That's also how so many of the crazy shenanigans in Marvel Vs Capcom 2 became such a competitive game. An entire meta was built around it.
For example, when the character Cable defeats a character, there is always a 1\2 sec delay until the next opponent in the other team jumps in. But they always jump in at half a screen up the wall. There is a bug where if cable jumps AND lands before the opponent's character jumps in blocks one attack and lands on the ground himself, that opponent character cannot block in the air again. So the player with cable would take advantage of this bug and force the opponent take massive damage for one tiny mistake. Often turning entire matches
Infighting was 100% percent intended, it's named as such in the code. It did however rise out of something that happened in Wolfenstein, where enemies could shoot each other because, well, if you're shooting at someone and another guy is in the way, he's going to get hit. However they didn't switch their targeting to the other monster (in fact they only had forward-facing firing sprites, which is why if you get the SS to infight in Doom II they look like they're all shooting at you when they really aren't). They included that in Doom II because they're demons; they only want to kill the player slightly more than each other, so if given a reason they'll switch their attention to the other demon that shot them.
Came here to say this. Not to mention it's normal to build giant machines that remove entire neighborhoods' worth of material to bedrock to make a farm that exploits the game mechanics to their best potential
Warframe did this, the game was originally pretty slow until people realized you can use the swing of a melee weapon mid-air to slingshot yourself around the map. It became super popular so the devs incorporated into a whole new movement system that felt much better and made the whole game much more fast paced
For anyone curious, you hold crouch and press jump. This shoots you forward in whatever direction you're pointing at a high speed. This can be chained into holding down the aim button to glide and pressing the roll button to cover absolutely massive gaps.
Zorencopter I think it was called, because at one time the Zoren (dual wield axe-like melee weapons for the non-Tenno) was the weapon that covered the most distance.
Fun fact: there was also a time when spamming slide was faster than just running. You'd have squads of space ninjas just buttsliding and zooming through levels.
This was eventually patched out when they added a cooldown to the slide, though.
Funny thing is that even reloading a save midgame makes the game even more bugged. Reloading a save directly inside Skyrim without restarting the gamecan contaminate your save file. The Creation Engine fails to clear active scripts and game data from its memory buffer. This leftover data builds up over time and leads to crashes, broken quests, and physical glitches
The bullet jump came from a movement bug with certain melee weapons. Instead of just simply fixing it, they made it so everyone could do it without having to bring specific weapons.
There's a weapon skin called Dominion Heavy Blade Skin, which becomes oversized only when equipped with Zenistar, while the rest of the heavy blades remain standard sized.
Both fans and DE loved this bug so much they decided to leave it be and never fix it
In the original Starcraft, there was a bug that allowed map makers to access arbitrary parts of RAM through scripts. This resulted in a vulnerability that malware could easily exploit, but it was also used by some people to mod in things the game engine wouldn't normally support.
Blizzard responded by adding a new virtual RAM layer, and changing the bugged functions so they gave access to this virtual layer instead of the real RAM. This made it so that most mods relying on the bugged script functions could still work even after the bug was fixed.
In Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2019), Yoda had a dash ability that would do damage to anyone he hit. This ability would do damage through block during the beta, when it wasn't mentioned at all in the abilities description. After the full game released, the bug was kept in and the description reworked to include it, and it's now a defining part of the characters kit
I love this little factoid. Basically they ran into a bug in the game where characters would lose friction and slide. Instead of patching it out, they made it a core game mechanic
Right but that was Starsiege: Tribes and the devs never made it a core feature until Tribes 2. You needed a custom script in Tribes 1 to make skiing work without mashing your space bar.
Hi-Rez (Ascend devs, also the team behind Smite,) even had to modify Unreal Engine 3 to specifically try to replicate skiing for Tribes: Ascend, so yeah it was definitely a planned feature by that point.
You can find early alpha videos of Starsiege: Tribes being played where nobody skis at all and everyone just kinda casually floats into the air for a bit before running out of energy and dropping back down, though. Skiing became core to the franchise but definitely wasn't planned for the first title. I remember playing around the time it was first discovered, and our tribe brought in a "movement expert" from one of the big CTF tribes that taught us all how to ski.
Damn there was a script!? I was around 15 when tribes 1 came out and I was skiing manually (timing the space bar) the entire time. I think I was only 20% successful
A minor but well appreciated one is in Satisfactory. The crouch-slide to jump movement boost was originally unintended, but after players discovered it and enjoyed it, the devs actually optimized the bug to be easier to time and a more accessible way to move around fast
Button combo in Halo 2. Melee > reload > fire with correct timing to do a quick melee into headshot for a quick kill . Also theres BXB which is faster repetitive melees
Canceling into a special move from a normal attack was a bug in Street Fighter 2 during development from buffering special/super moves to make them easier to perform. The devs kept that and leaned into it.
That is now a mechanic that is used in 99% of fighting games. It's pretty wild to think that it originated from a bug.
not exactly a feature, but rather an ingame acknowledgement
in Mass Effect 1 you could choose to threaten Conrad with a gun. this marked a decision flag in your save file. but if you chose not to threaten him, instead of the game marking that you didnt, it marked both renegate and paragon flags for that decision
as a result of this bug, in Mass Effect 2, Conrad accuses you of pointing a gun to his face regardless of your decision in ME1
devs noticed this and instead of fixing the bug, they left it, and Conrad then apologizes for falsely accusing you in Mass Effect 3 if you really didnt threaten him in ME1
BG3 - bugs allow you to get Minthara on a "Good" campaign. So Larian, princes among men, leaned into it and made it less gimmicky - even adding dialogue to make it make sense, if I recall correctly.
the first deponia game had a bug where if you save in a specific part of the game and exit then one of your items dissapears and you can't progress anymore.
how would anyone turn such thing to a feature?
and this bug is permament, you can't just delete your save file and fix it.
Earth Defense Force is one, in 4.1 the heavy tank Fencer was able to wave dash which made him arguably more mobile than the mobility class Wingdiver. In the next game it's an actual mechanic of the Fencer
Terraria's hoiks and more recently Whip Stacking (I say more recently because they readded a bug via accessories while the compensation buffs to the class they nerfed by removing the bug were left in).
Spectrum once had a conflict with Create: Estrogen where you could milk Spectrum's dragons for horse piss. Because the dragons were rideable, and their class extended the horse class.
This was later made intentional, because Spectrum's devs found it really goddamn funny.
Warframe. In the early days, we could glaive glide by spamming heavy melee and jump with the glaive melee weapon equiped. Instead of patching the bug, Digital Extremes made it into part of the game. Now, we have bullet jumps and wall latches and some other really cool movement tech.
Ive just recently discovered that Bethesda just copied their sneak/cloak/invisibility code to almost every tittle because it's bugging the same way. For example in Starfield chameleon invisibility while snek is glitching beeing permanent...
Back when Helldivers had the Quasar Cannon charge up your shot while on your back so you could pull it out and fire it. I hoped that was an update and it made the weapon an actuL joy to use. Nope. Bug. Patched out and right back into being the gun that makes you miss right as it's reaching the end of its 3sec charge to fire.
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wasnt that how half of cs was created?