Glitch - all characters have 25 strength

[Torchiest]

So I had a weird bug or glitch pop up this morning when I loaded my save from last night. I had one dead character who was instantly revived. All my characters have 25 strength, invulnerability, and I think immunity to damage from the negative material plane. They also have ridiculously accelerated healing. Anyone know what causes this? I wasn't in the middle of any special quest, just in a wilderness area between adventures. Can I turn this off somehow? It's amusing but kinda defeats the purpose of playing for a challenge.

[Emperor's Fist]

The difficulty seems to be reseting to "story mode". Check the options.

[Luis]

The glitch is that story mode gets activated by reloading like that.

[Torchiest]

Ah cool thanks to you both.

[H2Os]

I just realized that..what's the point without the challenge? might as well watch someone play on youtube.

[ReLiC71]

Originally posted by ^1La Li ^7Lu ^4Le Lo:

I just realized that..what's the point without the challenge? might as well watch someone play on youtube.

The reasoning behind it is so that people who would have trouble completing a game through lack of skill/ability can still interactively experience the story. It's like 'Kid's Mode' but not just for kids.

I don't mind it existing. It's not something I'd ever be likely to use, though.

Edit: That said, I've seen it suggested that Dark Souls games should have a Combat Skip option, and that doesn't sit well with me. The challenge is almost the entire point.

[§єǫuєᴋʜaɴ ⚶]

adding to this though, I've had a bug where I've exported a character from Story Mode and started a new Core Rules with the same character, imported...

and all the easy-mode stuff is still there, including the 25 Strength stat. Pretty sure this needs fixing, I haven't tested it but it seems possible this might make the achievements relying on certain difficulties too easy. ie Legacy of Bhaal...?

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by Sir Auron, Samurai:

adding to this though, I've had a bug where I've exported a character from Story Mode and started a new Core Rules with the same character, imported...

and all the easy-mode stuff is still there, including the 25 Strength stat. Pretty sure this needs fixing, I haven't tested it but it seems possible this might make the achievements relying on certain difficulties too easy. ie Legacy of Bhaal...?

Although that bug does need squashing on principle alone, it isn't very difficult at all to use Keeper and manually build your own God Mode anyways so your concern isn't really a big deal.


For that matter, one of these days when I'm bored I need to test my theory and see how many achievements I can manually unlock at once without crashing the game by building a save from the ground up using Keeper.

[Gavener]

Sorry for Nerco, but was the only post that answered a few questions, so Bump for usefulness!