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jokes posted:Every single fight against a scyther loving sucks. I hate them more than I hate fighting sappers, and I hate fighting sappers. This is why you need your own scythers, to fight the bad scythers!
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Kestral posted:This is why you need your own scythers, to fight the bad scythers! With a good Berserk you can make their scythers yours for a time!
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Jan 26, 2023 06:03
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isndl posted:With a good Berserk you can make their scythers yours for a time! 1.4 makes Berserk last like 3 seconds on Mechanoids, it really doesn't feel worth it any more.
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Jan 26, 2023 06:06
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I haven't fought any of the mech bosses yet, but for the regulars, you just need to counter their specialization. You wanna snipe the scythers, and bludgeoning a lancer with your gun is better than trying to have a gunfight with it.
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Jan 26, 2023 06:28
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Scythes are pretty fragile and melee-only, so they have to close to chain-shotgun range, where they will be absolutely ripped apart before they get unstunned from an EMP.
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Jan 26, 2023 08:02
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The diabolus is not especially dangerous but you want to fight it away from your base, because its main gun will destroy big chunks of whatever it hits, you can move your pawns out of the way of it, but it will destroy buildings and fixed positions. It comes with a turret that will constantly plink at you but otherwise it is not really capable of harming your soldiers if you keep them moving. Clear out its escorts first and kite it until you can focus it down. The queen creates a constant swarm of crappy bots so you want area attacks, EMPs etc, anything that can do crowd control and prevent them from overwhelming you. It will eventually run out of materials so generally you want to survive the swarm until that happens because killing it quickly is difficult because it's a big mech. Again otherwise not enormously threatening. The final psychic one is capable of resurrecting any mechs near it, so you need to focus it down out of the pack and destroy it as quickly as possible. High mobility and jump packs will help a lot with this. It also has a quite nasty toxin rifle that will gently caress your guys up a bit but it fires slowly, so it's more like a lancer or needler really in terms of danger. Some soldiers with powerful weapons, jump packs, and power armour will see you to defeating it quite handily.
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Jan 26, 2023 08:25
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Scythers are pretty easy if you can get them out in the open, aka into a killbox. If they're crash-landing on your base then they're a pain in the rear end but they don't have much armor
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Jan 26, 2023 09:05
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jokes posted:Every single fight against a scyther loving sucks. I hate them more than I hate fighting sappers, and I hate fighting sappers. If you've got a ranged fighter significantly faster than them they literally cannot hurt you while you slowly kill them.
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Jan 26, 2023 09:37
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Yeah and like just 1 spellcaster makes them way easier to kite too, you can just Skip them to the edge of your range and gun them down as they have to approach you again I also really like Zeushammers, they stun pretty often and do a lot of damage. But really your best bet is to get them into the open and then have a fast pawn kite them; put some bionic legs on someone
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Is anyone aware of a mod that adds technologies for building walls and stuff? I want to play a start from nothing run, I already have the Naked Brutality set up and the mod that removes all starting technology but you still start with construction for walls. I remember seeing a YouTube video where they started with absolutely nothing besides a research spot and couldn't build walls or anything until they researched it, but I can't remember the mod or video. 
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Jan 26, 2023 23:55
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The Good Queen Clitoris posted:Is anyone aware of a mod that adds technologies for building walls and stuff? I want to play a start from nothing run, I already have the Naked Brutality set up and the mod that removes all starting technology but you still start with construction for walls. I remember seeing a YouTube video where they started with absolutely nothing besides a research spot and couldn't build walls or anything until they researched it, but I can't remember the mod or video. That mod that adds those research steps and analyzing items and stuff for research boost has that I think. Name hilariously escapes me though. You could prolly fiddle with the xml files for the research point amount to get the amount you want.
