the dlc

[FelixAntonio]

is it worth getting the spaced out dlc when i still havent survived mid game?

[Corona Varus]

Looks fun at first, based on the reviews it was mostly positive. It's just multiple asteroid exploring and moving a bunch of supplies into a cargo ship and I dunno how in the world would you move 144k of water from a water planet in a ship towards your mainbase.

[John Hadley]

The spaced out DLC start might be easier for you to survive than the main game because its easier to find slush geysers and cold brine geysers which are cold so they make it much easier to remove heat from your base.

The focus of the game is different in spaced out. Since your focus is supposed to be reaching other planets instead of just long term survival on a single planet, its been made easier to survive long enough to do that. Starting planetoids are smaller to both encourage you to move to other planets to find more space and materials and to make it physically easier for you to dig your way to the surface so that you can build your rocket.

[XorOfSteel]

yes

[some moron]

no

[FelixAntonio]

yes

[chuckyblack09]

Imo the Spaced out concept is more of what I would expect from the game. Colonizing multiple planets and using rockets more frequently and purposefully is what makes the game so fun.

[gtgiygus]

I vote yes. The DLC is easier for newer players then base game imho.

[Cotaks]

YES!

Just start a classic tera in the DLC and you be fine and can use the new dlc thingies.

[John Hadley]

If you start with the classic start in the Spaced Out DLC then it won't be much easier than the base game until you have reached mid game at least. You have to be able to dig all the way to the surface of the planet and build a rocket ship before you get any benefits of interplanetary travel in the classic start.

The Spaced Out DLC start has cold slush and cold salt slush geysers on the starting map every time where on the classic start you are only guaranteed to find cold steam geysers. The cold brine and cold polluted water geysers put out materials at below 0C so you can cool hot parts of your base with them. On the classic start you are only guaranteed to find cold steam geysers that put out steam at 110C, which will heat your base and not cool it. You have to get lucky with random geyser spawns to get any geysers that produce cold materials in the classic start because cold geysers aren't guaranteed.

The Spaced Out DLC start provides a teleporter somewhere on the first planet that will allow you to teleport a duplicant to a second planet even before you are able to build a rocket. You don't get that in the classic start. You can colonize both simultaneously if you want or you can stick to the main colony and If your colony is dying on the main planet you can send a colonist through the teleporter and rebuild there where you have fresh resources and more chance of success since you already have all the early research done to build right from when you arrive on the planet. If you use the classic start and you can't get to the surface and build a rocket then you miss out on the safety net that Spaced Out DLC has to offer with the teleporter.

In the Spaced Out DLC start the biomes are smaller so you won't have to dig and run as long of a distance to access useful things in other biomes. That makes it easier to more quickly build pipes from cold areas to a hot areas to move heat around or makes it faster to wrangle creatures from other biomes. They are probably twice as far away in the classic start so your duplicants waste a huge amount of time in travelling back and forth to distant places.

In the Spaced Out DLC start near the surface of the planet there are a lot of useful materials that are nice and cold. There is dirt, water (frozen), copper, and mafic rock, most everything you need to build basic buildings and grow food (once you heat it up a little). Near the surface of the planet in the classic start is mostly just lots of cold regolith. Regolith is a filtration material like sand, not reallly good for building anything or keeping you alive.

In the Spaced Out DLC there are more special ruins around that you can scavenge for resources that are not easy to get early on. For instance if you want to build a high pressure vent I think it requires 50 kg of plastic. You can get 50 kg of plastic by just deconstructing a ladder piece in one of the ruins and that will allow you to build a limited number of high pressure vents before you find crude oil and build all the oil extracting and processing machines. To make solar panels I think you need glass and you can salvage a limited amount of it from the windows present in ruins without having to research and build machines that can forge glass.

I'm not saying you should never play the classic start if you are using the DLC. You can still access other planets in the classic start, but you have to be able to survive to the middle game and build and launch rockets to do that. If there is any question about your ability to do that then you should play the Spaced Out DLC start since it provides a number of modifications that make it easier for you to survive long enough to build a rocket and it also provides for you to visit at least one other planetoid without building any rockets through the teleporter ruins, so even if you completely fail to build a rocket you still will get to experience a different gameplay on a different planet with different animals, plants, and resources available. Variety is the spice of life and that's the intention of Spaced Out -- to provide you with more to do and more to see.

[John Hadley]

I was playing the classic start today with the DLC installed and it appears it does have the same buildings available as the Spaced Out DLC start just spaced a lot further apart. You can still take advantage of the teleporter if you can find it to reach a second planetoid in the classic start. The teleporter and other planetoids don't exist if you don't have the Spaced Out DLC installed.

[ne_propheta]

nope