Hey just making a thread to talk about the Pre-order scythe which allows us to basically skip the Bulwark fight.

So far 3 of us use it i think, i don't have any issue with the use of it but i can see future issues and people have already voiced concern in the discord..

The concern being that if you didn't pre-order the game you cant get the scythe unless you pirate it off a torrent site or something, which is fine for some but not everyone is fine with pirating a new game, and i can see the argument that you should not have to pirate a game to be competitive being a fair one.

So any thoughts on what we should do ?

You can just give yourself the scythe with save editing, the item isn't dlc, its included in the game. Now you could argue that giving yourself a preorder only item via save editing is "stealing", and I'd agree if there was a Death's Bundle DLC on the steam store for $1.99, but there ain't.

The only people really locked out of the item are people on ps4, and there's not really much we can do for them. Unfortunately games that are multiplatform are almost always 99% PC runs overall, and the competitive times are usually only PC runs. (This will only get worse if someone makes a load remover.)

If you're going to run on ps4 I'd just avoid Any% - All Glitches, as every other run you can get a competitive time in without preorder items.

Yeah i was gonna ask if there is a way we could unlock the scythe in the game files, that is easy enough to do for those that don't have it thought we should at least clarify it tho.. Maybe we can put a guide up for it or something just to save any future hassle.

Agreed. I have been using the file edit exploit which KDT told me how to do. It works well but you have to use it every time you start new files and then edit them and load from them instead. It is really tedious but worth the skip. Looks like KDT posted a file for this and a guide.