Synthetik

Synthetik

Developer: Flow Fire Games
Publisher: Flow Fire Games
Platforms: Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One
Released internationally: March 16, 2018 (Windows), December 16, 2020 (XB1/Switch)

This game has unused areas.
This game has unused code.
This game has unused enemies.
This game has unused graphics.
This game has unused items.
This game has unused music.
This game has unused sounds.
This game has debugging material.

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Synthetik is a top-down roguelite shooter, tasking willing cyborgs to fight their way through a swarm of mechanized menaces to reach and stop a doomsday device known only as The Heart of Armageddon.

To do:

Check the Synthetik Wiki for any more unused content (these used to be linked at the bottom of this article): Items (1, 2), Loot, A9 Infinite, SS58 Plasma Mod.
Maybe ask the developer to show off the unused shrines?

Unused Graphics

Unused Gun Sprites

These have been released by Shrike alongside the weapon modding update.

Predecessor to Viciator Ultra
Alternate version of Kaida Medic ACR-X
Predecessor to AEK Special Elite, with a drum mag!
Predecessor to Auto 9-45, in black finish!
BREN Anti-Air in camo paint, no sci-fi thingies!
Crude, textureless render of a crossbow
Thicker, bolder version of RRX Coil Shotgun
Speculated to be an old version of the Coil Pistol sprite
Yellow, normal version of SS58 Plasma Charger
Blue version of R2000 "Sour" DMR
File name implies electric damage type
White version of the Enforcer Carbine
Black and red Five-Seven
White Five-Seven, previously unlockable as A9 Infinite.
K98 Classic with a scope on it
Dark-red version of the curse-based shotgun, T 8-00-Gauge
Barrett M98 MCM painted orange.
A simple Mac-10 with a rail attached.
MG-42, before it became A R M A G E D D O N
P33 Compact, white, with a laser module.
P25 with a laser module, and dark-red slide.
Old, more colorful version of the Liandry Rail Gun
Simpler, grey version of the Last Breath revolver.
Old version of Damnation, vastly different from the current one.
A green-brown camo version of the UMP-9 Semi and UMP-10 Tornado
Same flashlight as P33 Compact, but grey and has a different slide.
An XM25, airburst grenade launcher. Later became the Chaos Launcher, an SMG with highly random performance.
Modweapon1Sprite, found in the main folder. Not used by the default mod weapon, as it uses a black outline of a pistol with a white question mark on it, aswell as a different file name.

Old Item Icons

Ring of Experience used to be black on the outside, and green inside.
Direct Current was more yellow-black than orange-grey.
Rosarius resembled a german cross.
Flare gun was yellow.
Weapon Upgrade Kit is missing the wrench and two nuts.
Icarus resembled the Target Cogitator with a satelite dish.
Tsunami Talisman was a 3D spiral instead of two sets of rings.
Unstable Current was yellow-black and at a different angle.
HE Grenade looked more like a spray paint can.
Gun Drone Spawner looked like a controller of sorts, instead of just a Gun Drone.

Enemy-Related

Unused Saturn 7 Heavy Tank Portrait

Apparently the tank was planned to be a boss at some point, instead of being a guardian of the final boss.

Old Destroyed 12.7mm Turret Sprites

Facing west
Facing north
Facing east

The 12.7mm turret has red drums/coils on the back, in the current version of the game.

Roomba Attack Frame

The little Roomba robots found in most levels were planned to have a close-range attack.

Suicide Bomb Ballbot

An explosive variant of the fast melee enemy was planned and scrapped before it got any other directional sprites. Most likely replaced by the Spiderbot and Doomba.

Machine God Zir Splash Screen

The Machine God of War, Zir is seen on the right side of this picture. The filename implies it to be a splash image for either a launcher or a loading screen.

Unused Object Graphics

Transistor Tileset

A whole motherboard of transistors, batteries, and heatsinks.

The purple theme suits the third floor of Kaida HQ, the V-Reality Chambers which uses purple floors, black rocks and crystals.

One large transistor.
Large one with some juts on top.
A cylindrical one.
Previous, rotated 90 degrees.
Single cylinder standing tall on two pins.
Previous, rotated by roughly 20 degrees.
Two transistors, with heatsinks.
Three of them, taller.
6 short transistors.
Previous but flipped 90 degrees.
9 tall transistors.
12 transistors chained together.
Two batteries with wires.
A MASSIVE heatsink with transistors on it.
A cubic heatsink.
A more loose, small heatsink with a plate on top.
Loose, small, no plate.
A tiny one.
A "tub" transistor.
"Tub", covered up.
"Tub", with extra slots.
A transformator.
A transformator, more covered up, with a cut-off shadow above it.

