Shadowbane – monsters falling with the 'Exp method'. The most infamous bugs of online games
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In this case, it was very simple. For years, monsters in this game would fall through textures, underneath the map. This did not apply to every multi-story building in Shadowbane, and only occurred in a few locations that smart players noticed and decided to take advantage of. How?
They would gather in the given spot, using only characters with area-of-effect attacks. Then, they would simply use their abilities to attack monsters on the other side of walls. At first glance, that's nothing special, but what happens if a player is able to get a whole pack of monsters to a single spot? Monsters took turns falling under the textures, and when enough of them were collected, the crazy grind started.
Of course, blocked creatures were not a threat to players, who thus acquired an ideal place for rapid ‘exping’ their characters. Interestingly, the developers were informed about all this, but for a long time did nothing about it.
