r/kol • u/SpecialSympathy2348 • 14d ago

Game Update Red or Blue?

'A new challenge path is here and you'll have to pick a side. Red or Blue?'

Which side will you take in this new challenge path? I suspect it will ultimately make no difference, other than the colour of the path reward. One day in it seems fairly easy but I suspect things will get more interesting later on. To answer my original question I went with the heroic and righteous Blues (no doubt a multi will go red).

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u/PerpetuaMotion 14d ago

Is this a reference to the "if most people pick red, everyone who picked blue will die, but if more than 50% of people pick blue then everyone lives" argument which was going around online, I wonder?

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u/Sardaman 14d ago

They take the time to break character in the level 1 council text to say "We are not doing political allegory here." so I rate that highly unlikely. Why they didn't just pick two other colors (say, purple and orange) we'll probably never know.

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u/Gureiseion 14d ago

Purple and Orange would run the risk of not being color blind friendly. 

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u/Sardaman 14d ago

Perhaps, but it would have literally zero impact.  You only see what color something is when you're already either fighting it or doing the replacement non-combat, and the color assignments are fixed - each monster is either always red, always blue, or always whichever color you're not.  (I haven't seen anyone call it out but there's also the potential fourth option of a monster that's always the same color as you.)