The Exploit that Shaped the Game (Battle Cats) 

in other words current siege ain't that far off.

Yeah, I forgot about that change. Thanks for the correction.

There is a better way to do it Funny thing I found randomly (This isnt bannable) Step 1: At night turn off your wifi and cellular data Step 2: Wake up Step 3: Go to battle cat spend your energy and use ga tomato (spend as much energy as you need or how much you can hold) Step 4: Turn of your Wifi Step 5: See you energy and ga tomato replenish

Hey...that's one of my favourite battlecats strategist. I still can't pronounce your name though. Lobe ur works btw.

@@JeneralMat-zp2ii it's legit just potato in german lol I just pronounce it like "car-toff-ol" (toff as in TOFFee, and ol as in stabLE)

Early game energy being limited so severely seems counterintuitive. It almost feels difficult to get into simply due to how long you have to wait in EOC for energy to reload. It drives people away.

Energy recharging is just ridiculous ngl, for a game that's mostly about grinding 2 energy per min aka 4 hours just to beat an xp/ticket stage is absurd

LUCASSS

I'm glad they gave up. good thing it became less popular, probably the reason why many BC communities would rather not have people talk about it. less attention means less odds of it ever being patched. you can play when ever you want, not touch a single add ever again throw the time schedule in the garbage can. The game actually becomes a game. Out of the all the exploits Superior over seed tracking I'd say it makes the game playable like regular games. Leaderships are a thing but it's still quite limited when your using it for farming stages even in endgame. if you don't play allot or don't farm that much leaderships are fine but ye still got to play efficiently to build it up. It's good to see that it's enough for allot of folks though.

Good to know that Lukas defiantly doesn't use exploit to get other banners or stages why would that be he's a "wizard"

My facing danger was maxed out using it lol

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Wise words Chaddington

this game would be much more enjoyable for me if energy didn’t exist

Energy stops game burnout so it's a much longer term playtime without getting bored of it

@@vortdryes I do indeed love playing a total of 3 stages per day if I win every stage on my first tru

the game having an energy system and being very grindy (especially when trying to get treasures) is pretty baffling to me

Wait wich one did he grind?

Facing danger ​@@Brownie_3

*Bah!*

rewind 10 seconds back and Naala does the same edit: wait nevermind I don't think the knockback came from Naala, it came from slime

Leaderships came long after the facing danger nerf though. so if you weren't using an exploit you couldn't farm facing danger. Would have probably been patched with leadership introduction and higher max cap if it wasn't nerfed already. plus siege of hippoe exists ye can still farm that it ain't that much worse.

@@jokermasta8832 Facing danger was still 100% farmable and efficient with user rank reward refills and even catfood refills. I know because I have over 1000 clears from those alone

@@toxicspikes098 I see, sounds pretty sweet

Did Facing Danger used to be unlimited? (Instead of just one clear now days)

@@Jarubimba yes, it used to be unlimited

Leadership hoarders, rise up!

Always too scared to use them like "If I use them too often i'll be stranded without them one day!" lol. Same with powerups (ESPECIALLY Treasure Radars and Rich Cats)

@@Flameonoodle a logical conclusion, but false. I just never felt the need to use many leaderships at all.

Same here, i also have more than 700 leaderships. And more than 100 of each powerup since I never feel the need to use them if my levels and lineup is good

​@@Flameonoodle ive burned up all my treasure radars on merciless xp and xp bonanza

I understood how broken it was but didn’t care enough to exploit it lol

It's kinda crazy! I remember freaking out about version 2.0, and seeing the community grow so large makes me happy

How do I do it

@@shadexeros1673 its patched now, the energy or any time related mechanics cant be used without wifi, the game uses a global time using internet now..

​@@alexskorpik11play79It is in fact not patched if you are on android

@@fzsuper3387 i am infact on android , it uses internet for the timer now.

