Mods - Tower Ranges and Generate rare resources via Fusion

[Kaiserkane]

Shameless plug for two mods I made:

This one gives MOST towers double the range (but higher AI upkeep) and a few other tweaks:
https://www.nexusmods.com/theriftbreaker/mods/210

This one makes fusion generators FAR more expensive and harder to maintain, BUT they provide a flow of all rare resources (so not Carbonium or ironium, but hazenite, tanzanite etc). It's more a late game structure now:
https://www.nexusmods.com/theriftbreaker/mods/208

Love this game - keep making mods people!!

Side note, my fav other mods are:

Ambient attacks: https://www.nexusmods.com/theriftbreaker/mods/45

Stronger enemies with subtle regen: https://www.nexusmods.com/theriftbreaker/mods/129

More Jungle survival map tiles for bonus variety etc: https://www.nexusmods.com/theriftbreaker/mods/150

[son-goku]

Playing ambient attacks too. That mod is quite insane with the 500% wave multiplier ^^

[Kaiserkane]

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Playing ambient attacks too. That mod is quite insane with the 500% wave multiplier ^^

Yeah absolutely love it! Especially when you add a few mods that affect the balance of the game. Vanilla is quite easy by default, so I love seeing people add higher difficulty mods!

[son-goku]

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Playing ambient attacks too. That mod is quite insane with the 500% wave multiplier ^^

Yeah absolutely love it! Especially when you add a few mods that affect the balance of the game. Vanilla is quite easy by default, so I love seeing people add higher difficulty mods!

The only downside for me is that the game gets quite laggy when several thousand creatures run at your base from four different directions at once.

And in my current game, my top left part of the base has a choke point that's one tile wide, which means that all of them coming from that side want to go through that choke point and only incrementally spill around the rock to get through the wide area. It takes a while before they're all dead, so sometimes, I get even more attacks come in before the first one was defeated

[Kaiserkane]

I bought a 5800x3d and all my problems mostly went away. Granted I realistically tend to stick to 300% waves but up the enemy damage. I find that gives the best challenge without the lag. More enemies after a certain point doesn't become harder (mainly due to artillery spam).

My tower range mod does help performance a bit because you only need half the amount of towers to cover open areas, though it won't help in chokepoints.

[son-goku]

I run a 3700X but frankly, the lag doesn't come from CPU issues because I usually have the task manager open on my second monitor and the game never uses much CPU. It's more GPU intensive.

I think the lag comes more from the game engine.

[Kaiserkane]

Oh right, I went from a 3900x to a 5800x3d BUT I'm also rocking a 3090, so GPU bottleneck isn't an issue. Without the GPU bottleneck the CPU upgrade did make a nice difference, especially to 1% lows etc.

[son-goku]

I have a 2060 6 GB. However, the game never really uses all of it. The max is usually around 80%

[Kaiserkane]

Hmmm, that's a shame. It def uses all of my GPU. Maybe you're bottlenecking elsewhere? RAM, CPU cache etc.

[son-goku]

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Hmmm, that's a shame. It def uses all of my GPU. Maybe you're bottlenecking elsewhere? RAM, CPU cache etc.

Maybe you should try a HQ6 or HQ7 upgrade wave at 500% multiplier and see if your system lags or not :D

Furthermore, I have modified the ambient attacks mod. I took out the Arachnoid bosses (because 10 of them showing up at one side of the base was too much) and replaced them with more smaller mobs.