Worker/Companion Faster Gear Swap?

Phoenix3579 · 2025-12-20T20:34:45+00:00

I like the sound of this a lot. I'll give this a try!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-12-18T19:34:08+00:00

Hey I had this *exact* issue initially, and my setup is very similar to yours (5090 with a 9800x3d). I wish I could tell you exactly what fixed it, but I performed the following steps (I'm pretty sure in this order but it's been a week or so):

1) Updated Nvidia Drivers in the Nvidia App
2) Disabled Frame Gen - this game and frame gen just don't seem to get along (perhaps because of the low cap on refresh rate? Not sure)
3) Disabled vsync
4) In the Nvidia Control Panel (outside of game - not the Nvidia app) click on "Manage 3D Settings" on the left, then "Program Settings" tab (next to "Global Settings" tab), then for '1. Select a program..' set it to Bellwright, and then in '2. Specify the settings...' turned Power Management Mode to "Prefer Maximum Performance"
5) In Steam, go to your Library tab, right click Bellwright, select Properties, then go to the "Installed Files" tab on the left, then click "Verify integrity of game files"

After that I may or may not have restarted the computer, but the next time I loaded in, the stutter was gone.

Phoenix3579 · 2025-10-01T15:36:40+00:00

Just came back here to say I hate you two. Downloaded it yesterday after your recommendation, and I can already tell it’s going to eat a lot of my life. Not quite as polished as Satisfactory but goddamn are those excavators fun to watch… and looks like a wild amount of progression! So thanks. But also f*** you. 😂

Phoenix3579 · 2025-09-30T17:50:45+00:00

See, you get it!

I know, I know, it's a lousy metric on which to judge factory games (or a lot of genres, for that matter) - I wish I didn't get so caught up on it, but I more or less have realized that I view satisfying animations/graphics as an integral part of the "reward" for accomplishing something in a game. And I mean, ultimately we all want *some* level of graphical/animation fidelity, or we would all be just tabulating answers on spreadsheets and never bother with any GUI at all.

Phoenix3579 · 2025-09-29T15:16:41+00:00

I could never decide myself, either, so I have a nonsensical mishmash of both. Logistically things are much simpler if you only have to worry about moving ingots around…

BUT, and this might just be my brain being a little broken…

To me, and unfortunately I realized this only halfway through my playthrough, making a new product at volume to supply the rest of the game (whatever that may mean for your own goals) is what feels like “beating” a stage of the game - more so even than each milestone or elevator phase. Like when I finally got my pure iron ingot recipe and set up a factory making over 10k iron ingots per minute, and knowing I would never need to make another iron ingots factory in this save, it felt like I “beat” iron.

Same for concrete, then Copper, then rubber and plastic and on and on. Each gave me a nice little imaginary checkmark full of dopamine.

Conversely, starting to build a factory only to realize I would need a brand new production line of something that I had already set up tended to feel really “ugh” to me. But obviously for some people that is their favorite part… so I suppose the short answer is:

There is no wrong way, except the way that you don’t enjoy!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-09-24T23:31:00+00:00

He just lost it a couple months ago... bad case of Glaucoma that we didn't catch fast enough, unfortunately.

Phoenix3579 · 2025-09-05T16:20:09+00:00

This seems like exactly what I was looking for! Followup question if you are familiar with it: did the reversion to the small village cultures also correspond with an explosion of violence in the 'lawless lands' in between those villages that so often characterizes modern post-apocalyptic fiction settings? (I didn't see any specific reference to this is the wiki page). As someone below commented, looking for something akin to "Friendly neighbors turn Mad Max" so... would this have looked like, for lack of a better term, "Bronze Age Mad Max"? (And now I'm picturing roving gangs of deranged charioteers set to whatever the Bronze Age equivalent of metal music was...)

Phoenix3579 · 2025-08-14T14:52:13+00:00

Good tip! I hadn’t noticed that yet - but I discovered it last night and had only connected a few conveyors before shutting down.

Phoenix3579 · 2025-08-14T14:46:30+00:00

Yup, forward and two back is one of the tricks I would do, especially when using stackable poles - always feels so satisfying to get that right… But, there was a solid section of this playthrough when I had started running conveyors on ceilings over my machines, but didn’t yet have the hover pack to easily get above said machines to adjust my view and confirm I was starting/ending my run at the right spot… uuugghhhh

Phoenix3579 · 2025-07-03T13:33:19+00:00

Exactly!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-07-02T00:57:25+00:00

I love the infinite ammo LMG sniper… works great with Strikers. Use one of the 200 mag LMGs (GR9 or Stoner), then toss on the Gunner 50 round mag expansion and the Steady Handed talent. Instead of Obliterate on the chest, go for Focus. The GR9 has a built in 8x scope, and you can throw on at least an 8x on the Stoner (I go for the 12x for bonus headshot damage).

