10 Hidden Abilities That Took 50+ HOURS To Discover

Some video game features and mechanics are completely hidden, designed only for the curious player to hopefully stumble upon.
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[@julianray4447]

I remember figuring out you could fire both canons in OG Dead Space almost immediately, like it was just kind of intuition, if you actually look at the canon itself you can see only the right one is firing when pressing RT/R2, so it makes sense that pressing LT/L2 fires the left one. I thought everyone knew that...

[@adamsmasher7314]

Yeah I didn't think those sequences were bad.

[@WolfpackDan859]

The asteroid shooting wasnt that bad in the og deadspace and i thought the both trigger pullig was an obvious thing.

[@lawrencetalbot8346]

Yeah first I’ve heard anyone say they didn’t know you could use both triggers… every gun has an alt fire, makes sense to instinctively use both triggers for the turret sequence

[@MatthewFronsoe]

I enjoy how the video is saying you need to use both shoulder buttons to fire and then proceeds to show the player only using the right cannon for the entire entry.

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

I’ve never played it and it seemed pretty obvious to me when only one fired 😅

[@maidenless_tarnished]

If you were able to stop the train in that manner that would hands down be the best thing in a video game ever

[@X_TheHuntsman_X]

If you hold the X button on PS5 in Baldur's Gate 3, it will make a search area and you can click through a list of items in the area instead of interacting by clicking each one. Really helpful for quickly looting and not missing anything. :)

[@landonewts]

Nice! About to start my first run, I will take ALL the help I can get.

[@Write-Stuff]

The rhinoceros beetles are a holdover from the OG RE4. In the original, one of the people who worked on the game had a fascination with beetles and had actually planned on putting in more than what made it into the final game. You can't collect them in the original, mind you, but they can be found and simply fly away upon doing so.

[@greghuffman3061]

thats cool

[@raidengoodman8754]

That’s kinda cool

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

Do you think that person was trying to attain heaven?

[@TVFlix]

What do u get for eating them? What ability?

[@JohnnyWednesday]

@@TVFlix - Just like in real life, you gain the ability to know the effects of eating beetles

[@Issei_loves_rias_gremory]

Lets make this the top comment for no reason

[@sirxhyper]

I'm in

[@sirxhyper]

comments help right

[@sirxhyper]

I'm pretty sure they do

[@sirxhyper]

if not I'll look like an idiot in this comment section forever

[@sirxhyper]

but if it does work I helped

[@rashido_grey]

lol the fact that you had on the Rami suit for the train slayed me lol

[@BigMobe]

Kind of reminds me of when I first realized holding the hand brake in the air changes the stick control from making cars roll to making them spin in GTA V.

[@PK.NOiR.7]

WHAT

[@stevorules1820]

I'm willing to bet quite a few people never knew about this until they read this comment. Because I'm one of them.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@rezaqs8245]

​@@stevorules1820 same

[@FlaccidFella]

Literally just found this out a few months ago. 8 years after I finished the game and stopped playing for years

[@tylercommons6479]

I had a weird idea for a top ten. Top Ten games under 2GB, 6GB, 10GB etc. whatever will show that small games can be great

[@floatinghamstick]

Do the flip side of this as well. Games that intentionally don't optimize their storage like COD in an attempt to make it so you have less games on your pc/console.

[@TidusX16]

Idea for a list, player created moves in games. Like things the developer never intended but made the game better like the rocket jump from Halo or Owlbear from the high rope in Baldur's Gate 3.

[@greghuffman3061]

wavedashing

[@holdtighttatsu6619]

@@greghuffman3061I see you play tekken

[@michaelemmerson7760]

Or bomb gliding in Breath of the Wild

[@michaelemmerson7760]

​@@holdtighttatsu6619I tjough that was just Mario Smash Bros Melee

[@logannsif]

Rocket jump from quake/unreal tournament is the OG

[@muaxh03]

1:33 wow I wonder where you guys got that idea

[@stevenstump246]

I am at least 30 hours into Spiderman 2 as of right now and actually had no idea you could slingshot from a perch until now. Damn that is cool. Thanks, Falcon! Now if you could shoot a webline while in mid air and immediately perch on it like the rope launcher from Arkham series I would be blown away.

[@terrafirma5327]

Punching while using the jetpack in No Man's Sky is well known to many veteran players, but it isn't mentioned anywhere in tutorials and it also has never been patched out. It can dramatically speed up early game travel before vehicles or good animal tames. It is also highly risky with fall damage.

