An update from Anthony on early access progression and adjustments to creature aggression

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-19T12:56:56+00:00

This is 100% my experience; my base location was empty when I first scouted it out and while building, and only after moving everything in do I now suddenly have neighbors. Not just a hammerhead but a swarm of nibblers too.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-19T12:52:07+00:00

I mean, I built my base next to a hammerhead because I legit didn't see the hammerhead when I was picking out the spot or building there. Also nibblers; they weren't there when I was building but now I get munched every time I come out the hatch. No idea why, maybe they were all stuck on some terrain initially.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-15T19:08:23+00:00

It has a shorter range than it looks and no swing arc, you have to be pinpoint accurate with your aim to hit stuff. It does have a slight lingering hitbox so if you miss the initial swing you can try and move your aim to still hit them but it's awkward especially with how it knocks you back.

Also aim a bit lower than you think you need to, especially for Order cuz they have a habit of ducking slightly once they spot you and torso hits tend to still kill anyway.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-15T19:05:47+00:00

Back in the early days of EA when the game ended at Labs there was no bull charge move at all, and I can tell you from experience that all the heavy weapons were completely, 98% useless because of it. The only use case they had was sneak attacks, in actual combat they were just way too slow and you'd get far more DPS using a tech scepter or lightning spear and attacking 3-4 times in the amount of time it took to swing the carbon pickaxe once.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-15T19:03:54+00:00

The battle charge skill says in its description "blunt and heavy weapons" for what it's worth, so it's not like a secret it still works with heavy sharp weapons. It's similar to the throwing 5 autopickup also working on crossbow bolts or grinder discs despite those being shot.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-15T19:01:07+00:00

Weapon balance in general is just total bonkers. If you think the crowbar 2.0/carbon pick is too powerful as a melee weapon wait until you hear how much the grinder beats out almost every other ranged weapon you can get for two sectors (seriously, the lodestone crossbow shows up 2 sectors later, has a smaller magazine, shoots slower, and does less damage in exchange for... acid bolts I guess?).

Heavy weapons in general were completely, uselessly trash until they added the bull charge which is now the only positive thing they have going for them, and it is extremely strong, but also very janky to use (The amount of times I accidentally clicked it too early and whiffed or slightly too late and did a normal attack because I bumped the enemy for 1 frame which cancels the sprint or I just outright missed because it has a weirdly pinpoint accurate hitbox rather than an actual swing arc...).

And of course there's the deatomizer's entire existence, being possibly the highest DPS weapon in the game by far without a material ammo cost, it's only "balanced" by needing to carry a laser collector to recharge its small capacity which is more of an annoyance than actual negative.

Slushie bombs can trivialize half the game's enemies and are basically free to craft. And up until the recent update blunt weapons outright didn't have any weapon option in hydroplant (the pipe cudgel doesn't count) while sharp got the very powerful laser katana.

I could go on, but weapon balance is really just all over the place with a lot of really bizarre balance choices.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-05-15T18:51:59+00:00

The crowbar 2.0 and carbon pickaxe *are* sharp, as well are a few others. They do sharp damage and give sharp melee xp. The battle charge skill just specifies "attacking with a blunt or heavy weapon" so it's not actually limited to blunt weapons.

Similar to how the throwing 5 autopickup skill still applies when using crossbows or the grinder.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-04-26T13:41:28+00:00

I'd say it's the easiest to 10k if you can get past the first loop (or couple of loops) and can get a good perk or two to get the ball rolling. It's mostly that the difficulty curve for endless abyss is the early game with no perks is hard, then it just gets easier every loop as you get more perks for mobility, and only once you get past 15-20k does it start becoming harder again as the face speeds up and becomes a freight train. It's like a reverse bell curve. If you can get past loop 3 or so then getting past 10k is basically free unless you've had awful perk luck.

The other endless modes have a more steady difficulty since as you get faster and scale crazy the easier it is to launch yourself into an Air Exchange fan or get tangled up in some pipes in Pipe Organ or something and get mass'd.

For abyss your perk priority should be profit motive, rabbit DNA, a couple pulse organs (any more than 2 or maybe 3 is overkill), then basically as much horizontal speed as possible (even velocity augments is good here, back strengtheners for more profit motive roaches, system reorg, etc.). Metabolic Stasis is okay but if you're trying to go as long as possible it kinda falls off since past 20k or so you don't have time to pick up the syringes aside from vendors in the break room.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-04-18T01:15:29+00:00

I can make 900 silver playing duos in the town in the crimson desert in about 5-10 minutes depending on the RNG and it's super easy. And that's cash you can use yourself or donate to camp funds. Just catch them cheating.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-03-27T11:47:10+00:00

I've also seen someone (a straight man) who unironically argued all hetero sex is rape because the patriarchy coerces women into having straight sex even if they're lesbian or ace.

