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See also [[Game Breaker]], [[AI Breaker]], [[Good Bad Bug]].
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* Finding and exploiting '''Gameplay Derailment''' is one of the biggest challenges and debates in competitive speedrunning (trying to beat games in the fastest possible time).
** For example, [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] has been so extensively analyzed and broken that speedrunners have brought down playtime to 56min:54sec. Keep in mind that the layman takes about 20 hours in the game, while somebody returning probably takes around 10–12 hours.
** By exploiting collision mechanics (i.e. going through walls), it is easily possible to beat [[Super Mario 64]] with
** It is possible to beat [[Donkey Kong 64]] in 54 minutes, due to a variety of collision glitches and skips.
** The entire Metroid series revolves around nonlinear gameplay, although recently this nonlinearity is usually found by manipulating collisions.
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* ''[[Diablo]]'': Most major patches have one or two... Buriza Do Kyanon, Hammeridins, etc... Amazons particularly have a flavour-of-the-month aspect to this.
* This inevitably happens to [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s several times over.
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has had classes doing roles they were never quite intended to. Prime examples of this are Rogues stacking Dodge and Agility so high they could evasion-style tank some of the final bosses in the second expansion and a Mage making use of Spellsteal, various talents and a pack of enemies with a stealable shield spell to solo several 25 player dungeon bosses: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ggLGj37qI\]
** ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' has had both positive and negative examples of this, though [[Broken Base|which are which aren't always universally agreed upon]]. Primary among the positive ones would be the community turning the Ninja job into [[An Adventurer Is You|an outstanding Evasion Tank]]. Primary among the negative ones would be most single-job styles of "burn" party, especially arrowburn (rangers), the more abusive of which have been patched against. (Then there's meleeburn, but that's [[Internet Backdraft|a whole other debate]]...)
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* ''[[Gears of War]]'' is a cover-based shooter, which is pretty clear in the singleplayer. The multiplayer, on the other hand, mostly consisted of players rolling and roadie running with shotguns out and occasionally using the cover for wall bouncing (split instances to move closer to their opponents) if they didn't get any of the powerful weapons, popshotting at each other when not rolling around to avoid getting hit. This was addressed in the sequel with changing the shotgun to have a less effective total range making it impractical to only use but more consistent power in the short range it was meant for, and adding a 'stopping power' mechanic, slowing players greater and greater if they run into the direction gunfire they are currently taking from. [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|Some people were indignant.]]
* The infamous "Combo Winter" of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' was born when playtesters didn't exploit a mechanic on [[Game Breaker|several powerful cards]] in the Urza's Saga expansion nearly enough. Similarly, many cards in the ''Mirrodin'' block had to be banned for being way too powerful.
* Air unit stacking in ''[[
** This mechanic became such a [[Good Bad Bug]] that competitive Zerg players are ''expected'' to be able to micro Mutalisks in this way.
** There is also an exploit where you can make Lurkers not attack until you tell them to. This allows Zerg players to set up invisible Lurker traps, where the Lurkers don't attack until a bunch of Marines are all standing on top of them. Then they all die. This also works with Terran spider mines. This tactic, is called "Stop Lurker" (now referred to as Hold Lurker) and not banned in most competitive play. The technique for spider mines is banned however, because it involves allying and un-allying your enemy. There is one illegal method for Hold Lurkers, because it involves changing diplomacy settings (similar to the Spider Mines).
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** In ''Halo 3'', the new Forge mode allows players to fly anywhere in the multiplayer maps, except for a few annoying [[Invisible Wall]]s (some of which are also [[Deadly Walls]]). The result? Exploration is now centred around circumventing these walls to reach the few "off-limits" areas remaining. The campaign levels have no such flight ability, and so still use traditional exploration techniques, such as grenade-jumping.
** Halo 2 also featured "button combos" which allowed the player to shoot and melee someone almost simultaneously, as well as shoot twice at the same time. This was done by abusing the reload animation, and Bungie made sure to prevent these in Halo 3.
* Pretty much every edition of [[Dungeons
* Denying (attacking your own units to prevent enemies from gaining experience and money) in the [[Warcraft]] 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, which could have turned some matches into two teams doing nothing but attacking their own units, dragging the game out for hours. It eventually was modified so that a small amount of exp is still gained from a denied unit, allowing levelling to still carry on albeit at a slower rate, which is indeed part of gameplay strategy. Of course, even without making such a change the fallibility of human reaction means that actually getting full denies is all but impossible.
* ''[[Starsiege: Tribes]]'' players quickly discovered the ability to "ski" as they leapt down hillsides, allowing infantry to zoom across the game's enormous maps. Skiing became so common that in sequels, the technique was given a dedicated control and taught in the tutorial.
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** The NES fan game ''[[LJ 65]]'' tries to compromise between these play styles. In [http://harddrop.com/wiki/LJ65#Scoring its scoring system], "home runs" ([[Writing Around Trademarks|that is,]] Tetrises) are valuable, but not ridiculously overpowered, and combos are also valuable, home runs inside combos even more so.
* Roll cancels in [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Capcom Vs SNK 2]] made it possible to turn any special or super move invincible by using the roll command (which normally activates an brief evasion move) and right after that using the move's command, which shifted competitive play toward grooves that featured rolls and characters with moves that would normally be more risky to perform. This was particularly strange considering that: 1) rolls worked fine in the previous game in the series, as well as the [[Ko F]] series practically half a decade before; 2) rolls were a feature from SNK games, but rolling was available in 2 Capcom grooves despite being absent in the corresponding games, but only 1 SNK groove.
** ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' and ''[[
* ''[[F-Zero]] X'''s physics are weird; just look up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpcIXn5VMm8 world] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZWIiT4Dbc records] of it on YouTube to see some of the oddities that you need to exploit if you want to set some awesome times.
** ''GX'' has a similar issue with 'Snaking'; swinging your machine back and forth to gain ridiculous speeds. Heavy machines like Black Shadow's or Deathborn's vehicles do this the best. Then there's Space Flying (manipulating the rate of fall off the edge of the track so you can execute complete circuits without ever being on the track). These techniques derail the gameplay so much so that time trial records posted online have divided out sections for Snaking and Space Flying runs, just so conventional time trial records can still be viably set.
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