Rimworld Mod Rundown - Vanilla Factions Expanded Empire
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2023
- In this video we suck up to royalty for a chance to earn their table scraps.
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Thanks for the prepare carefully warning I had no idea 🙏
I wonder if it's still true with it finally getting an update in 1.5, now that it uses Harmony and reworked how it handles adding new pawns.
Thank you for telling me about preparr carefully, ive been wondering whats causing my game to slow down so freaking much
Better GC, FrozenSnowfox Tweaks, Rocketman and to a minor part, dubs performance analyser can help a lot with increasing performance. Hope it helps!
Thanks for the PSA on prepare carefully. I stopped using it a long time ago in favour of character editor but I had no idea how bad that mod actually is. I assume it's simply still on the top results for most popular mods on the workshop and gets featured by default in list videos.
It's that but also the fact all the other character mods are dog shit in terms of UI and prepared is already bad in that department.
Other character mods require you to learn a whole new game pretty much to use it
It also has some bits that are great for people who struggle with self-control, like calculating a colonist's value and only being there for the initial starting of your playthrough, helps make sure your tweaks to a pawn don't go far beyond what the RNG gives you and removes the temptation of tweaking every bad pawn the storyteller tries to force into your colony.
Now this is how you start a new year. Some things I've noticed while attempting a royal playthrough though is that it's royal pain in the butt towards the end. I had to start a second colony just to build a second royal palace, rooms also have a max size limit meaning making a throne room for the higher ranks gets super crowded especially if you're trying to stick multiple thrones in there as you need multiple high ranked colonists. Also I never once experienced terrorism that wasn't just them trying to shoot my nobles though I'm awful at modding so it's probably on my end
Map size is definitely a consideration for nobles. Changing the generation size to the biggest is probably the only way you could ever fit everything comfortably into a single tile without needing to do some shenanigans.
Yea idk about how many high ranked Royals you had but I got mine to the max rank and my throne room was stuffed to hell. But it looked damn good lol
absolutely love this! wish you a great and healthy year!
Just started an empire new family run. This has been the most difficult, mind boggling, resource juggling game of Rimworld to date. I have been constantly harassed by those deserters. They pop out of every other caravan. I turned one back though. Haha!
Good video, I can see this series really catching on and becoming a mainstream thing in the RW community. Mod reviews/rundowns are something that's seriously lacking so it's lovely to see some people doing it.
Never miss one of these, thank you so much for making them!
Thanks for the info on prepare carefully
8:30 glad this section was included I use prepare carefully and 60 ticks I considered great due to me often getting roughly 10 frames per second in my last few play throughs
Your videos are so good, they should be featured in the actual module mod descriptions. It's honestly really thorough and well done. You deserve so many more views and subs bro!
Let's go!!! I was waiting for that one!
For some reason this video triggered an itch to play world of warcraft. Truly insidious music choice mate, playing with my nostalgia like that^^
Since the details about the most recent xpac have dropped I've been really struggling to fight the urges to return. I'm about 2 expansions behind at this point but that itch to follow lines on a map and smash monsters is really bad, haha.
@@MysteriousFawx I haven't played since shadowlands. It's weird how the game still has such a pull on me every other expansion or so... it's absolutely devastating for my productivity though so I better not think about it too much lest another 6 months "disappear" lol
I must say, you make high quality content. Keep it up!
some stuff I've noticed from using this mod a few days, starting on New Family with CE and Psycasts Expanded enabled [and they're pretty great]:
1) you basically can't win the initial fight with the start without a psylink, and rolling an ascetic pawn as your starting baron blocks psylinks, so you'd have to devmode that in. [I did. ascetic ftw]
2) if you figured out step 1 [psychic shock from VPE helps a lot], plan on keeping the burning/beat-down base, and want to stop your expensive stuff from being looted, you have a choice:
a) save the huge gold statue, and sell it for like 35-40k silver to buy armor/provisions if you didn't shock+strip a few raiders for deserter gear + guns
b) save the piano for your throneroom if you want to avoid having a dedicated researcher spam those technologies out at the start of the game to satisfy your title
3) it makes you start with a random high-tier melee weapon. if you have VFE: insectoids enabled, those special plasma weapons can generate, and if you get the chainsaw, you can't penetrate deserter armor and will die. if you get a plasmasword or zeushammer, shock a raider and become a highlander from the get-go
4) just grab what you can and run. I did this, and had a great time. your wealth goes down from around 150k to 80, which is a lot more manageable. I started that colony with one of the Nephilim guys from that respective mod, and solo-defended for almost the entire run with looted deserter armor, a toxblade, and calling my laborer team on cooldown to plant my angel crack + food.
