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12-10-2008, 12:43 PM
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It's a personal skill. But just look at those sick mudokons! It's the difference between visiting the toilet, or holding in your diarrhoea. Only more so.


They are a collection of races who fit into the "outlaw" underclass. That's the fifth of the known (and often indistinct) classes of being we know about on Oddworld, after native, industrialist, consumer and wildlife. It's a look at the less subtle side of the criminal underworld. There are at least three species we see among SW outlaws, possibly five or six if the hunchbacks represent more than simple natural variation.
The consumer class has never been officially acknowledged. The lifestyle that makes for a round five ideologies would be of the Settler type.

Also note that while Lorne’s original idea was that the Outlaws are an assortment of different species who have banded together for their rugged, lawless survival, the developers have said that they are all part of the single ‘Outlaw’ species. Yes, even the ones that are clearly Wolvarks. This is clearly a case where the original intent has become lost through the developmental process. Just consider how Jo’ Momma’s boys are meant to be literally her offspring, when actually only about two or three of the Outlaws in that level have the same body type as her.
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