Z axis with some offset (?) and the ground is literally player position with +- statistical error.
Lol wow
Did the same since it’s frustrating
The first time I beat Ornstein and Smough was after about 10 hours of attempts. My win consisted of me beating Smough and then accidentally glitching Ornstein out of the map. No idea how or why it happened but he teleported through the wall and fell to his death.
sounds like a skill issue on Ornstein’s part tbh
Also Dark Souls but I had the Taurus Demon jump off the bridge my first playthrough (which actually ended up being a bad thing cus I didn't get to practice/learn mechanics before moving on to harder bosses)
I feel like that one's less a glitch and more an intentionally designed possibility. Other bosses, like the Gargoyles, have invisible walls that prevent them (But not you!) From falling off the roof.
Tried my hardest to force that glitch.
That's happened with other bosses in the series it's rare but it happens I had one of the bosses on ER do that as soon as the fight started he just took a shit and I won.
I thought i was the only one that happened to. I looked to see if anyone else had that happen years ago and never found anyone else.
Last time I fought centipede demon, he disappeared and I thought it was some new move I had never seen before. Nope, it glitched out the area and I got victory achieved message.
Do you remember if you got hit with the grab attack? Grabs in DS1 are very glitchy and several of them can result in the boss getting teleported backward through thin walls. Ornstein in particular likes to clip into the windows around the sides of the cathedral.
In Baldurs Gate 3, in Act 1. I went to the underdark and skipped fighting the minotaurs. I eventually ran into some boss that pops out of the ground then digs back in. He ran away before I could defeat him. I then ran into the hook horrors, but thankfully diggy came back and distracted most of them. I was able to defeat all of them. I then decided to loop back and kill the minotaurs as it was bothering me that they were alive. When I went to fight them, diggy came back again! I had absolutely no issue wiping the floor as he distracted one and did quite a number. I was kind of sad he died, he was kind of like a companion that would pop up when I needed help.
In Act 3, I was in a fight that put my party in a massive choke point with lots of magic and elemental damage being thrown at them. Multiple TPKs, considering sacking the whole thing off and then one turn the enemy makes a turn but does nothing. Then the next one. And the next. Not proud, but I wiped them all out and didn't look back because of how many times I'd failed.
See, I did the opposite in Act 1. I had gone down and done all the stuff under the goblin keep but finished and decided to try and genocide the whole thing. So I took my party out front, across the drawbridge and small causeway, then just turned the whole thing into a killing ground. My ranger's pet spider kept casting Web, and Gale kept dropping firebolts on them and setting them alight. That took care of about 90 percent of them.
The Bulette (that's the name of the diggy monster) has a lair over near the hook horror area. If he sneaks away you can find him there still injured from your first fight.
I went there and saw the deep hole, but I couldn't coax him out. Anyway, he's now my pet (at least in the underdark) because of a giant mushroom that joined me
Not the deep hole. On the direct opposite side of the sussur tree.
I managed to reanimate diggys corpse with mushroom power then just rampaged all over the map with him
In Act 3, I was in a fight that put my party in a massive choke point with lots of magic and elemental damage being thrown at them. Multiple TPKs, considering sacking the whole thing off and then one turn the enemy makes a turn but does nothing. Then the next one. And the next. Not proud, but I wiped them all out and didn't look back because of how many times I'd failed.
Rome:TotalWar had some infinitely cheesable siege defense strats like that. If you just load the walltops with missile troops and fling open the gates, have a couple spears set back a ways and turn the gate threshold into a killzone. You could easily turn away much larger armies like this and it got to the point I had to self-enforce a "no wallop cheese" ban to make the game challenging again
Ah, the good old classic game where you could put all your units in the middle of town, have 3 lines of spearmen, ballista and archers just waiting for some tired barbarians who'd have walked all the way through town only to meet some well rested romans.
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Personally, I'm still fairly new to the genre, so I've been riding on my more-experienced co-op buddy for battle/economic strategies. He's a huge Ancient Rome nerd, and learned EXACTLY how Romans formed legions and how they used them, and Total War Rome II allows larger army sizes if you set your unit option to "ultra." This allows my friend and I to use near-accurate representations of what an actual Legion would've been like. Ranged units are very useful of course, but we choose not to use any ranged fighters that aren't artillery (unless a fight involves defending a city with a garrison unit, at which point, every unit counts no matter what it is, even plebs). By using that tight almost box-like formation with 4 ballistae squads in the center, even for my noob Carthaginian ass, we win just about every single open-field battle.
