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[Game Update] - Heart of the Ruins (BETA 207966)


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That new boss looks spooky as hell. Great job on the design. I'm excited to see the full breadth of his powers. Don't go easy on us. Also, does anybody have an upload of the ruins theme yet? I'm not able to log into steam at the minute and I'm curious what it sounds like! :)

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1 hour ago, V2C said:

 

  • Antlion now accepts Cut Stones and Thermal Stones as tribute.  Make sure they’re not ice cold or burning hot though, unless of course you’re looking for a fight!

 

 

 

I was looking for a fight, but I found even more...

This is the most inventive way to get decoration in the game yet!

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The quotes. THE QUOTES. 

Some of my favorites: (Immense Spoilers)

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(Wilson)

ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "It depicts an old civilization. The people look hungry and scared.",
            LINE_2 = "This tablet is too worn to make out.",
            LINE_3 = "Something dark creeps over the city and its people.",
            LINE_4 = "The people are shedding their skins. They look different underneath.",
            LINE_5 = "It shows a massive, technologically advanced city.",
        },

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(Maxwell)

ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "A picture of the city, before the fuel.",
            LINE_2 = "We all know what happens next.",
            LINE_3 = "They gained such an enviable power...",
            LINE_4 = "I know why you led me back here.",
            LINE_5 = "But it won't work.",

        },

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(Stalker!? IT SPEAKS!?!)

STALKER_BATTLECRY = { "Huurgh...", "...(growl)...", "...gruuuugh...", "Hrrgh...", "...grraaugh...", "...(rumble)...", "...gruh..." },
    STALKER_PLAYER_BATTLECRY = { "Huurgh...", "...gruuuugh...", "...grraaugh...", "...(gurgle)...", "...(crunch)...", "...Y-yy...", "...W-wwh..." },

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1 minute ago, Zeklo said:

The quotes. THE QUOTES. 

Some of my favorites: (Immense Spoilers)

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(Wilson)

ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "It depicts an old civilization. The people look hungry and scared.",
            LINE_2 = "This tablet is too worn to make out.",
            LINE_3 = "Something dark creeps over the city and its people.",
            LINE_4 = "The people are shedding their skins. They look different underneath.",
            LINE_5 = "It shows a massive, technologically advanced city.",
        },

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(Maxwell)

ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "A picture of the city, before the fuel.",
            LINE_2 = "We all know what happens next.",
            LINE_3 = "They gained such an enviable power...",
            LINE_4 = "I know why you led me back here.",
            LINE_5 = "But it won't work.",

        },

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(Stalker!? IT SPEAKS!?!)

STALKER_BATTLECRY = { "Huurgh...", "...(growl)...", "...gruuuugh...", "Hrrgh...", "...grraaugh...", "...(rumble)...", "...gruh..." },
    STALKER_PLAYER_BATTLECRY = { "Huurgh...", "...gruuuugh...", "...grraaugh...", "...(gurgle)...", "...(crunch)...", "...Y-yy...", "...W-wwh..." },

So the people were mutated by the fuel and not just lobster people by nature. Also are Wilson and Maxwell unconsciously displaying the forbidden knowledge?

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Just now, Quoth143 said:

So the people were mutated by the fuel and not just lobster people by nature. Also are Wilson and Maxwell unconsciously displaying the forbidden knowledge?

Actually. I don't think they were normal people. Here's Webber's:

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ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "It's a picture of some bug people.",
            LINE_2 = "This picture's all messed up.",
            LINE_3 = "There's a lot of black goop in this picture.",
            LINE_4 = "A picture of bug people escaping their bug outsides!",
            LINE_5 = "A picture of a city. It looks like a nice place to live.",
        },

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Just now, Quoth143 said:

So the people were mutated by the fuel and not just lobster people by nature.

If it really is just this, Unnatural Selection lore gets fuelled. If it goes further, depending of how, it might be ruined :)

Just now, Quoth143 said:

Also are Wilson and Maxwell unconsciously displaying the forbidden knowledge?

Wilson perhaps, but Maxwell seems to be well aware of it...

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Just now, Zeklo said:

Actually. I don't think they were normal people. Here's Webber's:

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ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "It's a picture of some bug people.",
            LINE_2 = "This picture's all messed up.",
            LINE_3 = "There's a lot of black goop in this picture.",
            LINE_4 = "A picture of bug people escaping their bug outsides!",
            LINE_5 = "A picture of a city. It looks like a nice place to live.",
        },

Oh...

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14 minutes ago, Sketched_Philo said:

I was looking for a fight, but I found even more...

This is the most inventive way to get decoration in the game yet!

That's pretty awesome, and I love the music used in this fight!  

"If it's a fight the players want, its a fight the players will get!"  Is probably the the dev team was thinking after a few posts were made about being able to fight the Antlion.

I wonder what the Antlion drops once you defeat it. 

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4 minutes ago, Zeklo said:

The quotes. THE QUOTES. 

Some of my favorites: (Immense Spoilers)

  Hide contents

(Wilson)

ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "It depicts an old civilization. The people look hungry and scared.",
            LINE_2 = "This tablet is too worn to make out.",
            LINE_3 = "Something dark creeps over the city and its people.",
            LINE_4 = "The people are shedding their skins. They look different underneath.",
            LINE_5 = "It shows a massive, technologically advanced city.",
        },

  Hide contents

(Maxwell)

ATRIUM_RUBBLE = 
        {
            LINE_1 = "A picture of the city, before the fuel.",
            LINE_2 = "We all know what happens next.",
            LINE_3 = "They gained such an enviable power...",
            LINE_4 = "I know why you led me back here.",
            LINE_5 = "But it won't work.",

        },

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(Stalker!? IT SPEAKS!?!)

STALKER_BATTLECRY = { "Huurgh...", "...(growl)...", "...gruuuugh...", "Hrrgh...", "...grraaugh...", "...(rumble)...", "...gruh..." },
    STALKER_PLAYER_BATTLECRY = { "Huurgh...", "...gruuuugh...", "...grraaugh...", "...(gurgle)...", "...(crunch)...", "...Y-yy...", "...W-wwh..." },

So the weird ancestors are given fuel, presumably by *them,* or some other deity, the fuel mutates them into super knowledgeable beings and they build a technologically advanced city that eventually gets destroyed by the overuse of fuel. Maxwell wanted some of that knowledge or their nightmare fuel to make his own chess beasts and the giant animated shadow we saw, and teamed up with them. I'm not sure if Maxwell was the one who gave them the fuel but since the way Maxwell speaks about the issue they seem to be above him, my guess is someone higher up gave them the fuel. 

My guess is Charlie wants to do something similar with Maxwell and the other survivors by giving them the tools to make a thriving city like the lobster people, but Maxwell seems to know something she doesn't on the matter. 

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I have been left with two thoughts after all this:

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Are these really statues. Or the bodies the ancients left behind? Just what is thulecite?

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If the ancients underwent some "sort of thing", presumably becoming shadow monsters. (or are they even becoming shadows, or being used to like "hatch" them or something) Has Charlie undergone something similar? Just why, does Maxwell say:  "I know why you led me back here." "But it won't work." Does she want Maxwell to undergo it?

It seems like some answers are being given, but in it's place more questions!?!?!

I thought this initial update would sate my hype, but all it has done is amplify it!

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17 minutes ago, Battal said:

You have to kill one of the Big Tentacles, and then jump into the pit it leaves behind.

That's it? Here I am killing the guardian, telefocusing the shadow atrium and searching for the other side of the gateway but apparently all you need is a wormhole. Thanks for the help I'm going in.

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