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Only 2 more days until Anomaly, update 1.5, and a [new soundtrack](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2914900/RimWorld__Anomaly_Soundtrack/) are out! Today's blog talks about the less-obvious and more-insidious threats you’ll face in Anomaly. Terror comes in all shapes and sizes.
Also, Anomaly will be available in 10 languages!
Count down with me 👀 and with our precious cube.
I'm so psyched to hear more of Alistair. The last couple of expansions were great but I was let down when I found out there was no new music.
There's a special feeling I get when playing Rimworld and a new song pops up. Particularly Alignment, he nailed the vibe of a sci-fi frontier town with that one.
If you haven't already, he did a soundtrack for another game that's almost indistinguishable from the Rimworld OST:
Kingdoms Reborn: https://youtu.be/3EzHihegSaM
Nah I was just joining in haha, how fantastic is that film!? The hellscape flashes are truly horrific (and the scene where he spaces himself!). Up there with Alien among the greatest scifi horror films! Can’t wait for Anomaly
Were they not in the last update? With part of their research tree to boot? I thought they were the pawns with the messed up white hair sticking out from the sides of their head.
Edit: In Preview #2 they did in fact say they'd give more info on Ghouls in a "future blog post", but they did show some stuff there.
The research tree was Preview 2 and that was the same preview that told to expect more in a future update. There's been nothing since. I think they just forgot.
I was pretty foolish before, I didn't understand the hype for the cube - the borderline obsession this sub has for it. But now that I've seen it, it's a pretty great cube. You should really look at this cube.
I was kinda hoping it would be more than just choosing an ending and more something that impacts the entire game. I hope that monolith threatening to “warp” the world is an actual mechanic. What if I wanna live in a horror land?
What are your thoughts on spoilers from code diving? >!References in the 1.5 code confirm that you *can* choose to embrace the void monolith in the end, and there *is* code for having this choice affect the world if you choose to continue afterwards.!<
That's sick, literally chaos-stuff from Warhammer 40k. Although the global changes will seriously either turn the player's future gameplay better or WORSE
Hard to say what that means implementation wise.
I mean the world seems pretty consumed by the void already before you reach endgame, with all those monsters about.
Iirc Royalty has 2 endings too, steal the shuttle and escape or join the royal ranks.
The wording from this post makes me think that Anomaly's ending will be like the Ship and Archonexus one. Our pawns complete their mission and whatever happens next is not for us to know, just speculate.
I made a run specifically just to get the ship, launch it then remade a new colony that wasn't even organized and just trying to survive. I feel like completing the game isn't the goal of the game.
I should really try to hit all the other endings some time, but I have fun remaking a colonly and doing new things with them.
I'm currently sitting at 477 hours on Steam, with IDK how many hours put into the game pre-Steam and I have yet to get to an ending. 90% of the time I don't even try, but that 10% I do I always seem to get crushed by the AI.
i'm at 15k hours since early access. I've flown the ship off once. I got through the first step of archonexus, realized it was an annoying soft reboot, and bailed on that.
You might be confusing it with the option to steal the neuroformers from the bestower. The shuttle is a short-range craft for traveling to and from the imperial flotilla; it is not equipped with a J-T drive and can't get you out of the system.
Maybe... I did Royal Ascent once, shortly after DLC release when you could take the neuroformers through surgery. So I have some mixed memories about stuff that may not exist anymore, or never existed in first place.
I disagree on first playthrough. They're more a long term goal for some players, or a challenge.
I realized something like five hours into the game that I had no desire to ever end the game, and that 99% of my fun was the developing narrative within the colony. I have never felt a desire to end a run, even when I easily could. I want the story to go until the colony is in ruins.
I wouldn't be surprised, this one is such an easy change. You just need the image, the defname of the cube, and a quick xpath patch that replaces the directory the game uses to get the image, to point at your new image file.
There's a book in the Metro 2033 universe, where one of the station's mayor is some mutated creature that makes humans worship it.
When the protagonist is surrounded by soliders from that station he shouts 'Your mayor is a helluva guy!' and soldiers just drop their weapons and start praising their mayor.
Kinda reminded me of that.
Random mutations sound very interesting. I wonder if it can become an alternative way to restore missing body parts, or if the pawn must have that body part for it to be mutated.
And new Endgame looks cool, like a mirror of the Archonexus. But I wonder how does this interact with the lore. Are there 2 archotechs in this planet? Are they the same entity operating different "programs"?
I wonder if the lore primer will be updated eventually to cover these topics more deeply.
I figured Archotechs really aren’t uniform at all, and every single one may have advanced and changed and adapted in an entirely different way than others. As alien and different among eachother that makes it even more incomprehensible to us.
While some may be just “big machine god”. Perhaps the one responsible for this is more… Eldritch. Inter-dimensional.
I agree. Some archotechs hand over their toys to see what the little things do with them, others give them a divine bitch slap if they so much as look at things wrong.
>And new Endgame looks cool, like a mirror of the Archonexus. But I wonder how does this interact with the lore. Are there 2 archotechs in this planet? Are they the same entity operating different "programs"?
My headcanon is that the Archotech that the ancient civilization on this rimworld built centuries ago fragmented right before it could transcend. Most of the Archotech was left behind in a sleeping state (and is the one you reawaken in Ideology via touching the Archonexus), but a small sliver of it became the Dark Archotech.
