Who's The Most Dangerous Storyteller in Rimworld?

[@whalefilmzthewhale2574]

In the words of Adam vs Everything. Cassandra kills you on purpose, Randy kills you by accident.

[@suspectxxxl2980]

i was literally about to say this word for word lol

[@friendlyfire3412]

YES IT IS!

[@Mons429]

Randy: Siege: Pact of Hussia Also Randy: Mechanoid cluster (right next to the siege)

[@infinitechibi1496]

EXACTLY 😂

[@infinitechibi1496]

I swear I'd rather take randy giving me 20 maneating gerbils, rather than Cassandra dropping a space battle on me every 30 minutes or so, dropping tons of dead bodies, barely alive refugees and flaming explosive debris. Whilst I've only got a basic wood base, and just set up a farm not even having got a single harvest yet.

[@alasdairsinclair916]

Cassandra: Kills you on purpose Randy: Kills you by accident Phoebe: _Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer_

[@alainx7649]

Nice darkest dungeon reference

[@edueu4769]

Phoebe forces you to remember that you're getting too comfortable.

[@sampy901]

I had a Randy game where I only had 2 major threats in 5 years, and went 2 years without a raid, and then got hit with 3 back to back raids that rocked my shit

[@somebodyidk2]

i have a feeling that something similar will happen to my colony

[@Chedar_enthuaist1234]

I had no raids for 5 years and had 20 raids back to back

[@1th_to_comment.]

You got comfortable. That was your mistake.

[@thereaper9987]

Me too! The thing is...my people are cannibals, I need them raiders!

[@whytry4682]

it happens everytime i play randy. its sooooooo boring UNTIL ITS NOT!

[@gannaeissa9320]

Phoebe, unlike the other storytellers, is also infamous for schizophrenia like spontaneously rising the threat of raids based on wealth. She is arguably the MOST dangerous of them all cuz she gives even harsher beatings than any other, just with a longer cooldown (still love her tho).

[@assaulthetz]

Players react on Cass by being Procedural development of defenses depends on the tech. Players adapt on Randy on random raids, or just straight up ignore you, or gives you a laugh that two enemy factions emerge together and fight it themselves. Players who are overconfident on themselves are Phoebe's favorite. They thought they are abandoned.. until a really strong army of sappers arrive to ruin your day and destroy the colony if you're not prepared ENOUGH.

[@slomow-1540]

Cassandra - psychopath Poebe - psychopath Randy - psycopath

[@mie1666]

The last H went on the raid

[@Darlf_Sevil]

Poebe make you boring and when ypu go to toilet and not pause bcs is easy she kill you

[@Ranger1741]

Where did the H from Phoebe go?

[@slomow-1540]

The quest for the H

[@BabyEater]

​@Ranger1741 the same place the H from Randy's psychpath went

[@ripmorld9909]

So the problem with Randy is that he is more likely to do combo threats (since his minimum threats cool down is 0.5). And combos can be extremely dangerous, wiping your colony out at once . I once on a save had to deal with a mech cluster as soon as it had landed because it has a EMP thing, after I dealt with the cluster and took some minor casualties ( fingers were blown off) . Most of my pawn were injured. And Randy send another raid when not even all the wounds are tended yet.

[@rory8182]

back here to say that it is more than that: experienced players can time when Cassandra and Phoebe are allowed to attack you, outside of that time they can play really greedily and not need to worry, Randy can fall asleep for a year, but he can also blitz you inside a week

[@mariox204]

What im hearing is that if you just waited the problem would resolve itself

[@orestisgeorgatos6725]

once i got a double raid of pirates, then as my (two) pawns were healing a 3 nest insectoid cluster right in my base. narrowly defeated them and then randy decided that what i really needed right now is a raid of 40 shamblers

[@ddd-op5wy]

Ngl that's pretty normal. During the ship launch you'll be dealing with a raid or two daily so it's good practice

[@alamrasyidi4097]

​@@mariox204 in a colony that can neither cook meals with electric stove nor use the npd? /*gasp/* are you suggesting us to use wood fire stove???

[@andrewgreeb916]

In my experience Cassandra is consistent and easy to prepare for, it's like a more classic wave survival. Phoebe in my opinion takes a little too long on her cycles, so complacency tends to strike. Randy does what randy wants and whether that is a triple threat combo with a side of cheese, or literally nothing, you cannot prepare for randy.

[@assaulthetz]

Randy also gifts you random meteorites. But often it lands within your base, destroying something or.. killing something.

