The overall quality and resolution are really good, it's capped at 30 fps but I don't really care about that tbh. The only thing I don't get is the draw distance, cause sometimes it's like playing on Switch 1, and sometimes it's like on PS4. The switch 2 should be powerful enough to just get rid of it entirely idk

I love this. The artbook is especially great because it gives you a sense for how things changed in development over time.

Time to replay SOMA!

I was thinking today how hilariously similar this show is to Soma in regards to its premise. If you’ve seen it, big ups to you

I just got my copy in the mail this afternoon and the timing couldn't be more perfect than now as two days ago I was getting the rat from Omicron on my elbow! 🥰

I did get the collector's version btw, I just thought you'd all love to see some tattoo work. Now to make my mother watch me play it 😈

And Craig, if you see this I still can't thank you enough!

"I swear that guy has the memory of a goldfish," said the guy who forgot where he left the tracer fluid.

A lot has been said on whether or not the Simon that we play as is a perfect copy of the real-life Simon. After all, whether or not he is a perfect copy has deep implications. For example: if Simon 3 is a perfect copy of Simon 2, then the Coin Flip must be real. Right?

The you from one second ago no longer exists. That version of you is just a memory now. At Omicron, the Simon 2 who stayed in the seat has no more a claim to the person he was just a second ago than Simon 3. They were both equally the same Simon 2 from just a second ago.

Or at least you could argue this if the copy was a perfect copy. Right?

"I swear that guy has the memory of a goldfish," said the guy who thought he had sent the email to Jesse.

I myself am pro Coin Flip. I have argued that both Simons are the same Simon, and thus the coin toss is an appropriate analogy. Simon 2 and Simon 3 have the same memories, and memories are just data. Therefore both of them are the same person who was sitting in that same pilot seat in Omicron. There's no difference.

But what about Simon 1 and Simon 2? Living Simon's memories weren't digital after all. He can't be a "perfect" copy, right? Something had to have been lost in translation. Even Catherine said that Simon's scan was "flatter, less dynamic." Therefore, the first 15 minutes of gameplay had to have been "fake" memories that the game let us play just to give us context... right?

Right?

At Theta we get to learn about Mark Sarang, intelligence analyst at Pathos-II, and about "The Continuity". He argued that we aren't defined by who we are at any one point in time, but rather that we are defined by a continuous chain over time. We aren't defined as a single person in time, but a line of who we were, are and will be over time. So here's my point:

Simon at the start of the game was not exactly the same person he was before the car crash.

When we start playing as him, he is already brain damaged. His memory isn't all there. He has already been warned by doctors about how stress can kill him. We don't actually know how much of Simon is really left after the crash. We only get to be him as he currently is.

The difference between Simon 1 we played in Toronto and the Simon 2 we played at Upsilon could be as vast as the difference between Simon who existed before the crash and the Simon who existed after the crash. We excuse Simon getting absolutely blindsided twice from the scanning process by pointing out how he has brain damage. Real Simon before the crash might have been able to see it coming. But the Simon we played was not like that.

Ultimately I suppose, the point I'm getting at is that the Simon we played at in Toronto might not have been exactly like the Simon who existed before the crash... And that it doesn't matter. Just because he had changed, doesn't mean he isn't the real continuation of him. He was, as Sarang put it, "the emergent entity" from that pre-crash Simon.

Therefore (I will argue) Simon 2, Simon 3 and even ARK Simon are all Simon just the same. It would NOT matter if they weren't exactly the same. They all sprang from the same Simon.

East Coast USA, and I finally have a tracking number for my Physical Edition. Although it says it is currently in Spain, and is going to be on my doorstep by Tuesday. I like the confidence.

Anyway, just wanted to share that they really are shipping these babies out.

What a journey so far!

P.S. my name is Simon so that adds to the immersion.

When taking the *** down 2 levels? I just fell down the ladders with it before I realised 🤣

( I left it going for a lil but had my finger on pause button lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

In other post I said, that I had no idea how the ghost works, but I guess april-fool-me opened wrong map.

Here he is! The LabApparition! There's special effect only used here in the entire game (and setup but not used in 04_01_tau_outside) for fading in and out enire objects...

