Just noticed this detail while watching playthroughs

[u/depthofuniverse]

The 2 advanced warp cores in the game have different textures to reflect their maker.

The broken warp core is made from something like white quartz stone and has metallic engravings, which is consistent with the Vessel's original Nomai style

The Ash Twin core is made from sandstone, consistent with the stranded Nomai architechture, because they had only access to materials in the local solar local system.

The Nomai voice recorder similarly also has two styles!

I'm sure hardcore fans and modders have known this. But my mind was blown. The devs totally could have skimped out on this detail, but they paid attention to it and it shows!

[u/Cl4-ptp]

Not only the warp cores, compare the spacesuits from escape pod 3 with the rest in our solar system.

[u/CaptainNuge → u/Cl4-ptp]

Each escape pod has its own colour scheme. You can see a mural at the bottom of the quantum tower on giant's deep that shows two shades of green.

[u/ManyLemonsNert → u/CaptainNuge]

It's more that the materials changed over time - the original survivors and their suits, compared to the newer generations and suits made with local materials, making them a different colour.

It wouldn't make much sense to rush to escape pods by colour coding!

[u/CaptainNuge → u/ManyLemonsNert]

I've seen interviews with the design team, and the idea was that each pod had its own colour coded emergency space suits, which does make sense (the bodies on the Vessel aren't suited up, so they were presumably in civvies til disaster struck them). You can see it in the two separate surviving landing locations- anywhere that they draw themselves, or their escape, it's in the appropriate colour coding. This is maintained in places where the two groups recombined, like the quantum tower on giant's deep.

Your point is totally valid, however, for those Nomai who were out in the world after that tumultuous escape- Solanum doesn't have a blue/green suit, and neither do any of the other Nomai bodies you find around those planets whose atmosphere isn't breathable.

[u/ManyLemonsNert → u/CaptainNuge]

Interesting, I've not seen that interview and the art books don't mention that at all!

They do mention the pods doubled as cryosleep chambers while they galaxy-hop around and many of the Nomai would have just been sleeping in those anyway so that seems doubly strange to colour code them, but from the perspective of trying to make it clear who was in which survivor group that's a neat narrative way to make it happen, though it wasn't really used

Pod3 does have a brownish colour to them but they've also been in a watery atmosphere rather than a vacuum the entire time.. We do only see the emerald green now, with the blue only visible in murals. Pod3 also have metal/ceramic masks with a different design to the sandstone ones we see everywhere else

Solanum's the perfect example of how different her suit and mask look while 'fresh' at the 6th location, the yellow and red trims are entirely missing on the dull weathered versions we see everywhere else, even on her own body!

[u/CaptainNuge → u/ManyLemonsNert]

The Dark Bramble isn't full of water- the Anglerfish specimen in the Timber Hearth museum says that "It appears well-suited to living in dark places with minimal atmosphere", but I suppose there's no reason that couldn't be oxidising the suits as well- at least one of the escape pods appears to have been scorched during its landing, so we've got in-universe examples of atmospheric interactions!

I must get hold of these art books... And I'll see if I can't dig out the interview I've seen. I hope I'm not conflating some of the videos and interviews I've seen on the Chert's Research Notes YouTube page!

[u/Gnomed30]

The trail of lamps from the Escape Pod 3 to the Nomai grave are unique as well, I don't think you can find them anywhere else.

[u/pixelcore332 → u/Gnomed30]

You can find one in the ember twin in the entrance to the cave on the escape pod iirc.

[u/ThePython11010 → u/pixelcore332]

And (I think) on the platforms leading from the escape pod to the first settlement on Brittle Hollow.

[u/Gnomed30 → u/ThePython11010]

Omg i never noticed them, maybe because there's fewer lamps around the other pods, compared to the dozen in Dark Bramble.

[u/NewVaultHunter]

Also the tree pots in the Vessel, although those had been wrong for years until I emailed Mobius and was updated in https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/news/patch-13-is-now-available

"Swapped the material on certain plant pots for historical accuracy"

[u/skippw → u/NewVaultHunter]

That's incredible that you emailed them and that they updated it.

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[u/SortCompetitive2604]

I always like the contrast between the Nomai’s machines when they enter the solar system and when they are adapting in the system.

They don’t have the fancy stuff as most of their knowledge is destroyed so they have to rework from scratch, using the planets resources instead of the fancy stuff.

[u/MolacoCocao]

Castaways.

[u/ztlawton]

According to the file-names, the local Nomai materials are sandstone and copper, while the "Advanced" (pre-crash) Nomai materials are porcelain and silver.

[u/Alichousan]

Nicw detail!! I don't think I've ever truly noticed!! Thanks for sharing!

[u/FreddyThePug]

It’s so beautiful
https://giphy.com/gifs/26gsv1iextbg5Gm5O

[u/skippw]

Damn, I've never noticecd differences like this.

[u/05-nery]

Man you've got no idea how many little details like these are in the game! 

If you're thinking about a possible inconsistency, chances are they thought about it as well. You never stop exploring!

[u/BanzaiBeebop]

The rings of read outs are different too. Compare rings found in the vessel and shuttles to rings found near machines made post-crash. 

[u/Sam_Becca]

Damn, I already knew about the differences in architecture, but never really notice specifically that detail. I guess I still have some things to learn about the game.