Bloodborne - Item Duplication Glitch Endless Blood Echoes in Minutes

This glitch lets you duplicated any stackable item in your inventory. its also a great way to level up your character by duplication blood echoes as much as you want. you can even duplicate blood stone shards,twin blood stone shards,blood stone chunks, and blood rocks!

[Jackhass]

How do people always find these glitches so fast?

[Kingthrash360]

When desperate rookies need to cheat their way through....They can accomplish anything.

[Lord_Sloth]

Actually rookies often don't find these things since the noobs and casuals only play the game and nothing further. These are discovered by people doing random things in the attempt to break the game itself.

Don't be so elitist.

[thorstein]

I would expect that it was discovered through:

A) Experimentation wherein someone wanted to see if you could share items across saves. Something that is done in many current gem games.

B) Dev kit. Used to explore code and determine exploits.

[The_Devil_Hunter]

I dont know but this definitely kills the entire purpose of playing this game. I rather play the game its suppose to be played and get my ass killed.

[joab777]

Something you do on another playthrough. Not for me. But with all these ppl complaining about the lack of estus, I can see many ppl duplicating echoes. Personally I like this wayy better. I always have 75+ vials, and I'd much rather have 20 than 5-7. Just me though.

[SuperRaccoon]

My guess is these people have knowledge on game development, so they have a pretty decent idea of what happens behind the scenes and can figure out ways to exploit the system. That's how some people break games to achieve crazy speed run times, they know how doing certain actions affect the game.

Either that or luck, just luck.

[Veneno]

Every game without exception releases with some bugs and glitches. Breaking games is the job of the QA testers so that the glitches don't make it into the final product. If there's game breaking bugs in a game there's only two people to blame: the testers for not doing their job or the developers that don't fix the bugs.

[rainslacker]

@Veveno

Despite the testers at a dev, and the devs themselves, probably knowing about thousands of bugs which the end user is never likely to ever find, and the fact that a good QA team can find stuff that you may not even be able to imagine, the fact remains that QA teams are not as large as millions of players. More often than not, these bugs are found by accident by end users, while a QA tester will actively try everything to break the game.

What it comes down to is that there just isn't enough time, or resources to find every possible bug in a game, nor is there enough time or money to fix every bug found or otherwise in a game. If that happened, no AAA game would ever be released.

When it comes to game breaking bugs(which this isn't, it's an exploit that doesn't break the game), then if they're found, yes the dev is at fault. not the QA team unless they actively don't report it. But the publisher can also be at fault, because more often than not, the publisher is the one pushing for the game to get out the door so it can get to market.

After seeing how this glitch is performed, I can say that it was probably found, because this seems like something a game tester would try. They spend a lot of time trying to do stuff like this, either by design, or just randomly screwing around.

[Dir_en_grey]

I think demon souls had something similar but was patched out.
Memory cache not properly erased when soft resetting within game, or something like that.

[Summons75]

I don't know which one you are talking about but the one I learned is still very much active (the nexial binding glitch)

[Spenok]

The first Dark Souls had something with the dragon head as well, it was freaking weird, and hard to accomplish, but it worked. It was soon patched out though.

[bf000777966]

perhaps this guy is a qa and it is one of the bugs he found that he didnt submit to the developers

[rainslacker]

These kinds of bugs are found by the end user all the time. Item duplication bugs are actually rather common. I'd wager that it was found by QA, but probably not rated high enough to be fixed in crunch time. Things like this are submitted. Within a QA team, there is a sort of competition on who can find the most bugs, both in number and severity. They also have to duplicate the bug, which they may not have been able to do, so the dev never fixed it.

QA testers make pretty decent money during the crunch time...despite not having a life for several weeks, and I doubt one is going to not report a bug like this just to be able to report it to the internet later. I've QA'd three games in my career, and I can say I never want to play those games again, despite being really good at them. I'd imagine on a game like this, the QA testers will feel much the same. They likely played this game 60 hours a week for several months. You just get burned out on it.

[Insomnia_84]

If you die and go to the Hunters Dream and then go back to where you got killed, will your blood echos still be there??

[Nitrowolf2]

yes

[WillGuitarGuy]

Hmm... reminds me of the bottomless box glitch in Dark Souls. I personally wouldn't do this but I can see how others would to get to a certain level for PvP builds.

