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[martinuzz]

Yea it is indeed from the vanilla factions expanded: insectoids.

Vanilla expanded mod series is nice. Most are not very game changing, some are, (genetics, factions: insectoids, factions: mechanoids).

EDIT: Geeesh Randy. Really?
11 cannibal pirates raid vs 10 colonists. The pirates are all carrying sniper rifles, and they all have between 10 and 16 shooting skill. I don't use killboxes. This should be good.

... Yeah, 2 minutes and 4 instakills later, time to load an autosave.

[Great Order]

There's a reason I always turn off the adaptation in storyteller settings. It's basically a punishment for doing well.

[Grim Portent]

Trying out Combat Extended at the moment, been having a few awkward runs, but for the most part it's pretty nice to not have to shoot a random raider 12 times to kill them.

Bugs and mechanoids feel overtuned in it though, especially the VE ones.


Currently doing a VE Pirates start with an all Saurid crew, set up my base so the turret chunk has a big line of fire along the only entrance and it's been blowing away all my enemies quite easily. It's out of bullets now though, so until I get more research done I'm down to my colonists and some starter mechs for defence.

Playing with a bunch of the Pirate curses enabled, most notably the Curse of the Blind, so I don't get letters for any events. Every raid, every caravan or manhunter and so on has no notifications of their arrival. The auto-pause function is disabled by it and my only notification for hostiles is that I have Red Alert installed so my base flushes a lovely crimson every time enemies are on the map. It's been interesting, and surprisingly not resulted in my death. Pirate storyteller is a gentle one I guess.

[Great Order]

Get CE Guns, it adds more options for dealing with the mechanoids.

Remember, use EMP/ion rounds to stun and burn them, jellied prometheum cooks them (Slowly, use it for support rather than to kill them), M72 LAWs can kill a centipede in a single hit if it's not changed. Give everyone two smoke grenades too, they're necessary for pods because they stop turrets (Including yours, be warned) from targeting while you can still shoot through them, albeit with reduced accuracy.

AP ammo is the best basic one. It'll smash through basic mechanoid armour and regular pawn armour, while still inflicting good bleeding and general damage.

What I tend to do for loadouts is [Gun], [Ammo for gun], knife (For if the enemy gets into melee), 2-3 M72 LAWs (If their primary gun isn't too bulky or heavy), 2 smoke grenades, 3 herbal medicine (For stabilising/treating in the field, bleeding is super dangerous with CE), 1 perishable meal.

Melee gets no knife, extra smoke grenades and extra M72 LAWs.

[forsaken1111]

I really wish CE's loadout system worked more like compositable loadout's tags so you could layer tags instead of making bespoke loadouts.

[Great Order]

Honestly a big thing for me would be persistence across saves. If I could store loadouts so I didn't have to make new ones every new game it'd be great.

[Vivalas]

I really wish CE's loadout system worked more like compositable loadout's tags so you could layer tags instead of making bespoke loadouts.

YES. I've said this in various places like a million times and even floated it on the discord once or twice and was ignored. Maybe I need to try harder, but it makes no sense to go and edit every loadout just to get people to carry some grenades and such. At the very least we need a "general" loadout applied to everyone.

Would also be cool to have an option to make loadouts additive, so I can give them guns manually (and use simple sidearms if I get really tired of them dropping the guns), and then just specify loadouts for things like special items and melee weapons.

[Horizon]

Is this game still good on console? I know it doesn't support mods on PS or Xbox but sometimes the vanilla experience is good enough.

[scriver]

I have no idea how the game handles with a controller but I do think the game does not need mods to be worth buying. I played... a lot of hours of vanilla before I started installing kids.

[Great Order]

I played... a lot of hours of vanilla before I started installing kids.

Note that running Rimworld on a child is not a good idea.

[BigD145]

Is this game still good on console? I know it doesn't support mods on PS or Xbox but sometimes the vanilla experience is good enough.

There are dozens of quality of life mods. Some give you more control for managing the people/entities in a game about managing people. Some clean up the RAM usage. There are workbench order mods that add triggers and sorting. No, I would really not play without mods. Even a handful of QoL mods changes everything.

It really doesn't take long playing vanilla before you go "wait, why can't I...."

[delphonso]

For a first-time play, yeah sure. The game has enough to it at the core to be interesting.

After a while, or after you've tasted the modded experience, the vanilla game looks unfinished. Quality of Life mods become essential.

[Grim Portent]

Honestly if I were to pare my mods list back to the absolute minimum, I think Colony Manager is the only one that's actually kind of essential to me. I have a tendency to tab out when I don't have any actual stuff to do, and letting the game auto assign hunting and chopping for me is the main barrier between coming back to a starving colony or not.

There's a heap of other mods I like to have, quality of life and content related, but they aren't as fundamental to how I play the game as CM is.

[Chiefwaffles]

Eh. Rimworld is perfectly fine and fun without mods for any amount of time. Mods (can) add to the experience, but it's a complete experience before the mods too.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah. If my options are "play rimworld without mods on a console or play them with mods on my pc" I'm going to play with mods on my pc.

If my options are console or nothing? I'd play on console!