​@@alexskorpik11play79 use a firewall like netguard its really easy to do

How do you do the glitch

@@shadexeros1673 Block the game in firewall (I use NetGuard) Go to the game map and wait till red error Settings - change the date to yesterday Switch to the game for a second Settings - set the auto date Switch to the game again - should be full energy Unblock the game in firewall Switch to the game last time and give it a second to sync energy with server Done (don't fully close the game during the process, only tab out)

@@Earzentail alright thank you

@@Earzentail where do I find a good firewall I’m on IOS and i cannot find a free one that can block games any recommendations

@@shadexeros1673 sorry, but no idea, I've only ever used android good luck though 🤞

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Yes, it's well known information that capitalism ruins everyone's fun.

hi inferior host

It still exists I energy glitch on iOS all the time.

@@diaamooond shut up diamond

@@D4C_267 hold on, HOW TELL ME WHAT YOU DO, I NEED TO KNOW

@@babymariochannel8087 It’s the old -2 +2 glitch. It’s inconsistent now…you have to be very quick.

the energy glitch still works?

@@wasquash yeah, slightly different though

@@user-gm4nf4cn7xhow? Please explain

may i know how high is the leadership count now

Wait so this doesn’t trigger recovery mode?

@nobody7774 nope -2 Change TZ +2 should still work. Im not logging in at 7am, 12pm and 7pm just to play.

@@chillFreee thx

I will add that energy glitching (and to a lesser extent, force closing to restart a stage + wikis and video guides) is genuinely what made pre QOL battle cats tolerable. Battle Cats can (generally) be separated into two types of stages, farming and challenge. On the farming side, the benefits of energy glitch are obvious. Infinite energy means infinite farming, which is great. Infinite grinding for treasures instead of being gated by RNG and energy recharge might even make treasures not seem like a bad mechanic (they still are). Farming powerups is nice too, but you honestly really didn't need powerups much of the time. And then they added cat fruits. What a nightmare. 200 energy to do a catfruit stage, meaning that, with energy cap of 650 at the time, you would be doing 3 stages every five hours optimally, which nets you somewhere in the region of a fifth of a single true form per set of three runs. obviously, this was not good, and energy glitch did a lot to make it easier to farm catfruit, especially for people who, say, could only play battle cats for half an hour a day and couldn't log in for optimal energy usage. On the challenge side, challenge stages tended to have high energy cost (for example, crazed and cyclones debuted with an energy cost of 200 when max energy was 570). Energy would essentially put limits to the number of attempts you had to play challenging stages, and then after you ran out of attempts your next set would be ready in about 5 hours (or one attempt in 100 minutes, or 200 minutes...) which was more than enough time to lose focus on strategies to employ. Furthermore, imagine if you had to approach every stage blind. You just had to go in with what you thought was a good lineup and if it didn't work that meant you lost out on 1/3 attempts due to lack of information. You now have 2 attempts to refine your strategy and hope that, for example, they didn't throw in a random R. Ost to destroy your Bore focused lineup. Energy glitch was something that alleviates that, since you now have unlimited attempts at a stage, and valuable resources like the wiki or video guide makers help you to save time in exploring the stage, which matters a lot when it comes to a game that demands a certain level of precision sometimes. It really helped to lower the skill floor of the game and provide an easier entry into difficult stages (you have no idea how many times I reset on C. Gross) In general, the things that energy glitch bring to the table get pretty much blown out of the water by modern day QoL features like leaderships. While yes, unlimited attempts at challenge stages is nice, if you need more than 3 leaderships to clear a stage it probably means you should be looking somewhere else like your cat levels or lineup. At the same time, its easier to farm catfruit, with things like heavenly tower and gauntlets providing alternative sources with slightly more bulk, and yes, leaderships help too (also, originally you needed 10 seeds to evolve into a fruit, which has now been changed to 5). Let's not talk about behemoth stones and stages that only show up for like 2 hours at a time though. That stuff's still in the domain of glitches, with the energy glitch's brother: time travel.

THATS WHAT IM SAYIN

I mean it does make some sense, as if you play a game too much you will eventually get tired of the game

@@lancelover789 delaying that doesn't increase play time. if anything it'll just ward people off

It's kind of beneficial to Ponos because if people had infinite energy they'd be able to finish the game rather quickly whereas limiting the stages will make it take longer to complete the game so people won't run out so quickly. This is just what I've theorized, it could be completely different.

