20 years after its original release, a Bully player has discovered a way to unlock access to a powerful weapon that players can usually only briefly use during a single specific mission. This player has documented how they pulled it off, utilizing some simple glitches and exploits in Bully to make the weapon theirs.
Most Rockstar Games fans have their attention set on Grand Theft Auto 6 and its upcoming release, but plenty still have a soft spot for some of Rockstar's older titles and forgotten franchises. Over the years, titles like Bully, L.A. Noire, and Manhunt have largely fallen by the wayside, with no indication of sequels or remakes in the works at this time. Despite their disappointment at the lack of continuation of these games, players still revisit them, and are still making discoveries to this day.
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A Bully player and YouTuber going by the name of JustGarrison has shared a discovery they've made during a pacifist run in the game that allows them to keep and use a powerful sledgehammer. Fans of the game will likely remember the weapon, which is initially used against the player in Chapter 3 during The Tenements mission. The weapon is used by Norton in a fight in the tenements before the player disarms Norton for it. Ordinarily, players can only use this weapon during the mission, and it disappears entirely once Jimmy exits the area and returns to the open world. However, JustGarrison has found a workaround that doesn't seem too hard to pull off in the 20-year-old Rockstar game.
How to Unlock the Bully Sledgehammer Everywhere
In a video demonstrating the find, JustGarrison explains how it's done, with the only real item requirement being a trash can lid. In the video, Bully's Jimmy uses the lid as a shield to defend himself against Norton in front of a series of barricading planks, which sends Jimmy crashing through it once struck. From there, the player has to head to the staircase, go down it, and huddle in a corner before using a crouch glitch to clip through the wall. Once the wall is clipped through, Jimmy briefly falls through an endless void before reappearing outside. Players are ordinarily locked into the tenements once the fight starts, so this is already out of the ordinary. However, if Jimmy goes back inside at this point, the window that's usually locked is left open.
From there, players need to lure Norton, who is still wielding the sledgehammer, outside onto the street. Once defeated, Norton drops his sledgehammer as usual. Ordinarily, fans of the Rockstar Games title can only use the sledgehammer inside the tenements, and once they leave, it's left behind. However, since the trigger for removing the weapon doesn't work with this sequence played in this way, Jimmy gets to keep it, allowing him to rampage around with the sledgehammer as he sees fit. JustGarrison shows off what it's capable of, not only clobbering random students, but showing how it can completely eliminate challenges against characters like Bif. The sledgehammer knocks opponents down, and with correct timing, players can loop the process once they get up, preventing them from striking back entirely until they're defeated.
Rockstar Games titles are notorious for hiding secrets for years, with one of the most recent examples being in Red Dead Redemption 2. Players began sharing their discoveries of a bizarre series of spiderweb symbols in Red Dead Redemption 2, and a developer of the game expressed their surprise that anyone had found the unlisted mystery all these years after the game's release. Gamers often enjoy discovering mysteries like these, or finding ways to play the game how it was never intended to be played, like in this particular case with Bully's sledgehammer.
- Released
- October 17, 2006
- ESRB
- T For Teen due to Crude Humor, Language, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar Vancouver
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Engine
- RenderWare, Gamebryo
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Sandbox