Happy new year, boys! and good luck 🤝
Super small interaction with one of the weapons you've mentioned that I absolutely love. The Gladiator meme from Alpha memes gives all melee attacks a chance to stun, combined with the plasmasaw, which hits 10 times a second, makes for the most bonkers and broken melee line you can possibly imagine. Being able to stunlock Gallatross was always hilarious.
@@MysteriousFawx lul that's pretty good
i called in a team of labourers to help out with the big harvest, 4 of them showed up, decided to be a nice host and have anything as a schedule and 1h sleep start at the 11 PM, they started a feast party, ate my food, then left... what an amazingly realistic mod, huge nonironic thank you to the VE team for this amazing mod i haven't laughed like that in years
I love alot of the faction expanded mods so much. Recently tried a run with the tribal storyteller and it's soooo difficult. Damn Feralisk
Thanks for the PSA! Did not know that x_x
Could not agree more about Prepare Carefully, I have had so many issues with it, one big one was pawns spawning as invisible (like literally not there at all) but could still be selected, but the cell "they are on" would teleport all over the map every few seconds, ruined a lot of my runs tbh in my earlier days before I just ditched it.
This mod seems amazing, I normally lose my interest when I get around 2 million wealth in the colony, this is definitely gonna give me new objectives!
Awesome rundown! I’ve never seen the fletcher but man do I want to get my hands on one now! 😂
Currently trying to do a royalty run now with the Vanilla Ideology Expansion Royalty Meme so it’s been a blast so far.
Keep an eye out for the video next Monday, you'll see how to get a fletcher with the help of deserters expanded ;)
Damn, so Prepare Carefully could be to blame for my little VFE Deserters conflict error. Thank you for a heads up
Aye, you'll always get people say 'well I've always used prepare carefully and I never have any issues'. But they're also likely only running a handful of QoL mods and never making a colony go longer than 120 days.
It's insanely destructive on long runs.
Can you make a video about other mods that kill your TPS in long runs and how to prevent or fix it? That would be Immensely helpful
I've got an 'essentials' series planned, the main issue is how dry the scripting for those style of mods is, so I'm trying to punch it up a little when I can. It'll cover things like Allow Tool, Work Tab, PUAH, Common Sense and the dozens of Tweak mods I use to make gameplay smoother. A lot of that will play into improving Ticks too.
Uh oh, I'm on year 7 of a massive colony and I have Prepare Carefully installed. I didn't know it was broken. Haven't noticed any issues that I think are attributed to it, but I have a few race and xeno mods and they get mixed up sometimes so I'll see like a Predator from AvP with pig ears or a Qu from All Tomorrows with a white box for a body. Don't think that's Prepare Carefully though, and it doesn't impact my game too much.
It's one of those things that can be hard to tell until you compare it side by side to a similar colony that was made without it.
I used to put low ticks down to 'well it's just because my colony is so big, it has a lot to process'.
But similar colonies without PC were getting anywhere from 60-100 ticks more. It becomes incredibly more noticeable when your mod list creeps into the 300+ range. I can still get full ticks at 3x speed with my current setup, PC wouldn't even reach the 2x cap with that much going on.
The Avp mod is also super janky and can break a late game colony due to the bugged aliens
I put a fair few hours into this mod but I cant help but feel it takes ages to get stuff. Even by starting with the royal scenario!
The balls, the hosting of stuff, also feels lacklustre, because the game just randomly chooses who to play instruments and who to dance with. I'll certainly have it installed, but I doubt I'll ever play it to the end again.
I had the same thing, it makes working with the Empire and having royal pawns a lot more interesting, but means I'm really unlikely to get a 'high' rank with nobility because it costs so much to keep them happy.
You've said that mods that include pawn generation that needs to be stored in worldpawn data causes issues. Do you know if RandomPlus is also problematic in this way?
Great video btw, i'm definitely giving this mod a go. Spicing up the nobility aspect sounds really nice.
Not sure on randomplus personally, I've stopped using pawn editors of any kind due to them occasionally causing conflicts with generation and using multiple xenotype mods. There is a more 'official' VE version of an editor coming out soon that'll work far more safely alongside other mods.
Steam workshop discussion will be your best place to check for randomplus, see if anyone else is raising issues.
@@MysteriousFawx Thank you very much!
Actually... If this helps.. I created a 7mil colony and I.. Have no idea what I'm doing to begin with, but point is, my large dining area has one ideological art piece and reactional games and musical instruments, it's "wonderously impressive" because everything in the room is made of gold, purposely masterworked (mod let's the pawn constantly rebuild until it hits the quality u want) and it's listed as a Ballroom, my dining room just got listed as Ballroom... And now I know why...
