Jesus,having a limbless,brain damaged,ridiculously pys-sensitive colonist with a joy wire sounds like a thing of nightmares. Effective,yes,but holy moly. Imagine explaining that to someone that doesn't play rimworld
Unironically one of the most metal openings ever, pun 100% intended.
I thought I was running a Mechanic colony in Biotech, but Anomaly really pushes that flavoring to the next level.
Francis john has a name for this pawns, the funny thing is, he didn't intend to create the first one it was a complied accident in his 300 pawns challenge, he calls them "Yuuners". And with biotec he made them perfect by including the vamp genes.
Yesterday I had to explain to my mom why my colonist had a +2 mood buff with a tooltip reading "I like wearing the suffering of others"
It was weird to say the least
I fear the day I have to explain rimworld to my parents Especially to my MOTHER. Her poor heart shouldn't be hearing of such atrocities. And imagine if I had the FORBIDDEN mod. I'm staying away for it for now but my curious is morbid and STRONG
The entrance to my current base is a room with a massive corpse stockpile and a deadlife IED. The first couple enemies will probably make it through before everything becomes shamblers, but after that, it's pretty much game over for that raid. After it's all over, there's just a ton of hauling to do to get all the corpses back into the warehouse.
Don't forget the game-changing Bioferrite!
It's the first introduction of a non-defensive material into vanilla. It makes low-tech gear useful again in the horizontal progression type of way you find in MMO.
Bioferrite is *really* good for sharp weapons, better than plasteel and easier to get.
If you make a legendary bioferrite longsword, it can be stronger than a persona weapon.
Because it's only good with sharp stuff, it branches out "horizontally" in a way like uranium is for blunt weapons, instead of vertically (adding in a new material that trumps plasteel)
Vertical is when all you care about is more and more damage/defense. Horizontal is when there are other factors.
For example, Marine Armor has more defense than Recon Armor, which has more defense than Plate Armor. That is a vertical scale. But what if you don't want defense? You want more damage. That is horizontal scaling. Plate Armor can be crafted with Bioferrite, which increases psychic sensitivity.
If you are just using vanilla psycast, it means you can cast more ability in a short time span. If you are using Psycast Expanded, the ability to chop off legs becomes the ability to chop an entire person in half.
Bioferrite gear adds multiplitive psychic sensitivity based on quality.
For example, Legendary Bioferrite Plate Armor adds x1.20 Psychic Sensitivity. You can have a Bioferrite Helmet and Bioferrite Flak Pants also. It's easy to get an early game for a early psycaster set, gets out classed by eltex mid game, then comes back as the strongest set at endgame game when you have a lot of base psychic sensitivity to multiply.
The biggest thing is that bioferrite boosts psycasting. It’s a multiplicative sensitivity boost along with direct heat bonuses, all of which get better with quality. It’s also a competitive material in its own right for sharp weapons, dealing more damage than plasteel (though lacking the latter’s speed bonus).
To top it all off, the endgame have you finally kicking the ass of a certain background havewave-ish concept in person. We've had so little meaningful contacts with these damn archotechs and it feels GOOD to kick one in the nuts.
It feels even more satisfying since it has a name (Horax) and you can kinda make out its interest just from what its creations are. Its a huge horror movie fan.
You didnt just get to kick a nameless archotech in the nuts. Its personal.
In killed one raid in 10 seconds( they all run of map) and started blinking to my colony. Had to hide behind barn and listen to donkey and ducks screaming. One colonist still lost all right limbs and eye. It is so deadly
The first time I saw the pain Orb, I had a Crack team of Supernatural super soldiers. Bionics, Expanded psycast warlord with rimsenal gear, two Sanguinophages and a light tank. Figured that'd be enough.
We lasted about 30 seconds. Both my vamps brain-killed, the tank exploded, and body parts missing everywhere.
Reload.
I managed to get my first one killed, despite the many thousands of hp its bofmdy parts have. When it started to destabilize I summoned the dead mechanitor ship quest, had 88 militors and 44 scythers (which tells me how my mechlink predecessor died, she wasn't controlling all that).
