The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Cuyir]

I wonder if they added sanity in the game.In the teaser camera zoomed in a little when something unsettling happend.It may mean nothing since it is just a map demo and not even a finished game.

Thomas said in an interview that there will be a sort of a "dynamic" sanity system in SOMA.

GB: Can we expect that, mechanically, it’ll work similar to Amnesia? Non-combat? A lot of hiding? Or are you giving the player some new tools for dealing with what they encounter?

Grip: It’s still going to be a lot of hiding, but what we’re trying to do is that every creature in the game should be its own dynamic system. When you encounter a creature, that has a specific sort of system. Think of the sanity system. That’s a global system we had throughout the entire game. But in SOMA, for every encounter that you do, there’s going to be a dynamic system that’s like the sanity system but local to that encounter or species of creature alone. Each time you encounter a new beast or a new danger, you have to figure out how to work.

That to me seems to insinuate that each enemy type affects you differently.

Some may just report your location and study you (like the spider like enemy in the trailer), others may ''jam'' or distort your senses (pretty sure the protag will have a remote brain, like in the teaser), others may just try to maul you while others maybe just function as mere nuisances.

Also

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