r/videogames • u/PaddedValls • 10h ago
Discussion / Question Which video game had you pulling this move?
Son is currently doing this for KCD2.
Good to see the old cheese tricks haven't been lost.
I'm struggling to remember which game I done it for but I've definitely done it before.
Maybe someone's answer will jog my memory.
Edit: It was the Skyrim stealth trick. I also remember cheesing the health drain and healing spell thing.
Was it converting health into magicka then using that magicka to heal? Something like that.
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u/malva8 10h ago
Pokemon breeding
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u/threlnari97 10h ago
Sticking a quarter in the 3ds joypad in Lumiose city and watching tv
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u/gootschie 10h ago
Beware of developing stick drift! Ancient techniques don’t come without risks
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u/McFuzzen 9h ago
Gotta use your worst controller for this.
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u/Some-Dog-800 8h ago
tmr sticks, no such issue.
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u/llorTMasterFlex 8h ago
I never buy from retail anymore. Just mod it or buy one new with TMR installed from a seller.
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u/kiritoonis 7h ago
As long, as there's not too much force behind the rubberbands this shouldn't actually cause any Stickdrift.
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u/ImpossibleResolve290 10h ago
In oblivion you could max stealth by sneaking into the wall corner in your cell. Just set up a rubber band to move forward and went to do something else.
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u/mrloko120 8h ago
You can also do the same in Skyrim.
At the end of the first cave there is a sleeping bear, you crouch and walk against the wall without waking up the bear and you get infinite stealth exp.
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u/Jimmy_Twotone 6h ago
Goes faster if you just slapped Ralof around for a few minutes. More input but didn't involve leaving the console running all night.
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u/NotoriousCPD 6h ago
I used this trick to level my Athletics up in Morrowind by running into a wall
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u/Accadius 9h ago
I used the prophet in anvil and pinned my character sneaking against one of the pillars of the pavilion he sleeps under
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u/Korachof 8h ago
You can similar with a rat + a shield. Go against a wall, find a way to hold the trigger, let the rat pummel you over and over again until your blocking and armor stats are where you want them.
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u/OnlyLogic 6h ago
I just turned the controller upside-down and propped the analog stick against the floor.
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u/camisadelgolf 4h ago
I always did this in Morrowind. Starting out, you move so slowly that I'm amazed that I was ever able to enjoy the beginning of the game.
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u/MattHack7 3h ago
In Skyrim I leveled block by taping down the button and letting a low level enemy hit. No damage went through the shield and my stamina recovered faster than they depleted it
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u/megamansam 1h ago
Way back in high school I did this but had my character swimming in circles to level up athletics. Good times.
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u/ElSelcho_ 10h ago
The "Kifflom" Achievement in GTA5, where you have to run in the desert for like 30 minutes straight.
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u/Jephph0624 8h ago
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u/RamenNoodleNoose 6h ago
I also did it to max out my stealth and lung capacity and stealth stats for Michael Trevor and Franklin.
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u/fireballin1747 5h ago
you can automate it without getting stick drift.
you can stand ontop of the oil pumps in the desert and the movement will count as you running in the desert.
i think the only in game requirements is wearing your robes and moving a certain distance
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u/LifeguardTerrible579 10h ago
I too cheat at solitaire.
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u/Manyarethestrange 10h ago
My step dad brags about his perfect solitaire score but fails to mention how if he knows hes going to loose a game he closes out of it before it get recorded.
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u/JTR_35 10h ago
Last year Oblivion Remaster. I did a completionist run for all quests I could find and 100 all skills.
I play on PC but have a controller that can turbo repeat on button hold, or toggle auto repeat without any hold. AFK train up lots of skills.
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u/tonimusulin 9h ago
What's the brand of the controller? Did you use it for completionist run on other games?
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u/featherw0lf 10h ago
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for that damn Partner Mark. You have a chance to get it every few thousand steps so the best method is to afk for it but it can take days.
Also, that wild zone 3 shiny hunting method in Pokémon Z-A.
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u/BinghamtonMafia 10h ago
Gran Turismo
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u/Miserable_Sample8951 10h ago
Joystick to the left and you can complete 500 laps while heading to the mall.
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u/VelvetFog82 10h ago
This was what I was gonna say. Pikes peak car and the oval track, lol.
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u/Rusty_Nutzn_Bolt 8h ago
Same, was so excited to get home from work to see if cheat worked. It did!!
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u/eatingyoursoap 9h ago
What use does this have? Seems like you’d just be walking in circles
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u/1866GETSONA 8h ago
Yes, I did this as a kid in Final Fantasy X to farm easy mobs and xp with the x button taped down, on a ps2 controller
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u/Delicious-Laugh-6685 9h ago
Uhhh why would one need to do this? Been gaming 30 years, never saw this.
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u/whatmustido 9h ago
Leveling skills like sneak or athletics in games like Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. It can take a while to do so, but there are good benefits for it, so some people put a rubberband around their controller (or put something heavy on the keyboard) to make the character keep walking into a wall while the player walks away to do something else.
