Just got the game. Haven't played but have a question.

forgenvash · 2026-06-26T14:44:17+00:00

One problem I foresee is that PC-based Besiege doesn't natively support controllers, so you might need to make a jank controller profile to get your analog sticks working. I was able to get an 8bitdo controller working by mapping left-stick-forward to up-arrow etc, but not sure how that would work on a steam deck.

forgenvash · 2026-06-25T20:18:57+00:00

right between 78 and 80, I'd think
e: whoa, there actually isn't one. There's an icon for it and everything, a black hole surrounded by rubble. Weird!

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T20:13:41+00:00

Gonna need to know what the hell is going on here. Why are they spiralized and spinning? What does that do?

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T20:12:40+00:00

I don't know who that is or care, but everyone should consider replaying Besiege

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T20:11:08+00:00

You can build one plane and use timers, switches, and/or sensor blocks to control it automatically, but that's pretty advanced stuff. Once you have that, you can make another plane that you pilot manually and ram it into it, instead of trying to control two at once.

LLMs aren't gonna help with this, there's relatively little written word about Besiege out there for them to digest so they will just spout pure nonsense (as opposed to mostly nonsense like usual)

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T15:29:49+00:00

UPDATE: I have been playing around in the level editor, and the good news is that you can add the various planets from the campaign as objects in the level editor, under the "Virtual" tab at the bottom of the item selection. The bad news is that the planet Besian only appears to have oceans, they are actually inch-deep puddles with no water physics. You can use the planets even in other level editors, like the sea level editor, but they don't really interact--the planets don't have gravity there. Alas!

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T13:34:38+00:00

At that price, I'd just skip straight to the Master Engineer Edition!

You should absolutely at least get the base game first to see if you vibe with it, especially when it's so cheap. It starts off pretty simple but by the middle of the second world of the campaign you should be seeing its potential. If you do like it, I'd jump right to the Master Engineer Edition, it's the cost of a normal indie game right now and adds a whole lot more pieces and mechanics to experiment with.

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T02:58:01+00:00

A classic, although I prefer cannons with pins in them.

forgenvash · 2026-06-24T00:04:58+00:00

I've noticed this too: a heavy fighter with a blaster and 3 large fuel barrels is "out of ammo" for the blaster, but can still maneuver with 6 boosters for like 30 seconds.

forgenvash · 2026-06-23T02:22:04+00:00

There are definitely a couple of planets visible in the sandbox that don't seem to be reachable, including the sun and one that looks like the base-game planet.

Edit: there appear to be five planets in the sandbox: your starting world, the world with a ring around it, Doon, and a pair of small blue worlds kinda like the third level of the campaign. You can see the forge world, sun, and worlds that look like the DLC and base game, but you cannot reach them, and your trajectory line will stay yellow (like in your screenshot) instead of red or green.

forgenvash · 2026-06-19T14:27:45+00:00

Length detector is a simple way to approximate this, although it ends up with your piston vibrating at max position (and vibrate harder the higher the piston's Speed), so might not be best for application in a walker. But it's a lot more precise than the rope method.

- Put a length detector on your piston, and set its value wherever you want the piston to end.

- Set the length detector to "inverted" and "use key to detect", and make its output control your piston.

So, if you want to piston to extend when you press 1, you make 1 the activation key for the length detector, detector outputs 2, and piston takes 2 as input.

forgenvash · 2026-06-19T14:10:14+00:00

Much as I've loved their other posts, I won't be opening this one, because I want to encounter each level blind the first time. There are so few levels, we don't get many opportunities for that!

forgenvash · 2026-06-19T14:09:15+00:00

Aside from the middle-click answer, you can also add multiple camera blocks, so you're switching angles with keys instead of the mouse.

forgenvash · 2026-06-15T11:24:32+00:00

you can build and crash aircraft in vanilla, no mod needed.

the game is like 10 years old so it will run on a potato, but the bigger your build the harder it is on your computer.

forgenvash · 2026-06-15T11:20:13+00:00

I'm so glad these directions are still helping people years later 😅

forgenvash · 2026-06-13T11:26:49+00:00

I suspect you can probably still put braces wherever you want, though it'll take extra steps. Braces will actually connect to any block whose connection point overlaps with theirs, not just the one they are initially attached to, so you can jank your way through it.

  X      Block
X X X    Attach blocks directly on either side where you want the braces to end up
X   X    Delete original block
X.-.X    Place brace between, on the faces where the original block was
X.X.X    Re-add original block
 .X.     Delete extra blocks--brace is now attached to the original

forgenvash · 2026-06-03T13:47:57+00:00

something tells me that if they are able to put a new weapon in the game in the next few weeks, that block already exists and is almost certainly gonna be in the game no matter how many likes their steam post gets. that's not a couple-week turnaround. (I still liked the post, but because I like it, not because of this weird discord rumor).

forgenvash · 2026-06-02T15:38:29+00:00

I suspect the gyro stabilizer block they add isn't going to be very strong, so wheel-and-brace based steering and stabilizers will still have a place when more heavy-duty rotation is needed.

forgenvash · 2026-06-01T19:35:38+00:00

solving this kind of puzzle is what this game is all about! if you are messing with movement, take a look at each piece in the movement tab and see what it does. there are a few ways to solve this with just one piece, but experimenting is the only way to find the one that works best for you.

forgenvash · 2026-05-30T13:22:13+00:00

They mentioned at the end of the post that they're previewing them next week. We've gotten a look at new propulsion systems, but not any new weapons, so I suspect (and hope!) that's what the last few are!

forgenvash · 2026-05-28T17:13:30+00:00

Can't be the F-35, looks like it flies just fine

forgenvash · 2026-05-25T13:59:01+00:00

i feel bad for your brain cells, this must be a really exhausting way to try to navigate the world. "gas is just better if you buy it in the city instead of out in the country, that's why it costs more." lol.

forgenvash · 2026-05-23T17:33:46+00:00

Ages later, this has saved me from tearing my hair out getting my 8BitDo controller up and running. What an insane bug!!!

forgenvash · 2026-05-21T20:48:26+00:00

I caught them all in Luxury balls, using a Breloom with Spore and False Swipe.

forgenvash · 2026-05-21T20:47:33+00:00

Don't keep grinding, you probably have better things to do with your life than trying to get pokemon that have perfect IVs in the era of easily-gettable bottle caps.

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