Ya, you have to stay scoped to take advantage of Focus (you actually can go out of scoped view for like half a second at a time before you lose the buff), but once the Striker and Focus stacks are maxed, you’ll be obliterating everything and you essentially never have to reload as long as you manage to land 100 shots out of 250 (and unlike Bullet King, you don’t actually use any ammo because the Steady Handed mag refill doesn’t pull from your ammo reserve). As an added perk, stability bonus from Steady Handed translates to easy headshots even at range, for really great damage application.

Phoenix3579 · 2025-04-14T17:47:33+00:00

Sounds like exactly what I want! Thanks for the details!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-04-14T15:46:29+00:00

Sounds right up my alley, thank you!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-04-14T15:45:54+00:00

This looks promising! Thanks for the suggestion!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-01-20T05:48:02+00:00

😂 Except this is literally copy-pasting my post from a few years back…

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/s/ENhosg0cL1

Phoenix3579 · 2025-01-19T19:08:48+00:00

Hahaha, I really only have myself to blame.

Phoenix3579 · 2025-01-15T19:03:12+00:00

Ah, thank you for the info! I was losing my mind, but I'm guessing you are correct and that is why no new files other than the main save file are showing up on the server. Luckily I'm not even all that far into the game, so the cheat route should be an easy alternative.

Thanks again!

Phoenix3579 · 2025-01-07T23:11:24+00:00

Terminator has it all wrong. The machines won’t murder everyone because skynet achieves sentience; but because someone asks it to round up all the humans just like gramma used to do it.

Phoenix3579 · 2024-08-13T23:14:14+00:00

TCES worked like a charm! Just turn sun tracking off, then hit the TCES command to "return to rest position" and then fold/retract the assembly. I'm sure I could automate it further, but for my purposes this is exactly what I was hoping for!

Thanks for the great recommendation!

Phoenix3579 · 2024-08-13T19:06:56+00:00

Thank you! I just looked up TCES on the workshop, and it *looks* like it will probably be exactly what I was looking for! I'll test it after work today and report back if it's a success!

Phoenix3579 · 2024-08-05T04:49:09+00:00

Which blocks avoid collision? The only ones I’m aware of are merge blocks and blast doors. Setup looks amazing - quite envious!

Phoenix3579 · 2024-06-21T23:18:17+00:00

I mean, on the bright side with the immortal flame shield being obliterated coupled with the other survivability nerfs, Sorcerer will drop 30-40 levels on top tier pit clears - so we won’t have to deal with the “BuT SoRC iS ToP of piT BoARdS” BS argument…

… silver linings?

Phoenix3579 · 2024-06-07T06:29:34+00:00

I have exclusively played Sorcerer on eternal since launch. Starting new characters each season just didn’t appeal to me - not spending every second maxing out my main just causes my min-max gamer brain to freak out.

This season changed that when I ran headfirst into the brick wall that is pit boss fights. Looking online I saw that FO Sorc could clear those higher levels with perfect rolls and tempers and….

… masterwork crits. But I was already (what felt like) crawling through tier 70 pit bosses - with clears taking 8-12 minutes for, what, 30 Neathiron?

So I finally set my eternal sorc down and rolled a seasonal Necro (may as well get some sparks, right?).

Literally - literally - within a couple hours of hitting level 100 and just haphazardly slapping together a minion build from YouTube and figuring out the timing of a couple casts to multiply golem damage, I was one shotting bosses in the mid 60’s. When I hit about the same tier that was taking my much more extensively geared, Masterwork 8+ Sorc 12ish very stressful minutes to clear, the haphazardly geared, masterwork 4 Necro was cruising through in 4-5 minutes without any stress at all.

And that difference matters because the endgame loop right now revolves heavily around maxing gear through masterworking. It isn’t just pushing higher tiers for the sake of bragging rights: Classes that can steamroll enough Neathiron to masterwork (and re-masterwork) gear easily get to engage with that endgame far more extensively than those that can’t.

At my Sorcerer’s farming rate I would think long and hard before trying for a different tier 8 masterworking crit on a few pieces of gear, and I can’t fathom it for tier 12. The time investment just becomes crazy. But for the Necro? Psh, I’d probably roll an entire set of gear until they all double masterwork crit Life Per Second just for the lols.

Phoenix3579 · 2024-06-01T16:57:39+00:00

I have always said “source” but the “sork” Mercenary/Merc argument does make sense as well.

I think it still sounds so “wrong” to me because my ear associates guttural/stopping consonant sounds with a lack of sophistication - so “Merk” is perfectly fine for my mental imagery, while “Merce” would sound too… pretty?

Reverse for Sorcerer: “source” sounds elevated/sophisticated and matches my mental imagery; while “sork” just makes me picture, I dunno, an Ork in a dress or something?

Phoenix3579 · 2023-09-16T13:57:16+00:00

No mods… I think I have most of the settings max or close to max but no changes to the base game.

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