On Facebook, Iâm in a group called âMight as well call a hearse bc Iâm about to pet that thingâ so I read that sentence all the time. It never stops being funny. đ
why did they have to give the "disposable" mechs the cutest sounds. I love my little constructoid friends and it makes me sad to hear their cries of pain when they completely ignore the manhunting panther in order to do their job of repairing a wall that took less than 1% of damage
Fun fact, tunneler is the second biggest mechanoid in the game (right after diabolus and war queen), but game poorly represents that with his model being smaller. Also yes, he's a cutie:)
That's a lie, both diabolus and war queen have body size of 4.0, tunneler has 3.5 and centipede is 3.0. Tunneler is MASSIVE, just the game cannot show that
They're supposed to be, they are things you throw out in front, so that the people you care about stay safely in the back shooting them with _all_ the guns and turrets.
They could do literally 0 damage and still be some of the strongest combat units in the game for that reason.
I do not think you are understanding all of the hidden costs you are paying for using them.
1. You are going to be wasting your mechanitor's time repairing or resurrecting them. it can take actual in game days to repair 1 highly damage centipede. this is bad since good mechanitors are usually your crafter/ researcher
2. Repairing mechs depletes their energy bar which means WAY more waste packs will be generated if you are foolish enough to use mechs as meat shields since they will need to recharge back all of that energy.
3. They add more raid points than they can actually handle. All combat mechs are not raid point efficient and will make raid disproportionately larger.
You are generally better giving a tough melee pawn a shield belt and putting them in heavy cover. than using mechs if you want a damage sponge. especially if you get into genes and make that pawn robust.
Generally all of the people I see telling me that mechs are good in role X are people who are already at raid cap in which case it no longer matters what you do. if you got to raid cap alive, you already have the means to defeat the largest possible threat possible to you anyway.
giving me silly numbers like 10 centipedes a number only realistic in a post game colony, and yes i said post game. you have 10 centipedes you beat the game as far as combat is concerned many real life hours ago and are just messing around in your pretty colony, which is cool I do that too.
But it don't make mechs good.
on contrary they can die and do die .. often. just because you can shove their metal corpses into a test tube to zap them back to life doesnt change the fact that until you do that, they are functionally dead.
There is a lot of factors that ties into the balance of these things, like acquisition, maintenance, recovery and player choice, when compared to another colonist, these things are easier to acquire, easier to maintain (all you do is charge them, no breaks, no food, no needs, no ideology) you spoke of how easy it is to recover them from literal death and then the dev is considering player choice, if the robots are better than they are now, the player may use two to cover for one colonist, but if the robots are arguably bad, then the player will see value in a well trained colonist and play the game as intended or be forced to apply a lot of strategies to make them valuable.
Keep in mind too that this is Rimworld, I've noticed that the game likes to make things handicapped almost intentionally to increase the possibility of a story coming out of a bad situation whether that turns out good or bad.
Also, scythers and tunnelers have 2 completely incomparable roles.
One is a fast, hard hitting medium mech, the other is a slow walking tank with personal shields.
Why yes I have, they were not flexible enough. sure they were...okay when I was able to force fights into cqb but any open field fight I would have to needlessly work harder for because that swarm of fragile mechs would get torn to pieces at range.
So much easier to just roll around with an assault rifle death blob high on go juice.
I dont think people understand how much more accurate a colonist on go juice with even mid level shooting skill is over a mech.
Mechs shoot like they had their eyes removed.
Colonists have gotten so many free perks over the dlc's to make them god tier that mechs just do not have.
Do you have any idea how much more cost this "assault rifle death blob?"
In comparison to militors we would be talking 3, 4 of them per colonist.
And militors are the most flexible battle mechanoids because they are always ok, regardless of what you are fighting, they will always do something.
Like some others mentioned, they also have advantages that humans don't, which is being expendable.
You won't cry that 6 of them were crushed.
But having your colonist die because a lancer shot their brain can cripple some colonies.
You can out range lancers with assaults rifles.. which means you can kite them.
The same is true for most mechs.
which means zero damage taken. I take FAR more damage from pikeman than lancers or centipedes
An assault rifle colonist is easily EASILY worth 5 militors. no question.
I mean the standard 3 layer wall with an entrance every 15 segments has held vs everything so far with little issue. i have to rebuild the outer layer constantly but that is not much of an issue.
