#steamworld dig spoilers

[thecastilloking]

Spoiler alert for those who haven’t finished SwH2!

You have been warned!!

I have some headcanons for Quincy’s mom, Krakenbane and the rest of the leeway family:

1. Krakenbane’s potential real name is Karen Leeway.

2. After Krakenbane discover a voice recording of Barbra Streisand cover on “Not while I’m around” from the Sweeney Todd musical, she used it as a lullaby for Quincy for when he was just a baby steambot.

3. After I saw her said “This sea is cursed, it’s take everything from me.” Also the fact that I haven’t seen or heard about Mr. Leeway. It has come to me about the possibility that when the kraken attack for the first time, Mr leeway lost his life to the kraken.

4. After the attack, Karen became Krakenbane, a revenge seeking version of Marlin from Pixar’s Finding Nemo. A wife after facing tragedy, determined to seek revenge for her husband

5. After Krakenbane defeated and trapped the kraken the first time. She used the remaining salvage parts from her deceased husband and some bits of her parts to made little Quincy. (I read on how steambots are born on the steambot fanon wiki)

6. The true reason why she wanted Quincy to leave the sea shard with her because she feels afraid and nervous inside about not being there to protect him and worried that Quincy will not make it on his own with his disability, just like marlin was at the beginning of finding nemo.

7. After the end of the game’s story, she would secretly send Quincy some inspirational letters to him, saying that she proud of him for all the friends he made and the good deeds he accomplished. 😢😭

8. After piper and fen join her on her adventures throughout space, she secretly considered them a part of her family along with Quincy and his friends.☺️😊

*so yeah, I hope you guys like the headcanons I made!*

don’t forget to like and reblog!

[cinni-k]

Feel free to rant about what's wrong with Dig 1! It's a small and relatively old game, so a lot of things can be forgiven for the charm of it, but yeah. It's definitely flawed.

As a smaller thing that's definitely just a situation of the game showing its age is that sometimes it's just like. A little bit misogynistic? Like not enough to be actively painful but it's so fucking weird when it's just robots. Like there's two women in the entire game and they're designated as women through having tits and for some reason misogyny and gender expectations are a thing because Dorothy gets told working in the mines is unfitting for a young lady? It's weird and I'm. So glad they stopped.

But honestly the game is just. Underdone. And I know it's because the game had to be released earlier or risk bankruptcy and because of that (and Dig 2 fixing basically all of my problems) I'm more willing to forgive it but it's very obvious the game didn't have enough time to be properly tested.

The controls are constantly just slightly awkward in such a way that so many things feel more challenging than they should be, as there's not "coyote jumping" (being able to step slightly off a ledge and still jump), awkward momentum, and no real sense of weight. Needing to switch through upgrades can also just be a mild inconvenience every time you're trying to do something specific in a fight with enemies.

The Steam Punch is obtained much later than it should be when it's so difficult to hit things two tiles away from you and you can't attack and jump in any situation. There's a finite number of resources but you lose half your money every time you die, but you also have to pay for healing, which makes it very easy to get caught in death loops. The positioning of resources is randomized and if you're unlucky you just won't get any you need (it's extremely unlikely but it happened to me my first fucking playthrough so I'm. A little bitter)

Also the story is disappointing because it's a really cool concept but it's also a very personal and character-driven one that just. Lacks the depth needed to be well executed. Rusty as a character is undeveloped to the degree that it feels like the devs weren't sure if they wanted him to be a self-insert or an independent character, so they wound up with a compromised version of either concept. Because of this we also don't have any sense of what Joe was like before he started becoming ill because the only thing we really know is that he thought him and Rusty were "so alike" but not in a way that Rusty understood, so while I think I have the main understanding that the main difference is Rusty's sense of "heart", I don't get a sense of what that means during Dig 1 (Dig 2 gives me the sense that this primarily refers to a willingness to protect others, even to his own detriment. But not letting yourself get assimilated into a hivemind that wants to destroy everything you know and love is a pretty normal thing to do I think so in the end I learn more about Joe in that situation than Rusty)

