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This is the first anomaly preview that made me actually excited. This stuff sounds cool. Apart from the 'randomly teleport someone into the middle of our circle' but I can still see them summoning my 20 melee god warrior and immediately being blundered.
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It sounds like there's a spool up and I imagine mechanically once you gently caress up one or two of them the ritual fails.
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George Sex - REAL posted:
Gameplay loops rarely get changed and I don't forsee Tynan ever doing something different with the game than build up base -> get raided
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Telsa Cola posted:It sounds like there's a spool up and I imagine mechanically once you gently caress up one or two of them the ritual fails.
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or ~Space Cultists~ 
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Flesh Forge posted:or ~Space Cultists~ A post/username combo 13 years in the making.
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George Sex - REAL posted:Conflicted on what has been teased of this latest expansion. I'm actually looking at this as being closer to Ideology than anything else - all these rituals are cool and all, giving you more toys to gently caress up a raid or whatnot... but it's all stuff that you have to build your colony around. The cult stuff looks like a Very High impact meme that needs its own infrastructure. Monster science lab is a Very High impact variant of Rancher. You can ease into most other stuff with just one pawn on a throne or the anima tree, or one pawn pruning guaranlens, or one pawn with lifters, etc., but the Anomaly stuff looks fairly siloed from 'classic' play. We'll have to see how it actually plays out instead of just relying on the preview teasers, of course.
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monster science lab has kind of a biotech feel to it tbh
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Feasts give me PTSD of living with people who party way too late. I don't know why pawns choose to absolutely gently caress themselves on sleep feasting for 24 hours straight.
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Doltos posted:Feasts give me PTSD of living with people who party way too late. I don't know why pawns choose to absolutely gently caress themselves on sleep feasting for 24 hours straight. The only feast in vanilla is the cannibal feast which is timed like every other ritual as far as I know. I'm guessing you're seeing something from Vanilla Expanded or something.
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Can you use skip abduction on your own pawns? That would be a cool way to get a caravan back home, as they wouldn't need a farskip capable pawn with them.
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guess we'll find out in a week, but i doubt it. consensus so far is that it looks like an on-map siege-style thing
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Countering a siege by abducting their mortar crew one by one sounds funny as hell though!
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I see tentacle arms in those screenshots, just like the cult mod. I don't think that's been called out in the previews yet. Hopefully they are +manipulation upgrades.
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Also acts as a Love Enhancer
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I think it'll probably be a couple months before I go for the DLC and the 1.5 patch. Not because I don't want to get them, but because a lot of mods I don't think I can play without don't seem to be updating any time soon.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I think it'll probably be a couple months before I go for the DLC and the 1.5 patch. Not because I don't want to get them, but because a lot of mods I don't think I can play without don't seem to be updating any time soon. I encourage people to play the game without mods if you’re used to 300+ mod lists. My mod list ballooned to 700+ over time and it was very refreshing to go back to vanilla and start building up the list again with just the things I really missed and go from there.
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Gadzuko posted:I see tentacle arms in those screenshots, just like the cult mod. I don't think that's been called out in the previews yet. Hopefully they are +manipulation upgrades. I am fairly sure Tynan actually hired Jecrell (author of the original Cults mod and many related), and Jecrell oversaw/created a lot of this DLC. Just basing this on the radio silence of Jecrell since November of 2022 aside from one very small mod a few months later. Last profile updates on Patreon and the Ludeon forums are "maybe someday I'll work for Ludeon" https://www.patreon.com/jecrell
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I think it'll probably be a couple months before I go for the DLC and the 1.5 patch. Not because I don't want to get them, but because a lot of mods I don't think I can play without don't seem to be updating any time soon. if it were not for 1.5 forcing a mod reset I probably would not have touched Big and Small/Alpha Genes, the combination of which has led to something magical   Combined with a self-imposed limit of never taking joiners as full members from outside, just using them as hosts to make extremely adorable babies, converting some prisoners to pheromone addled haulers and cleaners and such (tiny people are not good at carrying things) yes I am aware all the prettiness stuff is way over the cap, it's just there to make it more expensive
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lunar detritus posted:I encourage people to play the game without mods if you’re used to 300+ mod lists. My mod list ballooned to 700+ over time and it was very refreshing to go back to vanilla and start building up the list again with just the things I really missed and go from there. Oh it's less the gameplay addition mods and more the graphical and QOL ones. Stuff like Run and Gun and Search and Destroy, or like I've got so used to running with faces from Vanilla Facial Textures Expanded that I can't go back to the old non modded pawns.
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I'll probably also wait a bit for mods to get updated, though I tend to nuke and rebuild my mod list every time there's a major update anyway.
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Eiba posted:Unless you were doing a themed run with strict rules against ranged weapons, it would still be worthwhile to give some of your neanderthals a sniper rifle or two, or some bolt action rifles with the goal not of doing significant damage, but just annoying the attackers enough from range to come at you. Every hit is a 10% chance to get them to abandon their mortars and assault. It probably would have taken a while, and if the attackers had long range guns of their own it would have been really fiddly to try and stay safe, but that would still be a viable way to force an engagement. I'm a bit late but not only is this good to know, the mental image of a handful of cavemen trying to figure out how bolt action firearm work and firing all over the place until the raiders get too annoyed to tolerate it any longer is pretty funny.
