10 Video Game Exploits That Destroyed The Entire Experience
5. The Bucket Trick (Skyrim)
Skyrim is packed with all sorts of weird glitches and exploits, from launching dragon corpses across the map, to duplicating items an unlimited number of times. Over the last ten years, the game has been ripped apart in so many different ways, but one of the earliest game-breaking exploits that fans discovered is the amusing bucket trick.
Under normal circumstances, Skyrim will punish you if you're caught stealing an item or pickpocketing an NPC - for example, you'll often have a bounty placed on your head, one that can increase if you resist arrest or continue thieving. But since stealing is a good way to make money, it's hard to resist the temptation, which can lead to the local law enforcement getting rather mad at you on a regular basis.
But it doesn't have to be this way. If you pick up a bucket or a basket and place it over the head of all nearby NPCs, you can steal to your heart's content, and because those NPCs won't be able to see you, you won't receive any form of punishment.
Sure, this doesn't destroy the foundations of the game or anything, but it does make the theft system completely null and void - after all, you're supposed to be punished if you're caught nicking stuff, but with this exploit, you can steal without consequence, which is obviously not how Bethesda intended the game to be played.