10 GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters

Within days of The Witcher 3's release, players discovered an exploit which allowed them to quickly amass crowns by killing cows in White Orchard village, looting their hides, meditating to trigger a respawn, and then repeating the process.

CD Projekt RED quickly caught wind of players sneakily enriching themselves, though, and a few weeks later released a patch which gave those taking advantage of the exploit a rather nasty surprise indeed.

The patch resulted in players who killed six cows being suddenly faced with a mighty level 27 chort spawning in front of them - an extremely powerful cow-like monster which could easily make short work of unprepared players.

In the original version of the patch, chorts would continually keep spawning even if the player managed to kill one, with the developers dubbing it the "Bovine Defense Force Initiative."

Hilariously, some players realised that if they were strong enough to kill the chorts, this could help them farm crowns even faster than with the cow exploit, and so CD Projekt RED later altered it to only spawn a single chort.