Favorite Glitches?

[Twi]

A few updates after the zonewide teleport power went live, there was a door right outside the ferry in Peregrine Isle that if you clicked on it, had the Zone TP menu functionality enabled.

[Blackgrue]

Mine was if you flew in a certain direction from peregrine, you could end up outside the war walls. that was neat.

[hurple]

Mine was if you flew in a certain direction from peregrine, you could end up outside the war walls. that was neat.

That wasn't a glitch, you flew into the Multiverse!

;D

[Eoraptor]

That wasn't a glitch, you flew into the Multiverse!

;D

which is how many toons escaped the great purge

[Floride]

A few months before the sunset announcement, I ran Operative Renault's Strike Force with my Demons MM. The reward I received was a Coral Amulet temp power that lasted for 3 days of in-game time and summoned a Coralax Guardian who lasted about 2 minutes and took about 5 minutes to recharge.

The glitch was that the Guardian was a level 25 Lieutenant, no matter what level mission you were in!
I went into the Ouro Initiation mission where you have to rescue Mender Lazarus and destroy the meteor in Atlas Park, and it auto-scaled me down to level 15, but my Coralax Guardian spawned every time at level 25! I decided since it only lasted for 3 days, I'd put on my straw hat and farm some Shivans. It also worked running any low level missions through the ouro crystal; I watched him utterly destroy mobs of +4/+8 snakes in a mish.

I bug-reported this exploit and never heard back from the devs.

[Brighellac]

A few months before the sunset announcement, I ran Operative Renault's Strike Force with my Demons MM. The reward I received was a Coral Amulet temp power that lasted for 3 days of in-game time and summoned a Coralax Guardian who lasted about 2 minutes and took about 5 minutes to recharge.

The glitch was that the Guardian was a level 25 Lieutenant, no matter what level mission you were in!
I went into the Ouro Initiation mission where you have to rescue Mender Lazarus and destroy the meteor in Atlas Park, and it auto-scaled me down to level 15, but my Coralax Guardian spawned every time at level 25! I decided since it only lasted for 3 days, I'd put on my straw hat and farm some Shivans. It also worked running any low level missions through the ouro crystal; I watched him utterly destroy mobs of +4/+8 snakes in a mish.

I bug-reported this exploit and never heard back from the devs.

Hmmm... Notes this information in order to corner market in lucky charms... When game returns

[TriNitroToluene]

There was the "Michale Bay" glitch with Ritki drones that caused them to explode TEN TIMES when defeated. That was always fun!

I seem to remember that being active during the summer and running Lady Grey during Independence Day.  It was a helluva good time, fireworks and all.

Of course I could have "manufactured that memory" somehow.  Sadly some of it is starting to get hazy.

Egads, somebody help me remember it all.  :-[

[Paragon Avenger]

Egads, somebody help me remember it all.  :-[

It never happened.  It was all a dream; a big misunderstanding involving the square root of cheese.

[Floride]

There was the "Michale Bay" glitch with Ritki drones that caused them to explode TEN TIMES when defeated. That was always fun!

I remember a mish with mobs of Steel Valkyries and they did the same thing, only they made a MUCH bigger mess.

[Canine]

Cape plus Bolero (I think it was) = two capes until it was fixed.

I had an Illusion/Storm controller who had one costume which was the scarf cape and another cape, which looked pretty good to me, if you ignored the occasional cape through cape clipping issue.

[FlyingCarcass]

My favorite bug was the old Kings Row pedestrian pathing issue where they'd congregate around this particular sewer entrance by the tram and run around it non-stop.

My favorite exploit was using the whirlwind power to activate attacks while moving without having to stop for the animation. I was sad when they fixed it as it made for some fast-paced gameplay.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Flying_Carcass/city%20of%20heroes/screenshot_2005-03-20-10-12-43.jpg

[HeatSpike1]

My favorite bug was the old Kings Row pedestrian pathing issue where they'd congregate around this particular sewer entrance by the tram and run around it non-stop.

My favorite exploit was using the whirlwind power to activate attacks while moving without having to stop for the animation. I was sad when they fixed it as it made for some fast-paced gameplay.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Flying_Carcass/city%20of%20heroes/screenshot_2005-03-20-10-12-43.jpg

I miss Super Speed  :-\

[Garble]

Once in Skyway City I clicked the door to go into the Natural Store and instead fell through the ground to the bottom of the map.

That was how I learned the zones are actually big blue boxes with tiny maps inside.

[Garble]

Not a glitch but when rag doll was officially added the game would:

1. Hit target with attack.
2. Knockback triggers ragdoll "engine/effect"
3. Target twitches around like it has no spine for 10 seconds.
4. "Engine/effect" turns off and target starts to stand up.
5. Laughing while you've been shooting the target for the entire 15 seconds it took to fight back.

Soooo, basically anything with energy blasts at the start of City of Villains.

