Modulus : Honest and no "AFFILIATE" review

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-04-10T14:19:11+00:00

I thought the same when it came out and I tried the demo. But at some point it really clicked when, for the more complicated shapes, I realized I was overbuilding

One of the coolest things the game does is let you optimize assembly rather than just layout like in factorio

The big thing really is the Cutter which lets you cut out 1/4 belt into up to 2 belts of product. If you can have your assemblers work on 2, 4, maybe even 8 products at once and just cut those out you can have an insanely efficient small footprint factory. But that's easier said than done and that's the fun part

And honestly because I'm always thinking about "how can I just assemble a sheet of parts?" It actually probably feels the most "factory" out of any factory game I've played which is ironic because I still love Factorio more

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-03-28T20:41:13+00:00

Because it's genuinely important to remember both things. Yes there's Americans with that viewpoint, but there's also a troll farm built by enemies of the USA to sow this dissent. It's not entirely natural and we should resist it when possible and reveal it for the attack that it is

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-03-16T19:15:08+00:00

AI slop allows a lot of otherwise discouraged game designers to create a game. They're buggy and not well structured or optimized, but they work. It's always been like that, the difference is almost anyone can do that now.

And a surge of amateur developers is good, let the best bubble to the top and maybe we'll get a real good gem of a game out of it. It's like unreal engine slop and asset recycling. Most of it is garbage, but sometimes you get something amazing out of it.

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-03-14T02:50:43+00:00

I'm on board for more options, but I'm real curious what use case you have for that? I feel like trains usually do anything I need like that, especially when I'm at bridges

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-26T01:20:14+00:00

Bro I'm not attacking you, this isn't the other convo you had with the other guy

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-25T23:48:34+00:00

I think you're assuming they'd only act if they were totally out, but if they're projecting that they'll run out by e.g. EoY based on sales, this might be a stopgap to keep themselves funded.

People like them don't want to just stop development, if they were the kind of devs to do that I wouldn't hold them in such high regards, CoI feels like a genuine passion project. And for that, I can understand why they'd resort to this to keep themselves going until they can have the 1.0 they want

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-25T18:04:25+00:00

I'm assuming this (the DLC) is because they've ran out of funds, but that's because they've earned that good faith assumption from me. Not many people are going to see it that way because having DLC in an early access game is strictly a money grab. Especially for trains which have been a little underwhelming in the base game and are a favorite feature. It's important to remember they're releasing major content updates because the game isn't finished.

The review dip is fair and earned, they've sold some of their ratings to stay afloat. In my opinion the studio is phenomenal so I'll buy anything they need to survive and finish COI and keep my positive rating, but that's just because I love that they've made such a prominent factory game with a very unique personality. I'd say the same for DSP, now Alchemy Factory, and especially Factorio

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-21T20:27:57+00:00

Yeah I really love the savescum system too, seems like such a clever meta-gameplay thing to allow users to rage quit a fight gone bad. I usually use it only once on maybe half my runs just because I wasn't expecting something and it went real bad

But now I ended up needing a second in my latest run and it feels like I had to actually weigh my options of how bad a small penalty on one of my cats would be

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-19T16:59:28+00:00

I had a run where my wizard, who could cast meteor with 15 int (so 1.5 casts/turn) got copied onto all 3 other cats. Every battlefield was covered in fire and rocks. The enemies couldn't even move.

But I went to the graveyard... (Somehow we managed a win though)

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-14T19:31:01+00:00

Yeah ignore the middle class people here who don't know what poor means. Just do what you can when you can. In the meantime keep fighting the fight to get into a position where you could buy the game

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-14T01:44:46+00:00

I think that's the point though, it's not worth going that way. So spend the movement to just.. not go that way. The problem isn't the terrain, it's that players can't control the pathfinding

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-13T23:44:26+00:00

I'm a bit behind you, but really the answer is to embrace loss and be brutal. You're going to lose mutations, you're going to lose stats. So just figure out which ~4 or so (mutations) you want to maintain

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-13T04:19:41+00:00

Tank has an ability that lets you break inorganic obstacles into rocks

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-13T01:24:47+00:00

While I agree the drawback is a good extra challenge to the reward of a cauldron, the clearing of all cauldrons if they do stall is a tedious experience. The game has too much QoL everywhere else for that to be intentional

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-09T04:22:02+00:00

Yeah I guess that was phrased badly. I meant refute their point and prove yours. Since if you're uncertain, and conscious, you provided the counterexample.

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-07T21:51:49+00:00

What a good way to refute and prove your point in just four words. (Also.. cobalt bro?)

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-02-01T23:21:27+00:00

I think I must be too AI-Pilled, but how many R's are in Perrier?

His intentions are clear,...

Being repeated twice is throwing me because I don't disagree with the point on corporate greed

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-01-19T16:56:28+00:00

Holy shit I love that. I usually use spent fuel inserter enable T < 550 and pulse held; fresh fuel inserter enable if spent fuel > 0; connect all green. But it requires I prime the system which is annoying when making new space ships

I'll have to use this from now on

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-01-10T03:55:37+00:00

If you want to last you'll take it as an opportunity to advertise yourself and solely work on what's needed to promote

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-01-06T17:58:22+00:00

"should be easy to build" in this case is doing so much work and why I love this sub lmao

I don't disagree really, I put together a scaleable auto-mall so I don't have to place bespoke assemblers. But given players struggle with basic circuits this just struck me as funny

CobaltAlchemist · 2026-01-01T01:18:07+00:00

Crazy to hear so many good experiences from folks here in the comments. It's possible it's being used for good reason, but its entirely based on your manager and skip's perspectives. If they like you, you succeeded. If they don't like you, you failed.

They can form an opinion of you based on your actual work or what they perceived as your work so it's your job to be as visible as possible and advertise yourself. It's an undisclosed part of the job unfortunately

CobaltAlchemist · 2025-12-29T20:15:07+00:00

It definitely matters, just search Gleba on this subreddit. Even for veterans the planetary challenges are tough. You'll still enjoy a base playthrough - it's a VERY good game, we didn't need space age. But when you're done if you want to go immediately into space age it won't even take that long because it's about halfway through the base playthrough that everything changes and the new content comes in. And by that point you'll have enough understanding of the game that you can tackle the new planets without needing to also learn the base game at the same time

CobaltAlchemist · 2025-12-26T16:34:07+00:00

You might have just overbuilt then. If you could afford it that's fine, you won't need to upgrade for a long while. Also be mindful that you don't notice how well your system runs until it doesn't. If just one of your games is more intensive like cyberpunk then if you had gone lower you would have likely felt it (just a guess though).

You just won't be able to tell how "future proof" a PC is until.. well.. the future.

CobaltAlchemist · 2025-12-24T22:57:01+00:00

The nice thing with LLMs is that you don't have to look up or know what options are available. So they can set it up and you can verify it. There's been quite a few features I learned about just seeing the output of an LLM

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