I just pissed away something like 130 hours in an Assassin’s Creed Odyssey cheevo-hunting playthrough. I hit 100% a little bit ago, and now I’m doing the post-game/post-DLC wrap-up stuff on Korfu island. There is a hilariously broken character build that I’d like to try out on a New Game+ run that involves a 16-bit integer arithmetic underflow bug in the game engine’s damage calculation code and results in smacking everything consistently for about 2 billion damage per hit.

I’m on the fence about whether I actually want to go through with it, though; the “everything is parkour” control jank really started getting to me about 80 hours in, right around when I started the DLC zones and couldn’t just sail/climb/ride everywhere. I fucking love telling my character to run forward, only to get hung up on a rock no higher than my big toe and the game just gives up and I stand there like a dumbfounded dipshit for 8 seconds while shouting, “The W key! It does NOTHING!” Par for the course with Ubislop, I guess.

I’m not sure what to play next, but it will probably be either Octopath Zero or finishing my sad attempt at an Honor Mode playthrough in BG3.