So, to recap from last week, my goal is to hit level 99 ASAP to switch my character build out to an absolutely game-breaking setup that involves exploiting an integer underflow calculation error in how the game engine handles damage numbers. The short version is that if you can consistently keep your Warrior damage bonus at or below -100%, you deal 2.1 billion damage per hit. If you use the Bighorn Bow (Helix store item; you can get it for "free" during your first playthrough because the game gives you more than enough Helix store scrip the first time you complete the prologue chapter), it uses your Warrior damage stat instead of Hunter damage for ranged attacks and Hunter abilities, so those also deal 2.1 billion damage. Finally, if you use the Knife of Dallwun (very beginning of the Korfu island free DLC quests) as your secondary weapon, you automatically one-shot anything at or below your level with Assassination-type attacks. (I'm not sure what Hero Strike actually looks like here, but it's something like 10x the hit points of the primary target.) This last bit is why level 99 is important for this to work.

So my initial guesstimate was that I could get all the way through the first episode of the Atlantis DLC and then hit 99 somewhere during the second episode. I miscalculated, but I was damn close. I'm about a quarter of the way into 98 right now and the episode 2 end boss fight is all that I have left for that bit. My real purpose in all of this is to just be an utterly disrespectful prick to Hades and one-shot him with a light melee attack. No charged heavy attack, no Fury of the Bloodline, no adrenaline usage, no Devastating Shot from three feet away... Just a 2.1 billion damage light attack because FUCK YOU HADES, YOU COCKY SCHEMING PRICK. I am exacting my revenge upon this fucking slop game once and for all, and the god of death himself is going to be my first victim. There's about to be a new sheriff in town, and her name is MAX_INT.

So yeah, now I have the unmitigated joy of having to leave the underworld for an hour or two of gameplay time to rack up enough XP to finish out the level grind (while toggling a 25% boost on and off every time I turn in quests; I'm pretty sure it came with the season pass edition of the game, and I was surprised to see that it refreshes on a New Game+), which more than likely means starting the first DLC, in which Ubisoft asked the question "what if cult, but different?" with a dash of heteronormative bioessentialism thrown in for good measure because MUH BLOODLINE.

This fucking game, I swear to god.

Also when I close the game I get an error in my terminal:

WARNING: ObjectDB instances leaked at exit (run with --verbose for details).
     at: cleanup (core/object.cpp:2077)
ERROR: Resources still in use at exit (run with --verbose for details).
   at: clear (core/resource.cpp:417)

With --verbose:

WARNING: ObjectDB instances leaked at exit (run with --verbose for details).
     at: cleanup (core/object.cpp:2077)
Leaked instance: GDScriptNativeClass:629
Leaked instance: GDScript:1757 - Resource path: res://Scenes/Misc/WorldPosition.gd
Leaked instance: Node:3759 - Node name: 
Leaked instance: Node:2791 - Node name: 
Leaked instance: Node:2757 - Node name: 
Leaked instance: Node:3593 - Node name: 
Hint: Leaked instances typically happen when nodes are removed from the scene tree (with `remove_child()`) but not freed (with `free()` or `queue_free()`).
ERROR: Resources still in use at exit (run with --verbose for details).
   at: clear (core/resource.cpp:417)
Resource still in use: res://Scenes/Misc/WorldPosition.gd (GDScript)
Orphan StringName: map_code
Orphan StringName: GDScriptNativeClass
Orphan StringName: res://Scenes/Misc/WorldPosition.gd
Orphan StringName: assign
Orphan StringName: Node
Orphan StringName: tile_offset
Orphan StringName: _init
Orphan StringName: room_coord
Orphan StringName: GDScript
StringName: 9 unclaimed string names at exit.

Not sure it matters since everything seems fine? But I thought it might be worth bringing up. Playing the Linux version on Arch.

One more thing, not really a bug I don't think but I noticed that if you use the stomp move to break several rocks at once, the stacked sound effects get really loud. Not sure if this is intentional but yeah breaking 4 or 5 rocks at once jump scared me pretty good lol.

Thank you for the game, again I'm having a good time! I hope pinging you with some issues isn't discouraging or anything.

General details:

The empire is called União Popular Comunal de Caríbea, in english Comunal Popular Union of Caríbea or CPUC for short. A Fanatic Igualitarian / Materialist empire with the Shared Burdens and Meritocracy Civics (right now we also have the Beacon of Liberty Civic too) and the Broken Shackles origin.

