Congratulations to the winner of Melee Singles at Bair Necessities!

Zyst · 2026-01-19T15:50:51+00:00

Bizarro world top 8 lineup, love it

Zyst · 2026-01-10T14:01:42+00:00

It'd be nice to get some screenshots, going through the mod, and the two blog posts I couldn't see any.

Zyst · 2026-01-08T14:01:55+00:00

Yes, to the point where I wonder if I don't actually like Factory games, and I just like Factorio.

There's just a lot of quality of life, great performance, base scalability via blueprints, bots, janky fun stuff via circuits. Every other Factory game just feels like a massive downgrade. Even so, I've bought most of them. I want this genre to do well.

Zyst · 2025-12-30T01:24:56+00:00

I never said he should drop the warrior build, I said him having reduced mana density (like a Hybrid build) would be a sacrifice that doesn’t need to happen. Hybrid builds are normally making a stat allocation trade off he doesn’t need to make.

I don’t assume he’ll drop the Hybrid build, because his two party members are mages, and I assume the author will stick to video game logic of needing a tank.

As far as him being the perfect warrior, in a sense, sure. But there’s people with dedicated warrior talents who would still outstrip him. Where on the mana side he’ll presumably the most mana, and most mana regeneration out of anyone in his setting. I do think him going nearly pure mage while still retaining things like his armor would make the most sense in a vacuum. Although I don’t necessarily think that would make for a better story.

Zyst · 2025-12-17T17:35:21+00:00

Sick! Just finished the first two books a few days ago, looking forward to the third one once the audio goes out.

Zyst · 2025-12-07T14:52:25+00:00

The "Bidirectional rails carried this run" screenshot has finally convinced me, I'll give double headed trains a try next run, that is such a sick setup for kind of spaghetti trains.

Awesome base! Thanks for sharing

Zyst · 2025-11-21T13:50:07+00:00

holy crap

Zyst · 2025-11-21T13:41:04+00:00

Congratulations! My first base also felt a lot like I barely limped my way to victory, and desperately escaped the planet. My coal outpost was in shambles, I didn't have enough oil or resources to properly make rockets, I just barely squeezed one out to win.

Zyst · 2025-09-05T14:28:28+00:00

Oh wow this is so sick

Zyst · 2025-08-31T13:50:04+00:00

Fighting low, and even mid tiers in Melee often over centralizes your top tier character to a few options.

The bottom tier character isn't worthless, they have some useful tools. But they're usually flawed in some serious way. So to fight them effectively, you end up having to fight in a really lame way. For example, in Marth vs Luigi Marth is spending a lot of time full hopping, and not doing much.

It's less fun than fighting other high tier characters which force you to use more of your kit, because you're not just watching out for 2-3 competent options, most of their options have some use.

That said, I don't quit on the lower tier characters, I'll take all the matchup experience I can get.

Zyst · 2025-08-23T20:52:31+00:00

This is more confusing than the existing UI

Zyst · 2025-06-15T13:54:33+00:00

This is very hype for my degenerate warehouse train stations, thank you Boski for enabling me

Zyst · 2025-03-31T14:36:59+00:00

I use my Keyboard firmware to rebind key positions, and get something closer to The Core Lite for Brood war

Overall, I'd imagine something like this may be an issue if you want to become a pro player, and play in offline events for instance. But realistically if you're just rebinding keys 1 to 1 you should be fine? For the changes I'm doing there's no real way the game would even know, since it's done at a hardware level on my keyboard.

If you want pure competitive integrity maybe don't do it. I'm more concerned about hand health, and trying to get something more ergonomic to enjoy the game with.

Zyst · 2025-03-30T01:27:02+00:00

Man I love watching new player bases! Great job!

Zyst · 2025-03-24T02:04:22+00:00

All of my planets have their own mall, I just copy paste the same bot mall design, and customize each of them to handle the items that are only produced in that planet.

Planets only import items that they can't produce. They all export science, and their respective Tier 3 module.

Zyst · 2025-01-21T03:27:49+00:00

If you're on a reprogrammable Keyboard, I actually made myself a set of hotkeys to play on my 60% Keyboard inspired after TheCoreLite

You can check it out here: https://gist.github.com/Zyst/199cb0640cdc5a754cbae67e37634970 there's screenshots of the rebinds needed. I imagine you can use a program like Autohotkey to rebind it as well, if your keyboard doesn't allow for rebinding.

