My notes about the new Soulstorm information

Intro

So it’s finally here! And there is much info shared, so to make it easier, I collected the most important ones into bullet points. Click on the sites’ name to find the appropriate source. Hope you’ll find it useful!

IGN

• The game will start around NnT’s ending
• 2.5D / 2.9D
• You’ll be able to return to levels
• You have the choice between stealth/aggressive route
• You’ll be able to craft a variety of ammo
• Playtime: 12-15 hours, up to 100 hours in replayability
• Game will cost around $40

Polygon

• Mudokons are agile and are able to follow Abe anywhere
• Mudokons now fight with you
• Looting/Crafting
• Lanning says the game is a bit like Lemmings, but “they are armed to the teeth”
• You’ll need to live in a scavenger’s economy: Collect garbage, craft weapons from that, ala Anarchist’s cookbook
• More followers -> More spiritual power
• Still no guns for Abe
• Possession is still a thing: Chant to create an Orb, which you can “stick to creatures”.
• “That orb itself can get layered with other cosmic abilities, more spiritual abilities, but you’ll earn those through a different chemistry, which we call chi-charms.”
• Chi-charms are the game’s secondary economy
• Multiple endings, depending on Muds saved
• Early 2020, no platforms yet

PCGamer

• Open ended puzzles
• Abe can throw flammable liquids at enemies then something that creates a spark -> Boom
• Crafting recipe: Jawbreaker + Rubber bands -> Richocheting jawbreaker. Richocheting jawbreaker + tape -> Richocheting jawbreaker that incapacitates enemies
• You’ll be able to pickpocket enemies / loot corpses
• You can give orders to Mudokons
• Half industrial and half nature
• Game is mostly linear, then you reach a train hub (Comet Depot?), then five freely choosable locations
• 30 devs are working on the game

PCGamesN

• Alert level: More Muds that follow you -> Less manned workplaces -> Higher alert -> More Sligs
• Your “branch” in the story changes with every end of a level, where you get a tally of saved Mudokons and murdered Sligs
• Addiction and human (or rather Mudokon) trafficking are major themes

Venturebeat

• If you’re an employee you get 2 Brews a day, Snoozie at night
• 48 hours of withdrawal kills you
• AI will have “mob dynamics / gang dynamics”
• There will be curved paths and moving in “full dimensional space”
• No more steam vents or shadows, you’ll be able to hide in lockers instead (and your followers too)
• You’ll be able to set up industrial-scale accidents
• There will be multiple characters to control? (Indicator above Abe with his name)
• Every level is one story, intro/outro, tally.
• There will be more (optional) hint-systems
• There will be an objective log
• You’ll be able to “preview” the level and even snipe
• Possession is kill or knock-out
• Spraying Muds with fire-extinguishers will make them fire-repellent
• Select Mudokons will have keys to open other areas of maps
• “We start off in a hideout, with some more native environments. You escape that towering inferno. Then we go into old, abandoned towns that are a little more like Stranger, these old mill towns and mining towns. We have ancient ruins, pretty spooky-looking areas. We wind up at gas stations for trains, big fuel depots. Then we go to a Slig Barracks and the Necrum Mines, a mining factory that’s built on top of a graveyard, basically. They’re mining the bones. That’s the other secret ingredient in the Brew.”
• There will be around 1300 Mudokons to save
• There will be leaderboards to compare yourself to the rest of the community

PCWorld

• “You can get through the whole game without killing anybody. Not even the bad guys,”

GameInformer

• “Kill a bad guy to save yourself, and you lose some quarma, but cruelly kill a helpless and bound enemy, and the hit to your quarma is much bigger.” - Quarma will now be affected by how Abe reacts to enemies. Killing defenseless enemies = bigger penalty.
• “Binocular emplacements allow you to look across the way to guard stations and workers that need rescuing, and plan your route to reach them.”

Things collected from the teaser videos/images:

• Abe will now be able to double jump
• Abe will be able to wield a flamethrower
• Sligs can now shoot in a wide arc and bullets are real bullets now, not hitscanners.

OWI_Pete:

• Abe is teaching the other Mudokons about their spirituality, they chant along with him and it increases his power.