Factorio - My Take on an Outpost

[@Trupen]

Simple and efficient Love it :D

[@BackToVoid]

but i think it's pro actually

[@gavinminion8515]

If only the biters were smarter. One pylon...

[@belighria9105]

They used to attack the pylons, why I had such a network of outposts, had to make sure I cleared everything to avoid losing that 1 pylon, happened a few times!

[@ronwesilen4536]

Can i have an explanation?

[@belighria9105]

@@ronwesilen4536 the whole Outpost is powered by 1 line of large power poles. If a biter was to kill even 1 power pole, whole outpost would lose power. Thankfully unless they get lost and wander into one, they will only taret pollution producing buildings, generally leaving power poles alone.

[@katarrhakt]

​@@belighria9105 and that's why I went with an unconnected, almost unpowered outpost. Looks very similar to yours, except it's all flamethrowers and a couple of storage tanks for the oil. And a handful of solar panels and accumulators to power the radar in the middle. The death train brings 2 fluid wagons of oil with it.

[@ronwesilen4536]

@@belighria9105 oh ok. I thiught pylon referred to the individual pieces of wall in your weird defences. In my language a pilon is a column, not a power pole

[@keihardejan]

I approve this outpost! 10/10

[@keihardejan]

@@nicodemuseam the only good biter is a dead biter ;)

[@ВалерийШадрин-л5г]

you could have used gates with those rails that you have to erase every time you set up a new outpost so they would work as walls and wouldn't be a pain in the ass

[@Корзинкасводичкой]

I do similar thing, but instead of building line of power poles and using lasers, i use flamethrowers and uranium ammo instead. To support the outpost I use solar power, as you don't need much energy without lasers. Also I have some artillery turrets on the outpost to prevent biter expansion while train is not on that outpost. Amount of resources is controlled by simple logic circuits, so I know there won't be 6969+ drones or repair kits on the same base. I build those around the edge of my pollution, and they are fully automated.

[@rosenvitae]

Seeing all those laser turrets head-bobbing gave me the vibes from Animusic's Heavy Light video. Listening to it while watching this was oddly satisfying.

[@toozigooti]

I'm just getting into Factorio and I've only watched a few videos, so I don't really know just how significant this video is... I can probably guess that this is the product of a few hundred hours of play on a single save? Regardless, when I saw the train come in with the artillery and you started blasting the surrounding nests (I was surprised by the range), my jaw hit the floor. This is SO COOL!

[@justsomedude8324]

Am i the only one using artillery turrets in outposts? Stockpile shells in chests and just use Artillery wagons to transport ammo when low. Having one name for all outposts saves a lot of time.

[@haydenhoodless2055]

This is my approach also.

[@1x1boop28]

"bug zapper" all it takes is one bug to get smart and tear down a power pole.

[@keamu8580]

And they do, often, send a single bug to attack a pipe or a power pole sometimes.

[@samuels1123]

I wonder if theres a mod that makes bugs change target based on what they locally keep losing to target rails if nests destroyed by artillery train target power if lasers are issue target item transport if guns are issue

[@Queue3612]

all this would change is people building walls and turrets along their rail lines, everythng will still be surrounded and defended but now with the hassel of building around all the train lines

[@enricobianchi4499]

rampant

[@morlock2200]

i would say an outpost in my mind is more of an self sustained military check point which can get supplies but not power from a base.

[@ВалерийШадрин-л5г]

mining outposts can't help but get power from the base, and yet they're called outposts. might there be another name for a setup like mining outpost? maybe, but is there a need for it?

[@palefire9988]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHfClpWtibFqkLc "more of an self sustained military" it's "more of a self sustained military"

[@hellboy19991]

@@ВалерийШадрин-л5г A "forward military position" would be the exact name, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely as just "outpost"

[@kadenfurr9699]

This video is either about to blow up, or youtube says I should finally beat factorio. Only time will tell.

[@SireSquish]

By "beat factorio" do you mean launch *a* rocket, or launch 2 rockets/min?

[@kadenfurr9699]

@@SireSquish launch a rocket, I was really slow on my first world, and the bugs evolved faster than I could handle them.

[@belighria9105]

@@kadenfurr9699 was ages before i launched my first rocket, I always got lost in the oil stage. Now I have 1 map with over 200 launches.

[@_caracalla_]

​@@kadenfurr9699 my first end game, i only launching 1 rocket per 23 in game hours. i dont even tell you the bottlenecks. now though, i m beaconizing my silos in my first 1 rocket per 2,5 minutes megabase.