[dcj0524]

I might do this on a throw away character for fun. Make him sewpa oppppppppp

[Spenok]

Yeah doing this on your first or main run just ruins the experience.

[rainslacker]

There was an Xbox fan boy complaining the game needed an easy mode in another thread because he doesn't care to learn how to play well. I agree with his frustration since I'm a bit of a button masher, but still try to learn to play the way the dev wants it to be played. Anyhow, I guess he could use this glitch to have his easy mode.

[huckle]

Nooo, don't do it! Just play the game..

[nix]

"get to the cleric beast"

ha.. as if that was easy.

[NikeJustDoesit]

Getting to it was easy once got the Hunter's armor, imo.

[REDGUM]

I have a question guys....
Should I get this game because I love God Of War OR should I not get this game because i disliked Demon Souls. No offence to the game at all, it just wasn't my type of game at all.

I've seen the action gameplay bits which look great but I take it it's not all like that and spells and things need to be made etc which is where I loose interest in games. Again, that's just my taste in games.

[huckle]

Depends on what you disliked about Demons souls, was it the difficulty? Or just the spell making and such.

[Vanfernal]

This game plays nothing like God of War at all. It is the same type of game as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. However overall it's simpler than the other games. All you actually upgrade is your weapons and the action is faster paced. With that said, it's as challenging as any other game in the series so keep that in mind.

[akiraburn]

That's a bit of a tough question to answer, because it isn't quite that simple. It really isn't like God of War at all since that's fast paced hack & slash action. However it also isn't quite like Demon's Souls or Dark Souls. There are many similar elements to its predecessors, but the gameplay design has changed quite a bit.

For example, in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, a lot of the gameplay had you focused on heavy shield use and being overly cautious of taking damage, whereas now things have a faster pace since there are no shields, and after being damaged you can regain the HP lost by quickly damaging an enemy in return. Keep in mind, this is very much a skill focused game. So running into any area and expecting to hack your way through it will lead to many quick deaths. If you are patient, observant, and are able to understand the reasons why you die in any situation, then this could be the most satisfying game you've ever played.

As you progress through the game, you learn to feel out an area, trying to judge each enemy and reading all of the messages that others leave for you. As you die you learn to overcome your toughest challenges. Your biggest and toughest opponents that you defeat will bring you a greater sense of accomplishment because you had actual challenge and difficulty to overcome.

There isn't any sort of complicated crafting system or any real "magic" like there was in the prior games. There are plenty of weapons, armors, and consumable items you can find or buy, and the weapons can be upgraded at a workstation in a simple quick process. There are many secrets and alternative situations within the game though, like certain NPCs that can become allies just based on what kind of armor you are wearing when you approach them. This is a game about discovery, patience, learning, and challenge. I hope this somewhat helps to answer your questions.

[REDGUM]

To the guys/girls above. Thank you. Very informative. I think I'm understanding how the game plays due to your descriptions. That being the case I might just give it a shot.
thanks guys ☺

[SpinalRemains138]

I'm not going to do this, but I must say, that was very very strange to figure out.

This is so odd that maybe it was put in place intentionally for a reason.

Way different than the dragon head souls glitch.

[Vanfernal]

I just beat the game. Took me about 43 hours and I soloed the whole game. It's quite beatable. If people feel the need to cheat in this game, they should really be playing something else.

[demonJAKAL]

You don't need to get to the boss to unlock the storage, I teleported back to hunters dream with the lantern at the top of the ladder and the house was unlocked

[Kinger8938]

That would ruin the whole joy of the game, its kind of cool that people find this stuff but to use it would just ruin the experiance imo

[Eyesoftheraven]

I shamefully admit I'll be taking full advantage of this. I don't have 60+ hours to devote to playing this game normally. Even if you die a bare minimum and retrieve your lost blood echo, leveling up takes a really long time. If I played 4 - 6 hours a week for six months, I'd be nowhere and the game would be old news by then. I want to experience everything for myself and considering the amount of time I don't have this is the best way for me to get my $60 dollars worth.

[krypt1983]

This poor bastard didn't even give credit to the guy who figured out the glitch and posted a video like he came up with the glitch, dam people are even shameless when ripping people off. Powerpyx is the guy who discovered this glitch...