** ''VideoGame/EarthAndBeyond'' had a bug where buffs which increased weapon speed would stack exponentially. This meant that if you obtained enough buff items your weapon speed would increase toward infinity. This caused you to fire tens of thousands of rounds of ammo in a few seconds. [[MoreDakka It was the equivalent of giving a muzzle loading musket the rate of fire of a modern machine gun.]]
** DynastyWarriorsOnline suffers from a lesser version of this. [[LimitBreak Muosu attacks]] make the user invincible as they unleash a temporary unbreakable combo. While a legitimate, intended attack, depending on who you are playing with this might make up most of their attacks against you. Some people go Munchkin and max out their attack and musou, allowing you to go longer, and, weapon permitting, spam the stronger version version then run away from battle to refill. Given how powerful you can make a weapon this may be an easy way of defeating somebody. This lead to the English version of the game PVP being full mostly of attempted one combo kills in order to win the match, rather than using any other attacks. It's balanced out as time went on, with less people relying on Musou in PVP.
* ''GearsOfWar'' 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. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Some people were indignant.]]

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** ''VideoGame/EarthAndBeyond'' had a bug where buffs which increased weapon speed would stack exponentially. This meant that if you obtained enough buff items, your weapon speed would increase toward infinity. This caused you to fire tens of thousands of rounds of ammo in a few seconds. [[MoreDakka It was the equivalent of giving a muzzle-loading musket the rate of fire of a modern machine gun.]]
** DynastyWarriorsOnline suffers from a lesser version of this. [[LimitBreak Muosu attacks]] make the user invincible as they unleash a temporary unbreakable combo. While a legitimate, intended attack, depending on who you are playing with, this might make up most of their attacks against you. Some people go Munchkin and max out their attack and musou, allowing you to go longer, and, weapon permitting, spam the stronger version, then run away from battle to refill. Given how powerful you can make a weapon, this may be an easy way of defeating somebody. This lead to the English version of the game PVP being full mostly of attempted one-combo kills in order to win the match, rather than using any other attacks. It's balanced out as time went on, with less people relying on Musou in PVP.
* ''GearsOfWar'' is a cover-based shooter, which is pretty clear in the single-player. 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 use as a sole weapon but giving it more consistent power in the short range it was meant for, and adding a 'stopping power' mechanic, slowing players down to a steadily-increasing extent if they run in the direction of gunfire they are currently taking from. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Some people were indignant.]]

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** 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).
* The enemy control glitch in the GBA ''FireEmblem'' games. Most famous as FE 7's "mine glitch", which is manageable due to the limited number of mines in the game, but it is still exploitable (and much more heinous) in FE 8, potentially opening the gate to extensive usage throughout the games. For more details, see [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/921183/38039 here.]]

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** 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).
* The enemy control glitch in the GBA ''FireEmblem'' games. Most famous as [=FE7=]'s "mine glitch", which is manageable due to the limited number of mines in the game, but it is still exploitable (and much more heinous) in [=FE8=], potentially opening the gate to extensive usage throughout the games. For more details, see [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/921183/38039 here.]]

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* ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' had a special event on Ilum that put several PvE quests in a free-for-all PvP area, possibly to drum up more interest on PvP. Well, in a matter of ''hours'' players realized that there was no additional reward for attacking other players, aside from the dubious joys of ganking and griefing. Furthermore, doing the PvE quests were ''much easier'' in the PvP area. So, queue some server-wide ''truces'' in the PvP area with Imperial and Republic players cooperating on the daily quests, orderly lines forming for an orb drop-off puzzle, and some of the PvP heavy guilds on ''both'' Republic and Imperial sides coming out of it with nasty reputations for breaking said truce.
* In the remake of ''[[ResidentEvil1 Resident Evil]]'', players can exploit a bug involving using the item chest and grenade launcher rounds can generate well over two hundred grenades for your blasting pleasure. Not only does this obviously negate the issue of limited ammo, which effectively eliminates the inventory management aspect of the game, and makes just about any other weapon unnecessary, but doing this exploit with flame rounds means that you will never worry about [[LightningBruiser Crimson]] [[DemonicSpiders Heads]] again. This bug was eliminated in the PAL version.

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