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''Hello everybody Sifd here agaaaain'' = + 5 dopamine. Never tried the ink mixers so for this video , alas, I will have to give up backseat gaming on the comment section.. how will I cope.. xD; hope you are not mad about everyone saying '' do this , do that''. its really hard to resist the urge.

Another great video. Love your content dude.

Watching this knowing that comments will be full of advice about ink volume and needing to make more mixers. Hopefully the editor has a little fun in future episodes.

Hey sifd, please check out the game “Axon TD: Uprising”! It’s a wonderful tower defense game with a lot of replayability!

Day 5 asking for more peglin

Out of all the people I have watched play this game you actually approach it very logically and systematically, well done. Look forward to seeing you access the other advanced research.

I hopoe the inks actually color the resulting unit so you have green horses and purple mages, etc.

15:00 why would you delete an entire half of your line, rather than just take the ink off of one half of it? That's just wasted production. It's also objectively a bad decision to only have 1 of them running, the other existing line that has two motif makers in it was producing way more despite not having any ink in them. You just intentionally hamstrung yourself for absolutely no benefit. The reason why it switched from +120% to 0% is because the supply of your shapes wasn't consistent, so when it was waiting for the shape it needed, it wasn't working, so it couldn't benefit from the ink. You were literally doing twice as much work before, and now you're struggling with the boss because you weren't scaling anymore. Also, you've totally forgot to use your duplicator except for the one at the beginning 😅

Sifd's editor pointing us to the past in 2024! Riffing off the train of thought in ShapeHero Factory that brought this game up again, I can see how it would be very interesting for spells to be fed in from a factory rather than drawn from a deck. I prefer active battlers over autobattlers, so that would appeal to me more than Shapehero's combat.

i think a great mashup of factory builder and tower defense game would be a similar approach to what ive seen in dyson sphere program. you have to first get the resources to produce the towers, but after you built them, you also have to produce and feed the needed ammunition into them. so that would be way to do it, by having different types of towers that might need different resources to maintain them and allow them to keep shooting, like ammo that first has to be produced in factories out of harvested resources and then constantly fed into machine gun turrets. but also stuff like energy towers like laser turrets that have to be connected to a power grid and building components for that grid like the cabeling has to be done factory style, and the energy production like sending coal into coal power plants that then produce the energy. flame throwers and poison towers have to be fed with chemicals through pipelines etc. there is a lot of potential here for a mashup of the genres.

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Isn't the bottom duplicator not working? Cause there is no animation, so I assume output is blocked so no production

I think this game could benefit from a line tool when making long conveyors or pipes

i think shield boys would be strong if you also had archers

with the colored ink and maxing out all your research points into ink engines, you could have probably heavily invested your level up points into % shape production increases for triangles and circles, so you can spit out more and more normies. you might have even reached the 1200 normies that way.

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The mixer minion is a slow production unit. You could have the green and blue ink go into two of them and then merge the cyan. If it was fast, it would be pretty op because you would have 1 u/s of blue and green, so 2/s of cyan, a much stronger ink. Without upgrades you seem to need one mixer per engine, so that makes engine upgrades worth it if you don't get the mixer tree. Also shield boys are nice during bosses too because they block all the chaff when your units focus the boss. Also, you seem to need very few of them, just enough production to get a full circle, as long as they don't get rekt. I think if you had had an equal amount of archers during the boss you would have died.

The green and blue pipe can supply multiple mixers - two mixers can permanently supply two engines.

I want to see Nakamura reacting to this! Its going to me insane!

I like watching these management genre games. Playing them...not so much, tho 😂

Helloo again Sifd

First. Hi sifd🎉🎉🎉

More minmaximg !😊

Yes , as there is only 1 act and not much time , it would be good to use custom mode for better builds

Day 4 of asking for more peglin.

Would love to see reorganize time on this

Actually, sifd a pike was generally heavier and longer than a spear. so much so that you can't (would be incredibly difficult) use a pike and a shield like a spear and shield. its like saying a short sword is the same as a longsword

playing with time stop mode is 110% ok!! more min max!

To answer your question at the end; I do not mind if you use timestop. Whatever can be proven by NOT doing it is proven. You are OUR minmax guy. It hurts to not see you really whipping this factory around.,

I'm always a fan of minmaxing and I don't mind you using the pause 😁

I think you over thought this on a bit before you started.. LOL Spaghetti all over.. Stay Safe. TF

I think this is a great game to livestream, because there are many tips and tricks people have for you. We can also tell you when you forgot to upgrade/change things, like you forgot to upgrade 2 of the conveyer jumpers in this video or when something’s broken. I think it would be a great idea, also definitely use the “freeplay” mode as well for maximum min-maxing for future videos and if you livestream it. Maybe a livestream when the full game drops?

You should always add ink when you can.

Glad to see you back on this! You should try to do a run with the class where the wands are all sentient (Soul, maybe? I forget the name), and try to get the relic that makes you invisible. Since YOU never attack, you get permanent invisibility, and it literally breaks the game (Something you say often) since you can't be actively targeted. It's wonderful.

From what I've seen in the Tutorial section, there is a plan for units that require ink as an input istead of being pure shapes. It's gonna be a pretty deep and complex game.

Sifd is learning about Factorio belt-spaghetti!

This game is so good that we dont want the demo to be over PS that spearman collum obliterated the boss

Min max min max!!!

yes winmax it!

As a satisfactory perfectionist, it would be really nice too see a perfected run with with maximum unit output in a really clean build.

u should start reading the comments and use the information they r giving u

44:05 The amount of units sent out to battle is not affected by the number produced during the building phase. That is only for unit upgrades. In the background, as the battle is happening, your factory is still working and producing units which then get sent out through the portal to join the fight.

As many people have stated, you can go back to the factory during combat if you click the factory icon bottom right. Is there a reason you dont do this?

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i really really enjoy this, and i cant wait for the full version of this game. there are already so many more things that you could do if you just had another act or 2 to play with. like you could get the research trees for faster conveyors, and more production, and mix ink wells and could just make your production lines that you have faster and faster. or you could build them out for more complex production and units. the items you get from elite fights will also matter a lot more and might steer your run in certain directions.

No reason to not min-max from now on. You should play on free mode now. It will be more fun to see the crazy builds you are able to come up to.

hey sifd, found a new casino roguelike, would be nice if you try it. its called "Dungeon and Degenerate Gamblers"

Sifd, you're missing a couple of things here. A) The counters on the left aren't how many troops you have... you have unlimited troops. They're counters that show how close you're getting to upgrading them each round. B) You're wasting coins putting 1 exit conveyor after each canvas... just attach the splitter/joiner/warper/etc directly to the building. C) If the battle is under control, click the map button on the bottom right and go back to the factory and keep building. It won't help this round, but it'll help the next round. D) After watching this, I think watching you play Factorio or Shapez would be hilarious. 😃

Getting such an OP card like the 3/1 trifurcating mantis god is so satisfying

I think time-stop would be nice for more min-maxing.