Now that the mud has nearly settled on the blood-stained streets of HELL-A in Lifeless Island 2, it’s time to get one thing off my chest. One thing that has been affecting my ethical compass since 2014 when myself and my two greatest mates performed via the unique Lifeless Island in co-op mode, from begin to end.
I gained’t say I’ve sleepless nights over it, or come out in a chilly sweat every time I take into consideration what we did, as a result of I preserve it made the sport a a lot better expertise for us all.
However I cheated solution to the total 1250G within the unique Lifeless Island sport. And never just a bit bit. Considerably too.
First, some context. Me and my two mates – who shall stay nameless for this heinous act – would sometimes plan ‘Xbox weekends’. However we weren’t half-arsing these by sitting on-line with a headset to speak with each other. Three gamers, three TVs, three Xbox consoles, one lounge. Our respective different halves weren’t forcibly ejected from the lounge, however we didn’t depart them with a lot alternative both.
Throughout our Xbox weekends we have now performed via many alternative video games: Zombie Military Trilogy, each single heist in Grand Theft Auto On-line, Remnant: From the Ashes and extra. Lifeless Island although, stays our favorite; the camaraderie we had while enjoying it hasn’t been bettered since. We assigned NPCs a bunch of various names – normally expletives – and we nonetheless quote the sport to one another now and again. It solely takes certainly one of us to open one thing even remotely fizzy and one other will shout “Ooooo, champagne!”. If you realize, you realize.
Regardless of this, when the definitive model of Lifeless Island arrived on Xbox One, all of us vowed we might by no means return to the island of Banoi. Primarily as a result of we weren’t certain if the cheat we employed would work once more.
Lifeless Island allowed for 4 gamers to play on-line collectively in a single sport. Regardless of there solely being three of us, we left a slot open in public for these matchmaking to affix us. This was for 2 causes: One, one other buddy might sometimes be a part of and two, there was an achievement known as Individuals Individual that required you to play with ten completely different co-op companions for quarter-hour every. As soon as their quarter-hour have been up, we politely booted them out. Ought to they be a part of once more, we weren’t so well mannered.
It was the Xbox 360 period, a special time.
Nevertheless, there was one explicit particular person we allowed to remain a bit longer.
As regular, they arrived into the sport near the place we have been heading off the undead. As we have been simply in Act 2, the sight of them with a gun was an unknown entity to us at this stage. We have been impressed.
Throughout a second of downtime from splashing the innards of zombies everywhere nonetheless, this random participant dropped a gun on the ground. He then proceeded to begin taking pictures at it. Now, anybody who has performed a web-based sport will inform you that this non-verbal technique of communication is the opposite participant telling you fairly clearly to select the gun up. And my buddy was solely too pleased to oblige.
The fantastic thing about all being in the identical room was that all of us noticed immediately that this gun was no atypical pistol. It didn’t fairly have limitless ammo, however the ammo quantity was so excessive that it could by no means have mattered. It additionally solely had a clip measurement of 1, however when examined that simply meant it by no means wanted reloading. He then determined to take it out for a live-fire train.
I really feel sorry for these first zombies he encountered. They have been guinea pigs as he examined out the gun, however they have been very a lot lifeless guinea pigs. This gun was basically the golden gun from GoldenEye 007, besides it wasn’t manufactured from gold. It did nonetheless, kill every part with one bullet.
Spoilers: We used the gun for the remainder of our time with Lifeless Island.
Now, at this level, my different buddy and I have been rightly feeling a bit ignored. However my buddy wasn’t a grasping particular person and was solely more than pleased to commerce with us.
I’ve spent a good bit of time within the years since looking for any point out of this one-hit-kill gun from Lifeless Island, but it surely doesn’t seem to have been a standard glitch/exploit/bug/mod because of the lack of awareness on the market relating to it. Weapon duplication because of multiplayer buying and selling although is a much more frequent glitch. And while I stress we stumbled upon this side of our dishonest methods accidentally, evidently, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the three of us had a number of variations of this distinctive weapon in our stock. We have been additionally victims of the weapon disappearing glitch, so we wished to counteract that the place doable. I’m conscious how hypocritical that sounds.
What adopted can solely be described as a riot. We ran via these undead walkers and not using a care on the planet. We have been basically invincible as a result of they by no means even bought shut sufficient to assault us. Even the particular contaminated have been down in a single shot, with the one enemy requiring a couple of being the ultimate boss. It was a blast.
However while these weapons negated any form of issue, we nonetheless needed to play the sport. That meant operating from A to B, finishing quests and amassing gadgets. It simply meant we weren’t slowed down by having to battle via the boring bits similar to weapon degradation. And I’ll preserve that any technique of dishonest needs to be allowed to not should take care of that – the worst of all videogame mechanics.
The gun additionally made absolute mincemeat of the wave-based enviornment DLC, for what it’s price.
So yeah, I’ll maintain my palms up and say I cheated in Lifeless Island to get each achievement and absolutely full the sport. However I may even preserve that my mates and I had certainly one of our biggest Xbox weekends because of that, and it’s a sport we nonetheless maintain in excessive regard. I assume in a manner, we have now been looking for the subsequent Lifeless Island since. Not when it comes to dishonest, however when it comes to all-out enjoyable. Remnant: From the Ashes got here shut however solely as a result of my mates performed it a lot out of multiplayer that they have been a bit overpowered, however we had distinctive expletive names for all these enemies too. So, except these weapons are current in a future model of Lifeless Island, it’s a sport we are going to by no means play once more regardless of loving.
When you have ever by accident cheated at a sport like this, the feedback part under is a protected house for a cheat amnesty.
The unique Lifeless Island will not be backwards suitable however you may play the Lifeless Island Definitive Version for £12.79 on Xbox One from the Xbox Retailer.