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I wish it actually worked that way mechanically (your guys suck with firearms unless you have some tech threshold)
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Pawns have to stop and bang their bolt-actions on the ground every once in awhile to get them to cycle, unclear whether this is because we’re Neanderthals or if the game is accurately simulating Mosin-Nagants.
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With the new DLC and 1.5 coming out soon, how long do people expect it to take for mods to be updated? I'm excited to start a new run but I'm going to wait for the new stuff, I'll also probably cull my mod list a little bit but I really want some chromed out dinosaurs for my cave people to ride so some mods are pretty key to the run I'm planning. Speaking of dinosaurs, does anybody have much experience with the prehistoric biome mod? I'm considering being Dino ranchers for at least some of it, are there dinosaurs that fit the bill for that?
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same as with biotech, i'd imagine - couple weeks, not really all that long. big mods (e.g. VE) have had time to refactor their stuff before release; other mods may just need a number incrementing somewhere.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:same as with biotech, i'd imagine - couple weeks, not really all that long. This gives me time to decide whether I want to go into a boreal forest or arib shrubland. Shrubland seems more fitting for a Dino rancher caveman colony. Maybe I'm just saying that because the last time I did a boreal forest start I gave up on it since I found the marshes and winter slow down irritating though. Do people have a favourite/least favourite biome? I kind of hate the jungle because disease isn't fun to manage.
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Redundant posted:With the new DLC and 1.5 coming out soon, how long do people expect it to take for mods to be updated? I'm excited to start a new run but I'm going to wait for the new stuff, I'll also probably cull my mod list a little bit but I really want some chromed out dinosaurs for my cave people to ride so some mods are pretty key to the run I'm planning. Patch 1.5 is already available as a beta release on Steam (labeled as Unstable). Mods are already being updated to work with that version and you can filter for 1.5 compatibility on the Workshop. How long it will take for individual mods to update is up to the author and the scope of the mod - I expect something like HAR and its downstream mods to take longer because the patch substantially changes the pawn rendering system, for example.
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Prehistoric biomes is fun, the dinosaurs are well made. My only complaint is one farmable plant they added is a multi harvest with a relatively short lifespan, so I get lots of, “plant died while not being harvested” alert spam which is annoying. I like the plant though, and the output has individual units be 0.15 nutrition so I love it for the inventory compression. Favorite biomes are jungle and arid. Desert and things colder/sparser than boreal forest I don’t like.
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HelloSailorSign posted:I like the plant though, and the output has individual units be 0.15 nutrition so I love it for the inventory compression. That's honestly a weird number for nutrition - with the exceptions of nutrient paste, packaged survival meals, and vegetarian fine meals, you're going to be wasting nutrition because everything else will be rounding up on a fractional number.
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I like a Boreal Forest unless I’m planning to do some serious ranching (if you start Undergrounder, or reform into it for your first pick, you can support a modest pack-animal herd over winter once you dig out a silly amount of cave space). Worst comes to worst for the cold winters, there’s a fuckton of wood on the map to just burn. The sprinklers from Dub’s find their actual use here: if you put them out on a long-grow tile you’re going to be swimming in a game-warping amount of corn and drugs. I’ve got a mod which makes tree sprites get snowy in the right weather, makes the whole biome feel very charming (even when predators are down to trying to hunt pawns on lumberjack duty).
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I've come to like the animal variety on boreal maps. Between horses, alpaca, bears, and megasloths you've got top-tier tamable animals foe any purpose you could want, and unlike tropical rainforest the rest are generally pretty safe to hunt.
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They get warm enough for most temperate animals to show up, and frosty enough that cold-weather guys you usually don’t see down in the grasslands and swamps also make appearances, yeah. I’ve actually never gone colder than a 20-day average growing season, you need an immense amount of plant labor to grow your corn, textiles, and drugs for the entire year all in once go. Hay, too, if you’re keeping a pack herd. Kind of thinking I might set my first post-1.5 embark to have a pirate faction with an Undergrounder ideo, so I can reform a clutch of assholes to grow me mushrooms in a boreal forest mountain for animal feed (and theirs probably too).
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I avoid 20/60 because Randy likes to give me a cold snap with solar flare right behind it while giggling
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I like colder maps, it's a challenge but also it has some upsides like you only need heaters and you can use the exhaust heat from your freezer to warm up your base. Polar bears are excellent pets too, and I like raising muffalo
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Boreal is hands-down my favorite, particularly with the mod that removes the bogs from them. That said, those bogs are useful, you can construct some fun defenses around them that make raiders Very Sad.
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Cold Bog is another really neat biome if you're into maps with a real winter, giant amounts of renewable wood.
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Swamp biomes are neat and offer unique challenge, but they basically disable world map travel, which is usually a bit too much of a downside for me (same with Jungle). Every once in the while I find a nice spot right at the edge of the swamp, but usually I don't bother and go for Boreal Forest or Tundra.
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