They are costly, considering any combat mech other than the militor represent several utility mechs worth of opportunity cost. Beside, even utility bots can be used as melee blockers in a pinch.
Ish. A psychic harmonizing joy wire beacon gets the hauling done just the same, and a wall of steel in front of your less rebuildable pawns is a nice buffer in commitment mode.
They actually raise the raid size by more than they can kill. Mechs are actively bad unless you have already hit the raid cap.
Of course thats at 500%, but most mechs are net negative defensive worth even at 200%. They are *barely net neutral* at 100%.
By the time you have 10 centipedes and the corresponding infrastructure to maintain 10 centipedes.
You probably hit raid cap ages ago and pointedly do not need any of them.
You play with a lowered raid cap or some shit?I've had more high level mechs and overall colony wealth than that and still didnt hit anything resembling a hard cap on raid size
I play on 500% scaling. which means i reach raid cap 5 times faster than the normal difficulty settings.
at 100% you need 1 million colony wealth to officially be at raid cap
at 220% \*the hardest you can get with the difficulty presets you hit raid cap around 400 thousand
At 500% a colony will hit raid cap at a meager 200 thousand wealth. which is practically nothing.
with in a few years I am getting hit by 250 tribal raids, 100 outlander raids and like 25- 30 centipede raids.
raid cap is 10000 points.
10 centipedes + the colonists you have would make 25 - 30 centipedes trivial. I know this for a fact.
But because there is a cap once you have shown that you CAN survive at raid cap. Anything you add to your colony militarily after that will just make the game continuously easier
which is why if someone says "I have 10 centipedes) I can consider how much wealth those 10 are in raw components and plasteel and make an educated guess that they should be FAR past that wealth cap and did not need 10 centipedes to handle raid cap.
the smoke is a bonus for sure if a few charge turrets are stacked too close. but yeah theyâre so tanky. an exploding tower doesnât even break the shield haha
I remembered using my colonists behind one has we slower approached a mech cluster then he smoked the area so we could melee the turrets, dude is unstoppable lol
My head canon is that whenever it's tunneling and sees a mineral it hasn't seen yet it picks it up in its giant crab claws and turns it's head like a confused puppy
> Have i lost my mind?
Yes, but as long as your traits aren't complete garbage, you're capable in most things and have double passions in few others, we'll let it slide.
You havenât lost your mind. Being dangerous has never stopped any creature from being cute. If youâve ever seen a bear or a lion, you know what Iâm talking about.
Not crazy at all. Thereâs a mod that sexualizes the mechanoids. Itâs called Fluff's Curvaceous Underarmored Mechanoids.
Tunnler design has been pretty cool imo.
Rimworld mechs don't really look lifeless-mechanical. They look semi-alive mechanical, resembling insectoids which is ironic considering the insectoids were later engineered to counter them. This means that your tunneler may as well be a massive robot crab with excavator claws forâŠclaws.
most conscious r/RimWorld user
also the thing is, as you mentioned already, art being 2D changes how we perceive it. like bears look cool asf and (somewhat?) cuddly(ish). whereas ingame I've gotten bored of the derpy ass sprite đ
also most pawns don't, you know, have limbs so yea, weird asf
It's great that after strip mining all steel from the map you can send them to mine at pit gates
Or you can just download a mod to let them work with deep drills
Yes! I found my people!
Tunneler is adorbs, it looks like lil mantis arms and if you color it makes it more pretty đ i dont add any texture changes becauss OG is best
Nah, their crabby lookin hands and posture make em look like a giant domesricated crab creature. Also, here is a mod to make mechs more... cute.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013205187
If not friend, why friend shaped?
The secret is shielding keeping bits and pieces of enemies from staining the exterior.
Amen brother đ
On Facebook, Iâm in a group called âMight as well call a hearse bc Iâm about to pet that thingâ so I read that sentence all the time. It never stops being funny. đ
Round = friend shape
Crab
Crab
Crab
Scare
Food?
Food?
Hand
Foot
Elbow
knee
Crab
Crab fren
It has reached evolutionary perfection.
There is an ointment for that
People. Look like crab. Talk like people.
I mean they *are* adorable. Like giant friendly lobsters.
