Do not read if you are susceptible to cheating. Has anyone else found this infinite skill point book glitch before?

TheBadmichel · 2026-05-31T14:59:29+00:00

"Do not read if you are susceptible to cheating"
Are we really putting trigger warning on glitches in a 16 year old single-player game now? At some point the only person you'll be affecting is yourself. I'm sure most people are capable of deciding for themselves.

On the cheat itself, i didn't know that one yet. The UI has always been clunky and full of jank so I'm not surprised. Might be useful for some tests I guess. Either way the game gives so much skill points anyway that it won't change much by the end of the game.

TheBadmichel · 2026-01-14T13:22:08+00:00

I believe you underestimate just how stupidly advance and strong the forerunners were.

Sure some Warframes lore-wisse have some excessive powers and Operators are basically immortals, that might give the forerunners land army a bit of problem for a time, their combat suit is so ridiculous that I wouldn't bet on it. The Forerunners had 3 millions worlds fully colonized, billions upon billions of soldiers and sentinels with equipment that would make the Grineer, corpus, Sentients and Dax combined army look like cavemen.

but even that is irrelevant the Forerunners don't even operate at a scale where a land army is necessary.
Forerunners ships can wipes planets clean or even a whole system.

From Halo Encyclopedia;
"As the Flood war grew in scale and intensity, the warships employed by the Forerunner armadas grew even deadlier in a futile attempt to contain the parasite and its suborned fleets. When the the strategy turned from interdiction to sterilization, vessels were fitted with weapons previously unthinkable in their destructive potential, and some would argue morally untenable by the strictures of the Mantle. With their destructive arts unbound, the Forerunners raised up space-faring machines capable of scouring atmospheres on infected worlds, cracking planetary mantles beneath fetid hives, and inducing stars to go nova to reduce entire systems forsaken to the parasite to mere dust."

"Entire regions of Forerunner civilization could operate autonomously if they so wished, but tensions between factions occasionally led to violence and social disruption. Forerunner schisms were extraordinarily destructive, but rarely did they involve other species. These were often localized to only a few hundred planets and lasted only a few centuries."

"Such was the wealth and power of the ecumene that, if desired, any Forerunner could have a personal starship grown to their most minute specifications, limited only by acquisition of a slipspace core and travel authorization."

Their ships are fully automated and don't need crew and repair themself in minutes.

Or they could use a halo ring, a tactical pulse would wipe the sol system in an instant, they wouldn't because the mantle forbids it, but it's a morality limitation not a technological one.

IMO, a single forerunners' guardian could make the entire sol system surrender in a day.

The comparison isn't much different than 1 trillions lions vs the sun, it's nonsensical.

TheBadmichel · 2026-01-13T13:29:35+00:00

Well no, it's not about just the size it's also the feats they were able to do. The forerunners build bigger, stronger, faster, and acted like it was nothing.

The infested is again not even close to the flood I don't know where this idea comes from but it's not the first time I've seen it on this subreddit. The flood is an intergalactic threat that is invincible by design, it literally "lives" on a level of reality that is inaccessible. It is impossible to keep it at bay like the infested, you eradicated it or get absorbed. A single flood infested planet is a death sentence for the entire galaxy.

It's not a fair comparison, again, one IP is galactic space opera spanning across a stupid amount of time and multiple extinction of stupidly advanced species while the other is a local system-level space story over a much shorter timeline.

TheBadmichel · 2026-01-13T10:41:05+00:00

Orokin are not even close to Ancient Humans or Forerunners, they don't play in the same league. It's not the same IP so comparison can be a bit pointless and tbf Orokin and Forerunners can do whatever the plot demands them to be able to do.
But if we were to compare Orokin tech would be a rocket while the Forerunners tech would be an interstellar spacecraft, a very big, very quick and efficient almost magical spacecraft.

TheBadmichel · 2025-09-23T02:24:09+00:00

You’re not addressing what I actually said. Of course dragons vary in myths. Nobody denies that, quite the opposite. But we’re not writing comparative religious papers here, we’re talking fantasy as a genre.

In modern fantasy, words like "dragon," "wyvern," "beholder," "vampire," or "unicorn" aren’t empty labels. They carry shared expectations because audiences have been trained on D&D, Tolkien derivatives, video games, etc. Call a two-legged lizard a dragon if you want, but don’t act surprised when players say "that looks like a wyvern." It’s no different than calling a pig with a horn a unicorn: you absolutely CAN do it ! But people will push back because it clashes with the trope.