[@horserax]

i will say that Pheobe is deceptively dangerous. Beacuse threats scale to your wealth and you get threats so rarely, its easy to grow complacent and not upgrade or even build defences or weaponry only to have her go from a raid with 2 guys with bows to a seige with 8 guys with assault riffles. i have had games where there felt like there was *nothing* i could do once the event came.

[@rwulf]

Agreed. not to mention another important factor - threats in rimworld are opportunities. That last raid that showed up might have dropped an assault rifle that you can use against the next one. That mech cluster might’ve dropped the resources that you need to build your geothermal generator. phoebe can easily put you behind the curve of the threats that you face. meanwhile, people always overestimate the danger of Randy. He just throws random shit at you. There are way more good or neutral events than bad ones so the chances are Randy is just going to do a bunch of dumb nonsense rather than kill you.

[@warbrain1053]

onelast thing too is that how threat works in game, taking too much time without raids essentially stockpiles raid points

[@entityunknown2]

Agree Came to say the same thing

[@martindejonge695]

Agree. I had a run end because I had only tribal raids and the occasional manhunter pack, and all of sudden, without warning, I get a siege. I had a hard time getting prisoners, and I lost 5 colonists before the siege. With my current run, I am playing with Cassandra. I only lost 2 colonists so far, and since I am high alert, everyone is geared out, and I have a decent stockpile of food and meds.

[@gigabeep1150]

RimWorld. A game were the geneva convention becomes a checklist.

[@Kenionatus]

I love painting red crosses on my health packs!

[@MrGhosta5]

The problem with Phoebe is that because her events are so far apart you end up getting huge difficulty spikes. Cassandra is consistent which makes her easy to deal with early game but she scales like crazy with colony wealth. Randy is just Randy. He's never trying to kill you but sometimes he accidentally kills you. I find it easiest to start with Cassandra for her early game consistency and then switch to Randy once Cassandra starts to scale out of control.

[@thetayz72]

Having the shortest event cool down is undervalued here. Randy's potential for back-to-back major threats can present a heftier risk of a run-ending cascade effect than Cassandra's marginally greater number of consistent threats spread over a longer period of time.

[@nope7389]

Randy also has a potential to give unusual cooldowns between raids

[@renogillenwater3781]

Mucle parasites + infestation = bad time

[@Talulah_Artorius]

Randy has once sent 3 raids at the exact same time from 3 different factions... So around 30 raiders in total give or take, that type of stuff would never happen with cassandra

[@OzixiThrill]

@@Talulah_Artorius That might be dependant on the source. Cass might do it if you triggered it through some quest.

[@Talulah_Artorius]

@@OzixiThrill uh... So interactions are weird, because randy has no cooldowns for example, sometimes events say that you will get 3 raids, Cass will send those 3 raids but never at the same time unless the quest specifies it, randy doesn't care and will sometimes send all 3 raids at the same time, sometimes it will even send a 4th event like an anomaly raid or something like that for good measure, I recently had this event happen to me, I was told that I would get raided 3 times within then next 10 days... Randy waited for the very last day and dropped all 3 raids on me at the same time, cool guy

[@Thatonecyborg]

Geting bad rng from Randy random can get your colony Killed if it ends up happening so often your Colony falls from Bad rng Picture a berserk colonist happening at the wrong time during a trade caravan and getting that colonist downed ( or worse dying ]

[@hideshisface1886]

There is a bit more to danger factor of a storyteller than just frequency of events. Each of the standard storytellers has own flavour of danger. Cassandra is consistent - she delivers the pain on schedule, which is potentially going to wear you down with attrition, but if you can adapt, her predictable nature is also her weakness. Phoebe is chill, and lulls you into this false sense of security - you have more time to develop, your pawns are fewer opportunities for combat and more for development, which invites you to screw yourself over by excessive wealth accumulation - so when the threat finally comes, you may be surprised by how strong it is comparatively. Randy's random nature means he may have extremely long grace periods, but he may also drop the hammer, and he will do it when you least expect it. If you like to be constantly prepared, that is no problem, but it if you are easily deterred by possibility of danger, his lack of consistency may prove troublesome.

[@acatreassuresyouthateveryt7842]

After unhealthy amount playing rimworld I can confidently said that usually all threat is easily dealt with in late game. But consecutive danger event is ALWAYS hard to deal with. Raid, Infection, illness is a common consecutive event that easily kill a pawn or two if all the medic is downed.

