Start with extra equipment (items, armour, weapons).

Make some melee weapons act as ranged weapons.

The commonly known effects of the comma glitch are: However, if the player named their character with a comma, then it would mess with the way that string is saved by shifting the value along, based on the amount of commas were used. The game saves the character's name, stats and gender as a sort of string or value. It was actually a flaw in his coding when using the Actionscript programming language for Flash. In a Trivia facts video for the series, the game's creator Oliver Joyce went more in-depth about the glitch, stating that he didn't put it in there himself. It could also cause more adverse effects, such as changing the player's skin color when entering the arena or going back to town or giving the player a sword / axe / club that acts as a ranged weapon.

The effects of using this glitch often gave the player character an advantage at the start of the game by allowing them to redistribute as many of those ability points as they want to other skills. By using this glitch, it is possible for the player's Gladiator to achieve unlimited (or, more precisely, 2500) ability points by entering a comma (,) as their name and then randomizing their character's stats. It allowed the player to get more ability points and equipment than they were meant to receive from the character selection screen at the start of the game. The comma glitch, was the most corrupting glitch that could be performed in Swords And Sandals 2: Emperor´s Reign.

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