This Huge Glitch ALMOST Broke Hogwarts Legacy

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00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Spell Glitches
04:26 - Quest System Breaks
07:51 - Brooms are Broken...sort of
10:22 - Dungeons are Bizarre
12:34 - What can be skipped?
16:38 - Prognosis

[@Abyssoft]

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[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

🥂 cheers.. makes more sense now thx

[@ReyZar666]

bro this game is like a new born, we aint seeing shit rn, but give it just 1 or 2 years, i swear to god this game is going to be completely broken, just like zelda, before you know it the speedrun blow your mind away

[@TwelveTables]

Also all arenas have a minimum time of 1:20 so that's the best time you can achieve. Look up PlayDohBear they currently hold every event (race/arena) record in the game.

[@Azelrith]

imagine complaining about a well polished game. in 2023 when almost every game is broken beyond belief. we get one thats not broken and actually extremely well made.

[@Azelrith]

@@ReyZar666 visible doubt.

[@cptazstudios7952]

The broom is basically a quantum broom. 1. It can be in 2 states at the same time 2. It can be entangled with another broom 3. It can tunnel through barriers

[@0xGRIDRUNR]

honestly im not surprised that more games are seeing a flag based progression system as of late. it just seems like its a good coding practice to have one objective trigger the next and so forth.

[@Lilybun]

If your aim is to create a linear quest structure in an otherwise open world its by far the easiest way to do it. Any other way requires extra scripting and QA playtesting to ensure proper functionality

[@papabaddad]

If you aim is to stop speedrunners at any cost, then yes. If your aim is to make all players have a smooth experience, absolutely not. By setting progression requirements so rigidly around specific things, you run the risk of one thing not triggering quite right softlocking the player. Leaving things a bit looser allows your game to have a little bit of flex in case things don't happen properly.

[@Quills64]

not really. thats how a very linear game like a final fantasy or something works but its actually very restrictive for both the player who may stumble onto or be clever enough to do something unintended, and developers who may make drastic changes to the progression of the game during playtesting. a game that doesnt crash when you sequence break has more robust coding and locking the player into one experience isnt exactly peak game design. if the idea is to block glitchers i dont understand why, you dont normally waste time and resources programming irrelevant functions and bugs are an inevitability of complex programming. The downside of creating the situation where the player cannot progress at all if they are stuck on any stage of any puzzle would kill a lot of games, and fails to reward exploration in an open world. i personally would design a hogwarts game so that the player gains abilities from attending classes and those abilities are what unlock game progression, and otherwise have it like bully with time of day and a timetable, terms and skippable classes. vignettes would follow events and not be strictly bound to a linear order, and only primary plot points would be forced on the player

[@vyor8837]

​@@Quills64 so you'd use a flag system.

[@0xGRIDRUNR]

@@papabaddad it's actually kinda the opposite. If you don't explicitly set the trigger of one event upon the completion of the previous one but on some other unrelated thing, you run a higher risk of the game's systems not working as intended. Accidentally walk into the wrong area? You've now skipped an entire story level/quest. As the first person to reply correctly stated, any system like this would need rigorous testing to ensure that you couldn't accidentally skip things and that everything triggers as intended. Whereas with a flag based system, you can guarantee that nobody will be skipping quests even if they wander into places they shouldn't and bug testing us incredibly straightforward because if something doesn't work, you immediately know it's the preceding event that likely has an issue. Basically, the more streamlined any piece of software is, the better it works as intended.

[@TheMAZZTer]

Software developer here. Regarding the selection of your travel companion being skipped and choosing a default. It's possible the developers simply used a true/false boolean flag... (a Yes/No value) to indicate which person you chose, True for the second. The default value for these types of variables is "false" so if you never made the selection, the game thinks you chose the first. Generally the value does not matter before you make the selection so it is OK that the default value identifies one of the two characters. So I would say it's not a guarantee the game was coded to be flexible for sequence breaks. Speedrunners could have simply gotten lucky here. Now if they had the variable identify which person you chose... that type of variable would have a default of "nobody" which it is likely the game is not coded to support.and would cause problems.