[@yajrobot]

That's why it's sometimes usefull to have one incapable of violence pawn with good medic skill, they usually don't get beaten and are only ones who can clear the mess or even patch your pawns during raids so at least they won't bleed to death lying unconscious and you can gather what's left and continue the run.

[@acatreassuresyouthateveryt7842]

@@yajrobot Incapable of violence? In my colony? UNACCEPTABLE

[@yajrobot]

@@acatreassuresyouthateveryt7842 you can force them to wear flak vests and draft them so they could take the beating.. just sayin'

[@acatreassuresyouthateveryt7842]

@@yajrobot Now we're talking my language

[@dodojesus4529]

​@@yajrobotalso give them shield packs.

[@greenstuff9361]

I found Randy easier than Cassandra. Mostly because I’ve had multiple wipes because Cassandra keeps scaling enemies way harder than I can handle, while Randy is just a numbers guy.

[@OzixiThrill]

That might mean that you're growing your wealth with things that aren't helping you defend from attacks. Or, potentially, you're often more wary of Randy's shenanigans and end up being more cautious, resulting in you getting better results with him.

[@fuecOHKO]

5:08 Community builder and peaceful difficulties exist. Stardew valley simulator on the rim is not only possible, but encouraged by the game for new players. Personally in my first 20 hours I was playing SDV sim bc I had no idea how the game mechanics worked.

[@Crusaderscientist]

Dude I got killed by a wolf. All 4 of my colonists were lined, that warg must’ve taken 12 shots and still took my dudes down

[@gales229]

I dont understsnf. You died by a wolf or by a warg ?

[@assaulthetz]

Wolf has shorter health bars than a warg. But Wargs? I understand but Wolf would be only deadly to a colonist who has melee below 5 or Ranged below 7, however Wargs are quite tanky.. I experienced it due my tribal group died on a random crazed warg who had lower melee and had yet to build walls and unable to go inside while they farm berries. At early game, I always choose someone who has both or different pawns but has the end result. So most colonist who has above 6 melee or 7 range holding a rifle, shotgun or even just simple pistol would down a wolf. Warg? You need tough armor with that and a high powered rifle.

[@brandonkenney6310]

As others have said, Randy to me is the most dangerous because you can get multiple raids/dangerous events within a short period of time. I had 1 game were I had to fight off a group of tribal raiders, and was able to beat them off with only minor wounds. Then another raid came the next day and some of the injuries were not fully healed, it was pirates, and a lot more dangerous. I lost a colonist and had several major injuries including some loss of limbs. In less than 48 hours, another raid hit, just as bad as the last one, and I lost another colonist, and several more injuries. Then in less than 24 hours another raid with outlanders, who were equipped about as well as the pirates. This time I couldn't hold them off, my forces went down relatively quickly due to previous injuries, and those that weren't kidnapped were left to die.

[@ВашеВысочество-к3ж]

I understand that you are playing without the Biotech and Ideology DLCs? With these dlcs, it becomes much more profitable to divide the colony into shooting specialists-hussars with fast regeneration and production specialists-geniuses. And only in the deep endgame, when you yourself can create xenotypes, will it be possible to create universal colonists. . Я так понял, ты играешь без DLC Biotech и Ideology? С этими dlc становится гораздо выгоднее разделять колонию на специалистов по стрельбе-гусаров с быстрой регенерацией и специалистов по производству-гениев. И только в глубоком эндгейме, когда ты сам сможешь создавать ксенотипы, можно будет создать универсальных колонистов.

[@OzixiThrill]

@@ВашеВысочество-к3ж That sounds nice and great on paper. In practice, I haven't managed to extract Great Shooting or Great Melee from my Hussar that I got year 1 by the 7th in game year in my current run, meaning that I can't exactly just pump my ranged specialists out as I please. So it's ultimately not as good.

[@Antheloras]

The data is very interesting. Though I still think Randy is more dangerous. He may have the same number of major threads as Cassandra, but has a Mech Cluster ever spawned on your map about an ingame hour after you just barely defeated another Mech cluster? And has then a Mech Raid spawned while you were attacking that cluster? No? Well Randy gifted that experience to me just today. Cassandra at least lets you bury your dead before trying to kill you again.

[@baronofluck2163]

*Empress evil has entered the chat*

[@ВашеВысочество-к3ж]

It is played by experienced players who want a challenge. But I started playing Phoebe when I was a beginner, believing the false description. And as the guy above wrote, Phoebe can go from a raid of 2 savages to a raid of 8 elite pirates without warning. So the question is which of them destroyed more colonies. . На ней играют опытные игроки, которые хотят челленджа. А вот на фиби я начал играть, когда был новичком, поверив лживому описанию. И как написал парень выше, Фиби может без предупреждения перейти от рейда из 2 дикарей, к рейду из 8 элитных пиратов. Так что ещё вопрос, кто из них уничтожил больше колоний.