​@@lancelover789i'v quit the game for years at a time just cause i ran out of energy, especially when there were no leaderships. I'd get done using energy then just forget about the game completely lol

how tho?

@@six2nine-wm4lkit limits the amount you can play the game in a period of time

Whilst a faster energy recharge rate would help the players a lot, infinite energy essentially means that progression happens far too quickly, and stage losses are not punishing. With battle cats having a very limited amount of win-determining randomness, trial and error means that any stage will get crushed under potentially dozens of attempts, each with no consequence. Additionally, farming will be far too broken, making it such that you gain an effectively infinite amount of resources, especially since those in lategame can easily clear the earlier farming stages, as the difficulty of a stage will remain the same no matter what. Ultimately, energy is required for a game like battle cats to keep progression in check, whether you like it or not.

They should just remove it at this point. Most mid-late game players have more leadership than they know what to do with, and the stages they don’t want us to farm endlessly have clear limits already anyway. Like you said, all energy really does at this point is make the worst and most tedious part of the game take even longer.

@@thump989 the reason they added the energy system is so you don’t get burnt out as quick and to make the battle cats a routine part of your day/schedule

@@limbo1411True but does it make it better for the player? Nah. If I burn out playing ur game that’s natural, but when you post new shit we come running back.

@@mirandamanga9083 if you burn out and play too much you’re not gonna care at all about a new level you’re probably not even gonna make it half as far to the newest level

based I'm excited to try it out as well, just gotta wait for a better banner to do my blind rolls on first

@@Earzentail wait for royal epic or uber fests, mostly epic fest since it has better exclusive units, also each time you roll on the seed to get close to an uber, write what you got so you don't mess it up like i almost did when getting kasl

@@ArztTSG Thank you! I really appreciate the advice, will try to not f it up.

Imagine seed tracking, get a life

@@user-nh7cy1vm2i "get a life" -the kid who sits playing on his phone all day and complains about how other players play on a single player video game

same it just makes it so much better

Same I used to be against it but then I kept getting dupe and crappy Ubers so now it’s an important part of my gameplay. If you don’t seed track you are missing out and wasting money/cat food.

I mean, more NP doesn’t hurt-

it's godly ye. if you care about gameplay this is just an improvement let's one experiences more different units to use in the game

I don't use it because I like the dopamine hit from randomly getting one. I don't spend any money at all tho

I know how too🤭

Id be very funny if ponos was looking out for comments explaning the glitch

I use it not for energy, but mainly for gamatoto. You can easily obtain battle items, catseyes and catfood!

​@@petros5882it still work?

How can you tell? Seems to cap at 99+

@@DromeG60 it caps the counter on the map screen, but when you try to use one it shows your real amount

@@ol3xis692 oh yeah! 125 nice

Probably not 1. I gained 99+ leadership very quickly, so it feels like infinite energy 2. Don’t get me wrong, 99,999,999 seems like a lot but you’d burn through that upgrading just 7 or 8 Ubers 3. Tempting, but I feel the balance is good now and that drop rate would hurt my enjoyment of playing the game 4. Nah I like the positives of + levels

Frick

I don't seed track but I will use the energy glitch. I've recently had to start a new account because I made the game far too easy by collecting too much cat food, and even more so by getting WAY too many cateyes early on. I'm still going to use the energy glitch because I feel like it makes the game more fun for me, but I'm going to have to practice self control and only use it only for energy. The randomness of what units I'm going to get on a draw is like half the fun for me. So that's why I've never used seed tracking.

What's the combo glitch?

@@ProvidenceSP where attack combos get multiplied to 21x meaning a 3.1x damage increase you have to change language and stay on another app long enough then it happens. But not only do you have to play the game in another language for 24 hours but other things can happen

yes but its a little different now

@@babylcan u tell how to do it now??

@@Crawl3rx gotta use noroot firewall

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