this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
58 points (96.8% liked)
Games
32946 readers
991 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Weekly Threads:
Rules:
-
Submissions have to be related to games
-
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
-
No excessive self-promotion
-
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
-
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
-
No linking to piracy
More information about the community rules can be found here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I circled back to vanilla no DLC RimWorld. I've owned the game for years, have quite a bit of time in Dwarf Fortress, but due to the fact I tried to mod the game right away it didn't hook me. Turns out it's really hard to learn a game and look stuff up when you have 200+ mods that alter things in tiny ways to make them completely different than base game. New colony is going strong! Just finished unlocking the advanced research bench, stable food source, strong outer walls. Such a fun game. I've been missing out. If anyone has any beginner tips or anything let me know. I'm gonna try to make it all the way and build the space ship!
Update: It's over, damn Mega Spiders.
Every single colony I start, I think will be the one to finally make it to space. And every run ends short in a completely new way.
https://m.youtube.com/c/FrancisJohnYT
Has plenty of video nuggets on various games including Rimworld and Oxygen Not Included.
That's one of an important rule for me in every game, never mod a game before doing a vanilla run first. You won't understand what a mod is changing until you know what's the vanilla behavior. Especially for games like rimworld with 500+ mods, you gotta know every aspect on what the mod changes and what are the mods that can be clashing.
You can try a small list of qol mods tho, once you get used to some its impossible to play without them. And keep trying, you will eventually get there once you understand every possible problem and how to tackle or avoid it.