[@notroMyaJ]

Only vehicles I use are my ships and my freighter, never bothered with vehicles after I found this and got a bunch of S class upgrades 😂

[@terrafirma5327]

@@notroMyaJ Heh. I did the game on release before ships had good collision/controls and before freighters/vehicles. Back then this trick was a lifesaver. It is true its now pretty easy to just use a starship unless you are on survival difficulty in which case the fuel cost really hurts.

[@Gawillamon]

If only there was a way to do this in the VR version...

[@terrafirma5327]

@@Gawillamon Oof.

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

Without that, I'd consider the game actually unplayable. On foot traversal is so boring.

[@PsychoRavager]

There's a very helpful method at beating Laura's final fight in The Evil Within that I don't think enough people know of. Saves you a ton of ammo, too. In the last arena, launch a regular crossbow bolt directly into the pipe's opening that shoots fire at Laura, and you'll get an endless burst of flames that you can kite Laura into for insane amounts of damage. I honestly think this was left out by the developers intentionally since it's so specific and doesn't seem to have ever been patched out. Recently used it to help in beating the game. You can also use the freeze bolts to stop traps from going off and be easy to disarm. And feel free to open the inventory menu while disarming bomb traps with the timing mini game for a slow-down time mechanic that absolutely solves the difficulty spike of later bomb traps.

[@heidetermeg427]

It is almost mind blowing to think that people didn't know about the tip-toe mechanic in MGS2, even after all this time.. I used that on my first playthrough on the PS2 - and it is a good tool for slightly looking out from cover beneath small ledges - or quickly getting in and out of cover during gunfights in first person view; the shootout on the tanker case in point. Wasn't a revolutionary mechanic by any means, but it had a couple of useful advantages, at least.

[@scragar]

The PS2 version's instruction manual that came with the game pointed out the tip-toe thing. It's not even like it's a secret you have to discover. If they'd pointed out you can use L2+R2 to do pullups when hanging and that doing this a lot increases the level of your grip bar making it last longer it'd make more sense. That was something included in the game that was never actually disclosed outside of gaming magazines.

[@fearbot69]

@@scragar You're talking about a game series played by folks who at one point got stuck in MGS1 because they couldn't look at the case for the game to find the codec frequency to contact Meryl. No one reads the manuals 😂

[@blokin5039]

But I found this channel immediately.

[@furai-ingfalc-kuru8149]

Saw a short from EpicNate about fallout 4 features I never knew about today - security bots can be passified by giving them what they want - construction bot shooting you because you aren't wearing a hard hat in the area? - put on the hard hat and it stops. Train guard bot shooting you because you haven't got a token? Pickpocket a token into it, it will accept the token and stop lol Need to test if this works in New Vegas as I just started it again

[@brandonkrause7308]

For memorizing BG3 scrolls it's an option in the menu from your inventory (where you can add to wares etc), you don't need to go to whatever specialized menu you visited for it

[@ErrrorWayz]

Yeah just right click and memorise

[@Foxfire15]

Yeah, I remember the game telling me I could do so pretty much immediately after finding my first scroll.

[@I_XenoBlack_I]

I love falcon as the host of these videos…he just has so much charisma and the voice for it. Great video as well!

[@nothankyou818]

Bioshock 1 is my favorite game of all time. I'm genuinely obsessed with it and have beaten it 20+ times. I never knew about that freeze trick, it never ceases to amaze me how I STILL discover new things in that game.

[@robertciesialka5495]

Man, you have managed to create one of my favorite shows. I can't wait for each episode. And me want one. Great job

[@rayvintankerson6818]

All imma say is in dead space there’s obviously two barrels. I mean cmon

[@SirMrDog]

#1 reminds me of the hidden trick to go prone in MoA:Airborne. Normally you can only crouch, but whenever you ADS you get the ability to lean in any direction instead of move. HOWEVER, you can click in the thumb stick to let you move again whilst maintaining your current lean. So you can crouch, lean down to get lower, and then click the stick to move around. This will let you crawl under obstacles you normally couldn’t before to find better cover or get the drop on enemies.

[@Singapore-Aviation72]

In MGS2 I didn't know you can run and shoot simultaneously until I played the harder difficulties years later after the original release.

