Combat on the Rim

[@wallanator2792]

3:11 No dad I'm not winning my colonists are about to become chairs

[@loomhigh]

scrotum couch time

[@Little_Compy]

@Jeffrey Sullivan hmm kinda suspicious how both of these accounts were made in the same day.......

[@cyborghyena]

I discovered these chairs

[@Herman-kb4ez]

Neither did i

[@sc18594]

Almost 300hours in this game and i never thought of putting medicine on a shelf.

[@ethandye8764]

tbh the shelf is one of the more broken items, i use it primarily for animal food, also vanilla storage extended is amazing

[@johnvarley4561]

Don't forget to put shelves in your workshop too. You can store components, cotton, steel, psychoid, anything your heart desires!

[@okavara3833]

@@johnvarley4561 oooh I did not think of that. I will have to try! I can never keep track of how many components I have... even WITH the inventory on the left of the screen.

[@homfri111]

900 hrs in game, but its always about midgame where i remember i can do that but my base's storage system is already busted so, if they live they live.

[@3217491]

@@homfri111 same my man. I am usually so frantically expanding and waiting for stuff to be built/chopped down, that I forget to do the things I have to do and then after like 20 hours into a colony I decide to make storage a bit more efficient, clothing optimal etc.

[@victorhladun2751]

Don't mess with us, Comat Extended fans We write "CE compatibility?" under a mod that adds 1 and a hulf guns that deal 0 damage and play a fart sound

[@nicegye0091]

definitely worth asking as well. I can see several scenarios where that fart gun is a requirement.

[@potatoalsopotato8378]

bro is this comment CE compatible i need to know

[@t-rex9809]

I wish CE never existed, so I could not enjoy the game at all. Wait. I don't.

[@deplorabledegenerate2630]

Mod that doesn't add any weapons and is mostly cosmetic: hey guys, what do you- Me, an intellectual: Is this compatable with CE?

[@ketch10]

@@potatoalsopotato8378 yeah im still waiting for an awnser

[@exudeku]

Rimworld, where the Geneva Convention does not exist and the safe haven of potential African Warlords

[@Gamerad360]

*Where you train to become an African Warlord.

[@coreymoore1186]

RimWorld where you can make a child soldier breeding camp

[@Leantath]

"And they always ask themselves, why did my pawn get insta-shotted?" GET OUT OF MY HEAD CHARLES

[@PatrickMartinez1]

"Ah I'm trippin on acid"

[@majormelon8855]

This is probably the most comprehensive guide I've seen for combat in rimworld so far. Excellent work my dude!

[@anomanomom239]

There is one tip that I think he missed: not every fight is worth it, especially in the lategame. Building an emergency exit to your base and using it when the fight seems unwinnable to escape and resettle is not a bad option. It also breaks the gameplay and story monotony and imo is reallistic. Live to fight another day and start anew with superior pawns, equipment and tech.

[@JulkRiid]

Can we talk about how good his editing is? 10/10 m8

[@bullseye088]

@Russian Bot looks like he didnt want to talk about it

[@owencarroll9878]

Ngl it's kinda hard not to be a savescum especially when your own grenade kills 3 of your colonists but I just do commitment mode to take away the temptation that I know I cant resist

[@joseph9342]

I cannae resist either, will literally force quit the game just to reload from a random auto save.... it’s awful 😅😬😬

[@civilrebel3743]

One of the few times I save scummed is when my starting colony had a dude in full cat armor with an rpg raid

[@packediceisthebestminecraf9007]

I tried commitment mode too, until the game crashed and I lost hours of progress. Seriously, why did Tynan think it wouldn't be a good idea just to have a "save" button?!

[@sahal6905]

@@packediceisthebestminecraf9007 the game auto saves like every few minutes so I don’t know how you lost hours of gameplay lmao

[@packediceisthebestminecraf9007]

@@sahal6905 When you don't have a gaming PC you don't want the game to save every few minutes automatically. Also, it autosaves based on the game's day/night cycle, so when you're planning a base the game doesn't autosave.

[@BobbyTheBigBoy]

Savescumming 'til the end! AND THEN I'LL JUST LOAD AGAIN

[@soldier22881]

a fellow chad and man of culture

[@alewolfo8491]

2:00 and this is why i installed CE

[@samharradence5689]

Agreed, some of the misses I've witnessed in vanilla are just ridiculous. A colonist with 4 shooting and a shotgun should be able to at least glance what's infront of them.

