10 Video Game Bugs That Became Features

2. Aggressive Gandhi - Civilization

Gandhi Nuke
2K Games

In what is many gamers’ favourite bug-turned-feature in video games, Gandhi got a little murdery in the Civ games which, if you know anything about Gandhi, is not really his deal in real life.

In the early Civ games, Gandhi was programmed to have the lowest possible aggression rating of 1, rendering him only able to wage defensive wars. However, when the AI changes their government to a democracy, their aggression level is reduced by 2.

For those playing at home, this does indeed mean that Gandhi’s rating dropped to -1 which is not just super, super chill. The negative value glitched in the back end sending his aggression rating right up to 255 meaning Gandhi ended up with a very itchy trigger finger on the old nukes. The bug first appeared in Civilization II, but wasn’t fully embraced until Civ 5.

Here, Gandhi’s parameters related to building and using nukes was set to the highest possible value. You know, for the lols.

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