Yeah, so looks like it wasn't a Vykker after all haha.

Also thanks for straightening out the image, I'm so used to looking at that old one that the new perspective was throwing me off a bit!

Is there writing/drawing where the red arrow points, or am I just seeing things?
https://i.imgur.com/N5KrK5O.jpg

And i though them Meeps as by quick look. Now i feel stupid as Gluk :D

I can see a writing too

From http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/

"Update 5: Thanks to you guys sharing the previous images online, we've managed to decode the photo further and have updated the thumbnail here. We'll return on Thursday with the finished, fully decrypted image - but until then, please do let us know what you think!"

To me it still looks like he's holding a sleeping bag / mat of some sort because of the curled up bit to the right:

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon....SR190,246_.jpg

Well, the graphics already look great and the image isn't fully cleaned up yet :D Wouldn't be surprised if this is a still from a new intro cutscene by Frima Studio.

Regarding the potential Vykker looking through the fence on the right, it does look like something is there, especially considering what looks like highlights on the one side of its head. But I'd be more inclined to say it looks like a glukkon, given the shape of the eyes and its proportions.

I do see some harder edges there than in other places, as well as some other signs that maybe something is added in there. My best attempt at isolating it: https://i.imgur.com/Ku2NhuT.png

Its a tricky spot, I'm going to fiddle some more with it.

Just saw someone quite eerily suggest on Facebook that he's carrying a sack of Mudokon bones... poor fella.

Well, Connell, looks like 8291 haunts us again - cause I'm really in doubt that these four numbers below starting with "8" and ending with "1" are something different...

The sack he's carrying is labeled to him, it's got his serial number on it. I think it's the case of assigning a slave their job. Here are the tools you're gonna use in the mining pit for the rest of your life.
Btw it looks like the stitching on the side of his loincloth goes over the hem and onto his leg :P

Also look at the side of "thing" mudokon is carrying - it look like arrow target? Or similar to Rupture Farm logo with glukkon face in a middle of it?

After looking a few times rather agree with Connell that it really looks like some kind of sleeping bags or something like on his img.

I read it as, 896-18

Can't see fifth digit and " - ", only four numbers. I even highlighted them, it just as second and third digit (2 and 9) are being covered by something so we can't see their bottom parts.

Also, I have a feeling that there's actually two images being merged to make it less certain for us to see something...

Oh man, exciting stuff. This certainly looks like a much more expanded version of the original Brew in the desert scene. If this is truly a still from a cutscene I can't wait to see the actual animation.

Anyone else feel suspicious about how the 'O' in "Who?" is wrapped around the mudokon's eye?

I get the feeling there's meaning behind it, the connection between 'O' and his eye.

The mudokon seems to express shock and seems alert, while he faces in the direction of the blurred image. Are we being asked who he is looking at?

EDIT 1: Upon closer inspection, the mudokon seems to be looking towards a fellow mudokon in front of him. Though I'm still wondering who we are suppose to identify.

Hope this helps you see it, zoom in, the 18 is really tiny


https://mobile.twitter.com/renee_eas...125312/photo/1

Actually, the only thing I can see now at left bottom is... Glukkon, looking at mudokon, beeing blurry because focus is on the mudokon and not him. Still doubtful, but Woodpecker's question made me unleash this (IMO, rather stupid) theory.

However, considering mudokon carries something actually looking like newbie soldier basic equipment pack, having Officer-like Glukkon with shoulder pads there wouldn't be that stupid...

Hence what I said earlier, Xavier already hinted to us on (I think the 13th page on this forum? Somewhere around there) that Ed was not in this pic, but was the one taking the pic.

Yeah, what I mentioned earlier in my doodle line, there's one Mudokon in front of the middle, then the middle one, then another similar looking item thing which you can deduce that it's another Mudokon and the way they are formed, is that of a marching line. In slavery, slaves walked about this way a lot. xO :(

It looks llike the rolls of a mat for sleeping on to me, although I didn't actually see the rolls until you pointed them out

I see what you mean, to me at least it seems to resemble the shoulder of a mudokon. I cannot imagine a glukkon of high rank walking in the same line as a mudokon.

