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Glitches when being in anomaly form

This is kind of an exotic “bug” or more a glitch, yet a quite hilarious one, and I wonder if someone even cares to fix it as it’s not breaking the game – just might cause some confusion to other players.

The description spoils a little about the current rift events, so expand it on your own fault!

As you know, when you jump through the Class I Rift from specific points often enough with a Class II Rift Device set to non-working teleport numbers, you eventually turn into an anomaly form and become a red mob to other players. You’re actually a “clone” of yourself with all skills removed, with your “real” body still lieing downed near the rift.

However, when you now interact with a Box of Fun as an anomaly, you immediately return into normal appearance, but are still a “clone”. Your skills get restored too (now you have a chance to defend yourself against all those attacking players!).

Trying to use items which change skills unequips them immediately, causing some funny effects. E.g., remember the Super Adventure Boom Box, where the character grabs a radio and throws it up as if he worships it – due to being unequipped immediately, instead of the Boom Box your character will throw the weapon in the air, making it animate in this fancy 8-bit style and looking quite awesome.

Turned out I abused all this for a funny screenshot where I stole Sohothin from… “myself”, s. the attachments.

On top of that, the Rift Device can be equipped even when being transformed already (for example, into Costume Brawl animals), which looks pretty odd at times since not all creatures have an arm to hold the device. I just attached a “Power Bunny” I created with that :P