Mmm, with the bases I build the normal turrets wont be enough, you would have to continuously kill biters past your pollution, and for me thats like... too much work I'm over 20 hours into my play through. I do not kill outside my pollution. I'm just using around 150 clips / minute at the walls. It...

So to make electric furnaces more efficient than steel furnaces, you have to spent many resources into researching modules/beacons, and spend more to build it. Whereas steel furnaces have one cost only. And for people that don't want to waste time and resources to do that, steel furnaces work just ...

Rocket Launcher ... does anyone every use that thing? So lackluster .... or maybe the tank. My hope is they aren't done designing those things yet.

Interesting read, always fun and frustrating to work on the ever elusive better performance. There are definitely some issues with performance in the game and I believe they are going to get worse as the program more advanced and more features are added. Going to be some tough work for your team to ...

I generally don't use efficiency modules. Usually speed or productivity. No point in conserving energy ... that's for real life.

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Woot, now I just have to get out of work so I can test it!!!

Early game pre up to medium biters / spitters (maybe a little past) -- submachine gun + piercing rounds Mid Game -- Modular armor, 1 shield, some solar panels / shields -- Poison / slowdown capsules, distractor + submachine gun + piercing rounds Generally I skip Mid game and go right to power armor ...

kovarex wrote:Spoiler:

the turrets will be reworked. We know to not repeat this kind of mistake when designing them the next time

This is AWESOME NEWS!!! For someone who does everything I can to avoid using lasers as they make the game easy mode I'm VERY excited to hear this!!!!

The orange zone is for loading and unloading only.
The green zone is for .... oh whatever .... have you seen airplane

I don't feel bad for the worms. All those glorious minerals deposits just waiting to be harvested. Kill em all!! IT's MINE ALL MINE!!!!!!

Every dialog box that has a slider should have a numeric entry box. The slider is just an inconvenience when you are with really short time where pressing the number 2 makes more sense. It's one of those spit shine and polish things that just complete the game IMO.

I guess I don't understand why you are forcing us to take X number of items, or is this just the starting value and we can't change things because the edit window is messed up. If I only want 25 inserters kept on me why can't I set it to just 25? This is common for me. When I'm tearing down / settin...

There is second problem that comes from this that isn't mentioned. Turret density, with the guns in the horizontal position you get a very compact set of turrets that can put out more firepower in the same area. With the vertical orientations you can only get 1/2 the same amount of firepower. On hig...

I agree with some of this. The spawn area needs to have enough of each resource to get you going. The amount is configurable by the settings (rich starting area, sparse etc.). The current setting do random generation for the rest of the map. It usually takes me about 20 - 30 starts to get something ...

Makes sense from a realism standpoint. My vote would be that pipes cost two plates. Remembering that this will increase the cost of many other items.

Tank is very underpowered MKII armor makes the tank useless. It's so underpowered it's scary. I play bugs one below max at high density. I was at large biters / spitters. Rolled out with the tanks and was pinned and destroyed without taking out a single hive. Walked out in MKII armor and the OMGWTFB...

Let's up the ante .... do that with Biters set to one below max and large size. You can leave the resources at normal. Oh, and do it with mostly coal power generation instead of solar .......

It's great to see the progress. I haven't been able to play much in the last few month but over the holidays I purchased two more copies for some real life friends so we could hammer on the multi-player setups. LOVING all the changes that have been made. Spitters REALLY change the game up and the mu...

I agree and disagree with boogie. Use smart inserters, that is a definite. But i have a "engineering" train that has a single slot of roboports, Its a train used to make the rails to an outpost, And have all the items required to build a large outpost. 5 as a stack is plenty for a single ...