[@nickevans7116]

Void storyteller….

[@cass6082]

I think a good sum up is - it depends on you…I feel Cassandra is the most dangerous because while Randy is likely to send you something horrible, he’s also likely to let something fun/good happen (e.g. random useful animals self taming, etc.) but because Cassandra is consistent you can generally prepare for her attacks, you can more or less predict what’s coming your way by the amount of wealth and colonists you have and prepare accordingly. With Randy, there is no predicting what’s going to happen. So I would say that Cassandra is more or equally dangerous for new/inexperienced players who are still trying to figure out how the threat scaling works and how to effectively prepare, while Randy is normally dangerous regardless of player experience

[@zergie4]

Randy threat comes from the assumed randomness of his events. He can likely give you a ton of good events or combo some nasty colony enders also. The issue with randy is his true danger only comes during the earlier phases, when you cannot properly risk manage and deal with the sudden spike in deadly events. Cassandra is predictable, however her threat scales with you compared to randy. Randy raids are from what I have seen kind of lacking, while Cassandra scales hard and fast and consistent. Overall it early game vs late game difficulty. Randy can get super difficult early game, while cassandra can scale way deadlier late game.

[@Trickyman26]

@@zergie4 Wait, as someone answered to DaFreak: All storytellers scale from the same raid points, based on wealth. So all storytellers scale the same. They are different only because of the number of threads during the time and pauses between these threads, not because of how big these threads are.

[@jackochainsaw]

I normally play custom with Randy. Phoebe and Cassandra can really kick you when you are down. Randy can have unusual durations between raids. I went a year without one but in that game I had a toxic fallout that lasted 33 days (that was hell) and then Randy followed up with a second one.

[@RainbowMuse2]

Well done! I’d love a Vanilla Expanded Storyteller’s comparison focused on danger, specific pros/cons, and unique conditions ideal for niche colonies/playthroughs.

[@DaFreak860]

I loved this video, but this has been on my mind so I want to ask about threat scaling. I thought randy cares more about the worth of the colony and becomes more punishing as you reach 'late game threats' earlier then with the other ones. It would be interesting to compare the raid sizes between the Storytellers and take snapshots of how big they are relative to the wealth of the colony.

[@genericusername-qq1du]

I tried to write a lengthy reply to answer this in detail, but youtube seems to have deleted it. Short answer is no, as they all use the same raid "point" calculation that responds only to the selected difficulty, not the storyteller.

[@DaFreak860]

@@genericusername-qq1du ahh... that's great to know, thanks

[@masondickerson9466]

I'm pretty sure thay randy can roll slightly higher or slightly lower than your actual raid piont number, making his raids very unpredictable in attack power.

[@spaghelion940]

I swear to god Randy always watches me, every time i send out a caravan there's always a raid that follows shortly after

[@Hello-lb3mc]

thanks man , im gonna go start a new run cause i hate myself

[@ZackyBonkPH]

Underated, Heres a Sub, Keep it up !!!

[@zombieranger3410]

Phoebe is deceptively dangerous as she withholds raids letting the raid point counter rise extra high and lets you get wealthy without some luxuries like getting guns off of small raids or resources from mechs, esc. Plus, it’s hard to tell if your defenses are good enough for the current time if there are such long breaks in-between. Who needs to build extra turrets? Last raid was just 3 naked tribals. Well, the next one is 8 guys with armor and guns and you are caught with your pants down with just the starting revolver and bolt-action. Randy however could decide to make most of your colony ill and then throw a siege at you. Or he could do nothing much for a full year. Randy is, true to name, random but phoebe will make you chillax when you should be preparing.

[@snowcraft-d3d]

I really wish there was a Storyteller who was more consistent than Phoebe in sending raids, but less than Cassandra. Something that will keep you on your toes, but won't really kill you unless you start trying to die, or stop paying attention, as opposed to Cassandra and Randy who will just throw an event at you and you lose because fuck you that's why.

[@Murloc017]

Sry for digging up old comment but you might want to take a look at perry persistent from vanilla expanded mod. He throws small events at you extremely often, but they are usually easy to deal with.

