I found out you can put humans into the Essence Condenser...

[chefcook90]

I went into a low level dungeon and captured about a dozen Syndicate Thugs, then tried putting them into the condenser just to see if I could... and yeah, the game totally lets you do that xD
(and no, I can confirm that there isn't an hidden achievement for doing this.)

If filling them with lead and running a train on them with your pals doesn't kill them, this DEFINITELY does, right?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3361904047
Also is this meant to be intentional? I actually wasn't expecting it to work, and I remember the game wouldn't let me use the Butcher's Knife on captured humans, so I figured most pal features were just disabled with them.

As an aside, have any human rights groups come after this game yet?
I know Pokemon got a lot of flak from PETA for letting players "enslave animals and force them to fight each other," but this game actually lets you do it with HUMANS.
Like, there is legit human trafficking in this game! Selling captured humans is pretty much the only thing they're good for because their stats suck and they have no production skills aside from handicraft level 1.
Obviously there's no way this is going to hamper development in any way - there are plenty of more famous games that let you do much worse to people - but I do think it would be kind of funny if some alt-left activist group starting protesting Palworld for human rights violations - it would be good advertising xD

[SHOVEL.EXE]

1 i'm pretty sure you can butcher humans whit the knife.
2 most of the human in the game are legit evil.
the police is purely corup, pirate's, illegal drug dealer's, a "peta" money laddering just as bad as the pirate's and i can go on.
frankly most enemy human would be on death row anyway so... enslavement is more then merciful. it still bad but it is deserve in a way. and they do raid you even if you never provoct them so it's far more justify in a way.

as for the gameplay being intentional it hard to say.
yes the star level work's and the IV do's too. but for some reason there passive like idk vanguard or ferocious doesn't work.

and i know this for a fact do to having a rocket-launcher dude whit ferocious.

[Duilf]

but... humans are dense enough already!

[Flint]

Originally posted by 404.L'ahegâteau:

1 i'm pretty sure you can butcher humans whit the knife.
2 most of the human in the game are legit evil.
the police is purely corup, pirate's, illegal drug dealer's, a "peta" money laddering just as bad as the pirate's and i can go on.
frankly most enemy human would be on death row anyway so... enslavement is more then merciful. it still bad but it is deserve in a way. and they do raid you even if you never provoct them so it's far more justify in a way.

as for the gameplay being intentional it hard to say.
yes the star level work's and the IV do's too. but for some reason there passive like idk vanguard or ferocious doesn't work.

and i know this for a fact do to having a rocket-launcher dude whit ferocious.

Humans don't really have any useful skills, anyway.

[Ryvaku]

Make the perfect thug.

[funewchie]

"New human enhancement vitamin! Make yourself stronger, faster and more durable in battle in 1 easy step! Rayne Syndicate Thugs hate this guy!
Made of 100% pure organic Soylent Green!"

[Nicodemous52]

There is a guy that has beat the game using only humans.

[mono_wolf]

Originally posted by chefcook90:

.....Syndicate Thugs....PETA....

I always thought that these people were in reality Nintendo corps, etc and we are fighting them and PETA is the "security personnel" in the game

[Naii Starwing]

If this is a bug... it needs to not be. It's hilarious. ...Also, I'm a human! I want to enhance me.

[Asmosis]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

There is a guy that has beat the game using only humans.

If he did that without attacking himself, that would be impressive. but it was probably 99% player 1% human Pals so not so much.

[Squishy]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

There is a guy that has beat the game using only humans.

If he did that without attacking himself, that would be impressive. but it was probably 99% player 1% human Pals so not so much.

This happened prior to the tower boss patch being "accidentally" implemented. Basically, the guy used tower bosses (who are flagged as human in the game) to carry his playthrough.

But he never attacked in the majority of his playthrough if he didn't absolutely need to (mainly just setting up for the playthrough to be possible in the first place). So, that "99% player" was heavily restricted to set up while actual combat was strictly humans (except for shadowbeak where he had to help). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1OC5am_OFE

It is genuinely impossible - even if you min/max the non-tower boss humans - to "beat" Palworld without tower bosses and tower bosses - who are, yet again - are flagged as humans while not helping as a player (You time out with humans and tower bosses if you don't help). Back then and now.

This also happened prior to the patch but without tower bosses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyucu4P3sWI

Keep in mind, you're a human too. So, you are able to help out in an "only humans" challenge. (That's the entire point behind an "only humans" challenge.)

[Asmosis]

oh i didnt realise the tower bosses counted as human. That's kinda winning by technicality at that point :P

[Naii Starwing]

Wait, you can't catch the tower bosses anymore? Man! That's jank!

[Asmosis]

I'm guessing there's a mod for that

[funewchie]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

I'm guessing there's a mod for that

There are.
I've since gone on to catch a couple more tower bosses since the patch, using a mod for it.
I don't use them, I just wanted to complete my collection.

[Asmosis]

good to hear, I'm totally doing that whenever i next play so i can have them running around my base as one big happy family