P.S I am using Dev mode to purposely increase my wealth by spawning in gold or other high quality items because I want to see and learn how to defend against large scale raids on max difficult, so you know, wonderously impressive is not from my personal skill. Tho this colony likely lost thanks to prep carefully xD
Also amazing video, I have Empire in sleep mode, I had it because I hated the idea of having royal pawns but empire added so much I decided to get it, but I'll activate it and see how long I'll last with them. Pretty cool stuff
Raids will always cap at 1million, but you can always keep using dev mode to generate quests to see you if you can get a 2 or 3 star difficulty one, that seems to exceed the raid point cap and throw the biggest possible threats your way.
Biggest one in raw numbers I ever got was 3 waves of tribals with each one having 150 members. The map was utter carnage.
Can you talk on issues with prepare carefully? I wasn’t aware of its performance issues
It works outside the framework of other mods and even base game systems. Creating pawns via destructive means which are unable to be cleared up with standard garbage collection (GC).
What this means is that over time, you generate hundreds, even thousands of pawns that are never cleared from background data. They just sit around and slow down your save file so using 2 or 3 times speed does absolutely nothing.
Would you make Alpha Prefabs Mod Rundown please?
It's in the pipeline but it's a... Less than positive mod from my perspective? It needs far more explanation than that, I love the concept of it but take issue with some of the balancing. It's a little further down the line with the alpha coverage I've got planned but it is scheduled in!
dont mind me, just here for thje algorithm
Who is your favorite storyteller?
can i remove PC safely from an ongoing colony?
Unfortunately not. If prepare carefully was used when creating a save it has already littered your world data with 'broken' pawns. You can remove it and it won't immediately break the save, but you're very likely to encounter a greyscreen error down the line which will essentially make that colony unplayable.
You *might* be able to fix it by pulling out PC and then using Dubs Performance with the Greyscreen Fix it provides turned on, but your ticks won't recover from what PC has dumped into the background.
prepare carefully hasn't worked since 1.2
Well fuck
Worked fine on 1.4 for me. Have yet to play it since the latest update though
@@Chris-fo2fiIt works on 1.5 for me
For anyone wondering, the pawns created/edited use an old system, meaning you would have 1.1 and 1.5 humans running around in your world together.
That throws a lot of errors in the background, makes the 1.1 not work with most modern/modded content, and overall is a pretty bad thing.
If you load it up on 1.5, start a world, edit your pawn, and it loads up and you go "oh, it works then" then be my guest. But don't be confused when 30 hours in you send a caravan and the movement speed on the world map is always zero.
@@TheInsanityFox Why would you willingly download prepare carefully
Video Idea: Why not do a list of Mods that are game braking or very taxing that are often used I've been playing for years and didn't know that about Prep Carefully since i don't really interact with the community very often
There is something on my to-do list that is the opposite of this idea. Mods that improve performance, I'll add a section into that video about mods to avoid like crazy. It's a ways off though, lots more fun content to cover rather than FPS and ticks, haha.
Wait... Prepare cerfully is why my last colony crashed?
If you're using it alongside VFE Empire that's almost certainly the reason. Playing with Empire is what made me take out PC and swap to something else, it really highlights how destructive it's method of pawn generation is.
As constructive criticism, I think it would be good if you changed the font and text color on the thumbnails, it is sort of weird to look at and unintuitive to read, plus there's too many words! There's lots of thumbnail tutorials on RUclips, you'll see that a change like this can yield big good results with little effort!
lol, 5 words is too much for you?
Agreed and I've gone back and forth with myself about this. It's a bit of a double egged sword.
If I make my thumbnails look like everyone else's, I look like everyone else. I kinda like it being overly designed because it sets it apart, it's a statement, a style choice.
Something that is weird to look at is more likely to draw interest than something people see everywhere.
@@royce9018 in terms of youtube thumbnails, yes
@@MysteriousFawx Thumbnails are a thing people look at for less than a second unless they catch their attention, that's why most of the times simplicity is king. It could be a good idea to experiment and see how you feel about it, best of luck with your decision!
If I follow tutorials and do what everyone else does, it makes my content stand out even less. It turns into the RUclips algorithm slush with no brand, no recognition and just melts into the background.
Sometimes you've gotta just do something different and step away from what everyone tells you is the best thing because as we all know, the algorithm never stops changing.
A brand? My own style? That can stick around as long as I need it.