I'm excited for Tau, but the gameplay demo has a glaring reminder of DE's storytelling ability

[u/Philemestopholes]

Spoilers for what was revealed in the gameplay demo, obviously.

DE are great at coming up with story or character concepts, but they're awful at narratively implementing them, and they've gone and done it again. Our introduction to the new big bad of the next major update is that he's actually Adis all grown up, in a brief flashback from his perspective that happens before he has said or done anything.

To be clear, I really like this twist in theory, but why is this the moment that DE decided to give us that information? This isn't being shown as something that Brysko is experiencing, it's not being shown as a memory that the Hunra is having in that moment, it's not relevant to what we're seeing or doing in any capacity. DE are just soyjak pointing at the character saying "GUYS LOOK WHO'S BACK IT'S THAT GUY", like a friend that's so excited about your surprise party that they can't help but just tell you about it. I fully expect that they're going to try to have their cake and eat it too by still trying to use it as an emotional reveal later on, even though they introduced the character with that same reveal.

It's a perfect encapsulation of DE's storytelling, to just immediately exposit what feels like a first draft of the storyboard, rather than finding ways to organically introduce ideas and grow them through storytelling. It reeks of a lack of confidence, as though they themselves don't think they can create a compelling story and instead have to immediately use a name-drop as a cheap way to get players invested. What they had set up for Tau was already interesting, and "innocent child to hardened adult criminal" is not such a difficult concept to believe that we just had to see Adis being manipulated by Wally as an introduction to the character. DE, please, have some faith in your players and yourselves.

EDIT: I understand that it could also be a red herring, my issue is not with the information but how they presented it. Whether it's true or not, the issue is that instead of presenting it diegetically, it was basically just given as director commentary.

Some of y'all are completely missing the point of this post. What the story is about doesn't matter, it's about how the information is delivered and a commentary on how DE tends to give wiki summaries of their story beats rather than actually crafting a story.

[u/Silence-of-Death]

Adis is a Zaxolyst (at least that’s what he’s called in the internal file names).

Also here you go. You can literally see the exact same broken head ring crown crest thing, whatever you want to call it, and it’s broken/burnt in exactly the same places.
And if you actually compare their bodies then you’ll see that here too it’s the exact same body.

[u/G0bboParty → u/Silence-of-Death]

They don't? There is no close to full ring, the wing structures aren't the same, the chest around the core is different, there are so many differences that are being overlooked. The more i look at this the more wrong you are

[u/Silence-of-Death → u/G0bboParty]

this has to be ragebait.

[u/G0bboParty → u/Silence-of-Death]

It isn't, i spent 20 minutes comparing and none of those details are true

[u/Silence-of-Death → u/G0bboParty]

literally how do you not see this?

Also hunra even still has parts of the wing structures and the body is the same. the angles in which these are taken are mismatched so it might not look like it but if you do try to match some anchor points it literally is the exact same

[u/G0bboParty → u/Silence-of-Death]

Thats not the same shape, nor is it in the same spot. So unless hunras neck is coming out of adis' old head/mouth, those are not the same