Best computer game bugs...

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-09 01:05am

Simple enough, what are your favourite computer game bugs ever?

Mine would be the C&C sandbag bug.

And the classic Worms bugs of the annihilator/devastator and the unlimited time/unlimited shot bug.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-09 01:10am

I think the C&C sandbags where intentional. You can't win a number of missions without them.

Nothing can defeat the sandbag....

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-09 01:32am

In one instance, I unloaded an SCV in a melee game in starcraft: bw. The SCV got stuck somewhere between the land where it was supposed to be and the water, and it kept spinning like a crazy top for about half the game. I saved a replay of the game just for that

Also, in Quake 2, if you have quad damage, you jump higher doing rocket-jump than you do with BFG-jump.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-03-09 01:35am

In America's Army you occasionally get kicked for "being idle too long" if you have an M24 and you are just killed. Frees up the sniper spot real fast

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-03-09 01:46am

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The Grand Theft Auto 3 flying car bug.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-03-09 02:01am

If you fuck up while you're taking off in a plane in Battlefield 1942, sometimes it upends, similar to the above GTA3 bug.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-09 02:02am

There's a bug in Total Annihilation in which nukes will sometimes circle endlessly. I think it happens when you specifically target them on a unit and it gets destroyed first. I once had seven different nukes circling.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-09 02:04am

In the PS2 version of GTAIII, gang members cannot, no matter how hard they try, shoot at you if you have a car barrier between your character and them. It made a lot of missions easier.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-03-09 02:09am

There's a Jedi Knight II bug that allows you to spiral your lightsaber around yourself indefinitely after you throw it.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-03-09 02:09am

The unlimited nukes in Hearts of Iron. Hehe.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-09 02:31am

Another bug in Total annihilation:

I hear that in the older versions you could aim a long-range plasma cannon, like the Big Bertha or Intimidator, right next to the cannon and in trying to aim it just rotates the turret to its highest angle and fires, making it shoot farther than its usual range.

Hear it works for the rapid-fire ones also.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-03-09 03:27am

X-Com, TFTD/Enemy Unknown, I have had the computer "glitch up" fpr a second in a mission, and then cut right to the ending screen for the last completed mission. (your inventory get's updated as if that was what you brought in, and what not, Get's really funny when the last completed mission was a landed battleship.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-03-09 03:32am

There's a tank combat game on the Intellivision (

) which has a cool glitch: there's a certain point in one of the walls where you can pass into the wall and fire on the other player with impunity.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-09 04:11am

C&C sandbag bug? what's that?

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-03-09 04:15am

Cpt_Frank wrote:C&C sandbag bug? what's that?

I believe it refers to the capability of building off of your walls. Since buildings in C&C must be placed close together, you're forced to keep your base all in one spot. Of course, in the original, sandbags count as buildings - so you can build anything you want adjacent to a block of sandbags. And sandbags are extremely cheap. So cheap you can easily build a string of them across the map and then build an obelisk of light inside the GDI base...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-09 04:31am

Cpt_Frank wrote:C&C sandbag bug? what's that?

The fact that the computer wont shoot or run over sandbags, allow you to block off vast computer armies for minimal cost.

You can win most late game C&C missions without building any vehicles. You just wall off your own base, then build a line to the computers, seal it in, and then build defenses inside of their base. Though often I'd divide the base into pieces with my walls, then build a barracks and capture to buildings

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-09 04:34am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Cpt_Frank wrote:C&C sandbag bug? what's that?
The fact that the computer wont shoot or run over sandbags, allow you to block off vast computer armies for minimal cost.

You can win most late game C&C missions without building any vehicles. You just wall off your own base, then build a line to the computers, seal it in, and then build defenses inside of their base. Though often I'd divide the base into pieces with my walls, then build a barracks and capture to buildings

Hmm must try that.
thanks btw.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-03-09 01:17pm

I hated the Guile air throw in Street Fighter II. I was a Ryu / Chun Li player.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-09 01:24pm

The bug in Dune 2 by Westwood was the best bug ever. Dune 2 was suposed to be turn based and instead a bug in the code made it the 1st RTS and went on to build a whole new style of computer game.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-09 01:36pm

I don't really believe that story.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-09 01:38pm

I remember it being said at the time which was about the time i really got into PC gaming, the early 90's IIRC

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-09 01:52pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Cpt_Frank wrote:C&C sandbag bug? what's that?
The fact that the computer wont shoot or run over sandbags, allow you to block off vast computer armies for minimal cost.

You can win most late game C&C missions without building any vehicles. You just wall off your own base, then build a line to the computers, seal it in, and then build defenses inside of their base. Though often I'd divide the base into pieces with my walls, then build a barracks and capture to buildings

Actually, in RA I was building a second base in skirmish when all of a sudden I noticed that a single Heavy Tank and a few rocket infatry were on a sole mission to take out my line of sandbags upto the point I wanted to build my second base. Gits.

The GTA3 flying car is funny too, I like the flying Rhino tank best. The TA circling nukes were damn funny if you got a lot of them up there.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-09 01:55pm

One time, I had Final Fantasy III (VI in Japan, I believe) for the SNES not properly inserted into console when I turned it on. The game loaded, but I couldn't see any of my savegames. I turned off the machine, reinserted the cart, and tried again. My savegames appeared again. When I loaded, however, I'd discovered that I had 99 Excalubur swords, 99 Paladin shields, at least 1000 dirks, and hundreds of other miscellaneous items in my inventory. The only thing I noticed missing was the chainsaw. That wasn't the best part, though. The best part was, any magicite shards I had equipped when the glitch happened now taught their spells to the entire party (including guys back on the airship). One of these shards was Odin, which taught Ultima...

Kefka went down like a sad, squealing little bitch. I've never been able to duplicate this bug.

McNum · Post by **McNum** » 2003-03-09 02:11pm

I belive the Final Fantasy bug you have there is the infamous "Sketch Bug".

When Relm Skecthes certain enemies it can happen. It two has outcomes. The one you got with 99 of most items, or the one that deletes all savegames.
You got lucky with this one.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-03-09 02:42pm

Although the sandbag glitch was removed in C&C:RA you could get a simular effect by using ore silos.