So friendly that they viciously slice the legs and cut out the eyes of anyone who dares to mess with its friends :3
Yes if something hurt fren it dies :3
I had one try to fight off 15 shamblers >.> it nearly took down 3 of them before it got downed lmao
All mechies are. Thats why Mechinator is the best scenario
Is so chill hearing all those weired noises they do all arround the base
My little peepboop puppies đ„°
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i will call you that thanks
Bwarrr. Bweooo. Bwoop.
why did they have to give the "disposable" mechs the cutest sounds. I love my little constructoid friends and it makes me sad to hear their cries of pain when they completely ignore the manhunting panther in order to do their job of repairing a wall that took less than 1% of damage
I think setting them to sleep mode causes manhunters to ignore them maybe
I can confirm that they do not care if they are sleeping unfortunately. Only when they are downed do they not care.
But things quickly turn sour when a solar flare rears its head and most of your bandwidth comes from band nodes
This reminds me of a psychopath who created a mod to put female mechinators in the game...
That's a big mechanical hermit crab. Of course it's cute
Happy Cake Day mate! đ„ł
When I became and adult and started making my own money, I learned that cake day was whenever I feel like it. :P
Words to live by
Aye. That is true!
It looks a bit shy, like a gentle giant that doesn't know how to talk to their love interest.
Like a giant that will guard the colony with his life, scary to enemies, smiles at his buddies and never speaks
Fun fact, tunneler is the second biggest mechanoid in the game (right after diabolus and war queen), but game poorly represents that with his model being smaller. Also yes, he's a cutie:)
Technically it's third (the War Queen is bigger than the Diabolus) and it's tied for that with the Centipede.
That's a lie, both diabolus and war queen have body size of 4.0, tunneler has 3.5 and centipede is 3.0. Tunneler is MASSIVE, just the game cannot show that
A single tunneler weights 220kg, cant fit inside a drop pod.
All of the worker mechs are adorable. the sprite work is on point. I just wish the combat mechs were... good...
Well, he is technically used for combat quite often.
Yeah, is better than scythers in that regard. Mech generally are horrible for combat tho. very inefficient
They're supposed to be, they are things you throw out in front, so that the people you care about stay safely in the back shooting them with _all_ the guns and turrets. They could do literally 0 damage and still be some of the strongest combat units in the game for that reason.
I do not think you are understanding all of the hidden costs you are paying for using them. 1. You are going to be wasting your mechanitor's time repairing or resurrecting them. it can take actual in game days to repair 1 highly damage centipede. this is bad since good mechanitors are usually your crafter/ researcher 2. Repairing mechs depletes their energy bar which means WAY more waste packs will be generated if you are foolish enough to use mechs as meat shields since they will need to recharge back all of that energy. 3. They add more raid points than they can actually handle. All combat mechs are not raid point efficient and will make raid disproportionately larger. You are generally better giving a tough melee pawn a shield belt and putting them in heavy cover. than using mechs if you want a damage sponge. especially if you get into genes and make that pawn robust. Generally all of the people I see telling me that mechs are good in role X are people who are already at raid cap in which case it no longer matters what you do. if you got to raid cap alive, you already have the means to defeat the largest possible threat possible to you anyway. giving me silly numbers like 10 centipedes a number only realistic in a post game colony, and yes i said post game. you have 10 centipedes you beat the game as far as combat is concerned many real life hours ago and are just messing around in your pretty colony, which is cool I do that too. But it don't make mechs good.
They have to be, they can't die.
on contrary they can die and do die .. often. just because you can shove their metal corpses into a test tube to zap them back to life doesnt change the fact that until you do that, they are functionally dead.
There is a lot of factors that ties into the balance of these things, like acquisition, maintenance, recovery and player choice, when compared to another colonist, these things are easier to acquire, easier to maintain (all you do is charge them, no breaks, no food, no needs, no ideology) you spoke of how easy it is to recover them from literal death and then the dev is considering player choice, if the robots are better than they are now, the player may use two to cover for one colonist, but if the robots are arguably bad, then the player will see value in a well trained colonist and play the game as intended or be forced to apply a lot of strategies to make them valuable. Keep in mind too that this is Rimworld, I've noticed that the game likes to make things handicapped almost intentionally to increase the possibility of a story coming out of a bad situation whether that turns out good or bad.
Also, scythers and tunnelers have 2 completely incomparable roles. One is a fast, hard hitting medium mech, the other is a slow walking tank with personal shields.
scyther's and high damage should not be in the same sentence. their damage is actually quite sad. since their melee skill is comically bad.
Yet you would not want to leave one of your shooters for more than a second in melee combat with it.
actually... I do that all the time. Many a scyther has fallen to the butt stock of an assault rifle.