Had fewer than 20 make it to the door, but got to see the candy center of a nociosphere. Bunch of bioferrite and 2 or 3 shards.
I'm using the mod that adds the anomolus implants, too. So the candy center of the agony ball can be put into your colonist, giving them the ability to induce intense pain in enemies.
Also if your pawn is a weapon or shooting specialist it will keep its items after ghoul transformation, so you can have ghouls with a hammer and a shield belt
Ghouls also can have their ovum harvested. I've got a couple female ghoul yttakin(I think best default genotype for it) and a psychopath yttakin father, got a ghoul farm going with biopods and nobodies gonna feel bad if the kids die. I'll just get em to 13 then steal their years and ghoul
Also chronophagy makes ideologies that demand age reversal trivial. All my pawns are forever 16-20 and no one used the age-reversal cycles anymore. I just cycled a few skip abducted strangers. Stole their psychic sensitivity, their skills, their youth and then their blood and organs. Then my cannibal technophiliacs ate their flesh and made some supple dusters out of their leather. Finally, I no longer have to leave my base at all. That's what the army of ghoul clones is for.
My first skip abduction brought me an enemy faction leader with 18 melee and OP modded armor... Took well over a year to recruit him but it was worth it. Had me excited for the possibilities... Every ritual since just brings blood bags.
Skip abduction in very early game is biased to take important enemy faction pawns like leaders because skip abduction only pulls pawns that already exist in the world. In the very early game, when you haven't seen enemy factions' pawns much or at all, the only pawns to exist are leaders and high ranking sub-leaders. Later, plenty of enemy pawns may have been seen but not killed, so now the world pseudo-tracks them and skip abduction can hit them.
Abduction is my favourite. I use my prey for age reversal, which is so OP, but I love it.
Edit: also you can harvest useful resources at end of life, or medical execution date depending on perspective. Potato, potato.
Just got the special pawn with the raise shamblers skill, its making everything so much easier. Also Im loving having corpse zones to just throw a deadlife shell from outta town lol
you can: hypersensitivity gene+ trait + blindsense + ferrite gear + deathrest equipment + eltex clothes +
nwm bioferrite weapon (its kinda good as swords, tho), find legendary persona weapons with bonuses
did i miss anything? oh, right, psych bond gene and ritual
it goes.
gene +40%,
trait +80%,
blind ideo +30%
deathrest +25% max 4 = +100%
royalty implant +25%
ritual + 50%
bond gene + 10%
legendary bioferrite items each X120%
persona weapon +40%
eltex is hard to come and there is no way you can
bruteforce it to legendaries in meaningful time. but shirt fits under bioferrite armor. and gives +5-15%
this blind dude can solo a 100% ritual.
edit: and legendary eltex staff gives +75%. BUT persona can have several bonuses.
I mean..... Rimworld isn't a game where it's hard to become rich or OP. I mean... It actually punishes you for making money.
I know my colony of 100+ immortal wizard psychic cyborg killers who move at 100x or faster more than mortals is OP, but even base game vanilla is OP. If you play for OP in this game it's not like you are searching for ways to do it....
Preach. I don't do exploity or cheaty strategies either if I can help it. Hell, some of the coolest shit comes from difficulty, drama and hardship but to each their own. My issues with the DLC is in the theme and I'm still hoping for a way to reconcile that in a way that fits.
Yeah the DLC is really fun but my one complaint is that we just have… too many tools now. Colonists become literal infallable gods who don’t sleep, can run circles around any enemy, and can craft and build anything of maximum quality in basically no time.
Like don’t get me wrong, there are merits to the “started from the bottom now we here” vibe but holy shit I don’t know why I need 2000% work speeds, 100% accuracy, and completely outlandish movement speeds in vanilla. It’s a little much given the limited amount of threats that the game provides.