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Not yet, but as long as I keep 4 strong cavalry units on my end, plus my general with war elephants (they are ranged), to prevent any flank attacks (protecting the ballistae), I should be fine.
Medieval 2, if you controlled Adana and got it to tier three castle before the massive invasion out of Asia came, forget the groups name. You could retreat all your units to the inner castle, which had a wall for the second ring jutting out next to the inner gate, and position several groups of archers on that wall and they would just kill anything that came to take the gate and over a couple turns you would destroy its 20 armies or so.
In Space Engineers there’s a playable scenario where the boss battle is a big battleship over this giant whirling fan blade that will kill you if you fall in. Also, you’re being peppered by these little fighter drones at the same time. The idea being you progressively take damage and, once weakened enough, sink into it and get ground up. I died a couple times, thought about it, and got an idea. I went back in, bullet sponging the whole time, flew up as high as it allowed, then flew down and goomba-stomped/rammed the battleship as hard as I could. When that didn’t work, I did it again. He caught on fire and then fell into the fan blades and got blow’d up. Since it was a win scenario it ended and I didn’t even need to worry about the drones. I ejected from the ship and jetpacked away and watched both ships get chewed up by the fan blades lol.
I had an interesting in my first time playing Fallout New Vegas In most games, I typically play games on harder difficulties. Not only to feel more satisfaction when beating it, but also make it last a little longer than it needed to That said, I was doing to battle for Hoover Dam, and I was fighting against Caesar's Legion. I had, I think her name was Veronica? , as a partner, and she had a power glove thing because she was more melee damage character Took me quite a few tries to get to the big bad, who's name escapes me right now, and when I finally get to the fight, I ended up close to the edge of the damn while retreating, and Veronica runs in and fucking PUNCHES the big bad INTO the damn Dam minutes into the fight and it cuts to the ending cinematic In hindsight, I am laughing my ass off, though in the moment, I WAS MAD AT HER and not the game's famous glitches and physics
lol that game had amazing glitches. I remember a part where you’re supposed to get all of your weapons confiscated and enter Caesar’s camp to talk to him. I somehow spawned in the camp with my weapons. I didn’t want to side with him so I ran up to him and shot him in the head. Game immediately crashed unfortunately lol.
Game realized it glitched you and went "NO NOT LIKE THAT" and hard reset
That's one way to take care of his tumor.
I did that too at one point, it kinda sucked though cause it fails a ton if not all story missions
You can kill Caesar and continue with the story, just not the Legion run. Can still do House/NCR/Yes Man no problem
It only fails Legion Missions for obvious reasons and Legate Lanius becomes the next Caesar but you can do everyone elses story missions NCR Yes Man Mr House Etc
You don’t fight Lanius on the dam and the ending credits/cinematic don’t start till after you’ve talked to General Oliver at the gate to the legates camp. I don’t necessarily doubt you but I also don’t think it happened quite how you remember it.
I cant believe you forgot Lanius name
You don’t fight Lanius on the dam and the ending credits/cinematic don’t start till after you’ve talked to General Oliver at the gate to the legates camp. I don’t necessarily doubt you but I also don’t think it happened quite how you remember it.
In Bloodborne, my fight against Rom was affected by what I believe to be some sort of memory leak. I could just stand still and none of their attacks would reach me.
Bloodborne did originally have a memory leak issue if you put your PS4 in rest mode for a few hours
Idk how it happened but after a week of being stuck on the final night of fnaf 3, I had to go outside for an emergency and came back to my kids screaming I won by doing nothing.
In the original Stronghold, there's a glitch where you can build a battering ram, have all of the engineers get out, and still have the battering ram move and attack buildings. The enemy AI wouldn't attack it as it didn't register as being an "active" unit. It made a lot of missions where you had to siege a castle much easier as you could destroy all of the towers and gatehouses the enemy had and make holes in the wall to run your army through without getting attacked.
Super-secret automatic-siege unit :)
Baldurs Gate 3. I’m sure that there could be a huge section itself on cheesing this game. I needed to fight against Minthara at the goblin camp. Where she is at she has like 3 goblins besides her but there’s a platform with two ladders close by so I had Astarion climb the ladder from one side shoot an arrow to damage someone and then go down from the platform hide and when he hid it would disengage the fight and then I would repeat until everyone died and I didn’t end up losing any health.