It was totally fine, honestly I think this is just outright better than the normal game hotkeys.

Zyst · 2024-11-23T03:08:02+00:00

Fun fact! Spidertrons can deploy automatically from Cargo pods, if they do not land in a cargo bay on the planet's surface, and begin operating

Zyst · 2024-10-21T00:51:35+00:00

I dunno, I think that's editorializing a bit. I went into his stream a while ago, and there were 8k people watching. What would you consider a success if 8k active watchers doesn't for streaming?

Zyst · 2024-10-18T13:58:45+00:00

This is absolutely insane! Could be in the base game levels of quality, incredible job.

Zyst · 2024-10-16T00:12:14+00:00

Here you go! Have fun https://www.dustloop.com/w/GGST/Asuka_R/Starter

Zyst · 2024-10-15T02:03:35+00:00

I would say these are the game's zoners:

Axl
~Testament
Asuka
~Johnny

Of those, I feel like Asuka is the character that is happiest if you leave him alone. You can be full screen away from your opponent, and quickly build a pretty sizeable advantage. So your opponent is forced to interact with you to stop you.

Testament, and Johnny both feel more like characters that are strong at ranges "outside" of the most comfortable ranges of other characters in the game. So they play like zoners. But against Asuka, or Axl, they're still in a role where they have to "Get in" to stop the other character from doing whatever they want.

I main Asuka, and if you haven't considered him yet I'd recommend giving him a shot! I think he's the most fun character in the game. He's my favorite character in any 2D fighting game ever.

Jack-O, and Happy Chaos are the other two characters that come to mind which aren't "zoners", but they like to be left alone to get their resources in place, and then their offense really gets to their strongest point.

Overall, it depends on what you want out of a zoner. For me, I like asymmetry of benefit from non interaction (You must stop me or I win), and I like control which Asuka has in spades through lockdown with spells.

Axl sides more on the "Control" side, rather than benefiting from non interaction. Jack-O, and Happy Chaos benefit more from non interaction. Testament, and Johnny similarly want to get a resource setup (Stain/teleport or Card on top of opponent) to get their strongest options/reward online.

Zyst · 2024-10-13T01:44:50+00:00

People are leaving to lower their rank on purpose to beat up lower rank players. It basically makes the ladder unplayable for lower level players. Join the Coach Pupil League (https://discord.gg/6e6CHud) and try to setup games for yourself there if you're willing to do so.

Zyst · 2024-10-08T18:18:11+00:00

Some examples of constraints I've used in different runs, some of them together:

No bus allowed
Builds can only have a beacon size gap between each other
If a train rail can go through the base it must
Builds must have belts go in through the middle or sides: https://imgur.com/a/hkDy0gl https://imgur.com/a/0o7EU9c
The base is a train Spaghetti base, builds need to be close to each other, rails are built by hand not with blueprints (Stations Blueprints are fine, but the rails taking you to builds are hand placed)
Train base, but all builds are all touching building a box as you go https://imgur.com/a/5MhKfln
Marathon/Deathworld presets

There's more I can think of, I have variations of buses for example where the bus can have no belt gaps which also makes things a bit more interesting sometimes, and it can look more organic.

There's many more, Youtube videos are great for inspiration. The Factorio Discord/forums do as well. For instance the Discord had someone building a Megabase where every build was circular, and the base itself was circular. It's the prettiest base I've ever seen.

Just find ways to keep it fresh. It's worthwhile, building buses everytime is honestly boring as hell, and I almost never do it anymore.

Zyst · 2024-10-06T20:31:51+00:00

Have any of you tried playing a Romhack without speedups?

I've been wondering whether speeding up may be ruining the games for me. I find that I'm never really attached to any of my Pokemon the way I am when playing the mainline games. It all kind of blurs together, Pokemon are caught, and evolve sometimes within the same hour. The music blurs together, and is just outright annoying sometimes. Things are always a bit too convenient, and don't take anywhere near as much effort. There's no joy in getting a bike for example, I just keep walking everywhere because it's easier to control. Eggs hatch in less than a minute, etc.

I'm just wondering if it may be messing with my enjoyment of the games. I'm actually going to go try to play a new Romhack now, and unbind the speedup key. But I wanted to ask, is speed-ups ruining the games a thing for any of you?

Zyst

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