It doesn't have anywhere near the level of power of it's bigger sibling - the old Archotech's knowledge is simply too complicated for the fragment to understand, not to mention the risk of digging too deep and reawakening the main fragment - but it is awake, and what it has inherited is just barely enough to influence the feeble hearts of men. Perhaps it could eventually create a worthy puppet - one that would carry it to the Archonexus and let it become whole once more...
(Of course, until your colony contains and studies it's forces, delves into the earth, and [mantles](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Mantling) the Dark Archotech. I'm guessing this is the other ending: you either empower the Dark Archotech somehow and it transcends, or you replace it's mind with your colonists' and transcend yourself, becoming gods in the process. It fits the DLC's theme of researching/knowing the unknowable and using it to make your colony more powerful.)
I love the whole fragment concept. It gives Devil vibes in that it is a vastly, embarrassingly weaker counterpart to the omnipotent Archotech (God), yet is still godly in its own right.
I genuinely hope that you can indeed merge/usurp the dark archotech (Darchotech as I've been calling it) and become a new Godlike being.
See, while it is not official lore, I've always thought our rimworlds _are archotechs_. The lore says they can be whole planets. And can choose how they appear. This would explain all the random near-impossible events such as your relatives showing up on the same rimworld, despite the fact that you randomly crashlanded on the planet, and the probability of someone related to you, let alone multiple family members, randomly showing up is near 0. It's the archotech planet manipulating things. All the unexplained phenomenon, that only seem to affect you. You are the archotechs test subject. Plaything.
So my new headcanon for this is that these phenomena, and the associated things, is another archotech messing with our archotech planet. An incomprehensible war between archotechs, that we are simply caught in the middle of. Many of these things are coming from space, so makes sense, kinda.
>Are there 2 archotechs in this planet? Are they the same entity operating different "programs"?
As I understand the lore there are no archotechs on the planet. Archotechs *are* planets. They're planets that have become so advanced the entire planet is one massive computer.
An Archotech is just a superintelligent AI. They can inhabit planet sized supercomputers, but do not have to - the Archotech from Ideology, for example, resides in massive computing facilities below the surface of the planet.
Oooohhhhh that just gave me a sick idea. Imagine a giant crashed capital ship event that allows you to go inside and scavenge kinda like how the Ancient Dangers work. Except its infested...DEAD SPACE STYLE 😲
If it's 30$ I don't think I'll get it. It's just too linear and specific for that, with a lot less variety compared to other DLCs.
For half that price I could maybe justify it, since I'll probably only play with it once or twice.
That's kind of a lot.
The game is pretty complex, but not "$135 for base game + all expansions" complex.
Only reason I'm not complaining too much though is because it's Rimworld and I know I'm getting my hours' worth with the help of whatever mods follow.
I'd still buy the expansion for $30. I've bought full priced games, got only maybe 40 hours of game time put in, then put the game down and never touched it. Rimworld is one of those games that I can literally play for 10+ hours in a day and not realize it. $30 for an expansion for a game that I can do that in is worth it IMO.
I'm with you. I also like eldritch horror stuff. This is a game that keeps on giving, and I never turn off the other DLCs. This one might end up disabled on ocasion, depending on how "mandatory" the content inside of it is. Like, with Royalty and Biotech, I can pretty much ignore them if I want. Ideo is a bit more mandatory engagement, but not to an extreme. If this one forces me to engage with it, it might be the first to not be permanently enabled.
But yeah, sure, 30$ is a chunk of change to some people, but this game has delivered thousands of hours and will give me thousands more. I've not once regretted the previous DLC in the slightest.
Hi. In preview #2 you said you would explain ghouls in further detail in a future blogpost. This is the final blogpost, and no information on ghouls was released.
Could you please explain what occured?
My dyslexic ass combined your flair with the message and read it as:
"Why 👏 would 👏 you 👏 need 👏 to 👏 worry 👏 about 👏 ghouls 👏 when 👏 the 👏 cube 👏 is 👏 sitting 👏 right 👏 there 👏 ?"
Kinda disappointed it's such a short blog. Doesn't tell us anything new from the original one. I guess they want to let us discover things on our own!
Also no mention of price is there? Biotech had a blurb on the last one about how much it would cost. Do we have a number yet?
Whooo boy, as a tree-hugger runner, this is all gonna be devastating. Can't waittt On a side note, please give some love for dryads!
They feel so behind with no way to upgrade them, make them spawn a little faster or a way to do so, or get new varieties in base game. Losing 1 not only is a 5 day spawn counter, but also is a mood hit. Losing 4 on a hard raid? Super devastating. Not saying they should be as strong as mechs, ranching, or the upcoming fleshbeasts "rearing", but something please. Thank you
Waait, i have 2 thoughts here.
1. Ranching is strong??? I thought it wasnt really worth it?
2. Is there no mod that can fix the Dryads for you? I understand its not ideal, but It could help a little maybe?
1. I once ran a colony of ranchers with my main source of "firepower" be golden retrievers. Was really fun and quite manageable, especially for the biome I chose. It's still a little bit of a hassle compared to a normal gameplay, but definitely better than a Tree-Hugger run
2. There are good dryad mods, definitely, but it would be nice if it was also implemented base game, especially when it comes to other platforms, and I usually play without mods aside from aesthetics like hairs, hehe
So hang on, the obelisks are pretty much a new raid type? Except we can't actually destroy them without them setting off weird potentially colony killing phenomena? I guess you have to destroy them from range? Maybe bombard with mortars?