[@omarfathi8199]

Day 7 of asking for a dark countdown screen

[@Jawpuh]

Bioshock will forever be a classic

[@DelusioNic014]

You even put on the Tobey suit when you tried out the train thing, awesome!

[@greedtrilling731]

Not knowing that you can memorize spells in bg3 is a certified gameranx moment

[@MrKryss2k]

One hidden ability that took me YEARS to figure out which works on almost any game - if the game is annoying you and you're getting angry, you can turn it off and do something else until you've calmed down 👍

[@Sentrolyx]

Holy shit! 😮

[@hermiona1147]

Devs hate this one trick!

[@ihavegymnastics]

LOL

[@penance8717]

pulling out your hair does the same🤕🤕way faster🤕🤕

[@theshizl4400]

There're 3 rhinoceros beetles in the entire game: On a withered tree by an upturned boat the lakeside settlement during, on the left wall behind the fountain with the three bass after the water hall, and in thr beginning of the 2nd Krauser fight right behind Leon just after the first cutscene ends. _(it's also a great way to hide from Krauser's bow or machine gun fire)_

[@Qiuvox]

2 videos in 1 day, wow Falcon ❤

[@klaudspeed]

Fun fact! If you launch yourself at the subway train like this, you might glitch through the exterior and ride on the inside for while. theres no floor so Spider-Man just floats around but cant fall through the invisable wall made for the exterior.

[@milesmlambo6473]

Might just be me but would be super helpful if you could name the game in each section rather than just numbering them. Trying to avoid spoilers for games I'm playing/going to play is all. Generally love your vids tho 😊

[@ScotGardi]

Pretty sure the MGS2 tip toe, move, is needed to shoot one of the laser nodes on a connecting turret. Stuff moves depending on the difficulty level, so most won't need it.

[@har.19]

True that

[@airbornejesus3845]

That's what I was thinking. Also alternating between the two triggers should fire faster as you're actually shooting both guns, and the alternating fire would allow one to reload while still putting lead(lasers in this case) down range.

[@user-gw6ww1pi2z]

In "Battle Realms" when attacking enemy base, instead of doing the regular combat, selecting a building and hitting the 'delete' key (or shift+delete, it was about 20y ago, I can't clearly remember) - you instantly destroy the building. And this worked even in Multiplayer. I never learned was it a bug or passed testing undetected. I tried this on the newer Steam release, but this time it didn't work.

[@JustFeral]

Hearing the laugh you guys left in on the train scene is great.

[@CaseyJonesTMNT]

Took Falcon 50+ hours to learn how to fly 🕊️

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

Pretty niche but actually is a huge ability if after you know. In Desperados 3, if you KO a guard and then you use Hector to throw that guard on top of one your other characters, it knocks them out. Meaning Hector can pick them up and throw them on to/over walls, up higher places etc. So much so that if there's an enemy on the higher elevate you can knock them out throwing your own teammate and the timers work to where you wake up before them. I got the platinum trophy and I never knew this, so it doesn't tell you and isnt required to do anything, but it would have made it easier.

[@NoahHearle]

Thanks for looking! I didn't think you'd look beyond the road side and car park! They could have ended up anywhere from the logging warning section. No matter, I can get the keys recut without too much fuss. :) The views out there are always worth the walk.

[@Craye2727]

I might be wrong because it's been a while since I played Starfield, but I feel like the horizontal boost/secondary keybind thing is even mentioned in the game somewhere, like a loading screen tip or something. I just vaguely remember seeing something like that and thinking "well that sounds stupid", but I might be misremembering.

[@i_booba]

I’m punching the air about that GoW Ragnarok one, #8. The backtracking woes were horrendous at one point for me while getting the platinum.

[@MyOwnVoucherEverywhere]

Oh I remember the Bioshock one, helped me hella times 😂

[@Oroku_Sensei]

Being able to to ring the bell to stop the village invasion was in the original version of* RE4. It's not a new thing.

[@Barboron]

Falcon's videos are my favourite. His sarcasm and delivery, I could watch a video on about anything if he does it.

[@MatthewFronsoe]

I like them but take issue with their vetting and editing. They're on WatchMojo levels of not doing their homework and the editing often shows the character doing the opposite of what the VO is claiming or doing something else entirely. I dig the voice and presentation but they definitely don't vet these 'hidden' abilities. Hell, the MGS2 tiptoe thing is something the game tells you in a tutorial codec call.