[@LucasTheF]

CE broke the shit outta my other mods

[@alewolfo8491]

@@LucasTheF that's the price you must pay...

[@LucasTheF]

@@alewolfo8491 no, it literally broke all of the turrets, ez uninstall

[@alewolfo8491]

@@LucasTheF a yeah, that too

[@ShirotheWiseWolf]

Turning off infestations in scenario editor is my favourite strategy to dealing with infestations. I just don't find them fun~

[@thekrampuselbananoquevivee9947]

Lame

[@saintsprayer727]

I use EZ infestations, so they still pop in and wreck a room but they’re still squishy bugs that a single colonist can handle.

[@hodarov1564]

@@saintsprayer727 The big-uns have an exoskeleton and hardened carapace, they ain't squishy.

[@tesstickle6974]

Infestation: happens Me: jokes on you i'm in to that shit

[@housephone9090]

Wack

[@Rikoshet53]

Combat extended like luciferium. One game and you can't play without it anymore.

[@TheSky-zz9my]

I've beeing playing this game for a few thousand of hours (let's not talk about my rimworld adiction plz), and a still learned a few tricks with this video. And this editing is just WOW ! And it's a blessing comming back to your channel, I still remember your Rimworld vanilla series (one of the best rimworld vids i've ever seen)

[@juniorthejust]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@thatgingerdude8666]

Junior: Dont savescum Also Junior: Use killboxes!

[@coopplaysmc4638]

Only been 3 FUCING MONTHS

[@deplorabledegenerate2630]

I'd argue wimp is a great trait. Since they are likely to go down before they die they are like a reuseable meat shield. Sure they won't soak as much damage but you can patch them up, stand by their medical bed staring at them and as soon as they wake up say "guess what?" then lean in real close "you're going back" Once had one so covered in scars and prosthetics... and insanely skilled from all the fights they were in.

[@0g0mogosepikworld31]

No I will never accept the fact that my colonist can die. I spent hours looking at them. I looked at their social tabs. I know their friends, their hobbies. I can't let them go

[@P.K.Veiller]

Making floor on killbox with carpet and using molotovs are also great idea. Chemfuel stack by the enterance of the killbox also helps alot, enemies on fire won't attack before they extinguish the fire they are on.

[@Danielsantana-ed5kz]

just plant something random, it's very flammable, it's free and it's an extra piece of land

[@t_gabiuel6058]

Im just a TINY bit late but using carpets to fuel fire is just very expensive. Unless you have the world's greatest cotton plantation.

[@wallanator2792]

BRO IM SO EXCITED LESSS GOOO

[@soldier22881]

loved this, god tier editing and amazing humour, i can feel alot of effort went into this vid, and it was also very helpful. thank you!

[@eezaak21]

Heavy SMG is actually a really good early/mid game weapon. I always laughed at it until trying it. Surprisingly its great vs centipedes. Skipping centipedes into close range and then stunning them. 6-7 colonists with Heavy SMGs just tore it apart.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I've not seen any of your videos before and this just popped up on my feed randomly. This was *hilarious* and it was very education/efficient at the topic. Awesome work my dude! It's always nice when the algorithm helps me find something great like this.

[@planetdilien2932]

do you use combat extended

[@dennylukman1801]

That rng dead on down, I call BULLSHIT. CE solve that problem by removing that entirely.

[@ponponpatapon9670]

@@dennylukman1801 i just turn dead on down off in settings so much shit in rimworld comes down to RNG bs that i end up turning a lot of it off lmao

[@KieranReed729]

@@ponponpatapon9670 I feel u bro. Losing a pawn with a 15 point in shooting wearing an excellent marine armor because some tribal got a “lucky shot” is just so wrong I almost feel violated

[@antrex6940]

@@KieranReed729 ooga booga me shoot arrow Big white armor man go ded Stonks

[@gavins9846]

RNG accuracy is so ludicrous. Even if you run after the enemy fires at you, you still get domed thanks to the homing bullet guidance deployed by rngesus.

[@natalie6811]

Real quick, to be fair with CE, the “compatible mods” list is really only about weapons, armor, and pawns that aren’t patched to work with it. Most QOL mods and buildings mods will work fine with it, although if you want anything about the combat to be further extended you are definitely going to have to build your list around it.

