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Gaming / Re: wut specturr'z playing
« Last post by Spectere on February 27, 2021, 01:18:33 PM »I ended up earning the Lazy Bastard achievement in Factorio last night. Basically, that stipulates that you have to launch the rocket (thus winning the game) while only manually crafting 111 items. This is actually more stringent than it sounds, as every single component (including stuff like iron gear wheels) counts toward this total. There also isn't much wiggle room, as you need to to craft 104 items in order to bootstrap automated production and get your first assembler. I also upped the ante a bit by refusing to use any of my stored blueprints (kind of a mixture of my own designs as well as efficient setups I saw online and liked).
The beginning is definitely the hardest part, as you basically have to keep changing that assembler to craft whatever you need at the time, but it gets easier as you build up little mini-malls, but then it starts to get tedious as your base expands. When everything is small and compact, you just walk over to a chest and yoink whatever you need, but as soon as you have to start covering more ground, you find yourself having to go farther and farther away just to get some conveyor belts. Then, later on, you unlock the logistics system and it goes back to (mostly) being a typical game of Factorio.
But yeah, all in all, that's a nice, shiny gold achievement for my Steam profile, and at this point in time I can call myself a 2.7%'er. Honestly, out of all my Steam achievements right now (of which I apparently have 3290), I'd say this is the one I'm happiest about.
The beginning is definitely the hardest part, as you basically have to keep changing that assembler to craft whatever you need at the time, but it gets easier as you build up little mini-malls, but then it starts to get tedious as your base expands. When everything is small and compact, you just walk over to a chest and yoink whatever you need, but as soon as you have to start covering more ground, you find yourself having to go farther and farther away just to get some conveyor belts. Then, later on, you unlock the logistics system and it goes back to (mostly) being a typical game of Factorio.
But yeah, all in all, that's a nice, shiny gold achievement for my Steam profile, and at this point in time I can call myself a 2.7%'er. Honestly, out of all my Steam achievements right now (of which I apparently have 3290), I'd say this is the one I'm happiest about.