Anomaly preview #4: Cubes, spheres, obelisks, soundtrack and languages
Todays preview blog talks about the less-obvious and more-insidious threats youll face in Anomaly. Terror comes in all shapes and sizes. Also, check out our previous blog posts below:
Obviously, the golden cube is no threat. Its no more than a beautiful gift sent by a good friend. This hand-sized cube shines like gold, but is impossible to scratch. As everyone knows, cubes make perfect companions.
Its always invitingly warm to the touch, like a trusted pet or a hug from a good friend. If you look closely, youll see more than gold in the delightful way light plays across its surface. If you love the cube like we do, why not make a sculpture of the cube? Dont listen to the others who say that were unhealthily captivated by the cube. Ignore those who claim that our curiosity progressed to fascination and into obsession. That were psychically compelled to interact with it, and we feel sick if we cant. Theyre just jealous of our perfect, wonderful cube.
The nociosphere is very much not as lovable as the cube. Even being near it hurts. Its made of dark metal, covered with curved and jagged grooves, and emanates sensations of pain. More worryingly, when it appears, the sphere appears to be increasing in activity. Its not clear what will happen when this peaks but, if you capture it, you can decrease its activity by suppressing it. Then, you can study it.
If you study the nociosphere, you can learn that it has a single purpose - to inflict pain. If you can keep it suppressed, you will learn how to intentionally activate it, turning it into a weapon to use against your foes. When activated, the nociosphere will teleport to a remote location of your choice and unleash a barrage of pain on anyone nearby. The nociosphere will continue to hunt down living creatures until it is destroyed, or it chooses to depart. This leaves you free to love the cube.
Weve gone from squares to circles and now to triangles. There are three varieties of obelisk, each with a different horrific effect. They all arrive from space, and they all radiate the same putrid psychic energy, which gradually intensifies as it approaches some dangerous limit. You can send colonists to suppress an obelisk to prevent it from activating. You can also mark it for study to try to learn its purpose and perhaps make use of it. Or, you can attempt to destroy it - but doing so may unleash dangerous phenomena.
Once youve completed your research, your colonists will discover that it is a fragment of a much larger archotech structure that can act on organic matter at a distance. You may discover its function sooner than that, though - sometimes the obelisk self-activates, and sometimes merely suppressing or studying it is enough to unleash its power. Love the cube. The warped obelisk can turn living organisms including animals and people and trees into bloody flesh monsters. A colonist can be mutated in several different ways, from growing a bone-bladed tentacle to twisting their internal organs into something thoroughly alien. Less monstrous but just as terrifying is the twisted obelisk. This doesnt change an organism. Instead, its crackling energy seems to pull on nearby living things, eventually snapping them away to somewhere else. If a colonist is taken, youll have to hope they can find their way out of the endless rooms and hallways.
The final monolith-wannabe is the corrupted obelisk. This uses its inhumanly complex power to duplicate intelligent creatures, theoretically without limit. Your colonists twins are not always hostile, but the duplication process is imperfect and any twins will need the finest medical care to survive.
The monolith is the source of everything. The monolith is the conduit. Its power must be defeated. It threatens to twist and destroy everything we know.
But the only way out is through. You must grow the monoliths power, widening the conduit that leads into the void, until you can finally crack it open and face the world-twisting hell it unleashes. Only then will you be able to step through into a place of nightmares, touch the machine god, and choose your fate.
Thats all for now! RimWorld - Anomaly and free content update 1.5 release this Thursday, April 11, 2024. Please wishlist Anomaly on Steam and share the news with your friends! Weve seen how excited people are and all of your awesome comments, videos, fanart, and threads. You can chat about this post and count down to release day with us on Reddit. Thank you so so much for your support everyone! See you on Thursday! - Tia Worship the cube.
[ 2024-04-09 19:15:32 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hi folks! Only 2 more days until RimWorld - Anomaly and free content update 1.5 are out! They both release on Thursday, April 11 at 10 AM Pacific time. (Theres also a timer counting down on the store page!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly The RimWorld - Anomaly original soundtrack will be available on April 11th as well! This OST comes with 11 tracks and nearly an hour of awesome tunes made by RimWorld composer Alistair Lindsay. Also, Anomaly is launching with full support for 10 languages! On release day, you can play Anomaly in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Latin Spanish, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese. (Huge thank you to our community translators for helping us out with these!) All of these translations will be editable via the translation GitHub pages to allow for changes and improvements.
SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion.
Todays preview blog talks about the less-obvious and more-insidious threats youll face in Anomaly. Terror comes in all shapes and sizes. Also, check out our previous blog posts below:
- Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
- Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
- Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
- Anomaly preview #3: Cultists, hate chanters and rituals
- [HERE] Anomaly preview #4: Cubes, spheres, obelisks, soundtrack & languages
- Anomaly bonus preview: Ghouls, ghouls, ghouls
THE CUBE
Obviously, the golden cube is no threat. Its no more than a beautiful gift sent by a good friend. This hand-sized cube shines like gold, but is impossible to scratch. As everyone knows, cubes make perfect companions.
