And in Tears Of The Kingdom, you can use muddle buds to make any enemy attack anything it sees (including it’s friends). Doing this to a boss bokoblin is especially fun
@@heartofthewild680 Additionally, if Ganon's servants are right next to Zonai constructs, the two camps will attack each other if only you approach and/or tear down the barriers that the bokoblins put up.
Fun fact: in the Oblivion quest "The Ultimate Heist", the regular guards in the lower floors that try to arrest you and the fancy guards on the upper floors that try to kill you are listed in game as being part of different factions. Since these factions are hostile to each other, if you lead one group into another, these guards tasked with protecting the Imperial Palace will kill each other while the intruder gets off scott-free. Cyrodil's finest, ladies and gentlemen.
I remember that, wow it's been like fifteen years. I had a bunch of modded armors and weapons too so they were decked out I guess they can't make fun of Nords for getting knee arrows anymore
The orcs in Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games are almost as keen to kill each other as they are to kill you, which you can take advantage of if you poison their grog supplies
Best thing to do is, if you want a orc with a good trait so badly, you can sit and watch him facing another captain and see the result (him gaining from one to three levels), repeat if you want him to be more leveled up before you can recruit him or straight up ruin the after-battle party for the guy and recruit him on the spot
There was a Monty Python and the Holy Grail game where you played a version of Tetris that involved stacking corpses in an open grave while occasionally hearing someone shout "Bring out your dead!" It was Epic. Can't play regular Tetris without picturing those poor Medieval stiffs...
I like it when a dragon in Skyrim starts picking a fight with giants, other humans, wolves, draugr deathlords, etc. You can also free wolves and/or saber cats in certain dungeons, who will go to town on their bandit captors.
Hile I was walking around at night, I saw the shadow of the dragon in the sky. While I was watching it, I heard a bear growling. Whip around, and it's right next to me, and if the dragon hadnt A) caused me to stop, and B) caused the bear to growl, I would have walked right into him and likely pooped my pants when that rock turns out to be a bear 😅
In borderlands 2 and 3 there are goliaths in bandit camps. When you shoot the helmet off of these guys they become enraged and start attacking whoever’s closest to them, friend or foe. The real benefit of this is that after the Goliath kills an enemy it will heal and transform again and again allowing them to kill more enemies and dropping better loot when they get killed.
ah the glorious end result being the godliath. great loot dispensers, if you get unlucky also a total pain when there's nothing left for them to kill but you. had that happen when i accidentaly knocked one's helmet off with some grenade and by the end of his rampage was pretty much entirely out of ammo... fun times, until it wasn't at least i could respawn, restock and massacre him then
I was about to mention this as well. The times I went to the valley of the Fire Hawk cultists, snipe off a Goliath's helmet, then make some distance and watch the bodies fly. Playing Zer0 made it so much easier to avoid getting killed myself since he has his cloaking ability. And if you had his explosive decoy and status kunai perks, you can trick a Godliath into attacking your decoy, pelt him with kunai, and since some of the kunai apply slag status once the decoy explodes, the Godliath trying to attack the decoy will take a huge amount of shock damage and pretty much instantly die with very minimal work having to be done yourself.
In WoW, Priests have an ability called Mind Control that does what it says on the tin, but even better than that was an ability that Outlaw Rogues had during Legion called Bribe. You would give an NPC a fake coin to work for you and start killing other mobs, until they realize the coin is fake after 30 seconds and turn on you. One of the most hilarious explanations for taking control of an enemy I've seen in a video game.
Similar to this is AC3 where you can grab an enemy soldier and use them as a human shield against musket fire. Despite having plenty of time to choose to spare their comrade, the soldiers will instead sacrifice them to try and hit you through them. I can only imagine this is because you always happen to grab the one who snores loudly at night.
"THEY'VE GOT JERRY! DON'T SHOOT!" "That bleeder called my wife a brothel wench. I mean, she is, but that don't give him a right to insult her like that innit?"
In Don't Starve, getting enemies to kill each other is a semi-regular thing to do, and you can even do it to several bosses! One strategy is to lure the Bearger to a forest to let it smash down trees for you to collect later, with enraged Treeguards later showing up to kill it for all the trees its destroyed. Its a win-win-win!
Definitely thought this would have the Fury spell from Skyrim. Nothing more fun than getting in a dark corner, casting this spell on your hapless victim, and then watching as the city guard, or even just their ole bandit buddies cut them down
@@normalhuman9878 that also works for the assassin contracts. They won't blame you after a dragon dropped by and roasted the target. And you can even look like a hero afterwards when you kill the dragon.
Mayhem is endless entertainment. Easily makes Illusion the most fun school of magic. It being the skill tree that unlocks silent casting pretty much ruins the game.
Honestly, I never used Fury spells or anything remotely similar. I think I just saw how they’d only affect people up to level 6 or so, and, knowing how Oblivion/Skyrim level scaling works, assumed every single NPC was already above that by now.
In fallout 4 you can reprogram security bots at terminals to scramble their targeting. The best example of this is at the Raceway where you can trigger absolute chaos for the raiders
Came to the comments to mention the xenomorph; definitely handy for solving your pesky human problems. Possibly it wasn't included in the list because it's not really an idiot? It is, sadly, too smart to go after the androids that are no use or threat to it.
A bit debatable on if they fully count as enemies seeing as they only attack you on retaliation, but tricking enemies into hitting cukoos in Breath of the Wild is immensely entertaining.
@@LanceKairan i mean between a gigantic centaur made of pure testosterone that can breath fire, and a dumb twink who think that he can beat said centaur with an army of chicken, cuckoos are pretty smart to understand about their survival odds
@@ARUCARDFTEPES There is an insane level of environmental story telling to it. You gotta pay attention to understand all the stories, almost like a FromSoft game.
If the enemy currently attacking you hasn't been struck by you when shot it will also turn on the skeleton and try to murder it first...giving you the option to choose which one you will assist before taking your temporary ally out as soon as your mutual foe falls. Usually I choose to kill the skeletons first because I hate being shot at. Best part of it all? By the time the annoying archer is down the other enemy is usually weak enough from soaking hits I can take IT out with a single swing. It's not cowardice when it gives you the tactical advantage!