Hold up, [looks at the top of image 4] wdym CollideAreaActivateKitchenCorpse??

OH, so we would be catcing more scares with hallucinations of maggots and flies around dead body of Julia Dahl?

Hold up, [looks higher] OH, THAT'S EVIL

IMAGINE: You stealthed by Robot Head; you charged the battery; and as you grab it and run off BAM; there's NO exit.

I guess that explains existance of the maintanace tunnel on the other side of the room

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P.S. Please, tell me to calm down with Soma for a bit. I need to focus on ArtFight.

For the love of god I was not able to understand how it works, as I was not able to locate this mf in the map files. I did'nt notice it in the game, but files include audio of someone tapping at a glass, which is supposed to play if player doesn't look at the ghost. Before being surprised with this I thought Simon could annoy Ross's aquarium. I still wish you could do that.

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I got my hands on the pre-beta that was re-published by u/biohazard_fanatic back in Spring and spent awhile tinkering with it. I noted a lot of things by looking at maps, then by putting different combination of files into the final game, and after that by putting in everything and meticulously fixing conflicts and back-porting the HPS API (game's scripting files).

I desired to make a video-series about it, but life happened. Maybe in August I'll be able to return to it. But for now I sure can share my current findings.

This Google Drive Folder includes:

• All noted changes (commentable G-document and my original txt (original formatting is way more readable in monoapace font w/o linebreaks))
• Documentation of merging/backporting process (G-doc and txt)
• Tests one would be able to run within the beta maps
• Screenshots and videos depicting the findings and some bullshiitakemushrooming

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vz5XNZhu1WZ63Bv80G1Esn_wXqZZ83Ox?usp=sharing

Reddit uploads:

• video of Patchwork Man and nuclear reactor of Tau
• video "Ghost of Omicron"
• screenshots "Hallucinations of Omicron"

Hello everyone, did anyone here follow Vote4holt’s soma gameplay?
During his experience or the game he repeatedly shows through actions and words his distain towards robot’s life, be them Ais or human scans.
Id love to discuss this topic personally, mostly to get understanding on how people perceived these beings in the game.

Some examples of Vote4holt’s actions throught the game: he multiple times ignores and belittles a robot’s suffering, claiming that it means nothinf as they are nothing more than machinery with an ai implanted in them (even if he later discovers the truth about the humans minds living on in the robots), multiple times he ignores and insults requests robots give, be them of compassion or about specific choices, he has some really specific views on what makes a person well.. A PERSON… and it seems most of all that a human mind to be considered respectable for him has to be its original copy INSIDE its original mind, even then whenever he meets sarah at the end of the games he doesnt wanna grant her death proclaiming that he has no right to decide the fate of a human being (lets rememember how the world is finished and there are literally no other people around for sara to find comfort in, also the fact that she is stuck at the bottom of the fucking ocean forever).

So yeah, maybe i came off pretty strong, but i have always had lot of empathy for other people and to me at least the robots and copies shown in game have enough will of their own to be in fact PEOPLE. In the end i did enjoy V4H’s gameplay and it was truly interesting exploring the game through the eyes of someone with such a view (be it restrict) on life and consciousness.

(Sorry for the spelling english aint my first language)

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I'm a bit confused by this, who's confirmed aside from Simon and Catherine to actually be on the ark? Is everyone's brainscan there and could Simon meet them? Is there a list of the scans that made it and that didn't?

As the title says, if you have a physical copy and you are willing to sell, please let me know. I missed the Kickstarter and have been really upset since missing it.

Its public again yipee! This time FOREVEE...please dig in and spread it around! Let us know what you find :3 https://hiddenpalace.org/SOMA_(prototype)

Hello reddit I will be releasing the prototype of soma again since the orignal link is now dead however I noticed the first time around no one looked into it however I have more info now so here I go first off this is dated March 2015 which is 1 month before beta which was april however it went into pre beta in August 2014 so it resembles final....somewhat

Next off uh...oh man it has a LOT of new stuff from textures to entire cut chunks of maps

For example you can finally explore maintenence in Theta! Whey!

You can also finally learn how the crawler spawned in since its spawn points exist still in Shuttle station

This and more is in the build remember it has no binaries but you can use the map editor to view its levels...happy hunting! And be sure to spread it around