But people usually do the rooms for cr anyways.

The early water orb glitch isn't used to bypass the lvl (come on, no ones THAT dumb), its more often used to clear out the immediate shadow fire that's everywhere in that lvl.

Some friends and I broke that level once by putting a bunch of sprites in the center too quickly. The water orbs didn't pop up, and we didn't have any sprites left. Fortunately, a GM responded to our distress calls and warped us past the fire to the elevator area.

people might have ele passes and want to get to Vana quickly. Possible (but probably uncommon).

Yeah, it's not game-breaking really, and you're losing out if you just skip the other rooms.

I really dont see any point in fixing it. It's more of an easter egg than exploit nowdays :P

So, are we going to ban half the community with an elevator pass now? Ok, ok, it is a joke, but it IS an exploit, and it does give more profit in less time... which means more crowns...

If it is an exploit which benefits some players it should be cut down, after all they fixed the "going both ways" exploit at FSC 3rd stage.

NO.

We will not.

Kthnksbai

What Damien said. And its not that big a deal. It just saves a couple trips of sprite carrying... is it against the rules? Clarification would be nice, otherwise, party on, right?

Solution: Find a guild populated by people who care more about profit per run than exploiting to min/max over numerous runs.

People who use the exploit will be punished if it is deemed to be an exploit. I don't figure you want to be around them if that does become the case.

If a party does this to skip D25 altogether then it isn't going to help them much(if you can't do D25 then plausibly you wont be able to do the other depths either).Experienced players do it avoid the hassle of running around carrying sprites.So,this "bug" isn't doing any harm i believe.I guess we can let this one pass.Oh well....

Most people who I have seen do the glitch is just so they don't have to run around the place, gathering sprites. I, like a lot of people, use sprites as markers, saying which rooms have been done by placing the sprite from each room on the button outside their respective "cages." It helps someone who is either just joining or skimming around for another room to do to get caught up to speed. Instead of running back and forth 8 times to get all the sprites, people just use the glitch and move along.

However, skipping the floor entirely is a bad idea. Next time you get the chance (and are soloing), try clearing all the rooms and getting all the sprites, without killing the zombies that spawn in the middle room. Most people take said zombies for granted, but when you have to deal with them all at once, you realize how many crowns are available. In general the floor pays quite well though with 6 Trojans and probably well over 100 zombies (plus Oilers and Gun Puppies).

Albeit, I am the guy who calls Zombies "Crown Packets" so I might not be seeing what a normal person sees

shush ;)

Don't do the sprite glitch.

I'm doing it now solely to tick people like you off while simultaneously being the party leader. The glitch hurts absolutely no one by doing it; it does not do ANYTHING except grant early access to the treasure boxes and hearts, which 9 times out of 10 have absolutely nothing in them worth much in value. You could argue that it would give people access to the elevator easier, but on the same token, why does that even matter? Everyone has to be on the elevator to begin with to proceed. If you're that deadset on ignoring a glitch, then do the rooms on your own while they watch in boredom from the elevator if that's your main problem Even then, in my experience, everyone does the glitch and then goes to do the rooms anyway because people like money.

Long story short, suck it up. You're whining over nothing because you're a "stickler" for rules, when doing this functions as nothing else than a "hey look what i can do".

I hope they never fix this glitch. I do it all the time; not to skip the extra rooms, but so we can actually rescue the sprites.

In all seriousness though, it's an essentially harmless glitch that simply gives people the ability to skip most of D25, and in the process lose out on masses of crowns. The only people whom will actually do it for said purpose and not for amusing reasons like myself are people aiming to speedrun, and really why in the world should you restrict the ways in which people can play the game? Most of the greatest games ever are riddled with glitches and exploits that ultimately make them better by either allowing people to exploit them for entertaining results, or speedruns, or whatever; granted in any game with an economy or competetive aspect you have to be careful about these things, but this particular glitch offers no game breaking consequences; it's fundamentally an extension of just saving the minimum number of sprites and skipping the last two rooms; you progress quicker at the price of heat and crowns which you can do in some form in most levels in the game.

If you want to wage a war on exploits, start dealing with glitches that actually negatively impact the player experience, not the ones that are for all intents and purposes completely harmless.