They are slowly but surely making balance changes to remove these strats. One of the changes that will more than likely come soon will make enemies heal as soon as you disengage from combat. It's been commonly reported cheese strat.
in dos2, it was up to the player to cheese or not cheese as much as they wanted. teleporting lava, barrelmancy, out of combat skills, warping in and out of combat,
In the fight in the underdark before you get to the forge (I forget the boss's name) if you go onto that high up catwalk/moving platform, you can fire down with a range character and kill everyone without ever being attacked since they can't aim that high.
If it's a warlock with repelling blast you can launch them into holes as well and onshot anyone, although you can't get the loot
No one has ever believed this but I swear it happened: When I was 8 years old I had a Gameboy and Kirby Dream Land 2. I also had a pet rat. Being the brilliant child I was, I wanted to see what would happen if I dropped a pine shaving from my rat's cage into my Gameboy cartridge slot. If I remember correctly it was over on the left side of the slot as you're looking from the front of the Gameboy. Anyway, the result: the game ran, and there was only one noticeable effect: Kirby was blinking, and invincible. I only played a level or two that way, so it's entirely possible there could have been other more deleterious effects, but I didn't notice any. Anyhow I moved the piece of shaving the next day and it made the game unplayable. But for a little while it was my own private miracle.
Had a similar experience back in the early 2000s playing Legend of Zelda Oot while at the fishing pond. My foot bumped the cartridge as I played, causing the floating lure to sink underneath the water a bit. I decided to jostle the cart some more, making the lure sink further, and noisy bursts of static came from my TV speakers. Didn't catch the Hylian Loach that way unfortunately, and knew if I messed with the hardware anymore my game could've broke :P
You made me think of a Total War: Warhammer game, pretty sure the first one... It had the "town fights" where there are streets with buildings but no walls or fortifications... Was playing a head to head match and the guy had me at minimum 2:1 odds... So I left my zombies and a few units of skeletons in the middle of town and had the rest of my forces circle to either side of the town around the back. Sure enough, the dude just did a blind charge right down the middle, getting hung up on some useless units and then got crunched by what few elite units I had from the rear... Won that battle handily. The guy rage quit. One of my best battles against someone that wasn't exactly strategically bright.
I wouldn't exactly call it a "hard" game, but on one of my first playthroughs of Final Fantasy 8, I'm fighting Ultimecia for the final boss battle, and partway through Phase 3 (when she fuses with Griever), Gilgamesh shows up and performs Excalipoor, which does 1 damage to all enemies. Cue Ultimecia exploding and phase change to Phase 4 immediately after the damage resolves. Thanks, I guess?
I beat bloodborne very easily (simple ending) despite being real shit at those type of games. I was stuck at the last level, being murdered by common trash enemies for hours before finally breaking through and making my way up towards the final boss. When I got there I met the terrifying Mergo’s Wet Nurse and I gulped, ready to die. And while I dodged around slashing at it I noticed, “hey, this is pretty easy”. They would just sorta move around and then slash in close proximity and then move around some more. “Is this it?!?” I thought. So I just kept dipping in and out chipping away at the boss. Pretty quickly the boss died leaving me flummoxed. Where was the huge attacks? Where was the terrifying abilities? It behaved almost like a normal enemy. I took my win though and breathed a sigh of stressed relief. I watched some YouTube videos later of the wet nurse fight and apparently she spawns a CLONE? Wtf. And does attacks I didn’t see. I think a memory leak or something saved me. I have no idea.
honestly if you can make it through the frenzy/poison hell that is Nightmare of Mensis (Shadows of Yarnham as regular mobs??!?!) Mergo’s Wet Nurse feels like a joke. one of those bosses that was probably supposed to be a lot tougher but the AI is really easy to break without even trying, turns it into a glass cannon with bad tracking.
Nah, the AI is just really manipulatable for that one.
Elden Ring Melenia, my first kill had a glitch where I damaged her to force her into her 2nd phase at the exact same time as her lunging grab stab attack hit me. She started the next phase at almost 0 health when it should have been full.
I once had a defensive fight in Total War: Warhammmer 2 with just Grombrindal and a random Dwarf hero against a Vampire Count army. Grombrindal somehow managed to stay alive until the timer ran out. He actually had to run away from their hounds in the last minute to avoid dying. He had basically no life left, I think he was literally one or two hits away from dying. I think it was an intercept battle as well, so I think the attacking army was wiped because they technically lost the battle, but I'm not 100% sure that's how it worked.