[@unavailableun]

that makes a lot of sense

[@evilsheepmaster1744]

Even if there's more than two choices, it's not hard to assign a default value at the start of the game that gets changed later, or return a certain value if the "chosen partner" value is null. Older games didn't do that because error handling takes cartridge/disk space that programmers couldn't afford to use, but these days, the size of hard drives is so large that they can add these error-handlers back in.

[@TheMAZZTer]

@@evilsheepmaster1744 True, though I would say a more likely reason is to allow developers the ability to quickly jump around in the the game to test things. Having a "default" companion will ensure they can jump right into the quest without a problem. So that is another reasonable possibility. Error handling typically isn't that big a deal. At its most basic the game can record the error to disk and then close or try to recover. They do not need to write an error handler for every specific type of error; a good strategy is to write ones for specific, recoverable errors, and then write one for any generic error which focuses on recording error data before ending or restarting the program.

[@OhhWelll]

I think the portal games are a perfect example of how broken a game should be. Still awesome for casual players and awesome for speedrunners too!

[@cheetahstrike2137]

Absolutely. None of the glitches in portal are really bothering casuals, because you have to do so specific stuff

[@OhhWelll]

@@cheetahstrike2137 Yeah exactly. I think the developers are just wasting resources by trying to remove any possible exploit that doesn't affect any casual players. You would have to know exactly how the exploit works and have a high skill level to implement it so for people who don't want the glitches they don't ever have to deal with them. It's a win win win for all 3 parties involved. These devs are such party poopers lol

[@tomc4717]

@@OhhWelll Who said they are doing it on purpose? Less bugs and exploits simply mean they write better, more maintainable code or use better scripting languages.

[@chrism45]

I imagine building a game without bugs is the main goal at all times. A player stumbling on a game-breaking bug would ruin their experience and give a bad reputation to the developers.

[@Dante02d12]

13:49 : When I reached this quest is when I realized this game would be hard to break. See that tower? At its right, there''s literally three "anti-cheat barriers" : - a death barrier : kills you when you walk on it. - a distance barrier : gives the countdown to your death unless you go back on track. - an invisible wall. The developers were clearly paranoid about people glitching their way through the game, lol. Usually, you'd choose a single barrier, not all three of them. Fun fact : I discovered a glitch right here. You can't use the broom around that castle. If you're far enough, you can actually mount it and the game prevents you from getting close to the castle. BUT if you sprint and mount at the right distance from the barrier, you actually enter the forbidden zone while mounting the broom! Sadly... there's yet ANOTHER barrier here, lol. It gives you a "distance barrier", as if you were too far from the quest, and it kills you if you don't dismount the broom. Aaaanyway, remember : there is no glitches, those are all magic spells, lol.

[@SpectreXS]

IMO newer games aren't really gonna have major sequence breaks other than movement-based stuff / oob or some major oversight, because everything is so bloated with internal progression flags. Fun to see that you can at least skip some of it, as in the Weasely thing.

[@notyourdad9548]

Elden ring......

[@susch7466]

AAA arent coded by a 16 year old japanese dude on his ti83 calculator anymore but people will find ways to break most new games. look at doom eternal for movement glitches like the yeet hook. elden ring lets you teleport.

[@trorisk]

It only takes one ill-adjusted trigger element and the whole game can be broken. wait n see

[@papabaddad]

setting up rigid flag systems like this can actually take more time to implement, and playtest. You also open yourself up to developer oversight resulting in players being unable to progress, which is much worse than players being able to sequence break. Speedruns are free publicity for games, spending dev time to try to block speedrunners to the potential detriment of normal players is just a bad idea

[@vyor8837]

​@@papabaddad it's not intended to stop speedruners

[@yohoki4642]