[@asapbruhhhhh]

The Spider-Man one 😂 lmao! That was great 🕷️ 🕸️ 🚂 💥

[@TheNathanHughes]

Me and a friend where playing MGS2 on hard mode back in the day (in the fledgling internet days before guides etc.) and we’re stuck on that bridge where you have to shoot the Semtex for hours and hours until we realised you had to tip toe to see the final ones. I’m pretty sure it was needed but I could be wrong.

[@chrisneary7379]

Got all the way to the Taron Malicos fight in fallen order before someone asked why I only have 2 stims. I didn’t realize you could get more

[@swapnilmohaniraj2879]

You and me both brother. Complete game changer.

[@jak_without_dax3994]

Tip toe mechanic was used to shoot around corners or above walls without being seen as long as snakes or raidens body is behind a wall, if you lean or tip toe the enemy will not be able to see you at all but you can get a good shot at their head, it is in MGS3 as well and is used in speed runs a good margin

[@lonsoheras596]

1:18 ahh what i came for !!! Much love game ranx

[@JimiGosu]

For Baldur's Gate 3: Spell memorization is a class feature. Wizards and Clerics in D&D ARE REQUIRED TO DO THIS in order to use their spells.

[@marybdrake1472]

I don't see how anyone could have missed that in BG3. It literally says you can do this in the class description. 😆

[@flywan]

As if God of War need any more assistant, it's already practically holding our hands and leading us where to go.

[@Space_Noise]

Right. The hand holding was almost unbearable 😓

[@geraldbrown7775]

Overeager beavers can’t wait a second for me to even look around the room 😤

[@The-Reject]

I didn't expect to see my long lost love Bioshock in here.

[@yorkshirej2219]

You had me thinking I could stop the train with that thumbnail

[@ericb3157]

#1 reminds me of a trick that works in Half- Life and Team Fortress 2: jump and press the crouch key/button in mid-jump. this makes your character pull his legs up, which makes it possible to jump on top of things that would otherwise be too high. for example, getting on top of the Bomb Cart in the Payload missions, or an Engineer standing on top of his Dispenser or Turret. i even know of a few places where an engineer can stand on top of his Dispenser, then, from there, he can place a Teleporter Exit in an otherwise unreachable spot! oh, it also makes Rocket Jumps and Stick Bomb Jumps work better!

[@rageshot4352]

2 Falcon videos in one day, we are eating well today

[@MB8214]

crazy… 😅 I figured out both things from the original dead space and mgs2 on the first play throughs kinda naturally. The leaning and popping up is intended for stealth and peeking from cover, super useful

[@fenixspider5776]

Bioshock one is pretty cool, I have got electrocuted 1000s times in that game trying to hack in time and even after completing the game I was never aware of the freezing one lol

[@badscientist42069]

I think in BG3 the description of the wizard class in character creation tells you that they can learn spells from scrolls.

[@JohnTheKahn]

That Kojima impression was spot on 👌🏻

[@SockitWrench627]

when he said the shooting part in dead space, I was like there's an easier way to do that? Awesome! But then he said something I literally pigurwd out immediately

[@Manas.26]

Amazing vid as usual !!!😁😁

[@Vahlkor]

omg! Falcon the first clip has me laughing for 2 days straight... lmao

[@chrisb.9083]

God of war collectibles is made ez if you turn on high contrast mode. Just make interactibles to like red or something. They glow bright red and makes finding hidden items a breeze

[@jamesshyla]

The Bioshock freezing mechanic would've made the water pipe puzzle so much easier

[@ducminhhoang9620]

I remember back then I was fooling around with buttons in Metal Gear Solid and figured I could raise the POV a little bit higher by pressing both the lean buttons. I thought it was nice attention to detail from the game but then I totally forgot about using it soon after because there's not much to do with it lmao

[@80Elminster]

you don't memorize spells from scrolls. Just to avoid confusion. Wizards can scribe scrolls to learn spells, which they then can memorize when you long rest

[@oasisbeyond]

In Starfield I only got 1 special ability in over 50 hours then quit lol. I don't even know what the other once are and if you can get them all in walkthrough. Never knew that about Bioshock and I beat it twice lol.