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Jan 27, 2023 06:22
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Speaking of mod recommendations, is there one that adds a stock/inventory screen? Just a screen on which I can check what and how much I have in the colony, maybe with some relevant statistics. Just like the drop-down inventory on the left of the screen, just not terrible.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Speaking of mod recommendations, is there one that adds a stock/inventory screen? Just a screen on which I can check what and how much I have in the colony, maybe with some relevant statistics. Just like the drop-down inventory on the left of the screen, just not terrible. Best I can do is the caravan load out screen. lol
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Manager Hoyden posted:Speaking of mod recommendations, is there one that adds a stock/inventory screen? Just a screen on which I can check what and how much I have in the colony, maybe with some relevant statistics. Just like the drop-down inventory on the left of the screen, just not terrible. I use InventoryTab and it's pretty useful when you're looking for something but can't find it in all your stock clutter.
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Jan 27, 2023 21:03
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"Oh, my vampire is running out of hemogen packs because the bloodbag broke out of jail and got shotgunned by four people. I should queue up hemogen extraction on everybody. ...I had forgotten the vampire was my best doctor. Yes, this colony-wide blood drive is absolutely essential, you can trust Dr. Acula." e: I really enjoy how easy it is to just get an immense amount of biodiversity.  Left to right and ignoring the visiting dignitary we have an impid, a 90-year-old devilpuff that's gone grey, a haytankard, another devilpuff, a waster, a wiretail, Dr. Acula the sanguophage (He started as a baseliner), two barkkin bracketing a seertusk, a custom hivedrone (generates insect jelly, stings parasitic eggs. Hivewarriors and hivequeens are also out in the world), a custom firemoth (Spits firefoam and has a space cocaine habit), a custom woodnymph (Photosynthesizes, naturally psychic and able to link with anima trees), and a baseliner mechanitor. Jacob over on the end of the colonist bar is a highmate, too (Bonded to Lour, who gets very good use out of the pain reduction). Dareon fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jan 28, 2023 |
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      Is it sporting? It is not. Do I get to keep the meat for kibble or the jelly for recreation or trade? Alas, no. Is it fun to watch? Literally never gets old. Moon Slayer fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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Moon Slayer posted:
"unsporting" does not begin to describe it But yes I do this every time I lose my handle on an infestation. Scorched earth motherfuckers, kibble piled to the moon. The trouble I had was striking a balance between scorching them hard enough that they get heatstroke and die before the room cools down,, but not so badly that they catch fire and try to break down a door to escape.
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Moon Slayer posted:Is it sporting? It is not.
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Moon Slayer posted:Is it sporting? It is not. Some things indeed never go out of style.
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How the hell do you get any amount of steel prior to unlocking deep mining and poo poo which is ages away ahhhh
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Jan 31, 2023 07:58
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Buy it by selling clothes, melt down everything. You can get a lot of steel from a drop pod raid because every raider pod leaves a steel slag chunk.
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Minimize what you're using it for too. There's rarely a good reason to build anything out of steel, when every map is covered in stone chunks and/or wood.
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Kitfox88 posted:How the hell do you get any amount of steel prior to unlocking deep mining and poo poo which is ages away ahhhh I use Set Up Camp This mod lets you "Set Up Camp" with a caravan on the world map (except not right next to other settlements), which streamlines the creation of a small map that auto-abandons just like any other small map would. On small or large hills you're likely to see a few steel deposits, so you can just set up a little wood-wall base and mine out any good stuff you encounter, maybe do some hunting if there's something with good leather nearby like a fox or a megasloth. This is a good way to build up a wood stockpile too, if you're on a map that doesn't provide much wood.
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Kitfox88 posted:How the hell do you get any amount of steel prior to unlocking deep mining and poo poo which is ages away ahhhh I buy steel and components from bulk traders and nearby settlements, usually by trading human leather dusters, space joints, and space cocaine e: Just had an incident where 2 traders of the same (allied) faction came to my base back to back. Before either left, all the deer on the map lost their poo poo and came at me. My turrets and their guns made short work of the deer, but one of theirs was killed... ...the trader that I had just sold 3000+ worth of crap to. I scooped it and sold it to their second trader before they left. HolHorsejob fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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Im playing with that crash down mod so periodically a ship will come meteoring down and I just scoop up the sweet sweet scraps.