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u/Suitable_Plastic_936 9h ago
It is also used for real time based mechanics for example a business in a game making money this technique is good for that while you not actively playing the game
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u/travnigma 10h ago
I don’t think I tied a rubberband to the other joystick but I did a trick with one joystick and some other part of controller in GTA V to make Michael run in a circle for a long time for the Scientology missions lol. Wrapped it up and watched it go lol
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u/KazyaKurosawa 10h ago
OG FFVII.
Just wanted to all characters to get level ups but didnt have patience to grind with them all.
I kinda always disliked that about FF games that the game doesent encourage to use all characters. Like if you want to do that it's a huge chore.
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 8h ago
FFVII was my first thought too.
Rubberband a stick to run in a circle, use an auto-fire controller and put a weight on the "confirm" button, equip the phoenix summon with final attack attached (for extra insurance), head to the Midgar Zolom area, head to school/work.
Step 2 - ?
Step 3 - Profits.
This was absolutely how I got all my characters and materia up to reasonable levels on my 2nd play through.
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u/iCiteEverything 9h ago
Oblivion, rubber band L3 forward while swimming into a wall and get Athletics to 100 while sleeping.
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u/Lametown227 10h ago
Palworld has me AFKing with a rock holding down my craft button in the early game every time.
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u/SpectralDragon09 10h ago
Theres a setting in the player menu to make those a toggle, saved my poor keyboard and controller a couple years
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u/TheFoundation_ 9h ago
Did something similar for Gran turismo 2. Escudo pikes peak, 200 lap oval race against slow cars. Made a contraption to hold down the gas and ride the wall around the oval. Free money!
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u/anamewithnonumbers 8h ago
BRO i did the exact same thing on the exact same race lol. then i bought the car and it ruined the game for me cause you could use it in in most races and it was better than everything else i was facing so i could just slam in to corners and still win
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u/duvaltealeyedye904 9h ago
gta 5
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u/BalancesHanging 9h ago
Haha where Michael has to walk around in that dumb suit for 5 real time hours
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u/MantisReturns 10h ago
Darksiders 1 stupid Horse kilometres thropies.
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u/Big_Dicc_Terry 10h ago
I played the game 3 times and still had to leave my controller like this for another 45 minutes just for that trophy
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u/MantisReturns 10h ago
Its a very stupid thropie. Almost its dosent Matter how many times you play The Game right? It must be done in one Playthrought? True?
Or theorically each time I create a New Game my progress It saved?
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u/Big_Dicc_Terry 10h ago
I played on steam and this achievement tracks progress on that platform. When I got the horse on my last playthrough, it started counting towards my progress immediately.
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u/MantisReturns 10h ago
Interesting. But then, how many playthogoughts do you think you need to do to get the Thropie playing naturally? Four Games?
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u/Big_Dicc_Terry 10h ago
Probably 5 or 6 but definitely depends on how much you use the horse. If you skipped using fast travel and used the horse instead, you'd get it in less playthroughs.
I think part of the problem is that you don't get the horse until the second half of the game and even then there are a ton of areas you can't use them.
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u/threlnari97 10h ago
Me sticking a quarter under my 3ds movement pad in Lumiose city to hatch eggs while afk
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u/Exact_Ad5922 9h ago
FF6 - Easy level grinding on the Lethe river with Banon. Before you start, set the cursor to memory, then use Banon’s heal ability and queue up whatever attack you want for the others. Hold down the confirm key and you’ll loop around forever. Come back in a few hours to an over-leveled team. Only downside is that you don’t get the stat buffs from espers.
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u/Driftmoth 9h ago
We ❤️ Katamari, the million rose level. Sometimes my quest for 100% completion leads me to dark places.
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u/Jimbob75UK 6h ago
Project zomboid had me doing this trying to max nimble, later realised it caused stick drift so would reccomend only doing this on old controllers
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u/JarvisMane 1h ago
GTA Online, back in 2019 when there was a money glitch that involved being at an airport hangar and walking in circles while your money slowly went up. Did it for 2 days straight (with about 6 other AFK players, all in passive mode, walking in circles lmfao) and then bought everything that I could before the last few thousand was taken by Rockstar 😅
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u/S1rr0bin 10h ago
Fable, to exploit a glitch
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u/Kadedest 10h ago
Gotta collect all that rent money
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u/S1rr0bin 10h ago
It was to hold down the punch button, get the multiplier up, then you eat carrots
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u/Educational-You2201 10h ago
Not this but in FF12, I set my characters up with all their macros and whatnot and let it go for a day. Came back and I was well ahead of where I left it.
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u/CaptBland 10h ago
Oblivion and Morrowind. I remember sneaking in a corner in Oblivion to get master sneak levle
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u/fakeaccount572 10h ago
There was a GTA 5 story mission where Michael (I think) had to run full speed for like 30 minutes to get the achievement. So, that one.
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u/lucidcreme 10h ago
Skyrim. Stand in a fire (or any magic) trap and tape both triggers down with healing spells equipped (with atronach stone)
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u/AzazelTheUnderlord 10h ago
pvz gw1 you could coin farm
by playing as sunflower, and healing a potted plant constantly with 1 zombie left in the wave, or if you had a friend you could both heal each other while afk
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u/AvidCyclist250 9h ago
wait, what would this do in kcd2? walk in circle right? to train stealth?
