The Oracle
The Oracle is a creature that serves the game's tutorial. It shows up at the very beginning of Neophyte's stage. While it helps new players learn the ropes, it can easily be killed to cut to the chase and fight Neophyte.
Appearance
The Oracle has a green body, a blue eye with a round pupil, and eight tentacles protruding from its body.
Its Nightmare counterpart is pink, with the pixels near its core being paler. Its iris also has rotating grooves along the outer edge.
Personality and Traits
The Oracle is rather enthusiastic about teaching the player. If attacked, it shows disdain at the player's lack of need for help.
Tutorial
Controls
Oracle starts by telling the player (or both if playing in co op) the basic controls of the game. This section ends once all players have moved for 3 seconds, and then have shot for just under 3 seconds.
Passive Powerups
Oracle spawns 3 sets of Shield/2 Damage powerups and tells you to collect them while also informing you that only 1 powerup per pair can be grabbed. This section ends once 3 powerups are collected among all players.
Avoiding Bullets
Oracle starts with spawning slow moving walls of bullets from the edges of the arena. These walls have a large gap for the player(s) to go through. After all the bullets despawn Oracle repeatedly summons a dense cluster of bullets from the right edge of the arena, and prompts players to use focus more to dodge through it easily. This section ends after all players use focus for around 15 seconds.
Active Powerups
Oracle spawns more walls of bullets, this time with either a repel, slomo or freeze powerup in the middle of the gap. This section ends once 3 powerups have been activated. It doesn't matter which ones are used, whether it be 1 of each or 3 freezes the section will finish.
Cursed Powerups
Finally Oracle warns you about powerups with red boarders around them, cursed powerups, and spawns a 3 damage curse in the center of the play field. A player must pick this up to finish the tutorial, which spawns a 3 quarter circle of bullets that slowly collapses in on itself but despawns part way through. This section does not appear in Easy Difficulty as there are no cursed powerups in Easy Mode.
Reviving
If playing in co op Oracle will kill a player. This will spawn a respawn pod which the other player must destroy to revive the other player and progress the tutorial. If a player dies at any time in the tutorial then this section will start before returning back to whatever section was happening previously. This section does not appear in single player.
Finally Oracle will wish the player(s) good luck before fleeing off screen.
Neophyte will then spawn, properly starting the fight.
Nightmare Mode
Main article: Neophyte
In Nightmare Mode, the Oracle fights against you alongside Neophyte.
Trivia
- The Oracle's internal name is
tutorialGuy. - The Oracle and the Ball Pit server are the only friendly pixel-based lifeforms in the official game.
- Because the Oracle drops a shield and gives players 3 free shields in the tutorial, Neophyte's stage starts players off with one less shield than usual (with the exception of nightmare difficulty, as you do not spawn with a shield on nightmare in the first place).
- Due to Oracle fighting alongside Nightmare Neophyte instead of being alone in the tutorial (in which it either dies or flees), it is possible to beat Nightmare Neophyte with the Oracle still alive.
| Official Content | |
|---|---|
| Crusade | Neophyte ! Kraken ! Guardian ! Execution ! Overgrowth ! Anomaly ! Phobia |
| Invasion | Medusa ! Hermit ! Goliath ! Monarch ! Prospector ! Storm ! Xulgon |
| Bonus | Quartet ! Crossfire ! Ball Pit ! Credits ! Timebrain |
| Other Content | The Oracle ! Xulgon's Minions ! Difficulties ! Speedruns |
| Fan Content | |
|---|---|
| Apocalypse | Catalyst ! Beehive ! Xenoware ! Amethyst ! Reaper ! Triton ! Quantum |
| Chaos Campaign | Blizzard ! Siren ! Phineus ! Labyrinth ! Macro ! Prism ! Singularity ! Forge |
| Champion Campaign | Skylier ! Volcanion ! Wireframe ! Phantom |
| Uprising | Mantis ! Cortex ! Overlord |
| Vengeance (Campaign) | Hydra ! Inertia ! Splode ! Attractor ! Terra ! Witch ! AI ! Vengeance (Boss) ! Redemption ! Nightmare-Only Boss |
| Other Content | Cultivator ! Cypher ! Fortress ! Ghost ! Gridlock ! Karma ! THE LOVERS ! Pulsus ! The Psychic ! Tryout |
| Stage Remixes | Bonus (Fan Difficulties) ! Chippy the Anime ! "Completely Normal" Bosses ! Legacy Prospector ! Remixes of the Past ! Slow-Strat Invaders ! Variance (Mechanic Demonstration) |