Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Breaking Games: Fable 2 Infinite Experience

Unlike the infinite money exploit in the Fables, this exploit for Fable 2 will COMPLETELY break the game for you. It makes it so easy that it is no longer fun. If you want to play the game and experience it fully, do not read any further.

However, here it goes.

Playing through the storyline of Fable 2, you will come to a bridge that you have no choice but to jump off of. After going through a cave, you will come to a town. The first building on the right (where you can become a woodchopper) will give you a skill bonus if you sleep in the bed.

The game also allows you to sell back bought powers at a percentage of the buying price. However, if you try to sell back the skill bonus you got from sleeping, you get the experience refund but it does not take away the bonus. This means that you can sell it back infinitely. I am sure that you can do the math. Infinite sellbacks = infinite experience. Infinite experience = max on all abilities. Enjoy being a demigod.

   - Sapper Woody

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Food: Western Beans

As the first installment of my "Foods" section, I just had to tell people of the magic of a delectable dish called "Western Beans".
   Imagine you're a cowboy out in the old west. You're on a cattle trail, been sleeping outside for days. You're looking for a nice tasting, simple dish to eat. Enter western beans. Basically a type of chili, western beans is made in a pan, and most often eaten with cornbread. Simple to make, western beans only takes a small amount of time to make as well. Credit for this dish goes to my wife.

   Here is the recipe for western beans:

2 large cans of baked beans
1 pound of hamburger
2/3 cup of brown sugar (increase or decrease to taste)

Simply brown the hamburger in a skillet, add the beans and brown sugar, and there you have it! An easy to make, great tasting dish to impress your friends or take to a cowboy themed party.

   - Sapper Woody

Breaking Games: Fable Economy

As much fun as I have playing all three Fable games, I can't help myself. I have to have more money. Fortunately, all three feature easily broken economy systems. The first is the most obvious, with the second requiring some underhandedness, and the third title actually requiring a bit of work. But, here they go:

Fable: The original Fable uses a unique pricing system which lowers prices at a merchant when he has an overabundance of items, and raises them when he has a lack of items. This was put in place in order to allow the player to be a sort of merchant; buying items when they are low, and selling them when they are high. But what if the player creates the supply and demand?
   To perform this, simply play until you get to the first town. That very first vendor will allow you to do everything you need to get rich quick. First, simply buy everything he has. Make sure you use the button that allows you to buy everything at once. This allows you to purchase his entire stock at the same price without raising the price each time you buy something. Now that you have bought his entire stock, he has a deficiency. He will offer you a higher price to buy back his stock than what you bought it for. Just make sure to sell it all at once.
   Once you have made enough money to clean him out, buy everything he has, and go to the nearby inn and rest for three days. Now, sell everything to him, so he has double his stock, driving his prices to the basement. Buy it all back at low prices, and sell it all back. Rinse and Repeat.

Fable 2: Fable 2 allows you to break their economy with less work and time, but you have to be connected to XBOX live. Since Fable 2 pays your character his rents even when he is off the game, all you have to do is tell the system that you've been off thegame for years.
   First, rent as much property as you can. Second, get out of the game and set your XBOX clock back a few years. Log into the game. Log out, and set your clock forward several years. When you log back into the game, you will be paid al those years' worth of rent, making a fortune instantly.

Fable 3: Fable 3 actually requires you to use the old "set it and forget it" trick. All you have to do is buy as much property as you can, and leave your XBOX on overnight. Next day you'll have amassed quite a sum. Use that to buy even more property and you'll be able to make millions in a single night. Unfortunately, Fable 3 has a degrading system, where your houses have to be repaired every so often, so you'll have a hefty repair bill every morning. But your shops will not.

   - Sapper Woody

"Breaking" Games Defined

Me and a friend were playing Neverwinter Nights 2 together. We had gotten pretty far in the original campaign, when we had this epiphany: we were playing a role playing game, but our character builds were far from roleplaying. We had done what zeroand09 calls "breaking the game". We had looked at all the rules and had decided how to best optimize our characters. Instead of playing a Wizard, I was playing a Wizard/Fighter combo that allowed me to cast any arcane spell without any armor penalties. For those untrained out there: this allowed me to be super overpowered. I could cast all my wizard spells, and still wear the best armor and shields.

Although sometimes referred to as "breaking the game", I utilize a method that I have perfected over the years. I call it "optimizing the game". Sometimes, yes, my characters get so powerful that I am beyond what the game was intended for and it ceases to be fun. But, most of the time it allows me to enjoy extremely hard content at a moderate difficulty.

As part of this blog, I will frequently have a segment called "Breaking Games" where I will attempt to explain loopholes and workarounds that I find.

WARNING: This will change your gameplay forever. Once you know how to "break" a game, it takes EXTREME willpower not to do it every playthrough.

A Bit About Me

Hello,
   I am Sapper Woody. You can catch me on XBOX Live under the same handle. This blog was started under the inspiration of a friend's blog found here. (Disclaimer: Following the link will subject you to stronger language than is found here.) Unlike my friend's blog, which is primarily devoted to video games and delicious cheeseburgers, mine will be of a broader interest. Video games will be at the forefront, since I am a gamer at heart, and am currently working on a mod for UT3, possibly building a stand alone product.

Hope to hear from you all!

Sapper Woody