In Destiny a player has improvised a kind of “robot” that takes over the tedious leveling for him.
Granted, when thinking of “robots”, one tends to think of Commander Data, a sharp Cylon babe, or at least an 80s rolling robo-butler that would save you the trip to the fridge forever. (Where are they anyway? And where are our jet packs?)
The construct made by the reddit user Yavin resembles more one of those woodpeckers pecking at the keyboard. Nevertheless, the thing works and has “boxed” a Titan from level 16 to level 20 while the player was sleeping.
Basically, Yavin attached some servo motors to an Xbox controller, loaded a low-level version of the Ocean-of-Storms mission and went to sleep. When he woke up, he was happy to have a “new level 20”, as he explained in a thread on reddit. Leveling was not exactly super-effective: it took the controller in Destiny from the afternoon until sometime at night to get from 16.5 to level 20. 50 green engrams dropped from the action, not exactly a fat yield. Additional statistics: 3600 kills, against 900 deaths.
Due to the game mechanics of Destiny, the survival chance of “Mr. Roboto” is not very high. But that doesn’t matter because he simply respawns in the same spot in the Ocean-of-Storms mission and keeps fighting.
At first, the most useful controller in the world was still quite useless and just acted like a Punch-Bro:
After some improvements, the tinkerer, whose ambition was now awakened, managed to teach the robot to shoot and box at the same time:
Mein MMO says: As funny as it may seem: If the player is unlucky, his account is gone. He says, and one can surely believe him, that he did it just for fun and that it is “the least efficient way to level up at all”, but the whole thing is certainly not kosher.
Other games have developed countermeasures against “bots”. While they certainly have a different kind of “bot” in mind, this one counts too. Absolutely not recommended for imitation, but … it is certainly interesting.
Probably every gamer has wished for something like this sometimes when their hands ached, their eyes were watering, but the level still had to be done.
Pro Tip: Just go to bed and leave the controller alone for a while. It has earned its evening off too.
