6 Most Overpowered DLC Items That Broke the Game

[@cptseagrave1191]

To be fair, Dragon Age also had the feastday pranks DLC, which reduced your companions' approval by the same amount as the gifts

[@ourkeving]

It doesn't sound very fair. Like the old saying, two lefts don't make a right, but three do. Anyway, y'know... the thing.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

I mean, honestly, the Book Of Prayer is where I'd say the OP was. I used that bastard to beat the dragon Andraste with nothing but a ashen bow and minor injury kits. Fight, lose 3 of 4 team mates, use book, rezz everyone, rinse and repeat. 30 minutes it took me, but I never once had a full party wipe cos of it. (I did do the fight with JUST an Ashen bow before I had the DLC, but that took an hour of no-skills sniping and about 300 minor injury kits).

[@marhawkman303]

@@WolfyFancyLads So a skilled sniper might not need the book? :D

[@maries1993]

I played DAO for the first time last month and did not realize that some of the gifts had such high disapproval until I gifted Alistair the wrong item and I saw that approval -50 notification. Since I was on my way to romancing him I quickly reloaded 😅

[@WolfyFancyLads]

@@marhawkman303 Oh yeah, just hide on the ramp where you exited the cave (you will get fireballed a lot but it does less damage than getting gored), have a lot of minor injury kits or healing items ready to spam in your hot wheel/bar, and sink time. I did it with Leliana only, everyone else was dead and she wasn't built for direct combat. :P A skilled sniper with a good bow could probably do it in half the time I took or less.

[@GumbyBrainDoctor]

As bad as the Feastday Gifts were for approval manipulation, the biggest game-breaker was Sten's gift, the Qunari Prayers for the Dead. Once he received the gift, he got an item that let him instantly revive all downed ally characters. Infinitely reusable, instant-cast, no cooldown.

[@SentiNel090]

Wait, really? *removes sunglasses* Mother of God...

[@seand7042]

I didn't know that could do that

[@helenafarkas4534]

@@seand7042 can confirm. I've seen it happen on stream. entire party moments from TPK, player accidentally clicked on the icon, ENTIRE PARTY instantly revived. best part? the player had no idea

[@Veladus]

Hmm. But that means using the child murderer. I think I'd rather just die.

[@bjchit]

That mace that you can sell for over a hundred gold might be the real OP item, you can buy basically everything at Ostagar and Denirim twice over and still have money left over.

[@ridingnerdy6406]

One of my favorite game breaking expansions (predated DLC) was Tribunal for Morrowind. Dark Brotherhood assassins start attacking you as early as the first time you sleep, assassins who are tuned to be beatable at whatever level you currently are and wear the second best light armor in the game. Said armor is way better than anything else you would have access to at the start of the game and is valued around 3000 gold a set. And they just keep delivering it to you.

[@seand7042]

Whuh!?!! I only got attacked once?

[@notthedroidsyourelookingfo4026]

Not *that* beatable if you didn't skill into combat that much. Any stealth build struggles way harder, and starting with close quarters as a mage is quite a disadvantage, too.

[@dosbilliam]

@@seand7042 They stop attacking after you talk to the NPC in Ebonheart about it; until then they'll attack you at random based on your level. If you're lucky and get the drop on them, they've also got a Dart that they would normally throw at you worth 2K alone.

[@imperialdebauchery5988]

Someone's obviously never played with console commands.

[@Bocchi-the-Rock_]

To be fair not all dlc requires actually downloading something (ultimate/GOTY editions) and even a small addition is new content for a game, so any dlc could be called an "expansion". Also, I'll still hear expansion be used to refer to modern dlc, albeit generally the largest ones that tend to add new areas or cause drastic changes within a given game P.S. why don't you deal in limeware platters like the rest of us you filthy N'wah

[@Legion.6397]

Honestly surprised not to see the N7 Typhoon from the original Mass Effect 3 here, since it was part of a DLC pack. Not for the player, its recoil and weight debuffs are way too much for the player. However if you give it to Garrus, spec him into pure assault rifle damage, give him an extended barrel and swap out his outfit for one that does increased weapon damage so he gets a 220% DAMAGE BUFF he can more or less solo the entire game. You get made into the side character of your own story. Look up Garrus Ascends to Godhood for proof of this, it still works in the remaster.

[@drunozeko4332]

That gun also makes Vega OP asl too

[@willbrolley262]

​@drunozeko4332 Ashley too, though she suffers slightly against non-shielded/organic foes because Disruptor Ammo's a bit less versatile. But I've taken her on Insanity to Rannoch and she just absolutely annihilated everything.

[@renny7562]

I mean, what else do you think all of those calibrations were for? 🤣

[@seand7042]

This! the piranha, the venom shotgun, and the others made ME3 trivial even on insanity!

[@zanite8650]

I just watched the Garrus Ascends video, amazing.

[@JammyDuel]

Doesn't get much more busted than Izanagi-no-Okami in P5R. Resistance to almost every attribute, one of the most powerful attacks, and full HP/SP recovery at the end of every fight, right from the start of the game. Makes the combat completely trivial.

[@JamieJamesVT]

Came here to say this, my man's ridiculously busted. And with the DLC the first summon is free AND higher level than most things you'll fight in the game.

[@JammyDuel]

@@JamieJamesVT and then you realise damage scales with compendium completion...

[@SaltyRocksPew]

Izanagi-no-okami-picaro is also very funny because you make the protag say it each time he's summoned

[@AdApT3Rx]

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[@NEETKitten]

P5R really asked "what if Hassou Tobi was almighty?" and never thought about the consequences.

[@mookeholtz960]

Can we please acknowledge and appreciate Janes excellent jumper in this video

[@SPQRKlio]

I would LOVE to buy that sweater/jumper. I wonder if the seller could be convinced to sponsor a video and give us a discount code? 😄

[@rich_in_paradise]

I'm jealous of Andy's hoodie. I love to see a meme made real.