My first 50 was an Energy/Energy Blaster that I picked for concept before having any real grasp of game mechanics or play style. All my toons after him made me realize I had accidentally started the game in hard-mode.

But when I'd revisit him after Rag Doll, he was suddenly a controller-god. Knock a Warwolf Boss against a fence and watch him flail helplessly, trying to untangle his legs while I blast away his hit points at my leasure.

[Paragon Avenger]

I saw somebody in a big rabbit costume.
I asked him about it and he said to keep it a secret.
He said something about maxing all the sliders.
I tried everything I could think of and still didn't look like a rabbit, dang-nabbit.

[Fescu]

I saw somebody in a big rabbit costume.
I asked him about it and he said to keep it a secret.
He said something about maxing all the sliders.
I tried everything I could think of and still didn't look like a rabbit, dang-nabbit.

Who, me? *Looks at avatar, gobsmacked.*

[Paragon Avenger]

Who, me? *Looks at avatar, gobsmacked.*

No, I think it was some other 8 foot tall rabbit; of course it was you.

[Fescu]

No, I think it was some other 8 foot tall rabbit; of course it was you.

Actually near the end of the game there were two of us. Someone tried so hard to copy it that I finally broke down and told him how. This leads into my own favorite glitch. Well, perhaps not, but I'm still pretty sure that this wasn't supposed to happen. Since it would appear that the characters were built around a sort of central body type, we could merge parts of our characters and we used that to enter costume contests as conjoined twins.

[Quartex]

 I was one of those players that actively looked for glitches/bugs .. and got my Bug Hunter badge for turning a number of them in.  Still, there were some that I neglected to bring to anyone's attention because exploring was more fun.  I only played villain, so all my exploring/exploiting was from that side. I turned in a bug that allowed you to change your patron by going back to the Breakout w/your high lvl toon, And if you collected badges (like I did) you could go out & get select Patron-A & Patron-A badge.. go back to Breakout & reset, select Patron-B & get their badge, etc.. etc.. till you had all the badges from the different patrons. There was never another way to get all the patron badges. I turned that bug in .. but not before getting all the patron badges on a few toons :) .                 When they fixed a bug that caused toons to possibly log-in 'dead' if they were playing w/teleport before logging out, they created another that allows you to go behind any walls on any map, or under any map.  That bug still exists .. and it is fun to explore beyond the blue walls on many of the maps.  It was also fun to use that bug to fight the legions that hung out in Cimerora, in sight, but just beyond the blue wall.  Great for farming.           Not so much a 'bug' as an exploit, but I'd take a new lvl 1 villain and sidekick to someone lvl 50 so at a glance I'd appear as a lvl 49. I'd then contact the online help/support and play the part of a friendly, but dumb player who also didn't speak/type good English. I'd explain that I was lost & could not find my friends who I was supposed to team with in Recluse's Victory (PVP Zone). They would try to give directions .. and I would fail to understand them, but insist they keep trying to help me. They would eventually just TP my toon directly into R.V. .  Once in, I'd un-sidekick. Using a jet pack & a temp stealth power  (pre-purchased before doing all this) I'd fly over & take control of one of the lvl 50 Spiders/robots & go hunting! As a lvl 1 toon, killing lvl 50 npc's (& the occasional hero pvp'er :) ) made lvl'ing insanely fast.  I did eventually get caught for doing that .. & they learned from it .. but not before my doing it way more times than one would think it would take for someone to catch on.  I had my account suspended a number of times before, but this exploit got my account 'permanently banned'.  I was able to convince them to un-ban my account,  but it was only because of all the regular bug-hunting I'd always done...& this kinda fell in the same category.    There are still some major exploits in the game .. (the devs intentionally left themselves a big one) .. but 'bugs' usually got fixed pretty quickly. Also, I always liked that for the most part if you gained something because of a bug in the game, you were allowed to keep whatever that was.  Ahh Bug-Hunting .... :)

[Garble]

Actually near the end of the game there were two of us. Someone tried so hard to copy it that I finally broke down and told him how. This leads into my own favorite glitch. Well, perhaps not, but I'm still pretty sure that this wasn't supposed to happen. Since it would appear that the characters were built around a sort of central body type, we could merge parts of our characters and we used that to enter costume contests as conjoined twins.

You just reminded me of 2 costume glitches. For a brief period if you picked the camo texture on a costume with two specific colors (some sort of purple and green I think) it would actually make those body parts invisible.

Also, if you picked the upper body with 2 robot arms and Flack Jacket as your chest with Flack Jacket as the texture, the chest would be invisible with a tiny hint of the texture still visible. When they fixed that, you couldn't make it again, but any toon that had been made that way got to keep the invisibility. I saved a costume with that glitch in place and found that I could load it and even edit it, so long as I didn't change the upper body type or the chest and it would keep the glitch in place. I used it to make a rad/kin corruptor named "Boost Suit" that was supposed to be an experimental Crey weapons suit with an A.I. navigation system so advanced it rebelled and started acting on its own.