[@nickg5819]

@@_caracalla_ I finally beat the game and it only took me 82 hours lol cause of the biters evolving extremely quickly i couldn't handle them well, starting a new base and im already about to get yellow science at only 8 hours in, technically I made the biters spawn farther away with expansion off but still I am doing so much better for my second game.

[@AltarinTV]

its a nice outpost for regular rail world/default world. But on deathworld, especially in later stages of the game, especially with armored biters, i would not believe it can hold against some of the truly massive revenge attacks that will come your way.

[@yocto7082]

I miss playing this game man, my main problem for not playing it is the demotivation I get when starting over in a brand new world and not knowing wtf to do.

[@Tony_Goat]

Precept 1: The factory must grow Precept 2: The biters must die Everything else is just steps to achieve these two things. :-)

[@sungvin]

I have a problem when I want to build a perfect base but there is so much to consider I end up staring at the screen for an hour before calling it a day

[@yocto7082]

@@sungvin real

[@cpanic1153]

I do a similar one but with flame throwers, lasers and uranium ammo. The last train car has light oil.

[@gregorydriscoll8806]

your outposts look like processors on the map

[@teafu3146]

I read this as take on me... watched through the whole video expecting the song by aha.... Nice outpost though!

[@iamjimfan]

Spectacular

[@TommyLikeTom]

reminds me of one of those electrified mosquito heaters

[@kwarc1009]

now to fully automate 10 outposts at a time + build like 100 more nuclear reactors

[@godu1111]

Where does the artillery ammo come from?

[@drharnsaft1005]

bretty good.

[@sophdog1678]

Big Boomers Bombard Biter Bases, while Satisfying Shooters Slaughter Spitter Swarms.

[@kingheroyj7190]

Wow! Impressive

[@TheKing318i]

This is brilliant! and would benefit greatly from nuclear bots.

[@OBLOfficiall]

can you post the blueprint to this setup?

[@dmitriysergeyev7568]

It not danger attack, in my game mode, this outpost destroy very quckly. If here add mines -- it will be batter. Mines and lazer turrets good work together, but, fire turrets better solution -- for massive attacks.

[@benitocarmelo4296]

@Samuel Skala its not like his english is unintelligible stfu.

[@theviolenceenjoyer]

@Samuel Skala Thats such a biggoted thing to say

[@freshbreeze20]

Could you explain please Why did you put walls in that way?

[@askeladden450]

It takes less walls to build this sort of a structure than a solid wall with the same thickness. This keeps biters, especially spitters at a sufficient distance. Also, the decrease in total hp is ok since the robots are gonna repair the walls anyways

[@1Maklak]

It confuses and slows down big biter pathing.

[@freshbreeze20]

@@askeladden450 thx!

[@vond5829]

This is a genocide. A bug genocide

[@MasterVolton]

this is very cool, have considered sharing the blueprint in you description box?

[@kriegscommissarmccraw4205]

Where are the trenches!

[@charliechuckleberry5307]

Mods are amazing.

[@NubeBuster]

Is there a mod used in this?

[@kingcrimson1631]

26,153rd!

[@frankgomez2582]

pass the plane

[@mop9507]

Je ne comprende pas- What’s the point of this outpost?

[@Queue3612]

To expand territory and prevent biter expansions. Any nest within the artlleries radius will be destroyed and all the bugs in their revenge attack will go to that outpost location, saves on needing a giant wall around everything as instead you dot these bunkers around your base and you are protected.

[@Jko282]

Beautiful

[@sakibchowdhury4747]

Devide and conquer

[@tacticalyeet5435]

ok im in a dilema for turrets. gun turrets are cheap, and easy to use but need a lot of resources to automate. laser turrets do not need any ammunition supply aside from power, but they will o b l i t e r a t e your electrical network when firing. flamethrower turrets are nice but do not lead the target and never hit moving enemies, and get damaged easily due to this. overall, laser and flamethrowers is the direction im heading but still hesitant.

[@judet2992]

Haha lazors go bbbrrrrrrrrrrr

[@kwekker]

wow seventh. also nice outpost

[@gravitygames4495]

45th comment 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@mr2octavio]

Meh, you block yourself from moving forward and had to take out and place again the train track to continue.

[@trippybruh1592]

First!

[@juangnrnminecraft]

ninth!

[@khoakirokun217]

Second!

[@Ethan-rz6cx]

Sixth!

[@caturlez4193]

fourth!

[@cereal2849]

Third