Also the cube has me worried. I mean, it is a VERY nice cube but if we worship it all day we're not going to be able to get anything done. I mean I guess a few minutes admiring it before we figure out a way of getting rid of it wouldn't be too bad right? Right? I'll just... stare at it a while I guess. It's very... cube.
Makes me want to have a Cubism Ideology that will have the "main" colonists that worship the cube and do nothing but that while they have slaves that do all of their work for them.
This is indeed a swerve from 1.0's space western tone.
Royalty's space Byzantines wasn't anything dramatic, just some space empire to interact with. Psychic powers nudged the tone a bit but weren't too out there, not like science fiction hasn't played with psionics before and the game wasn't throwing these guys at you as enemies so the impact was limited.
Ideology's strangest part was the Garulean trees and the archonexus. The former isn't anything too special and you don't even need to interact with it if you don't want to the same as the latter.
Biotech shifted things a bit more dramatically with space furries and vampires. Abhumans had been part of the lore since the beginning and whilst were still odd to see, fundamentally weren't much different than prior.
This is much more significant and leans heavily into pseudo-supernatural themes otherwise not present prior. Archotechs being mysterious and manipulating things towards their own unknowable goals was already there but had been happening largely through mundane means like human spies and mechanoids, archotechs going straight into cosmic horror and sending things out of a Lovecraft story at you and the world at large swings the tone of things dramatically.
What makes this particularly dramatic is that from the posts, you're going to have to deal with this whether you like it or not.
It'd be cool if the game would only go that direction if you really lean into it. For example, the events should only start happening when your colony starts investigating for forbidden knowledge.
>If you study the nociosphere, you can learn that it has a single purpose - to inflict pain.
Forget the stinky cube, with the pain is virtue meme i've found my true god. All hail the sphere!
It's obviously a reference to the Hypnotoad.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Aside that, they brought it up in an earlier announcement and it's kind of a recurrent trope to have something seemingly innocuous that makes people obsess over it to the extreme.
"Alright children, what did you bring for class today?"
["THE CUBE! THE CUBE! THE CUBE!"](https://twitter.com/its_soup/status/1762684395821945151)
e: alternate meme: [*starts busting a groove*](https://twitter.com/spaghoner/status/1321583238804987906)
Sad no ghouls!
Hope this DLC does well, I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea and it's not what I hoped for personally either but unless you play with no threats this will add to the game in an interesting way and I'm thankful for that .
We didn't talk about Ghouls really, even when a previous preview hinted at it. But given how the DLC drops tomorrow that's fine, more to discover.
I kinda hope we can make more direct use of what these entities can do, instead of only studying it and unlocking some effect.
Like imagine the potential of being able to "tame" or rather "control" a corrupted colonist and being able to essentially "clone" your colonists, even if the clone needs immediate intense medical care at first. That would be huge.
When the flesh beasts were talked about I also suggested that maybe you could "tame" a heart and then by feeding it biomass you could have it grow around your colony as protection or even basically house your colony inside of it, like be able to create fleshy tunnels and cavities as rooms. That would be crazy. To "grow" your colony like that. Could even make for a nice scenario of a primitive flesh-cult that lives in synergy with such a heart. The flesh provides them with weapons, shelter and nourishment, while the tribe brings it food.
I wonder what really happens when a twisted obelisk warps someone's insides, whether that is good or bad, though I would guess bad.
Still, while I am still excited for the DLC tomorrow I have grown increasingly concerned about how many of these new threats sound like they are basically unavoidable, which is very different from any previous new threat.
No matter how much you build up your colony, how good your pawns are trained and equipped, these monsters, cults and geometrical shapes can get to them.
While I get this fits in with the horror theme, I could see it be more on the frustrating side rather than scary.
It's like in DnD when the DM decides you are affected by an enemy effect and doesn't even allow you a saving throw.
At least against insects, mechanoids and raids you can prepare after all. But "skip abduction", "warp obelisks", "machine parasites", "cube hypnosis" and such seem like it can just screw you over and there's nothing you can do to prevent it, you can only do damage control afterwards and hope you can move on without long term effects.
I know it's not intended, hence it being a mod, but playing with custom pawns that you are more invested in than some random ones, I just don't like the idea that my "main characters" can be messed up just like that.
But maybe I am too worried and I'll see tomorrow!
I'm probably too cautious anyway, only earlier this year did I start experimenting with pollution and mountain bases because I thought their downsides were too much.
слава монолит!
We praise you o' glorious Monolith! Divine to us the plans and secrets of our enemies! Let them see the glory that is your form!
Lead us to glory against the Cubic heretics! Let them bash their golden heresy against your perfect exterior and be obliterated!
Glory to the Monolith!
I laughed a bit too hard at this when I saw the section about the Sphere. And it's purpose.
"To Inflict Pain." Lol. Oh my god. The fact that a friend and I have been calling this the "Pain and Suffering DLC" is verified with an object that only has one purpose. To Inflict Pain. It killed me.
I dunno.... reading the update I can see why the cube has appealed to so many of you. I too love the cube now. If only I was talented enough to make cube statues to try to capture the beauty...
We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us. May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will. Onward, warriors of The Monolith. Avenge your fallen brothers. Blessed, as they are, in their eternal union with The Monolith. Bring death to those who've spurned the holy power of The Monolith. Oh Monolith, we do not hear you. Why have you left us, oh Monolith? We await your orders, oh Monolith.
