new to game, should I turn off dark fog for my first run?

[Striker]

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[Mr.D]

up to you

[Eruannon]

Starting up with dark fog is rated by the developers at 200% difficulty compared to default first run. Same as if You had played with half of default resources but no enemies. Luckily You will be given quite some lenience with default settings to build and develop some basic anti-fog defenses.

Keep in mind however the fog will react to Your actions and may become dangerous in the long run. While with default settings it's possible it will not hinder You too much from completing the game, it might hinder You a bit in the long-term large scale expansion if You wish to try to push Your limits.

[Paolini]

Nah but i'd keep Aggressiveness on PASSIVE and everything else default

[Blake]

First and every run

[Striker]

Originally posted by Blake:

First and every run

why is that?

[Vi-El]

Originally posted by Striker:

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No. The reason why is you will be playing on Default settings. On Default, the Dark Fog is not very hard, especially early game. The more you play, the more it will advance as well of course, think of it like an arms race. So as you get stronger, it will as well.

You will always be able to outpace it technology wise, you can easily automate turret and ammo production with a very simple and small belt setup.

[zanjiin]

Originally posted by Striker:

Originally posted by Blake:

First and every run

why is that?

Because the mechanics is a bit lackluster. Been waiting since they announced it and it appeared to be meh. The initial waves are easy, but later on they become sort of annoying. When you try to wipe their base on the starting planet, enemies just spawn endlessly without end, and kinda get exp much faster when you try to attack them. So it is not clear how to you should combat them. Defend their attacks or try to destroy their base..

But given the shape of the maps you play on and the way you control your Main character. It is really hard to make the proper combat system that would feel natural. It is nor a strategy nor action.

I would like to give it another go with passive Fog, but i am fed with laying out those covnerter noodles.

[dhitch89]

Originally posted by zanjiin:

Because the mechanics is a bit lackluster. Been waiting since they announced it and it appeared to be meh

Considering that this update dropped days ago, and in a relatively incomplete state, I'm not surprised that there's a lot to fine-tune. In fact, most updates of any nature typically have at least some things that qualify upon being first released.

And that's okay; the system has plenty of potential, and there's plenty of time for both sides to work out the kinks :P