[@mr-mr-101]

For anyone wanting a Combat Extended-like mod but without fucking up your load order with patches and incompatibles, I recommend a combination of Yayo's Combat 3, Gunplay, Suppression and Combat Update: - YC has a lot of things from new animations, a simple yet non-mod breaking ammo system and tweaks such as making power armor impenetrable to low ranking weapons. - Gunplay is mostly a visual mod that drastically increases the speed which bullets fly which sounds like a minor thing but it really improves the feeling of a gunfight from a sort of derpy, lethal nerf gun battle to something actually threatening. - Suppression adds a hedeff that will slow pawns down and increase their aim time based on how much fire they are taking making stuff like LMGs more useful in their irl roles as well as making massed fire more dangerous. Personal note, its kinda hilarious with the Real Shotgun Patch because you can fully suppress someone with two blasts from it lol. - Combat Update helps with accuracy so that your legendary level 20 sniper can always hit things. That bit in the video where the guy misses a shotgun blast at point blank wouldn't happen with this mod as long as they were a competent shot. - Sort of a bonus one but Mortar Accuracy makes it so that skills actually affect mortars; shooting skill affects reload while intelligence affects the spread radius so they don't just fly way off course. Does this perfect mimic what CE can do? No, but I guarantee that its less of a pain in the ass to manage than CE as well as making you look like less of an ass for begging modders to make CE patches. Download all the races, guns, apparel and faction mods you want without worrying if they're compatible or not.

[@jart1984]

yeah and as a plus they dont add bloat unlike CE which adds every specific type/caliber of ammo for every single guns in the game. it's kinda distracting too since i dont think people on some faraway backwater planet 3500 years in the future would remember what caliber this specific Bosnian gun from 1963 uses.

[@MBoy2000_]

6:48 is so genius, im so using this next time i make a new colony

[@snickle1980]

this sure is becoming a popular editing style for KZbin videos that introduce gaming topics. I think this video is very close to what it wants to be... Some of the memes didn't hit perfectly, but that didn't mess with the flow of narration at all. I would call this a solid 7.8 out of ten. With practice and dedication, you'll soon be amongst the legends such as Womble and Seth. is gud.

[@Nightweaver1]

Ah, good ol' racist Sseth.

[@omegalul8861]

@@Nightweaver1 Hey hey people.

[@3217491]

@@Nightweaver1 hey hey people.

[@prinz4279]

@@Nightweaver1 Hey, hey, people.

[@afriendlyperson5503]

You are one of the rare ones who puts effort on their vids and i appreciate it

[@madzoroark5396]

1:54 "it's accuracy" misses the first shot.

[@PGMP2007]

OK MAN THIS IS PURE GOLD Thank you for sharing this with the Rimworld comunity its LITERALLY the one video people should see to play the game.

[@Josukegaming]

God i love all the character and charm and edits you put into these videos

[@mycathasswag7242]

Hidden gem channel, gon binge watch your stuff now

[@arandomghuy4707]

2:25 regarding grenades, I highly recommend in using incendiary against large numbers of enemies especially tribal melee raiders as the incendiary works wonderfully as what i call as a weapon of denial because every time it explodes it burns the area around it forcing the raiders to stop or slow down as they move around the burning area and if they are burned they'll run around in panic until they are downed or badly injured a frag grenade may kill/downed two or three raiders but by the time your colonist throws the second one the raiders are much closer and chances are you won't get a third time until you're forced in a melee, you can still use the frag grenades in small groups of raiders espcially armored ones as the grenade has really good damage.

[@mukklan.]

Best Rimworld channel I've ever encountered 10/10 would watch again

[@thatguy-uz4vq]

I hate that kill boxes are the best and never use them myself. My pride is my greatest downfall.

[@118Damion]

6:04 i felt that.

[@localman9063]

2:00 Watching pawns miss with a shotgun at point blank range is one of most painful things I've ever experienced. This is why I use CE.

[@RickFoxChicken]

Mega-underrated. I'm fairly new to the game, sub-100 hours, and this was extremely helpful.