Part of the "Weasley after Class" is pretty easy to explain. And there's probably a lot of missions that can be skipped.... Many missions are locked by a "CompleteOrPostActive" check, not a "CompleteOnly" check. There's only about 50 checks for completed missions, but almost 1000 checks for post active missions. The WET_01 Mission (weasley after class) has a mission step called EvalStat at step 11.1 . This is done after the Cinematic begins. During the cinematic, you are given a choice for picking Natsai or Seb. The choice is saved ion the variable M_WET_Companion choice and is a 0 for Natsai and 1 for Seb. When the mission is loaded, if nothing is stored there, it is a zero. The mission locks at step 11.1 and will not continue until that check has completed. As for why the quest marks as completed... Mission steps are locked in place by Eval steps. Once these Evals are complete, the mission steps continue on. Once the cutscene is no longer playing, the steps continue on as normal and lock at step 11.1 EvalStat. So when you teleport out, the cutscene is no longer halting progression, EvalStat is run, see's M_WET_Companion is exactly 0, and runs the next step 12.1 SetQuestCompleteJournal, then step 12.1 to goto quest completion. There doesn't seem to be a mission step that checks for the dialoge to end or to disable start menu. ZRS_01 (Ronan Assignment), like most missions in the game, is already active in the game in step 0. It is locked by an Eval at step 0.2 for WET_01 to be "Complete or Post Active" Meaning that the quest has been completed, or started but not completed. When you start the OLI_01 mission, there are actually 2 different missions. OLI_01_Natsai and OLI_01_Seb. Both have almost identical prerequisites. They both become active once WET_01 is "Completed or Post Active", meaning that the WET_01 quest needs to only be started, but don't have to be completed. Then they both check M_WET_Companion. Then they both will run the step KillMission if the wrong companion is in M_WET_Companion, canceling the mission. Since M_WET_Companion is 0 by default, Natsai's quest continues on. That's a lot of text there... but that's what's happening in the mission steps. All of this is located in the PheonixShipData.sqlite file under mission steps. Hopefully some one reads this and makes use of it. :P

[@SalamiMommie]

Hey, is this similar for all unreal games? I'm currently looking at quest checkpoints for another game

[@yohoki4642]

@@SalamiMommie It depends on how the developers coded it. I only know HL's system because I was modding it. But from what I've heard, HL's quest system is pretty unique.

[@SalamiMommie]

@@yohoki4642 How did you go about finding the "CompleteOrPostActive" varible?

[@SalamiMommie]

Sorry, youtube comments are bugged for me, you said I could DM you on discord but i think i need the # after aswell

[@drd2093]

I get what you’re saying but I doubt all this was put in place to deter speed runners. It’s all just decent game design. This is how to assure your game doesn’t become the next cyberpunk2077-like meme mobile

[@ScumSookar]

I've got to agree with you. This kind of flag based progression is becoming more common because of fiasco's like Cyberpunk, there's only a certain level of "broken" you can get away with anymore as a development company before people want your head. Flag based progression definitely helps prevent things from going tits up because it streamlines the process so much, but it does create a lot of linearity. It's an "open world" game, a bit of actual freedom instead of implied freedom would have been nice. To be completely fair however, a lot of gamers expectations for what an open world game *should* be and what is realistically possible on a budget or with our current technological standards are two wildly different things.

[@marcodragon4995]

And yet I still fell through the world 3 times in one playthrough. Decent game design

[@Cainb23]

@@marcodragon4995 cry me a river. That has nothing to do with what he’s talking about

[@CAMSLAYER13]

My guess is the game sets a bunch of essential flags after various time wastes (like cut scenes) so you must do then

[@jeffwhite1334]

New game comes out: - Speed runners: “alright boys, let’s get to work.”

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

That's probably the most "normal" version of that meme I've ever read.

[@esrohm6460]

they still do that draw a letter to learn a spell thing. i remember that from a super old harry potter pc game and it was 100% not the fun part of that game

[@silvertriforce2574]

I'm not sure the restricted section should completely be seen as developer oversight, sure it's probably not what they intended but it's a interesting non-magic solution that's harder to pull off but os quicker, even if unplanned I feel it's a good addition to the world, allowing non-magical skills (gamer skill) to be used instead of the 'easy' solution.

[@arashikou6661]

It’s definitely a grey area. The only reason I assume it’s an oversight is that this section is the tutorial for how to use the sneaking spell, and given how the rest of the game works, I doubt they meant to make this one tutorial optional.

