So, I was playing Crusader Kings II earlier today, I was playing as Ghana minding my own business when I got a notice about a Crusade. Now this had nothing to do with me at all, The Pope doesn't give two shits what's happening in West Africa, but I was still curious who was involved so I took a look.
The Pope had declared a crusade against the normally Catholic Kingdom of Lotharingia, which caught me by surprise. Did the King of Lotharingia manage to change religions somehow while I wasn't looking? After taking a second to confirm I was seeing what I thought I was seeing, I looked at the King's profile and saw that, somehow, Catholicism had become a heresy of itself, meaning the Pope could declare war on Catholics with impunity. A quick check confirmed that, yes, the Pope was a heretic as well. I looked around Christian Europe some more and found that Orthodoxy had become a Catholic heresy as well, Miaphysitism was unaffected for some reason.
I tried playing as one of the (now heretical) Catholic rulers, just to see what would happen, which is where I found one of the weirder effects of this glitch. When your character is a member of a heretic faith in Crusader Kings, you have the option to convert, at the cost of 500 prestige points, to the heresy's "parent religion." So, for example, a Cathar, can convert to mainstream Catholicism if they so choose. So I tried converting from Catholicism to Catholicism and found that, yes, I remained a Catholic, and could continue to press the "convert to parent religion" at the cost of 500 prestige points per click without ever really changing religions. I then joined the heretical Catholic Pope in the Crusade against the Heretical Catholic Kingdom of Lotharingia. Interestingly I found that the King of Lotharingia got the "Crusader" trait, due to being a Catholic involved in a Crusade, despite the fact that he was the target of it.
I've had some strange things happen in my Crusader Kings II games while I wasn't paying attention, but this glitch had to be strangest thing I've ever seen happen in the game.
So that brings to our topic: what's the most bizarre or strange glitch you've ever come across in a video game?
Edit: I looked it up, and apparently I'm not the only one who's come across this bug, they have a general idea what's causing it and are working on a fix. I still find it incredibly strange though.
The Pope had declared a crusade against the normally Catholic Kingdom of Lotharingia, which caught me by surprise. Did the King of Lotharingia manage to change religions somehow while I wasn't looking? After taking a second to confirm I was seeing what I thought I was seeing, I looked at the King's profile and saw that, somehow, Catholicism had become a heresy of itself, meaning the Pope could declare war on Catholics with impunity. A quick check confirmed that, yes, the Pope was a heretic as well. I looked around Christian Europe some more and found that Orthodoxy had become a Catholic heresy as well, Miaphysitism was unaffected for some reason.
I tried playing as one of the (now heretical) Catholic rulers, just to see what would happen, which is where I found one of the weirder effects of this glitch. When your character is a member of a heretic faith in Crusader Kings, you have the option to convert, at the cost of 500 prestige points, to the heresy's "parent religion." So, for example, a Cathar, can convert to mainstream Catholicism if they so choose. So I tried converting from Catholicism to Catholicism and found that, yes, I remained a Catholic, and could continue to press the "convert to parent religion" at the cost of 500 prestige points per click without ever really changing religions. I then joined the heretical Catholic Pope in the Crusade against the Heretical Catholic Kingdom of Lotharingia. Interestingly I found that the King of Lotharingia got the "Crusader" trait, due to being a Catholic involved in a Crusade, despite the fact that he was the target of it.
I've had some strange things happen in my Crusader Kings II games while I wasn't paying attention, but this glitch had to be strangest thing I've ever seen happen in the game.
So that brings to our topic: what's the most bizarre or strange glitch you've ever come across in a video game?
Edit: I looked it up, and apparently I'm not the only one who's come across this bug, they have a general idea what's causing it and are working on a fix. I still find it incredibly strange though.