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Spider-Man 2 Players Discover Its Most Absurd Glitch

Peter Parker and Miles Morales are randomly turning into tiny white blocks

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Now that Marvelā€™s Spider-Man 2 is finally out in the wild, players are finding all of its cool moments and comic book Easter eggs. But a bunch have encountered something much more unexpected: a glitch that turns Spider-Man into a little white lump of tofu.

Itā€™s not technically tofu per se, but thatā€™s certainly what some players think it looks like. The strange bug sees a small cube you might associate with early development prototyping completely replace the titular superheroā€™s body. Spider-Block as some are calling it (me, Iā€™m calling him that) can still do all the amazing things the neighborhood web-crawler normally does, like web-slinging through New York and comboing bad guys skyward. The weird glitch transforms the experience from cool comic book stuff to extra-surreal fever dream.

Social media is already full of players encountering the cube glitch:

Despite the bugā€™s prevalence, no one really seems to be sure exactly what causes it. The tofu slabs just appear any time either Peter Parker or Miles Moralesā€™ suit model fails to load. Then itā€™s cube time. You can fix it by going back to the suit menu and swapping to a different costume. Itā€™s smart to do that quickly, too, since there are reports of some cubed players falling through the map after their unexpected transfigurations. Perhaps therein lies a portal to the blockverse, but your best bet is just to reload from the last checkpoint if that happens.

Fortunately, my 40-hour experience with Spider-Man 2 was mostly bug free, though some players have reported game crashes or occasionally getting stuck on parts of the environment. A few players have even reported being unable to play the disc version of the game at all, with installations getting stuck at 36 percent. Insomniac Games hasnā€™t yet provided an official workaround, though the issue doesnā€™t seem to be too widespread. Hopefully it gets solved soon so those players can also experience the glory of Spider-Block.

Update 10/27/2023 11:48 a.m. ET: A new patch for Spider-Man 2 has fixed the block glitch and players are sad. Insomniac released the update yesterday to fix several other issues as well including an error with the gameā€™s missing Puerto Rican flags. But now Spidey-Block is no more too. Rip to a real one.

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