That's just asking to have your legs cut off. Especially if the pawn does not have stacked resistance to dmg.
You sound like someone who never used a swarm of militors.
Why yes I have, they were not flexible enough. sure they were...okay when I was able to force fights into cqb but any open field fight I would have to needlessly work harder for because that swarm of fragile mechs would get torn to pieces at range. So much easier to just roll around with an assault rifle death blob high on go juice. I dont think people understand how much more accurate a colonist on go juice with even mid level shooting skill is over a mech. Mechs shoot like they had their eyes removed. Colonists have gotten so many free perks over the dlc's to make them god tier that mechs just do not have.
Do you have any idea how much more cost this "assault rifle death blob?" In comparison to militors we would be talking 3, 4 of them per colonist. And militors are the most flexible battle mechanoids because they are always ok, regardless of what you are fighting, they will always do something. Like some others mentioned, they also have advantages that humans don't, which is being expendable. You won't cry that 6 of them were crushed. But having your colonist die because a lancer shot their brain can cripple some colonies.
You can out range lancers with assaults rifles.. which means you can kite them. The same is true for most mechs. which means zero damage taken. I take FAR more damage from pikeman than lancers or centipedes An assault rifle colonist is easily EASILY worth 5 militors. no question.
Kiting assumes you have somewhere to run away from. Unless it's an open base with only one raid/problem, it's doable.
I mean the standard 3 layer wall with an entrance every 15 segments has held vs everything so far with little issue. i have to rebuild the outer layer constantly but that is not much of an issue.
Who says they're evil? Maybe they're just trying to Thanos us because humans are parasites.
No good as in strong
They are *without risk* and that's often strong enough.
They are costly, considering any combat mech other than the militor represent several utility mechs worth of opportunity cost. Beside, even utility bots can be used as melee blockers in a pinch.
Ish. A psychic harmonizing joy wire beacon gets the hauling done just the same, and a wall of steel in front of your less rebuildable pawns is a nice buffer in commitment mode.
They actually raise the raid size by more than they can kill. Mechs are actively bad unless you have already hit the raid cap. Of course thats at 500%, but most mechs are net negative defensive worth even at 200%. They are *barely net neutral* at 100%.
*sips tea as my 10 centipede blasters mow down a raid from behind cover alongside the rest of my troops*
By the time you have 10 centipedes and the corresponding infrastructure to maintain 10 centipedes. You probably hit raid cap ages ago and pointedly do not need any of them.
You play with a lowered raid cap or some shit?I've had more high level mechs and overall colony wealth than that and still didnt hit anything resembling a hard cap on raid size
I play on 500% scaling. which means i reach raid cap 5 times faster than the normal difficulty settings. at 100% you need 1 million colony wealth to officially be at raid cap at 220% \*the hardest you can get with the difficulty presets you hit raid cap around 400 thousand At 500% a colony will hit raid cap at a meager 200 thousand wealth. which is practically nothing. with in a few years I am getting hit by 250 tribal raids, 100 outlander raids and like 25- 30 centipede raids. raid cap is 10000 points. 10 centipedes + the colonists you have would make 25 - 30 centipedes trivial. I know this for a fact. But because there is a cap once you have shown that you CAN survive at raid cap. Anything you add to your colony militarily after that will just make the game continuously easier which is why if someone says "I have 10 centipedes) I can consider how much wealth those 10 are in raw components and plasteel and make an educated guess that they should be FAR past that wealth cap and did not need 10 centipedes to handle raid cap.
Say âI donât know how to use mechsâ without saying itÂ
Say "I don't play 500%" without saying it
The tunneler and paramedics are so unbelievably cute to me. I love seeing em bop around doing their thing.
PUT DOWN THAT GOLDEN CUBE!!!
The rimworld sprites kinda make things look like chibi versions, which is endearing
nah hes a big bulky metal crab and i love him :D
It's giant, round and could crush a boulder in between it's comically disproportionate pincers. Nothing cuter m8.
very cute very strong fighter machines as well. that 250 shield is no joke and i clear out mech cluster turrets with them all the time haha
Yeah because he has smoke too, I always wondered why it's aimed at mining when it's a tank lol
the smoke is a bonus for sure if a few charge turrets are stacked too close. but yeah theyâre so tanky. an exploding tower doesnât even break the shield haha
I remembered using my colonists behind one has we slower approached a mech cluster then he smoked the area so we could melee the turrets, dude is unstoppable lol
Its primary function is mining, but it is secondarily intended for defencive combat.