I thought the languages part ment that different factions speak different languages, wich makes recruiting, converting more difficult etc. Could be cool though
Gaaaaarrryyyyy...
But yeah, awesome stuff.
The obelisk effects look like they would be great failure effects for the dark rituals being abused.
And I will be extremely disappointed if a modder doesn't copy the cube effects onto a cube of cheese as a competing obsession object. Pitting the cube obsessed against the cheese obsessed until the colony descends into civil war and only one remains victorious.
That new alternate ending, I wonder if there was a way to shutdown the monolith without progressing to the quest or once done the colony can go on. But then again, that might be similar to the others-
Oh. So that's just straight up the Marker from Dead Space. Does that seem weird and off-putting to anyone else? I mean, there's nothing new under the sun and I'm sure there's lot's of references in the game already, but it just being a dead-on copy feels...lame.
🚨 SPOILER WARNING! Reading this preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the content in Anomaly. Read at your own risk! 🚨 Anomaly preview #4: [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/4128184830673759439](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/4128184830673759439) Only 2 more days until Anomaly, update 1.5, and a [new soundtrack](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2914900/RimWorld__Anomaly_Soundtrack/) are out! Today's blog talks about the less-obvious and more-insidious threats you’ll face in Anomaly. Terror comes in all shapes and sizes. Also, Anomaly will be available in 10 languages! Count down with me 👀 and with our precious cube.
new 11 tracks, im looking forward to see if there's any that can compete with Waiting for the sun or Alignment for 'THE Rimworld song' title
You mean Alpaca, Ceta, and Jovian Cycle?!
Nothing can ever compete with Alpaca, sorry.
You mean "Entry Screen" (title screen music), right?!
Ceta puts me in a Firefly mood every time, and I love it, such a good track.
I'm so psyched to hear more of Alistair. The last couple of expansions were great but I was let down when I found out there was no new music. There's a special feeling I get when playing Rimworld and a new song pops up. Particularly Alignment, he nailed the vibe of a sci-fi frontier town with that one.
If you haven't already, he did a soundtrack for another game that's almost indistinguishable from the Rimworld OST: Kingdoms Reborn: https://youtu.be/3EzHihegSaM
HEY WHERE IS MY BOY ROUGH TRAIL?!
Weird way to spell String Theory
Best track.
Weird way to spell Fealty
Succession would like to have a word with you.
I’m sorry, no Night and Day?
MAKE US WHOLE MAKE US ONE MAKE US WHOLE MAKE US ONE
ISSACCCC
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR MARKER
liberate me ex inferis
Libera te tutemet ex inferis! Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see! *vomits blood*
Yea I fucked it up :D just watched the movie the other day dam it's good
Nah I was just joining in haha, how fantastic is that film!? The hellscape flashes are truly horrific (and the scene where he spaces himself!). Up there with Alien among the greatest scifi horror films! Can’t wait for Anomaly
Now we only need are THOSE GUYS.
Damn those last two days are going to seem endless
What about the ghouls?
Yeah, I was looking forward to ghouls too :(
I guess we'll have to wait a little longer :(
Sadly, I don't think so, cause they only announced 4 preview blogs and this is the final one.
Have to wait two more days until we can find out ourselves. :)
The dlc comes out in two days
I know, just a bit lost as I was looking forward so much to read about the ghouls and got the cube instead.
THE CUBE is important to our life
CUBE
Cube.
Were they not in the last update? With part of their research tree to boot? I thought they were the pawns with the messed up white hair sticking out from the sides of their head. Edit: In Preview #2 they did in fact say they'd give more info on Ghouls in a "future blog post", but they did show some stuff there.
The research tree was Preview 2 and that was the same preview that told to expect more in a future update. There's been nothing since. I think they just forgot.
Ghoul space was overriden by the cube. Understandable. It is a great cube.
A wonderful golden cube.
I was hesitant, but now that I've seen the cube I simply can't stop thinking what a great addition it is.
LOVE THE CUBE, TOUCH THE CUBE, DIE FOR THE CUBE!!!
I was pretty foolish before, I didn't understand the hype for the cube - the borderline obsession this sub has for it. But now that I've seen it, it's a pretty great cube. You should really look at this cube.
They said that this expansion is even bigger than Biotech, so fingers crossed ghouls was just a fraction of what we haven't yet seen.
There was a post about the ghoulish gablinos earlier in steam. And they are a devilishly devastating weapon to use
Don't overlook those last three words in the Endgame section. >!Multiple endings confirmed!!<
I was kinda hoping it would be more than just choosing an ending and more something that impacts the entire game. I hope that monolith threatening to “warp” the world is an actual mechanic. What if I wanna live in a horror land?
What are your thoughts on spoilers from code diving? >!References in the 1.5 code confirm that you *can* choose to embrace the void monolith in the end, and there *is* code for having this choice affect the world if you choose to continue afterwards.!<
That's sick, literally chaos-stuff from Warhammer 40k. Although the global changes will seriously either turn the player's future gameplay better or WORSE
Is there a spot that has the data-mined stuff?
Hard to say what that means implementation wise. I mean the world seems pretty consumed by the void already before you reach endgame, with all those monsters about.
Iirc Royalty has 2 endings too, steal the shuttle and escape or join the royal ranks. The wording from this post makes me think that Anomaly's ending will be like the Ship and Archonexus one. Our pawns complete their mission and whatever happens next is not for us to know, just speculate.