[@Kalah_]

Yes it's very christmas'y :)

[@barbararowley6077]

It looks so incredibly cozy as well as stylish!

[@kaitlyndavis8140]

I literally came to the comments hoping someone was talking about her sweater! I literally gasped when I saw it! 😍

[@RobotPirateGhost]

The Operation Anchorage dlc for Fallout 3 had 2 broken items. The Chinese Stealth Armor literally made you invisible as long as you were crouching and the Winterized T-51b power armor has one of the highest damage resistance stats in the game and is bugged to have about 10 million health so it never takes any significant damage!

[@GumbyBrainDoctor]

And for bonus points, you get Power Armor Training for free far earlier than the regular story would give you.

[@duncanfenris7587]

Was thinking the same thing! Not to mention the stockpile of gear and early power armor training you got from completing a very short, almost solely combat focused DLC. Which you could run to start early on in the game, and even if you were too weak to fight the enemies you had help from the Outcasts and the strike teams in the sim you could cower behind. After that DLC every play through started the same way with my lone wanderer completely disregarding their missing father to instead go play VR war games in a bunker.

[@Ashtarte3D]

Then The Pitt one-upped it if you were an Energy Weapons user with the single most idiotic weapon every designed, the Beam Splitter. Which given how stealth attacks are calculated it wasn't doing double damage it did EIGHTEEN TIMES damage due to hitting 9 times at once.

[@killertruth186]

@@Ashtarte3D It's called the metal blaster. But I did heard how broken that laser rifle is.

[@jodinsan]

The Man Opener from The Pitt essentially gave the Lone Wanderer a working chainsaw on a stick.

[@BenMarcWilliams]

Fun fact: There is, in fact, nobody named Dave in Fire Emblem. But, considering that every game introduces several dozen new characters, it's really only a matter of time before they'll end up naming someone Dave. Or at least David. Speaking of Fire Emblem, every single game in the series that's gotten DLC has had its difficulty completely borked by the DLC. Either by giving you overpowered characters, weapons, and items, or simply by letting you get more exp and money than you should have at that point in the game.

[@mrp1234]

I don't know if they bring it up in the video because I just started it, but the Engage DLC is particularly egregious because it completely takes away the impact of the part of the game where they take away your rings and makes it a big joke

[@danielpatrick77]

​@mrp1234 I will say, at least it scales. Trying to take them all on is aaaaawful on maddening, with all the built in gimics and already stronger villains, it's the true end game lol

[@raimarulightning]

I didn't think the Three Houses DLC was especially game breaking.

[@mrp1234]

@@raimarulightningthe characters weren't but I'd argue that accessory you got for finishing the DLC was, even if not as extreme as some other DLCs in the series

[@Wildfire9002]

​@mrp1234 awakening has the most broken dlc if your army's strong enough free exp the skills limit breaker,all stats+2 and paragon to name a few

[@VonBlade]

I guess we have to pay a launch DLC price to get the 7th item on the list that's normally in the vid? :D

[@zomburgerchef9587]

It would seem so. Apparently Jane's millions aren't enough.

[@jodinsan]

The 7th item on the list was so powerful, OxE had to ban it from the list.

[@mattyt1961]

They are waiting for someone to give it to them for Feastday

[@diablo403]

I'm sure it will come in a patch, probably 3 months from now.

[@nickcampbell5626]

King Helseth's Ring from Morrowind's Tribunal DLC. It makes you immune to most things and everything else it will heal before the second hit. For context, you need to use two special weapons to destroy a god's heart to win the game, but they'll kill you upon equipping them if you don't have a gauntlet called Wraithguard. 95% of the game is leading up to getting said gauntlet, but if you have Helseth's Ring you can equip each weapon for more than long enough to end the game without touching the main quest.

[@kiptheott]

To be fair, in order to get Helseth's ring you need to kill King Helseth. Who is standing in a room surrounded by high-level guards and also, y'know, wearing a ring that makes you practically invincible. If you can actually get a hold of it you've pretty definitively proven that you don't really need it.

[@nickcampbell5626]

@@kiptheott You got me there. Unless I suppose you fight him while absurdly drunk.

[@jakacresnar5855]

​@@nickcampbell5626 Skooma solves everything

[@Akarayad]

@@nickcampbell5626fighting him after chugging like 10 bottles of sujamma is actually an extremely good idea! Use the most primal magic of all: alcoholic fury

[@naf8787]

Fellow morrowind enjoyers I respect it

[@demoonmunkay]

The Holorifle from FO:NV Dead Money. If you got all the upgrades around the villa. You could upgrade its durability and make it unbreakable. In combination with the workshop recipies to MAKE microfusion cells you would essentially never run out of ammo for it. It had a scope like a sniper, AOE like a gernade launcher, a DOT effect and if enemies got to close you could hip fire like a shotgun. That weapon was unreal.

[@wotwott2319]

I remember on my first playthrough of dead money, I dropped it in favor of more throwing spears because I used it against the ghosts and thought it was really weak because the ghosts came back up after I shot them. Little did I know that I was carrying the apocalypse itself in my hands.

[@griffinbaxter4754]

I’d also like to add that the vending machine from dead money is equally broken. So long as you get all the unlock codes and get banned from gambling at the Sierra Madre you basically get infinite healing items, infinite weapon repair kits, and by proxy infinite money by just selling the stuff you get for free to actual venders.

[@southparkkenny2]

@@griffinbaxter4754 You can also return pre-war clothes to the vending machines in exchange for chips. If you're wearing the clothes when you return them, the Agility buff stays on you and can be infinitely stacked. With 50+ Agility you can draw, holster and reload guns in milliseconds and I think also use hundreds of attacks with VATS.

[@thompse412]

Mind how much work goes in to that. Part of the point of the things in the video is that there were easily obtained.

[@kalythai]

I love the holorifle, but it seems to miss 20% of the time in short range and 100% of the time any further than that.

