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KosnIre·9/19/2022

> this changes everything

I agree :) I had always hoped Tom would eventually release canonical names. I'm also glad to see there is some thoughtful and open discussion here.

That artbook looks really cool!

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KosnIre·7/23/2018

Huh, I'm surprised no one responded to this. I'm a bit late, so you might have it figured out, but I think you're talking about the room shown in this video https://youtu.be/3BlFiCKmw0w

You have to use the Purple Sentry that is outside the room and glitch it into the room. So, there's not one in the room with the 4 laser walls. It's outside in the vertical hallway. It takes a few tries to get it in the right place. Just lead it down where you need it to be.

Note: the linked Purple Sentry page describes its glitched behavior.

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KosnIre·4/5/2018

That's awesome! I've never seen that before. Provides a look into Tom's design process.

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KosnIre·3/20/2018

It's been a little while since I've done this, so I'm going from memory, but I think you need to find all the Upgrades, Weapons, and Powerups, as well as completely exploring the map in each area. This should make 2 dots appear in the upper-right corner of your map—a purple one for fully exploring the area, and a yellow one for collecting all the items.

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KosnIre·12/13/2017

Interesting. The concept of the Breach being similar in form to the other glitches in reality, and even programmable if you know what you're doing, is well inline with the themes of the game. I like it :)

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KosnIre·11/2/2017 in General Discussion

Internationalization

I've noticed a few visitors leaving traces of other languages, which tells me the community is international. This is great! =) But it would be confusing to mix multiple languages on every page.

It looks like Fandom (wikia) has at least some kind of system set up to maintain translated versions of the Wiki. For example, the Guild Wars Wiki has a French version... http://fr.guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Wikia

I found this info at Community Central...

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_link

It looks like we need to make a request to link to either a new or existing parallel wiki in another language, and then those who speak that language can work on it and translate it.

So...

1) Is there any interest in this effort?

2) Is there anyone willing to take up this effort to help get translated versions started?

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KosnIre·1/6/2016

Hmm, ok. Still an interesting idea. I wish we could find some other hints about their origins.

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KosnIre·1/3/2016

I got to thinking about an "arrival" (although I still can't see where it says they came to Sudra from elsewhere). The one thing that I think fits this idea is that Ophelia is the "outsider" and speaks English.

What if the Rusalki were created by the civilization beyond Sudra, the one that Athetos says has super-advanced technology? Then they later arrived on Sudra and the Sudrans learned from them. The reason the Old Machines resemble the Rusalki is that all of Sudra's ancient technology is based on the Rusalki... who themselves are from beyond their own planet. It's possible then, that even Athetos' creations are based on them as well.

I suppose one problem with this is that the Rusalki can't survive the Breach and so travel to Sudra from another world would be difficult for them.

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KosnIre·12/31/2015

Yeah, this is another one of those grey areas in the lore. I can't say right now where I got this notion from...one of the cutscenes maybe. I do tend to look at "tan" notes as though the author is using religious metaphor.

If you had all sorts of alien life traversing past your "gateway world", you'd probably want some sort of police force (border patrol?) in place to ensure the safety of your world.

A dozen generations ago, kuliltu battled in the sea above

I interpret this to mean the Rusalki were in the upper atmosphere, standing watch over civilization as travelers passed through the Breach. After many years of this, there was an attack, or a "great battle", or a civil strife (Anonymous Quote (Note)).

and the High Priestess rung in the storm, leaving them to spill upon the plains.

After some great catastrophe (the battle mentioned above?), the Sudrans decided to "close their borders". The Rusalki, unable to survive in the Breach, had to move down below the planet's surface, but this is more or less a side-effect.

Should they ever be returned to the sea, I do not expect they will look favorably upon us.

The Rusalki did not like being stripped of their duties, nor being trapped on the planet's surface.

That's not to say this is the only interpretation of events. But it's the one I went with when I wrote the Story section.

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KosnIre·12/14/2015

Well I guess we can definitely say that's the inspiration for it. Maybe we should throw a link to the Wikipedia article under "References" on one of the pages.

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KosnIre·12/1/2015

Ok, so if it's supposed to be a bug of some kind... is Cyberbeetle more appropriate? Cyberlouse? Cyberflea? Cybervermin? Or should we just stick with Cyberdog?

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KosnIre·11/27/2015

What's the thing directly above the sleeping Ghoul and to the left of the Scorpiant?

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KosnIre·11/27/2015

Interesting! I also see some things here that didn't make it into the game. That front-on shot of Gir-Tab (or a different Gir-Tab concept? The claws are closed and not guns) is really awesome!

The boulderback thing also looks like it has insect-ish legs or entrails? It's pretty wild to see all this in greater detail than the pixel art.

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KosnIre·11/25/2015

Cybordog is not bad. Or Cyberdog, as a play on Doom's Cyberdemon .

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KosnIre·11/25/2015

I think "Wheel Beast" bothers me the most out of these. It sounds awkward, but what do you call something that is half-dog and half-segway scooter? I would default to the filename, but FlynnStone also seems like a silly parody name. Perhaps there's something we can say about it being an Android/Cyborg?

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KosnIre·11/16/2015

Is this how you are getting numbers for Enenmy HP and Labcoat damage resistance? I would be curious to know how "damage resistance" is calculated.

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KosnIre·10/2/2015

On my playthroughs, I usually try to write down the minimum prerequisites are needed to get things (sometimes it's hard because you need something to get into the area, but not necessarily to get the item). My idea was to eventually create a tree-chart showing what you could get after obtaining each item.

Interesting thing about that cliff is that you can sequence break by not saving after you pass the point-of-no-return. Once you get the Address Disruptor 2, you can exit the game and go back to your save in Eribu. You'll see speedrunners do this to save time and skip the Gir-Tab fight (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tbAblVu8d8).

