Lionhead working on patch for Pub Games exploit

by Dustin Burg { Aug 21st 2008 at 11:30AM }

Along with a few gold earning tips and tricks, Lionhead Studios has informed us (via their lovely Fable 2 development blog) that they plan on releasing a Fable 2 Pub Games patch in the near future to fix the recently discovered gold exploit. Bummer! No word on a specific release date for the game patch, so continue to exploit until your greedy heart is content. Hurry though, time is tick-tock ticking ...

Tags: fable-2, fable-2-pub-games, lionhead, lionhead-studios, pub-games, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dirty @ Aug 21st 2008 11:39AM

A little voice in the back of my head kept telling me that maybe they put it there on purpose and when you merged your character you instantly got a bad rep in the game.

emirabal @ Aug 21st 2008 11:47AM

So does that mena whatever gold you get via said exploit is going to be transferred np.

kp @ Aug 21st 2008 11:52AM

that would have been pretty cool Dirty, but guess i need to stock up while i can. or maybe start a new character so my second play through can have some money/items too.

eric @ Aug 21st 2008 11:57AM

What happens if you refuse the patch, use the exploit to get your fortune then right before you merge you accept the patch?

MC Double Def DP @ Aug 21st 2008 12:01PM

it's too late! i'm already rich!!! also what's going to stop people from just ignoring the update? or just doing the little harddrive cache clear thing or whatever that removes all game patches on the harddrive?

CO$T @ Aug 21st 2008 12:08PM

I THINK IT'S A LOAD OF BULL! THEY SHOULD RESET EVERYONES WINNINGS AS WELL IF THEY PATCH. I DON'T FIND IT FAIR THAT SOME ARE ALREADY CHEATING AND WILL HAVE UNLIMITED MONEY IN THE GAME PRACTICALLY.

MC Double Def DP @ Aug 21st 2008 12:11PM

You gotta pay da cost to be da boss!

Mr.J @ Aug 21st 2008 12:18PM

Why do you care either way? If somone else uses this exploit, it doesn't have an impact on your game. If you don't want to use it, don't, if you do, go ahead. At this stage in the game, Lionhead, it's a bit pointless to patch it.

ChomskyKnows @ Aug 21st 2008 12:52PM

it ain't exactly an mmo. stop whining. your game won't affect mine. if you join someone else's game and don't like their amount of money (or anything else about them) simply drop out. crybaby.

Tep @ Aug 21st 2008 12:10PM

Like it really matters, we've all exploited it at this point so no matter. Plus it's not like we can't deny the update and still exploit it, and even if we do we can just remove the patch with a cache format. But nice try Lionhead ;-)

Jonah Falcon @ Aug 21st 2008 12:18PM

Er, um, you do know they'll reset your gold total to ZERO after the update, right? (See: Texas Hold'em after the exploit patch.)

Dan @ Aug 21st 2008 12:21PM

I agree with you CO$T, it isn't fair. People are ruining their game experience.

Hopefully they make it so you have to update to continue to play the game and remove all gold for those who used the exploit.

But how should I know? I don't have a Xbox Live membership.

DudeRed @ Aug 21st 2008 12:58PM

If people want to ruin it, let them ruin it. I thought about using it but considered how it would effect the game play and changed my mind.

I got a pretty big wad of cash (about 150k) on my own and I'm not even sure if I will use it the first go around.

Bravo6 @ Aug 21st 2008 12:25PM

The games aren't very hard, it's pretty easy to rack up money without cheating, I don't quite get it.

MC Double Def DP @ Aug 21st 2008 12:41PM

let me explain... it lets you get $$$ WAY FASTER!!! I'm up a quarter mill in an hour.

NitroFrost @ Aug 21st 2008 12:30PM

Umm can't u just erase the patch and do it offline. (keep in mind I don't know how you do the glitch if it needs for you to be online then o well looks like my solution failed)

OwningXylophone @ Aug 21st 2008 12:36PM

How about fixing the far more annoying problem first...

