Donkringel posted:

So on the one hand I am always excited for a new expansion, but on the other hand I am unsure how much you are forced to interact with the new content.

Will all the games go spooky horror? Is it toggleable outside of the game versus diagetically inside the game? What are the limits to the horror?

All this stuff is super cool, but it seems like it could railroad runs into spooky-town every time if not carefully managed, or take too much away from player control.

One of the events in the early alpha days was an event that a recruited prisoner suddenly turned into a traitor. No player mitigation, just gently caress you. It was removed because of lack of player control. A lot of this horror stuff seems the same because lack of control is a good horror mechanic.

The team always knocks it out of the park with expansions so I am sure there are good answers to my questions and I just need to wait, this is all just my initial feelings.

Lt. Lizard posted:

Really hate this one, because large bodies of water limiting possible approaches was one of the few terrain features that could rival mountain bases for safety. This eliminates that and pigeonholes you even harder into mountain bases being the one optimal way to play.

Kestral posted:

Okay, so who had their money for "Which major mod will Rimworld turn into DLC" as "VOID, Zombieland, and Rim of Madness," because I sure as gently caress didn't. Honestly not thrilled about it, not because I think the content will be bad, but because they're using a very VOID-esque art style that I find grotesque and unpleasant to look at, and rather jarring compared to everything else in the game. Which, to be fair, I'm sure is the point, but I can't see myself ever enabling those flesh monsters or doing SCP stuff.

That said, patch 1.5 sounds loving great and also like the modpocalypse. Multithreading pawns is absolutely the correct call, but also, holy poo poo so many mods are going to burst into flames. The SOS people are drinking at noon today.

Geomancing posted:

From what it said, it sounds like you make a conscious choice to wake up the 'mad superintelligence' which causes all the horror stuff to kick off. I assume that if you don't make that decision, most of the stuff doesn't occur, same as you can ignore the Imperials and never get involved with a lot of the Royalty stuff.

DarkLich posted:

That was probably the design intent, if I had to guess. Mountain bases are vulnerable to infestations. Now shoreline bases are vulnerable to aqua-bots.

Whether there is parity in the difficulty is open to debate though. There are a lot of ways to control infestations, both in architecture and with colonist tactics. Shorelines don't have the same breadth of options, save maybe an ugly coastal barrier.

All that being said, we also don't know how the new threats will work either. Maybe mountains will get new hazards that put it on par with submerged foes.

Leal posted:

Kestral posted:

Okay, so who had their money for "Which major mod will Rimworld turn into DLC" as "VOID, Zombieland, and Rim of Madness," because I sure as gently caress didn't. Honestly not thrilled about it, not because I think the content will be bad, but because they're using a very VOID-esque art style that I find grotesque and unpleasant to look at, and rather jarring compared to everything else in the game. Which, to be fair, I'm sure is the point, but I can't see myself ever enabling those flesh monsters or doing SCP stuff.

That said, patch 1.5 sounds loving great and also like the modpocalypse. Multithreading pawns is absolutely the correct call, but also, holy poo poo so many mods are going to burst into flames. The SOS people are drinking at noon today.

Lt. Lizard posted:

Shoreline bases were already balanced by not having overhead mountain and thus being vulnerable to things like drop pod raids, sieges and far more affected by toxic fallout and volcanic winter, which are all easily dealt with/ignored for mountain bases. I don't really think there was any need to add an unique threat for shoreline bases, especially considering that mechanoids are significantly harder to deal with than bugs.

That being said, I don't doubt that new threats will mix things up somewhat, and I particularly like the look of that one anomaly that seems to transform mountains into fleshy hives full of mutants.

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

It sounds like only the pawn rendering and not all the other stuff related to pawns is on a separate thread so I'm just hoping the facial animation mods manage to figure out how to work in the update in the next month or I may be playing 1.4 for a bit.

Telsa Cola posted:

People are likely to do crazy poo poo mod wise the new systems so even if you dont love the eldritch poo poo it will likely be worth picking up just to get the mods.

Telsa Cola posted:

If you are finding that raids are not something you want to deal with, or that you only deal with by creating gimmicky killboxes or whatever, you can always turn them off.

Or you can have them on until you get bored of them and turn them off.

Leal posted:

quote:

Your colonists become obsessed with a beautiful golden cube, one by one. They build statues of the cube. They worship the cube. They love the cube.

QuarkJets posted:

My theory is that it took them 12 months of major refactoring to make double doors possible

ZeeCee posted:

Disabling Mechanoids and Neanderthals is my go to faction configuration for RW these days, I just find fighting either in long-run tribal to spacer games extremely tedious and not fun.

Telsa Cola posted:

If defense is a 100% a solved problem then why even have raids on.

Telsa Cola posted:

If defense is a 100% a solved problem then why even have raids on.