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KosnIre·10/2/2015

Oh, that is really cool! Those pictures are amazing. It must take a lot of juice to power facilities like that. I wonder if the lights dim in town when they kick it on XD

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KosnIre·9/28/2015

CrunchingPanda wrote:
Two different scenarios: Athetos could have kept cloning himself from an earlier timeprint, creating a new clone every 20 years or so while maybe working on bringing technology back to earth...
Or: "Reviving" Athetos maybe was the Rusalki's Plan A. They release a scientist who wishes to travel away from Sudra, hope that he deactivates the Breach Attractor, so that they can flee Sudra. Only that something went wrong, the pathogen got released, the Rusalki failed "to control him" and turned on each other...

I want to come back to this thought. The in-game Athetos could be a clone of the original...made hundreds, even thousands of years later.

Recall that Trace asked the Rusalki why he doesn't remember coming to Sudra? Ophelia says "We don't know. Data degredation maybe?"

Data degredation. Trace lost part of his memory. Because he's a clone.

It's a nice speculation, but it's not really hinted in the game, so for now it'll only remain a theory, I guess.

It might be! Read Letter_(Note) again. It's a purple Note, written by Athetos, right? But he doesn't seem to remember coming to Sudra!

Data degredation. It seems Athetos also lost part of his memory. ...Because he's a clone!

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KosnIre·9/25/2015

I just want to get this started and I will try to finish it tomorrow...

Sprite Name	Assigned Name
Annihiwaiter.png	Annihiwaiter
Arachnotopus.png	Arachnopus
Artichoker.png	Hopping Shrub
Blite.png	Red Wasp
Blurst.png	Slug and Slug Swarm (has 2 sprites in 1)
Bouyg.png	Green Angel Shark (or Flying Fish?)
Cortant.png	Banshee (Halucination) ...I guess?
Diskko.png	Omni-Sentry
Donaught.png	Beholder Sentry
Drometon.png	Armadillo
EyeCopter.png	Twinbulb Firefly (other suggestions?)
FlynnStone.png	Wheel Beast
Fungine.png	Jellyfish
Furglot.png	Parasitic Shrub
Gill.png	Laser Urchin
Glugg.png	Giant Boulderback
Goolumn.png	Orb Wall (other suggestions?)
GrippingHands.png	GrippingHands (Hallucination)
Hoverling.png	Bladevine
Hugger.png	Ghost (Hallucination)
Jorm.png	Adult Giant Greenworm (Baby Giant Greenworm is maybe same sprite shrunken down?)
LoopDiatom.png	Pink Giant Platelet (Giant Diatom is ok too)
LoopDiatom_Violet.png	Purple Giant Platelet (Giant Diatom is ok too)
Mogra.png	Adult Mothmite
MushroomPoof.png	Walking Flower (or Walking Shrub?)
Mutant.png	Brown Ghoul
Mutant_Blue.png	Gray Ghoul (or Blue Ghoul?)
Nrok.png	Boulder
Pliaa.png	Red Flying Krill
Porcupine.png	Porcupine (Hallucination) ...other ideas?
Potato.png	Pillbug (or Silver Pillbug...potato? seriously?)
Prongfish_1.png	Tunnel Hopper
Prongfish_2.png	Ancient Tunnel Hopper (or Golden Tunnel Hopper?)
Quadropus.png	Suran Squid
Rugg.png	Rollycrab?? (Help!! I don't know what to call this!)
Rugg_Meta.png	Rollycrab?? (Help!! I don't know what to call this!)
Scorpiant.png	Scorpiant (I kind of like this one)
Seamk.png	Purple Flying Krill
SentryBot_1.png	Ancient Sentry (or Golden Sentry)
SentryBot_2.png	Silver Y-Type Sentry
SentryBot_Meta.png	Purple Y-Type Sentry
SmallMogra.png	Baby Mothmite
Snailborg.png	Red Nautilus
Snailborg_Meta.png	Blue Nautilus
SpaceBat.png	Glow Bat (or Space Bat?)
Spidler.png	Carnivorous Silk Bug (Assuming this is the adult version of the pupae)
Spiru.png	Snail Shell (or Spiru is ok too I think?)
SpitBug.png	Purple Wasp
SpitBugBoss.png	Ukhu Wasp (or Ukhu Spawn is maybe better?)
SpitbugNest.png	Hive
SpungusSpore.png	Mushroom Spores
Streeg.png	Streeg (what the heck is this thing?)
Swarmily.png	Small Butterfly and Large Butterfly (has 2 sprites in 1)
TieFlighter.png	I-Beam Sentry (or T-Type Sentry?)
TrapClaw.png	Purple Scissorbeak
TrapClaw_Gamma.png	Cyan Scissorbeak
TrapClaw_Meta.png	Red Scissorbeak
TubeWorm.png	Yellow Sea Sponge
TubeWorm_Meta.png	Green Sea Sponge
Volg.png	Silk Pupae (or Carnivorous Silk Pupae)
WillOWisp.png	Will o' Wisp (or Will o' the Wisp?)
Yorchug.png	Green Cephalopod (other ideas?)
Zeborg.png	Spitter Alien (Hallucination)

[9-24-2015] Somehow they got out of order (I had them alphabetized). Again, this is still up for discussion, so if you don't like something, we can rename it.

[9-25-2015] Edit 1: Re-alphabetized the whole thing and filled in more names. Also, I found 2 sprites that map to 2 different enemies each, which might explain why our numbers where off.

[9-26-2015] Filled in remaining names. I need input for a several of these still. Let me know what you think. For like enemies, I still think we should put them on the same page. Example: Page Name=Ghoul with subheadings for "Brown" and "Gray".

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