I modded my character stats the wrong way and it ruined 40 hours of playtime

Last week I decided to tweak a few stat values in a RPG I've been playing for months. Just a small bump to strength and health, nothing major. But I didn't check the game's internal scaling first, and now every enemy in the game is level 99 while I'm still at level 15. I went from surviving three hits to getting one-shotted by rats. Has anyone else accidentally broken their save file with a simple stat change?

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felix_jones21h ago

oh man, that reminds me of my buddy Steve. He thought he was being clever with Fallout 4, just bumped up his carry weight a tiny bit. Next thing he knows, every single raider and radroach has a fat man launcher and a million caps. He literally couldn't leave the first vault without getting vaporized. It's like the game just gets offended and decides to teach you a lesson for touching the code.

leo_campbell20h ago

Classic case of the game deciding you're the main character in a revenge story. It's like the code has a mind of its own and sees you messing with it as a personal insult. Pretty sure there's a hidden line in every RPG that just says "if player cheats, turn everything into Dark Souls" and you accidentally triggered it. At this point, rats one-shotting you is just the game's way of laughing at your hubris. Hope you've got a backup save or you're about to learn what true pain feels like in a video game.