[@thatll-do7606]

Consider the considering if we're considering single player games: Persona 5 and it's various DLC personas, which offered access to a wide array of unique attacks and buffs, some of which were the unambiguously strongest in the game, could be obtained at the start of the game, and cost absolutely nothing to get out of the compendium for their first unlock

[@coyoteartist]

Then there's the Jane DLC where she can equip Frostmourne to settle office disputes over who ate who's food in the fridge.

[@DinendalLeralonde]

Spoiler: It was Mike every time.

[@coyoteartist]

@@DinendalLeralonde Oh free DLC

[@damejanea.macdonald2371]

Since I got a bundled version of Dragon Age: Origins with all DLC included long after it had been out, it took me a while to realize that these items weren’t part of the default experience. I just thought not a lot of work went into the affection system since it was so straightforward lmao.

[@danielhounshell2526]

The real reason people said that hero was anti competitive wasn't because of his mechanics, it was because his menus created a unique problem in tournaments with people who couldn't speak or read certain languages. It artificially made matchups easier or more difficult for certain players purely based off of the languages they were fluent in, rather than their skill at the game. It also made mirror matches between such players more or less impossible.

[@Bowcaster26]

This was my thought. For Smash I'd.have said Steve

[@danielhounshell2526]

@@Bowcaster26 I do still agree with hero being on the list, because the issue I mentioned DID break the game, and no other character was quite that problematic.

[@MasterZebulin]

There honestly needs to be more anticompetitive content in games because seriously, _screw tournaments._

[@jangpokemar3449]

Honestly I would've also put Steve. Hero sounds alot more game breaking than he actually is

[@NeptuneIV]

@@MasterZebulin sounds like someone went 0-2

[@stephenbrentlinger6812]

Urshifu from Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor DLC absolutely breaks the game in competitive Pokémon. The most commonly used move is protect, and Urshifu hits right through it because of its ability. On top of that, Urshifu’s signature moves Wicked Blow and Surging Strikes ALWAYS crit, meaning you can’t set up a defense against it or weaken its attacks. If you don’t run an Urshifu in your competitive team, you play with a handicap.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

When was comp Pokemon ever _not_ broken?

[@trevortobias4827]

While not an item in particular, Pokémon Sword and Shield’s crown tundra gave players access to level 70 legendary pokemon before the first gym. It’s technically an activity rather than an item but that was my first thought when I read the title

[@malcolmtaylor111]

I just finished a personal speed (ish) run and the level 70 Suicune was a bit of a help.

[@BJGvideos]

Not just any legendary but Calyrex Rider forms!

[@EightViolett]

@@BJGvideos Nah, can't get those until you beat the main story. Dynamax Adventures on the other hand...

[@FeiFongWang]

Pokemon Sword and Shield, the 4/10 games that had the balls to complete the roster in a $40 DLC, amazing.

[@MasterZebulin]

@@FeiFongWang Not really. Paras is still MIA.

[@chrishill4883]

I'd like to nominate the "Tazer Spazer Annihilazer" from Far cry 5s 'Lost on Mars' DLC. You can use it in Hope county once you complete the DLC. It's a sidearm, a beam weapon, has unlimited Ammo, is extremely accurate and is so powerful most enemies Disintegrate on grazing contact with the beam. Pretty much the only downside is that if you just keep the trigger pulled and sweep it around like a hosepipe of death, it will eventually overheat, and then you have to wait a few seconds for it to cool down again before you can resume disintegrating everything in sight..

[@chrisriley2321]

Or Grape Popper from the same DLC with the a similar issue of being OP

[@echo12345ish]

Im surprised Courier's Stash isn't on here. Decent armors and a 10mm pistol and a grenade launcher early in New Vegas really changed the early game

[@OptimusSledge]

That's why the first mod I install is one that makes all those items regular ones that can appear on NPCs and gives you a regular suit of clothes and a 9mm as starting gear. Too easy otherwise to be running around with kickass gear from the start, and a pile of caps from selling the stuff you aren't using.

[@chrismaxwell2274]

​@@OptimusSledgeI bet you feel proud of yourself.

[@iceman42dave18]

Came here to say this; glad it's already been covered. Getting all that OP stuff at the start was the epitome of game-breaking.

[@seand7042]

I used that grenade launcher until I was like level 19

[@Alsebra]

​@@OptimusSledge, why use a mod when you can, I dunno, just not use the gear?

[@vargaslestrae7900]

The Gaia skin for Nova wasn't just hard to see, but Activision made the "brilliant" idea to make the gaps in the model DYNAMIC, meaning your bullets could indeed actually go through the gaps in the model and not deal ANY damage whatsoever. It was no wonder why everyone and their grandmother wanted to use it.

[@TheJakeJackson]

Sleeping Dogs had some wild and great game breaking DLC. From a grenade launcher permanently available in all your homes, to a car that was just a hovertank transformer with EMP explosives. Also the red envelopes for an extra few grand in your pocket all the time. Wei Shen was Wei busted

[@marneus90]

Can't forget the Bronze Warrior which dramatically reduced damage to the point where he stopped being Wei Shen, and became "No Wei he should have survived that"

[@TheJakeJackson]

@@marneus90 100%. Cue gong strike sound effect

[@atlaszero5919]

They also gave passive upgrades for outfits, the one let you launch like spiderman from car to car like 3x your normal length.

[@H2ORaccoon]

​@@marneus90my favorite part of the Bronzed outfit was if you combined it with the herbal tea for defense buffs, you would take NO melee damage

[@goofyfurball7311]

Gotta admit, I used the feastday gifts. Though honestly, I did it on probably my 5th playthrough so I could see the reactions from the "wrong" responses to party conversations pushing them almost to leaving, then getting to keep them anyway. Fun fact, if you sell or otherwise get rid of the gift, it doesn't change their opinion of you, but you can buy it again for the +50 approval... basically forever. Or at least the 4 or 5 times I needed it for Alistair. Boy gets moody when you diss his hero.

