I first read the title as Kickstarter: ******
I was disappointed.
I was disappointed.
Kickstarter: Rimworld
- Thread starter produno
- Start date
Users who are viewing this thread
You have a dirty mind.
Also, the game thus far is excellent, even for being in an Alpha. Though after a while there isn't a whole lot to do, with very little researchable technology that actually does anything. On my second play-through (First colony crashed and burned. Literally. I won't even go in to details with that...) I ended up having my best researcher go on a hunger-strike, then he gave up and wandered the desert forlorn when starvation set in on day 7. As a result, I only had 66% of the manpower I usually had available, and the lack of that manpower is very painful early on.
Thankfully I was favored by the Rimworld Gods and did not suffer any events until after day 30, but they quickly made up for lost time. A traveler started trekking across my map, and I did the only sensible thing a person without sufficient manpower could do: Kidnap them and make them join me. It only took a few days before they decided to join my colony, which put me back at 3 people. Not long afterwards, a group of seven (!!!) pirate raiders landed in the corner of the map and attacked my colony, very nearly destroying it if it weren't for the fact that most of my defense grid was located within my walls. Buggers did at least 1,500 metal worth of damage, though, and killed John, who was an expert shooter and was the other "original" inhabitant of my colony. I managed to incapacitate one of the raiders rather than outright kill them, though, which allowed me to replace him.
The same process has repeated over and over since then, though I'm slowly getting better at repelling the enemies, using their captured weapons and soldiers against them and whatnot, they keep coming with more soldiers and better weapons while I have to live off of their leftovers. Thankfully I've gotten more efficient at it, having super fortified my base (Sandbags are probably the most useful thing ever. Even if you think it's a waste of your hard earned metal. Sandbags. Trust me.) and killing them before they get within range to do sufficient damage. Most of the damage done to my colony now is the result of turrets exploding and lamps short-circuiting in the rain.
Stories aside, I've really enjoyed the game thus far, but the lack of variety (All of the characters are actually predefined, I'm pretty sure) and flavor does become more apparent the further you get in to the game, though it is only an Alpha. I'm excited to see what future updates bring.
Also, the game thus far is excellent, even for being in an Alpha. Though after a while there isn't a whole lot to do, with very little researchable technology that actually does anything. On my second play-through (First colony crashed and burned. Literally. I won't even go in to details with that...) I ended up having my best researcher go on a hunger-strike, then he gave up and wandered the desert forlorn when starvation set in on day 7. As a result, I only had 66% of the manpower I usually had available, and the lack of that manpower is very painful early on.
Thankfully I was favored by the Rimworld Gods and did not suffer any events until after day 30, but they quickly made up for lost time. A traveler started trekking across my map, and I did the only sensible thing a person without sufficient manpower could do: Kidnap them and make them join me. It only took a few days before they decided to join my colony, which put me back at 3 people. Not long afterwards, a group of seven (!!!) pirate raiders landed in the corner of the map and attacked my colony, very nearly destroying it if it weren't for the fact that most of my defense grid was located within my walls. Buggers did at least 1,500 metal worth of damage, though, and killed John, who was an expert shooter and was the other "original" inhabitant of my colony. I managed to incapacitate one of the raiders rather than outright kill them, though, which allowed me to replace him.
The same process has repeated over and over since then, though I'm slowly getting better at repelling the enemies, using their captured weapons and soldiers against them and whatnot, they keep coming with more soldiers and better weapons while I have to live off of their leftovers. Thankfully I've gotten more efficient at it, having super fortified my base (Sandbags are probably the most useful thing ever. Even if you think it's a waste of your hard earned metal. Sandbags. Trust me.) and killing them before they get within range to do sufficient damage. Most of the damage done to my colony now is the result of turrets exploding and lamps short-circuiting in the rain.
Stories aside, I've really enjoyed the game thus far, but the lack of variety (All of the characters are actually predefined, I'm pretty sure) and flavor does become more apparent the further you get in to the game, though it is only an Alpha. I'm excited to see what future updates bring.
