
A bit underwhelming
(Apologies for poor english)
I'm exagerating a bit in the illustration above but the "anomalous" planet was trully a disappointement. The Illuminates are my favorite faction lore-wise and design-wise and I was really hoping they'd learn from Cyberstan and actually put a lot of effort into the void planet's environnements and the new enemies instead of just recycling already existing assets with slight recolors.
Don't get me wrong the few lab areas are really cool, the temples are fine I suppose, but most of the planet is just sand/dirt and virus-looking trees, maybe I'm delussional, but from the revanchist squid-looking cultist faction that turns humans into monstrosities I would've expected a lot more, some sort of "lovecraftian" environnements (as-in how Lovecraft described R'lyeh or something similar), or even H.R Giger's inspired environnements since there's a lot of body horror/biopunk involved into the Squids.
Unless those planets are outposts and we've yet to see actual proper "main" squid worlds, I'm really disapointed with this update right now, the crusher and wretches are really cool looking, but gameplay-wise it's basically just bigger fleshmobs and terminid-looking humans.
Hopefully this shitty image will age like milk as the deeper we go into the void the better the environnements and new enemies gets revealed (cultists perhaps ?), but I've used enough copium for this game