10 More GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters 

The problem with Mitty being added to Witcher 3 was that he would show up almost immediately after the update was installed if you had a large enough wallet. This was regardless of if you were at Chapter 2 or Endgame. I remember being accosted by this guy after booting up my 90% complete save, having accumulated my vast wealth legitimately, wondering what the deal was.

Descent and Descent 2 had a similar setup to Heretic/Doom. The original Descent used "gabbagabbahey" (a Ramones song lyric snippet) as an unlock code for access to the cheat code repertoire, after which you could enter codes for things like full shields/armor and all weapons. However, if you type that same code into Descent 2, your HP/shields drop to _one_ point as a voice declares "cheater!" (And for that extra knife twist, the B key dropped proximity mines by default and that function still worked while typing in cheat codes, so you might off yourself with a mine or three trying to cheat.)

The whole system made for cheat codes in Theme Hospital was amazing. You would put numerical codes into the fax machine where you receive notifications and when they activated the announcement system would blare out "Hospital administrator is cheating".

Hey now! lol. I get approached by that guy in Witcher 3 every time I play and have never cheated to make money.

I've no qualms about admitting that I've cheated in single player games. After I've beaten the hell out of a single player game, sometimes it's fun to be a total god from start to finish. However, I'm a child of the 80's. Born in 1980, gaming since I was 4 when my dad shoved a Colecovision controller in my hands to cure my boredom with Donkey Kong. When multiplayer became a thing with LAN parties, cheaters were treated like lepers. I hold the same values today. My skill is enough. If I'm not as good as other people, I don't resort to cheats. I do my best, have fun, and try to get better. Digital Morals is what I call it. So many need to learn how it works.

Metal Gear Solid 3 has a similar anti-cheat for auto-fire when Snake is being tortured by Dr Strangelove

Funny thing is some people tapped fast enough to trigger the auto fire detect even if they weren’t using it.

I kinda wish there would be an adaptive anti cheat in an online setting. Like the countermeasure to a particular cheat is most appropriate. Say the cheater uses god mode, well they'll become immobile and weaponless because of it. Say they use teleportation, then let them become blind in game and on the map. Say they use wallhacks to see other players through walls, they'll get constant popup ads (maybe some nfsw) while the cheat is active... you get the idea.

Lol i had a MadKats controller that allowed me to use "auto fire" during the Ocelot torture sequence.

I'm guessing the autofire on my old ps1 controller was too slow to trigger the anti cheat function, because I had no problems with it.

6. got to "cheese it". 2. lol, nice one. i don't mind cheating offline since your just cheating yourself, but i hate those who cheats online in multiplayer - ruins other's fun of just trying to play normal.

Wow, i did not expect to see Heretic featured in a video in 2023. Good memories, god im getting old.

7:53 Okay, you didn't have to do Tiny dirty like that, whoever threw the tomato.

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Crusader: No Regret pulled the exact same trick Heretic did. If you tried inputting the cheat code from the first game (Crusader: No Remorse), you got immediately teleported to a the middle of an arena surrounded by copies of the final boss, with a popup informing you, "Of course we changed the cheats... duh!" You were almost certainly dead before you had time act but even if you somehow managed to beat the odds and kill them all, it up and killed you, anyway.

MGS Auto-Fire didn't always fail. There were some controllers that still worked.

First on off the bat... And I fell for this one! I didn't care as many did about a "Nude Lara" as I was WAY TOO OLD... I was already married and a father, to me it would have been a bit of fun... Something to laugh at as the Pixels and Polygons looked horrendous! (I didn't play any Tomb Raider games until I had a PC and by then the games were about 10 years old!) But STUPIDLY I fell for it!

The metal gear problem was solved by using a Bic lighter. Just run the corner of the lighter across the button as fast as you can. Definitely an old school hack 😂

In Simcity typing FUND would give you money. In Simcity 2000 it would basically work the same except the money were now a loan with interest...

Ahhh yes. Dhuum. I can't recall how many times he got me.

ScriptKid is a God

The cheese the crowd was throwing at me was tasty i made fondue with all the cheese 🤣

WhatCulture lost Jules and has to now rely on in video ads 🤣😊😊

Walter Mitty = taxman. Nice

i had a mad katz turbo controller that i used to get past the torture section and it worked lol.

(Crash Bandicoot 3) The audience throws cheese at you? Well, that's no gouda.. Ah ah ah. Also, that's the easiest boss fight in the game. Literal-Lee the first one.

On sonic 3 (sega genesis) if u used cheat codes you would get the bad ending graphic no matter what

Hmm. The MGS Auto Fire never worked for me. Guess Turbo is the way to go

The nude cheat for Tomb Raider is essentially light hearted entrapment lol. Sneakily direct/guide everyone towards using the cheat then punish them for it. Government tactics.

MechWarrior 2 - using a doom code results in ejecting and the message: "this ain't Doom"

More people need to do what scripkid does

I’m actually okay with people cheating or doing whatever they wish on single player games. Let people enjoy their purchases however they wish if it’s not hurting anyone or making a profit off of it.