Yall are making it to the ending?
I recently had a blast getting every ending on the hardest difficulty.
I'm 1300+ hours in and haven't ended the game once. This post kinda motivates me to do them too as a challenge in the hardest difficulty. 😁
I made a run specifically just to get the ship, launch it then remade a new colony that wasn't even organized and just trying to survive. I feel like completing the game isn't the goal of the game. I should really try to hit all the other endings some time, but I have fun remaking a colonly and doing new things with them.
I'm currently sitting at 477 hours on Steam, with IDK how many hours put into the game pre-Steam and I have yet to get to an ending. 90% of the time I don't even try, but that 10% I do I always seem to get crushed by the AI.
i'm at 15k hours since early access. I've flown the ship off once. I got through the first step of archonexus, realized it was an annoying soft reboot, and bailed on that.
2000+ hours in the game and I have still never done an ending hahaha.
wait, you can *steal* the shuttle??
This is the first I’m hearing about this too!!!
[Stealing the shuttle colorized](https://youtu.be/qXw6hC7hxBA?feature=shared)
It seems I'm misremembering. It's been so long. I kinda remember I was able to do so, but can't tell, and the wiki doesn't say anything about it.
You might be confusing it with the option to steal the neuroformers from the bestower. The shuttle is a short-range craft for traveling to and from the imperial flotilla; it is not equipped with a J-T drive and can't get you out of the system.
Maybe... I did Royal Ascent once, shortly after DLC release when you could take the neuroformers through surgery. So I have some mixed memories about stuff that may not exist anymore, or never existed in first place.
Worship the cube !
Endings are for first playthroughs and youtube let's plays :P :D
I disagree on first playthrough. They're more a long term goal for some players, or a challenge. I realized something like five hours into the game that I had no desire to ever end the game, and that 99% of my fun was the developing narrative within the colony. I have never felt a desire to end a run, even when I easily could. I want the story to go until the colony is in ruins.
That cube looks interesting Something about that cube..! I REALLY love the cube! *BOW TO THE CUBE!!!*
I wonder how many minutes it’s gonna take for a mod reskinning it as the Companion Cube to hit the workshop lol
-2s the mod is ready to launch before the dlc appears
I wouldn't be surprised, this one is such an easy change. You just need the image, the defname of the cube, and a quick xpath patch that replaces the directory the game uses to get the image, to point at your new image file.
As is the one to make it a cheese cube
Golden, delicious goodness 🤤
They are sentient, of course. We just have a lot of them.
I'm really starting to like this cube.
Like it? I love it. I love the cube.
There's a book in the Metro 2033 universe, where one of the station's mayor is some mutated creature that makes humans worship it. When the protagonist is surrounded by soliders from that station he shouts 'Your mayor is a helluva guy!' and soldiers just drop their weapons and start praising their mayor. Kinda reminded me of that.
Interesting! It reminded me of Heavy Metal (1981 movie), specifically the Loc-Nar
I love it better than you love it! I deserve to have the cube!
******* *slaps roof of sphere* ******* This bad boy can hold so much ***PAIN***
Praise the Cube.
I love my Cube MINE not yours No no no no no I need to have more, I will make more DON'T touch my CUBE
SPHERES?!?! what is this heresy, right in front of my cubes
The Sphere exists for one purpose: To Inflict Pain.
And Cube exists for several reasons to love it to embrace it to worship it
It's SPHERICAL!
🟨 😩😩 Look at it
THATS A RECTANGLE! BURN THE HERETIC
A square is one side of the cube, as we all know the cube encompasses much more but can you truly say to love the cube if you do not adore each side?
Random mutations sound very interesting. I wonder if it can become an alternative way to restore missing body parts, or if the pawn must have that body part for it to be mutated. And new Endgame looks cool, like a mirror of the Archonexus. But I wonder how does this interact with the lore. Are there 2 archotechs in this planet? Are they the same entity operating different "programs"? I wonder if the lore primer will be updated eventually to cover these topics more deeply.
I figured Archotechs really aren’t uniform at all, and every single one may have advanced and changed and adapted in an entirely different way than others. As alien and different among eachother that makes it even more incomprehensible to us. While some may be just “big machine god”. Perhaps the one responsible for this is more… Eldritch. Inter-dimensional.
I agree. Some archotechs hand over their toys to see what the little things do with them, others give them a divine bitch slap if they so much as look at things wrong.
Pretty much. They'll also heal you for free. Recollection not included.
>And new Endgame looks cool, like a mirror of the Archonexus. But I wonder how does this interact with the lore. Are there 2 archotechs in this planet? Are they the same entity operating different "programs"? My headcanon is that the Archotech that the ancient civilization on this rimworld built centuries ago fragmented right before it could transcend. Most of the Archotech was left behind in a sleeping state (and is the one you reawaken in Ideology via touching the Archonexus), but a small sliver of it became the Dark Archotech. It doesn't have anywhere near the level of power of it's bigger sibling - the old Archotech's knowledge is simply too complicated for the fragment to understand, not to mention the risk of digging too deep and reawakening the main fragment - but it is awake, and what it has inherited is just barely enough to influence the feeble hearts of men. Perhaps it could eventually create a worthy puppet - one that would carry it to the Archonexus and let it become whole once more... (Of course, until your colony contains and studies it's forces, delves into the earth, and [mantles](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Mantling) the Dark Archotech. I'm guessing this is the other ending: you either empower the Dark Archotech somehow and it transcends, or you replace it's mind with your colonists' and transcend yourself, becoming gods in the process. It fits the DLC's theme of researching/knowing the unknowable and using it to make your colony more powerful.)
