Trivia / SIGNALIS

• Author's Saving Throw: An update in October 2023 amended the much-maligned inventory system so the screenshot capture tool and flashlight act like the radio module and no longer take up one of your highly limited six inventory spaces, a much requested change. It also added the option to extend the inventory to eight spaces.
• Dummied Out: Dataminers have discovered code and assets for numerous unused items and maps:
  • An unused machete Emergency Weapon.
  • Enemy data and animations for Adler's corrupted form, and an unfinished boss arena for him based on Nowhere's razor wire mazes.
  • A few unused rooms for the Penrose, including a Towers of Hanoi puzzle for operating the reactor (serving as a more complex retread of the hospital wing's water tank puzzle).
  • Inventory art for puzzle items that might've had story significance, such as a tooth implied to be Ariane's.
  • Character models for Rebecca Liang and KNCR/Kranich.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Early plans for the game found on the developers Tumblr indicated that originally the game was planned to be 2D before switching to PS 1-style 3D models. The link has been taken down since however here is the archived version which you can check out.
  • Within the data files is a Machete which was Dummied Out. With unlimited ammo it would serve as an Emergency Weapon in case all guns were depleted.
  • The first teaser included a character named Rebecca Liang that showed up in some scenes, and completed models exist in the code. In the final game she only appears in a partially visible photo and in the medical database. One of the models depicts Rebecca soaked in blood from her throat, suggesting that she wouldn't have survived the game's events.
  • Adler's corrupted form was originally intended to be fought as a boss, and he's still present in the code. Based on some related map assets, Adler would've been an Advancing Boss of Doom chasing Elster through a monofilament wire maze.
  • According to the 2020 announcement trailer, thermite flares were at one point able to be equipped on-hand as actual weapons instead of being relegated to a Quick Melee function, and healing with repair sprays had its own animation of Elster applying the solution to her body.
  • The replika model KNCR (Kranich) is The Ghost in the finished game, only mentioned in a single document, but at some point she was going to be part of the main replika lineup and have a corrupted enemy type. Like the others, model data for both Kranich versions exists in the files. Based on her appearance (namely the distinctive triangular pattern of dots on her forehead/fleshless skull), it can be inferred that Kranich was another bioresonant replika unit, like Kolibri and Falke.

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