Noclip Mode - Other Instances of No Clipping

Other Instances of No Clipping

In many games, due to bugs or power-ups, there are certain areas that can be moved through and in most games that the player controls the camera can cause you to see beyond the walls.

There are bugs in games such as Sonic Adventure 2, Dead Rising, Lost Planet and We Love Katamari at which the character's shadow appears on all floors below the character instead of only the floor immediately beneath the character.

This can also happen in Source engine games including Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Left 4 Dead, and Team Fortress 2, where if a mapmaker has not set the correct properties on a floor (disable shadowing, etc.), the shadows of the players above will show through. This is not helpful in the least for players in upper rooms trying to hide or avoid detection from players below them. In Team Fortress 2, no clipping can be used to build buildings in spawns; walk through walls; float everywhere; receive health, ammo and metal; and move players into enemy spawns, if enabled by the server. In Counter-Strike and the Left 4 Dead series, after the player has died, they have the option to select "free mode" as they wait to respawn or are a spectator. This allows the player to move anywhere on the map. This ability also helps to find secret areas of the map that are unreachable or unable to be seen in normal play. Such as seeing the credits for the map de_Dust2 (and many other maps) outside the Counter Terrorist's spawn.

In the original Metroid for the NES, there is a secret world that can be found by taking advantage of an in-game glitch involving bomb jumps and an open door. The area where the player ends up is similar to spaces you can find using a Noclip code, in that it stores sprites that were not used in the final game.

In Rygar for the NES, there is a place on the overworld "Garloz Plains" there is a spot where the player can shimmy through the wall and onto the green grass. Once there, the player can go left and will see a 2-D "hall of mirrors" like effect, with the room full of the same sprite.

In Super Mario Bros. for the NES, there are three ways to walk through walls, an example being the trick to access the minus world (World -1) and the shortcut on World 4-2 or by simply using a Game Genie code.

In Mega Man and Mega Man 2, speedruns of the games exhibit "shortcuts" in which glitches allow the player to no-clip through several screens worth of walls at a time after scrolling through areas.

In many Unreal Engine games there are several cheats that can be typed to enable noclip mode. The most common one is a single typing of the ghost cheat. The player typing the cheat will be able to fly around the level and through geometry.

In the MMORPG RuneScape a glitch was discovered that gave players certain properties of noclip, such as being able to go past almost any barrier and allowed players to cheat in in-game activities. This glitch was patched some months after its discovery in 2008.

In the racing game "LA Rush" for the PSP, players can leave the map by driving through a store window in the Hollywood section. They can then reach areas blocked off before.

In the games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, and Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Xbox 360 and more recently the PlayStation 3, players could copy their game save data to their computer and modify it so they could use noclip in online multiplayer matches. Players primarily used the noclip mode to cheat, as it allowed them to "fly" across the map with great speed and access normally inaccessible parts of the map in addition to turning off the hit detection (which effectively made them invincible). However, while the noclip mode was active, players could in no way interact with the game environment (i.e. shoot other players). This exploit has since been patched for both versions of the game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3(Although there are some rumors that a software called "Modio" can still be used to cause noclip to occur on World at War and Modern Warfare for Xbox 360). However, some games, such as Team Fortress 2 have not patched this on the console version. On PC versions the noclip mode is accessible in single player maps as well by entering "noclip" into the console.

Noclip mode is available in numerous open source games based on the GPL Quake source code.