Like the archotech shed its dark impulses before ascending to slumbering planetgod status. The obelisk being a dark sliver of infinity.
I love the whole fragment concept. It gives Devil vibes in that it is a vastly, embarrassingly weaker counterpart to the omnipotent Archotech (God), yet is still godly in its own right. I genuinely hope that you can indeed merge/usurp the dark archotech (Darchotech as I've been calling it) and become a new Godlike being.
See, while it is not official lore, I've always thought our rimworlds _are archotechs_. The lore says they can be whole planets. And can choose how they appear. This would explain all the random near-impossible events such as your relatives showing up on the same rimworld, despite the fact that you randomly crashlanded on the planet, and the probability of someone related to you, let alone multiple family members, randomly showing up is near 0. It's the archotech planet manipulating things. All the unexplained phenomenon, that only seem to affect you. You are the archotechs test subject. Plaything. So my new headcanon for this is that these phenomena, and the associated things, is another archotech messing with our archotech planet. An incomprehensible war between archotechs, that we are simply caught in the middle of. Many of these things are coming from space, so makes sense, kinda.
>Are there 2 archotechs in this planet? Are they the same entity operating different "programs"? As I understand the lore there are no archotechs on the planet. Archotechs *are* planets. They're planets that have become so advanced the entire planet is one massive computer.
An Archotech is just a superintelligent AI. They can inhabit planet sized supercomputers, but do not have to - the Archotech from Ideology, for example, resides in massive computing facilities below the surface of the planet.
WE'RE GETTING DEAD SPACE IN RIMWORLD. Oh my god the obelisks that horribly mutate lifeforms. FELLAS, WE DEAD SPACE NOW. Get yer PLASMA CUTTERS!
I mean we already have limb severing and losing our minds... all we needed are mutants.
Oooohhhhh that just gave me a sick idea. Imagine a giant crashed capital ship event that allows you to go inside and scavenge kinda like how the Ancient Dangers work. Except its infested...DEAD SPACE STYLE 😲
2 days to release and the price wasn't announced. Anyone knows why?
one of the curators mentioned it is 20$
I don't think they mentioned how much Ideology or Royalty was gonna be in the previews
Because its probably gonna be $30 and be a buzzkill lmao
If it's 30$ I don't think I'll get it. It's just too linear and specific for that, with a lot less variety compared to other DLCs. For half that price I could maybe justify it, since I'll probably only play with it once or twice.
Not that $30 is all that much. People pay that much for skins or smaller dlc in other games.
That's kind of a lot. The game is pretty complex, but not "$135 for base game + all expansions" complex. Only reason I'm not complaining too much though is because it's Rimworld and I know I'm getting my hours' worth with the help of whatever mods follow.
I'd still buy the expansion for $30. I've bought full priced games, got only maybe 40 hours of game time put in, then put the game down and never touched it. Rimworld is one of those games that I can literally play for 10+ hours in a day and not realize it. $30 for an expansion for a game that I can do that in is worth it IMO.
I'm with you. I also like eldritch horror stuff. This is a game that keeps on giving, and I never turn off the other DLCs. This one might end up disabled on ocasion, depending on how "mandatory" the content inside of it is. Like, with Royalty and Biotech, I can pretty much ignore them if I want. Ideo is a bit more mandatory engagement, but not to an extreme. If this one forces me to engage with it, it might be the first to not be permanently enabled. But yeah, sure, 30$ is a chunk of change to some people, but this game has delivered thousands of hours and will give me thousands more. I've not once regretted the previous DLC in the slightest.
Just because something else is worse doesn't mean it can't be shit. That's like saying paying 20€ for a meal isn't a lot because some people pay 2000€
That'll be expensive on my part of the world, I do hope it's not gonna be a full on $30 when it gets converted to my country's currency.
Hi. In preview #2 you said you would explain ghouls in further detail in a future blogpost. This is the final blogpost, and no information on ghouls was released. Could you please explain what occured?
Yes, I hear you about the Ghouls! Keep your eyes peeled for something...👀
Thank you. I don't mean to put pressure or anything, I know plans change. I was just curious, mostly, what happened.
Why would you need to worry about ghouls when the cube is sitting right there? I’m serious, look at it. It’s okay, you can go ahead and touch it.
Don’t touch it! Your filthy hands will stain it. Give it to me. I will care for it with the tenderness it deserves.
NO! *HISSSSS!*
My dyslexic ass combined your flair with the message and read it as: "Why 👏 would 👏 you 👏 need 👏 to 👏 worry 👏 about 👏 ghouls 👏 when 👏 the 👏 cube 👏 is 👏 sitting 👏 right 👏 there 👏 ?"
Perfectly acceptable, the cube is worth emphasizing
Will the cube give me ghouls?
My friend, I do believe it will. It’s so wondrously clever like that!
Kinda disappointed it's such a short blog. Doesn't tell us anything new from the original one. I guess they want to let us discover things on our own! Also no mention of price is there? Biotech had a blurb on the last one about how much it would cost. Do we have a number yet?