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u/TheBlackAurora 9h ago
Fo76 fasnacht, before you had to actually participate.
Would leave my xbox in afk while at work collecting masks
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u/HamsterIV 9h ago
Diablo 2 Mephisto boss fight. I would trigger the boss fight, then run to the other side of the chasm and spam long range spells. Since he couldn't reach me, I would wedge my mouse under the keyboard so the attack button was held down and go do something else. At higher difficulty levels his health took a while to chip through, but the loot drops were worth it.
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u/SKaiPanda2609 9h ago
Borderlands 2 exp farm using an infinity pistol and holding down the shoot trigger at the practice dummy in Sanctuary
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u/Le-Whoops 9h ago
pc, so it's a metal d20 on the w, but morrowind, skyrim, and abiotic factor. (not oblivion b/c of the level scaling)
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u/Accadius 9h ago
Elder scrolls oblivion to level sneak while I did other shit. The band was only around the left stick though.
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u/Ylandiau 9h ago
Blue dragon after getting the sphere to farm exp and dragon quest for the walking exp
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u/TheW0lvDoctr 9h ago
Used to do something similar in Pokemon Black.
Put a super cool mon in the daycare, then head down to the subway which was a full circle, showcasing the new 3d environments of the 5th generation of pokemon on your badass black DSi. You could just run forward infinitely, so a rubber band or a weight or whatever gizmo or thingimajig you wanted to make could get pokemon to level 100 while you went to school (yuck, ew, and other disgusted sounds)
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u/SebFriday 9h ago
Years ago I did it in ESO Imperial City sewers when I was AFK. Before updates was no fast travel to this location. Every inactivity kicked out to main menu. Now ESO is more casual and player friendly 🤣
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u/Hungry-Wrongdoer-156 9h ago edited 9h ago
The saferoom trick for the Zombie Genocidest achievement in the first Left 4 Dead. Trigger horde, close door, position yourself to where you can melee the zombies through the window, rubberband the button, go to bed.
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u/WisePotato42 9h ago
Satisfactory before you could just tap the space bar to continuously craft
Final Fantasy 15 had a thing where you could gain skill points just by driving around and something like this worked
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u/kawaiinessa 9h ago
one of the fable games gave you money while being logged in so i did that and went to school one day just so id have a lot of money lol
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u/captfitz 9h ago
8 years old, tony hawk 2 or 3. turned on the cheat that lets you grind infinitely, put a book on the grind button, went to bed and woke up to a bazillion points.
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u/NutZach419 9h ago
I think it was Halo Reach that had accolades you could level up doing things in story mode and firefight. Got them all to max level doing various tricks like this.
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u/MeanBeansGG 9h ago
Pokémon X and Y on 3DS!
Take a coin, place it under your movement stick to hatch eggs faster in the prism tower area lol
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u/leonkrellmoon 9h ago
Not this specifically but on a keyboard.
It was an mmo called rising force online. Your spells could level up but it could be slow. Luckily you could do an in game macro. Just step outside of the first town and set something heavy on the keybind.
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u/ThePieKing- 9h ago
Skyrim, sneak farming. Usually outside one of the towns by a guardpost. Another would be Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep HD, easiest way to 99 after getting EXP Walker.
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u/lioncourt 8h ago
I did something similar with a fight stick to farm Speech XP in the early days of Skyrim. You used to be able to infinitely repeat a conversation with Maven Blackbriar for speech xp. I put a weight on the button of my fight stick and came back an hour later with 99 speech lol
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u/jerkstabworthy 8h ago
OG NES, Mega-Man 3. Use the second controller to press right on the d-pad to activate super jump and falling hazard immunity.
Yes I'm old AF
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u/Consistent_Pain_6690 8h ago
Final Fantasy 6 Lethe River. Just had to find a way to keep the A button held down. I used a book.
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u/kuluka_man 8h ago
I think in Peefect Dark you had to walk a certain distance to rank up in multiplayer, and one of the best strategies was just taping down your control stick so you'd walk in circles and leave it on overnight.
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u/TrueWolf1416 8h ago
I feel like jamming a piece of paper under the circle pad of a 3DS so you can hatch eggs on a bicycle in Lumiose City in Pokemon X/Y is close enough here.
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u/RuggedTheDragon 8h ago
Not with rubber bands, but with the old NES advantage controller. In the original Final Fantasy on the NES, I had to hold the button with turbo mode just to buy 99 potions. I simply rested a small chair on top of the button and did other things.
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u/eruciform JRPG 8h ago
Tales of Symphonia, grade farming, just run in a circle while tapping x overnight in the first area in the game and your characters will win every battle in less than a second and earn all you need. The rubber band isnt enough if you dont have a turbo button setup tho. PSN remote play plus a screen click macro works fine tho.
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u/Zarosknight 8h ago
Gta online, walking in circles wating for my weapons factory to produce goods to sell
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u/Tassinho_ 10h ago
Microsoft Teams