The Infinite Bright Bug Glitch.

[ARingMaker]

I came across a year old video of glitches that you can still do in DS2 on YouTube. The last one that they showed was the infinite bright bug glitch. Its showed how there are certain places in game that you can consume a bright bug and if you immediately save and exit it shorts out the two minute timer and when you restart the effect will last forever as long as you don't use a bonfire to travel or die.

I tried out a location, saved and returned and it lasted for as long as I played unless I travel by bonfire or died. Its worth checking out to see if locations to receive the plus/minus benefit of the consumable for such a long time is worth it to you.

and a comment at the top also mentions that...

UPDATE ON THE BRIGHTBUG GLITCH: It will work whenever your character is wet, that is all. You can get wet by rain, puddles, lakes, those water jars on Iron Keep, equipping Pharros Mask, etcetera.
1. Get wet
2. Use the Brightbug
3. Quit game
4. Load your game file and done
It will only disappear when you go into a loading screen (warp, die, etc).

I noticed that there wasn't a thread about this so I had to post about it knowing that this knowledge will help others in the future just as it will help me.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Sounds like a fun glitch, thanks for sharing it!

[JellyPuff]

Sounds fun, mind sharing that video? Does it also show some of the newer glitches, like the re-discover of the Parry Walk?

If it doesn't: It's not quite on "1.02 vanilla"-levels of broken and has it's limits, but it allows you to easely grab the "Place Unbeknownst"-bonfire early or straight-up skip half the game again, like in the old days. You can also do crazy clips, like these.

Here's distortion2 explaining the new parry-walk, for those who are interested. He's been the top DS2 speedrunner for years and even offered a bounty to anyone, who re-discovers a consistent method to parry-walk again, which seemed to have worked wonders.

[ARingMaker]

i was just as happy to share this glitch as i was to see some long time old school contributors still posting in this forum... you know who you are.

Before i posted this thread i tried one location and did a few tests and then tried doing it with the pharroh's mask and it worked. for all the help i have received here and in game back in the day... I was more than happy to share this with everyone and for people like myself that don't have and use a CE.
https://youtu.be/XfIJFjTTz-s

[Edgarek]

For me at least all you need to do is watch Umfah guides for dark souls 2.

[ARingMaker]

some of the other exploits and glitches in this video might be unknown to many people too... well worth a look everyone. there is a few easy boss kill or glitch techniques and ways to skip areas that i never knew of until I watched this video. it was time well spent.

[Heck]

try item then hurrah for moneybags

[Opteryx]

This glitch doesn't work in SoTFS, the brighbug expires after 2 minutes.

[Edgarek]

Originally posted by Opteryx:

This glitch doesn't work in SoTFS, the brighbug expires after 2 minutes.

Its still working.

[gazeofdisaster]

I just found a weird interaction. Try making a new character and name it Dexman
When your character is created do you have 2 debuffs one sprinting and one armor? Character is also locked to sprinting and can not walk.

[Needo62]

Originally posted by gazeofdisaster:

I just found a weird interaction. Try making a new character and name it Dexman
When your character is created do you have 2 debuffs one sprinting and one armor? Character is also locked to sprinting and can not walk.

lol i think u just activated the keyboard shortcut things, press uh x or something

[gazeofdisaster]

Originally posted by Needo62:

Originally posted by gazeofdisaster:

I just found a weird interaction. Try making a new character and name it Dexman
When your character is created do you have 2 debuffs one sprinting and one armor? Character is also locked to sprinting and can not walk.

lol i think u just activated the keyboard shortcut things, press uh x or something

lol didn't know that was toggable

[Paradox]

Originally posted by Opteryx:

This glitch doesn't work in SoTFS, the brighbug expires after 2 minutes.

Still works.
Easier way to use it is to use pharros mask to make you wet anytime you wanna be.

[AzureVizor]

Can confirm, it still works as I used it against Sir Alonne by jumping into the water urn thingies.