[lulu-balu]

hc: vectron COULD have assimiliated rusty had it used a different strategy - laying off the psychic pressure until he was already deep in vectron, ramping it up faster, giving him less time to adjust, and having upgrade stations that worked a bit more like the dig 2 "upgrade acquired" ones rather than the dig 1 "technology assimilated", with him just getting the technology rather than semiactively assimilating it so he didnt get the ability to assimilate vectron back like at the end of dig 1

ooh Vectron would definitely be a LOT more terrifying to Rusty, I'd bet. He'd be a lot more scared of going down there, I can see him spending more time above ground with Cranky, trying to figure out what the heck just is all this weird and new technology. But it's a rabbit hole he needs to keep digging and following; as much as he wants to stop he also wants to get to the bottom of it

[incorrectsteamworldquotes]

Rusty, to Voltbot: Oh yeah? Well I’ve got five words for you buddy.

Rusty: Please be nice to me.

[sbuggbot]

SteamWorld final bosses: Who would win? Vectron or the Behemoth?

Katt and I were talking about this last night while I was fighting the Behemoth on another save. (We both agreed Rosie would get demolished so we left her out of the equation.)

[supercomputer276]

same energy

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Inktober Day 5 Build.PNG

This took me far longer then I thought it would, 2 days. Luckily I was a little ahead with Inktober, however, my reserve has now dried up and I really need to stay on top of everything! So some stuff I wanted to do got left out because of time.

Anyway, here is a picture of Rusty building his machines pre Dig 2.

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💙

Holy Fuck. Holy fuck

So, what if Uncle Joe wasn’t really working for Vectron? What if he didn’t will his mine to Rusty to feed to Vectron?

That’s crazy you say. We know he was. He asked him to, in his own voice.

Well, we know that Rusty and Joe, in their behaviors and mannerisms were very alike, from little hints in the game. So what if they were, personally, very alike. We’ll never know. Rusty didn’t.

But what Rusty did know, on sight, that Vectron was wrong. Vectron was evil. What if Joe saw this too. Joe knew he couldn’t beat Vectron. He didn’t have the heart.

But Rusty does. And Joe knows this. And he knows Rusty won’t just give himself up.

Or, by the time he realizes how dangerous Vectron is, he’s already started to integrate himself. So, he works secretly. Says he knows who has the heart Vectron needs, and sets up integration points for Rusty, but knows that Rusty can do so much better than him.

Either way, Joe wills out his mine to Rusty, then offs himself in the shallows of his mine, leaving only the barest fraction of himself in Vectron. The part that didn’t know his plan. He weakened the cave, he set up everything to ensure Rusty wouldn’t surrender to Vectron. that he would beat it.

And he did

[firebird963]

Steamworld spoilers with 0 context:

Tower Defense: No one has ever beat this game so you can’t possibly spoil it

Dig: Uncle Joe is determined to make every family gathering as awkward as possible

Heist: Local mom friend fucks up real bad and almost causes mass genocide

Dig 2: I’ll find my friend even if the world has to be destroyed in the process!... Wait a minute

Quest: Never meet your heroes

[cinni-k]

what if the Voltbot was called “Uncle Joe’s Monster” instead

[lulu-balu]

I honestly found it inch resting how in connecting dots u had rusty not rlly be comfortable with digging with his pic axe anymore...... Do u have more stuff abt this hc tbh 👀

So his fear mostly stemmed from the fact that what he unearthed was a very deadly, dangerous thing (that thing being Vectron, of course). I guess you could say it gave him some form of trauma/ptsd and as a result he is VERY hesitant to even pick up his pickaxe. I didn’t put it in the fic but the whole time he was basically “Oh god am I really doing this it feels so wrong” and he really wanted to just. throw it on the ground.

the biggest fear that came out of it was basically, he’s absolutely terrified by the possible things he could unearth. He thinks he could dig up something like Vectron again and is afraid he won’t be able to stop it. I think I kinda projected my OCD-ness onto him with that, with intrusive thoughts and lots of different scary scenarios going through his head at a mile a minute. He’s also scared of not being able to get himself out, getting scrapped down there without anyone being able to find him and other stuff.