[@GeneralNickles]

Are we just gonna ignore the existence of Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC? Absolutely game changing.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Oh, yes, it didn't break the game. *It broke the pure nuances of the industry.*

[@GinkgoPete]

King of Fighters 13 had 3 Dlc fighters that were all insanely strong especially Mr Karate. Since its a 3v3 fighter you could put them all in the same team dubbed "Team DLC" by the community

[@randomboy2937]

Izanagi no Okami from the P5R DLC also breaks the game with it's Myriad Truths. You only need to slap Concentrate on one of your party member and it one shots everything in the game except bosses.

[@AdApT3Rx]

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[@meliasnahtony2951]

2:12 "You just gave him dirt, water, and a .44 Magnum" ~Lythero

[@blu_j_1977]

The TL-50 and Bryar pistol from Star Wars Battlefront (2015)’s Death Star DLC was more broken than Padmé’s heart.

[@seangray8585]

One of the shocking finds on my last Fallout 4 playthrough was a Nocturnal Disciples Blade drop from a legendary raider in the main area of Fallout 4. Its base damage was on par with that of the sledgehammer (because legendary drop), yet it is ridiculously fast. With a melee build (especially stealth melee), you can one-shot even the highest level creatures in the glowing sea. All while being super light and super fast. The Disciples Blade is from the Nuka World DLC, and its base damage is only slightly lower than that of the sledgehammer (20 vs 23).

[@andrewbyrne2173]

I laugh because that combination was my first legendary weapon. Should have called it Jane’s Screwdriver!

[@pjsell]

Always a good start when Jane hosts

[@sledjenkins5]

I really wanted arms to be a successful game. It looked cool at launch and I still like it better than most other combat games.

[@Sumi_Yoshizawa]

fighting games purists didn't like the fact that it played differently than every other fighting games...

[@mattalan6618]

@@Sumi_Yoshizawa which was kinda the point

[@wotwott2319]

​@@Sumi_Yoshizawafighting game purists sees a 3d plane of existence and immediately shrieks in fear before running back into Plato's cave.

[@FeiFongWang]

​@@wotwott2319The most popular fighting games are 3D the fym bud????

[@TheJakeJackson]

@@FeiFongWang He means that he, like the OP and most other gamers, knows fuck all about fighting games but still has opinions about them

[@nickmurphy2936]

A bunch of the DLC planes you can get for Ace Combat 7 were also busted. In single player because you could unlock them immediately, ignoring the normal progression system, and in multiplayer because a lot of them had unique weapons (like many lasers) and insane stats.

[@jzpowell2108]

The Falken comes to mind, and yeah, it was pretty busted… great stats all around, and the tactical laser that’d melt enemies if you just barely managed to knick them

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

Honestly, the Ace Combat Series went Downhill after 4. That was the Peak. 5 was alright but the rest? Meh at best

[@jzpowell2108]

@@justinlast2lastharder749 honestly loved 5 and Zero, so those are where it started going downhill for me… after that they started aiming really heavily into the whole realism thing and that just took me out of it… I preferred the, guess you could call it, alternate world/ timeline thing they had been doing

[@professional_lurker]

It's hilarious to see Minecraft Steve mentioned as a footnote in the "Smash DLC characters are BS" section, considering he's the most technically absurd, and wildly overpowered out of the entire roster. He's so strong he's flat out banned from several competitions, even ones that ban literally no other characters. I'm not exaggerating when I say a new, massively game-breaking issue is found bi-weekly by people who main him, setting Twitter on fire with waves of complaints that barely have time to die down before it all begins again when *another* tech is found less than a month later. He's been a constant sore spot for the game, and hasn't stopped getting new, insane kill-confirms since release.

[@toddphillips8899]

The electrocution phone from Hitman 2. Basically free accidental kill. So much so that IO removed it from the inventory when upgrading to Hitman 3 even though it was a selling point of the Hitman 2 DLC.

[@KeithFraser82]

4:53 The phrase "titanic fighting game franchises" briefly made me imagine a series of fighting games set on the Titanic, perhaps where you play as real people who were on the ship and/or fictional characters from the various movies set on it. (Cal from the 1997 Titanic is banned in competitive play because of his OP special move, pulling a revolver and shooting people.)

[@JamesTM]

Every time there are six entries on an OxBox list, I can't help but wonder what the seventh was and why it was cut. In this case, it must have been something too OP that they'll drop for paying subscribers later.

[@lucas10104]

Fun facts, the feast day gifts and pranks actually helped save my playthrough. I somehow got my chosen romance’s affection too high to actually continue the romance, the option didn’t appear. So I used the generic gifts (and the approval-lowering prank items that were also for sale) to lower their approval enough to get the right dialogue, and then boosted it back up to the previous level! Thanks feast day!

[@KasumiRINA]

I always like ways to manipulate stuff like that in games, ESPECIALLY Bioware RPGs where you need some fiddling to get all sidequests and unique scenes.

[@ElimiNathanYT]

Seeing so many fighting games (and smash) was almost guaranteed because they always power creep like crazy with DLC.

[@Thompas212]

Yeah, tbh, every dlc character is just too strong

[@TimorousEye]

@@Thompas212 not always true. A.K.I for example is considered a bottom tier character in Street Fighter. And Pirahna Plant in Smash wasn’t OP either. Fuya in JoJo ASBR also isn’t that broken either.

[@BrianCooksey]

From now on, my screen name will be "Dave From Fire Emblem"

[@monologistics]

The wizards tower in oblivion came with a little glitch that gives you infinite gate stones for unlimited enchanting, I use it every time to become a wizard Argonian called "The Karma Chameleon" and stealth kill everyone with 100% Chameleon at level 1

[@Deinareia]

Plus it adds a merchant that's hands down best merchant in the game, allows enchanting and spellcrafting without Arcane University access, etc...

[@monologistics]

@@Deinareia one stop shop for some of the most OP stuff in the game

[@JondarKorric]

not strictly true for the Dragon Age entry. using the feast day gifts could break romance quests altogether.