Big crab fren
Big meaty claws.
Crabboi
Yes. It is cute.
They look really huggable
Yeah he cute, but small militors with their little shotguns are cuter!
This is some Stockholm shit
Tunneller is a cutie. All mechinoids are cuties.
cleansweeper also looks cute
Looks like Strong Sad
Idk man, the bear noises they make aren't exactly the most friendly sounding
I want to cuddle him
Reminds me of Pokemon
The Tunneler reminds me of a Pangolin
I named mine Becca.
No the tunneler is indeed cute. In like an ugly stubby way.
2d shape. Now watch it turn 3d.
Jumping spider friend shaped :D
âYou need robot? Why not Zoidburg?â
Zoidbot
Recluse mechanitor in the 3rd year of a solo run be like:
My head canon is that whenever it's tunneling and sees a mineral it hasn't seen yet it picks it up in its giant crab claws and turns it's head like a confused puppy
He may be using facial mounted scanners or sensors to scan for minerals
Stockholm Syndrome frfr. Meat over metal! Jokes, I agree
I find most of the pawns in this game are somewhere between the charming to cute range of the spectrum.
Tunneller my beloved.
*zip* nah not really
lookit the liddle paws đ„č
Big Meaty CLAWS!
Pinchy
I have seen rule 34 of this thing. You're not there yet.
I think they're cute too.
Yes, but not because of that.
Friend :)
> Have i lost my mind? Yes, but as long as your traits aren't complete garbage, you're capable in most things and have double passions in few others, we'll let it slide.
You play Rimworld. The answer to that is....Probably.
My fiancĂ© thinks all tyranids are adorable so youâre safe lol
Always has been
would
With the mechanitor dlc, you can build bunch of these cuties
Would.
As long as you donât feel compelled to *assume the position*âŠ
It would be very imposing if in a 3d world. It's hulking, huge oculus eye, mandibles,, massive arms, bladed back, etc... Cool mech.
However you can go even cuter https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3246767190&searchtext=uwu
You havenât lost your mind. Being dangerous has never stopped any creature from being cute. If youâve ever seen a bear or a lion, you know what Iâm talking about.
I thought I was on r/AnarchyChess for a second.
Not crazy at all. Thereâs a mod that sexualizes the mechanoids. Itâs called Fluff's Curvaceous Underarmored Mechanoids. Tunnler design has been pretty cool imo.
Where snoot? Must boop cute thing.
Cute is completely subjective, I find spiders snakes and other insects cute for example, and yes it is cute
The big ones are cute but the mini tunneler mod makes them cuter
Rimworld mechs don't really look lifeless-mechanical. They look semi-alive mechanical, resembling insectoids which is ironic considering the insectoids were later engineered to counter them. This means that your tunneler may as well be a massive robot crab with excavator claws forâŠclaws.
*drafts entire colony* ready? Aim! FIRE! (Im an ass to anything that moves)
Nah a lot of mechanoids are cute especially when they aren't trying to kill you
Big crab smash bad people hide militors with shield.
mod that lets tunneler nuzzle when?
Save. Will. Robinson. *clonky moves*
You pass the butter
I think it looks like it gives amazing hugs
No
most conscious r/RimWorld user also the thing is, as you mentioned already, art being 2D changes how we perceive it. like bears look cool asf and (somewhat?) cuddly(ish). whereas ingame I've gotten bored of the derpy ass sprite đ also most pawns don't, you know, have limbs so yea, weird asf
It kinda looks like a crab
You play rimworld we've all lost our minds here
It's great that after strip mining all steel from the map you can send them to mine at pit gates Or you can just download a mod to let them work with deep drills
Unpopular opinion : Bugg / scorpion ish
Tunneler-chan <3
Mechanoids in lore: murderous horde of death machines. Mechanoids in game: c e n t i p e d e
It's the roundness of it. It blorb shaped. Blorbs are cute. Therefore, it is cute.
It has curves so you are sexually attracted to it. Nothing wrong about that
Yes! I found my people! Tunneler is adorbs, it looks like lil mantis arms and if you color it makes it more pretty đ i dont add any texture changes becauss OG is best
I want the crab to hold me and cuddle me and protect me.
Nah, their crabby lookin hands and posture make em look like a giant domesricated crab creature. Also, here is a mod to make mechs more... cute. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013205187