Most of the enemy mooks in the open world areas of Dragon Age: Inquisition will fight each other. You might see rebel Templars fighting apostates, bears attacking bandits, demons attacking Freemen (a group of deserters) or undead fighting Avvar barbarians, depending on where you are. There’s also one notable encounter on the Storm Coast where you see a giant fighting a dragon.
Most of those are scripted though. The Templar/mage fights are set dressing, the dragon/giant fight is a one off set piece for world building and the Avvar fighting the demons is an agent recruitment opportunity. You do get NPCs fighting but you usually have to bring them together and even then they concentrate on your party more than eachother.
@@mathewwilkins1613No, most of them are not scripted. In fact, there are only a couple examples of scripted fights taking place between your enemies - the dragon vs. the giant on the Storm Coast and a couple of Avvar vs. the undead fights in the Fallow Mire. Most instances of NPC on NPC combat occurs organically.
My personal favorite is the bears in Ghost of Tsushima. Not only do they normally roam around killing everything in sight, which thankfully includes Mongol patrols, but you can even find caged bears on Mongol ships sometimes. Which you can release upon your enemies as you make a hasty retreat and watch the bear do your dirty work for a while.
The Berserk darts are amazing but what makes them truly OP is that they work on anyone, including your primary targets. So you can get to the max range, shoot them and they'll be dead by the time you get back to your ship.
alternatively, if they have minions, you can have your target attack them as they all retaliate in self-defense... and bingo, your target's down faster than the poison can do the job for you :P
In Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, Cynder can use her Shadow breath ability to temporarily turn enemies onto their comrades. And as long as you have Mana, you could literally just sit back and enjoy the chaos.
You also missed truf wars between monsters in Monster Hunter World, Iceborne, and Rise. It's awesome enough when these battles occur during a hunt giving you a nice breather while still depleting the monsters hp and getting you some nice loot. But you can instigate the fights yourself by agroing or using a lure to get the monsters to cross paths.
The best case of this is in the Hitman series; there are several assassinations that can be performed by proxy. My favorite is in the Hokkaido level of the 2016 Hitman: you can give a list of targets to a doctor performing an operation, one of those targets was the doctor's father, the assassin being the man the doctor is operating on. Get the doctor hopped up on drugs and he'll go through with killing his patient
While it's more difficult than just killing her yourself, I sometimes like using the snipers in Mendoza to kill the woman target for me. My usual route is the tour plus grape press method, but the snipers are useful.
The poisonous "berserk dart" was not introduced in Black Flag. It was one of Ezio's weapons far earlier in the series. It may not have been labeled the same, but its functionality was just as you described here.
@@seand7042 It was introduced in Brotherhood not 2. In my mind I remembered them in two but It's been ages since I played them so my mind was probably just combining 2 and Brotherhood. Since you are playing AC2 heres what you need to try. Use the poison blade on a guard and then throw coins on the ground near the guard and watch all the people scurry to grab the coins when the guard starts freaking out and attacking them. Peak entertainment especially if you need a distraction and is useful for getting some of those chests that are guarded.
You also get versions of the berserker darts in every game going forward (well other than the rpg ones from what I've managed to find) and brotherhood, iirc (they are just called poison darts in revelations and brotherhood) I believe the lore that connects all these is they are made from datura (which datura bombs in revelations do the same as regular poison darts which are identical to berserk darts)
In Witcher 3 you can hypnotize an enemy with the Axii sign to attack other enemies. Only requirement being that you have to learn that skill via the skill tree.
FromSoft definitely has some nice options over the years: Rapport, Shaman Bone Blade, Seed of a Giant Tree, and more recently the Bewitching Branch. Why fight when you can tell others to for you 😏
The Goliaths in Borderlands, when their helmets are removed, will go into a frenzy and look to pulverize anything in a ten mile radius that has a pulse - friend or foe.
In Bioshock and Bioshock 2, this could be done with the Big Daddies. There's actually two ways to do this: you can either use the Plasmid called Hypnotize Big Daddy (which does exactly what it says on the tin), or you can try and trick an enemy into accidentally hitting them. If fact, this actually becomes really useful in Bioshock 2, during the parts where you have to take on a Big Sister. If you can trick the Big Sister into attacking the Big Daddy, it'll actually cause the two of them to fight each other.
Vagrant Story - some enemies like the lazardman can be turned into allies if you heal them enough. It's not generally useful but it's funny which is what's important
In Metroid Prime, and possibly other games, the Space Pirates like having metroids has pets. In the base in Phendrana Drifts there's one room where upon opening the door there is a containment tube with a metroid conveniently placed right in front of you.
Love it when I’m playing Skyrim and a dragon shows up to fight the people I’m fighting. One actually attacked a camp of bandits just outside of a town when I had no idea any bandits were there
Ah, yes: The hollow on the north side of hill that Whiterun sits upon. Two bandits watch the camp, then three leveled ones will show up when you raid the chest. And there's a world event spawn point just north of the place so there is a chance a dragon will spawn to fight a giant or whatnot.
You mentioned letting animals loose in Far Cry, but you can do that in a bunch of Assassin's Creed games too. I did it all the time when I was sneaking through an enemy fort, and enjoyed the chaos
In Farcry Primal you can have a lot of fun with that. You get an attack in which you use your pet bird as a drone and one of the bombs that it can throw will make all of the characters near it berserk. You can strategically take out a whole encampment letting 3 or 4 of those, cause the aggro attack other aggros. Make it even better send your sabertooth or bear run in, and encampment is yours
Also, in Bioshock 1 & 2, the Enrage (level 1 Hypnotize in Bs2) Plasmid is one of my favorite choices for entertain. Watching one of the Splicers being hypnotized and attacking it buddy (or Big Daddy if they are around) while I just chilling from afar it's just cracked me up all the time.
If I want an entertaining challenge in Fallout New Vegas, I switch up my usual Intelligence and Charisma stats and get the Animal Friend 2 perk. Watching Barton Thorn getting mauled by geckos never gets old.
Just a note - In AC Brotherhood you've had poisoned blade and darts, that would make target swing blindly, hitting everyone, causing the to aggro. Pretty similar to berserker darts
In Horizon Zero Dawn, there is an arrow that can make the dinobots kill each other, I've used them on the part of the map where there are 2 Thundermaws and if there is a lake with a few aligator bots around. Also, there was a part of the story where you have to infiltrate a camp where there are chained dinobots, all you have to do is break the chains and the bots would kill most of the enemies there...
