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We’re releasing RimWorld - Anomaly on April 11, 2024! (That’s 1 week away!) You can read the announcement here. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly/ Check out our previous blog posts below:- Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
- Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
- Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
- [HERE] Anomaly preview #3: Cultists, hate chanters and rituals
- Anomaly preview #4: Coming soon!
CULT RITUALS
Rituals were introduced in the Ideology expansion, allowing followers of different ideologies and religions to gather for ceremonies that would have social effects. Rituals in Anomaly are similar but go further, drawing upon the psychic power of a dark archotech to twist the laws of physics. Your colonists aren’t the only ones who can learn these rituals. A cult has formed that worships the insane machine-mind. They will arrive and perform a number of rituals to attempt to destroy you.
BASIC RITUALS
Players can use these same rituals, and many more. To perform them, you need a ritual spot. If you can surround it with hideous bioferrite sculptures of the void and archotech shard beacons, so much the better. And dress your worshippers in a ceremonial hood or cultist mask to fit the void aesthetic.
REGIONAL RITUALS
These rituals are like listening to a motivational speaker, but even more soul-destroying. These are pleasure pulse, neurosis pulse, and blood rain. Pleasure pulse is the simplest. Like a region-wide psychic emanator, it makes your psychically sensitive colonists happier. However, unlike the emanator, it also reduces their desire to work. Neurosis pulse is an inversion of pleasure pulse. It drives your psychically sensitive colonists so that they work faster. However, it also irritates them whilst decreasing their need for recreation, meaning that they’re more likely to have a mental break. Use with caution!
INDIVIDUAL RITUALS
Like skip abduction, many of the more horrible rituals require a living human target. These are imbue death refusal, psychophagy, chronophagy, philophagy and brainwipe.
