This text accommodates spoilers for the late recreation of Stardew Valley.
A sinister new minimize scene launched in Stardew Valley’s huge 1.6 replace scolds those that glitch their approach to an endgame area of the map.
Perfection is, as they are saying, within the eye of the beholder. Within the case of Stardew Valley, nevertheless, just one beholder actually issues, and that’s the recreation’s developer, Eric Barone, who has set very stringent standards as to what constitutes an ideal recreation. Progress in direction of a “good” playthrough may be tracked through the perfection meter discovered within the Walnut Room on Ginger Island.
To fill it up, you’ll need to spend numerous hours slaying monsters, discovering collectibles, rising crops, and customarily being an impressive, problem-solving member of the neighborhood. Put within the effort and time to attain perfection, and also you’ll be rewarded with entry to part of the map generally known as The Summit, the place you’re handled to a heartwarming cutscene with the one you love of alternative, earlier than being introduced with a parade of each animal and character within the recreation. As its identify suggests, reaching The Summit might be thought-about the pinacle achievement of a Stardew Valley playthrough, a becoming reward that’s gated behind tens of hours price of digital sweat.
Or, you be a monster, and skip the entire effort to take the straightforward approach to the summit by utilizing an exploit to glitch out of bounds, and navigate to the endgame part of the map. Fortunately, Barone is effectively conscious of this explicit soiled trick, however somewhat than patching out the exploit for 1.6, the developer as a substitute opted to introduce a cutscene to the sport, which punishes gamers for accessing The Summit with out attaining perfection.
Reddit customers like Snail51 caught the cutscene shortly after launch, which we right here at IGN have captured as effectively. If you happen to do not thoughts struggling the wrath of Mister Qi, you may watch a walkthrough beneath (which additionally contains the cutscene itself should you do not need to undergo all that).
After following the steps, you may come face-to-face with Mister Qi – a mysterious character who operates the On line casino present in Calico Desert.
“Properly, effectively, effectively, look who ‘made it to the summit,” taunts Mister Qi, towards the backdrop of a glitching sky. “Thought you had been actually intelligent, didn’t you?” The NPC then chides the participant additional for dishonest the system, earlier than calling them “despicablee,” and lunging forwards because the display screen fades to black.
The participant then involves within the hospital, solely to be advised that Harvey had been compelled to carry out “emergency surgical procedure” on them after they had been discovered “unconscious” and “battered.” Harvey then expenses the participant 500g for medical bills, as a result of he isn’t working a charity thanks very a lot.
For the reason that cutscene clearly didn’t seem within the in depth record of modifications following the discharge of 1.6, we don’t know what different surprises may be ready for different gamers who look to recreation the system. Regardless, these hoping to get to The Summit the trustworthy means would do effectively to seek the advice of IGN’s complete Stardew Valley Wiki, and to take a look at our web page detailing all the things that that you must know concerning the 1.6 replace.
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