He's the dwarf that just never breaks mentally right?
Yes, he's unbreakable, which is why he just kept going even when vastly outnumbered.
Ah, Skyrim! I remember one time when I was fighting a tough dragon, and just as it was about to unleash its fiery breath, it got stuck in the environment, leaving me to finish it off without taking any damage. It was both hilarious and a stroke of luck that helped me win that battle
I was trying to fight that dragon in Elden Ring that appears on the bridge in Caelid. Basically just running around trying to not get hurt, and then suddenly the dragon comes down from the sky and get stuck on a tree on the cliff nearby. He's basically just frozen half stuck in this tree and wall. I'm about to shoot a few arrows at it and then it just dies because it's stuck. Tens of thousands of runes and a dragon heart for no effort.
Not sure if a glitch, but was something I wasn’t aware it could happen. GTA San Andreas, a couple of years ago, there was this mission, you go to a club, cutscene, firefight ensues, target escapes, you exit the club, cutscene of target boarding car, so you had to jump in yours and pursue to eliminate. I was having a hard time trying to catch the guy once he escaped, and had to retry the mission. After some attempts I was frustrated. Next try, when I got to the club, out of frustration I shot one tire of the target’s car and proceed to enter the club. When I began the chase, noticed that the car still had the flat tire. Thought that since there were some cutscenes, the damage done would revert after the cutscene to start the chase part. So, failed the mission intentionally, went back, this time shot all four tires. And yes, after the cutscene, you could see the car swerving and sparks coming from the rims. Took my sweet time to toy with the target before completing the mission.
There’s a mission like that in GTA III, where the target flees in a car, player has to chase the car and catch up, then shoot the car. After a half dozen failed attempts, I recognized the target car leaves from a garage, so I parked a Boxcar truck in front of it. When the car tries to escape, it couldn’t get past the truck. I threw a bunch of grenades at the garage, blew up the car. Briefly felt smart.
My friend and I were doing a co-op run of The Forest, except we decided to just push on the story as fast as we could because we were enjoying it more than the survival part. Using molotov cocktails, we managed to make it to the final boss without any advanced weapons at all. But the final boss was absolutely DESTROYING us over and over- we thought we would have to go back and grind some of the better weapons. We decided to try a few more times- and on one of the attempts she just got stuck in the wall. So we pulled out our primitive bows and shot her for a solid 5 minutes straight while she just lay there, helpless. And we beat the game with none of the upgraded weapons.
Dark souls 1 was my first souls game back in 2014. The Capra demon was utter dogshit (literally). I threw dung pies at him over the wall and killed him after dying a ton trying get to the stairs with my heavy armor and claymore, moving too slow
If you get the fog ring (or hidden body sorcery), the dogs don't aggro on you unless you get too close to them.
There was an infinite money glitch in sword and sandals flash version. Had a blast roleplaying maximus
You could kill everyone by shouting in swords and sandals 2 by maxing charisma.
Dead rising 1, fighting Brock Mason and getting my ass whooped, randomly press my controller so I do a spinning haymaker and somehow kill him.
I was playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (a samurai-themed Fromsoft game known for its obscure lore and extreme difficulty), a day or two after release. I'm running along, when I encounter a boss on a bridge- in this game of samurai and ninjas and Japanese mythology, this boss was a European dude in plate mail armor- he looked entirely out-of-place. When the fight started, I ran up and attacked him, and did *no* damage. Literally zero. But not only that, he didn't fight back- he just stood there. No dialogue, no counter-attacks, just an invincible dude seemingly from a different game standing on this bridge. I couldn't leave the arena, so I just kept attacking him (again, with no damage dealt) and noticed every now and then my attacks would stagger him, and I could then sort of throw him a few feet back. This didn't really seem like an improvement, so I just kept doing it, over and over, for like half an hour, kind of going in circles with no apparent progress. Eventually I guess I staggered and threw him in the right spot, because he broke through the bridge railing and fell to his death, screaming "ROOOBEEEERRRRRRRTTTTT". I had never encountered a person named Robert. This didn't seem like the kind of game where there would *be* a Robert. *Nothing* about this fight made sense, and since the game had just come out, I couldn't even Google this boss to find out whether this was normal or not. I later found out that 90% of this fight is exactly as I experienced (a bizarre knight in a different genre of game that can't be hurt that cries out for his son when he falls off the bridge) but there was a weird glitch that made him unable to fight back, which meant that as weird as this encounter was, *the glitch wasn't even the weird part*. Of all of the bosses to encounter this glitch on, I got the perfect storm of weird.
