Pokémon Scarlet & Violet players have found a bug in-game that allows them to launch their player into space... simply by building a sandwich. We're not kidding.
Automaton West reports that in Japan, players have come up with a fun little game that challenges players to reach the deepest, darkest depths of space by creating a chorizo sandwich. Things like this are only easy in Paldea, aren't they? To reach beyond Paldea and the Pokémon World's stratosphere, players need to set up a picnic table on a high point of Paldea. A popular area has proven to be the windmill hills in West Province (Area One).
Once you've found the spot, set up your picnic table so it clips through one of the three windmills — you'll know you're right if the top left part of the plate is covered by the pillar. Then, you totally ignore the bread in front of you and start dropping chorizo into the pillar. Stacking the chorizo through the pillar forces the camera to pull aware, and eventually, you can see the entire map of Paldea, and even part of the globe.
The Twitter hashtag 'sandwich bakuhatsu gaku', which translates to 'study of sandwich explosions' gives you a pretty good idea of what players are trying to accomplish. Have a look at some of the examples below.
It looks very fiddly, especially when you're way above the table and even the world. We suppose dropping chorizo from thousands of feet away accurately is pretty difficult, but we've never actually tried it...
One very cool detail to note about the planet itself is that it appears in different colours depending on what time of day it is. It's just a single-colour sphere, but space travel wasn't exactly intended in Scarlet & Violet.
There is one thing to note, however — if you attempt to do this, you might actually cause your game to crash. So taking advantage of this bug might lead to more problems. So be careful.
Earlier today, The Pokémon Company revealed that it would be releasing another patch for the game towards the end of April 2023. Even though we've just had a patch on Pokémon Day, there are still plenty of other things we want to see come to the game — especially before The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero drops later this year
Have you tried to create the space-travelling sandwich yet? Spotted any other fun bugs in the game? Let us know down below.
[source automaton-media.com]
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Honestly, pretty cool.
Sooo....
Paldea continent was actually a very small continent and surrounded by a lot of oceans.
Blue Planet = Neptune, ahoy !
Orange planet = I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, your desire.
Hilarious and also disappointing to see more glitches from this game.
Nintendo Life is going really hard on this little indie game. It's not like it was made by a billion-dollar mega corporation! Seriously, you guys can't expect a game that was obviously made by one dude in his basement with $30 to function!
I wish we could all collectively stop acknowledging this game's existence. We're putting more thought into our commentary than the devs put into making this POS cashgrab.
Spoiler alert: The outer space region is intended to be explored in a future unannounced DLC update… called The Hidden Wormhole of Area 51… whereby you can travel all the way to the Sun and Moon and meet the Ultra Beasts of yesteryear…
Kind of a cool bug tbh.
This is by far the most @KateGray headline we’ve had since Kate left. Part of me suspects she’s now just a ghostwriter for the site and pulled this entire ‘leaving’ stunt just to she could ghostwrite articles about Ghost Trick and then turn up at then end to say, “IT WAS I, GHOST-KATE, ALL ALONG!!!”.
"Why do you want to be a journalist, ma'am?"
"I want to expose truths and inform audiences about not just how a dead horse can be beaten, but what makes the best beating method for that horse to death. And then beating it more and more and more. A few times a day if possible."
"Then you, ma'am, are ready to be a journalist. Godspeed."
NASA scientists realising all they needed to get into space was a BLT:
honestly the best part of the game when people make crazy stuff with sandwiches 😂
This and 'Troll and I' will be the games needed to homebrew any Switch in the future.
@SpaceboyScreams Just because GameFreak had to meet a deadline doesn't mean the staff was happy with the state of the game. They clearly had an idea for what they wanted this game to be, but could not optimize or polish the experience before launch. I'm not trying to give them any excuses, but I think it's wrong to say no developer at Game Freak put thought into the game.
I'm perfectly happy if they leave this glitch in, maybe just make it less likely to crash the game.
I love coming to the comment section to see funny jokes about this silly bug and finding yet another horde of comments calling the game garbage.
Breath of the Wild, Link on a log through the skies. Like Breath of the Wild had no major glitches and exploits...
Love to see bugs like this one, it's hilarious!
Cyberpunk SV it is
I'm surprised S/V has the whole Paldea region rendered all at once.
Is it normal for an open-world game to render the ENTIRE world at any given point in time? Could this be one of the reasons why the game struggles so much with performance?
I hate to say nerf the draw distance, but, maybe scaling that down a little could help optimize the game.
@Ulysses
wouldnt be surprised if that was a big reason for why the game runs so poorly.
there's a youtube series called "boundary break" which deals in a lot of off camera secrets in games and i found to be an interesting look into development secrets, iirc they have an episode on pokemon s/v and it shows just how massive the "ocean" surrounding the region is.
...so the game wont be playable until the end of april??? theyre just not going to address the fact that saves are being corrupted left and right? thats just great, guess im not getting iron leaves anytime soon
@SpaceboyScreams imo people need to stop using the cashgrab argument to explain why game= bad, all games with a price are out for money
Nintendo is so mercenary, they're willing to charge an extra $60 to fix bugs.
@John_Deacon Cyberpunk started patching on day 1. Today is an amazing game! As for Pokemon, does Nintendo have the same level of consumer respect as CD Projekt?
Everyone made fun of CD Projekt for Cyberpunk, but they fixed and improved the game in every way. And the game is much more complex than Pokemon.
And is Nintendo going to act like a backyard company, or is it going to fix the game that people paid $60 for? Nintendo sometimes charges like a big company ($60, $70), and delivers products from an Indie company.
@sunspotty it's very playable, and the save bug isn't as common as people are saying
@solarwolf07 that's cause people will dog on anything they want, and if you think differently then you're a POS
Removed - trolling/baiting
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