[@happysnappyd7640]

That was a good video. This guy always makes the best

[@draven1983]

This is honestly one of the best videos I have ever seen

[@joelfilho2625]

I used a site (kinda outdate but w/e) that calculates gun accuracy in Rimworld and I cannot understate how OP go-juice is. That shit boosts your pawn's accuracy a LOT. It might have an insta-addiction chance, but for that colonists with a charge lance, you'll FEEL the difference it makes. The mood boost is also good. Also, if you have anything that stops pain, install it ASAP on your pawns. The consciousness debuff from pain absolutely WRECKS shooting and melee accuracy of your pawn, as well as a huge loss of movement speed. Just be careful and keep an eye on your pawns health, it might sound like it makes it easier to lose pawns, but arguably your wounded will move so much faster that they'll probably arrive in a hospital much faster than most others. P.S. I still savescum on occasion. Example: Pawn in wall cover with good devilstrand duster & shirt + excellent flakvest got one-shot through the heart by a single pikeman shot. Similar occasion to a pawn with an excellent plasteel flak helmet got one-shot in the brain by another pikeman. I used to think these fuckers were just weaker lancers, but lately I've just been always sending them melee fighters to distract as soon as possible, given their bullshit armor pen value. P.S.S I've learned to entirely avoid using melee fighters against mechs if I can EMP them, thanks to an occurence one day. I got a defoliator ship, a bunch of lancers and a couple scythers. all bunched up, ez to EMP most and fuck 'em up. Long story short, my melee fighters got EMP'd, lost their shield belts and one lost his leg to a lancer shot. The other had a BRAIN SHOCK (had never seen it happen before) due to my own EMPs, so the scythers managed to get to my ranged guys as they were still focusing on the EMP'd lancers. Nearly lost the whole colony, thankfully this last guy managed to kill the last scyther by meleeing him with his rifle. had to hault 4 bodies to the crematorium though.

[@derkach7907]

You can use fire as a way to prevent raiders to go that specific direction. Might be useful. You should use uranium melee weapons, since they are best choice for early to midgame. Dont build inside a mountain. Very simple. You can use the "roof trap", basically one pillar with minimum health holds a giant area with roof. The pillar gets destroyed, everyone underneath is immobilized. Use rats against mechanical droids, they are numerous and deal good damage. If you raid a base, just build yourself inside a mountain, cover up your path with steel walls (very important), and watch them burn themselves to death. (only 2 issues with this strat: your small mountain room heats up, so be fast and can you mine and build faster then they can destroy? Cause you need about 10-20 steel walls) make sure they don't accidentally start digging for different paths If they almost destroy you, sacrifice one of your pawns to make them capture him and leave. Cover your entire base with concrete to give them 0 cover. (im doing that and it takes ages) If a psychic ship has landed, just give your people psychic foil and done. Let other raiders deal with that. The use of drugs is advised. You can always call allys for defense. Dont clean up after a battle. Corpses make negative buffs on attackers and are then more likely to flee the battle. +less work for you. Only allow psychopaths or someone who doesn't get negative buffs on corpses (idk who) to go to that area. Use corners of a walls for melee purposes.

[@gvo252]

"I recommend shotgun for its accuracy" *shows clip of guy missing first blast at 4 feet range*

[@ExtremeMan10]

I remember how I got infestation in my ammunition warehouse and one of them triggered stack of bombs.....it wasnt really pleasant sight

[@lsswappedcessna]

I've had infestations appear in my reactor room (rimatomics) and wipe out half of the base because the stupid insects go "hey look a breeder reactor, wonder what would happen if..." and smash it. Never again. I now keep the reactor room below freezing and sometimes put an extra wall around the core itself.

[@joshmccrory6162]

As Count Dooku once said: *I’ve been looking forward to this*

[@felix6x311]

Run and gun makes combat a little more interesting

[@samueltrusik3251]

Pete Complete: "What do you mean I will "Lose" colonists?"

[@big-boi8890]

I actually created an interesting solution to infestations in one of RimWorld bases. It was essentially a 1 tile wide long room that surrounded all of the rooms that acted like a ventilation system, and a room that connected to it filled with heaters. Not only was it surprisingly effective for keeping the base warm, but if my base was being attacked by an infestation, I could purge the base and kill everyone inside by setting the heaters to ~290F (143C)

[@majormelon8855]

This is such a good comprehensive combat tutorial. Great stuff!

[@babyseal_5]

Amazing vid man! I rarely give thumbs up but this definetely deserves it. Good tips and superb editing. I also liked that the new Vanilla Expanded Mechanoids mod forces to abandon this time-tested tactics. The aura, inquisitor and flamethrower mechanoid will force you to think outside the box. And the Carpenter mechanoid doesnt fight but dissasembles your walls, power lines and turrets in record speed

[@averyshinyrock9989]

8:00 That gave me flashbacks to the time my married psycaster baroness died in a social fight to a guy with a level 2 melee skill and no weapon. Thanks, Randy.