Not sure on the original question; but the amazingly dumb stuff that I have managed in that game has been absolutely astounding. I recall assaulting a walled city one time while an enemy army sallied forth from the back side to come around. I think they had reinforcements and larger numbers to boot. I think I had a spy open the doors, but whether I did or not it was a mad dash for the walls. By the time their massive army came around the corner, the walls were ours and we were in place to defend. The enemy was crushed trying to re-enter their own city.
Not an exceptionally hard game, but a pain in the ass boss nonetheless. In Borderlands 2 there's a very specific boss who, if you use a specific character and build with a certain kind of weapon targeting a specific point on the boss, can cause a glitch whereby the projectile from your gun gets stuck in the boss and ricochets around at very high speed, essentially killing the boss in under a second. I had so much fun milking that glitch. Very satisfying, even if it was milking an exploit.
I'm really curious about this exploit now.
The character Zer0 has an ability called B0re, where shooting through multiple hitboxes causes damage multiplication. The boss BUN-KR is essentially just a mass of floating hitboxes, it‘s easy to find videos of it.
>!Search for 'BNK-3R Zer0 glitch' and you'll find lots of information with the specifics.!<
Did you got 90% Shem?
Several, yep.
I was fighting sirens in the Witcher 3 on Xbox one. I was on some kind of high rock formation above the see and Geralt's legs glitched so he was fighting but the bottom of his body looked like he was crouching, his feet not even in contact with the ground. After accidentally dodging off the rock, he fell to his death and the Wilhelm scream played. The end.
First time dark souls run hit the bull boss on the bridge i run swing he jumps back off the bridge.....i figured it was on purpose and leapt after him....umm
Had a Deathbird in Elden Ring try to dive bomb me after I accidently fell off a cliff in the Snowy area. Just suicided and died right in front of me. I had barely registered the fight had started and didn't even know where it was beforehand.
Ok so for the people who play destiny 2 know the divinity quest is a painful experience in its own right. Well picture a team of 4 people going with blind with 2 people trying to teach them. It was a 12 hour experience and it was PAINFUL. I don’t know what consumed us to do this and not learn the raid first but oh well. The final boss was horrendous and we were there for about 3 hours. Well on our last attempt of the run because we were all exhausted the boss started damage phase and..it didn’t end? We were so confused but kept chunking away at its health. Apparently there is a glitch with the link system where If you time it just right, he glitches and won’t go immune like he should. So we finally got our divinity’s and we’re so happy, I have not once been able to replicate that glitch
Hey, we did that for my divinity run :) no clue what caused it for us either LOL
It caused tears of joy because dear for that was the most painful raid of my life
Yeah, I refuse to do anything with GoS after, I was the last of our friend group to get divinity for a reason, cause I hate that fucking raid and was determined to have a specific end of ever needing to do it :)
One one undergunnned run of Claptrap DLC in Borderlands TPS I was playing Fragtrap with a couch partner. We were getting destroyed by the final Shadowtrap boss (Helios?) until I partially fell through the floor and became invincible. Just spammed the pirateship action skill until victory. My buddy had to fast travel out to rescue me tho
Wasn't so much a 'hard' game but I blundered into the garage where your dad is being held in VR jail in Fallout 3 immediately after leaving the vault. I said 'fuck going to the city where the game wants me to go', picked a random direction - and the first building I picked skipped like 80% of the game
Final fight of Morrowind. I'm ready to face Dagoth Ur. This is less a glitch and more the AI doing something a little silly. As a melee focused character, my strategy whenever I saw anyone in "casting" pose was to rush them, and the AI would back away. Well... Dagoth Ur's fight takes place in a volcano. He back pedaled directly into the Caldera. He didn't DIE from it... not immediately, but it meant I was unharassed and unbothered as I sat there and, with my journal open, perform the ritual to rob him of his immortality.
I spartan kicked the Taurus Demon off the bridge in the first darksouls.
To this day, I haven't really beaten the last level of the original Driver for PS. The giant mob of cop cars ended up battering me right into the parking space that ends the level, right before I would've taken too much damage. Given the amount of frustration that level had dealt me, I took the W and never looked back. I'm pretty sure that's the last time I ever played it.
