#game glitches

[fennecfiree]

no guys this is actually yattas new ability to hide from the twisteds @buggocraig

[dreamingofthewild]

When the kiss is that good, it makes your hair stand on end. Ft. a smug Gale in The Robe TM.

[smbhax]

Wolf got stuck

[swtorgonewrong]

Well, this better NOT be the seed vendor I'm supposed to interact with...

[bakafandoms]

Not art but a clip of my usual happenings with Steven Universe: Save The Light

[bitesthestuff]

Doing the Worm in Halo Infinite

[celestite-caroline]

I'm still happy to have played Friendship Ball today, but I didn't expect to break out of the boundaries of the game at all!

Both times, it was caused by trying to place down the magic dust item - as far as I know, it only happens on the Wayback Machine version. Either way, it's a very interesting sight.

(note: Spring Parade walked off bounds since she was in her walking animation, everything else was already there)

[skeletondremmer]

i love no context screenshots from my time playing fnv heres some highlights some glitches some just weird ragdoll physics others well others

[blackjackkent]

I discovered something fun today, which is that when you use the Otis_Inf photomode tools and futz with the field of view, all the local NPCs' walk cycles get messed up. 😂

[wolfoflyngvi]

hey, uh, horizon tumblr. is the ground supposed to eat my ravager like that? /hj

[peacherweasel]

All hail the flying rotund scug!! (A glitch that happened after I killed a pole plant, I could still climb where it was)

[moontheoretist]

Glitches or not, this makes NPC feel real

People started talking recently that Gale's romance is glitchy. That a lot of non-male players didn't even notice because it felt real to us to be hit on a guy involuntarily and being asked to choose between him and others when we didn't even date him. To me, however, this glitch either never happened or I bypassed him. My male MC was very nice to Gale. They're both Wizards, they have their own world of magic to talk to about. But he never came onto him, at all. We had more or less flirty conversations sometimes, yes, but he never made me choose between him and Astarion. I guess I was just playing in a way that gave him the impression that my MC was interested a little bit, but not committed to that interest very much. He just helplessly pins.

Like, for example, I played Mystra's scene as a romantic one. I picked the line with a kiss and he liked it. But then the choices I made later, even though I never explicitly rejected him, affected his behavior.

I didn't feed him artifacts as if he was a starving man. Each time I waited till he asks for artifact first and gave it to him then. And only 1 per every ask he makes. So technically I only gave him 2 artifacts, because he only asked me twice, and the second time he asked, it already didn't work. He said it didn't sate the weave, asked for a time to think, and then next time we talked he told me to not give him more because it stopped working. He was listed during Grove Party scene as possible romance, and during the party I had more or less only suggestive dialogues, but I guess asking him if he likes belly rubs was less romantic than the other two options (I'm autistic, I assumed it was not romantic at all, he just told me his cat hates belly rubs, and I was like "well, if you were in her place would you like them?"). I was surprised that he misconstrued such a line as a flirting line, but he also said that it's a conversation for another time, and that was it. Then I went to Astarion and picked him when my MC went to sleep, they had their romantic night. Since then, Gale and my MC are in this state of going around each other in circles, because my MC devoted himself to Astarion pretty early on thanks to doing some stuff that skyrocketed Astarion's approval instantly (I was so shocked when he suddenly decided to breach the relationship topic, because I were so sure he hated my MC for being goody-two-shoes, but well, killing monster hunter gives you a huge boost), so now it kind of looks like Gale has feelings for my MC, but isn't brave enough to speak about it.

So from my perspective, his behavior is completely normal. And yet I hear that he hits on people when explicitly rejected, so there must be a glitch somewhere in the romance. It just never happened to me.

Also, as a person very well versed in game studies I feel like Gale acting like that is very interesting from a game design perspective, because it gives him agency and makes him feel real. Yes, it also makes people annoyed at him and reminds them of men in real life a little too much. I can understand that. In real life his behavior would creep me out, but because it's a game and because I apparently must have played my cards right, he just feels like a very responsive NPC and I feel like it's nice to see NPC behave as real people rather than waiting for player's input to do anything romantic at all.

Funnily though, Lae'zel hit on my MC on her own and I rejected her, because I play my MC as a gay man. She was not pleased but took it in stride. I didn't get the feeling she resents him. Then during Grove Party she made a reference to her confession by saying "What a pity I won't be able to taste you" and I was like... I laughed because it looked like she holds a grudge against him now xD

My approval with Shadowheart is the highest of all companions, and yet she never came at me, because my MC respected her boundaries and never asked her to reveal the secrets she had. He only asked when the situation forced him, but let Shadowheart get away with being cagey and not reveal anything, and that apparently made her feel safe around him to the point her approval is now on exceptional, and she still doesn't hit on him because I still didn't pick any options that would trigger drinking the wine at night cutscene. So she is my bestie now. We are two besties with dark secrets now, wohoo.

Karlach hit on my MC early, and I needed to turn her down, because damn, gay man right (I love her tho, I'm romancing her on another playthrough for sure). It's funny that my MC whom I play as gay man was hit on by exactly 3 people and none of them was Gale. He never explicitly hit on my MC. I just got dialogue options that were flirty, which indicated that there is an interest there from Gale. But maybe because I played early access and tried to romance him in then (I still remember people talking how hard it is to trigger his romance in EA. Funny that now it's too easy) I know which dialogues are considered more or less romantic and somehow avoided giving him false hope.

Edit:

Hilarious I just opened the game to check my approval ratings with all the companions and... Gale's approval isn't there xD Neither in the regular form nor in the numerical form in the detailed view.

I wonder if that's why my Gale behaved so normally xD

Update: It turned out his "normal behavior" was a bug too.

[smbhax]

Dark Souls III

[invader-barrel]

Thanks to my subordinate Charon scampering off to god know where, I had to once again handle this super mutant behemoth. But thankfully once again the developers had my back and let me take care of it by overshooting with my nuka grenade.

[violasarecool]

so typing /chibi again does NOT turn the effect back off

[shibashiv]

Game runs great, y'all.

(Yes, there is in fact mods, and I know it works worse because of that, but c'mon, the bugs can be comedic)