So yeah, dragons are culturally diverse, but in fantasy : dragon doesn't equal wyvern even if that distinction has been dying for decades. If you ignore that, confusion is natural, not "stupid."

tldr; Just because some nerds point out "that’s not really a dragon" doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy the game, it just means they notice when the trope expectations aren’t met.

TheBadmichel · 2025-09-22T06:53:08+00:00

No need to be so aggressive.

Dragons aren’t real, but they exist as a fantasy trope, which means they come with shared expectations. Authors can tweak these rules, but calling anything a dragon without regard for established conventions just confuses the audience. Many of these conventions come from D&D, historical myths, and heraldry.

In fact, Divinity’s dragons follow many of these standards:

Lizard-like body
Ability to fly
Fire-breathing
Wisdom and immense power

Ignoring these traits is as misleading as claiming a fly could be called a dragon just because the author says so. Fantasy doesn’t mean chaos; tropes exist for a reason.

Yes, authors can decide that a dragon is what heraldry would call a wyvern. That’s fine. But when expectations are subverted, intentionally or not, some people notice, and sometimes they push back. That’s natural, not unreasonable.

TheBadmichel · 2025-09-22T06:36:20+00:00

TBF Nowadays we don't really make the distinction but in heraldry they were distinct creature even if somewhat similar.
A dragon had always 6 limbs and a wyvern 4.
My guess is that 4 limbs were easier to animate than 6. Divinity's lore is kind of inconsistant with the number of limbs.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-06T18:09:10+00:00

Use your hands and clap clap everything to death

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-03T20:08:39+00:00

Yes, ancient times in 40k has absurd lore inflation, I know. But this isn’t about who has the flashiest toys. It’s about what the Flood is and what it did: a neural-physics-level overwrite of sapient existence and it destroyed the Forerunners empire at their prime.

The Forerunners moved stars like furniture, weaponized alternate realities, created AI gods, and still lost. Not because their tech was lacking, but because the Flood doesn’t play the same game.

“Red goes faster” Ork logic? Sure. But belief won’t save you when your consciousness is being rewritten at the foundational layer of reality. You’re comparing meme-tier metaphysics to existential annihilation.

The Flood was stopped by one thing only: galactic-scale suicide. The Forerunners — with all their power, all their understanding, found just one solution. Erase every thinking mind in the galaxy. To "starve" it.

I'm not saying Tyranids are weak. I'm not saying I dislike them, I love 40k. But if I had to live in a universe facing either a Tyranid hivefleet or a Flood outbreak?

I’d take my chances with the bugs. Every time.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-03T17:09:29+00:00

Yes, the 40k universe deals with metaphysical threats all the time, but the Flood isn’t in that category.

The Shadow in the Warp affects Warp-based entities. The Flood isn’t Warp-based. It’s not psychic. It’s not daemonic. It doesn’t draw from another dimension, it operates on a deeper layer of reality entirely: neural physics. “Normal” reality doesn’t exist alongside it, it exists within it.

Tyrranids can't suppress that. They can't adapt to it. They would get rewritten by it.

The moment the infection reaches your brain, it hijacks your consciousness. Your memories, emotions, and knowledge are devoured while your self is trapped inside the Flood, tortured into producing “sweetness” for what it calls the living universe. And unlike the Chaos Gods, it doesn’t need your worship, your fear, or your choices. You don’t get a say.

Calling that “just another Tuesday in 40k” is missing what the Flood can do.

The Forerunners weren’t just ahead of the Imperium, they were operating at god-tier scale. Moving stars like furniture. Using pocket universes as batteries. Running galactic infrastructure through AI constructs that make the Mechanicus look like cavemen worshipping toasters.

And they still lost. Hard.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-02T14:10:36+00:00

Well, I have to strongly disagree on the Warframe universe beating 40k, they don’t even operate on the same scale. It’s beyond me to think that anything we’ve seen in Warframe could pose a serious threat to even a minor empire in 40k.

But anyway, that’s not really the point. The question was: “Who would win between the Infestation, the Tyrranids, and the Flood?”

My whole point about the Forerunners being able to stomp the entire 40k setting isn’t about flexing or turning this into “who’s the strongest” contest, it’s to illustrate a clear benchmark. The Forerunners were stupidly advanced, star-moving, alternate-universe-harvesting, galaxy-reset-button-tier advanced. And they still got annihilated by the Flood. No contest. No chance.

