Is exploiting a bug in a game cheating or part of the game?

Sakitoshi · Mar 4, 2019

the thing is that while bugs are part of the game, they were never meant to be there in the first place, it shouldn't exist.
you can call them something nice, an "unexpected feature", but at the end of the day it's just cheating.

BoxmanWTF · Mar 4, 2019

If everyone can do it, it's fair game despite how annoying it makes playing specific maps. (ALA Maka Wuhu or whatever it was for MK7)

kehkou · Mar 4, 2019

The original Mega Man comes to mind, where you can beat various bosses by shooting a projectile and rapidly pausing and unpausing the game when it collides with the enemy.

Captain_N · Mar 4, 2019

Exploiting a bug can be considered cheating when it greatly impacts the game play for others in a human vs human game. Its at best a grey area. The glitch is part of them game and it is available to every player equally. A cheat is when one player has an added advantage not normally in the game.

For example, when i used to play red alert 2 - yuris revenge online with others, i used to have the chronolegionear attack my own buildings. The chrono unit has a special attack that begins to phase out a unit from existence. while the unit is being chrono'd, the unit is impervious to attack my all other units. So i would chrono my buildings temporarily to prevent damage during air attacks. Its a nasty trick and the developers never intended it to be used that way. All the noobs thinks thats cheating. Its just that they never thought of using it that way. Its a dirty trick, but far from cheating. everyone can do the same provided you have an allied barracks.

UltraDolphinRevolution · Mar 8, 2019

In Call of Duty World At War on Wii there was a bug on Cliffside. You could jump into certain pixels of a particular rock formation and end up underneath the whole map. The person then could see and shoot upwards but the other players could not see him and had to avoid large areas of the map.
I do consider it cheating but there was a way to prevent it by being there first and silently killing those who tried to go under (or wait underneath the map and punish the cheaters).
These things are annoyance and are usually patched but are completely different from actual cheating by manipulating the game's code. So I would use another word. (either cheating vs hacking or exploiting vs cheating)

Also, it's sometimes hard to tell whether something is even cheating/exploiting, e.g. if you jump on a roof that you can barely reach. Are you meant to be there? Hard to say sometimes. Many example like that in FPS.

Now to the example given: I'm not sure. If it's an option you can turn on and off, I wouldn't consider it cheating. I guess if everyone does it the gameplay becomes ridiculous (i.e. it is a bad game or version of the game). Could you not see that the player had turned it on?

Demothene · Mar 14, 2019

In this case i think its called Trick'cheat'n'exploit

The host allow a mode without telling others, here come the troll, he clearly try to cheat
He tricked you and the other opponents in his net, He must be a lonely toxic one.
But if the mode is allowed in the active game, you should use it too (play by the rules)

Imo... Always leave this kind of games

Is exploiting a bug in a game cheating or part of the game?

Your though?

It's cheating

It's part of the game

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