[@alastorcorvus]

that's why they said "Completely ruins the point of Bioware RPGs"

[@levisdarkness4239]

Surprised the DLC items from dragons dogma dark arisen aren't on here tbh, or the ruminator's monocle more specifically at least. Having an item you get for free at the start of the game that's only purpose is to be sold for more money than you know what to do with will never not be funny, no matter how much it broke the game

[@mattalan6618]

yeah its funny how that 1 item gets you really close to the gold cap

[@KasumiRINA]

Dragon's Dogma starting items ruin the economy and balace so much, half the pawns last time I played were wearing that bonus dress. Great game otherwise.

[@leenotaf]

Oooooh I just got this game so that’s gonna be fun😀

[@j0njn]

I thought the explosive element added in one of Saints Row IV’s dlc packs (which was bundled in some editions of the game, including the one I got, to my surprise and sadistic glee) was a lot more powerful than the other elements. Thanks for another great video, please keep up the fantastic work.

[@MathewWalls]

To be fair though, you're already pretty overpowered for most of SR4. It's not a difficult or a restrained game.

[@j0njn]

@@MathewWalls That’s fair, but the explosive element still felt like a bit of a jump.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

​@@MathewWallsIt had some moments but yeah, it was mainly just a "Have Fun" game same as GTA 4 and 5.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

​@@j0njnRe-Elected Edition is what you got. The Patriot Gun was game breaking for sure.

[@thewaycokid1]

The gun for the Citadel DLC from Mass Effect 3 made killing anything the reapers had so easy that the last level had no stress.

[@Veladus]

Lore: Cooldown guns are inherently inferior. Literally everyone has moved on to disposable clip guns, even brokeass thugs. Gameplay:

[@SenecaRaine]

Gotham City Impostors was really fun, but fairly soon people used the highest or second highest health bodies with armor to a degree that practically made them immortal compared to others. Enter the Witch Doctor DLC weapon... It fired an electric shock that would either bounce or remain in place after hitting things and dealt double damage to anyone wearing armor. It successfully countered the meta *but* also made it really easy to group with one or two other people with the same weapon and just annihilate the lobby. To top it off, the perk that countered it (half damage from the witch doctor) was part of the same DLC.

[@alexandrabailey9341]

I totally use the DAO pack all the time so I don't have to worry about party approval 😅

[@tibi_lares]

As much I love the game, I feel like the bow variants and modifications from Horizon: Zero Dawn's DLC The Frozen Wilds belong on this list. Sure the DLC area is a bit more challenging than the main game (I got there about 2/3 into the game) but once you get those bows and modifications (which pretty much boost all your weapons and armor), the game becomes so much easier - even completed NG+ on Ultra Hard mode thanks to these items

[@DJAB87]

Same deal with Burning Shores in Forbidden West.

[@tibi_lares]

@@DJAB87 Haven't played it yet. Good to know that I can expect equally broken things in the sequel, I guess

[@mattyt1961]

@@tibi_lares unlike Frozen Wilds, burning shores is post game. the NG+ might still be a thing, but the main game won't be affected

[@denverarnold6210]

There's also the DLC for the Persona games. Persona 5 DLC made personas of previous main characters not only available in the compendium to buy, some of which were lvl. 90 or more, but made the first purchase of each free.

[@M00nlightOfficial]

Even funnier, Royal added even more, which one made every fight extremely easy.

[@Subpar1O1]

Izanagi-Okami Picaro can be obtained from the start as soon as you can access the compendium, has an attack that usually does more damage than the average players' endgame builds, and has an ability that fully restores health and sp upon finishing a fight. Not to mention he's free. I had to use him since I was basically fucked in my first run against Yaldaboath but I still feel dirty

[@julienthijs1271]

What they forget to tell you is that the hero can also self destruct in many ways. The number of times i selected the spell "kamikaze" by accident is frankly embarrassing 😂

[@jzpowell2108]

Isn’t kamikaze like Jigglypuff’s “Rest” in the fact that if you activate it when hugging another player it pretty much automatically launches them offscreen? Or am I remembering that wrong?

[@sirspookybones1118]

​@jzpowell2108 it can be that powerful, but most players won't be dopey enough to get hit

[@lisah-p8474]

I thought the thumbnail was a spriggan from Skyrim and i was very confused about why a spriggan would be OP DLC content. 😅 Thank you for the clarification.

[@cerjmedia]

The Ballistic Shield (Blackbeard's Gadget) in Rainbow Six Siege Yes, a game with one-shot headshot? Let's make a character with a bulletproof* (absorbs 800 damage I think) shield attached to his gun covering his head Can't imagine that being broken in any way They nerfed it pretty quickly as you can imagine Additionally I will also allow Lion who basically has legal wallhacks that can be achieved with the press of a button, but at least you can fight back.

[@rockyraccoon8870]

Always happy to see Dragon Age get mentioned

[@LupineVolt]

Pokemon Sword and Shield's Crown Tundra DLC can be accessed before you even go to your first pokemon gym. All the wild pokemon are level 70, and there's a mandatory battle the second you step out of the train station, but you don't have to win that fight. And since the wild pokemon are in the overworld, you can dodge through them all to get to the Crown Tundra's star attraction; the dynamax adventures. These give you a selection of rental pokemon and challenge you and a team of 3 others to beat 4 raids in a row, with the last being a legendary pokemon. If you beat the pokemon, it's a guaranteed capture. And your first adventure is guaranteed to be Suicune. You can walk into the first gym with a level 70 Suicune and just bulldoze the rest of the game from there.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

_If_ you beat the Pokemon. Of course, you have a pretty good motivation to _not_ take that route: It's *boring*

[@AngelBeatYunara]

The Feastday Gifts are definitely fun to use on a later playthrough.

