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No worries, we'll fix those realistic body models

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I got the chance to preview Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures earlier this year, a massive multiplayer online game featuring the comic hero the Governator made famous. It was a fun romp, like World of Warcraft, but with much more violence and much larger breasts.

And this past weekend, with no known warning, all the female characters’ mammaries shrank a few sizes. Conan has had more than its share of technical hiccups since its launch, but this is definitely the oddest.

According to the company:
“Funcom can confirm that some of the female models in the game have had the size of their breasts changed. This is due to an unintended change in data that was introduced in an earlier patch, data which controls the so-called morph values associated with character models and the size of their respective body parts… We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon.”

As you were, then.

(Photo courtesy of Kotaku)

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