Massive Reactor is a huge debuff... or bug?

[aigi99]

I love this game and spent hundreds of hours actively playing it. However when I reached sector 83 I was extremely disappointed that Massive Reactor upgrade is actually huge debuff for the progress.

I hope it is a bug because it is not logical to remove Normal Reactor bonus buff for maxing out powering of reactor modules to 999 and Max Power to more than 1e90.

Specifically... my Synth speed was 3.5e52 before and 2e50 after upgrading to Massive Reactor. That is more than 100x debuff and slows the game progress significantly.

Devs please fix it as it is frustrating behaviour and I believe that many players including me consider leaving this game for good after experiencing this moment.

Thank you.

[The Burning Spear]

The Massive Reactor upgrade also gives you the maxed out Normal Reactor bonus for free.

I loaded an old save to check this and Synth Speed did not change after upgrading to the Massive Reactor, so it seems to be working correctly at least on my side.

Perhaps you don't have some multiplier active?

Maybe you can temporarily load a pre-massive reactor backup (after making a back-up save of your current state) to compare your synth speed multiplier with your current one on the
Stats & Info -> Synth -> Synth speed
page, which lists a more detailed breakdown of how your Synth Speed is calculated.

[Kyouko Tsukino]

That is either a bug, or the classic "I had the void buff running, it ended, and I think it's something else doing the 'debuffing'" moment which is a very, very common mistake to make.

To me, the Massive Reactor was quite a QoL feature - I no longer need to worry about my synth, compute, research or other things going down whenever I move/remove the Power or Flex shards.

[aigi99]

Originally posted by The Burning Spear:

The Massive Reactor upgrade also gives you the maxed out Normal Reactor bonus for free.

I loaded an old save to check this and Synth Speed did not change after upgrading to the Massive Reactor, so it seems to be working correctly at least on my side.

Perhaps you don't have some multiplier active?

Maybe you can temporarily load a pre-massive reactor backup (after making a back-up save of your current state) to compare your synth speed multiplier with your current one on the
Stats & Info -> Synth -> Synth speed
page, which lists a more detailed breakdown of how your Synth Speed is calculated.

I apologize... I tried to load and save couple of times and upgrade to Massive Reactor indeed has not affected game progress negatively. I had to overlook something important before.

I won't delete this topic and I have marked your reply as an accepted answer in case someone else will have similar confusing experience. Thank you for your time guys.