[@0v_x0]

Presumably most players are just going to follow instructions, anyone trying a no magic run of that objective would already know plenty about the game I would guess.

[@poochycosme]

@@arashikou6661in a lot of games the tutorials for mechanics can be passed without the mechanic if the game doesn't do stuff like pause the game until you press the button or stuff like that

[@PokeMaster22222]

4:14 So you're saying that every single speedrunner should get life sentences in Azkaban? Huh. That's nice.

[@ScumSookar]

Maybe we can put Chibi in there at least?

[@Matt_Zoran]

While the biscuit quest wasn't doable properly i clipped out of bounds, flew 2000m just so get a hidden wall below the cage. They truly thought about everything

[@newtonthenewt1400]

14:20 That's actually how I solved that part in the playthrough, had no idea there was a different intended direction than spamming depulso through the small hole in the wall. I mean, it felt incorrect but it worked.

[@Jacksongirard]

Hopefully some big breakthroughs do get discovered. When they do it will be all the more exciting because you've outsmarted a pretty smart checkpoint system.

[@MeriaDuck]

❤️ Schrodinger's broom as a concept.

[@hardcorelore]

Ad transition was ‘flawless’ 🤣

[@borasraven7584]

I was fighting a troll and was close to dying then I agro’d a second troll and tried to nope out, I mounted the broom and one threw a rock it hit as I mounted and got knocked into the water it left me in a state of moving like I was mounted but being able to attack. I’m assuming this is similar to the vaulting and mounting glitch just a much worse set up. It shocked me so much that I died to the trolls and couldn’t play with it. Lol

[@CasualPanels]

I do like speedruns but I feel more devs don't like when their game does get broken, so they add stuff like that (I know there are devs that love them as well. Talking about the ones that don't)

[@maskettaman1488]

So much of this is just corporate design. Someone lays out the specific ways the game is meant to be played and if a player is able to deviate from that then it means the developers have "failed"

[@temkin9298]

@@maskettaman1488 more likey they did poorly. Detailed Design + Dev = "we need polish then polish then polish we also need specific nails laxer cut it polish it make it a mirror finish" = "I love the work , I'm frustrated the user made it a cup holder"

[@enderkatze6129]

Y'know, considering the only thing i heard about this game was that you shouldn't buy it to not support Rowling (like that'd change anything), it seems pretty damn good.

[@kowardlywow]

Eh give it a few years. They'll just find ways that trick the game into thinking there's no flag. Mario kart was designed in a similar albeit way more simple fashion (requiring you to hit every checkpoint before lapping) and look at it now.

[@shambles07]

Great vid! Keep up the excellent speedrunning content!!

[@TwelveTables]

You didn't mention the fastest kill method which is cabbage for spider mothers and trolls and mandrake for everything else.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Damn, that mech countdown was actually pretty legit

[@beamz4204]

I was lvl 30 bought the shop and done the quest..i shot the hanging ligjt with bombardo and it glitched my whole game...can't even load it

[@alternamasaki429]

its great to see how firm a good game can be. sure its annoying for speedrunners, but it just shows the game is not as broken as most recent titles...

[@Lovuschka]

The banned sunglasses of your sponsor are also a con, they used to send spam mails all the time.

[@bryantroehm6731]

Speedrunning would give this game longevity so idk why the coding seems super against it...but also imo i think its cool...this will force the speed runners to explore different options and fine tune movement to minimize time wasted...honestly my only hate i ever had about this game was the difficulty of one of the puzzles...finally caved to a youtube tutorial after like 45 mins of resetting it

[@erik3371]

It doesn't feel like they care at all?