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Kitfox88 posted:How the hell do you get any amount of steel prior to unlocking deep mining and poo poo which is ages away ahhhh You can: 1) Tame a bunch of animals to take on a caravan to buy and carry a bunch of steel 2) Set up a mining camp, where you make temporary housing and send a bunch of miners with rations to spend a few days strip mining all available steel from adjacent cells. Bring drugs for when they get sad! 3) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (especially with an electric smelter, melting down raider's knifes and poo poo) 4) Orbital trade beacons with bulk traders There's actually a ton of ways to get steel. Deep mining doesn't really make steel a renewable resource, it just lets you get more. I find that trading and setting up mining camps works the best for me.
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Oh is that how orbital beacons work? I figured I'd need to have spaceflight or something
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Kitfox88 posted:Oh is that how orbital beacons work? I figured I'd need to have spaceflight or something Orbital beacons allow you to trade items in a certain radius of the beacon to traders. Raids I think also target them to drop pod in sometimes.
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So make sure I have several autoguns set up in a killbox storeroom 
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Once you have a comms console you can make some friends and then ask them to send bulk goods traders who usually have steel. It's heavy so I usually don't buy it on caravan, that silver is probably better spent on advanced components and plasteel anyways.
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Kitfox88 posted:So make sure I have several autoguns set up in a killbox storeroom They might crush the guns under the pods but yeah. Generally drop pod raids go one of two ways, they are tiny and you easily roll over them, or 100 power armored marines roll over you.
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I made a tribe of spider people who have the "kill thirst" gene, which means they get really frustrated if they haven't killed a human being in a while. I set out to raid one of the neighbouring tribes only to discover that neighbouring tibes have tens of people in each and that if I were to attack, my three colonists would surely die. How can I satisfy the bloodlust of my grumpy spiders?
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Wander the wilds until a lovely ambush kicks in?
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isndl posted:Once you have a comms console you can make some friends and then ask them to send bulk goods traders who usually have steel. It's heavy so I usually don't buy it on caravan, that silver is probably better spent on advanced components and plasteel anyways. It's generally better, I find, to just blow cash on everything you want all of the time because you can always increase food production or do ranching to make an absurd amount of money selling rice and/or muffalos or whatever. You very quickly get way too many farm animals if you're not actively killing them. Like, 2 chickens turn into 30 chickens in a year or so, so in two years you're sitting on 500 chickens.
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jokes posted:It's generally better, I find, to just blow cash on everything you want all of the time because you can always increase food production or do ranching to make an absurd amount of money selling rice and/or muffalos or whatever. If the wiki is accurate, 2 chickens turn into 1200 (given enough food) in a just year. Chickens are crazy, but they will quickly become food limited.
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jokes posted:It's generally better, I find, to just blow cash on everything you want all of the time because you can always increase food production or do ranching to make an absurd amount of money selling rice and/or muffalos or whatever. That's the thing, steel is cheap and so goddamn heavy that I can't actually blow all my silver without an absurd number of pack animals. I'll buy out all of it when the traders visit me but I'll have other priorities when visiting other settlements. Focusing on higher value goods makes the return trip a lot faster too.
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I would happily spend an extra day hauling 1000 steel home when I have no steel Yes you need a lot of animals if you want to haul a lot of steel around. It's totally worth it, get some horses or muffalo or elephants and steel acquisition becomes way easier. You can also use the imperial shuttle permit to bring your caravan home even if it's overloaded so that's a good alternative if you don't want to keep animals Speaking of permits, the steel drop permit is also very good
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 This is the largest I've ever gotten. And I still need a genetics lab, a pad for SRTS ships, a vampire lair (Dr. Acula's deathrest coffin is just sitting next to his bed), a warcasket forge, defensive emplacements that aren't just a handful of barricades at the water's edge... Oh, on the topic of warcaskets, anyone know whether, if I pull a dead body out of a cryptosleep casket that I interred them in, with a funeral and everything, can I use them in a warcasket funeral too? And would it make any difference if the corpse was a child?
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