New 'n' Tasty

[Scrabaniac]

We may have already seen more of it just looking at the pre alpha images, im sure i have seen one with a feeco train..

[Xavier]

Aren't you confusing with some amazing fan art?

[Michael]

They said wait 'til late January, they'll announce it properly then.

Ah brilliant, thanks!

[Scrabaniac]

Pretty sure the one o have in mind is the pre alpha image, it has the JAW and OWI logo on it

[STM]

I think what you're thinking of is actually a boiler and not an engine.

[Scrabaniac]

is it a boiler? They look so similar

[Vyrien]

Pretty sure that's a furnace. You can see another in the back left.

[Wil]

Furnaces.

[Bullet Magnet]

Do you think the Glukkons deliberately build faces into all their machines, or do such design outcomes escape their notice?

[Varrok]

The machines look like Glukkons? o_O

[Crashpunk]

Yep. They have the whole super villain thing going on.

[Nate]

I think it's probably an ego thing. And possibly a quazi-totalitarian expression of power over their workers/slaves.

[Vyrien]

The Vykkers were partial to doing this as well.



Although it's more prevalent in Glukkon architecture, I assumed it was intended to intimidate.

[Phylum]

Glukkons are too tight to build gigantic statues of themselves, so they just work it into the infrastructure.

[Bullet Magnet]

I wondered if they might not notice it. An alien looking and a human house might see a resemblance in the positions of doors and windows to a face.

[Strike Witch]

Maybe all the buildings are actually alive.

[Crashpunk]

Anything with a face is alive. The FeeCo Train must have a great time going around Oddworld.

[Havoc]

The Vykkers were partial to doing this as well.



Although it's more prevalent in Glukkon architecture, I assumed it was intended to intimidate.

I never noticed that. Pretty cool.

[Bullet Magnet]

Seriously? I don't believe you.

[Nate]

That one looks more like an Octigi than a Vykker.

[Bullet Magnet]

It reminds me of the Magog Cartel logo.

[Nate]

Which is based on the shape of an Octigi.

Either way, it's an odd symbol for a Vykker ship.

[Bullet Magnet]

Depends one who built it. Is the ship even unique to the Vykkerz, or have they bought a Magog model?

[Scrabaniac]

Waitwaitwaitwait... So Vykkers are NOT part of the Magog Cartel?

[Vyrien]

The artbook says in relation to this picture,

"The docking station was designed with the Vykkers image in mind; a large head and four arms. The head contains fuel and hydrogen for the docking blimps, the arm joints hold anti-aircraft guns."

It really does look like the Magog logo though, which is what I thought when I first saw it

The Vykkers are part of the Vykkers Conglomerate, a sometimes rival, sometimes partner Super-corporation to the Magog Cartel.

[Wil]

Vykkers are part of the Magog Cartel.

Glukkons are another part of the Magog Cartel.

[Vyrien]

What? Really?

A lot of the bullshit online needs clearing up.

[Bullet Magnet]

I also thought they were a separate group. I had that drilled into me by a reliable, Nod-like source.

[Wil]

The Vykkers and Glukkons are separate groups. They're competing industrial families with their own agendas, quotas and specialties, fighting each other over capital, contracts, resources, airtime and markets. Just like real corporations, they frequently negotiate to work together. That's always been the case.

What I got wrong in the past was nomenclature.

[Nate]

Oh. I thought the Magog cartel had a whole lot of infighting groups, but only within the Octigi family (in the taxonomic sense of the word 'family').