Now that the mud has virtually settled on the blood-stained streets of HELL-A in Useless Island 2, it’s time to get one thing off my chest. One thing that has been affecting my ethical compass since 2014 when myself and my two finest mates performed by way of the unique Useless Island in co-op mode, from begin to end.
I gained’t say I’ve sleepless nights over it, or come out in a chilly sweat every time I take into consideration what we did, as a result of I preserve it made the sport a significantly better expertise for us all.
However I cheated strategy to the complete 1250G within the authentic Useless Island recreation. And never just a bit bit. Considerably too.
First, some context. Me and my two mates – who shall stay nameless for this heinous act – would often plan ‘Xbox weekends’. However we weren’t half-arsing these by sitting on-line with a headset to speak with each other. Three gamers, three TVs, three Xbox consoles, one front room. Our respective different halves weren’t forcibly ejected from the lounge, however we didn’t depart them with a lot selection both.
Throughout our Xbox weekends we have now performed by way of many various video games: Zombie Military Trilogy, each single heist in Grand Theft Auto On-line, Remnant: From the Ashes and extra. Useless Island although, stays our favorite; the camaraderie we had while taking part in it hasn’t been bettered since. We assigned NPCs a bunch of various names – often expletives – and we nonetheless quote the sport to one another once in a while. It solely takes considered one of us to open one thing even remotely fizzy and one other will shout “Ooooo, champagne!”. If you already know, you already know.
Regardless of this, when the definitive model of Useless Island arrived on Xbox One, all of us vowed we might by no means return to the island of Banoi. Primarily as a result of we weren’t positive if the cheat we employed would work once more.
Useless Island allowed for 4 gamers to play on-line collectively in a single recreation. Regardless of there solely being three of us, we left a slot open in public for these matchmaking to hitch us. This was for 2 causes: One, one other good friend could often be part of and two, there was an achievement known as Individuals Individual that required you to play with ten completely different co-op companions for quarter-hour every. As soon as their quarter-hour had been up, we politely booted them out. Ought to they be part of once more, we weren’t so well mannered.
It was the Xbox 360 period, a distinct time.
Nonetheless, there was one specific individual we allowed to remain a bit longer.
As regular, they arrived into the sport near the place we had been warding off the undead. As we had been simply in Act 2, the sight of them with a gun was an unknown entity to us at this stage. We had been impressed.
Throughout a second of downtime from splashing the innards of zombies far and wide nevertheless, this random participant dropped a gun on the ground. He then proceeded to start out capturing at it. Now, anybody who has performed an internet recreation will inform you that this non-verbal methodology of communication is the opposite participant telling you fairly clearly to choose the gun up. And my good friend was solely too completely happy to oblige.
The fantastic thing about all being in the identical room was that all of us noticed immediately that this gun was no unusual pistol. It didn’t fairly have limitless ammo, however the ammo quantity was so excessive that it could by no means have mattered. It additionally solely had a clip dimension of 1, however when examined that simply meant it by no means wanted reloading. He then determined to take it out for a live-fire train.
I really feel sorry for these first zombies he encountered. They had been guinea pigs as he examined out the gun, however they had been very a lot useless guinea pigs. This gun was basically the golden gun from GoldenEye 007, besides it wasn’t fabricated from gold. It did nevertheless, kill every part with one bullet.
Spoilers: We used the gun for the remainder of our time with Useless Island.
Now, at this level, my different good friend and I had been rightly feeling a bit disregarded. However my good friend wasn’t a grasping individual and was solely more than pleased to commerce with us.
I’ve spent a good bit of time within the years since looking for any point out of this one-hit-kill gun from Useless Island, but it surely doesn’t seem to have been a typical glitch/exploit/bug/mod because of the lack of expertise on the market relating to it. Weapon duplication as a result of multiplayer buying and selling although is a much more widespread glitch. And while I stress we stumbled upon this facet of our dishonest methods accidentally, evidently, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the three of us had a number of variations of this distinctive weapon in our stock. We had been additionally victims of the weapon disappearing glitch, so we needed to counteract that the place potential. I’m conscious how hypocritical that sounds.
What adopted can solely be described as a riot. We ran by way of these undead walkers with out a care on the planet. We had been basically invincible as a result of they by no means even acquired shut sufficient to assault us. Even the particular contaminated had been down in a single shot, with the one enemy requiring a couple of being the ultimate boss. It was a blast.
However while these weapons negated any form of issue, we nonetheless needed to play the sport. That meant working from A to B, finishing quests and amassing gadgets. It simply meant we weren’t slowed down by having to wrestle by way of the boring bits equivalent to weapon degradation. And I’ll preserve that any methodology of dishonest ought to be allowed to not should take care of that – the worst of all videogame mechanics.
The gun additionally made absolute mincemeat of the wave-based enviornment DLC, for what it’s price.
So yeah, I’ll maintain my arms up and say I cheated in Useless Island to get each achievement and absolutely full the sport. However I will even preserve that my mates and I had considered one of our best Xbox weekends because of that, and it’s a recreation we nonetheless maintain in excessive regard. I assume in a manner, we have now been trying to find the subsequent Useless Island since. Not when it comes to dishonest, however when it comes to all-out enjoyable. Remnant: From the Ashes got here shut however solely as a result of my mates performed it a lot out of multiplayer that they had been a bit overpowered, however we had distinctive expletive names for all these enemies too. So, except these weapons are current in a future model of Useless Island, it’s a recreation we’ll by no means play once more regardless of loving.
In case you have ever unintentionally cheated at a recreation like this, the feedback part under is a secure house for a cheat amnesty.
The unique Useless Island is just not backwards appropriate however you may play the Useless Island Definitive Version for £12.79 on Xbox One from the Xbox Retailer.