[@reptongeek]

The Story 100% speedrun however is just over 13 hours. This is half the time I've spent on my latest playthrough and I haven't got to Astronomy class yet

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

I've completed two of the Keeper Trials so far, and I've been really enjoying the game. It's probably gonna be a solid 80/100 for me, or maybe 75/100. As far as breaking the game goes, I did sort of break the First Trial. For some reason I either never found the Ancient Magic trigger, or somehow failed to realize that going through the Archway would create an Accio Ring on the far wall. But, fortunately or unfortunatly, I had by that point completed the assignment that taught me Depulso. And, if you're standing on the floating platform, and you cast Depulso, it actually makes the floating platform move. And by slowly and carefully rotating the right way, and casting Depulso in the right directions, I was able to make the platform move to my destination. Of course, this was slow, and tedious, and will certainly NOT be helpful to save time for a speedrun. But if anyone is interested in a Minimum Accio challange - there ya go, there's a strat for you. I'm kinda disappointed to hear that the dungeons themselves have so much flags toprevent any kind of shortcuts or anything. It's the exact opposite of what made the BOTW Shrines so good - the sandbox freedom, and being able to find roundabout ways by just taking advantage of the game's systems - that's all gone. And for all the spell variety in the game, having the dungeons be so tight is kind of disappointing to learn about. I suposse it makes it even more surprising that my sequence break of the first Trial even worked, and there wasn't a closed gate on the other side. Anyway, this was a fun video, informative and entertaining. Thanks for making it.

[@Ocarinist_Drew]

Call me crazy, but as a speedrunner myself I would much rather play a linear game that railroads me down a strict flag-based progression system than be able to cheese the game and warp to the credits in under 5 minutes. Like, I speedrun because I want to play the game. As long as the movement feels good I'm happy. Just give me excuses to move. Being able to slip massive chunks of the game kinda defeats the purpose to me. The only exception would be if those massive chunks of gameplay aren't fun, but then, why would I be speedrunning that game to begin with? I could just go play something else. That's not to say I don't get it though. People speedrun games for different reasons. I'm sure it's very satisfying for some to crack a game wide open and solve it like a puzzle.

[@OhhWelll]

I wish newer games would allow sequence breaks for speedrunners but made them difficult so casual players who wanted to play it as intended wouldn't encounter them. They're just raining on our parade 😭 Also I'd love to see their reaction from glitches being found so quickly anyways 😂

[@local9]

A rack of state engines and flags, safest thing to use.

[@silverwave2238]

this is funny when You know you can compare morrowind and oblivion in mere minutes !!!

[@henriksirkku]

I hope they dont patch it, when i sometimes maybe buy it, would be fun to run on a broom xD

[@kingdedede7]

W video as always.

[@RickBomhof]

okat that ad intro was pretty smooth ngl

[@FagnerLuan]

Title: Why Can't Speedrunners Break Hogwarts Legacy? Video: Speedrunners Breaking Hogwarts Legacy

[@MrFwoggie]

Ork Arena of Time

[@ValiantValium]

I feel you could make a whole video about games with states and flags, versus games without

[@FalconFetus8]

How dare those developers use common-sense mechanisms to make sequence breaking impossible! What happened to the good old days of just placing an easily-clippable door in front of a loading zone and calling it a day?

[@JamJam117]

It does exist. It's called hello neighbor 2

[@yellowvitamin7793]

14:15 I did this without knowing it might be a glitch lol

[@Noobby]

Nice video

[@Aspglutr]

I can't get the falling broom to work

[@MrJoosebawkz]

I dont see why devs spend so much time preventing sequence breaks in singleplayer games. I honestly think they should set their games up so you can sequence break more of the dry tutorial stuff (like in the recent pokemon games) just for speedrunners. Like I just don’t get what they stand to lose if you _can_ skip certain things

[@Cainb23]

man I can’t stand when people complain when games aren’t glitchy. same people whining because the tree doesn’t look how they want in the pokemon games too I’m sure lmao.

[@MinhNguyen-ti5yb]

so AAA open world games nowadays are more linear than indie nonlinear games?

[@_._._._._._._.__._._._._._._._]

This ESJ sounds like the WCS from Hollow Knight....

[@Meeeeeh]

As much as I like Abyssoft analyzing and find cheaters and fakers, I always wondered if he uses these skills somewhere else. For example these Raycons, which are cheap Chinese OEM products, rebranded and resold as premium. Hint: Maybe he should look into the VPNs, Betterhelp, these stupid Scottish Lord certificates (ah wait, they got called out)... Seriously, taking a deeper look into any of these promotions KZbinrs do, lead to some real rabbit holes. Like these sharp Japanese knifes, which are made in China and belong to ... naah, people should investigate that on their own. It is just a pity to see even the good ones fall for this promotion bullshit. :-/

[@InsolventGene]

Game Developers: Can you just play the game normally after we spent so much work making the puzzles? Speedrunners: Nuh Uh!