Yeah, only now have I found that mudokon is walking by the look of his legs. Was thinking that he is standing still and "Glukkon" is, like, instructing him?

Pete, Alex, you'll at least tell us sometimes how much you laughing from nonsense that isn't there that we see on your images :D

Don't know if anyone's noticed, but on the Oddworld: Soulstorm website right now, it says that they will be revealing the fully decoded image on Thursday. So close, and yet, so far!

Hmm...possibly doubt it...Glukkons don't have defined eyes (Your circle and then a dot kinda thing xD) but also, they're normally accompanied by sligs for security. I would kinda think if I were a Glukkon, why would I want to be next to these hated "self proclaimed divinity" losers? >:C I should be in my office counting my moolah and smoking my cigar (another notice-able distinguished trait) Haha

EXACTLY! xD The Glukkons HATE the Mudokons

What the..? Without prove, i don't believe that's true.
As u can read it some sides behind, on the right of the Picture there is the Slave Train. And on the left u have a Slig. Sligs ugly as hell. Gluks don't like them. The Military one said it in Exoddus, ya know?!

Le Lore
 

Read it in the Lore, countless times. Back then when the Glukkons weren't Industrialists, they were close friends and allies of the Mudokons, had ACTUAL eyes and even were spiritualists. Then when the Mudokon Moon came about, the Mudokons saw this as a sign from the gods and proclaimed themselves as the Chosen Race. This enraged the Glukkons because of the Mudokons' self divinity and made them hate the Mudokons, hence why they shunned themselves (which made their eyes glow and sensitive to the light), betray the Mudomo and Mudanchee tribes and became Industrialists.

Well of course they're not liked, even the current Slig Queen, Queen Skillya doesn't even LIKE her babies, and there's a note that she'll even cook them in The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years 1994 - 2004 (woo...slig cannibalism...xC). I'm sure that you've seen in real life society, ugly people are condescended, isolated, frowned upon, and/or hated so it's understandable that Sligs are hated cuz they're deemed ugly :(

Yeah I don't see the Slave trains. I just see some railing on top with possible light attachments cuz I think these Mudokons are in Necrum Mines, so they would need some lighting for them dark caves.

Glukkons take shut ins to a whole other level haha xD

http://i.imgur.com/riuyz7xm.png


I guess I'll see you all on thursday

Had a thought, what if its not 8, but the infinity symbol the shaman draws below abe in the first game?, in the cutscene after he falls off the cliff

I found what looks to be a group of mudokons in the reflection in abes eye, there is also part of necrum I think.

https://imageupload.co.uk/image/BVgp

You're about 9 months late bud.

Two thoughts:

I think the '9' in the number is actually a '2'.

Also, what the fuck are you guys on about a Vykker being in the picture? I genuinely can only see blank space.

That's because you are not channelling your inner Spooce Nate.

I live in Washington state...

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Futurama-Fry.jpg

EDIT: NVM, my bad, somehow I thought there's Sydney in location. Morning on work without coffee is bad for your brain.

And, technically, wrong. :)

I don't think I've not seen this mentioned yet, but it really appears as though the Mud in the middle of the picture is missing a few fingernails. Note the comparison between his nails and where I'm pretty sure they're missing (green and red respectively)

http://imgur.com/a/0IQx0

EDIT: A friend suggested this could be some sort of Fuzzle security system. It appears to be inside the barbed wire? I sort of see how it could be, but at the same time maybe not.

http://imgur.com/a/E1nNu

I think that it's worth noting that this is the only place on the whole IMG where's X is rubbed + even on "full" picture it's most damaged place of IMG. I've got a feeling that there's some kind of symbol or numbers or letters behind it.
X marks the spot? :D

Maybe they're just dark? Hard to tell

Are you referring to my post?