@@ledumpsterfire6474 Corruption Arrows do that - you need a War Bow in order to shoot them, and to craft them you need Metalburn (on top of the usual wood and shards), which you get from corrupted machines
@@flusendieb6833 Shit. I literally never used them, so I had no idea they did that. I figured it was just treated as another regular element at your disposal.
This is my favorite type of enemy. Outsourcing in Dishonored with Emily or Corvo is fun, and especially awesome if you can pull it off like StealthGamer.
Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War. Between branding, poison grog, attacks from caragors, graugs and drakes, and Eltariel’s alliances in The Blade of Galadriel DLC, you could probably do a whole list of seven just from that franchise
I loved the mission in Half-Life 2 where you used the ant-lions, that where quite the nuisance in level prior, on the combine, hardly needing to shoot a gun yourself.
More Elden Ring fun: you can a Crystal Dart item on the Erdtree Burial Watchdog enemies, or the stone imps, to make them unable to distinguish friend from foe. It is particularly hilarious to walk into a boss fight against 2 watchdogs, only for them to beat each other to death while you watch.
Cop: I served in the military for 8 years. I fought in Vietnam, and I am a sergeant of the police force. Jacket: *Apply handcuffs* Cop: a man in a rubber chicken mask is now telling me to kill my comrades. I don’t see why not.
Doom may not have been the first game to have enemy infighting, but it has a powerful claim... There's also NetHack, where wearing a ring of conflict (that makes everyone attack each other) is considered a great strategy. Just make sure your pet isn't nearby, because it'll attack you and it's usually quite stronger!
Tartuccio in Pathfinder Kingmaker. His 1st spell is fireball. Which will incinerate everything in a 30' radius. Including, if your PC charges him....himself. Along with almost all his minions. Also, Midnight Sun. Where the Dark Hunter and Scarlet Witch both have cards that will cause enemies to attack other enemies. This can be cast on bosses to cause them to kill their minions on your behalf.
Goliaths in Borderlands... if you shoot them in the face, their helm pops off and they go on a murderous rampage. They even level up if they kill enough and become even more BADASS. Fun times to be had all round.
The berserk darts made an appearance before Black Flag, in the Ezio trilogy the Poison blade did the exact same thing and could later be upgraded by visiting Leonardo Da Vinci to shoot darts
A couple of examples that I can think of where you can trick enemies into killing each other is Doom and it's sequel Doom 2 hell on earth. The demons and the possessed will upon taking damage from one another will cease trying to kill you in favor of killing their fellow monsters. There's also Alien Isolation, tossing a noisemaker near a group of human enemies will get the attention of the xenomorph who will kill them for you. Be careful when doing this however as the xenomorph will now be hunting for you.
One minute it's atonalism and the works of Hieronymus Bosch; next minute it's describing tigers as "stripey murder Garfields". This kind of writing is a big part of why I appreciate this channel so very much.
How could you have forgotten the original Doom and Doom II? The enemies could often be tricked into fighting each other, which is especially useful when you need a Cyberdemon whittled down.
There are a lot of classic games that could be on here. Pretty sure there are Wolfenstein games where the enemies attack each other too. Thief as well. There's a particularly interesting one (it might be one of the Thief Gold levels) where a group of guards is talking outside, and they go inside right before another group patrols by. But if you frequently pause and unpause the game, it makes the guards restart their dialogue, so they'll still be outside when the second group patrols. Do that, and the two groups will fight each other. It puts the survivors on alert, and you start nearby enough that they'll probably find you, but it's still fun to see at least once.
In Elden Ring I wanted to see if Varré could help me killing the Tree Sentinel, well I learned that Varré was a pacifist and he got killed by the Tree Sentinel without doing anything. I then decided to hire a Troll to fight the Tree Sentinel, at least the Troll fought back
You can give the Dung Eater the Potion that was meant for Nepheli Loux which will brainwash him then you can purchase him from Seluvis as a summonable puppet.
I know I’m being pedantic about this but surely the berserk dart would be described as venomous or toxic but not poisonous since poison is ingested and venom is injected.
I immediately thought of Hypnotize from Bioshock that allows u to turn a big Daddy into a powerhouse protector that will murder every single splicer that comes anywhere near u as if u are their little sister they must protect
I said the same, lol. That was my method. I wasted one on the first attempt because I wasn't close enough and just swung at the air. The second one connected and it was a breeze. I was relieved to see that the 2nd shark that dropped from the ceiling has notably less health than the first one, so he was easier for me to kill after he took care of the first one for me. That fight was honestly a lot easier for me than I expected when going into it.
What about everything in Shadow of War? When Uruks are not trying to kill you, they occasionally get bored, look at their comrade and say,"what the heck, we just pulled a new uruk out the cats anyway," and 0roceed to go ham with killing their allies.
I'm actually a bit surprised the Possession vigor from Bioshock Infinite wasn't on here. It quite literally makes enemies fight each other and if you upgrade it, they'll fight each other then kill themselves when it's run out
While not really killing, I was hoping to see some Yakuza 0 on this list, where Majima can use a heat action in his Breaker style to dodge one guy's attack so it hits another. Endless entertainment
I'm surprised you didn't mention how in Elden Ring, the jade masked critters in catacombs, the cat dog bosses, and the titan constructs, will electrically short out and turn on their allies if you strike them with enough crystal darts.
I would like to add 3 entries for next time this list comes around: Hades: Charmed Enemies, it's even more fun when you hit Hades himself and he kills the very minions he just spawned Dark Souls 3: Just before The Watch Dogs of Farron fight, Dark Wraiths and those Tree Guys fight to the death and is a nice farm for souls Assassin's Creed Revelations: Janissaries and Templars don't mix.
Another fun one. In the original Doom, way back when, if you could get two demons of different species to accidentally hit each other, they'd keep attacking one another. If you came across a room full of mixed demons, just firing a rocket or something in there to stir them up, letting friendly fire happen, then bailing out was a good strategy.
been playing Zombie Army 4: Dead War recently and quite a few of the special zombies harm the rest. flamers setting them on fire, gunners mowing em down, stuff like that. it's pretty fun to splatter a group of zombies by shooting a suicider that's in the middle of it
One of the earliest examples I can think of is Perfect Dark. In one level, Joanna acquires the psychosis gun, which we dubbed "the obedient servant gun." It was a unique mechanic at the time and an absolute delight in an era where infuriating escort missions were all the rage.