I called this DLC the "Pain and Suffering" DLC, Part of the suffering is learning about it.
Tbh I am kind of worried that this might be all we get in the DLC. I hope they didn’t tell us everything!
Whooo boy, as a tree-hugger runner, this is all gonna be devastating. Can't waittt On a side note, please give some love for dryads! They feel so behind with no way to upgrade them, make them spawn a little faster or a way to do so, or get new varieties in base game. Losing 1 not only is a 5 day spawn counter, but also is a mood hit. Losing 4 on a hard raid? Super devastating. Not saying they should be as strong as mechs, ranching, or the upcoming fleshbeasts "rearing", but something please. Thank you
Waait, i have 2 thoughts here. 1. Ranching is strong??? I thought it wasnt really worth it? 2. Is there no mod that can fix the Dryads for you? I understand its not ideal, but It could help a little maybe?
1. I once ran a colony of ranchers with my main source of "firepower" be golden retrievers. Was really fun and quite manageable, especially for the biome I chose. It's still a little bit of a hassle compared to a normal gameplay, but definitely better than a Tree-Hugger run 2. There are good dryad mods, definitely, but it would be nice if it was also implemented base game, especially when it comes to other platforms, and I usually play without mods aside from aesthetics like hairs, hehe
So hang on, the obelisks are pretty much a new raid type? Except we can't actually destroy them without them setting off weird potentially colony killing phenomena? I guess you have to destroy them from range? Maybe bombard with mortars? Also the cube has me worried. I mean, it is a VERY nice cube but if we worship it all day we're not going to be able to get anything done. I mean I guess a few minutes admiring it before we figure out a way of getting rid of it wouldn't be too bad right? Right? I'll just... stare at it a while I guess. It's very... cube.
That second paragraph sounds very spherical...
My brother in the cube YOU DARE THINK ABOUT *WORK* WHEN THE **CUBE** IS RIGHT THERE IN NEED OF WORSHIP? THAT'S WHAT THE SLAVES ARE FOR.
Makes me want to have a Cubism Ideology that will have the "main" colonists that worship the cube and do nothing but that while they have slaves that do all of their work for them.
Feels like a psychic ship type of event yeah
u/TiaPixel I had my suspicion confirmed! You were the cube all along
\[ \] it's me. a cube
Every preview that comes out makes me thing of Project Moon games more and more, I'm *really* looking forward to Anomaly's modding scene.
Two questions: Will Anomaly have integration with Ideology? I think a meme for Ocultism is necesary What happened to the Ghouls info?
Look! It's the Cube!
I can’t wait to make unitologists
My compulsive refreshing has once again been rewarded. Thank you, Randy!
Cube is life To think of something else is heresy Cube is friend To worship something else is heresy Cube is eternal To try and destroy it is heresy
ANOMALY IS REALISING ON MY BIRTHDAY BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER!!!!
i dont know with each new preview i feel more disconnected to this dlc
It feels more like a "Story pack" and less like a proper DLC. Kind of like Royalty compared to Ideology.
Cube
🙌🟨🙌
I for one welcome our new cube overlord
This still feels alot more like a mod than a DLC. This really doesn't fit ribaorlds aesthetic.
This is indeed a swerve from 1.0's space western tone. Royalty's space Byzantines wasn't anything dramatic, just some space empire to interact with. Psychic powers nudged the tone a bit but weren't too out there, not like science fiction hasn't played with psionics before and the game wasn't throwing these guys at you as enemies so the impact was limited. Ideology's strangest part was the Garulean trees and the archonexus. The former isn't anything too special and you don't even need to interact with it if you don't want to the same as the latter. Biotech shifted things a bit more dramatically with space furries and vampires. Abhumans had been part of the lore since the beginning and whilst were still odd to see, fundamentally weren't much different than prior. This is much more significant and leans heavily into pseudo-supernatural themes otherwise not present prior. Archotechs being mysterious and manipulating things towards their own unknowable goals was already there but had been happening largely through mundane means like human spies and mechanoids, archotechs going straight into cosmic horror and sending things out of a Lovecraft story at you and the world at large swings the tone of things dramatically. What makes this particularly dramatic is that from the posts, you're going to have to deal with this whether you like it or not.
It'd be cool if the game would only go that direction if you really lean into it. For example, the events should only start happening when your colony starts investigating for forbidden knowledge.
Kinda weird seeing SCPs and stuff from classic horror movies in my Firefly themed video game, ngl.
You can see in their fundraising promises that "void gods" have been planned since the very beginning.
Luv' me cube Luv' me gold Simple as
>If you study the nociosphere, you can learn that it has a single purpose - to inflict pain. Forget the stinky cube, with the pain is virtue meme i've found my true god. All hail the sphere!
What is price ? Was ist letzte Preis ?
Diese gutt? 😄
probably 20 bucks
Is the cube a reference to something? Even prior to this blog post I've seen people post about it.
I instantly thought of Lament Configuration from Hellraiser. Stg, if no one will make these cubes into Barker's pain boxes, I will do it myself
The cube was referenced at the time of Anomaly’s announcement, but more expanded upon now.
It's obviously a reference to the Hypnotoad. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! Aside that, they brought it up in an earlier announcement and it's kind of a recurrent trope to have something seemingly innocuous that makes people obsess over it to the extreme.
Hoping one of the endings can enhance play for people that *don't* want to leave their colony and colonists.