God Shrine

Filename calls it a God Shrine. Compared to a normal quest shrine, it's rounder, darker, and the surrounding tubes are pointed upward.

The only god it can be dedicated to is the Machine God Zir, as he is the only Machine God that appears in Synthetik: Ultimate.

Normal Shrine	God Shrine

Constructor

An object named "constructor" with three slots for batteries, just like the battery that appears in the daily data bonus window. Appears in the weapons test devroom.

It is not known what it would construct.

One battery in
Two batteries in
Three batteries in

Unused Mars Graphic

A shot of Mars with fiery cracks along its surface.

Obscured Cutscene Graphics

These pictures from the opening and ending cinematics are normally obstructed by text.

Unused Audio

Sounds

sound_ambient_sound1.ogg

Present in the main folder. Despite its name, it's actually a duplicate of a gunshot sound used by assault rifles in the game.

Music

Present in the same folder as the executable.

music_main_menu.ogg

Unused main menu track.

sound_ambient_full_olddrums.ogg

music_tension_loop_extended.ogg

This track was used in Version 1, in the tutorial/firing range area.

sound_noncombat_efe.ogg

sound_noncombat_4_gergely.ogg

Found in an old version, purpose unknown.

Unused Enemies

Havoc

To do:

Video showing Havoc in action.
Hack the game to access it and see if it works.

Full sprite. Click to enlarge.

Cut boss enemy that bears a resemblance to an Apache helicopter. Appears on one of the trading cards on Steam.

Not much is known about its function, aside from it moving up and down and shooting, similarly to Last Defender, which in turn moves sideways and shoots downward. It was cut probably due to it being too similar to other bosses.

Despite its files calling it a boss, it uses the normal enemy healthbar in the screenshot.

Grenade Turret

These sprites show that another type of turret was planned.

This one would have fired grenades just like Enforcer, Headhunter and Red Guard Nemesis.

Facing south
Facing southeast
Facing east
Facing northwest
The grenade it would have fired

Unused Areas

Devroom

A weapon testing room. Includes the unused Constructor object and two unused shrines, plus shrines from the Arena game modes and the God Shrine.

Out-of-Bounds Objects

The firing range has some objects to the left of the teleporter, which are never visible in gameplay. Some Headhunters can also spawn out of bounds.

Cut/Unobtainable Items

Sentry Turret

Not to be confused with the one used by the Engineer class.

An unused Sentry turret item, shares icon with DMR Sentry Turret.

Deploys a stationary high-range sentry turret, attacking nearby enemies.

Combat Amphetamine

Slows down time for a duration.

Grants a short-duration movement speed buff after usage. Higher item power increases this duration, but does not increase the duration of the time slow itself.

No longer obtainable due to frequent crashing.

Time Lock

All buffs, debuffs, and any non-stun status effects currently applied to enemies will stop for 10 seconds while active.

Recycle bonus: reduces heat generation.

Covers any status effects applied to the player, including stuns.

Newly-applied status effects during the item's active time also stop in duration.

Starter item for Specialist classes.

No longer obtainable. Replaced by Refresher, purchasable in an Alchemy store in-game instead of being a starting item.

Trophy System Drone

Shoots down bullets mid-flight, can overdrive for increased effect.

Recycle bonus: keep a weaker version of the drone

Unsoldered Chip

Destroying a boss enemy charges the chip with energy. Use to permanently unlock a new microchip.

Tied to an unused mechanic. Unobtainable.

Armageddon Shard

Obtaining four of them used to grant the player the A R M A G E D D O N machine gun, with a random variant applied to it.

Replaced by Cursed Weapon Parts. Now collecting four Cursed Weapon Parts grants a random weapon with the CURSED variant.

Armageddon Shard is now the name of an item that grants immense stat boosts to the player, but kills them after completing three rooms.

Unused Code

Fire Grenade

obj_item38_grenade_toxic-Create at line 6: heatperuse = 25

obj_item151_grenade_fire-Create at line 6: heatperuse = 25

obj_item96_stickybomb-Create at line 14: heatperuse = 5

Code referring to a Fire Grenade that would increase weapon heat on use by 25, making it functionally similar to the Acid Grenade, listed just above it.

7.62mm Bullets

They are referenced in the mod weapon balancing file, but when trying to use it, defaults back to 5.57mm Kaida SC, which is the caliber most AK rifles use in this game.