If I recall Watch Dogs 2 had a feature where you could call the cops on someone to arrest them and if they resist they start shooting at your target, or you can put a hit on someone and have a gang shoot at them, I did both a lot when I was in heavily guarded areas! One of the funniest things I saw!
Glad I subbed to your channel, remember when I use to watch Andy through my Xbox 360 back in Uni around 2011. The man has aged well and he still funny asf with the signature british dark humour.
The ant lions in Half Life 2 are one of the all time classics. Spend ages fighting against them, then with a help of a pheromone pod, all of a sudden they're on your side.
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara can use an Arrow which works like the Beserk Dart. And in TES V - Skyrim you can use spell called "Frenzy" which will do the same.
In Breath of the wild, if a moblin doesn't have any rocks available to throw at you, they will throw bokoblins.
Why stop with the Moblin. A Cucco is the ultimate weapon, since they are invulnerable any enemy that attacks one will be swamed and killed by them.
That's always funny lol
And in Tears Of The Kingdom, you can use muddle buds to make any enemy attack anything it sees (including it’s friends). Doing this to a boss bokoblin is especially fun
@@heartofthewild680 Additionally, if Ganon's servants are right next to Zonai constructs, the two camps will attack each other if only you approach and/or tear down the barriers that the bokoblins put up.
Fun fact: in the Oblivion quest "The Ultimate Heist", the regular guards in the lower floors that try to arrest you and the fancy guards on the upper floors that try to kill you are listed in game as being part of different factions.
Since these factions are hostile to each other, if you lead one group into another, these guards tasked with protecting the Imperial Palace will kill each other while the intruder gets off scott-free.
Cyrodil's finest, ladies and gentlemen.
Hell, Oblivion NPCs who *are* part of the same faction will fight each other to the death in retalliation for crossfire.
I remember that, wow it's been like fifteen years. I had a bunch of modded armors and weapons too so they were decked out
I guess they can't make fun of Nords for getting knee arrows anymore
"Stop right there criminal sc- wait, it's one of those shiny assholes that think their better than us. The thief can wait."
The orcs in Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games are almost as keen to kill each other as they are to kill you, which you can take advantage of if you poison their grog supplies
You don’t even need the grog, sometimes captains just fight themselves, but good suggestion!
Another option in Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War is releasing a cage Caragor / dropping Caragor bait and than watching from a distance.
@@Timmiew Or the troll like beings known as Grougs. Mountains of angry muscle and in later stages, also elemental fury.
Just dominate em and then have the double cross whoever go there and fight with him
Best thing to do is, if you want a orc with a good trait so badly, you can sit and watch him facing another captain and see the result (him gaining from one to three levels), repeat if you want him to be more leveled up before you can recruit him or straight up ruin the after-battle party for the guy and recruit him on the spot
There was a Monty Python and the Holy Grail game where you played a version of Tetris that involved stacking corpses in an open grave while occasionally hearing someone shout "Bring out your dead!" It was Epic. Can't play regular Tetris without picturing those poor Medieval stiffs...
Also "i'm not dead yet" proceeds to smack him with a mace...
"Stripey murder Garfields" is the best description of a tiger I've ever heard😂
Or just Hobbes. You know deep down he'd kill us all.
It doesn’t make sense because Garfield is already stripey
I’ve heard they’re not really fond of Lasagna.
this cracked me up! well done 😂
@@minaashido518 But he's not quite murdery though, which is the key difference here.
I like it when a dragon in Skyrim starts picking a fight with giants, other humans, wolves, draugr deathlords, etc. You can also free wolves and/or saber cats in certain dungeons, who will go to town on their bandit captors.
Hile I was walking around at night, I saw the shadow of the dragon in the sky. While I was watching it, I heard a bear growling. Whip around, and it's right next to me, and if the dragon hadnt A) caused me to stop, and B) caused the bear to growl, I would have walked right into him and likely pooped my pants when that rock turns out to be a bear 😅
In borderlands 2 and 3 there are goliaths in bandit camps. When you shoot the helmet off of these guys they become enraged and start attacking whoever’s closest to them, friend or foe. The real benefit of this is that after the Goliath kills an enemy it will heal and transform again and again allowing them to kill more enemies and dropping better loot when they get killed.
ah the glorious end result being the godliath. great loot dispensers, if you get unlucky also a total pain when there's nothing left for them to kill but you. had that happen when i accidentaly knocked one's helmet off with some grenade and by the end of his rampage was pretty much entirely out of ammo... fun times, until it wasn't at least i could respawn, restock and massacre him then
Just said the same thing!
I was about to mention the same thing
The Borderlands 2 Goliaths' rage quotes also never get old.
"GET READY TO FEEL MY FINGERS IN YOUR EYEBALLS!"
I was about to mention this as well. The times I went to the valley of the Fire Hawk cultists, snipe off a Goliath's helmet, then make some distance and watch the bodies fly. Playing Zer0 made it so much easier to avoid getting killed myself since he has his cloaking ability. And if you had his explosive decoy and status kunai perks, you can trick a Godliath into attacking your decoy, pelt him with kunai, and since some of the kunai apply slag status once the decoy explodes, the Godliath trying to attack the decoy will take a huge amount of shock damage and pretty much instantly die with very minimal work having to be done yourself.
In WoW, Priests have an ability called Mind Control that does what it says on the tin, but even better than that was an ability that Outlaw Rogues had during Legion called Bribe. You would give an NPC a fake coin to work for you and start killing other mobs, until they realize the coin is fake after 30 seconds and turn on you. One of the most hilarious explanations for taking control of an enemy I've seen in a video game.
Similar to this is AC3 where you can grab an enemy soldier and use them as a human shield against musket fire. Despite having plenty of time to choose to spare their comrade, the soldiers will instead sacrifice them to try and hit you through them. I can only imagine this is because you always happen to grab the one who snores loudly at night.
"THEY'VE GOT JERRY! DON'T SHOOT!"
"That bleeder called my wife a brothel wench. I mean, she is, but that don't give him a right to insult her like that innit?"
He knew what he signed up for.