[@DarkLordZewo]

what? baldurs gate 3 spell learning isnt a secret...thats one of the main reasons why you would pick a wizard :D

[@scottn322]

I just learned yesterday that in certain cars (muscle for sure) if you press the gas very, very slowly, the car will actually roll backwards. Not an ability, but I never noticed before and Rockstar games are full of stuff like that. In RDR2 if you shoot a revolver and then hold down the trigger he will pull the hammer back and hold it back. Just weird little things.

[@TayRich93]

8:59 the way issac sits down wobbly asf 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pillagius]

In Baldurs Gate 3 if you have the wizard selected and right-click on a spell scroll in the inventory (or whatever button it is for opening contextual menu for items in controllers) - You Will Have An Option To Learn That Spell!.. If you don't know that spell yet. And yes, you have a handy "learn spell" button in skills tab.

[@crowhaven895]

@Falcon... how did you not know you could fire both barrels in Dead Space on your first play through? Did you think the other barrel and "shell rack" was for show?

[@user-ne5yw3qn8f]

That hideo voice and explanation of the voice was hilarious. Good content thank you

[@stephenbanda2908]

The spiderman train test is gaming science at its peak

[@micahsean8664]

I haven't seen anyone talk about skipping the first dog fight in RE4 Remake by killing the Gonado before he can release them. The tower falls and the dogs don't come out.

[@StrictlyJdN]

Wait until you find out you need to do pull up to build up stamina in mgs2 same with the tip toeing

[@arnaudnonosatho7073]

In mgs3, you push some controls harder to do stuff. Like you can aim by lightly pushing down square and then push harder to shoot. Yes yes with a ps2 controller, 13yo me was amazed!

[@bearcataquatic]

I played bioshock twice and had no idea. I never used the ice plasmid because I couldn’t loot shattered enemies xD

[@hector_extraHEC]

dang i played through MGS2 a dozen times and watched tons of videos on it.. never knew about the tippy toe

[@Sharky882]

Happy new year everyone and Falcon you lovely bird

[@Forever_Zero]

Kojima does love being weird so I wouldn't be surprised if he has said that at least once... Just one of the reasons why he's one of my favorite developers

[@Blackmark52]

there are so many special abilities that aren't readily apparent in so many games that replays strain my memory.

[@krokalop]

Please use dark mode, the white with numbers kills me every time, good vid as always

[@tychobrodie7403]

Only thing that irked me in GOW Ragnarok is when Freya says "Kratos, I see something" and I can never tell what tf it is 😂

[@therealcane133]

ya the first 1 i got on my second run after getting that super hard game mode

[@GreyfauxxGaming]

Resident D&D Nerd here! Not only can you learn spells which is normal for Wizards, you can learn new cantrips, which isnt normal for 5e.

[@thetwinjay2985]

Weve got to get more videos on this

[@anthonywynn1812]

Only section of dead space I've ever played was the asteroid shooting mini game. My girlfriend just handed me the controller when I walked in the room and said, "you try." And then she got mad at me and sent me out of my own room, when I beat it for her.

[@bigwhopper6501]

Upgrading the default pistol fully with exclusive in og re4 actually gives the knife critical damage too

[@konxol4978]

try going on your toes 100 times in metal gear. might be like the pullups and increase your stamina or something. I never realized you could do that. I would've made a metal gear workout video hahahaaha

[@menegene4129]

I usually just electrocute turrets and bots in Bioshock to hack them, but nice to know they can be frozen as well.

[@Patatopatado]

Funny thing is as soon as I learned about the web line, this was one of the first things I tried.

[@justinsvids6392]

I just discovered you could hold down X on ps5 in BG3 to make it easier to pick up loot. That was a game changer for me.

[@360VideoDesign]

Omg bruh lol

[@Suckit626]

I played that dead space part recently and didn't find it that difficult but maybe it gets worse on harder difficulty

[@olcountry8432]

OMG original Dead Space asteriods part was so hard.

[@KainDrake]

I'm surprised to find out hardly anyone knew the points mentioned about Bioshock and MGS2.

[@seannavarro4303]

If you’re playing Starfield with an Xbox controller, holding down both RT and LT at the same time will make the laser cutter’s beam shoot farther and produce more power making resource cutting much quicker

[@jasonhubbard6775]

Tip-toeing while crawling in the flowers (an oxymoron, I know) makes the fight against The Boss in MGS3 much easier.

[@richardjames1402]

I finished Spider-Man 2 and am only just now finding out that you can web slingshot from pretty much anywhere. I thought it was literally only those 2 spots next to the river. 🤦🏻