babba Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 As people brought up time zones, I recalled the "Iron Man" feature from some other games = Disabling the save game functionality, with the exception of 1 auto save which can be loaded. Playing without lots of save games ( also enforce that debug mode does not work in this mode ) playing as "Iron Man" in the Ironman Mode, would be a nice thrill and challenge. "Hardcore Ironman Mode" would be with zero saves, so no saving at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoakenashi Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 1 hour ago, babba said: "Hardcore Ironman Mode" would be with zero saves, so no saving at all I already do this. I cannot stand the game freezing temporarily during each auto save, so I turned auto saving off in the game settings. So much nicer. And if something goes wrong or a duplicant gets stuck and dies, c’est la vie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 55 minutes ago, yoakenashi said: I already do this. I cannot stand the game freezing temporarily during each auto save, so I turned auto saving off in the game settings. So much nicer. And if something goes wrong or a duplicant gets stuck and dies, c’est la vie. It never came to my mind that the cycle delay is from the autosave my dear friend ! I really didn`t know Thanks for your input, very helpful. No wonder the delay got longer and longer over time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goboking Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 6:28 AM, babba said: "Hardcore Ironman Mode" would be with zero saves, so no saving at all Playing until either you or your dupes die? I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 15 hours ago, goboking said: Playing until either you or your dupes die? I like it. The 2 described Iron Man Mode`s could be combined with the Masochistic difficulty settings from @Lilalaunekuh Some nice start-fresh-colony challenge selections and choices in the main menu - Rimworld Style. As example one could imagine that there is only the last autosave available for player loading + Lilalaunekuh selected colony ideas/settings/choices/achievements. Once Klei has someday completed the dlc+base game updates and the reactor stuff is done, then it would be superb if Klei digs the forum on all the various forum user suggestions on game settings, challenges & catastrophes. This could be implemented as a new "Emergency DLC", which also could include things like fire, explosion, combustion, firefighting equipment and multiplayer ( @cpy I like your audio log style )...and/or whatever else the forumistas have suggested in the past years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpy Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 @babba How dare you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilalaunekuh Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 One rule I enforce most of the time and would love to become part of the base game would be: Only offer/print duplicants matching a specific skill chosen before I embark. [Like just biohazardous or mouthbreather duplicants if you want some pain, or all with diver lungs if you want. Diver lungs + deep diver lungs (neural vascilator) could enable whole new rocket concepts ...] PS: I just noticed I play like "ironman" mode already, just (ab)using my last save game to reload if I´ve done something horrible wrong. [The only thing which made me reload a base at an early time was me using "alt+q" without noticing and disabling achievements^^] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambalad Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I would like an iron man mode to but the game has just never been in a proper enough state for it imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcinW Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Is there Ironman mode already added to Spaced Out? I can't see it Also adding single hardcore difficulty setting all settings to hardest would be nice. If lightout would be in base game (not as mode) would be even better. Challenges, challenges! Give us challenges good ONI Team! Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 +1000 @MarcinW for ONi president ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcinW Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I would love to have some ironman badge e.g. for 1000 cycles on hardcore But I guess some kind of daily save still must be present in case game crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yunru Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I hate to be the bad guy, but someone needs to say it: Why not just self-enforce it? Why does it have to be locked away like a cookie jar from a five year old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 Very often my map (builds) had been assumed to been built in debug. If a hardcore mode would say in a corner of the screen "Hardcore Mode", that would be great. Diablo2 and other follow up titles had a lot of fans playing in "Hardcore". New players coming to ONi are often not aware that there is: a.) Editor mode players ( debug ) b.) Survival mode players c.) Mixed mode`s players A lot of players set their own play goals, but if you could choose "Hardcore Mode" ( only 1 save available ) or "Hardcore Ironman Mode" ( no save at all ) and have no way of accessing debug and only 1 or no save at all, it will give players extra sweat. If one is at cycle 3799 and the colony is about to suffocate, the players tension and heart beat can rise to panic. Mastering such colony near-collapses in survival gives me great tension relief joy. If the game someday may have (optional ) epic endgame threats ( spreading fires, giant meteors, lava rain etc. ) and colony threatening challenges and events, playing in these modes would add extra thrill. 