[@Yoxiv]

How about the Gigawatt blades? No, these aren't a weapon made by beloved time-traveling scientist Doctor Emmett Brown, but a DLC power from PS3 classic Infamous. These blades of pure electricity could one-shot most enemies in the game, and could be reused almost endlessly by the endgame where you had more than enough power to spare on conjuring them

[@zacharysmith4856]

As a person who is not very good at online, competitive gaming, it would probably take game breaking DLC for me to level the playing field. 🙂 A wonderful list, btw.

[@aardbei54]

I know they weren't necessarily DLC, but I never thought anyone'd ever talk about banned SSB characters without mentioning Meta Knight and Bayonetta. Wow.

[@Rayne_bloodshed]

The Mars DLC from Far Cry 5 gives you access to an OP alien laser that you can use to absolutely wreck everything you come across in the main story

[@Mohawk_Productions]

Fun weapon there but when they get explody boom no money pops up

[@JimIBobIJones]

Dawnfang/Duskfang was very OP in Oblivion. It swapped to a "fresh" levelled version of the other blade during the day/night cycle. This meant you had a weapon which: a) ignored the game's equipment degradation (every sunset/sunrise it went back to 100%) b) refilled its charge twice a day without cost - and the enchantments are actually pretty good to boot c) levelled with the player so you always had the strongest version of the weapon for your level and at level 30+, its the strongest sword in the game... You really need no other weapon if you get this early - which you easily could at any level as its a reward for the 2nd DLC quest.

[@anthonymitchell4257]

Destiny 2 is full of examples of these. They usually get nerfed after a while but until then they can be fun/annoying. The One Eyed Mask is an example, a Titan helmet that allowed you to track anyone who shot at you, even through walls, and when you killed them it healed you and gave you an overshield. There was also the Loreley Splendor Helm which made you virtually unkillable in PvE.

[@RokuHanmar]

Or stasis, which broke pvp on release (one subclass had to be nerfed to the ground after 9 days) and for months after (I remember shatterdive)

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

Not mentioning the OG: Prometheus Lens, an exotic trace rifle that on release was bugged and did EXPONENTIALLY more damage than intended and ended up being sold by Xur that Friday, making the pvp scene for the entire weekend of its release a blur of red lazer beams and disintegration effects

[@Indra2007]

I remember playing Darksiders 2 and having a tough time of it till I finished The Demon Lord Belial DLC. Once I defeated him I only used Belial's Trident exclusively. Was able to easily power through anything after that. Even went through The Crucible all the way to the end with full health on me.

[@keynanmartinez]

The Plasma Coil from Borderlands 3 with the Arms Race DLC.

[@jamesjdog]

Agreed

[@Lemmingofdoom]

Shin Megami Tensei V had that DLC that allowed you a menu toggle that made the incredibly rare enemies every battle, meaning you could max your level in about 20 minutes

[@mattalan6618]

to bad its a Switch exclusive though

[@JoshPlunk]

I got a dlc that breaks the game, persona 5 Royal where you got new personas that were completely overpowered

[@kallasantysanty6092]

What about Saints Row IV and its DLCs? Executive Privilege Pack added game breaking cheat codes into the game. Element of Destruction Pack added super powerful addition to your super powers making them way too powerful. And Bling Bling Pack added super power upgrade that made you earn cash everytime you atack with those, making you super rich super fast.

[@OptimusSledge]

Not to mention the dialogue at the end from The Transformers: The Movie as Stan Bush's The Touch kicks in. If that doesn't fire you up to take on the world and win, I can only assume you're not human.

[@vanessa211]

The Grog Nozzle from Borderlands 2's dlc: Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon Keep was one of the most broken guns in the series because of its insane healing when combined with any other weapon and became a have it or suffer in the end game type of game breaker.

[@luckymcgirl9916]

Majora’s Mask from BoTW. You can get it immediately after the Great Plateau, and makes you invisible to most enemies.

[@jzpowell2108]

Yo! I thought the same exact thing

[@mystireon]

for minor context on why android 21 was so dominant in her comman grab, it wasn't just that the debuff lasted for the entire match, it's the fact that it was a 21% damage debuff, removing 1/5th of your power which absolutely gutted some characters that rely on high damage to carry subpar kits, then ontop of that she herself gained 21% additional power on all her specials including assists. the power imbalance was just insane.

[@windrider2190]

What is this, a dokkan card with that specific percentage boost? XD

[@haon375]

Fire Emblem Engage also ends up getting busted in single player with its DLC. The DLC introduces Emblems, a critical part of the game that dramatically boost anyone with one... And the DLC lets you get seven of them after a couple missions, where you'd only have three, so it over triples your emblems, and makes most of the game a breeze. Something similar happens later in the game too, because eventually, you're supposed to lose a half dozen emblems and collect them all over again... but instead of having none (or the two it gives you when it drops your other emblems) you instead have nine. All in all, the DLC trivializes the first two-thirds of the game, which is a shame, because those emblems are cool and add a lot of special effects and unique tactics, but just make things overtly easy just for the fact they exist in a game that is trying to balance itself based on the number of emblems you "should" have at the time.

[@BenMarcWilliams]

I'd argue that _all_ Fire Emblem games with DLC get their difficulty ruined by said DLC. Remember in Awakening, where the DLC let you grind infinite levels and money? Three Houses was the least egregious, I think, but even that gave you the Chalice of Beginnings and super Boots.

[@hadesunderworld2074]

Man idk how Anakin from Star wars battlefront 2 isn't on this list. Easily the most broken dlc item in video game history. He had 2 outta three moves that could instant kill other heroes and also literally kill all 20 enemies on the other team in one go. And he could just do them on repeat. He got nerfed 7 times and is still one of the best characters in the game

[@StoneOcean24]

I’m surprised the Oppressor MK2 isn’t in this list.

