Frostpunk 2 Utopia Builder [Captain Difficulty, Deathless?] part 02

[@yugonostalgia8961]

Love Jake's interactions with the Hippies here: "You might have better policies, might be objectively correct, however, you disgust me on a personal level so I will screw you over given any opportunity"

[@23kurtzy]

DDRJake encountering twitch subscribers who just discovered him through his frostpunk 2 streams.

[@bridgerdyck387]

Heyo! Two things. Relationships allow you to have access to those powerful abilities, and as far as I understand there are absolutely no downsides (apart from slightly boosting the faction). Also! Those rally's end after a fixed amount of time after the relationship leaves the gold section, and start a set amount of time after the relation enters and stays in the gold section. So there's an incentive to supporting a faction and maintaining that support for a while.

[@hedgehog3180]

I really like that you aren't locked into version of each tech. The choice of what to research is still difficult early on because research time is so valuable but it gives you something valuable to do late game.

[@Gubbug]

I don't know how it workds on a 'flat' surface, like the in game map, but Hexagons when tesselated over a spherical surface usually have to accommodate a pentagon somewhere to finish the complete tesselation of the surface. If you look at a soccer ball that has its hexagonal cells, you'll find one pentagon on the surface of the ball too!

[@Xerofyt]

Hexagons can tesselate a plane. I think the game is using a Voronoi tiling, with tile centers using slight, random offsets from the shifted rows of a hexagonal tiling. That will produce mostly hexes, with the occasional other shape as observed. Hard to be entirely sure though.

[@MrCatofdoom]

neat

[@Gubbug]

@@Xerofyt This seems more than probable, especially since we've seen at least one pentagon and one septagon throughout the map. It could also just be that different shapes are shoehorned in when the map terrain makes it difficult to fit a hexagon.

[@s2wuolf508]

Probably just the generator in the central hub, the hexagons and pentagons making up the central hub are just hidden

[@VivBrodock]

I feel like Adaptation is straight up the most powerful one to go for, like it's technologies are so strong why wouldn't you focus it?

[@hedgehog3180]

Well you need Progress to get access to deep resources.

[@rsk-1337]

Yup heat demand management is super important on higher difficulty. Adaptation and merit (except the heat pipe law in equality which is one of the best laws in the game) and tradition are the strongest with adaptation a clear #1

[@TheSilverwing999]

He seems to be slightly biased against those options for whatever reason even though they are powerful. It's very curious

[@evanmagolor1812]

​@@TheSilverwing999likely because he sided with the Evolvers so heavily during the story.

[@TheLPRnetwork]

haha I just finished the first VOD. perfect timing!

[@SergiuHellDragoonHQ]

Great job surviving that far with Captain difficulty! I had a few attempts myself which didn't go to well

[@unoriginalone2152]

Jake says calcany so often that when I’m talking to myself to help plan things out I find myself saying it

[@zachh9087]

Excited to see this. Great to see your thoughts about the game, too. It's certainly interesting how similar but different it is.

[@vaertai4237]

Although I agree the Rule laws are probably powerful, I think the difficulty is getting them passed maybe? Seems like it needs more set up and care. Though you did make it look very easy managing discontent for extreme laws in FP1.

[@what-tk9cc]

I actually found out about unique bonuses or combos, like foraged additives + biowaste hothouse, giving you tons of food income.

[@ammelodiana5664]

After doing some testing my end, I don't think excess production wastes the node. I did a test when capped out on coal and wasn't using up any with the generator. I had it running stating it would make something like +400 but the nodes total remaining wasnt budging. I think when you checked it was still taking out what you expenditure is, or this only worked for me because I had no coal expenditure

[@DDRJake]

It certainly warrants more investigation.

[@nster3]

No emotes does make for a better VOD experience! First time watcher and loving this series, onto part 3!

[@TheM8]

Heptagon is the name for a seven-sided shape

[@nasser314]

Deep Mining and Production Buildings are bugged. If the Deep Mine is on the RIGHT side and the production building on the LEFT side of the tooltip, they both work at the same time.

[@zioming]

I was once told by my dentist of all people not to marry someone I share interests with, or they will have something to talk to me about when I come back from work. ...I don't think he was happily married...

[@NewBeginnerVN]

Another 6-hour video? Wow 😮

[@DavisKrauklis]

First mod I want is changing those "slightly; significantly" and other fancy words for numbers I can understand at a glance...