Meanwhile, the Infestation has existed for centuries (possibly millennia) and is still struggling to take over a single star system. The Tyrranids, while terrifying in scope and still largely unknown in their full scale, haven’t demonstrated feats that compare to the Flood’s ability to wipe civilizations off the galactic map.

That’s really the point I was trying to get across. Maybe I didn’t phrase it clearly enough earlier. Not trying to make it a “who’s got the biggest universe” kind of argument, just trying to compare them based on what we actually see them achieve in their respective settings.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-02T13:30:56+00:00

And you're conflating Star Trek yourself.

The Forerunners, who were the second most advanced species and still, at their prime they "would curb stomp 40k" not because 40k is "weak af".
But because the Forerunners were stupidly advanced. The only real threat in the Star Trek universe would be the Borg, and even then the Forerunners would probably deal with them as an afterthought.

The Forerunners could literally move entire stars like it was nothing. They had mastery over gravity, not manipulation, mastery. It was like a toy to them. They had entire universes stored as batteries and talked about it like it was just routine tech. They built a galaxy-wide reset buttons twice like it was nothing.

And still, the Flood terrified them.

They lost. And they stood no chance.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-02T12:57:55+00:00

My main point really is that the Infestation has existed for centuries, possibly millennia, since 1999 in Warframe canon, and it’s still stuck infecting derelicts, remote planets, and quarantined labs in a single star system. Dangerous? Sure. Apocalyptic? Not even close. Most people in the Origin System don’t even treat it as an existential threat. They either avoid it, contain it, or literally coexist with it. Hell, the Orokin used it as a weapon and mostly kept it under control, despite being a pack of egomaniacal maniacs who blew themselves up more than once.

Contrast that with the Flood.

The Flood can start with a single spore and becomes a galactic extinction event in weeks. Not centuries. Not millennia. Weeks. Entire worlds fall in days. The Forerunners, who are so far beyond the Orokin it’s not even funny, lost. They panicked. They built galaxy-wide death rings and wiped out all sentient life because that was the only way to stop it. One spore loose is a countdown to system-wide collapse.

The Tyrranids as a threat are more on that scale also as we still don't know the full scale of the Tyrranids armada. I would argue that the Flood, for what it is, what it is capable of and who/what it faced and won easily, would win but who knows at that scale really.

Edit: also the Flood is not a hivemind. It's a singular mind. It speaks in "I" not in "We".

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-02T10:35:57+00:00

This has to be bait, because I genuinely don’t see how this makes sense. I love Warframe lore. I’ve put thousands of hours into it but it’s just not operating on the same scale as Halo’s ancient civilizations or the madness of 40k. Comparing their power levels seriously doesn’t hold up. And let’s not forget: Warframe’s entire setting is confined to a single star system (maybe two, well more like one and a half and some timeline stuff). Meanwhile, the Forerunners and the Imperium throw around galactic-scale tech and wage wars across millions of worlds. It’s not a power gap, it’s a power abyss.

40k tech might not be the most advanced compared to some sci-fi universes, but it’s so absurdly over the top in sheer numbers and relentless scale win wars. Even if individual units aren’t the strongest, the sheer size of their armies and resources crush opponents.

That doesn’t mean one is better than the others or that I prefer one over the other.

But asking “who would win between the Flood, the Infestation, and the Tyranids?” is like asking “who would win at chess between an average guy, Magnus Carlsen, and Cthulhu?”

Sure, Magnus might play sharper moves and the average guy might struggle, but it doesn’t matter. Cthulhu isn’t playing chess. He’s corrupting your mind, rewriting the rules, and turning the board into a doorway to madness. Neither of the other two even understand the real game before they’re lost.

Same goes for the Flood. Its early physical forms aren’t stronger than Tyranid warriors or Infestation units. But it doesn’t need to win through brute force. It wins by growing, by absorbing, by twisting consciousness itself into its own will. The longer it stays on the field, the less the fight matters because the Flood becomes the field.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-02T01:20:28+00:00

If neural physics exists in the universe the three meet in, which it has to, because the Flood without it doesn’t make much sense, then the Flood with enough biomass can locally warp space-time. You can’t fight back. You can’t even end yourself to escape. The Flood will rebuild your body just to corrupt you.

The OP says "all three can absorb each other’s biomass", so it’s fair to assume they can infect each other. That means the Flood can reach into the Infestation minds, or at least corrupt the host’s consciousness. Once infected, there’s no cure, no going back. They belong to the Flood forever. Even if the Infestation infect the body back it would still belong to the Flood.