If anything is downloading in the background while you play F2: Pub Games, then as soon as the 'download complete' box appears the game will go mental and you will have to quit out to the dashboard without saving and boot the game back up to continue!

Bravo6 @ Aug 21st 2008 12:44PM

Yeah that does sound annoying, but it hasn't happened to me.

Edward @ Aug 21st 2008 12:50PM

I believe they need to fix the bug where you try to pay off your debt with your winnings before you exit a game, then when you exit the game takes the buy in fee again after you already payed it.

I don't see how they could scrap everyones winnings considering some people never used the exploit.

Dan @ Aug 21st 2008 1:27PM

@MC Double Def DP (ugh)

Let me explain... it affects your character and ruins it for yourself. Yet I bet you don't care, you must be just like your character. Greedy, selfish and do you have yellow teeth?

Nick @ Aug 21st 2008 1:39PM

I cannot believe the nerds complaining about someone else having more pretend money than they do in an rpg that isn't even an mmo and will never affect them at all. Too funny.

NICK IS GHEY @ Aug 21st 2008 2:52PM

STFU HOMO

enraged duck @ Aug 21st 2008 3:10PM

well it doesnt matter to me because i lost all of my saved data in every game so i have had to re-download every single DLC content ive bought since when the xbox360 came out so im F*****

Delirium @ Aug 21st 2008 3:15PM

Meh, I don't really care either way. I'll probably use the exploit today but as a whole I hate the pub games. They could've make it like poker or something where it involves actual skill rather than some strategy and a shitload of luck.

Jonah Falcon @ Aug 21st 2008 3:41PM

"They could've make it like poker or something where it involves actual skill rather than some strategy and a shitload of luck."

Um, WHAT? Fortune's Tower is all about strategy. Like Poker and Blackjack, you have to know when to say "stop" and when to press your luck.

Keystone has the same strategy as Roulette.

Only Spinnerbox is completely out of your hands, just like slot machines.

Adorialea @ Aug 21st 2008 10:03PM

It would be rather mean-spirited to wipe everyone's gold. Many people have earned their winnings fair and square. It would be shocking and highly annoying if you patched and all your honestly earned winnings are gone.

Either way, I'm leaving my 360 untethered from my modem until I know what this patch is going to do. :)

James @ Aug 22nd 2008 11:06AM

They better release the patch with some good updates (a better spinnerbox perhaps?) because why else would anyone update their game? Perhaps if they updated to make the randomization just a tad less "fixed". For a good example, play the tournament spinnerbox, vs a regular spinnerbox session. In tourney you actually "gain" gold, but in a regular session you lose gold more than gain it.

Codzprc @ Aug 31st 2008 10:34PM

Seriously, without the "cheat" I would have stopped playing the pub games. At lower levels I had nothing but bad luck... of course the game say thaqt with higher tables your chances improve and it's true. However, without the 'glitch' I wouldn't have gone on to really figure the games(excluding spinnerbox) out.

I used the glitch to get to about 100,000 gold. But I started noticing patterns and got a good grasp on the games, so I didn'n't need the cheat anymore.

What I learned:

F. Tower:
1. Bet big always.
2.Once the gate card is gone guessimate your chances and either press or fold.
3. When betting big(always), cash out after the card total gets above 15 for the first time. ( you could press your luck, but it's a 50/50 shot...)

KeyStone:
Use the trips method - it really works well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la7R4z-Baa8

Spinnerbox:

Win a lot of money in other games, then work on spinnerbox.

Tip for spinnerbox: Press A... a lot... then keep pressing A....

Jimmithy @ Sep 1st 2008 11:27AM

Although it will be really cool to be able to buy everything that you want to I think it will ruin the game and make it boring. It will defeat the purpose of having to make tricky choices between letting someone live which might help you in the future or killing them and getting alot of money. Like in Fable with Whisper.