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Luck is mostly used in Demon’s Souls for increasing item drop rates, but the Blueblood Sword is special in that it’s the only weapon in the game whose damage scales with Luck. While it was considered one of the better weapons in the PlayStation 3 original, the Blueblood Sword required a lot of stat investment, so its benefits were mostly felt in subsequent playthroughs. With this new Gold Coin glitch, however, players can raise their Luck stat to impossible amounts in the blink of an eye.

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Even before the PlayStation 5 remake, Demon’s Souls was notorious for bugs—like the now-defunct duplication glitch—that could remove a lot of the challenge from the game. Bluepoint Games promised to remove a lot of these glitches, and to the studio’s credit, it did. But in introducing a new item, perhaps as a way to alleviate grinding for rare materials, the prolific remake developer has unintentionally provided players with a new way to break the game.

Bluepoint will inevitably fix this in a future patch, but until then, keep a sharp eye out for invaders wielding the Blueblood Sword. Odds are they’re gonna hit like a truck.