Summary

  • Palworld is a popular game that combines survival and creature-collection genres, and players can do activities like battling, building bases, and collecting resources.
  • Butchering too many Pals in the game can trigger a glitch that pixelates the player's character, but the issue goes away once the world is reloaded.
  • The game's open-world nature and building features have inspired players to create imaginative structures, and future updates promise to enhance the gameplay experience.

A Palworld player randomly encountered a glitch that pixelated their character after they butchered a lot of Pals. Since releasing earlier in January, Palworld has been a runaway success thanks to its unique mix of genres, and players have since been busy discovering everything the game has to offer.

Palworld is both a survival sim and creature-collector game, and it has garnered both popularity and controversy due to its hype claiming that it was a more mature take on the Pokemon franchise. While players go around the game's world collecting and battling its monsters called Pals, they can also put them to work building bases, crafting items, and collecting resources, to name a few. The player can even fight the Pals themselves without the use of their own collected companions, and even butcher them for food and other materials.

Butchering Too Many Pals Can Trigger A Bug

Game streamer Alexia Raye posted a clip on her TikTok account in which her character in Palworld seemed to have been permanently pixelated. She claimed that this happened right after she had butchered 100 Pals. The bug apparently happened because the game pixelates the act of butchering due to its violent nature. The pixelation also spreads to the player character, and it looked like the glitch made it stay permanently.

Though it looks like the pixelation stays permanently, other players have noted that the issue goes away once the world is reloaded. The bug may be funny-looking, but it doesn't take long for the pixelated main character to be distracting, especially when it's time to aim at something directly in front. At the very least, this glitch is not as bad as the crashes that Palworld players on Xbox have been experiencing.

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Meanwhile, the game's open-world nature and building features mean Palworld players are busy putting up various structures in their base. It seems that there are limitless possibilities when it comes to crafting and building, which has contributed greatly towards the game being a big hit. Fans have been posting a lot of creations all over the internet, inspiring others to keep designing as many imaginative structures in the game as possible.

Future updates from developer Pocket Pair will mean that there will be more to discover in the game, as well as a better play experience. Given the huge following it's quickly amassed, it already looks like Palworld may just be the next big original video game franchise to emerge, and it can be that successful as long as it can dodge its controversies.

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Palworld
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Open-World
Shooter
Survival
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Systems
PC-1 PlayStation-1 Xbox-1
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Top Critic Avg: 71 /100 Critics Rec: 58%
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Released
January 19, 2024
ESRB
T For Teen Due To Violence
Developer(s)
Pocket Pair, Inc.
Publisher(s)
Pocket Pair, Inc.
Engine
Unreal Engine 5
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer
Cross-Platform Play
Xbox Series X|S, pc
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DIGITAL
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In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fight and breed, or they can be made to work on farms or factories. You can even sell them or eat them.
Survival: In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices...even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.
Mounts & Exploration: Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.
Collect all kinds of exciting Pals to fight, farm, build, and work for you in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Genre(s)
Open-World, Shooter, Survival