10 Video Game Exploits That Destroyed The Entire Experience
4. One-Hit Kills (For Honor)
Rather than slicing and dicing your way through hundreds of enemies with ease, For Honor's one-on-one duels make you work pretty hard for your kills. These fights can last for a while before a winner is determined, with slow and methodical combat that rewards careful movements over frantic stabs.
So, imagine how catastrophic it would be if players found a way to defeat their opponents in a single hit. That would be a total disaster, right? Why, yes it would - but sadly, this exact exploit was possible back during the game's launch window.
Not too long after For Honor hit shelves, videos began to surface of players killing their enemies with a single hit, which was done by performing a series of easy-to-learn button presses. It didn't require much skill to pull this exploit off, and as a result, it quickly started to spread, making the game's multiplayer borderline unplayable.
As you'd expect, the backlash was enormous, with countless frustrated players having their online sessions ruined by one-hit-kill abusers. On the plus side, Ubisoft soon issued a patch, but up until that point, the game was an absolute shambles.