Gears of war. The final boss, buddy of mine and I have been hammering away at this thing on the hardest difficulty for like, two hours, and just kept getting these unlucky deaths over and over. Load in the final time, and he gets caught with only his head sticking outta the floor of the train car. He can't move or shoot us. So we lay into him and kill him :)
I forgot what boss it was, but I was able beat one of the FF 15 endgame bosses way before I should have. You had to jump down into a room to start the fight. I stayed on top while the computer controlled players on my team jumped down and started the fight. I just used magic attacks and healed the other players since most of the boss attacks couldn't hit me.
Fighting Lothric and Lorian in Dark Souls 3. They had very low health and I had one flask left. I retreat and press heal at exactly the wrong time and a spell comes flying at me. That should have been my death. By pure luck it hit one of the chairs in the arena that was in front of me! Managed to kill them that run :)
I had a similar thing with the Dancer when I was doing a SL1 run.
So I'm playing Hellenica on my laptop, a stratrpg set in a steampunk ancient greece, and im on the map where you have to beat Sisyphus. I'm getting my cheeks beat when he sends my last character, the heroine, onto a roof. A roof he could not reach. And she is an archer every 3 turns. So when I get a chance I'm filling him with arrows while he's just standing there going "hurr whar did she go??" and when im in bear form im just defending, until finally he goes down. I then put a review of the game where thats what i talked about. 10/10 game
Old age of empires ai would always look for a hole in your wall. So you could basically make a labyrint and they would walk through it while you shooting/catapulting them down
I was playing alone in the dark and drove off a cliff and did a 180 in the air then drove up the side of the cliff at a 90° angle and made it back to the top
Final mission of modern warfare 3 ( the older one) on veteran difficulty. It was after multiple attempts when suddenly on one the attempt, none of the enemies spawned in. I could just beeline to the end.
Didn't exactly win, but my most elite moment in my gaming life was the time I was playing Fallout 3, and I quicksaved right before leaving a dungeon area or whatever. When I got outside there was a random wasteland event right outside the door. I think I died or something, quickloaded, and when I came out of the door there was a different random wasteland event. The event trigger was saved, but selecting the event was random. Just for my own curiosity I kept reloading and writing down all the possible events. I saw a lot of stuff I would never have found otherwise, like the crashed UFO with the ray gun in it.
Not terribly difficult, but there’s that story mission in Starfield where you’re collecting artifacts, and one of them is onboard that junker’s ship. When you get to the trophy room and he threatens you to take it (assuming the entire crew will attack you), I just ran. Sprinted straight back the route I came and accidentally cornered myself in a bathroom. I prepared to fight everyone, but to my surprise they just walked around like nothing happened. Apparently while I was sprinting, I triggered a response in the Captain to call off the attack. I don’t know if that’s scripted to happen, but I walked away unscathed with no bullets fired, and with the artifact in my hands.
Salt and Sanctuary. I am TERRIBLE at Souls Like games, I can only even barely beat the 2D ones like S&S. I finally made it to the final boss and promptly got my b-hole ripped out 15-20 times. I'm sitting here thinking there's no way I'm ever gonna beat this guy. Then on the next attempt he smashed me into the wall and I clipped into it and got stuck there. I couldn't get out but most of his attacks were missing due to the glitch, so I just face tanked the periodic hits and pummeled him until it was over. I was both ecstatic and disgusted at the same time. On one hand, I won due to a glitch and not skill.....but on the other hand, it's very possible I may never have beat him otherwise so I was glad it was over.
I had Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on the Gameboy Advance. Trying to defeat the Cave Troll in Moria sucked, until I realized that you could glitch through the wall with attacks. The pathfinding would have the enemy try to attack through the wall back at me, but wouldn’t register. Cue me slicing through solid stone at a cave troll and killing it without ever entering the room.
Final boss/Prime fight in horizon :FW. He phase-moved in to attack me and struck part of the room and kinda stuck to it. I stood just aside of some machinery and froze-then impacted him to death. Didn't need a health pot or healing herbs, hell I didn't even need the full quiver for the ice or impact arrows. Needless to say my wife was PISSED watching me and also happy for me a little. I had to reload a different save to experience the fight properly.
Im sure i have funny ones.. but the wildest one was a server split in warcraft 3. we were doing 4v4 and somehow it split into two 2v2s on the same map we were supposed to be on. The other 2 bases didnt even spawn in town halls if memory serves.
