I'm really excited that this could be a flashback scene, as Shade_Meadows mentioned. Filling in some backstory on how the whole slave situation came to be - or perhaps the rise of Molluck as a foreshadowing to his demise at the end of the game - would add so much depth and be so much more captivating.
This is going to be a fantastic story and a fantastic game. I can't wait!

What if these are the mudokons who go with Abe after the three weirdos' allucination to Necrum, and are captured after separating from Abe? It's a re-imagination of AE, so this could be a possibility, just theorizing, because they look like new Mudokons being enslaved.

Or just mudokons from the Necrum Mines.

Also, thank you very much for the image OWI, it's really awesome, that feeling I had with the first two games on PS1 has come again, that Glukkon's look, creepy... I'm just waiting to play this game along my brother like in old times :).

There's a decent chance that one way or another this is actually Mullock, either because he survived and now he's back or this is an image from the past as others have theorized. His face doesn't look like Phleg or Aslik, and ordinarily I would expect Drippik to be wearing more medals - plus his forehead is supposed to be a bit more complex than that. Still, like you said it could be an entirely new gluk.

But more importantly, whoever he is, I agree it's definitely odd to see a Glukkon supervise his own slaves. Honestly, when I saw this, I imagined something really top-secret obviously because of how cryptic this whole marketing stunt is. So this leads me to believe that seeing him there is a direct indicator of just how big of a deal this operation here is - a possibly illegal one, too, if we're gonna go with all this secrecy. Like maybe wherever this is, that gluk doesn't have the legal rights to the land this operation is happening on?

Since Soulstorm is gonna be a remake of Exodus, I can only image that the bags they're carrying are bones rolled up in bags - though that somewhat retcons how the original means of keeping the secret was stitching their eyes shut. Maybe these guys are a third party to the actual diggers and they only move the bags, never being allowed to open them?

Also... Back on the subject of the mudokon's eye, I honestly think that's more of a computer screen of some sort than a door. If you look closely, you can see a small light in the center of that black spot, which leads me to believe the black bar is actually a figure of some kind overshadowed by a light behind him. Maybe this is a new version of the Greeter security bot, or some other kind of machine? I can't help but think of the sentries from Portal.


http://i.imgur.com/pzqp4lJm.png

https://cdn.instructables.com/F1R/HG...P9G.MEDIUM.jpg

Half Life 3 dead meme

*gasp* THEY'RE MAKING HALF LIFE THREE!!! :O

That's what they're doing with those bags!

Yeah, looks like you're right! I was sort of close though. Guess I need to look a bit harder.

It still looks that way to me. Just bashing themselves in the head.

Anyone already post this tweet from Spirit of 1029?
https://imgur.com/b9JJL3O



Originally Posted by SligValet View Post
Looks like they've been filed down, probably to stop them from digging or being able to hurt Sligs/themselves

Originally posted by GreenAnhiga Yeah, looks like you're right! I was sort of close though. Guess I need to look a bit harder.

I saw that too as I remember Abe sometimes being depicted with pointed nails lead me to believe that mudokon naturally this way. Also if you look reeeally close at BB's left paw, you can see a teeny tiny little pinkie nail.

Sounds like a fart to me. So Abe can still do something with them, yay!

I've been thinking about those codes on the Mudokon chests and it seems to me that using tattooed binary code as identification technique is completely sub-optimal.

With six binary characters you can encode 64 (= 2^6) different combinations while with normal decimal values you can have 1000000 different combinations (both including 000000). This means that to obtain the same amount of different combinations they could have easily used only two decimal numbers.

Of course it could be that the Glukkons are well aware of this and simply like to have the chest tattoo to be as intrusive and as painful as possible.

I thought it was molluck as well but molluck wasnt the Big shot Brew Master was the Big Boss so was Brew master like a apprentice to molluck or did he Take over this is what my theory is since the pic has been revealed

Since Rupture Farms seemed to be Molluck's main enterprise (given the big meeting at the start of AO, as opposed to the meetings in AE with only 3 Glukks at most), the Brewmaster probably was subordinate to Molluck to some degree, taking over operation of Soulstorm Brewery and reporting to Molluck when needed.

Since Molluck mysteriously disappeared (may or may not be the case in Soulstorm), it makes sense that the Brewmaster would just continue doing his job alone.

That's a very interesting thought and it would make sense if mully died or vanished. I hope some more light I shed on both of these characters and what their business relationship intakes if they have one

What we saw at RuptureFarms was a board meeting, so it makes sense there are more people than at whatever the meeting was at the SoulStorm Brewery...

I'm not sure I'm getting the point you're trying to make here. :fuzconf:

The meetings in AE seem to be covert, like not the sort of stuff you'd want your investors to find out about

Okay so this really isn't anything major, but I got this email from the Oddworld mailing list that I subbed to which had the image attached in it and I noticed something really small in this version that really threw me off.



See it? That Glukk is seriously giving me the creeps.

Top: The glukk is yelling/looking at the "BB" mud? Or all collectively.
Bottum: The glukk looks into the camera.That IS creepy

Well spotted, I just glanced over it assuming it was the same picture.

I've now included it on TOGG as well :)
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...5/category/109