[@Joyful_Traitor]

While still powerful it has been nerfed somewhat they have reduced its accuracy with its lock on but yeah still op after the Oppressor MK2 I would add the Toreador to the list it take if I remember correctly when a friend and I tested it it took 6 Oppressor missiles to destroy it has a boost that recharges quickly, fires missiles and has a machine gun and you can use it as a sub making it much harder to take out if it is underwater

[@SentiNel090]

Oh God, the griefer's favorite weapon. But then again, everyone can buy that with in game currency, even if they jacked up the price...

[@TonusStoneshield]

I think a good contender for another video of this type would be Kane from Hunt Showdown, essentially the game takes place in a Swamp that is largely shades of brown and green. Kane is a largely naked hobo-man running around covered in mud that made him almost impossible to see before more recent changes.

[@Kolyarut]

The multiplayer mode in The Last of Us did carry over a small portion of the emotional gut punching from the main campaign, if you recall - there was a feature where you could import your friends and family from Facebook, and their survival depended on your ability to retrieve resources for them, which in turn depended on your performance in the multiplayer matches. Get one shot by that DLC crossbow? You're not just dead, but I hope you weren't too fond of your cousin, because you just failed to bring back the food or medicine they needed, and now they won't survive the winter. The whole notion of watching friends and family suffer and die in the ruined remnants of society probably sounded better back in the days before 2019/2020. On the plus side, I don't think I've ever performed better in an online PVP game before or since, so I guess I just needed the proper incentive...?

[@cron1807]

If I may, Urshifu from Pokemon Sword and Shield's Isle of Armour DLC, who has two very powerful forms, but especially the water form, one of which has a multi hit move, meaning higher potential damage, as well as ignoring one hit protection items such as focus sash and the sturdy ability, and with guaranteed crits, dealing 1.5x more than advertised, as well as ignoring opposing defense buffs and attack debuffs that affect yourself. The Water/Fighting typing is also insane, with important resistances not offered by the dark/fighting counterpart.

[@kay_faraday]

I looked up Dave on the fire emblem wiki and the first result was Zelgius. not quite.

[@Joe90h]

Maybe they're Dave to their mates?

[@KnightVision68]

Maaaann the feastday gifts were something else. There was a chance that when you have them, it glictched out in the form of you couldn't progress any relationships with characters

[@Fanimati0n]

Maybe it doesn't *quite* count because you need a specific & already strong pokemon to use it, but what about Ogerpon's Hearthflame mask from the Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Teal Mask DLC? Terastalizing gives Ogerpon a boost to her attack & doubles the power of her already powerful Ivy Cudgel that also gets a STAB boost. She's pretty broken

[@TimorousEye]

Funny thing about Ogerpon is that she did technically break the game but through glitch manipulation in Online battles

[@failurextreme7084]

Why was hero here for ultimate, when Bayonetta absolutely obliterated the meta in WiiU

[@darkmetalscorpian]

Kinda shocked the Babylon DLC for Civilization VI isn't on this list. Eurekas granting the entire tech is busted. You can build three mines, reach the medieval era *and* due to the way barbarian tech progression is handled, flood the rest of the world with enemies they'll be two eras behind

[@FeiFongWang]

Hero was absolutely NOT broken at any point in the game lol, people were just malding because of his rng mechanics. But even with god rng he was way too stubby to be considered good.

[@kcollier2192]

Honorable mention to the Grog Nozzle from the Assault on Dragon Keep dlc for BL2.. Even better if you got it as a permanent drop from the Gold Golem during the Community Event in 2015(?).

[@TheJakeJackson]

Damn. It wasn't just the guns, the two DLC characters were absolutely outrageous! Gage's abilities could buff her damage by 800% while reducing her accuracy just as much, but also gave every shot that missed a 50% chance to ricochet and home in on an enemy. You didn't have to aim, and you were doing 400% the damage output of the rest of your team. Plus her shields topped up with every kill. And Krieg? Get his health low enough and he could enter badass psycho mode, which refilled his health *and* the cooldown of his psycho mode. He exits psycho mode, and then immediately re-enters it when he's hurt, looping indefinitely. Unkillable. Boring even. Either of those characters could solo the game's raid bosses without much trouble

[@thetakengamer4256]

@@TheJakeJackson Even worse? Krieg didn't need any gear. Dude could do an entire playthrough without anything, and would still wreck. Sure, OP levels require you to finally equip something more than nothing, but that just made everything worse.

[@TheJakeJackson]

So true

[@chillhour6155]

Was an amazing combo with DPUH for *all characters until Gearbox decided to eventually remove the weapon swap glitch

[@chillhour6155]

​@@thetakengamer4256only up until tvhm, then you have to start spitting fireballs

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

The remake of Resident Evil 2 had weapons like a machine gun, minigun and rocket launcher with infinite ammunition and a knife that will never break.These weapons could be unlocked by beating both Leon and Claire's campaigns on hardcore mode with a S+ rank and destroying all the Mr Raccoons in the ghost survivors mode but could also be unlocked by purchasing the dlc that unlocks all in-game awards. These weapons break the game because you don't have to scavenge ammunition and the games stronger enemies can easily be killed with them as well.

[@keit99]

But you had to earn them, which I believe was possible in any RE game.

[@SentiNel090]

@@keit99 I believe the point that @Jonathon_Hennessey was trying to make is that you could buy the DLC and bypass earning the rewards in-game.

[@keit99]

@@SentiNel090 oh you could? Well that changes the situation

[@waddles6996]

​@@keit99yup, you bypass the challenges completely. I stand proud with my completinist mindset while playing them. Soo much better playing as tofu afterwards

[@keit99]

@@waddles6996 in that case I Do agree. (Not that I don't have cheat DLC in Ys and trails, but I never used them)

[@Smug_Adam69]

What about the foxblade from metal gear rising revengeance, the sword will kill anything but bosses on even the hardest difficulties, from helicopters to the big mech things

[@josh-oo]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it disqualifies you from getting a S+ Rank if you use it. I think that balances it out.

[@mattalan6618]

@@josh-oo it does. i tried it and the highest i got was an A rank

[@josh-oo]

@@mattalan6618 Thanks. Been a while since I played it, so I wasn't sure.