I remember playing Metal Gear Solid and Ocelot telling me no to use auto-fire... so I did. I had no issues using it to clear the torture section. I guess some of the controllers were Hideo Kojima proof. Though, I'm pretty sure the answer is nanomachines.

Arkham Asylum man... and that one game where you run a game studio and if you cheat... you get pirated.

Wasn't the exploding Lara actually for putting in the all weapons cheat from the first game and not a fake nude cheat?

Tales of destiny directors cut needs a US release.

What the hell is even that

I cheated in Doom to get past a level and the game preparedly distancing one of my controls from my PS 4 talk about over board 😅

not sure what was guy´s name (maybe it indeed was ScriptKid) but i saw a videos like those

I hope they keep the auto fire cheat mechanic in the mgs master collection vol 1.

You have to wonder if RuneScape had to pay the Star Trek people for the right to have a Botany Bay penal colony.

We need 100 new scriptkids

How far the walking dead has fallen.

Single player games are fibe to use cheats and hacks. The problem comes with online multiplayer games.

I'm a huge Luddite, and a console "peasant" as PC guys love to say so maybe I sound REALLY stupid but I didn't know there was any "modding" community around in '96 lol

I remember thinking I was soooo clever using the Doom codes in Heretic. Nope. Instead, I used the IDKFA code right after I got the crossbow and lost it forever. I didn't have a recent save, either.

#2 Is NOT entirely true. I had a controller with Auto Fire and it worked fine. No issues or tired button mashing.

Makes me curious though: Say you do the "run around in circles" situation but on purpose, and you've loaded up your game with hacks to make your team invincible... Can the guy ACTUALLY be defeated? I mean, the damage output and lack of player input is clearly how he wins, he kicks out 6000 points in one hit and you're not present to run away, but is he actually killable or did they make him invincible?

1:17 Wow Jess tell us what you really think of modders and gamers. Holy crap. You do know that's your whole audience 😂

Walking Dead Match 3 Jesus Christ...

If the cheating is in a single-player game, I don't mind the slap on the wrist being light or funny. But if it's a multi-player game, give them the most embarrassing, public, shameful sendoff possible and make it permenant. Maybe it was just their smurf/puppet account, doesn't matter. They'll stop cheating if even the account meant to do the cheating and transfer the goods to the main profile keeps getting banned before they can complete their task. I don't even play multi-player games, but I still hate knowing others are having their fun ruined and their money thrown down the gutter because of sewage waste cheaters.

Her cheekbones are something else lol

The so called "NUDE CHEAT" from Tomb Raider 2 was the "Level Skip" or "WEAPONS / AMMO" Cheat of Tomb Raider 1....so basically everyone who bought Tomb Raider 2 tried to find out, if the same cheats work again and TADAAAAAAAAAA Lara would explode instead. The story about this being a nude cheat is plain and simply WRONG ! Tomb Raider 1 was my first computer game when I was 10 years old and I know how much I loved the game and spent time just running around and trying to find some places I haven't found yet within a level. Of course you always knew someone who had cheats for the game and so you got to know the one step to the front, one step to the back, turn around 3 times clock or counter clock wise and jump to the front / back and tadaaaaaaaaaaaa.... So when Tomb Raider 2 was released, the first thing I tried IMMEDIATELY after installing the game and starting the first level, was trying to use the same cheat and it ended in Lara exploding. It had NOTHING to do with any nude cheat rumor....

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1:17 that was wrong

"lets just make the new guy do the ads" 😂😂

Something feels off about video. the Music, the sponsor, that one "modder" clip in number 10, etc. It just feels off from normal videos here.

10 mroe ways Thought we were getting a rehash

Yuck to the whole walking dead promo

Wow, if only I cared about the opinions of any of the Persona 3 characters. Hey Atlus, maybe make those characters actually likable before having them try to guilt trip me

metas create cheaters

Scared the hell outta me when that dude with the pink shirt randomly showed up

Your just blatantly wrong that you couldn't have legitimately got to the wealth needed for the tax man to show up. There is a metric crap ton of loot in that game if you actually explore the open world, even more if you don't fast travel everywhere, and like to actually ride your horse from point A to B.

If you’re not cheating you’re not trying to win

Exploits are not cheats. They are holes in the programming by fault of the developers. Using them is not immoral nor should be shamed. Using them is akin to learning a valid strategy. Cheats in single player are NOT heinous. Cheats in multiplayer, are. The simple fact this fact goes above so many peoples heads is hilariously aggravating. I don't question why you enjoy playing a game with god mode on, or having access to all the items on your own. You play, your way. I play mine. If you use cheats in multiplayer then you deserve to be punished, heavily. Exploits are NOT part if this portion. It is simply a method that players have found that works in their favor. A different way to play, overlooked by the Devs. Instead of punishing exploits, instead everyone else who didn't use them, either from ignorance or being incapable. Should be given a bonus of some kind to be on the same playing field as those that DO use exploits in multiplayer. Especially if the intention is to fix the exploit.

Who was that man talking about the walking dead game wasn’t expecting him tbh. Also this is why cheating is bad.

Is this presenter sponsored by blink 182?

Jump scare when it started doing the ad read

Rip ScriptKid. 😢