2 hours ago, Yunru said: I hate to be the bad guy, but someone needs to say it: Why not just self-enforce it? Why does it have to be locked away like a cookie jar from a five year old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcinW Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 8 hours ago, Yunru said: I hate to be the bad guy, but someone needs to say it: Why not just self-enforce it? Why does it have to be locked away like a cookie jar from a five year old? As babba said: Knowing you can always reload just give some thrill away. And it is not so easy not to eat a cookie "not locked in a jar". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakura_sk Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 @babba @MarcinW you need to play terraria hardcore character (one kill - map erase) while having difficulty turned to master mode. ONI will just fry your RAM/pc if no save button is hit until cycle 1000 (just assuming...I don't dare to try it... need my potato pc intact) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 13 minutes ago, sakura_sk said: @babba @MarcinW you need to play terraria hardcore character (one kill - map erase) while having difficulty turned to master mode. ONI will just fry your RAM/pc if no save button is hit until cycle 1000 (just assuming...I don't dare to try it... need my potato pc intact) @pether Mod idea: Dupe death triggers earthquake, lava rain, ice blitz colony freeze, electric building malfunctions + all pacus jump out of the water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 1 minute ago, babba said: Mod idea: Dupe death triggers earthquake, lava rain, ice blitz colony freeze, electric building malfunctions + all pacus jump out of the water ...and the soundtrack changes to death metal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/14/2021 at 9:10 PM, pether said: ...and the soundtrack changes to death metal If there is such thing like "License free death metal", then maybe I`ll make a Utube movie of a new big dlc rocket base, with the reactors and all machinery in a giant rocket steam room, all built in survival over thousands of cycles. At the end I probably have to hum the music, imitating the drums and death metal style singing with my voice. My singing is really bad, normally windows burst and all people run away. My singing is great to pass any queue and to disperse human crowds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 minute ago, babba said: My singing is really bad, normally windows burst and all people run away. My singing is great to pass any queue and to disperse human crowds. Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's musicians (carol singers?) who had this sign: "Pay us and we will go somewhere else" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 On 2/14/2021 at 9:10 PM, pether said: ...and the soundtrack changes to death metal In order to support the original idea of the Iron Man Mode ( the essence described below ) it would be superb if Klei teams up with Black Sabbath. When the player selects the "Iron Man Play Mode" a special designed Klei Intro starts, where the dupes jump in to rock band outfits and play the song "Iron Man" on a dupe stage. It`s an game mode introduction to put the player in to the right mood. On 12/8/2020 at 1:28 PM, babba said: I recalled the "Iron Man" feature from some other games = Disabling the save game functionality, with the exception of 1 auto save which can be loaded. Playing without lots of save games ( also enforce that debug mode does not work in this mode ) playing as "Iron Man" in the Ironman Mode, would be a nice thrill and challenge. "Hardcore Ironman Mode" would be with zero saves, so no saving at all. The Iron Man Dupe Band on stage, in the game Stinky`s Solo Riff Performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
degr Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Definitely good idea, but before doing it need to fix notifications. No matter how good you are, dupes will find way how to die from suffocation or from starvation in the middle of your base. Don't know what is wrong, but as usual I did NOT get suffocation notifications or get them too late. Additionaly to this of notifications contain a lot of not useful information which you can't remove - such as "hunger", "long commutes", "building under water", "building under stones" etc. Also it would be nice to create new notification with highest prio - "can't reach bed", because most often duplicant stay for a cycle in unreachable position, sleep together with wild animals then pee in exosuit and die (from suffocation or starvation, and even you get notification, most probably it would be not possible to save him). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonEmpire Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 On 12/10/2020 at 2:54 PM, goboking said: Playing until either you or your dupes die? I like it. Or playing until the game crashes with a black hole. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babba Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 23 hours ago, RonEmpire said: Or playing until the game crashes with a black hole. Lol A black hole on the hex map would be great - The player can send a probe in to it and may discover something The player could be warned that anything sent in to it...most likely will not come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unfawkable Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I love playing Ironman mode and would definitely give it a try, but it's all fun and games until your Rocket disintegrates due to a bug you couldn't plan for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 On 12/10/2020 at 5:54 PM, goboking said: Playing until either you or your dupes die? I like it. I make my gameplay so that if I lose my first three guys, I restart my planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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