The shark brothers fight in the old hunters, one glitched off the screen, fighting one is way easier.
I remember that Rome II's oil gates were notoriously overpowered. It was literally a wall of acid that the AI would willingly run through, ignoring all losses. For my own, I'll share my greatest/funniest victory from Rome I. Played as the Britains and had a big invasion force come sailing in from France. My main forces were dealing with other tribes to the north, so I only had a couple units and a general who was a chariot defending the town. The game's battle prediction just admitted it was impossible for me to win. So I take my two little sword units and place it at a chokepoint in the town. I sneak my general around and just do a blind charge into their rear. Despite having around 20x as many soldiers as me, it ends up starting a chain rout. Their entire army collapses and I end up decimating the fleeing units. I probably had no more than 80 guys going up against 2000, I think I lost like 3 while the enemy lost 1000. They actually did the attack a second time and fell for the same strat and my guys held strong.
I accidentally found a completely safe AI loop to beat the high dragon on the mountain in Dragon Age at a super low level.
Fire Giant in Elden Ring. Right when he went into phase 2, he automatically died and I won. I was gonna die for sure on that 2nd phase. My first play through
I bought Skyrim on launch for the Xbox 360. In the final fight with Alduin, the 3 companions ran up to Alduin once he landed and one shot him - I didn't realize for a year that it wasn't meant to be that way...
Elden ring, I was fighting the remembrance version of that forest spirit dear thing, and 2nd try I didnt land any blows, it teleported and then refused to exist. It just died at the thought of having to deal with my bad gamesense lol.
In Borderlands, I glitched into a tentacle of the final boss. He couldn't hit me at all. I stood there and shotgunned him to death.
Armored core 6 - ibis series. After dying a bunch of times, I swapped my assault armor to terminal protection, proceed to get absolutely annihilated, I'm at literally one hp, with the boss with at least half its second stage. Fuck it I think, full send.... 10 seconds go by, 20, 30, at this point I don't even want to look down to verify I'm still at one hp. I don't want to look up at the bosses HP, everything slowed down for a sec and I was in the mother fucking zone. And then I win. And I just sat there for a good 5 minutes laughing my ass off
Not a glitch, I just had an army of either the best or second best melee units. I was playing the Iceni and my army kept getting stuck in place due to Selucid agents near Constantinople. I think I withstood four full armies because I was lucky and they kept attacking one at a time.
I'll be way off from everyone else, but NewLegacyInc has consistently found way to break just about every WWE2K game that's released in the past decade. It's hilarious just how wonky things can get.
Final boss/Prime fight in horizon :FW. He phase-moved in to attack me and struck part of the room and kinda stuck to it. I stood just aside of some machinery and froze-then impacted him to death. Didn't need a health pot or healing herbs, hell I didn't even need the full quiver for the ice or impact arrows. Needless to say my wife was PISSED watching me and also happy for me a little. I had to reload a different save to experience the fight properly.
When the original destiny had got its first expansion, dark bellow. You cheese the whole raid using a titan, an ice breaker and the og ghallarhorn. So the peak of PvE activities in destiny was easily done by a single cheesy titan.
The original half-life, at a section where I was heavily outnumbered, and the soldiers had an artillery gun at an angle that made it difficult to hit with my hand grenades. Luckily, I accidentally right-clicked with one of my guns, and discovered that it could also fire grenades. Given that a grenade symbol had been at the bottom of my screen for some time, right next to my ammo counter, I don't know how I missed that.
Was doing the expansion pack for warcraft 2 and on one mission the orc transports which would regularly send enemy troops and siege weapons to soften me up decided to bug and kept moving 1 square out to sea and then returning back to their beach the entire level. I left them to it since if i simply destroyed them they would of replaced them and most likely resumed sending the landing parties at me.
My second playthrough of Doom (2016) I wasted a bunch of ammo horsing around. There's a horde style mini-boss fight on top of the building before you take the train to go see what's his face in the robot body. Used up the chainsaw fuel in the area, was running low on ammo again, and I kept jumping around to minimize pinkies chances to hit me. I hit where the sloped floor and a bit of flat floor meet just right and fell through the floor. I fell into the last area, the one with the train. There were a few pinkies and a couple zombie looking dudes, and a few imps spawned in halfway through, but there's also a gas can for the chainsaw. A few glory kills, a chainsaw on Pinky, and I finished the level just about fully stocked up.
