Can I get a gameover?

[Betty]

I have been looking for some games that I can veg out on. I have stardew valley and thats a pretty dope game. I saw this and it looks fun but I was wondering if there are failure options on this game. Like what are some of the things i can do? is there a combat element to this game or is it all just factory building?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Biters... Lots of them.
You can die in this game if you don't plan.

[Emmote]

There is combat, as in the native alien population. The only real failure option is in single player if biters kill you, and then you just reload from the most recent save.

You have two options.
1. Turn on peace mode where the aliens will not attack you unless you attack them, so you'll never need to worry about being attacked.
2. You can create maps with no aliens on, but that means you won't be able to progress into the tier 4 science without using mods. (Such as Crafted Artifacts[forums.factorio.com])

Basically, yeah, you can veg out to it, but it depends on how you want to go about it.

[<unknown>]

Train can kill you.

[Sulphur]

Messing around with the flamethrower can also get you killed

[Malek]

Essientially there is only one way to game over, and that is dieing to biters. And in that case you either accept the game over, or load a previous save file.

There are however reasons you may decide to give up on an area and start over, for instance you exaust your resources without proper planning to move on to a new patch, and the work it takes to harvest the new patch seems too great.

Or you discover biter and spitter nests are surrounding you and you have no way of defending or taking the offensive. That kind of stuff.

[Starbug]

There is death in the game, yes.

[Akita]

I think there are other failure criteria. I had a great gaming going, playing pretty slow, and then suddenly the game ended and said i had failed. No way to continue. Not sure exatly what I failed at in freeplay mode. I cant find any notes on what part I failed at. Maybe the critters evolved to some limit???

[Cyan]

Originally posted by Akita:

I think there are other failure criteria. I had a great gaming going, playing pretty slow, and then suddenly the game ended and said i had failed. No way to continue. Not sure exatly what I failed at in freeplay mode. I cant find any notes on what part I failed at. Maybe the critters evolved to some limit???

Originally posted by Akita:

I think there are other failure criteria. I had a great gaming going, playing pretty slow, and then suddenly the game ended and said i had failed. No way to continue. Not sure exatly what I failed at in freeplay mode. I cant find any notes on what part I failed at. Maybe the critters evolved to some limit???

Maybe you completed the scenario?

@OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSbFy0Rn_-E

[Akita]

Just went back and looked, and it said "You have been defeated". Now that I think about it, maybe I got killed by my train.

[Betty]

Originally posted by slindenau:

Oh yes, your train or tank can also kill you. There is actually no safe place in this game...that's why you need a rocket to escape the planet.

I feel like you're over exaggerating this game. its really not as crazy as your making it out to be. I did end up getting this game and its pretty straight forward and it is a bit of a veg out game.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by Jake Blues:

Originally posted by slindenau:

Oh yes, your train or tank can also kill you. There is actually no safe place in this game...that's why you need a rocket to escape the planet.

I feel like you're over exaggerating this game. its really not as crazy as your making it out to be. I did end up getting this game and its pretty straight forward and it is a bit of a veg out game.

The game will can be as fast or slow as you make it, within reason.

If you turn off the biters though, it can be a very vegative game. I like peaceful because, to me, the more appealing challenge is building my factory, not defending it. Once I get myself dug in, I switch to non-peaceful with the console.

[JosephBones]

Originally posted by Jake Blues:

I have been looking for some games that I can veg out on. I have stardew valley and thats a pretty dope game. I saw this and it looks fun but I was wondering if there are failure options on this game. Like what are some of the things i can do? is there a combat element to this game or is it all just factory building?

I can tell you this... You will die, so save your game... Bitters, trains ( they can get very messy when you have a very complex network.... ) and trains go so fast.. happen a lot of time that you so concentrated on your settup and then... booom, train in the face... and your precious setup is.... not yet saved or auto saved :)

So yes... you will die and you will fight a lot if your settup is incorrect :)

[KatherineOfSky]

Indeed, if you want to veg and relax, just turn the Biters into Peaceful mode.

Alternatively, if you want a *little* combat... make the aliens/biters into Low Frequency, Low every other option, and set your Start Area to the biggest it can be -- you won't encounter biters for AGES... and by then you'll have the reasearch/weaponry, etc. to easily combat them.

[I Butt Chug Breakfast Cereal]

Originally posted by LostBones:

I can tell you this... You will die, so save your game... Bitters, trains ( they can get very messy when you have a very complex network.... ) and trains go so fast.. happen a lot of time that you so concentrated on your settup and then... booom, train in the face... and your precious setup is.... not yet saved or auto saved :)

So yes... you will die and you will fight a lot if your settup is incorrect :)

On the second or third story mission, where you have to stockpile like 3000 iron plates, 3000 copper plates, 1500 steel, and 2500 AP rounds, I liked to store all that stuff in my car's inventory as I stockpiled it (so I couldn't accidentally use up what I was saving). When I went to repair a power line that I'd broken by running it over, I didn't realize I parked my car on the tracks. Right as I was about to get back in and drive off, BAM! The train blows up my car.

I figure "no problem, I'll just reload." About 10 minutes after I reloaded, I was going through a gap in my walls to put some iron plates in my car again when one of my trains came by unexpectedly and killed me.

I finished the level on the third try. TL;DR: Trains are dangrous!

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by | Turncoat Sheep |:

Originally posted by LostBones:

I can tell you this... You will die, so save your game... Bitters, trains ( they can get very messy when you have a very complex network.... ) and trains go so fast.. happen a lot of time that you so concentrated on your settup and then... booom, train in the face... and your precious setup is.... not yet saved or auto saved :)

So yes... you will die and you will fight a lot if your settup is incorrect :)

On the second or third story mission, where you have to stockpile like 3000 iron plates, 3000 copper plates, 1500 steel, and 2500 AP rounds, I liked to store all that stuff in my car's inventory as I stockpiled it (so I couldn't accidentally use up what I was saving). When I went to repair a power line that I'd broken by running it over, I didn't realize I parked my car on the tracks. Right as I was about to get back in and drive off, BAM! The train blows up my car.

I figure "no problem, I'll just reload." About 10 minutes after I reloaded, I was going through a gap in my walls to put some iron plates in my car again when one of my trains came by unexpectedly and killed me.

I finished the level on the third try. TL;DR: Trains are dangrous!

That's ..... Funny!!!


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