Alpha 2's released. Notable changes that I've noticed include:
Still a great game, even in Alpha. I highly recommend it.
Edit: Oh yes, and also definable growing areas, designatable and configurable just like other zones, where you can choose what you wish to grow as opposed to the rubbish growing areas they forced you to use before.
- Stone economy, allowing you to make stone walls with 1,000 durability that are non-flammable (almost 4x as durable as metal walls)
- Added recipe stations
- More food variety and the addition of a cooking system
- Added zones that you can manually disable roofing on (Allows for protected indoor solar panels)
- Turrets only occupy one tile instead of the previous four, and also seem slightly more useful than before
- Probably more things I can't remember or haven't discovered yet
Still a great game, even in Alpha. I highly recommend it.
Edit: Oh yes, and also definable growing areas, designatable and configurable just like other zones, where you can choose what you wish to grow as opposed to the rubbish growing areas they forced you to use before.
Alpha 3 – Factional Infighting released
Plenty of cool new stuff.
Be sure to check out mods too, there was already in Alpha 2 very good mod improvements and best of them have already been made to Alpha 3 ready. Should be more coming in too with improved modding support.
Plenty of cool new stuff.
Be sure to check out mods too, there was already in Alpha 2 very good mod improvements and best of them have already been made to Alpha 3 ready. Should be more coming in too with improved modding support.
Alpha 5 – Under Siege released
Big content update: Raiders will build siege encampment with artillery, clothing & armor system, endgame escape with building your own space ship (optional), and other stuff.
This game is coming along really nicely with frequent content updates.
A quick recap of improvements in Alpha 5:
Sieges added. Raiders will now sometimes besiege the colony by setting up a fortified position nearby and bombarding you until you die or come out to break the siege. Of course this also means there are now researchable and buildable mortar weapons – both explosive and incendiary.
Escape ship added. You can now, at great cost, build a ship to escape the planet if you wish.
Crashed ancient ship part incident added. Sometimes this bad boy will crash-land nearby and start emitting an ever-increasing psychic drone that slowly drives colonists insane. Attack it to make it stop, but beware its defenses.
New mechanoid type added – the scyther.
Many new sound effects from the illustrious Alistair Lindsay.
A new gear system allows changing out of clothing. Clothing now has basic effects, like reducing damage or movement speed.
There is now an info card you can view for most things in the game. For weapons, it shows statistics about damage, accuracy, and so on. For animals, it displays health, damage, meat amounts. Lots of other things can be inspected as well.
A game history tracker records the history of your colony in graphs of wealth, population, and happiness, as well as recording individual important events.
Game history is now uploaded automatically to our servers after an opt-in prompt is agreed to. This uploads your game history – the same one you see on your history graph – to us to help us balance future versions.
More translations added (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, others) and existing translations updated.
Language can now be switched by clicking the flag on the main game screen.
Lots of other small improvements.
Sieges added. Raiders will now sometimes besiege the colony by setting up a fortified position nearby and bombarding you until you die or come out to break the siege. Of course this also means there are now researchable and buildable mortar weapons – both explosive and incendiary.
Escape ship added. You can now, at great cost, build a ship to escape the planet if you wish.
Crashed ancient ship part incident added. Sometimes this bad boy will crash-land nearby and start emitting an ever-increasing psychic drone that slowly drives colonists insane. Attack it to make it stop, but beware its defenses.
New mechanoid type added – the scyther.
Many new sound effects from the illustrious Alistair Lindsay.
A new gear system allows changing out of clothing. Clothing now has basic effects, like reducing damage or movement speed.
There is now an info card you can view for most things in the game. For weapons, it shows statistics about damage, accuracy, and so on. For animals, it displays health, damage, meat amounts. Lots of other things can be inspected as well.
A game history tracker records the history of your colony in graphs of wealth, population, and happiness, as well as recording individual important events.
