#there are more boring ways to softlock the game but “picking up mushroom gummis in german softlocks you” is just shoddy coding

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Out of all of the BF softlocks out there, our personal favorite is Kabbu's Sisyphean Nightmare, in which giving a Kabbu with -2 attack HP Core and then entering The Beast's fight in Chapter 5 will force you into a scenario where it is impossible for The Beast to kill Kabbu and it is impossible for Kabbu to kill The Beast, and they are forced to fight forever over Vi and Leif's bodies until either the battery on your platform of choice burns out or you turn the game off.

#this setup DOES require no items and 0 tp to truly become unwinnable #but we're personally of the opinion that it's most fun with a setup where you can reduce the beast to exactly 1 hp #and then your supplies run out and you are forced to struggle against it forever #bug fables #bug fables spoilers #we speak #for context to achieve -2 attack you need two defense exchanges life steal and exp booster #the defense exchanges raise kabbus defense enough that he will take 2 damage max before being healed by hp core #the life steal means every attack will heal 1 damage #but even if you select Do Nothing every turn this scenario is unwinnable without even the solace of Game Over #yknow. in case you wanted to do this for fun or something #there are more boring ways to softlock the game but “picking up mushroom gummis in german softlocks you” is just shoddy coding #cool things to do on a friday night: force kabbu to fight the beast until a god has to intervene #and end everything to start from an earlier point