As one who snores loudly at night, can confirm someone would use me as a human shield.
Have you seen musket balls? Those things are .64cal, but yeah, there wasn't the tech at the time to make it go through people.
AC3? You can do this in Animal Crossing: City Folk?
In Don't Starve, getting enemies to kill each other is a semi-regular thing to do, and you can even do it to several bosses! One strategy is to lure the Bearger to a forest to let it smash down trees for you to collect later, with enraged Treeguards later showing up to kill it for all the trees its destroyed. Its a win-win-win!
Definitely thought this would have the Fury spell from Skyrim. Nothing more fun than getting in a dark corner, casting this spell on your hapless victim, and then watching as the city guard, or even just their ole bandit buddies cut them down
Makes the Assassin contracts for the Dark Brotherhood much more entertaining.
I prefer luring dragons over to forts full of enemies
@@normalhuman9878 that also works for the assassin contracts. They won't blame you after a dragon dropped by and roasted the target.
And you can even look like a hero afterwards when you kill the dragon.
Mayhem is endless entertainment. Easily makes Illusion the most fun school of magic. It being the skill tree that unlocks silent casting pretty much ruins the game.
Honestly, I never used Fury spells or anything remotely similar. I think I just saw how they’d only affect people up to level 6 or so, and, knowing how Oblivion/Skyrim level scaling works, assumed every single NPC was already above that by now.
In Bioshock it's always fun watching helpless splicers fighting a big daddy
ive always found it fun to fight Big Daddies in general
Even better when a non aggro big daddy gets hit by another's mine and they go at it while their little sisters egg them on
Or just use the enrage plasmid and watch them take each other down xD😂
In fallout 4 you can reprogram security bots at terminals to scramble their targeting.
The best example of this is at the Raceway where you can trigger absolute chaos for the raiders
In reverse, in Fallout, giving a decent gun to one of your sidekicks always made you wonder when did you saved last everytime you started a fight
never did do that after the first playthrough. Still salty those raiders attacked on sight
pretty sure with the right perks you could command any enemy to stop fighting against you and fight with you instead
@@franck3279 Depends. In New Vegas, even if you don't give him a better gun, you wonder why the world needs you when it has Boone.
@@nickwebb4266 Yep, in the Charisma perks you can pacify someone then have them fight for you haha.
I remember being shot at in Alien: Isolation, then running and hiding while the xenomorph came and mopped up the fools shooting at me. We bonded.
I always enjoyed throwing a noisemaker at a bunch of people and just waiting for the carnage to be over.
Came to the comments to mention the xenomorph; definitely handy for solving your pesky human problems. Possibly it wasn't included in the list because it's not really an idiot? It is, sadly, too smart to go after the androids that are no use or threat to it.
A bit debatable on if they fully count as enemies seeing as they only attack you on retaliation, but tricking enemies into hitting cukoos in Breath of the Wild is immensely entertaining.
This does not, unfortunately, work on Lynels. The cuccoos will just swarm you instead for being dumb enough to bring them there. 😂
@@LanceKairan i mean between a gigantic centaur made of pure testosterone that can breath fire, and a dumb twink who think that he can beat said centaur with an army of chicken, cuckoos are pretty smart to understand about their survival odds
@@LanceKairan That damn game is almost Dwarf Fortress level deep, wow.
No, no, any child who grew up on TLoZ will tell you Cukoos are definitely enemies lol
@@ARUCARDFTEPES There is an insane level of environmental story telling to it. You gotta pay attention to understand all the stories, almost like a FromSoft game.
A lot of games tend to have the "enemy base is full of caged monsters that will gladly kill their captors if released" thing going on.
Cause it's fun!
Because villains don't care about safety standards.
@@erinfinn2273 Mmhmm, very satisfying. Reaping what they sowed.
In Minecraft, whenever you have a skeleton shoot any other enemy currently attacking you. Always fun.
It's also fun to get a witch to hit other witches with a splash potion.
My suggestion is to have a few snow golems to instigate the chaos.
Groups of skeletons will always turn on each other due to stray arrows, and creepers will kill other mobs by exploding.
Getting a skeleton to kill a Creeper without it exploding can also get a chance to make the Creeper drop a music disc
If the enemy currently attacking you hasn't been struck by you when shot it will also turn on the skeleton and try to murder it first...giving you the option to choose which one you will assist before taking your temporary ally out as soon as your mutual foe falls. Usually I choose to kill the skeletons first because I hate being shot at. Best part of it all? By the time the annoying archer is down the other enemy is usually weak enough from soaking hits I can take IT out with a single swing. It's not cowardice when it gives you the tactical advantage!
oh, you can also do that some of the older Doom games, as long as they are different TYPES of enemy.
Most of the enemy mooks in the open world areas of Dragon Age: Inquisition will fight each other. You might see rebel Templars fighting apostates, bears attacking bandits, demons attacking Freemen (a group of deserters) or undead fighting Avvar barbarians, depending on where you are. There’s also one notable encounter on the Storm Coast where you see a giant fighting a dragon.
Most of those are scripted though. The Templar/mage fights are set dressing, the dragon/giant fight is a one off set piece for world building and the Avvar fighting the demons is an agent recruitment opportunity. You do get NPCs fighting but you usually have to bring them together and even then they concentrate on your party more than eachother.
@@mathewwilkins1613No, most of them are not scripted. In fact, there are only a couple examples of scripted fights taking place between your enemies - the dragon vs. the giant on the Storm Coast and a couple of Avvar vs. the undead fights in the Fallow Mire. Most instances of NPC on NPC combat occurs organically.
Watching NPCs take out each other is my favourite thing to do in video games. I don't even care if it's less efficient than taking them out myself
I agree. It is really satisfying watching your enemies kill each other while you just sit some place safe and just enjoy the carnage.
My mind was blown when I discovered you could get the enemies for fight each other in DOOM.
@@farakhhanif the perfect time to take bong rips or do dabs...
My personal favorite is the bears in Ghost of Tsushima. Not only do they normally roam around killing everything in sight, which thankfully includes Mongol patrols, but you can even find caged bears on Mongol ships sometimes. Which you can release upon your enemies as you make a hasty retreat and watch the bear do your dirty work for a while.
Not to forget you can also drug the enemies into hallucinating and killing their teammates, too bad they didn't include this one.