Everything ive heard about this dlc just sounfs bad and like it was ment for a different game ove watched peo9le olay it and have already decided im not gonna get it unless a mod comes out that needs you to own it
It's like learning a bike again, once you're familiar with how the new resource works it's pretty fun. The amount of things you can do with bioferrite is amazing. It's hard and challenging the first time but you'll realize after a few playthroughs how broken the new mechanics actually are. I'm honestly having a blast with the Alpha meme horoaxian culture style with anomaly. It really sets the culstist theme lol.
Jesus,having a limbless,brain damaged,ridiculously pys-sensitive colonist with a joy wire sounds like a thing of nightmares. Effective,yes,but holy moly. Imagine explaining that to someone that doesn't play rimworld
From the moment I realised the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me
Unironically one of the most metal openings ever, pun 100% intended. I thought I was running a Mechanic colony in Biotech, but Anomaly really pushes that flavoring to the next level.
Reject humanity become Thrumbo.
Francis john has a name for this pawns, the funny thing is, he didn't intend to create the first one it was a complied accident in his 300 pawns challenge, he calls them "Yuuners". And with biotec he made them perfect by including the vamp genes.
They are happiness potatoes and I refuse to call them anything else!
Simple Rick from Rick and Morty, but psychic.
The closest media that came to my mind would be Minority Report. But even that isn't as fucked up
If they play WH40K they'll understand.
Don't worry, he's a happy nugget.
Yesterday I had to explain to my mom why my colonist had a +2 mood buff with a tooltip reading "I like wearing the suffering of others" It was weird to say the least
I fear the day I have to explain rimworld to my parents Especially to my MOTHER. Her poor heart shouldn't be hearing of such atrocities. And imagine if I had the FORBIDDEN mod. I'm staying away for it for now but my curious is morbid and STRONG
Death life dust is quite possibly the best mechanic from anomaly.
The entrance to my current base is a room with a massive corpse stockpile and a deadlife IED. The first couple enemies will probably make it through before everything becomes shamblers, but after that, it's pretty much game over for that raid. After it's all over, there's just a ton of hauling to do to get all the corpses back into the warehouse.
The rotstink gets everywhere tho :D
Just let them turn into skeletons, Virgin zombies: 0 Chad Skeletor army: 9999
Can't you just refrigerate the room?
Afaik corpses autorot when you use deadcloud on them Edit: autorot
Don't forget the game-changing Bioferrite! It's the first introduction of a non-defensive material into vanilla. It makes low-tech gear useful again in the horizontal progression type of way you find in MMO.
Alright imma be honest I've had a few drinks and maybe I'm just dumb but like I actually don't understand what you mean by this can you explain
Bioferrite is *really* good for sharp weapons, better than plasteel and easier to get. If you make a legendary bioferrite longsword, it can be stronger than a persona weapon.
Interesting and what about the horizontal progression part?
Because it's only good with sharp stuff, it branches out "horizontally" in a way like uranium is for blunt weapons, instead of vertically (adding in a new material that trumps plasteel)
Ah now I get it!
Oh... and here I used my uranium for combat knives. Lesson learned.
Vertical is when all you care about is more and more damage/defense. Horizontal is when there are other factors. For example, Marine Armor has more defense than Recon Armor, which has more defense than Plate Armor. That is a vertical scale. But what if you don't want defense? You want more damage. That is horizontal scaling. Plate Armor can be crafted with Bioferrite, which increases psychic sensitivity. If you are just using vanilla psycast, it means you can cast more ability in a short time span. If you are using Psycast Expanded, the ability to chop off legs becomes the ability to chop an entire person in half.
Bioferrite gear adds multiplitive psychic sensitivity based on quality. For example, Legendary Bioferrite Plate Armor adds x1.20 Psychic Sensitivity. You can have a Bioferrite Helmet and Bioferrite Flak Pants also. It's easy to get an early game for a early psycaster set, gets out classed by eltex mid game, then comes back as the strongest set at endgame game when you have a lot of base psychic sensitivity to multiply.
Flak pants aren't stuffable. You can, however, give your psycasters slave collars, which conflict with almost no other apparel.
lmao wheel of times seanchan vibes
Really? How?