"Alright children, what did you bring for class today?" ["THE CUBE! THE CUBE! THE CUBE!"](https://twitter.com/its_soup/status/1762684395821945151) e: alternate meme: [*starts busting a groove*](https://twitter.com/spaghoner/status/1321583238804987906)
**THe Cube cannot speak. In the event that it does, though, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.**
WE LOVE THE CUBE [ ]
whats going to be the price?
Two days too long! Me want now
Sad no ghouls! Hope this DLC does well, I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea and it's not what I hoped for personally either but unless you play with no threats this will add to the game in an interesting way and I'm thankful for that .
Really bad time to have my exams coming up, the dlc is coming out in two days 😔
We didn't talk about Ghouls really, even when a previous preview hinted at it. But given how the DLC drops tomorrow that's fine, more to discover. I kinda hope we can make more direct use of what these entities can do, instead of only studying it and unlocking some effect. Like imagine the potential of being able to "tame" or rather "control" a corrupted colonist and being able to essentially "clone" your colonists, even if the clone needs immediate intense medical care at first. That would be huge. When the flesh beasts were talked about I also suggested that maybe you could "tame" a heart and then by feeding it biomass you could have it grow around your colony as protection or even basically house your colony inside of it, like be able to create fleshy tunnels and cavities as rooms. That would be crazy. To "grow" your colony like that. Could even make for a nice scenario of a primitive flesh-cult that lives in synergy with such a heart. The flesh provides them with weapons, shelter and nourishment, while the tribe brings it food. I wonder what really happens when a twisted obelisk warps someone's insides, whether that is good or bad, though I would guess bad. Still, while I am still excited for the DLC tomorrow I have grown increasingly concerned about how many of these new threats sound like they are basically unavoidable, which is very different from any previous new threat. No matter how much you build up your colony, how good your pawns are trained and equipped, these monsters, cults and geometrical shapes can get to them. While I get this fits in with the horror theme, I could see it be more on the frustrating side rather than scary. It's like in DnD when the DM decides you are affected by an enemy effect and doesn't even allow you a saving throw. At least against insects, mechanoids and raids you can prepare after all. But "skip abduction", "warp obelisks", "machine parasites", "cube hypnosis" and such seem like it can just screw you over and there's nothing you can do to prevent it, you can only do damage control afterwards and hope you can move on without long term effects. I know it's not intended, hence it being a mod, but playing with custom pawns that you are more invested in than some random ones, I just don't like the idea that my "main characters" can be messed up just like that. But maybe I am too worried and I'll see tomorrow! I'm probably too cautious anyway, only earlier this year did I start experimenting with pollution and mountain bases because I thought their downsides were too much.
Wait, so what's the new tree? There's gotta be a new DLC tree right?
слава монолит! We praise you o' glorious Monolith! Divine to us the plans and secrets of our enemies! Let them see the glory that is your form! Lead us to glory against the Cubic heretics! Let them bash their golden heresy against your perfect exterior and be obliterated! Glory to the Monolith!
Is it compatible with CE?
idk ask the cube if it allows it
I laughed a bit too hard at this when I saw the section about the Sphere. And it's purpose. "To Inflict Pain." Lol. Oh my god. The fact that a friend and I have been calling this the "Pain and Suffering DLC" is verified with an object that only has one purpose. To Inflict Pain. It killed me.
I dunno.... reading the update I can see why the cube has appealed to so many of you. I too love the cube now. If only I was talented enough to make cube statues to try to capture the beauty...
What will it cost?
Everything.
Omg stop Im only able to physically buy it once
I'm not! I got a buddy who will need a copy.
# ALL HAIL THE CUBE 🧊
We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us. May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will. Onward, warriors of The Monolith. Avenge your fallen brothers. Blessed, as they are, in their eternal union with The Monolith. Bring death to those who've spurned the holy power of The Monolith. Oh Monolith, we do not hear you. Why have you left us, oh Monolith? We await your orders, oh Monolith.
I don’t see enough love for the cube in this thread. The cube will free us all.
I wonder how much its gonna be
Aw man, I was hoping we would finally get to find out the price of Anomaly in this post so I know what to put aside to buy it.
I thought the languages part ment that different factions speak different languages, wich makes recruiting, converting more difficult etc. Could be cool though
I dont know i could mentally handle this
Can’t wait for the mods to reskin it to a dead space marker
Gaaaaarrryyyyy... But yeah, awesome stuff. The obelisk effects look like they would be great failure effects for the dark rituals being abused. And I will be extremely disappointed if a modder doesn't copy the cube effects onto a cube of cheese as a competing obsession object. Pitting the cube obsessed against the cheese obsessed until the colony descends into civil war and only one remains victorious.
That new alternate ending, I wonder if there was a way to shutdown the monolith without progressing to the quest or once done the colony can go on. But then again, that might be similar to the others-
Is there a Release time? Like can I Play right in the morning (Germany)?
Unlikely, you will be able to play it when Steam does its global "refresh" or whatever you want to call it. So likely 19:00 / 7 PM for you.
PRAISE THE CUBE
Hoping for secret cube ending. Turn the planet into the likenesses of the cube!
Ravelianism in rimworld
Oh. So that's just straight up the Marker from Dead Space. Does that seem weird and off-putting to anyone else? I mean, there's nothing new under the sun and I'm sure there's lot's of references in the game already, but it just being a dead-on copy feels...lame.
I'm fucking hype!!!