The story begins with a notorious, pseudonymous internet user known only as . Unlike typical scene groups or crackers who stripped digital rights management (DRM) software from games to make them free, Art Destroyer had a bizarre, highly specific manifesto.

Eventually, every playthrough using the modified part04.rar resulted in the player falling through the map into an endless, digital void.

When Assassin's Creed Odyssey launched in late 2018, it was a behemoth. To share it across the internet's slower connections, uploaders broke the game into dozens of compressed .rar files, labeled part01 , part02 , and so on. Art Destroyer targeted .