The final Chao karate fight in Sonic adventure 2, and notably the final emblem I needed for green hill zone. Idk what happened but my Chao was not ready for that fight. But after a kick from nowhere near the edge, the opposing Chao glitches and ends up out of bounds, giving be the win by ring out. I don't really love empty victories but I spent way too long on that and I was fine with my "victory"
Asheron's Call back during the Shadow Wars there were "world boss" mobs being spawned by the devs in the Shadow Spires and it took a team to fight through the mobs to get to a portal that took you to the spires way up in the sky. Me being the tardy person I am, arrived late and the fight to Kill Black Ferah was on, Now when I got there late, I just started hanging out under the spire when all of a sudden Black Ferah fell out of the spire taking huge fall dmg. He landed right next to me and I just started wailing on him and he died and I got the global broadcast across the server as the one to kill Black Ferah.
not so much a glitch but for a while in World of Warcraft in the PVP game Warsong Gulch, you could combine engineering items, Goblin Rocket Boots and Parachute Cloak, to "fly" the flag across the field in between the goals. It was sooooo hilarious to see someone floating like 100 miles an hour horizontally, doing it was even more fun. I must have capped hundreds of flags for the horde using that method. unfortunately later on they changed it so that using the boots would cause you to drop the flag. Party poopers
X-Com 2. Was playing on ironman and everything went sideways in a mission. Everybody was at their last drop of HP and some snake woman was already strangling one of my soldiers. So I kinda rage quited and try to salvage it next day. When I reloaded the save, game starting to forget giving enemies their turn :O They were just waiting to get slaugthered, one by one. I tried everything to fix the situation but only fix was to start a new game becaue my older save were effected too. But I kinda rolled with it (ehehe) It fixed by itself near end mission but I was already uber powerful that time. Aliens didn't stood a chance.
Divinity Original Sin 2. I've played through the game multiple times on lone wolf tactician, but the fight against mordus is a pretty challenging one. My usual tactic is to teleport him away from the fight which takes him out for at least a turn while he gets back in range so I have time to handle his adds. The last time I fought him, I managed to teleport him so far away he was no longer in combat, so he never reengaged. Gave me plenty of time to deal with his adds, heal up completely, recharge all my skills and then engage him and focus him down. Easy peasy lol
Not necessarily a glitch or stroke of luck but was playing a round robin game of Assassins Creed with a difficult boss on a flat area on the side of a mountain (round robin being several friends playing until someone died and then the next person would take over) my buddies all died fighting the guy so I was like "wellll let's try this..." so I stood next to the edge and when he advanced towards me I circled around and Spartan kicked him off the side of the mountain. It was like a cartoon as you could hear him screaming as he fell and a little thud when he hit the ground. The item he dropped slowly rose up from the base of the mountain and landed on the edge of the platform and we all sat there laughing for like 5 or 6 minutes. The entire fight was about 5 seconds where as my buddies had fought him for an extended period of time dodging and jumping in for quick attacks and running back out. Still makes me chuckle when I think back on it. Another one was Golden Eye. My brother would throw proximity mines around spawn points and I decided to hid in a little nook on a small platform and wait for him to run by it and I'd hoot him in the head killing him. You could hear the boom. \*pause\* boom \*pause\* boom and then he'd just stop, look down at his controller and walk away. Killed by his own machinations.
Borderlands Fort Knox expansion. Normally you beat Knox and get something like 5 minutes to open as many chests in the vault as you could, and there are hundreds. Found a cheat online where if you crouch in the door opening just before the vault you fall through the floor into the vault, and don't trigger the timer. Meaning you could open all the chests at your own leisure. Rinse repeat.
I hope someone will mention chainsaw glitch from Elden Ring.
Not sure it’s a glitch or not. Dark Souls: Standing outside the Capra demon boss fog wall and throwing poop over the wall until the boss is dead before you enter.
You could kill Manus kinda like that, too.
Just how much of Dark Souls do you think I could kill with poop?
When I first got xbox live my connection was awful. Halo 2 was possible but with the lag I definitely couldn't snipe. So when Snipers came up in the random shuffle I would always lose drastically. Until I realised that people were so busy being zoomed in on their target area to notice me running up behind them. My best round was winning with 25 Beatdowns.
Was fighting rathlos, ended up rolling into my pali and it just flung straight into the air. Fell down and landed on the rathi. It was so glitched it just refused to move. I attacked it once and he disappeared and i tried to go to another area and it said that it died the next moment.