Oh and once he was finished digging that hole out in the story he was probably like “DID I JUST DO THAT” and Dot is very proud of him. But to be fair it probably wasn’t as bad for him in the story because there were other peeps around him to make sure he was safe, and he wasn’t digging in a huge mine. Yeah, stick him in a mine with his pickaxe and he will vehemently refuse to dig up anything because he’s terrified he’ll stumble upon some eldritch horror that will destroy everything that he knows and loves.

[sbuggbot]

Moments that completely changed the way I felt about the Dig story: 1. This moment

it's funny because my heart

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Things from last night in the SteamWorld Discord

We were fairly active last night, even though it later turned into Katt and I bouncing ideas off each other. (Especially after the Embargo agreement)

We can't wait for Quest to come out

General pain of having a complex story idea and not being able to write it down fast enough to share it

HEIST'S GIANT MAIN CAST IS THE BANE OF FANFIC WRITERS.

Hopefully Quest's isn't so big.

Armilly might be part voltbot? (I personally will go down with this headcanon.)

We all agreed to have a 24 hour embargo on discussing Quest once it comes out, then tagging spoilers by chapter afterwards

I made a shitpost about Vectron lying about why the Earth broke

Vectron in Quest as a superboss? (An improved Dig 1-style Voltbot)

What if Joltbot (our nickname for Joe as Dig 1's final boss) won that fight? (Having to clean up the mess, Rusty is pissed...)

Did Vectron actually successfully assimilate a steambot? (Probably not, especially considering certain headcanons)

Gender in Steambots - most likely a rub-off from humanity. Babybots are kinda gender neutral and parents figure it out as the child develops.

How do you describe the process of creating a baby steambot, exactly?

How techromancy probably affects the soul in steambot parts

Could you reassemble a 'bot that got Techromancied?

Did Techromancy (or Vectron) result in the discovery of magic in the SteamWorld 'verse? (Tying into Quest)

Fen's abilities are powered by lifesparks. :0

In general, messing with souls in any story is a Bad Thing

*list like 10 examples of this from other games*

If Fen eats souls then reassembling the Red Queen won't work very well.

Oops! No Queen

Sei: *returns from the Void* wow you guys were busy while I was away XD

COOKING WITH SHINERS what (on red queens bookcase)

Does the Queen know about food then?

Critter fritters - fried in moon juice(?)

Can you fry things in beer? Someone in the course of history has to have tried.

Is Rosie extra strong because she doesn't drink moon juice?

*mental image of Rosie bench pressing her mech*

Rusty and his verbal ability while stuck

Plot bunnies everywhere

Piper keeps snarking in Sei's outline in retaliation for the situation she put her in

Hell, Piper just keeps snarking in both of our outlines it seems

[miloscat]

[Review] Steamworld Dig 2 (3DS)

This is the perfect sequel, expanding and refining what made the first game great and polishing the result to a mirror shine. I give it my highest possible rating: a thumbs up.

Steamworld Dig 2 elevates the NPC Dorothy from the original game to playable status, as she searches for that game’s protagonist Rusty, who has gone missing. Her search takes her to a new town full of bots to meet and a new mine, but also a large connected world to explore with different kinds of environments with plenty of wrinkles to dig through. You have a buddy now, the electric sprite Fen, and there’s a faction of human mutants who seem friendly. And SPOILERS but like all great stories (such as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy saga) it ends with the destruction of Earth, which sets up the setting of Steamworld Heist.

The game’s structure has become more ambitious. The simple, linear progression of Dig 1 has been opened up to a Metroid-style world of distinct environments. Dorothy’s abilities are even more revelatory to the ongoing experience, with awesome movement techniques like the grappling hook and jetpack being unlocked, while some of Rusty’s weaker moves and need for consumables have been trimmed. Exploration and investigation (as well as the challenge/puzzle caves) are now rewarded with gears and other collectibles to customise yourself with game-changing perks.

A lot of mechanics have been carried over from the first game, but in this much more ambitious context they’re given more of a chance to shine. There’s much more going on in the story too, and I noticed a large proportion of female characters which is pleasing, particularly in a heroine-led game. All in all it’s just a delight!

I should note that on 3DS, the more detailed visual style of this game perhaps suffered a tad compared to the first. But it still looks great, and having your inventory and a map on the bottom screen is very nice. Thank you Image & Form!