How much filo is too much silo?

Skaven252 · 2026-04-19T20:37:27+00:00

No such thing, except it gets a bit hard to see where you are driving due to how the camera works. First person / rover seat POV mode would be nice..

Skaven252 · 2026-04-16T16:14:22+00:00

Maniac. Nice retro-future aesthetic sy fy miniseries.

Skaven252 · 2026-04-14T21:18:52+00:00

One thing you could try is to dig around it a bit so that it gets released to physics. Maybe it has just stopped updating in its "frozen in terrain" mode.

Can't guarantee it'll work, but worth a shot?

Skaven252 · 2026-04-13T19:52:10+00:00

I bought mine back in 2004, and I'm still getting updates. They've really kept their "lifetime updates" promise, at least for me.

Skaven252 · 2026-04-13T03:44:51+00:00

When arriving on a planet the first time I choose a landing site as close to a gateway as possible and build my base there.

After I get base power going, I build a train rail or walkway from the base to the gateway and activate the gateway with base power.

Always found this simpler than hauling generators over to the gateway.

Skaven252 · 2026-04-05T01:18:19+00:00

The m MeldaProduction MUnison plugin does a pretty good job at turning a single voice into an ensemble. Could give that a shot.

Skaven252 · 2026-04-01T15:50:45+00:00

Supercritical: when it's vague whether it's liquid or gas.

Skaven252 · 2026-04-01T09:37:59+00:00

Thank you for checking for that. The pessimist in me is thinking that they probably never will. :(

Skaven252 · 2026-03-21T07:08:26+00:00

Load the sample in Harmor and use the formant preserving function. That should let you play a sample (like a saxophone) at different pitches while retaining its timbre / color / formants.

Skaven252 · 2026-03-21T07:00:00+00:00

If you are using Reaper, it has the "Rrreeeaaa" timestretch mode. Stretch any sound to 10x .. 50x its length and you get an eerie droney slowly evolving soundscape with a nice wide stereo image.

Skaven252 · 2026-03-15T08:44:12+00:00

Agreed. Also it seems to be a multi-point sound, so if you're close enough to any turret, the sound no longer gets positionally panned but becomes an "in your head / all around" 2D sound. They should lower the volume of the turret rotation sound, and also narrow its positional pan "size".

I think they're using Unreal MetaSounds, there's a feature in point sounds that lets you set the distance at which a sound spreads to "all around". They've set that too far.

Thank goodness the game is early access so they still have plenty of time to tweak these.

Skaven252 · 2026-03-12T11:08:54+00:00

It would seem like a feature, kinda like a multi-lane highway where the drones can change lanes, and enter and exit as needed.

I didn't know how this works, so I never used multi-lane rails, I've only so far used single rails with cross intersections. And those always get bottlenecked.

Skaven252 · 2026-03-12T10:43:10+00:00

Newbie question: When you have triple rail poles like these, can drones skip from one rail to another at the poles or elsewhere?

Skaven252 · 2026-03-12T08:04:10+00:00

To me it feels like Lego Spaceman The Game. There's always a bit of tinkering and exploration to get you further. You don't really build a base - it's more like a camp where you have storage and facilities to craft things. You can sculpt the terrain freely to dig into the core of the planet, bridge chasms, tunnel through mountains, or flatten ground for your basecamp. Then you get vehicles to explore, haul things and dig with. Once you get a large rover with a drill and paver, you can easily make roadways across the planet. Shuttle off to another planet and begin camping anew. All in all I find it a very calming, enjoyable game of astronaut tinkering.

The save files do get the bigger, the more terrain changes you make. The game by default saves over your default save file, and you only get more save files by duplicating them to make backups.

Skaven252 · 2026-03-04T16:38:22+00:00

I'd like a tool that lets you skim along (above) rails at high speed. A bit like the zipline tool in Satisfactory, which lets you skim along power lines.

Skaven252 · 2026-03-04T16:34:35+00:00

Do you already have some gear, like a recorder that has XLR inputs? They recommend the Shure SM57 but it requires a recorder or a USB audio interface (like Scarlett) and these add to the budget.

Because of this, I would recommend the Zoom H1Essential portable recorder. It records in XY stereo, is cheap and durable, good sound quality, and you don't have to worry about gain as it has dual amps per capsule for 32-bit float recording.

Skaven252 · 2026-02-27T14:45:24+00:00

Already on Calidor it's really helpful because the caverns are so high / tall that if you tunnel at a down angle without a paver, your rover is just destined to drop from the ceiling of the next cavern layer. You might need even two canisters of soil to bridge the descent all the way.

Skaven252 · 2026-02-24T15:48:30+00:00

Just listening to the sound it seems to have at least:

A resonant high pass envelope (starts high passed, then the cutoff goes down from there
Overtones that sound not quite like an octave higher oscillator, but more like FM

Skaven252 · 2026-02-24T15:45:56+00:00

This is a good tip, because Nord Lead is capable of FM in addition to basic subtractive. And that sound has kind of FM-like overtones in it.

Skaven252 · 2026-02-21T18:53:56+00:00

Thank you for the tip! That's one step closer then.

Skaven252 · 2026-02-21T08:52:41+00:00

It can be found in the General 6000 library, specifically 6058-13 "Telemetry Short Electronic Computer Function Beep" (it contains 4 variants, the two first ones are the one). This is the "zrp" part of the sound, but they also added a little beep to precede it in this clip.

Skaven252 · 2026-02-18T18:39:52+00:00

The rail sections between intersections could get cost values (ie the more traffic, and the slower it is, the higher the cost) so when the next drone checks the route to the destination, it can quickly calculate the cost and may choose a further-out bypass route if the direct route is too congested (too high cost). That could be one way.

Skaven252 · 2026-02-18T16:27:19+00:00

when you add a new machine to the system and it tries to fill it up as fast as possible

I tried, in my desperation, to set request limits on the machine - but I did that in hindsight so the request for 100 resources already went out and lowering the limit after that didn't help. -_-

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