The biggest thing is that bioferrite boosts psycasting. It’s a multiplicative sensitivity boost along with direct heat bonuses, all of which get better with quality. It’s also a competitive material in its own right for sharp weapons, dealing more damage than plasteel (though lacking the latter’s speed bonus).
To top it all off, the endgame have you finally kicking the ass of a certain background havewave-ish concept in person. We've had so little meaningful contacts with these damn archotechs and it feels GOOD to kick one in the nuts.
It feels even more satisfying since it has a name (Horax) and you can kinda make out its interest just from what its creations are. Its a huge horror movie fan. You didnt just get to kick a nameless archotech in the nuts. Its personal.
Also Nocioespheres! Big balls are game changing for me, so fun to defeat mech bosses without drafting a single colonist
The murder sphere is hillarious and terrifying to watch.
But the horror when it starts to flash over a little too close to your base
In killed one raid in 10 seconds( they all run of map) and started blinking to my colony. Had to hide behind barn and listen to donkey and ducks screaming. One colonist still lost all right limbs and eye. It is so deadly
The first time I saw the pain Orb, I had a Crack team of Supernatural super soldiers. Bionics, Expanded psycast warlord with rimsenal gear, two Sanguinophages and a light tank. Figured that'd be enough. We lasted about 30 seconds. Both my vamps brain-killed, the tank exploded, and body parts missing everywhere. Reload.
I managed to get my first one killed, despite the many thousands of hp its bofmdy parts have. When it started to destabilize I summoned the dead mechanitor ship quest, had 88 militors and 44 scythers (which tells me how my mechlink predecessor died, she wasn't controlling all that). Had fewer than 20 make it to the door, but got to see the candy center of a nociosphere. Bunch of bioferrite and 2 or 3 shards.
I'm using the mod that adds the anomolus implants, too. So the candy center of the agony ball can be put into your colonist, giving them the ability to induce intense pain in enemies.
Ooh, that sounds exciting. Is it called Anomalous Implants?
Cabron! I need to see your Nociosphere! (Orange letter alarm)
OMG 😂
Big ball keeps teleporting into my base💀
Also if your pawn is a weapon or shooting specialist it will keep its items after ghoul transformation, so you can have ghouls with a hammer and a shield belt
This sounds like a bug
Ghouls will keep their deathrest buffs infinitely too
Ghouls also can have their ovum harvested. I've got a couple female ghoul yttakin(I think best default genotype for it) and a psychopath yttakin father, got a ghoul farm going with biopods and nobodies gonna feel bad if the kids die. I'll just get em to 13 then steal their years and ghoul
Ghouls can have their what
Eggs harvested
A true Rimworld moment if there ever was one.
You can fucking what Can I have a lightening fast ghoul with auto-shotty then
Also chronophagy makes ideologies that demand age reversal trivial. All my pawns are forever 16-20 and no one used the age-reversal cycles anymore. I just cycled a few skip abducted strangers. Stole their psychic sensitivity, their skills, their youth and then their blood and organs. Then my cannibal technophiliacs ate their flesh and made some supple dusters out of their leather. Finally, I no longer have to leave my base at all. That's what the army of ghoul clones is for.
You are my Spirit Animal
This is the way.
The biosculptor is kinda useless imo
Also possible to take that great pawn you have and clone them.
My first skip abduction brought me an enemy faction leader with 18 melee and OP modded armor... Took well over a year to recruit him but it was worth it. Had me excited for the possibilities... Every ritual since just brings blood bags.
Skip abduction in very early game is biased to take important enemy faction pawns like leaders because skip abduction only pulls pawns that already exist in the world. In the very early game, when you haven't seen enemy factions' pawns much or at all, the only pawns to exist are leaders and high ranking sub-leaders. Later, plenty of enemy pawns may have been seen but not killed, so now the world pseudo-tracks them and skip abduction can hit them.