[@coreymoore1186]

The pain 💘

[@mac6na6na26]

Rimworld is a fine mix of 10 pounds absolute fucking chaos and a pinch of warcrimes

[@Kenny-yu6gc]

I miss your content, such greatly edited videos

[@civilrebel3743]

The king has returned

[@hooligan9615]

1:59 “Because of it’s accuracy” *Misses*

[@itsbbr]

theres nothing more satisfying than dying to a manhunter pack of 34 raccoon

[@Stonecargo21]

8:54 I'm sorry my lord, *I am not strong enough*

[@Gunnergamingyt2]

One thing I found about flanking is that it works EXTREMELY well with the multiplayer mod. For example there was a guy melee attacking my pawn and the other player went around a mineable rock (those walls with steel sometimes) and shot the raider from behind as I ran.

[@hideshisface1886]

Few things to note - Spear is a good alternative to Sword - it comes with marginally (literally 1%) worse DPS, significantly better penetration and its damage is concentrated on single body parts. But, generally - uranium mace is a way to go with melee, unless you get good quality zeushammers or monoswords. Do not underestimate the primitive ranged weapons. You probably don't want to use them yourself if you have alternatives, but do not presume they are harmless. Pila have short range, terrible accuracy and DPS, however, they deal immense damage - and are capable of one-shot killing a pawn. Greatbow is also very dangerous because of its range - it is one of the longest ranged standard weapons. It is matched by Charge Lance, and is outranged only by assault rifle, minigun, sniper rifle and bolt-action rifle. This means that early game, tribals have a reliable way to force you out of cover, which is bad for your health. As for light weapons - machine pistols are great spray-and-pray guns at short range and are a good supplement against groups of enemies. I would personally avoid pistol and revolver early on - your pawns are likely to be terrible shots, you want as many bullets downrange as possible. Pump shotgun is amazing early on - but it is completely outperformed by chain shotgun, which is perhaps the best anti-infestation weapon, disregarding fire. Heavy SMG is amazing for killboxes where you control the range of engagement and for low-skill pawns. For the late game. Assault rifle is an affordable jack of all trades, but it falls off quickly against heavy armour. Sniper rifles - good to have a couple of snipers to take down enemies who carry missile launchers. Charge weapons - do not settle for one or the other - they complement each other. Have a lance for every 2-3 rifles, throw a minigun and a sniper rifle or two and you have yourself a pretty strong squad that should be able to deal with just about anything. As for affordable armour - One word - Devilstrand. Let's be real here - you are unlikely to be able to afford constant supply of thrumbofur or hyperweave. Devilstrand is the third strongest material in the game and it can be grown. So it is a good money maker and good material overall. Devilstrand duster and pants are better than equivalent quality flak coat and pants, and don't slow your pawns down. Flak vest and helmets are worth it.

[@lunotarr]

I have one answer for all - Mannerheim line of uranium slug cannons. And brawlers fully stuffed with bionics and implants, with painstoppers. Worked on marches, ice sheet and now I completed extreme desert run with it (60C at winter)

[@rustyshackleford1508]

CE is so compatible now that you'd have to be an actual brainlet to still get broken games from it.

[@sandwich9509]

My laser gun shoots Arrows

[@GenericAnonUser]

Yes I definitely needed this today! I appreciate the effort and humour you put into your guides thank you :D

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

The annoying thing about armor is that it degrades just by being worn and there's nothing you can do to repair it. I don't like having my hospitals near the front lines, but I run bionic vampires, so they can double up as battle medics to tend allied pawns in the field and capture raiders.

[@ironscalp484]

"I'm not gonna savescum this playthrough" *lvl 0 melee raider one shot's my lvl 8 melee pawn *my hunter can't fight a rabid squirrel and dies *my new best melee fighter gets friendly fire one shot killed "And so i took that personally."

[@Lrofmaulol]

"Knocking raiders down and turning them into roombas" - I felt that.