Its always invitingly warm to the touch, like a trusted pet or a hug from a good friend. If you look closely, youll see more than gold in the delightful way light plays across its surface. If you love the cube like we do, why not make a sculpture of the cube? Dont listen to the others who say that were unhealthily captivated by the cube. Ignore those who claim that our curiosity progressed to fascination and into obsession. That were psychically compelled to interact with it, and we feel sick if we cant. Theyre just jealous of our perfect, wonderful cube.
THE NOCIOSPHERE
The nociosphere is very much not as lovable as the cube. Even being near it hurts. Its made of dark metal, covered with curved and jagged grooves, and emanates sensations of pain. More worryingly, when it appears, the sphere appears to be increasing in activity. Its not clear what will happen when this peaks but, if you capture it, you can decrease its activity by suppressing it. Then, you can study it.
If you study the nociosphere, you can learn that it has a single purpose - to inflict pain. If you can keep it suppressed, you will learn how to intentionally activate it, turning it into a weapon to use against your foes. When activated, the nociosphere will teleport to a remote location of your choice and unleash a barrage of pain on anyone nearby. The nociosphere will continue to hunt down living creatures until it is destroyed, or it chooses to depart. This leaves you free to love the cube.
THE OBELISKS
Weve gone from squares to circles and now to triangles. There are three varieties of obelisk, each with a different horrific effect. They all arrive from space, and they all radiate the same putrid psychic energy, which gradually intensifies as it approaches some dangerous limit. You can send colonists to suppress an obelisk to prevent it from activating. You can also mark it for study to try to learn its purpose and perhaps make use of it. Or, you can attempt to destroy it - but doing so may unleash dangerous phenomena.
Once youve completed your research, your colonists will discover that it is a fragment of a much larger archotech structure that can act on organic matter at a distance. You may discover its function sooner than that, though - sometimes the obelisk self-activates, and sometimes merely suppressing or studying it is enough to unleash its power. Love the cube. The warped obelisk can turn living organisms including animals and people and trees into bloody flesh monsters. A colonist can be mutated in several different ways, from growing a bone-bladed tentacle to twisting their internal organs into something thoroughly alien. Less monstrous but just as terrifying is the twisted obelisk. This doesnt change an organism. Instead, its crackling energy seems to pull on nearby living things, eventually snapping them away to somewhere else. If a colonist is taken, youll have to hope they can find their way out of the endless rooms and hallways.
The final monolith-wannabe is the corrupted obelisk. This uses its inhumanly complex power to duplicate intelligent creatures, theoretically without limit. Your colonists twins are not always hostile, but the duplication process is imperfect and any twins will need the finest medical care to survive.
THE ENDGAME
The monolith is the source of everything. The monolith is the conduit. Its power must be defeated. It threatens to twist and destroy everything we know.
But the only way out is through. You must grow the monoliths power, widening the conduit that leads into the void, until you can finally crack it open and face the world-twisting hell it unleashes. Only then will you be able to step through into a place of nightmares, touch the machine god, and choose your fate.
ANOMALYS RELEASE DAY
Thats all for now! RimWorld - Anomaly and free content update 1.5 release this Thursday, April 11, 2024. Please wishlist Anomaly on Steam and share the news with your friends! Weve seen how excited people are and all of your awesome comments, videos, fanart, and threads. You can chat about this post and count down to release day with us on Reddit. Thank you so so much for your support everyone! See you on Thursday! - Tia Worship the cube.
RimWorld
Ludeon Studios
Ludeon Studios
2018-10-17
Strategy Simulation Singleplayer
Game News Posts 139
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Overwhelmingly Positive
(164748 reviews)
https://ludeon.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100
The Game includes VR Support
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RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Firefly, and Dune.
You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world.
RimWorld is a story generator. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller. There are several storytellers to choose from. Randy Random does crazy stuff, Cassandra Classic goes for rising tension, and Phoebe Friendly just makes good things happen.
Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side, buying them from slave traders, or taking in refugees. So your colony will always be a motley crew.
Each person’s background is tracked and affects how they play. A nobleman will be great at social skills (recruiting prisoners, negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. A farm oaf knows how to grow food by long experience, but cannot do research. A nerdy scientist is great at research, but cannot do social tasks at all. A genetically engineered assassin can do nothing but kill – but he does that very well.
Colonists develop - and destroy - relationships. Each has an opinion of the others, which determines whether they'll become lovers, marry, cheat, or fight. Perhaps your two best colonists are happily married - until one of them falls for the dashing surgeon who saved her from a gunshot wound.
The game generates a whole planet from pole to equator. You choose whether to land your crash pods in a cold northern tundra, a parched desert plain, a temperate forest, or a steaming equatorial jungle. Different areas have different animals, plants, diseases, temperatures, rainfall, mineral resources, and terrain. These challenges of surviving in a disease-infested, choking jungle are very different from those in a parched desert wasteland or a frozen tundra with a two-month growing season.