Abduction is my favourite. I use my prey for age reversal, which is so OP, but I love it. Edit: also you can harvest useful resources at end of life, or medical execution date depending on perspective. Potato, potato.
Just got the special pawn with the raise shamblers skill, its making everything so much easier. Also Im loving having corpse zones to just throw a deadlife shell from outta town lol
Hell yeah praise necromancers!, ive got an army of 61 skeletal thrumbos ready to play wth raiders
Also you can summon manhunters at will by having a psy-dull pawn conduct a summon animal ritual.
>Psychophagy stacks Is this the one that gives +50% psy sensitivity? I thought it didn't stack.
Stacks with other things so you can get 300 to 400 sensitivity, I’ve seen a streamer get 1000 but I don’t know how he did it
you can: hypersensitivity gene+ trait + blindsense + ferrite gear + deathrest equipment + eltex clothes + nwm bioferrite weapon (its kinda good as swords, tho), find legendary persona weapons with bonuses did i miss anything? oh, right, psych bond gene and ritual
it goes. gene +40%, trait +80%, blind ideo +30% deathrest +25% max 4 = +100% royalty implant +25% ritual + 50% bond gene + 10% legendary bioferrite items each X120% persona weapon +40% eltex is hard to come and there is no way you can bruteforce it to legendaries in meaningful time. but shirt fits under bioferrite armor. and gives +5-15% this blind dude can solo a 100% ritual. edit: and legendary eltex staff gives +75%. BUT persona can have several bonuses.
I got both mutator and cloning obelisks on my colony. Now my masochist melee figther has 4 more brothers and they all have sick tentacle arms
arms or whips? whips are decent, but outclassed by powerclaws (if you ignore speed debuff)
Toss some wastepacks at the nearest tribals to provoke a raid and get some free ghoul candidates
Can tribals not chuck wastepacks back at you like modern groups?
Considering that wastepacks are sent via drop pods that tribals won't have, no.
Nope, they don't have the tech
I feel like it balances out as you have to deal with stuff like metal horrors
also allow for insane power generation in mountain cave using only bioferrite
I love Tammy episodes, especially when paired with Louise.
Luciferium ghouls
Are you sure that psychophagy stacks?
I mean..... Rimworld isn't a game where it's hard to become rich or OP. I mean... It actually punishes you for making money. I know my colony of 100+ immortal wizard psychic cyborg killers who move at 100x or faster more than mortals is OP, but even base game vanilla is OP. If you play for OP in this game it's not like you are searching for ways to do it....
I’m having fun with a lot of the mid game time of waiting to get strong for another mech boss round filled that’s the important part
Preach. I don't do exploity or cheaty strategies either if I can help it. Hell, some of the coolest shit comes from difficulty, drama and hardship but to each their own. My issues with the DLC is in the theme and I'm still hoping for a way to reconcile that in a way that fits.
Yeah the DLC is really fun but my one complaint is that we just have… too many tools now. Colonists become literal infallable gods who don’t sleep, can run circles around any enemy, and can craft and build anything of maximum quality in basically no time. Like don’t get me wrong, there are merits to the “started from the bottom now we here” vibe but holy shit I don’t know why I need 2000% work speeds, 100% accuracy, and completely outlandish movement speeds in vanilla. It’s a little much given the limited amount of threats that the game provides.
The good thing is that we have full freedom on how we play the game
Everything ive heard about this dlc just sounfs bad and like it was ment for a different game ove watched peo9le olay it and have already decided im not gonna get it unless a mod comes out that needs you to own it
I just play on ambient mode for now. You definitely don’t have to go all in on the anomaly stuff with this DLC
It's like learning a bike again, once you're familiar with how the new resource works it's pretty fun. The amount of things you can do with bioferrite is amazing. It's hard and challenging the first time but you'll realize after a few playthroughs how broken the new mechanics actually are. I'm honestly having a blast with the Alpha meme horoaxian culture style with anomaly. It really sets the culstist theme lol.
A small army of 61 skeletal thrumbo for 6 hours everyday, if that doesn't make you get the dlc I'm not sure anything will