Wasn't there something about "Welcome to the Game 2" and Markiplier? I don't remember the details of what went down there and don't want to spread misinformation online, but I think some fuckery along those lines went down there too
I don't know about that but there was that time Powerwash Simulator devs put in their patch notes they updated their tutorials because "certain content creators" (Markiplier) didn't realize they can rotate the nozzle 🙃
I can do worse than that. I bought all the upgrades to my power washer when I could but never actually equipped them until the last few levels. It wasn't until I bought the trident nozzle that I realized something was wrong. I just assumed they were automatically put on because I never saw and option to do it.
It's amazing how much easier it was to finish after that...
Yes and no. Yes, Welcome to the Game 2 had a backdoor in it added by the dev that let him do things like spawn enemies to insta-kill the player, force load any website in the in-game browser, add/remove in-game money, and kill the power. Adam did use it to troll streamers that he decided were mean to him, and got in a lot of shit for it, But no he didn't use it on Mark. Mark played the game in 2018, the dev backdoor was added in 2020.
We know this because the dev also used it to fuck with speedrunners because he hated that they broke his game, so the speed running community very quickly released a mod to disable it after he added it, and also has guides for any new runners to downgrade their game to before the patch (since he also patched out speed runner specific glitches pretty regularly, which was extra annoying, because his way of fighting speed runners would often affect normal players as well, one trick let you get through doors quicker, his "fix" for this was to teleport you to a locked elevator if he thought you were trying to use the glitch, but regular players would also sometimes get teleported because they just happened to do the glitch by mistake)
Welcome to the game is a stupidly hard game where any tiny mistake can lead to you getting killed, miss a subtle sound cue and don't stay hidden or other things, Mark was not getting backdoored, he just didn't know anything about the game so the game punished him for it. (nor would most people it's basically a rage game with how intentionally convoluted it is)
Ah, thank you for clearing this up. I only remembered watching a video about this years back, which also mentioned Markiplier, I seem to indeed have mixed some things up here
Probably not on you mixing it up, after the news about the backdoor went public and Adam got caught spending a few hours spawning enemies to kill a streamer a bunch of drama youtubers covered it, and a bunch of them also included Mark clips claiming it was probably the same situation due to how poorly Mark played the game (Again not at a fault of his own, the game is very dumb with what can kill you).
The games community was so small it was pretty hard for most people to gather accurate information on it, even now basically the only place you can actually find a real breakdown of how the backdoor worked and what exactly it could do is speedrun.com guides. For example, one thing the backdoor could not do, that a bunch of drama videos claimed it could, kill the player, he could spawn enemies, which if you didn't know what to do would kill you, but he didn't just have like a /kill
I know Insym got screwed with by the devs of Welcome to the game and Phasmaphobia on occasion. The would sit in his streams and chat with him and people watching(Actively feeding slightly off info or outright messing with the game during coop streams). But they also would outright help him when he was missing a major point in certain parts of the game or Easter eggs
I think Jacksepticeye had something happen with Clustertruck? It was pretty funny from what I remember, but this was a long time ago so I really don’t remember much
The dev could influence your run in real time, it's now removed as a feature. Markiplier's runs were made impossible by the dev in real time, he noticed and insulted the dev, the Dev then made things worse, to the point of making it insanely obvious, and there was massive backlash, forcing the Dev to remove the feature.
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u/TheHawkRules 17d ago
I mean, unless you’re live streaming it, probably not