Deserted areas go hand in hand with horror video games the place gamers could be remoted, weak, and, when you’re something like me, confused. So Nonetheless Wakes the Deep’s location is not out of the odd for its style, however even nonetheless, an oil rig off the Scottish coast is a reasonably sick setting for some terrifying encounters.
“It is not essentially the most glamorous setting, it is not a fantastical setting, which gamers like,” affiliate artwork director Laura Dodds tells me. “We additionally do not have a tendency to listen to tales about working folks. I assume that is why it is not been centered on beforehand, but it surely’s sensible.”
It is true that the Beira D oil rig is not historically lovely, however it’s putting. With pipes spewing fireplace into the foggy sky, rust crusting many of the outer pipes, and a bare-bones however charming kitchen and lounge, its intricate format makes it a sight to behold and a thrill to discover.
“The Beira D is genuine to an oil rig as a result of they’re extremely disorientating,” Dodds says. “We discovered a great deal of 360-degree video guides, and also you’re happening tight little corridors with tonnes of piping passing all these nested buried areas, you might flip round and don’t know which a part of the rig you are in.”
Navigating the Beira D in the direction of the start of Nonetheless Wakes the Deep is not straightforward, however when you’re having a extremely onerous time with it, then you may activate hints that can assist level you in the proper path. Nonetheless, after a while, you may ultimately get used to the wiggly format. Not solely does every part of the rig have a really distinct fashion, with the social quarters opting for the same vibe to these short-term lecture rooms that pop up within the playground of just about each UK faculty no less than as soon as, whereas engineering is filled with pipes, boilers, and different common previous mechanical doohickies.
“I believe that from a design viewpoint, we took a number of liberties with the Beira D,” lead developer, Rob McLachlan says. “We made a rig that labored for us. It is fairly a big rig, with quite a lot of locations, locations to cover, expanses to understand, and really clear zones.”
“Rigs are in-built a modular approach,” McLachlan continues. “That was great for us as a result of it helps the participant to concentrate on the place they’re. They will say, ‘Properly, I am in lodging, or I am within the admin module, or I am in processing,’ and it helps you compartmentalise the map. That actually helped us to make every space distinctive and work for the sport. So that you get a way of development.”
The rig is out within the wild, and nobody is coming to inspect you.
There isn’t any disgrace in getting misplaced, however when you do get rotated, then you can even depend on all of the indicators which are scattered across the rig. I truly discovered myself utilizing these indicators quite a bit whereas navigating the Beira D, even after all the pieces had hit the fan. It is vital that the rig’s crew know the quickest approach potential to an space, so all of the indicators are sometimes very useful and are the quickest strategy to get to your required location.
However this advanced format is not simply enjoyable and video games, it additionally makes the horrors in Nonetheless Wakes the Deep decidedly worse. Not solely are you not completely accustomed to one of the simplest ways to dodge sure scary locations, however there is not any signal of assist, after the chaos begins and the communication to the mainland is wrecked, all the pieces else that occurs is principally simply the previous adage ‘if a tree falls in the course of a forest and nobody is round to listen to it does it actually make a sound?’ however on steroids. The rig is out within the wild, and nobody is coming to inspect you. “I do not assume I’ve ever actually considered oil rigs, Dodds says. “They’re simply some other place. I do not take into consideration the place my oil and gasoline come from.”
The Beira D oil rig actually is a stellar location for a horror sport, not solely is it rugged and funky to discover, however you are nicely and really remoted as quickly as you set foot into Nonetheless Wakes the Deep, extra so than any cabin within the woods or haunted previous mansion.