Game history is now uploaded automatically to our servers after an opt-in prompt is agreed to. This uploads your game history – the same one you see on your history graph – to us to help us balance future versions.
More translations added (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, others) and existing translations updated.
Language can now be switched by clicking the flag on the main game screen.
Lots of other small improvements.
Big content update: Raiders will build siege encampment with artillery, clothing & armor system, endgame escape with building your own space ship (optional), and other stuff.
This game is coming along really nicely with frequent content updates.
Another big cornerstone ready.
Alpha 6 – Whole New World released
World map generation, different biomes, water, new wild life, character traits, injury system and medical skill overhaul.
Alpha 6 – Whole New World released
World map generation, different biomes, water, new wild life, character traits, injury system and medical skill overhaul.
Epicrules said:
I don't see how that's a problem - a giant rock falls off and hits you square in the face? I could see that taking your nose off easily, or at least crushing it beyond reasonable repair.
produno said:
I don't see how that's a problem either. Getting shot multiple times could very easily cause serious damage to numerous areas of the body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory
I phrased that awkwardly, it wasn't really meant to be a complaint about the injury system, just some complaints about random stuff with the game in general. I.E. a random ore out in the open having a "roof" that will fall on you when you try to mine it and no way to get rid of it safely other than blowing it up.
Moose! said:
I dis-agree getting shot in the leg for instance with a pistol would cause multiple bullet wounds to the rest of your body. Seems a little far fetched to me. It happened quite a few time in my last game which resulted in me getting bored pretty quickly
.Okay, so I can now create my double peglegged, matrix kung-fu trained, claw-handed, glowing cybernetic eye having, fullbody cobra leather wearing mad scientist who funds his research and colony building by hunting and dissecting local tribal populace to sell their organs to space black market. And why wouldn't he, after all those GOLDEN WALLS are going to cost fortune.
For now there is still probably need for couple of manservant minions to do the colony chores, but after robotic update comes (I would imagine it'll come in certainty) there is no need for meatbags. Occasional guests can always have their limps removed and be seated in dining room so they won't wander off and play with lab equipments.
Yes.. I see potential in this..
For now there is still probably need for couple of manservant minions to do the colony chores, but after robotic update comes (I would imagine it'll come in certainty) there is no need for meatbags. Occasional guests can always have their limps removed and be seated in dining room so they won't wander off and play with lab equipments.
Yes.. I see potential in this..
Alpha 8 – Winter is Coming released
Temperature adds big impact to immersion, now you'll can make you colony interiors comfy with fireplaces and heaters and have to think do your colonists have enough warm clothes on at the winter seasons when they wander outside.
Seasonal harvest is nice too since you'll have to stock some food supplies over winter. Which brings to refrigerator to keep food out of spoiling, it actually produces heat to other side which is nice detail.
Gonna start colony in boreal region which should remind me of Finnish climate Nothing like trying to relive 1866-1868 big famine years. (though with psycothic muffalos and plasma weapons)
Also, this guy is hugely productive, he churns out updates at the pace I rarely see in these indie projects.
He even said he would put more time between updates:
I was like: "Okay, see you in 6 months."
Then 2 months 1 week later: Alpha 8
Temperature adds big impact to immersion, now you'll can make you colony interiors comfy with fireplaces and heaters and have to think do your colonists have enough warm clothes on at the winter seasons when they wander outside.
Seasonal harvest is nice too since you'll have to stock some food supplies over winter. Which brings to refrigerator to keep food out of spoiling, it actually produces heat to other side which is nice detail.
Gonna start colony in boreal region which should remind me of Finnish climate
Nothing like trying to relive 1866-1868 big famine years. (though with psycothic muffalos and plasma weapons)Also, this guy is hugely productive, he churns out updates at the pace I rarely see in these indie projects.
He even said he would put more time between updates:
I was like: "Okay, see you in 6 months."
Then 2 months 1 week later: Alpha 8
