Increased size of anomaly pings to make them more readily visible NOTE: All in-game audio was mastered and intended to be heard at 100% volume – for optimal experience, we recommend setting all in-game volume sliders to 100%.įixed an issue where Windows DPI scaling could cause the game to display in an unusable resolution I seem to be downloading a sizeable update of some sort for HW. Thanks for setting me straight and bringing actual information to the table. The podcast is pretty interesting, just skip the intro bits before the interview starts.ġ11 including credits and copyright notice. Cataclysm was kind of an odd duck that no one quite knew what to do with in terms of marketing at the time, since Sierra wanted a sequel first, then an expansion, and then finally just released the thing as a standalone expansion. In Cataclysm he was able to actually put all of his lore into the game itself, which explains why we start to see more of the Kiith dynamics in that game.

Space Game Junkie had a podcast interview with the writer of Cataclysm recently, and it turns out that he was brought in at the last minute to try and put a story into the first game (hence the manual being more detailed than the game). I think the main reason for that was to give a sense of history and backstory.you weren't just playing these faceless ships, you were leading a real people with their own culture, history, religion, and so on. Probably not surprising, given that the same writer who came up with the kiith was involved in the second game. Also, Cataclysm didn't actually invent Somtaaw.they were mentioned offhand in the first manual as being one of Kharak's great religious kiith, along with Gaalsien and Siidim, which was reflected in their backstory in Cataclysm. Wasn't a hundred pages and it was only about half a dozen clans (Gaalsien, Paktu, Soban, Sjet, Nabaal, and Manaan, plus a number of others mentioned offhand like LiirHra). I vaguely recall asking why Cataclysm had to invent still another clan when they already had all that backstory written in, but I'll bet I'm wrong about that somehow. The original box came with this gorgeous 100+ page manual that had a biography of something like a dozen different clans, suggesting that at one point the intention was going to be a choice of many different ship and play styles, which they eventually pared down to one-and-a-half.

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