bird / worm?

[BritishTrashPanda]

Nope... not seeing what this is.

[Feayr]

If it helps, no one knows what this does. Including the people who've been playing the beta for the past few months. It's a mystery.

[Arlen Tektolnes]

It chooses between bird and worm.

[Fantasma]

Well you see, bird is associated with the aspect of The Bird, whereas worm draws from and is in turn drawn into The Worm. The principles of bird and worm are so inexorably tangled with one's unconscious self that selecting the option isn't so much aligning yourself with The Bird or The Worm as it is revealing with which aspect you were already aligned.

Which is to say that it very likely affects nothing or possibly everything.

[Awpteamoose]

Do not sway, adepts of the Worm, delve deep and uncover what's hidden. The Bird sees not beyond the surface.

[DrFoxbard]

It is related to the Athenian Murders of historical note. Follow the clues to find enlightenment
(There is nothing related to the core game that it does. It does things related to a strange metagame which, based on his previous work, is likely related to the sources of fiction that inspired Alexis, the head writer/dev/tiger. The murders are a clue, I've not gone further yet)

[disconcertinglymoist]

What's going on I'm so very confused.

[King in Yellow]

Originally posted by Feayr:

If it helps, no one knows what this does. Including the people who've been playing the beta for the past few months. It's a mystery.

How does that help?

[Mogg]

Wow so much garbage babbled by people. The most 'helpful' case being nobody knows what it's for.
I do well to think the OP asked what mechanical effect it has within the game. If none, then why does this "option" exist?

[wulfboyraff]

Originally posted by Mogg:

Wow so much garbage babbled by people. The most 'helpful' case being nobody knows what it's for.
I do well to think the OP asked what mechanical effect it has within the game. If none, then why does this "option" exist?

The option exists so that you can choose between Bird and Worm. It's pretty straightforward. The mechanical effect is that you choose between Bird and Worm.

[Mogg]

Originally posted by wulfboyraff:

Originally posted by Mogg:

Wow so much garbage babbled by people. The most 'helpful' case being nobody knows what it's for.
I do well to think the OP asked what mechanical effect it has within the game. If none, then why does this "option" exist?

The option exists so that you can choose between Bird and Worm. It's pretty straightforward. The mechanical effect is that you choose between Bird and Worm.

So how does this mechanic influence the game, troll?
I think you honestly don't know how to read English.
If it's a swtich for the sake of being a switch and no other purpse it's not part of the core game in any shape or form. This means it has no purpose and doesn't need to be there.

A menu screen option that does nothing for the game that is played is not a game mechanic.
I bet you're the type to think language setting and screen resolution are game mechanics. XD Oh boy. All sorts of people in this world.

[DarthSimp]

It does nothing mechanically.

Bird is better than Worm though.

[_Vile]

The bird betrays it's shortcomings. Do not sway, adepts of the Worm,
Take no heed of the chirpings of the bird.

[DarthSimp]

It's better a life in the sky worth singing than one passed delving into the mud.
Nothing is to be found in sinking into the putrid earth.
Be free. Beat your wings.

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[Azzak]

It switches from Worm to Bird, or Bird to Worm. What else to know ?

[Azophael]

But the earth is life. Without earth the bird would starve and fall dead and exhausted from the sky.
The worm burrows to the core of the earth, ascension through descension.
All hail the worm and the mysteries of the worm!