[@Snoop1000Skins]

Speaking of invisible skins, Fortnite’s infamous customizable superhero skin allowed you to wear a black morph suit with black highlights and a black face mask. It was so completely covering that people could crouch in shadows and just… disappear.

[@shadoweclipse8357]

Fe engage dlc just give you a bracelet that destroy everything

[@JeiceSpade]

Pokemon Sword and Shield has The Crown Tundra, where you can get several Level 70 legendaries from games past before your first badge.

[@mattybutler1985]

Isn't this literally a tactic in speedruns? Go to the Crown Tundra, get your free Level 70 Suicune and sweep the game with it?

[@billcipher3180]

what about the bloody snow bayonet in code vein? it completely melts most enemies and bosses

[@Videogal1993]

Personality it isn’t OP. You need to set it up to be OP. I made a Magnus Knight (Warriors who fight using weapons and black magic) build and that broke the game. Using the Frozen Empress blood code, I could tank and use dark spells to melt my enemies. Hellfire Vortex is great for heavy damaging single targets while the ice laser is a wonderful AoE spell. 😊

[@jakedragon8753]

I don't think anyone complained about the Feastday gifts cuz great gamebreaking stuff in single player games rock

[@DemonicLordZeromus]

The Bavarium Wingsuit in Just Cause 3 made the game an absolute cakewalk.

[@mattybutler1985]

It was great, completely free travel across the map and it even has its own weapons that are just as good if not better than the plane's attack helicopters and fighter jets.

[@ristoherranen816]

This was my first thought

[@Amaritudine]

I remember trying the TLoU multiplayer - briefly, because it was impossible to do anything except get immediately killed within moments of spawning. _Gran Turismo 5_ had a fun game-breaking DLC in its Red Bull concept car, a fantasy vehicle that basically had a warp drive and could effortlessly outpace anything else on the track.

[@DirgeTV]

Actually, the Red Bull X2010 was already in the game on release as it was even teased before the game out (Locked behind one of the driving challenges). The car you are probably thinking of is the Red Bull X2011, the car that came with the Spec 2.0 update and is basically even more of an overpowered car.

[@jbw2109]

The executioner pistol from the original ME3 was so powerful it was the only weapon I used on my adept insanity run

[@Joyful_Traitor]

Getting Stasis for Shepard in the original ME2 sure to get it you needed to do the shadow broker dlc but you could use it on any new character from the get go and it isn't affected by armor, shields or barriers and when it ends the enemy is laying on the ground for a few seconds leaving them vulnerable it was valuable on legendary in the area before the fight with the reaper baby with the moving platforms because you could stasis an enemy on the platform with the help of a sniper rifle (because you could use one to extend the range of your powers) and the enemy would stay still but the platform would move leaving them in the air until it ran out and would fall to their deaths

[@ItsGreenHerring]

Fallout: New Vegas, get all the dlcs and you start with a F**KING GRENADE LAUNCHER!!!

[@Tony_409]

Does the DLC personas from P5R count because they can break the game if you get them at the start

[@plazinga]

izanagi no picaro breaks the endgame too

[@nameynamd9212]

At the start, sure, but they're pretty bad later on unless created(maybe for the original P5 as they needed to be purchased).

[@Leonhearth0]

I would say overpowered DLC aren't a problem in solo games. I had the dlc available but didn't use any "dlc persona" in my run until way later. (When I was OP anyway.)

[@phantomnite]

Izanagi-no-okami picaro makes the whole game a joke

[@plazinga]

@@nameynamd9212 idk izanagi no okami picaro with country maker, victory cry, and myriad truths at base level was pretty op but only in the endgame

[@jeffreywells1832]

When do I receive my list

[@hexxuk8387]

Odd question : anyone know where Andy's hoodie is from? Looks so comfortable...

[@FeiFongWang]

Any of the exclusive download items for the earlier Pokemon games like Emerald or Platinum. They let you catch a Legendary Pokemon that would completely trivialize the majority of the game and destroy your friends.

[@superiortroodon3112]

It’s true hero and steve in ssbu messed with the competitive meta, but honestly if you want to talk about a dlc character that was broken, you have to talk about bayonetta in ssb4. She was nerfed in the subsequent game, but in her introduction, she was pretty much universally despised by the competitive scene.

[@endarkculi]

If we're suggesting honorable mentions, I'd like to nominate...basically any DLC in a Compile Heart game. Do you want a full party of characters as early as Chapter 2? Sets of free elixirs? Extra quests that reward party member affection, multiplied experience points, and bonus copies of the limited stuff you need for the True Ending? Boost the level cap from 99 to 999? A broadsword slightly less powerful than the best one in the base game but without any speed penalties? Their RPGs were made to be broken by themselves for profit.

[@catoninetales]

In Dragon Age, high approval also buffed one of your companion’s stats so it wasn’t *just* about smooching (only about 95% percent).

[@SentiNel090]

Really? I never noticed it because I was exploiting the infinite dump stat points. (Which I believe they did fix in one of the later builds)

[@jamesphillips4009]

Also a lot of those gifts became items - Sten's book being double OP as it works as an unlimited charge revive spell on one of your tankiest warriors.

[@Deidrheamim]

An honourable mention i'd like to add in are the dlc packs from just cause 3, specifically the reaper mech and the sky heist dlc. The reaper mech add on allows you to summon a mech at the very beginning of the game which is insanely broken and with minimal skill can solo any of the military bases in the game, and the sky heist during the first mission gives you the bavarium wingsuit which, if you have actually played jc3 you will know is stupidly busted as it gives you a rocket which quickly recharges and a machine gun which can kill any enemy out of a vehicle in about half a second.

[@freddierhodes8201]

I'd have to nominate the silenced pistol from the citadel DLC for ME3. Suppressed, incredibly powerful... made upgrading your other weapons almost pointless, only balanced slightly by the fact I prefer doing the party near the end of the game