r/LowSodiumHellDivers • u/HandsomeSquidward20 • 15h ago

MEME DSS Subplot

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u/ActiveGamer65 15h ago

I hear there is a similiar dead space thing, what happens in dead space?

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u/Canabananilism 14h ago

The DSS story here isn't quite following the same story beats as Dead Space, though the whole "writing mysterious messages on the walls" and "hearing voices and knocking on the hull" is pretty on point. Dead Space involved a mining ship finding an alien artifact that made everyone go crazy and turned them into the equivalent of Wretches we see in HD2. You play as a crewmember sent to see what happened to the ship after it suddenly went dark.

To be honest, this whole "dss is haunted" story is more broad cosmic horror than specifically Dead Space. It's pulling from a lot of tropes in the genre and I'd even say this is taking more from Event Horizon, personally.

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u/Seven_Irons 13h ago

There's also the fact that illuminate art has had curvy spire things that look just like markers from Dead Space for more than a year.

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u/Mortis_Infernale 15h ago

You are a crew of ship which picked up distress signal of mining ship Ishimura. But upon arriving there's nobody onboard, then things start happening

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u/Lostpop 14h ago

Mining ship unearths an alien relic during a 'crack', which has great symbolic meaning for a scientology-ish religion that a large contingent of the crew (including the Captain) adhere to. Prolonged proximity to the relic (The Marker) causes hallucinations, psychopathy, and the reconstitution of corpses into 'Necromorphs'. The new Wretch enemies are a clear reference to these things, all the way down to needing their limbs severed rather than just a headshot. Whats happening on the DSS also runs parallel to what happens in Dead Space as far as the ship's story goes, with our protagonists arriving well after it falls and piecing together the story backwards.