Which would you rather avoid in the latest Assassin’s Creed game: Animals twisted into human shapes, or humans with no faces? It’s a tough call.
Low-poly NPCs via Squaredspekz on Reddit, twisted crocodile via Tom Phillips on Twitter
The glitch that makes animals spawn in seemingly humanoid poses that their textures cannot handle, as demonstrated by Eurogamer‘s Tom Phillips on Twitter, definitely has an evil air about it. I’m getting a little True Detective season one vibe here, with a tinge of some of the more creative horror films of the late ’70s.
Image via Tom Phillips on Twitter
But some find these creatures’ twisted bodies endearing, in an “awww look, they think they’re people” sort of way. And if you think about it, many of the gods of Egypt are depicted as humans with animal heads. Perhaps these “glitches” are what inspired the pantheon?
BernieH on YouTube caught the animal posing glitch in action during an antelope hunt. It’s almost as if their twisted forms are some sort of really ineffective camouflage. “Do not shoot me, I am a furry desert tree! Oh shit, he’s not buying it. Run!”
OK, now I am leaning towards “cute” for the animal glitches. Which brings us to the image that gave me actual nightmares over the weekend. This first one was posted on the Assassin’s Creed Reddit by one Squaredspekz. I wish I hadn’t seen it.
While Ubisoft hasn’t responded to our inquiry about the twisted animals, the faceless NPCs thing is a known issue in the PC version that’s being addressed in the next update. It happens to users on lower-end systems or higher-end systems with a lot of processes running in the background while the game plays. Some models just aren’t getting their textures loaded, resulting in un-skinned people wandering the sand-choked streets.
Image via Aason on Reddit
For my money, this is much creepier than humanoid animals. I’d say it even beats out the famous exploded faces of Assassin’s Creeds past. Not even the animals are safe.
Image via ObViousMaf on Reddit
Which do you like the least? Is it animals that stand like humans, or featureless humanoids that are probably staring straight at you but you can’t really tell?
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12 responses to “Which Assassin’s Creed Origins Glitch Is More Nightmare-Inducing?”
Theory is the no-face texture glitch is actually caused by the game’s crappy DRM hogging CPU cycles. :\
I hate the crappy DRM as much as the next person but I cannot fault them trying to do anything and everything to stop people pirating the game.
I don’t mind DRM as long as it’s not intrusive.
At least in this case the pirates don’t get a better product – the DRM still runs on pirated copies, it just can’t do anything.
I must be very lucky that I have only seen 1 bug in my 15 hours playtime and that was a loading save game bug as opposed to anything in game.
The animals are kinda cute. The faceless people look like the spawn of E.C. from Lift Off here to absorb our souls (and faces).
This is like the most bug free AC release in ages.
BURRRN!
That’s what you get by slowing down production time! Ubisoft made the right call by making the games two years apart instead of one.
Would actually be the best easter egg/feature if you could turn on that animals into human. Game devs dont really include in much silly behavior these days
Am almost disappointed i havent seen any yet. Have the animals walking around like humans and the humans down on all fours like animals.
Very happy on PC side here, considering this game didn’t get the obligatory one to two month delay on PC either I’m doubly shocked.
yep, havent noticed any of this glitches on PC yet, the no detail bug is just a normal LOD bug that happens in all games. Ive also only had 1 crash