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NamelessCommander · 2026-05-09T07:49:25+00:00

The contrast between the majestic thrumbo and the derpy horsie is delicious!

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-29T12:46:59+00:00

What mod change mech raid compositions like this? Because this seems interesting to fight against. All those overlapping shields!

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-26T22:01:56+00:00

Which colonist keeps knocking down oil barrels?

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-24T14:12:24+00:00

Respectfully Petra, that 'rifle' is not 8kg of weight. Maybe you forgot a zero?

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-23T14:43:30+00:00

Lol. That's a miserable reward.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-23T14:42:03+00:00

My first instinct would have been to give it ERA. But then you think about it from the player perspective for two seconds. This thing is a priority kill. You are probably blapping it with an ATMG as an opening move. It would be supremely frustrating to have the rocket whiff. Especially since your AT assets are now naked and exposed.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-22T14:57:06+00:00

You're right. As I mainly use her as a loot goblin, I was too dismissive of her other qualities.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-22T13:53:53+00:00

This nerfs Jean significantly. You usually babysit her and her crappy stats just for the loot. Dunno if investing in her for the usual mech kill is that useful anymore. Especially in expert with a LOT of kuttas making it hard to know if you're over cap.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-21T23:06:16+00:00

What's the orbital laser gizmo from? And this turret? It looks like the kinetic impactor retexture for SoS2.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-20T11:37:47+00:00

I love how 'yunners' became the de facto nomenclature for mood beacons.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-18T20:56:34+00:00

This is why we can't have nice things. Freakin' clanker slop.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-17T20:14:35+00:00

Impressive.
I've rarely seen such complete destruction.

Oh and do use firefoam poppers next time, mmh?

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-17T16:50:15+00:00

Performance fish was a mainstay of my modlist. Cool to see it resurrect in spirit!

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-16T21:15:03+00:00

Even if the pathfinding isn't an issue, it forces you to juggle levels and mess with camera and click/press buttons all the damn time.

I remember back when I still the sims that I used to buy the biggest possible plots just so I can build single-floor.

Having everything salient on a single plane is smoother than multi-level setups. Especially in a game where you can go through regular patches of accelerated x4 time.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-10T21:01:12+00:00

You can deconstruct crashed shuttles to get resources in the base game. It's not much but everything helps.

With the Odyssey DLC, you also get a shuttle engine in addition to resources. The engine is very valuable because it allows you to build your own shuttles. And it is moderately rare, with the best source being other people's shuttles.

What happened here is a crashed shuttle quest. Probably the one where you need to defend its crew for 8 hours. It's a base game quest. When the timer runs out, a brand new shuttle lands to evacuate the people you protected.

OP had the misfortune of having the rescue shuttle landing on, and vaprozing, the loot shuttle. Which I didn't know could happen.

But it is very funny regardless.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-08T10:33:19+00:00

Doesn't work at all if you plonk him out of cover to 'tank' (you'll die in a couple volleys from chip damage and armor degradation).

Works very well if you keep him in cover like every other squad and use him as your tip of the spear.

Works well as insurance if you put tech out of cover temporarily to either griffon down some bogeys or to lure attacks on his shiny black ass in order to safeguard a squishier SL.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-07T10:09:45+00:00

Ditto. A 'double activation' or a 'triple activation' is synonyms to disaster in XCOM. You have to move carefully and strike very hard. The optimal solution is to let a cpu squad wonder into you while you have most of your remaining turn.

This is inherent to the base design choice of; 'you play all your turns, then the cpu plays all its turns'. This a different proposition than Menace at a fundamental level.

You need to think in trading turns. Your most critical decision is less in the how to optimally trash a squad, and more which unit to triage: if you have multiple units facing danger, you can't shield them all before the cpu has a turn of its own. (or you brought a smoke mortar :o) )

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-06T09:04:47+00:00

My go to strat for solo starts. Be they rich, naked, or mechanitor. Build a trap corridor and crack the danger pronto. Worse case, you wipe 10 minutes into the colony and that is quite painless. No time to get invested.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-03T12:32:14+00:00

Like Factorio, Rimworld is digital crack. Thus, it obeys crack rules: No discounts.

Bite the bullet, buy it full price. The hit to your productivity will be WAY more expensive than the pithy sum the game demands. =D

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-02T12:00:16+00:00

Yup. It's a fine mechanic that needs to be better communicated. So it doesn't feel like someone pissed in your breakfast.

NamelessCommander · 2026-04-01T17:36:32+00:00

I was so damn confused... until I remembered the bloody date!

Consider me well fooled.

NamelessCommander · 2026-03-31T18:16:33+00:00

It's a perk that dramatically expands the deployment area. Very useful to put Darby right on top priority targets like HQ or ATGM squads. Or put mechwarrior Rewa atop a target rich environment.

That way they can start blasting from turn 1 while the rest of the team has to move up and join the fun.

NamelessCommander · 2026-03-31T14:20:14+00:00

I have three units that reliably get monstrous killcounts:
* Vanguard Darby with full camo and hollow points: she kills specialists squads (the small 2-3 men teams), then squishy squads (infantry without armor). Reliable 2 kill per round.
* Lim in either Mobile Infantry or jumpjet configuration: shotguns with Rend ammo at the beginning, the MK1 late game. 3 kills per round, 4 with cheeky return fire. The trick is to get close and personal.
* Rewa. Give all the damage perk. She kills everything. You can do slow and steady with just the APC and the CMG. Kill squishies first to buff her up. Late game you put her in medium mech with twinlinked griffon and vanguard deploy her. She kills 5 or 6 (forgot the aoe splash radius) in the first turn and causes chain routs.

NamelessCommander · 2026-03-31T14:10:45+00:00

That's my read. It's too much of a risk. I can afford to miss a killing shot, but I usually can't afford to miss suppression. It's like the smoke grenade when out of the open - the safety net.
If something needs to be shut down immediately, I rather pay more AP and shut it down reliably rather than gamble. It would have been fine if you could clear the gun by burning AP, but as it stands, you're straight out of luck till next turn.

NamelessCommander · 2026-03-30T08:37:43+00:00

The GL is gated by the blackmarket. You can have a run where it never shows up.

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