[@foreignuser_]

This game was released February 10, 2023. The year is important.

[@mikoro88]

9:07 Schrodinger's Broom😄

[@besser-nicht]

The game has no quidditch, i think it is alternative reality

[@0v_x0]

There's like one line of dialog explaining it away from what I've seen on KZbin. If they get it working well it'll probably be a DLC, is what seems to be a popular theory.

[@besser-nicht]

@@0v_x0 money. But without quidditch it is only a bunch of crazy wizards

[@alexisroux2448]

i actually did the skip at 14:23 casualy lol

[@patrikisgod]

I actually like that developers try to thwart speedrunners, makes it more of a marathon than a race

[@temkin9298]

It's more like game devs trying to make a good working not broken game to put in their resume and speedrunners allowing them to see where they did wrong. Ninten don't is a clear example of this, they hate any unintended use users have because it makes them look incompetent

[@idcompany9240]

Simple because they probably can't break out of the map

[@mariotaz]

The game gets confused...

[@seimeianri]

I think speedrunners are giving themselves too much credit when devs are just trying not to release a broken mess we got in an age that everything is released unfinished that when we see something working properly (or close enough) people take it as a direct offense, maybe in some years we will see a glitch that would turn the run upside down

[@_ElisDTrailz]

The transfigure instakill just got patched out

[@ScumSookar]

Well yeah, in real life "transfiguration" only has a 41% kill rate. I know this is a game about magic, but we have to have a bit of realism.

[@PlayDohBear]

Battle Arena Speedruns is where it's at.

[@rickyrico80]

Thanks for covering the technicalities and techniques explored. This is why I like speedrunning, breaking the rules and the ingenuity of the runners. Don't let the shouting minority get to you. You do you, the politics have no place here.

[@permeus2nd]

It really rubs me the wrong way at how controlling some devs are with their single player games, it’s different to speedrunning but I was trying to get cheats to work on the Space marine game that came out ages ago so I could do the proper god mode play though with what it would actually be like to do the game as a lore accurate Space marine but even years after the game had come out the devs were still modding the games code to stop trainers from working, I could see a dev doing this for a few weeks to keep the game ending a secret but waiting dev time and money to stop people from messing with a fully single player game just boggles my mind.

[@bryanandhallie]

"Ork-arina"

[@kerzenwachss]

Why would you try so hard to stop speedrunners... they are what will keep your game alive in the long run...

[@0v_x0]

Maybe they're playing a long game, making it difficult so that speedrunners will still be trying to crack stuff in 30 years lol

[@kerzenwachss]

@@0v_x0 Look at the speed running community for this game. It is not fun trying to crack code, that is designed to eliminate any time save from a glitch.

[@NoGoodNamesToday]

I don't think they implemented all of these failsafe to foil the speed runners, lol

[@SuperZergMan]

I enjoyed the video, but I think your narration was a bit stilted in this one. It was a bit too obvious you were just reading off a script.

[@Abyssoft]

I'll increase my emotion setting by 2 points for next video ;)

[@AxeMain]

Orcarina of time

[@jangofatt7135]

Classic

[@Greenleaf_]

sorry but it triggers me everytime. It's Ocarina, not Orcarina like a killer whale. Pronounced Oh-Ka-Rina or Ah-Ka-Rina depending on who you ask.

[@brogamin179]

Yea? Orcarina of time? The whale of time.

[@rphntw1n]

How dare these devs for not being lazy geez. 😂 great vid as usual.

[@Bladieblah]

Lmao thinking games having exploits or glitches is the devs being lazy

[@rphntw1n]

@@Bladieblah lmao thinking my comment wasn’t a direct reference to what Abysoft said at the end of THIS video. 🤦‍♂️

[@JFizDaWiz]

theres a constant clicking sound in your video and it's quite annoying

[@MattBlack-qs5wd]

I love the content, but what's with the AI voice?