The Berserk darts are amazing but what makes them truly OP is that they work on anyone, including your primary targets. So you can get to the max range, shoot them and they'll be dead by the time you get back to your ship.
I never even thought of this. Thanks for the idea!
alternatively, if they have minions, you can have your target attack them as they all retaliate in self-defense... and bingo, your target's down faster than the poison can do the job for you :P
@@SorcererLance that's literally what I mean lol you hit your primary target with the dart, let them go after others in the area and get wrecked.
I don't do almost any of the assassination contracts until I have my darts maxed out
I don’t think I killed any primary targets in any way except berserk darts once I had them
In Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, Cynder can use her Shadow breath ability to temporarily turn enemies onto their comrades. And as long as you have Mana, you could literally just sit back and enjoy the chaos.
You also missed truf wars between monsters in Monster Hunter World, Iceborne, and Rise. It's awesome enough when these battles occur during a hunt giving you a nice breather while still depleting the monsters hp and getting you some nice loot. But you can instigate the fights yourself by agroing or using a lure to get the monsters to cross paths.
Personal favorite is Rajang vs Savage Jho.
Love a good turf war in Monster Hunter! They are awesome to watch and instigate!
Andy: It's probably the guy leaping buildings in a single bound!
Me: Superman?
The best case of this is in the Hitman series; there are several assassinations that can be performed by proxy. My favorite is in the Hokkaido level of the 2016 Hitman: you can give a list of targets to a doctor performing an operation, one of those targets was the doctor's father, the assassin being the man the doctor is operating on. Get the doctor hopped up on drugs and he'll go through with killing his patient
Or even Mumbai where you can go babysit the Kashmirian knowing he'll take the heat for the murder of Providence operatives
While it's more difficult than just killing her yourself, I sometimes like using the snipers in Mendoza to kill the woman target for me. My usual route is the tour plus grape press method, but the snipers are useful.
Yeah I’m surprised of no mention of Hitman since they have a video about the is same topic but only different times you do it in Hitman
Better example is in Bangkok, you can get Jordan Cross to kill Ken Morgan by pushing him out of a window.
@@yeshua7238 That may be why they didn't mention it. It's already been covered.
The poisonous "berserk dart" was not introduced in Black Flag. It was one of Ezio's weapons far earlier in the series. It may not have been labeled the same, but its functionality was just as you described here.
And I'm sure they really, really care. They must totally care. Maybe.
No. Hahahahahaha nobody does.
@@ChristophBrinkmann A statement which proves itself false. Great job with that.
I'm 2/3rds the way through assassin's Creed 2 do you mean the poisonous Hidden Blade? I've yet to get poisonous blowdarts
@@seand7042 I don't remember if they introduced it in Assassin's Creed 2 or Brotherhood, but it was definitely a ranged weapon.
@@seand7042 It was introduced in Brotherhood not 2. In my mind I remembered them in two but It's been ages since I played them so my mind was probably just combining 2 and Brotherhood.
Since you are playing AC2 heres what you need to try. Use the poison blade on a guard and then throw coins on the ground near the guard and watch all the people scurry to grab the coins when the guard starts freaking out and attacking them. Peak entertainment especially if you need a distraction and is useful for getting some of those chests that are guarded.
The poison blade in AC2 works like the berserk dart. Using some coins to lure folks in range of a frenzied, poisoned guard is peak entertainment.
You also get versions of the berserker darts in every game going forward (well other than the rpg ones from what I've managed to find) and brotherhood, iirc (they are just called poison darts in revelations and brotherhood) I believe the lore that connects all these is they are made from datura (which datura bombs in revelations do the same as regular poison darts which are identical to berserk darts)
In Witcher 3 you can hypnotize an enemy with the Axii sign to attack other enemies. Only requirement being that you have to learn that skill via the skill tree.
FromSoft definitely has some nice options over the years: Rapport, Shaman Bone Blade, Seed of a Giant Tree, and more recently the Bewitching Branch. Why fight when you can tell others to for you 😏
The Goliaths in Borderlands, when their helmets are removed, will go into a frenzy and look to pulverize anything in a ten mile radius that has a pulse - friend or foe.
That was my instant thought. Was surprised they weren't on this list
The geniuses behind Perfect Dark understood this urge and gave you the Psychosis Gun. Man, that game had everything.
In Bioshock and Bioshock 2, this could be done with the Big Daddies. There's actually two ways to do this: you can either use the Plasmid called Hypnotize Big Daddy (which does exactly what it says on the tin), or you can try and trick an enemy into accidentally hitting them. If fact, this actually becomes really useful in Bioshock 2, during the parts where you have to take on a Big Sister. If you can trick the Big Sister into attacking the Big Daddy, it'll actually cause the two of them to fight each other.
When there’s no links to other videos Andy just looks like a crazy person. And I like it.
Nurse: "Yes, yes Mr. Farrant those "videos" look fascinating. Time for your meds. "
Tell me, Mr. Farrant, are these "videos" in the room with us right now?
The patient has also said "if you happen to be watching this from the future" in a couple of sessions. I suggest we up the dosage.
Vagrant Story - some enemies like the lazardman can be turned into allies if you heal them enough. It's not generally useful but it's funny which is what's important
In Metroid Prime, and possibly other games, the Space Pirates like having metroids has pets. In the base in Phendrana Drifts there's one room where upon opening the door there is a containment tube with a metroid conveniently placed right in front of you.
Love it when I’m playing Skyrim and a dragon shows up to fight the people I’m fighting. One actually attacked a camp of bandits just outside of a town when I had no idea any bandits were there
Or when a dragon's arrival saves me from being launched into low earth orbit by a giant...
Ah, yes: The hollow on the north side of hill that Whiterun sits upon. Two bandits watch the camp, then three leveled ones will show up when you raid the chest. And there's a world event spawn point just north of the place so there is a chance a dragon will spawn to fight a giant or whatnot.
I like the way your green caption bar completely obscures what happens at around 0:55.
I love berserker darts in any video game, they feel cheap, but there’s nothing quite like cackling in a bush watching a war between allies.
You mentioned letting animals loose in Far Cry, but you can do that in a bunch of Assassin's Creed games too. I did it all the time when I was sneaking through an enemy fort, and enjoyed the chaos
I stopped doing it when I always managed to be maimed by the animals as well!
