Unknown enemy race

by Mr Daax , aka: SSG Daax, Saturday, March 30, 2013, 11:33 (4255 days ago) @ Wakko45
edited by Mr Daax, Saturday, March 30, 2013, 11:36

I just rewatched this part of the GDC panel and they never mentioned that the 'soul escaping' was an aspect of the Fallen.

Between transitioning between this picture of 5 races/soul escaping and the next pictures of more detailed sketches of the Fallen they say:
"these turned into more detailed silhouette studies from those sketches".

They aren't talking about specifically the Fallen, they're talking in general, that the sketches from the last slide turned into more detailed renderings. The Fallen just happen to be the first pictures in these next slides.

Quote from one of the mailsacks

We’ll show you how incredible it feels to see a Fallen Captain’s ethereal soul rip from its body after you’ve dusted his crew with your Gravesend Mk. 28 Heavy Machinegun, shattered his absorption shield with a perfectly-placed pulse grenade, and delivered a final, thundering shot with your beloved hand cannon. We’ll show you how satisfying it is to tactically carve through the suppressing fire of a fortified Cabal war base with your fireteam, gouts of oil, geysers of steam, and shimmering loot punctuating your victory as you go.

Sounds like the soul-ripping is a quality of the Fallen, unless it ends up applying to all the enemies :)