[@leeharveyoswaldoffical3402]

This makes me want to spend hours recruiting anybody only to send them all to their deaths to a mechanoid ship

[@criarinobr2682]

tip: put an orbital trade beacon in an open, not roofed space. With this, all drop pods that should drop in the middle of your colony will drop around this beacon instead. This includes quest rewards, DROP POD RAIDS (only the ones that drop on top of you) and orbital trader goods. Put the beacon right outside your killbox/defenses, or in a heavily fortified "internal" killbox and drop pod raids will never be a problem

[@nicolaschapachnik2760]

Bro this is amazing, you expand the expectatibe of life in my colony at least a 100000%

[@darkness.thinking8709]

thank you for this fun and informative video. That was great 10/10

[@user-xp8nq5mf9y]

8:18 as you see it you immediately know what he is going to say.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

The main problem with manhunters isn't thier numbers but how the corpses tend to clog sally ports, leaving your base open if you forget to haul enough carcasses away.

[@jackofastora8962]

Defense with jack; chapter 1. Can I punch it? Yes---> melee attack it No-----^ | The end.

[@ne-wf7zf]

My great great grandfather : Intereso

[@hahahahaha_no...]

Me when i have killbox in early game: *IM 4 PARALLER UNIVERSES AHEAD OF YOU*

[@alperenakt]

What a edit... Keep up that good work

[@dudebro8811]

Vanilla weapons extended is what I've been using latley. I recommend it.

[@klauseazirus]

Best rimworld commentary/guide cant wait for the next one

[@michaelm6172]

As a combat extended fan I agree with your memes about combat extended

[@homicidalcupcake7521]

Finally another Rimworld player that uses the pause feature to go out and get some food. Good video really enjoyed it.

[@Liavirt]

the editing makes these videos so so funny

[@florianbecker7751]

I still come back for the editing. Great work

[@TommyLikeTom]

I can feel my lifeforce draining away

[@wu1ming9shi]

0:39 THANK YOU!

[@jwb_666]

Get combat extended embrace the bugs embrace the error spam

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!

[@StinkySkunk100]

For mountain bases I like to keep an outdoor section for storage and for any expensive buildings. Inside I use stone walls and floors but let everything else be wood construction and set flammable ied's in each room and a few wooden statues or pots in hallways. I've found it very effective.

[@jakkuhl6223]

Tripple 0 mod user here. This still gave me ideas i hadn't thought of. Like using the VE submersible walls to conceal an ambush turret line behind.

[@inanitas]

Man how is that outro song called? I love it.

[@worldburnerbreadman7886]

How to win against massive raid in five steps 1. Equip your colonist with swords and guns 2. Get them lined up and ready 3. Blast the savimbi BO2 theme 4. Profit...

[@Crspss]

i usually wall entire colony but keep 2 large opening for entry and turret. they tend to attack furniture and facility outside roofed building instead of wall surrounding colony. somehow the sappers doesnt mine through 1 thick block of wall outside. not sure though since sappers raid only happen once for now.

[@aperturescienceguy2737]

Fun factz: a legendary plasteel longsword can do 41 damage and a legendary uranium club can do 34 damage, but ignoring sharp armor. Mechanoids and people in marine or good quality plate armor have a good bit of sharp armor, but those thrumbos that just walked into your colony don't.

[@shaneenglish2656]

You got me at "cOmBaT eXhEnDeD", liked and subbed.

[@Flagen579]

Really great video Just a quick note on your weapons recommendation though. The pump shotgun is probably one of the worst guns, even in closer quarters. I would definitely recommend the heavy SMG. It is quite a good alrounder, just with not the greatest range, but amazing for killboxes and throughout pawn skill levels

[@coriux]

The combat extended autopatcher:

[@Steadymobbin711]

Your videos are top tier

[@yowanehaku8725]

-recruit pyromaniac -send them to enemies outpost/base -have said pawn sleeping/chilling at map edge until breakdown -enjoy the show

[@DollanFerinal]

I just wanna put a word in for the Heavy Smg. It's relatively low-risk for pawns with bad shooting skill and it pays off good for those with high shooting skill. The AR is actually quite a high skill weapon, while the pump shotgun can do a lot of damage is short range and if you miss, which you probably will since it's single shot, puts you right in knife range and the cooldown on it isn't the best. Chain shotgun is the best of both worlds except it's also short range, however it does a tremendous amount of damage.

[@thebulletkin8393]

My early game combat is always atrocious. I’ve never gotten to the late or even mid game because I can’t kill my raiders well enough. I blame it on having bad weapons and armour but I think I just don’t have a good enough defence

[@kurenainatsume5802]

Just get a lightsaber and the force trait, i promise it very fun :>

[@balmystar]

all I can say about rimworld's vanilla combat system is to quote the Russian classic "the plastic world has won"

[@sergeantdornan3833]

I have a universal method when it comes to combat on the rim. Robot