10 Video Game Exploits That Destroyed The Entire Experience
6. Teabag Power-Levelling (Assassin's Creed Odyssey)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a beast of a game, requiring well over 100 hours to achieve full completion. This is partly due to the fact that it takes an annoyingly long time to hit the level cap, forcing you into a dull grind of side quests, contracts, arena fights, and other repetitive tasks.
Alternatively, you could skip this grind entirely by using a hilarious, easy-to-perform infinite XP exploit, which is done by changing a few keybinds and then teabagging over an enemy corpse. This will trick the game into thinking that you're killing the enemy repeatedly, awarding you with full XP every single time.
It's meme-worthy stuff, but the exploit did ruin the game in two key ways. For one, you could end up with a player level of 99, but with level 50 gear. Since the game scales with your player level only, this meant that you'd be fighting high-level enemies while wielding some severely underpowered weapons and armour, making combat frustrating, and in some cases, potentially unwinnable.
In addition, Ubisoft intended Assassin's Creed Odyssey to be a bit of a grind, whether you agree with that philosophy or not. But power-levelling like this essentially makes the game's many, many side quests, extra objectives, and other XP-gathering methods totally pointless, which detracts from what the game is trying to achieve.