[@KrKesomackan]

"maybe we should give them the heat thing... nah they don't need it yet" he says while being in -90C

[@Lunaraia]

Hubs are something you should plan for, but won't be needed early on, as they take up a TON of workforce or heating (or both). Also, the Workforce reduction from the hub is 15% at 3 blips, which is pretty substantial if you have the heat to handle it.

[@QuintBlitz]

38:19 Was the craziest "Do not feed the pigeons" broadcast I've ever heard!

[@ibccreamsoda3811]

Tried out not smoking the Bohemians on a second game. Turns out that final bonus to relations is pretty useful, it's just a shame that they don't really provide anything else too useful that the foragers don't already provide.

[@viviengemai9796]

Few seconds in and Jake sounds the same as during his interviews as the spokesman for EU 4. Instead of the rough wisened voice we now got "Young Jake" to entertain us again.

[@TheTrevorist]

If "ifs and buts" were candy and nuts we'd all have a merry(very) good Christmas.

[@jkep6643]

I think you can do a loop of materials from a refurbishing composite factory to a charcoal making to coal then through a coal liquefied and back into the refurbished for infinite resources over time although this is very expensive and worker intensive for it's output.

[@gviztaivoras4230]

Not to mention the steam core cost of coal liquifier

[@ChrisLearnsThings]

The most frustrating thing about missing the stream and watching the VOD was knowing that the first thing Jake found was a food colony and not being able to say anything while he constantly searched for a food solution

[@TheJoppa99]

If you wish to do another run some other time after this, you should make it into a shthole, let's call it Dystopia Builder. Also, name it Birmingham since that joke will never not be funny.

[@romanplays1]

if i remember right. theres actually a deathworld (a world incredibly hostile to human life by nature) named birmingham in warhammer 40k

[@TheJoppa99]

@@romanplays1 Just looked it up. Yup, this is why everyone loves Warhammer.

[@jasonreidmtl]

18:05 fav part of the stream (so far)

[@ironicits]

asmr Jake, primo second monitor content.

[@Lunaraia]

Depending on your society, you can get a few more factions; for a merit-based society you can get Servants, which is basically a workforce that are treated as slaves, they work for no pay, and you can even increase their workload which will quickly work them to death. They also have 0 political power.

[@henryksaper9160]

Im still not convinced to but frostpunk2. Loved the first game so much but the more I watch gamepl;ays now the more I see it is very different game based on politics not building. I believe this game is great for someone who never played frostpunk1 but hmm maybe Ive had twisted expectations??

[@TrollBishbaalkin]

Good god jake, i just finished watching the part 1 two minutes ago. How did you know lol

[@melorbode]

is this a three strikes with the red diamonds and your out? Like to Bohemian?

[@gtokakashi1]

another challenge accepted

[@manicpixiedckgirl]

jake taking a break from seperating children from their parents because he doesnt trust women not to be hysterical. frostpunk is back baby

[@marcin_kalbarczyk]

1:50:20 the food spoiling in -60°C bro? 😭

[@DDRJake]

Chippy Chips getting cold and wet. There's nothing worse.

[@are0us913]

Jake, how are you gonna do challenge runs with how much slower this version is?

[@keats90]

Them complaining about work makes me think of the useless workers at my job, JUST GET BACK TO WORK.

[@TheSilverwing999]

Cant tell if the commie comments are said seriously or if it's a weird community meme. Anyway I'm enjoying the playthrough a lot

[@MoritzPaul-k4t]

Actually it's a heptagon not a septagon :P

[@StrifeA217]

funny how you were laying into datguykaide you have had the streamer blindness and have been ignoring the food colony to the south east (map right side up) since before the first storm. something in german about laughing with the boys. Edit: and like you as soon as I got done typing you find it.

[@mothbott9461]

2:50 hexagon maps are more or less impossible to make perfectly line up- so one spot somewhere has to be the funny one. I guess that's the funny spot.

[@nasser314]

They are literally not. You can have an infinite hexagonal grid.

[@DDRJake]

Hexagon's whole thing is being an infinitely tessellating, robust yet flexible shape. There was a conscious decision to mix other shapes in there. I wonder if anyone can find a square.

[@duffrancois]

@@DDRJake I have, on the Horizon-derived food colony. Now the hunt moves on to the mythical triangle.

[@zioming]

Why is it "More money than God"? Shouldn't it be "More money that the Catholic Church" instead?

[@noirgriseus]

3:04 "Emote spamming?" There was one emote in the message. Good to know you run tight, tight chat.

[@DDRJake]

If I get a one email offering me hot singles in my area, I still report it as spam.

[@noirgriseus]

Meant no disrespect. Along with appreciating you doing you, respect and admire your values.