[@HamOfTao]

I feel personally that a lot of the fail safes are set in place for kids and from accessibility features. A lot more stuff will stop being able to be broken plot/progression wise due to (happily) more willingness from game companies wanting a bigger majority of people to play. I speedrun but i also see the importance of non-sequence breaks. If the game is popular then people will watch the speedrun eventually. Double edge sword. But once code is looked into and HL speedrun comes out of infancy a lot will change.

[@Lilybun]

Its cheaper to make a linear quest that railroads the player. Player freedom comes with lots of extra scripting and QA playtesting to ensure it doesnt break

[@ScumSookar]

Lily is right. Game development is expensive and time consuming, companies that are more profit driven are going to do everything possible to streamline the process and cut down on spent resources as much as possible. We'll probably see a lot more of it from the AAA industry in the future as well, it's pretty much the cheapest way to get your big budget game out the door in a playable enough state to not cause riots.

[@papabaddad]

I'm not sure how the game checking to make sure you've done every previous step before letting you finish the quest is an accessibility feature?

[@erik3371]

Gamers: "this game is too broken" also gamers: "this game isn't broken enough". Poor devs can never win...

[@Cainb23]

Exactly. It’s fuckin annoying watching this as a pokemon fanboy cause I heard people whine like 2 year olds cause there was a glitch they didn’t like in an otherwise great game then in this game they are crying bc there’s not enough glitches ?! Like damn just stfu and pick one

[@boxsox8873]

Have I mentioned how awesome you and your videos are lately? No? Then btw......you and your are pretty awesome.

[@MikeHunt-lz2hq]

I've taken video clips of over 50 glitches In this game and I just got it two weeks ago .some were game breaking and nearly locked me out of progressing so I had to go back a few hours via an older save that was backed up but the rest was random stuff that just broke that had little to no consequences

[@SilentVinyl]

neat

[@dawsonpierce263]

Remember guys, if you see any toxic comments use the report feature. We don’t need any harassment here. If people don’t like the content, they need to learn to not watch it. They won’t make a difference by complaining about Rowling here.

[@MaybeImSkittleMaybeImNot]

I guess it's like they say. Don't feed the trolls

[@hamstreak5591]

Lmfao, you're such a tumblrite

[@baslifico]

Sorry, but you're misinterpreting... Picking a default character isn't evidence of planning for sequence breaks, it's evidence of optimised(some might say lazy ) code. Someone's written something like `if(picked_char="Blah" {load char blah} else {load char other_blah}`. If there ar eonly 2 possible choices, why bother with a complex dynamic loading system?

[@kjhgfdfghjkdrtyuiwewe]

Wow this game looks like fun. I might buy it.

[@Tekenu]

@Thoopsy the game specifically is antisemitic?

[@kjhgfdfghjkdrtyuiwewe]

@@Tekenu Do you have an direct example from the game?

[@Tekenu]

@@kjhgfdfghjkdrtyuiwewe I don't believe the game is at all.

[@hulkflattt7854]

Simply a beautiful game Full of magic and everything is alive Truly a fun game!

[@ScumSookar]

@@hulkflattt7854 I would even say the game is stunning and brave in it's visual presentation.

[@germanothomas4799]

how does the kraken scale work?

[@Abyssoft]

Wood is below the scale, it's like LoL or Rocketleague, it starts at bronze and goes up to gold.

[@Mythshark]

This comment section is gonna be a minefield, isn't it?

[@MOORE4U2]

Grab some popcorn for the video, but make another batch for the comments!

[@blueblaze27]

it's always a minefield when hogwarts legacy is being discussed

[@justeroo88]

why does abyssoft talk like a robot

[@wafflebroz]

Maybe he is one

[@Abyssoft]

People told me to slow down when my first videos went up because I was talking too fast, so I had some cybernetic implants installed to help.

[@Skulll9000]

@@Abyssoft F. Man got Harrison Bergeron'd for being exceptional.😢

[@mikoro88]

17:21 I think _that_ is really cool!

[@DzzO]

I skipped it and I am not even a speedrunner!