You can tame and train animals. Lovable pets will cheer up sad colonists. Farm animals can be worked, milked, and sheared. Attack beasts can be released upon your enemies. There are many animals - cats, labrador retrievers, grizzly bears, camels, cougars, chinchillas, chickens, and exotic alien-like lifeforms.
People in RimWorld constantly observe their situation and surroundings in order to decide how to feel at any given moment. They respond to hunger and fatigue, witnessing death, disrespectfully unburied corpses, being wounded, being left in darkness, getting packed into cramped environments, sleeping outside or in the same room as others, and many other situations. If they're too stressed, they might lash out or break down.
Wounds, infections, prosthetics, and chronic conditions are tracked on each body part and affect characters' capacities. Eye injuries make it hard to shoot or do surgery. Wounded legs slow people down. Hands, brain, mouth, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, feet, fingers, toes, and more can all be wounded, diseased, or missing, and all have logical in-game effects. And other species have their own body layouts - take off a deer's leg, and it can still hobble on the other three. Take off a rhino's horn, and it's much less dangerous.
You can repair body parts with prosthetics ranging from primitive to transcendent. A peg leg will get Joe Colonist walking after an unfortunate incident with a rhinoceros, but he'll still be quite slow. Buy an expensive bionic leg from a trader the next year, and Joe becomes a superhuman runner. You can even extract, sell, buy, and transplant internal organs.
And there's much more than that! The game is easy to mod and has an active mod community. Read more at http://rimworldgame.com.
(All non-English translations are made by fans.)
You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world.
- Manage colonists' moods, needs, wounds, and illnesses.
- Fashion structures, weapons, and apparel from metal, wood, stone, cloth, or futuristic materials.
- Tame and train cute pets, productive farm animals, and deadly attack beasts.
- Watch colonists develop and break relationships with family members, lovers, and spouses.
- Fight pirate raiders, hostile tribes, rampaging animals, giant tunnelling insects and ancient killing machines.
- Trade with passing ships and trade caravans.
- Decorate your colony to make it into a pleasurable space.
- Dig through snow, weather storms, and fight fires.
- Capture refugees or prisoners and turn them to your side or sell them into slavery.
- Discover a new generated world each time you play.
- Build colonies in the desert, jungle, tundra, and more.
- Learn to play easily with the help of an intelligent and unobtrusive AI tutor.
RimWorld is a story generator. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller. There are several storytellers to choose from. Randy Random does crazy stuff, Cassandra Classic goes for rising tension, and Phoebe Friendly just makes good things happen.
Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side, buying them from slave traders, or taking in refugees. So your colony will always be a motley crew.
Each person’s background is tracked and affects how they play. A nobleman will be great at social skills (recruiting prisoners, negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. A farm oaf knows how to grow food by long experience, but cannot do research. A nerdy scientist is great at research, but cannot do social tasks at all. A genetically engineered assassin can do nothing but kill – but he does that very well.
Colonists develop - and destroy - relationships. Each has an opinion of the others, which determines whether they'll become lovers, marry, cheat, or fight. Perhaps your two best colonists are happily married - until one of them falls for the dashing surgeon who saved her from a gunshot wound.
The game generates a whole planet from pole to equator. You choose whether to land your crash pods in a cold northern tundra, a parched desert plain, a temperate forest, or a steaming equatorial jungle. Different areas have different animals, plants, diseases, temperatures, rainfall, mineral resources, and terrain. These challenges of surviving in a disease-infested, choking jungle are very different from those in a parched desert wasteland or a frozen tundra with a two-month growing season.
You can tame and train animals. Lovable pets will cheer up sad colonists. Farm animals can be worked, milked, and sheared. Attack beasts can be released upon your enemies. There are many animals - cats, labrador retrievers, grizzly bears, camels, cougars, chinchillas, chickens, and exotic alien-like lifeforms.
People in RimWorld constantly observe their situation and surroundings in order to decide how to feel at any given moment. They respond to hunger and fatigue, witnessing death, disrespectfully unburied corpses, being wounded, being left in darkness, getting packed into cramped environments, sleeping outside or in the same room as others, and many other situations. If they're too stressed, they might lash out or break down.
Wounds, infections, prosthetics, and chronic conditions are tracked on each body part and affect characters' capacities. Eye injuries make it hard to shoot or do surgery. Wounded legs slow people down. Hands, brain, mouth, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, feet, fingers, toes, and more can all be wounded, diseased, or missing, and all have logical in-game effects. And other species have their own body layouts - take off a deer's leg, and it can still hobble on the other three. Take off a rhino's horn, and it's much less dangerous.
You can repair body parts with prosthetics ranging from primitive to transcendent. A peg leg will get Joe Colonist walking after an unfortunate incident with a rhinoceros, but he'll still be quite slow. Buy an expensive bionic leg from a trader the next year, and Joe becomes a superhuman runner. You can even extract, sell, buy, and transplant internal organs.
And there's much more than that! The game is easy to mod and has an active mod community. Read more at http://rimworldgame.com.
(All non-English translations are made by fans.)
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- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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