Tower of Fantasy player discovers upsetting bug

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Tower of Fantasy, the new free-to-play MMO-like action game, has had a turbulent launch. Hordes of players slammed into its servers(opens in new tab) and were met with queues and errors preventing them from getting into the game. And now that more of them are squeezing in, they've found that the game wasn't fully prepared for them.

Players are sharing all kinds of absurd bugs and glitches they're encountering as they start to dig into the messy Genshin clone(opens in new tab). Some players are slipping underneath the map(opens in new tab), others are getting thrown right into the endgame(opens in new tab), and a few are just getting really big(opens in new tab) for some reason. The best glitch, found by Twitch streamer SivHD(opens in new tab), turns Tower of Fantasy into an entirely different genre.

now this is what i call tower of fantasy GAMING pic.twitter.com/wNixSAeO0IAugust 11, 2022

The glitch has squished SivHD's 3D anime character into a 2D character. The juxtaposition as he circles the camera around his flat character standing in the 3D valley is extremely Paper Mario. At one point, the streamer angles the camera so that the character is only a thin vertical line. If that wasn't upsetting enough, just wait until they start running.

It's not totally clear how this glitch operates. SivHD figured out that if they sit their character in a turret and exit quickly enough, they get squished. Repeat that several times and your character becomes thinner than a crêpe. My guess is that it's some form of animation bug for when the character leaps into the seat. Something about the way the model stretches to sell the quick movement, like how animations are full of smear frames(opens in new tab), might be the culprit. It's as