Skyrim has it too.
In Farcry Primal you can have a lot of fun with that. You get an attack in which you use your pet bird as a drone and one of the bombs that it can throw will make all of the characters near it berserk. You can strategically take out a whole encampment letting 3 or 4 of those, cause the aggro attack other aggros. Make it even better send your sabertooth or bear run in, and encampment is yours
Games that don't involve killing anyone, I was about to suggest adding Cities Skylines to the list, then I remembered your play through of it.
And the sims. 😂
Also, in Bioshock 1 & 2, the Enrage (level 1 Hypnotize in Bs2) Plasmid is one of my favorite choices for entertain. Watching one of the Splicers being hypnotized and attacking it buddy (or Big Daddy if they are around) while I just chilling from afar it's just cracked me up all the time.
If I want an entertaining challenge in Fallout New Vegas, I switch up my usual Intelligence and Charisma stats and get the Animal Friend 2 perk. Watching Barton Thorn getting mauled by geckos never gets old.
Just a note - In AC Brotherhood you've had poisoned blade and darts, that would make target swing blindly, hitting everyone, causing the to aggro. Pretty similar to berserker darts
AC2 had the Poison Blade which was kinda the predecessor to Brotherhood's darts, you just had to be closer to the target for it to work
In Horizon Zero Dawn, there is an arrow that can make the dinobots kill each other, I've used them on the part of the map where there are 2 Thundermaws and if there is a lake with a few aligator bots around. Also, there was a part of the story where you have to infiltrate a camp where there are chained dinobots, all you have to do is break the chains and the bots would kill most of the enemies there...
What arrow was it? I just finished it and started Forbidden West and never saw one that did that.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 Corruption Arrows do that - you need a War Bow in order to shoot them, and to craft them you need Metalburn (on top of the usual wood and shards), which you get from corrupted machines
@@flusendieb6833 Shit. I literally never used them, so I had no idea they did that. I figured it was just treated as another regular element at your disposal.
I Love The Corruption Arrows
Corruption Arrows were fun.
Is Jane ever going to age or release her grasp of my entire heart? I'd like it back now, I've been subscribed for years
This is my favorite type of enemy. Outsourcing in Dishonored with Emily or Corvo is fun, and especially awesome if you can pull it off like StealthGamer.
Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War. Between branding, poison grog, attacks from caragors, graugs and drakes, and Eltariel’s alliances in The Blade of Galadriel DLC, you could probably do a whole list of seven just from that franchise
I loved the mission in Half-Life 2 where you used the ant-lions, that where quite the nuisance in level prior, on the combine, hardly needing to shoot a gun yourself.
Jane referring to Tigers as "Stripey murder garfields" is a moment for the ages
Morphs, meaning 'knives for arms' really had me laughing
Taunting BotW moblins into throwing bokoblins at you, off cliffs, is an art.
More Elden Ring fun: you can a Crystal Dart item on the Erdtree Burial Watchdog enemies, or the stone imps, to make them unable to distinguish friend from foe. It is particularly hilarious to walk into a boss fight against 2 watchdogs, only for them to beat each other to death while you watch.
It takes more darts, but you can also do it to the golems!
I’ve been watching this channel since I was a kid, I’m glad you guys still post great videos
Yall definitely needed to have payday 2 on there when you can convince hardened swat officers against their friends lol
Cop: I served in the military for 8 years. I fought in Vietnam, and I am a sergeant of the police force.
Jacket: *Apply handcuffs*
Cop: a man in a rubber chicken mask is now telling me to kill my comrades. I don’t see why not.
There's even achievements for it! I personally enjoy "Take your cop to work day" where you have 4 converted enemies at the same time.
Doom may not have been the first game to have enemy infighting, but it has a powerful claim...
There's also NetHack, where wearing a ring of conflict (that makes everyone attack each other) is considered a great strategy. Just make sure your pet isn't nearby, because it'll attack you and it's usually quite stronger!
Tartuccio in Pathfinder Kingmaker. His 1st spell is fireball. Which will incinerate everything in a 30' radius.
Including, if your PC charges him....himself. Along with almost all his minions.
Also, Midnight Sun. Where the Dark Hunter and Scarlet Witch both have cards that will cause enemies to attack other enemies. This can be cast on bosses to cause them to kill their minions on your behalf.
Goliaths in Borderlands... if you shoot them in the face, their helm pops off and they go on a murderous rampage. They even level up if they kill enough and become even more BADASS. Fun times to be had all round.
Maybe the real idiot enemies were the friends we made along the way
cant trust anyone these days. not even in video games
My new life motto
The berserk darts made an appearance before Black Flag, in the Ezio trilogy the Poison blade did the exact same thing and could later be upgraded by visiting Leonardo Da Vinci to shoot darts
A couple of examples that I can think of where you can trick enemies into killing each other is Doom and it's sequel Doom 2 hell on earth. The demons and the possessed will upon taking damage from one another will cease trying to kill you in favor of killing their fellow monsters. There's also Alien Isolation, tossing a noisemaker near a group of human enemies will get the attention of the xenomorph who will kill them for you. Be careful when doing this however as the xenomorph will now be hunting for you.
Doom is my favourite because this demonic invasion force is like 'wtf man you shot me! I'll show ya'
decino has some videos that explore the Doom infighting in more nuance, too.
And I'm betting the likes of IGN didn't know that, hehe.
One minute it's atonalism and the works of Hieronymus Bosch; next minute it's describing tigers as "stripey murder Garfields". This kind of writing is a big part of why I appreciate this channel so very much.
Moblins throwing their homies will never not be funny to me.
While Berserk Darts may have made their debut in Assassin's Creed IV, Berserk Poison was a thing back in AC2, and it was glorious fun!
Goliaths from Borderlands 2 would make a good addition to this. Knock off their helmet, and they become so enraged that they attack their own peers.
It’s really satisfying in Xcom 2 to take control of enemies and make them fight each other rather than your squad 😊
Or watching a swarm of the Lost attacking aliens in abandoned cities)
You can also do this in the original (XCOM UFO Defense).
1:14 I was not ready to see fat dude knock lil bro out😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It makes him the best character in the game.
Awesome video! I've always like to watch enemies fight each other I even like when you can turn enemies into allies.
