This game is apparently NOT dead!
I played the shit out of Blacklight: Retribution back in the day, and saw the whole transition from zombie studios to buildblock to hardsuit labs. The devs were really active on various forums, and all seemed like great people.
I’ve been waiting so long for them to release something new, but this sort of game was a complete departure from anything they worked on (as the main dev) in the past. I’m not shocked that it didn’t worked out.
To be fair, an indie like Coffee Stain went from an absolute dumbass meme game like Goat Simulator to something crazy complex like Satisfactory.
You can’t really judge what a young studio is capable of.
As for you not being a thinblood in this game, you’re named as being a thorped elder waking up, so there could be RPG mechanics of you growing as you get stronger from waking up.
And they don’t say which elder you are, so you could wake up as any type of elder, even a Nosferatu.