[@nahoj-9910]

8:52 anleitung zu ungenau ich komme nicht mehr auf meinen besen

[@robbyw.8616]

13th

[@PotatoToon]

People hating this game will be happy, the speedrun of that game will probably die sooner or later without skips. If everything is slow and easy people would rather watch paint dry haha.

[@AYAKXSHI]

@@mogalixir no that’s what makes it better that tells me they practiced those skips for hours n 9/10 it’ll be broken beyond repair leaving only 2 or 3 minutes as it develops over time

[@seki108]

@@mogalixir Different categories of speedruns exist.

[@AM-bf9tb]

Cringe flag

[@lokiwildinn]

1st fr

[@dustinsearle4672]

The glitch everything speed runs are the least interesting to me. It's cool to break the game but I like to actually see people try and complete the game as quick as possible not just clip through walls in stupid spots to get an end screen

[@wafflebroz]

Glitchless runs are entertaining for some games for sure

[@Rougesteelproject]

I like glitched runs, because you can learn something about how games are programed if you follow how the glitches work. That said, it's a different skill set than glitchless, which is about playing the game normally, but with super-efficient movement.

[@Sluggii]

A lotta 100% speedruns fall into that if you're interested, since you can't just skip stuff and all

[@SisterRose]

I definitely prefer glitch ones, if anything i'm more interested in glitch than people showing off skills - but in terms of that, there's nothing more exciting than a speedrunner nailing a frame perfect glitch. It's like they've trained to become a master of reality.

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

that's why Glitchless is a category. No need to dismiss the regular any%.

[@Grissbane]

cancelled by twitter has a speedrun?

[@MaybeImSkittleMaybeImNot]

I mean everything has a speedrun at this point

[@wafflebroz]

I’ve seen banned from Discord speed runs too

[@Tekenu]

@@ecocodex4431 fascist....fascist?

[@connie_d]

lol @ the man with the trans flag "i'm benefiting from jk's genius and enjoying it but dw i actually hate her"

[@talonqueenzulia313]

Lmao what a shit game

[@phhsdj]

I think it’s ok if a developer does not want a speed running Community. It’s sad but that’s ok it’s their game

[@DrewTNaylor]

Oh, the game that the most ethical way to play is to be a Real Man (or however you identify) of the Sea.

[@ScumSookar]

"Criminal activity is perfectly fine and acceptable when it fits my preconceived bias and political ideals." I don't care if people commit piracy, just figured I'd hold up a mirror for you.

[@greyguy2]

@@ScumSookar criminal law has nothing to do with morality and should not inform your morality

[@ScumSookar]

@@greyguy2 So things like "don't: kill, steal, r*pe, assault people, trespass on property, do things that endanger others, ect" shouldn't inform my morality? That's a real galaxy brained take there, sir.

[@greyguy2]

@@ScumSookar no, your personal sense of morality should tell you that those things are wrong. not because they're illegal.

[@some_shitposting_idiot3023]

"me no like jkr cause she care for actual women so pirate game cause we are totally sane and not temperamental man children"

[@AshenDalia]

God this game looks so painfully average, even the speed running and glitches don't look fun I don't mind that you covered it because it's a game being picked apart for speed runs recently, but man it just gave me another reason to never buy or try the game

[@JacredHart]

100% agreed.

[@HDafodills]

tbh it should just be called "padding the game" a solid game does exist in there but its got more padding on it than a mental ward safety cell

[@sophiegrey9576]

Not happy that you covered this game.

[@ScumSookar]

Then don't watch it. It's that simple, entitled crybaby.

[@MoonMarshmallow]

yeah im pretty bummed out, i like abyssoft's videos but covering this game sucks pretty bad. oh well

[@GammaLyrae]

Thanks for all the coverage of the speed running community, not going to stay subscribed to anyone covering this game though

[@Shynder1]

This is not an airport no need to announce your departure ❤

[@prismaticc_abyss]

Ok, cya at the detransitioning operation then

[@willk113]

Ur a bigot

[@xAbsolution1]

​@@willk113 tell me you've never been oppressed in your life without directly saying so

[@willk113]

@@xAbsolution1 you’re literally too young to have an opinion