Flashbang grenades are meant to disorient your enemies. Instead, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players have discovered that using them to blind your teammates will give you 15 XP. It’s an agricultural trick that promotes bad cooperation.

YouTube streamer Expel posted a video of the XP exploit in Xadding that throwing stun grenades at allies “gives you XP” and “do with this information what you want.” The UI text on the screen says “Enemy Flashed,” so it seems likely that this is an unwanted buff for being a lousy teammate.

Grinding for Progression and prestige are the fundamental principles of Black Ops 6.in addition to the rewards and unlockables in multiplayer mode. As such, there will always be players looking for easy ways to level up. For example, the original Destiny had a famous loot cave to farm a decade ago, when people would mindlessly shoot around a cave for hours on end. That exploit was fixed, but it ended up leading to a dungeon in the game that recognized the loot cave.

Black Ops 6 was released a week ago and saw a record debut. The new entry in the FPS franchise had the “biggest” three-day opening weekend for Call of Duty in terms of total players, hours played, and total matches. He Black Ops 6’s Debut Also Led to a “Crazy” Commitment Day for Call of Duty HQ–the app that hosts the game along with Warzone and Modern Warfare 3. More than half of all Xbox Series X|S owners visited Call of Duty HQ on October 28, while more than a third of all owners PS5 did the same.

Today, the Iconic Nuketown multiplayer map coming to Black Ops 6. This is the original Black Ops arena set in the 1950s, rather than a new variation. Looking forward, Black Ops 6 Season 1 Confirmed to Start on November 14.

For more information, check out GameSpot. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Review.