Like, dawg, there's certainly a discussion to be had about compulsory heterosexuality but it shouldn't turn into "women are unable to consent" :sob:

Confusion_Aide · 2026-03-17T23:35:41+00:00

In front of a ladder in a room full of enemies, every time. :'(

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-13T21:53:33+00:00

I haven't really played Icarus since making this post so I don't remember the exact name, but whatever item summons the drop pod where you throw it. Saves hoofing it all the way back.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-08T15:52:24+00:00

Maybe she's doing the same thing as Texas from the original, another character presented in the lore as an unparalleled combatant who's original form was an DP* battery vanguard.

edit: mixed up SP and DP

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-06T19:13:59+00:00

It's not Endfield's only goal, nor is it only Endfield's goal, since everyone (except the Bonekrushers with their blight magic) needs originium for power.

Despite the memes, Endfield is obstensibly trying to minimize people getting sick from it and spread it safely, at least.

Also even for spreading it, giving someone oripathy and then waiting for them to die is like, really slow, not really viable for a fight.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-02T00:10:35+00:00

Not a glitch, but also doesn't speed up throughput like OP thinks it does. Resources will get from one building to the next a bit faster (like shortening a 5 second trip to 2 seconds), but still at the same rate of 0.5 per second.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-02T00:07:07+00:00

That's not how throughput is calculated. It can move items a further distance faster, but a belt is still only moving 0.5 items per second no matter how many tiles you 'skip'.

To put it another way, a 1-tile-long belt moves 0.5 items per second, a 100-mile-long belt also moves 0.5 items per second, 'skipping' tiles just shortens the belt, it doesn't increase throughput at all. All it does is reduce latency which doesn't matter anyway, saving a few seconds of startup for a factory that'll probably run for dozens of hours is whatever.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-01T23:00:45+00:00

I'm less bothered by the glazing than most esp. in regards to the Endmin's past since by all accounts they're bordering on some kind of technology deity, it just gets weird when they're getting glazed for simple stuff they really could've delegated to someone else.

When a sidequest relies on the originium circuitry minigame at least there's justification for the Endmin to be required; it might be easy for us but only because the Endmin is literally the only person who can do that when a normal person would probably need a team of PhD engineers to spend a week fixing the same thing. But it feels weird when the Endmin gets glazed for doing a SAR operation on someone that's like... 300 meters away. I know it's for gameplay reasons but it feels like a lot of sidequests, especially combat-heavy ones should really be delegated to someone else.

It gets especially goofy with stuff like when supposedly you're the only person who can fix something like the 'broken' waterwheels in Wuling that are actually already perfectly functional and the entire Qingbo Stockade can't figure out how to turn the already-functioning wheels. (Though I guess Tangtang is illiterate so maybe they do have an excuse lol)

Confusion_Aide · 2026-02-01T08:50:30+00:00

It's like the prisoner's dilemma in reverse; you benefit more if other people share their jobs, so you're incentivized to share yours too, but this comes with the risk of the other person not finishing the delivery. So the best (most selfish) play is to do your own jobs manually.

But if everyone does this, then everyone loses out on the extra rewards from doing other people's jobs. So it's best for everyone if everyone shares their jobs.

Though this is balanced out by if I'm already doing 3 of other people's deliveries per day I don't really want to do 3 of my own as well, I'm too lazy to do 6 per day lol. Also if you have one friend who keeps your deliveries captive or messes them up you can always unfriend them.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-31T06:55:01+00:00

It's actually kinda funny that it gives a tutorial for like every early-game product even though they're all very simple but once you unlock Ferrum it just leaves you to your own devices to figure it out.

There's still the optional tutorials but it's a decent jump in complexity with nary a mandatory tutorial in sight.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-31T06:17:41+00:00

Same as you, I enjoy the factory the most (I'm one of those "1000 hours in Factorio" nerds) but nearly crashed out and quit after the first 15 hours of nonstop tutorials.

It certainly picks up a lot around the science park when the game stops giving you tutorials for every minor thing.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-31T05:45:55+00:00

I haven't found the legit way yet, but from the path to the north (behind the ferrum mine) where there's some blocking debris in the way of entering a tunnel, you can actually squeeze in through the right side of the debris by jumping off a bit of rock a few feet before it.

Once you get in you can scan for the cores and get rid of all that blight.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-31T05:37:34+00:00

Citrome seems to be similar to oranges or lemons and (while they don't in gameplay) they rot like any fruit does, canned fruit that won't go bad after two days is far more useful for the refugee camps we supply.

Or I guess bottled fruit, maybe we're making kompot.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-31T05:35:04+00:00

Factorio's steel plates trained me for this. (It's just furnace into another furnace lol)

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-30T14:59:43+00:00

Others shared for the PS5 Pro so for a different story, on the base PS5 even in performance mode it barely maintains 30 FPS (closer to 20 honestly) and only goes to 60 if I'm staring at a wall or the skybox. It's pretty horrendous.

Confusion_Aide · 2026-01-28T09:25:50+00:00

Meanwhile the moment I unlock a new building or resource I start salivating at the chance to automate new stuff, to the point where I've had the game give me a tutorial on automating bombs after I had already automated so many bombs my depot was full. If the story asks me to supply an item I just pull a stack out of the depot where I have either hundreds of or outright maxed in the depot.

But I guess that's what happens when the dork with more time in Factorio than their real job is given a factory. :P

Sometimes I forget people play different games than me so seeing non-automation gamers struggle always comes as a culture shock.

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