Our main species is called Medusoana. And the first leader, the Orador(a) Maior, in english Higher Speaker, is a woman called Maharia.

Our new world is called Tarcadal Desacorrentada, in english Tarcadal Unshackled, an ocean world, now home to multiple species of ex-slaves all united around our shared goal of liberating the galaxy of capitalism and its slavery tendencies.

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Backstory:

Daughter of a great revolutionary who participated in the Revolution of the Caríbea atoll, the greatest wonder of her homeworld. Maharia taught her enslaved comrades the imortal science of the proletariat coined by Kahorul Mahexs and took lead in the mutiny against the slavers.

The name of the empire is a reference and tribute to her father and the countless who fought for their freedom before, but ultimately failed. Their sacrifice now fuels the heart of countless others in hope for a better tomorrow.

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Story and general run objective:

“Freeing ourselves from the shackles of the imperialist oppressors, we are the ex-slaves that form the party and galactic empire Comunal Popular Union of Caríbea, it is our duty to free the people oppressed by the decadent capitalism that somehow survived like a parasite until the cosmic stage of the people of our galaxy. The bourgeois-democratic empires, while enemies of the freedom of the people, are not our priority as long as they show us the same respect we will show them. And if possible, we will free and peacefully integrate them under our side. It is the authoritarians, imperialists and specially the slavers who we must not tolerate under any circumstance, it is them the enemy of the most diverse populace of our galaxy and the unscrupulous maintainers of the the most vile and decadent capitalism of this universe.”

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What happened so far:

A shit ton of things happened in this run so far, so I'll detail some of the most interesting stuff I remember.

We quickly found out who enslaved us, it was a Megacorporation quite close to us, they called themselves a "Benevolent" empire, but we knew the truth and that couldn't stand. When we were big and strong enough we went to war with them and won. Before that, another group of Medusoannas under their empire revolted. At the time we couldn't help them directly so they didn't join our empire, but were crucial in defeating the Megacorp. Unfortunately they didn't learn from their past mistakes and they too enslaved people that later revolted against them, right now they still exist as an empire because they are vassals of a bigger hive-mind empire we have not managed to liberate yet, despite their multiple aggressions against us. We even had to become vassals of this hive-mind once, but used that as an opportunity to tech rush and expand enough to liberate ourselves. Also, when that happened I was neglecting the economy pretty hard and making a bunch of mistakes, so I also used it as an opportunity to correct that.

Despite that, we also faced multiple wars. At a time I felt like the Soviet Union because there were 5 empires at war with us at the same time lmao.

We also found a black hole early in the game that has some kind of worm entity inside it and it started a bunch of time traveling shenanigans that were pretty cool. Unfortunately we have not been able go back there yet. Outside of that I learned the hard way not to make defensive pacts, the AI will just shit itself and thing we can take on a larger threat, the cool part is that I turned it into a roleplay reason to change the empire's international policy, take a look:

“Twice have the CPUC tried to cooperate with our allies through unconditional support for mutual help, twice we were deceived into joining senseless wars with impossible enemies, first with an ally we wanted to pacifically integrate, now with comrades that used us as a cannon against the current galactic threat.

Materiality prevails and imposes itself indicating we should change our international policy. Smaller comrades are safer with us, pacific integration is the solution. Against the capitalists, liberation wars are our new policy, the workers of the galaxy must be freed from capitalism.”

Since this is already a massive wall of text, I'll rapid fire a few stuff: We have found multiple dimensions with alternate versions of ourselves. We have retrieved the Head of Zarqlan which has been essential for our military, to the point just the Fallen Empires are stronger than us, one is actually 3 fragmented empires, one is a robotic one that have done basically nothing so far, and the third one is the ones that sends me troops when I activate the Head of Zarqlan. And this last one I'm actually at war right now because of the small empire that used us to fight them that I mentioned above lol. Outside that, right now we are part of the galactic senate and are trying to vote for slavery to be banned. Also the Medusoannas just started evolving psychic abilities.

This is what the galaxy looks like right now. (Actually not exactly, since this print I have expanded more on the south of the galaxy.

And this is what the empire's government looks like right now. There are 4 Paragons there, with 2 being immortal, one of these being the Oracle.