Fable 2 Pub Games exploited

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 August, 2008

Hit button, win ten times as much.

It just keeps going wrong for poor old Fable 2 Pub Games, which we gave 3/10. Now it turns out that you can bet 600 gold coins for the price of 60, massively improving your odds in one of the card games.

The Fortune's Tower card game involves laying down a few gold coins and hoping the random drop of card combinations will multiply your investment. You will then be able to merge the winnings with your Fable 2 character to gain an advantage in Lionhead's upcoming Xbox 360 RPG, due out on 24th October.

And what handsome winnings they will be if you follow one wily YouTuber's example (thanks Joystiq) and press LB just as you hit A to place a bet. Doing so quickly sets the amount wagered to maximum, and the game pays out accordingly - but only takes the amount you had specified before you hit LB, which can be as little as 15 coins.

In other words, any winnings will be ten times what you expected, and any losses will be virtually insignificant by comparison. And we've confirmed it works on the copy we have at the office.

Presumably this will be patched out, but there's nothing to suggest you will be parted with your winnings when it is, so if you've forked out the ludicrous 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) asking price, get in there.

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  • Peew971 #1 4 years ago

    EG giving cheating advice now... Nice :)

  • Dizzy #2 4 years ago

    Probably a trick to sell shitloads of them on XBLA ;)

  • menage #3 4 years ago

    I'd rather play a real game instead of pushing a all the time and hope for the best.

  • andywilkie35 #4 4 years ago

    but surely doing this ruins the point of gambling?

    fuck that, its so gash that i'll exploit it

  • Eraysor #5 4 years ago

    I imagine Lionhead left this in to make the game worth buying.

  • DUFFMAN5 #6 4 years ago

    A turd is still a turd, even when polished. Pubgames, more like chumpgames. Just release Fable II and we can forget all about these.

  • kestral #7 4 years ago

    I wish this was enclosed in spoiler tags?
    I'm addicted to Fortune's Tower!

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #8 4 years ago

    Im glad everyone is still assuming Fable 2 is going to be fantastic, even tho this part of it is complete shite.

  • Peew971 #9 4 years ago

    "Im glad everyone is still assuming Fable 2 is going to be fantastic, even tho this part of it is complete shite."

    The Pub Games are from Carbonated Games, Fable II is from Lionhead... There's no point in dismissing Fable II based on these but unfortunately some people think backwards.

  • Moribundman #10 4 years ago

    Did this at the weekend.

    It doesn't strictly make it any easier to win on Keystone and Spinnerbox, but you have more cash available to perservere with them. I've now hit 5* level and won all the unique items. I've unlocked all FT and SB games and am halfway through the jackpot games on KS.

    I believe the easy Gamerpoints and effective cheatmode should be adequate payback for the 800MSP...

    I hope they do patch it, but I'll get one tanked stockpile character sorted out first of all!

  • Krun #11 4 years ago

    @peew971
    true you can't judge one company on another companies performance. But people still wil and if you allow something to carry your "brand" then you endorse the product. Maybe Lionhead should have taken 5mins to see what toss Carbonated Games where making with there IP.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #12 4 years ago

    Expect wiped games soonish and banned accounts for those who 'advertise' the exploit with their account details from reading this..

    http://co mmunity.lionhead.com/forums/thr...

  • Rirekon #13 4 years ago

    Obviously the QA team hated losing large amounts of money too, whoever left that is going to get a beating.

  • cyacomini #14 4 years ago

    I would so p!ss myself if this so called 'exploit' was put in there on purpose by the Lionhead guys.

    Anyone found to have used said exploit when they insert the Fable II disk will be instantly made a meanie and hated by everyone you meet in game.

  • L42yB #15 4 years ago

    I doubt that they will do anything about this. IMO it made the game better...

  • Moribundman #16 4 years ago

    Surely this should piss Lionhead off though... It's potentially broken and unbalanced their game 2 months before it's been released. People can presumably breeze through it and slag the game off for being easy or shallow purely because of a cock-up in an independently developed tie-in. It's the polar opposite of Braid luring you into it's site promising a "walkthrough" and telling you not to cheat!

    Personally I don't intend to go into the game with enough cash to make myself Emperor of Albion from the off since I'd like to feel some sort of reward from playing. I still haven't bothered using any cheats in GTAIV yet because I wanted to experience the game "clean"... However, the number of people who will use the exploit to do just this and thereby ruin their gaming experience will only reflect badly on Fable II.

    They should patch it to cap everyone's accounts at a reasonable level and "fix" the exploit, thereby setting a level playing field. This will however piss the f*** out of people to have legitimately achieved a high score. Future games can still achieve silly high scores but only without the glitch.

    At the very least, leaderboard qualification should be reset to only recognise characters started after the patch comes into effect and all future characters should be prevented from utilising the exploit.

  • Razorus #17 4 years ago

    Ah man, no fair. There's gonna be so many rich players in Fable 2 while I will have to start out like a beggar. I refuse to buy Pub Games.

  • BTBAM #18 4 years ago

    It's fine by me. They can't punish people for this, and I'll be starting Fable 2 with a hatful of cash. It will make the game more fun - I will spend more time on frivolities from the off, now. I might not spend the money, will just be careful with it. I'll still play the game properly, and I won't get my total up to anything higher than 500 grand.

  • Sevens #19 4 years ago

    The whole gold/monetary system (no gold from opponents, quests) was a ridiculous idea to begin with.

  • KreyAtiv #20 4 years ago

    Certainly puts a bit more life into the game. Going to be a lot of people who get Fable 2 will be going to the nearest weapon/armor merchants in game once they've merged their character.
    I also agree with Sevens. Not letting you get money off those you've bettered in combat or missions you've completed is just a stupid idea. You should be able to take what money those you've dispatched had on them.

  • cyacomini #21 4 years ago

    @ BTBAM

    "I won't get my total up to anything higher than 500 grand"

    How do you expect to get that amount without cheating? I've been playing it clean since last week and my total is only about 25k and it's getting really (really!) boring now.

  • BTBAM #22 4 years ago

    @ cyacomini

    I will definitely be cheating to get to that amount! But then I'll stop.