How could you have forgotten the original Doom and Doom II? The enemies could often be tricked into fighting each other, which is especially useful when you need a Cyberdemon whittled down.
There are a lot of classic games that could be on here. Pretty sure there are Wolfenstein games where the enemies attack each other too. Thief as well. There's a particularly interesting one (it might be one of the Thief Gold levels) where a group of guards is talking outside, and they go inside right before another group patrols by. But if you frequently pause and unpause the game, it makes the guards restart their dialogue, so they'll still be outside when the second group patrols. Do that, and the two groups will fight each other. It puts the survivors on alert, and you start nearby enough that they'll probably find you, but it's still fun to see at least once.
Bloodborne, when you fight the Celestial Emissary, you can use the shaman bone blade on it, you can get all the minions to kill the boss for you
In Elden Ring I wanted to see if Varré could help me killing the Tree Sentinel, well I learned that Varré was a pacifist and he got killed by the Tree Sentinel without doing anything.
I then decided to hire a Troll to fight the Tree Sentinel, at least the Troll fought back
You can give the Dung Eater the Potion that was meant for Nepheli Loux which will brainwash him then you can purchase him from Seluvis as a summonable puppet.
I know I’m being pedantic about this but surely the berserk dart would be described as venomous or toxic but not poisonous since poison is ingested and venom is injected.
what about the titan enemies from the arkham games? they would take out like 8 enemies in for no reason.
I immediately thought of Hypnotize from Bioshock that allows u to turn a big Daddy into a powerhouse protector that will murder every single splicer that comes anywhere near u as if u are their little sister they must protect
The shaman bone blades in Bloodborne can come in handy for this, for sure. Especially the big whale lads in the well in the DLC.
I said the same, lol. That was my method. I wasted one on the first attempt because I wasn't close enough and just swung at the air. The second one connected and it was a breeze. I was relieved to see that the 2nd shark that dropped from the ceiling has notably less health than the first one, so he was easier for me to kill after he took care of the first one for me. That fight was honestly a lot easier for me than I expected when going into it.
Hell it's almost required for those two. They are quite a bad time.
What about everything in Shadow of War? When Uruks are not trying to kill you, they occasionally get bored, look at their comrade and say,"what the heck, we just pulled a new uruk out the cats anyway," and 0roceed to go ham with killing their allies.
I'm actually a bit surprised the Possession vigor from Bioshock Infinite wasn't on here. It quite literally makes enemies fight each other and if you upgrade it, they'll fight each other then kill themselves when it's run out
Hardcore
Tears of the Kingdom. Use a muddlebud to turn enemies against each other. It's my favorite part of the game.
While not really killing, I was hoping to see some Yakuza 0 on this list, where Majima can use a heat action in his Breaker style to dodge one guy's attack so it hits another. Endless entertainment
Oh yeah I loved that heat action!
Honourable mention to the super mutant suicider. Yes, he doesn't attack your enemies per say but he does help you alot
I'm surprised you didn't mention how in Elden Ring, the jade masked critters in catacombs, the cat dog bosses, and the titan constructs, will electrically short out and turn on their allies if you strike them with enough crystal darts.
Can they attack invaders?
@@Darcnhife I've never had a chance to play online. Playing offline makes me rage quit more than enough already. 😂
Tetris is about killing blocks, unless it's multiplayer, then it's about eliminating other players. (That's just another word for killing)
Earlier on in TLOU2 there are two areas with both infected and human enemies.. you can set up them meeting and make your passage significantly easier.
I would like to add 3 entries for next time this list comes around:
Hades: Charmed Enemies, it's even more fun when you hit Hades himself and he kills the very minions he just spawned
Dark Souls 3: Just before The Watch Dogs of Farron fight, Dark Wraiths and those Tree Guys fight to the death and is a nice farm for souls
Assassin's Creed Revelations: Janissaries and Templars don't mix.
It's funny to get Theseus and Asterius to fight each other, too, during their boss fight in Hades.
I remember some sith threateningly tracing a half circle in the floor with a lightsaber... while standing on a glass roof.
Sounds like something from Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?
Seeing the Far Cry Tigers brought back memories of the Far Cry-athlons you guys did back in the day. ☺️💜💛
Borderlands series. Goliaths are so fun because they actually level up and drop better loot when they kill their mates
Another fun one. In the original Doom, way back when, if you could get two demons of different species to accidentally hit each other, they'd keep attacking one another. If you came across a room full of mixed demons, just firing a rocket or something in there to stir them up, letting friendly fire happen, then bailing out was a good strategy.
According to the original Tetris manual, the blocks all have names.
Always loved getting the Goliaths in Borderlands to not only kill their friends, they level up and give you the goods when you put them down.
been playing Zombie Army 4: Dead War recently and quite a few of the special zombies harm the rest. flamers setting them on fire, gunners mowing em down, stuff like that. it's pretty fun to splatter a group of zombies by shooting a suicider that's in the middle of it
One of the earliest examples I can think of is Perfect Dark. In one level, Joanna acquires the psychosis gun, which we dubbed "the obedient servant gun." It was a unique mechanic at the time and an absolute delight in an era where infuriating escort missions were all the rage.
In borderland 2 if you shoot a Goliath helmet off, he goes on a rampage and will murder the closest enemy he could find.
If I recall Watch Dogs 2 had a feature where you could call the cops on someone to arrest them and if they resist they start shooting at your target, or you can put a hit on someone and have a gang shoot at them, I did both a lot when I was in heavily guarded areas! One of the funniest things I saw!
Payday 2 when you force a police officer into helping you rob a bank. lol
there is one area in fallout 4, where there are ghouls, supermutants and raiders, if you can kite them to the same place they all have a 3 way attack
Glad I subbed to your channel, remember when I use to watch Andy through my Xbox 360 back in Uni around 2011.
The man has aged well and he still funny asf with the signature british dark humour.
The ant lions in Half Life 2 are one of the all time classics. Spend ages fighting against them, then with a help of a pheromone pod, all of a sudden they're on your side.
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara can use an Arrow which works like the Beserk Dart. And in TES V - Skyrim you can use spell called "Frenzy" which will do the same.
The Hieronymus Bosch shout is a pleasant reminder why I'm subscribed.
Surprised Binding of Isaac didn't make the list. Hit anything with charm tears and an enemy will clear the room for you. It even works on bosses!