Blue-Skins In Villages?

[Fluffy Bunny ®]

The Dev's have stated that the tall blue-skins live / hang out in the caves. Sure, we've all see them running around on the surface, but my point is that they were supposedly "the cave dwellers" - hence the term "blue" or without as much skin pigment as others. Somewhat like the Morlocks in The Time Machine.. Actually, being taller and living in a cave scenerio makes little since, but that's a whole different discussion.

Anyway, I wanted to check something out, so I reloaded a game which was saved prior to sunrise. Left my base and ran toward cave 2 / small village nearby. In the village, I noticed 5 blue-skins "sleeping", which of course woke up (nice to see cannibals actually in their village). Wait, huh!? The Dev's said the blue-skins were the cave dwellers, so what are they doing here? What's going on?

I then recalled when having a small base in that village (0.13?) and a few blue-skins spawned right in front of my eyes. Freaked me out as I hadn't seen cannibals actually spawn the entire time I've had the game.

So why are blue-skins in that (or any) village vs the "regular" cannibals? Perhaps there's no answer yet, but was wondering if anyone else had seen blue-skins sleeping in villages?

[sirnathan]

I only noticed the blue-skins two days ago. There was an attack on my base and I noticed one cannibal seemed taller and more robust than the others. After he met his end in a trap is when I noticed he was blue. I didn't know about the caves, I just assumed he was the "muscle" of the group and was new since the 0.16 update.

[maria_kalista]

Never seen blue skins, wow, nice to know there still are things to check out this early in the game. :)
As for a very flimsy, flimsy theory, those villages where once occupied by normal human beings. Something, something happened and they mutated and moved down to the caves to worship something, something. Still, from time to time they have memory fragments of the time before they mutated and then they go down 'memory lane' and sleep for a bit in their old surroundings.

[Fluffy Bunny ®]

@ simathan - you have 113 hours in the game and have now just noticed the taller blue-skins? BTW, you might want to afjust your settings because they aren't "physically" blue as you stated.

@ maria_kalista - you have 317 hours in the game and also haven't noticed the taller cannibals?

Folks, they've been in the game since it was released.

[sirnathan]

引用自 Fluffy Bunny ®：

@ simathan - you have 113 hours in the game and have now just noticed the taller blue-skins? BTW, you might want to afjust your settings because they aren't "physically" blue as you stated.

@ maria_kalista - you have 317 hours in the game and also haven't noticed the taller cannibals?

Folks, they've been in the game since it was released.

Why would I want to adjust my settings?

Edit: And apparently, per the Devs, .016 tweaked skin shaders, and that is where the "blue skins" come from. Maybe the taller ones have been there all along but they are noticeably taller (what would be about 6-8 inches if they were standing next to you) and their skin tone does take on a blue hue at night. So if they don't appear a greyish blue to you as well, why call them "blue-skins". Do they appear somewhat sadder and more depressed than the other cannibals?

And as for the 113 hours, I've only gone into one cave. Everything you need you can get on the surface (except the climbing ax) so there's no reason to go down there.

[redfblack]

Woah! I finally found my first Blue-skin:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=432248250