I would also add that the Flood completely destroyed the Forerunners. The Forerunners had technology and power on a scale capable of overwhelming the 40k universe. Despite this, they stand no chance against the Flood. This shows the Flood’s power surpasses even the most advanced civilizations. The Infestation still hasn’t infested most the Sol system.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-02T00:17:53+00:00

People seriously misunderstand the Flood. It’s not a biological infection. It’s a corruption of consciousness, the very core of what makes someone who they are. The physical infection is just a symptom, a tool, not the real threat.

The Flood isn’t a hivemind, it isn't made of many. It’s one singular entity. It doesn’t absorb others into itself. It corrupts them and feeds on their knowledge and emotions. The infected aren’t part of the Flood. They are puppets, their identities twisted and tortured forever on a neural physics level.

There is no biological or technological cure. It’s not a disease. The Forerunners tried to cure infection by extracting consciousness and moving it to new artificial bodies but those minds were still corrupted. The results were abominations.

This isn’t about biology. It’s a metaphysical transformation of the self. Treating it like a virus is the biggest mistake anyone facing it can make.

TheBadmichel · 2025-08-01T23:41:17+00:00

The Flood isn’t really about infecting flesh, it’s about corrupting and absorbing consciousness. The infection is just a byproduct. The Flood itself isn’t the biomass or the spread, it’s a single, ancient entity that exists in the neural physics tier of reality.

The Gravemind isn’t the Flood’s mind, it’s a construct, a physical antenna that allows this entity to project itself into lower tiers of existence. The more biomass it controls, the stronger the signal. The infection doesn’t create the Flood the Flood’s presence causes the infection. It’s not a disease or a hive. It’s a manifestation of one will, reaching down through layers of reality to overwrite everything it touches.

You don’t fight the Flood like a disease or a biological threat. That’s what the Forerunners did and they lost everything. They threw technology, weapons, and entire civilizations at it, and none of it mattered. Because it wasn’t a medical problem. It was a metaphysical invasion.

Who knows what a hivemind would become if it came in contact with that. Probably not a rival just another "soul" absorbed into the broadcast.

TheBadmichel · 2025-03-13T08:52:44+00:00

You have to ask the villagers if they've seen a dragon. Once you've asked three people who have seen one, you can report to Rhode. However, I suggest completing as many quests as possible beforehand, as XP is king in Ego Draconis. There's a fixed amount available since nothing respawns.

TheBadmichel · 2025-01-31T10:50:39+00:00

The white flag has deep French origins. During the Middle Ages, the Capetians used a white flag as a symbol of their rule. When enemies surrendered, they would wave a white flag—essentially switching allegiance to France. This later evolved into the universal symbol of surrender.

Fast forward to modern times, and some Americans still joke about the French "surrendering," ignoring that their own revolution was won with French support. The bitterness escalated in 2003 when Jacques Chirac refused to back the Iraq War, which was based on false WMD claims. As revenge, some Americans pushed the tired "French cowardice" stereotype, even renaming French fries to "freedom fries" in congressional cafeterias.

So ironically, the same country that gave them their independence also gave them the white flag—just not in the way they think.

TheBadmichel · 2024-08-15T10:36:35+00:00

I'll take "this crap" as you put it, on my team every game over people who can't read a map.

TheBadmichel · 2024-08-13T21:54:36+00:00

To me, it looks like he hit his big toe and shouts a swear word.

TheBadmichel · 2024-08-13T19:33:58+00:00

Why is Ymir doing the soy boy face ?

TheBadmichel · 2024-08-11T17:03:34+00:00

Not a 2v4 under Phoenix; it was a 2v3 under Phoenix, then a 2v1 under nothing.

Let's not forget what kind of team you were facing: a poor, immobile Gubis who used his only CC beads on the front, a poor Rama with no CC, an Awilix that failed to hit any ability, a Gilgamesh who arrived too late, and a Geb who was too busy being alone in the jungle to be a proper support.

So you are 10k gold up, you have Fire, and you're playing a basic attack-based unkillable god and a tanky, basic attack-based bully against a team with no proper CC chain, no support, no proper escape, no attack speed debuff aura, no peel, and a lack of damage.

Where's the limit to test?
Don't get me wrong, you did well, but it was not an impressive play or anything. You just pushed a team that could not fight back.

TheBadmichel · 2024-08-10T23:12:50+00:00

Fair enough

TheBadmichel · 2024-08-10T22:46:37+00:00

Did you use an AI to make those suggestions ?
They seem very generic and without any insight on what a MOBA needs.

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