Don't like how Anomaly is tied to Pain Is Virtue

[IncognitoBaboon]

The fleshmass parts causing pain make the Pain Is Virtue meme 100% mandatory. If you don't take it, your colonists will be miserable with even 1 Fleshmass part and completely laid out with a few.

Also the - to beauty makes them despised by everyone else.

Makes it pretty much impossible to participate in the Fleshmass part of Anomaly without the Pain is Virtue AND Inhuman memes.

So I'm sitting here wanting to make a research team that is investigating the Anomaly and over time, they turn into Kronenberg monsters. But simply can't, because my colonists will all be in extreme pain and hateful of each other.

Seems like a poor design to gate so much content behind such a specific playstyle.

[MadArtillery]

One of my starting colonist had a flesh arm the entire run, and depressive besides, totally fine. One of the creep joiners I had I used him on that obelisk so much both lungs, stomach, and both arms were flesh horrors and he still managed to be useful, just a lil baseliner. Eventually got him a painstopper because why not. Definitetly doesn't require inhumanized or pain is virtue. Optimizing it sure, but not everything needs to or should be always optimal.

Really what do you expect people being turned into nightmarish flesh abominations with semi sentient body parts to feel without being a freaky cultist? They should be considered low tier upgrades to a colonist or an emergency organ replacement for organ failure from a cloning. You have the option to be freakish cultist to make them fine with it or slap painstoppers in them if you really want to go overboard while giving them good living quarters. Can even give + beauty implants or genes to make up for their mutant shortcomings.

A tentacle lover trait could have been a fun addition with anomoly though.

[ImNotFine]

Originally posted by IncognitoBaboon:

The fleshmass parts causing pain make the Pain Is Virtue meme 100% mandatory. If you don't take it, your colonists will be miserable with even 1 Fleshmass part and completely laid out with a few.

Also the - to beauty makes them despised by everyone else.

Makes it pretty much impossible to participate in the Fleshmass part of Anomaly without the Pain is Virtue AND Inhuman memes.

So I'm sitting here wanting to make a research team that is investigating the Anomaly and over time, they turn into Kronenberg monsters. But simply can't, because my colonists will all be in extreme pain and hateful of each other.

Seems like a poor design to gate so much content behind such a specific playstyle.

ive been doing just fine without the idealogy dlc. most of my run has been just anomaly as its the first dlc ive bought for the game and i recently just bought biotech a few days ago

[Hykal]

Anomaly is designed to stand on its own without any DLC. While there is overlap, it's not required. Just slap a pain stopper on your pawn if it's too much for them.

[Frostblunt]

just a hint... it is possible to play trough with a colonist having a negative moodlet. I dont use pain is virtue and my colonist with mutant flesh are still happy because there is alot of positive mood buff you can get especially when the colony is well established.

[Mountaineer]

A lot of things in Anomaly make pawns unhappy, but that's what mind numb serums are for.

[VitaKaninen]

Tentacles should double as a love enhancer in my opinion. Who doesn't love a good tentacle under the covers?

[MadArtillery]

Originally posted by VitaKaninen:

Tentacles should double as a love enhancer in my opinion. Who doesn't love a good tentacle under the covers?

Speaking truth

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by VitaKaninen:

Tentacles should double as a love enhancer in my opinion. Who doesn't love a good tentacle under the covers?

Best response in any thread here today. You win the internet for the day.

[Hones]

Well, investigating horrors beyond human comprehension isn't all sunshine and rainbows, who would have thought?

In all seriousness: I have never used pain is virtue, nor did it even come to my mind. Between Inhumanization (don't care about monster parts, pain is reduced) and other beneficial memes like High Life for the mood buffs from drugs I use anyway, I really don't see a problem with the flesh parts.