[@matapavosgamer]

I usually play randy, it's nice, sometimes my colonies have to take care of 2 or more threats back to back, I once had a bug infestation, a mechanoid cluster and a radioactive fog all at the same time, I really thought that was an incredible challenge. Until I tried Cassandra, and she just sent 8 raiders against my 3 colonists on the first season, followed by another 8 raiders before my pawns could heal, followed by ANOTHER 8 raiders... Just because I decided to build some floors and it somehow skyrocketed my colony's wealth

[@machematix]

Yo there's a mod to decrease the value of floors- essential IMO. I was sick of tiles doubling my raid size.

[@dragonturtle2703]

It's also worth noting that, Randy being Random, not only are his events less predictable, thus harder to prepare for, but bad luck could really make him worse than on this video.

[@CZEPolice]

I play mostly randy, and those moments when he throw at you sickness and 3 raids in 24h, thats when it hits.

[@evanharrison4054]

Phoebe is by far the most brutal in my experience. You get a nice long time in the beginning to set everything up, then you, (if you are like me), get inundated by prospective new recruits by the dozen(even if you only keep the best ones and release the rest back to their factions for points) and at some point, half of the raids turn into overpowered mechanoid swarms that slowly grind down whatever forces you have. After 10+ years, my biggest concern was buying enough uranium for three automated cannons and my entire colony still needed to line up behind them just so they won't completely overwhelm my perfect killbox. I didn't play much DLC, so maybe that helps, but modded autocannons that shot uranium slugs weren't.

[@phantom9214-u6r]

Randy is the most dangerous for one reason: Randy is the only one that can drop 2 or 3 raids on you at the same time. Cassandra kills you with consistent pressure. If you can keep up with the pressure, you're unlikely to be overrun. Randy has the same average output, but it's not applied evenly like it is with Cassandra. Usually it's spread out by sheer probability, but occasionally you hit blips that are way above the expected difficulty curve (that Cassandra sticks to religiously) by chance and get completely annihilated out of nowhere when you were otherwise doing fine.

[@nijentwilhaarkai]

And now to repeat your study, because with n = 1, none of your data is presentable

[@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_Bugle]

I would say Cassandra is most dangerous because she will hit on regular intervals and she will keep upping the game every time, while Randy can sometimes send nuclear fallout or major plague day 1 but other times he would leave you alone for several in-game years, sending only some minor events.

[@kotzpenner]

Member of the Always Randy Random club here, life is random and so must be the Rimworld experience. Give me the 560 cans of milk after 3 pirate raiders and a plague

[@h.f.v.1428]

I dont play with Phoebe anymore, because she is treacherous, the other storytellers send threats to you in their way, but very often, if you win you get good loot to arm your people, Phoebe no, she leaves you in peace for a long of time, you chill out and take easy on building defenses, arm your people, and when you least expect, she send you 10 messages of raiders at the same time, and some of them are not small groups, i think that i never survive her more than 2 years, i know this sound ridiculous, but i survive more time with Randy and Cassandra.

[@henriproos]

Randy can be more dangerous if you have bad RNG, sometimes he spawns 2-3 raids very close to each other, which depending on the combination make the raid easier, or close to impossible. He also adds a 10% raid size increase.

[@TheTSense]

I started back in 0.16 and I almost refunded because of Cassandra. I switched to Randy and now 2600 hours later I am still going strong. Back when you needed mods to play naked brutality, Cassandra would send raids with doomsday launchers just a few days in, roughly when I made my first shortbow. I never had problems like this with Randy. He never pulled an "and then everyone died lol" out of the blue. I never had a "not even dev mode can save you from this one" like Cassandra pulls them at least once before winter. I never went back to that B. If this was chess, Randy would be a world champ flipping coins to see what he should do. Cassandra would pull a gun on you and tell you to give up.

[@jeffthedumb3177]

Once i got 2 raids and a man hunter pack in one day on randy

[@christophehuguin4227]

5:03 52.7% VS 54.5% seem to be almost the same (the same could be said about general threat 22 vs 19) And like a lot of comment said, back to back threat are usually more dangerous (because you got no recovery time).

[@dinoblacklane1640]

One of the most dangerous raid I've ever had was with Randy, kinda due to my own fault in a colony my first raid was on day 8 My next raid was on day 127 I was super under prepared and was just wiped out

[@bucketofbread345]

Randy, really, really did not like me. Just yesterday, I had four consecutive raids at once, all of them complete with a pit gate opening (thanks anomoly) to watch as they all clash with a horde and a nociosphere I sent because SURE why not? Cassandra is consistently dangerous, randy is random as implied, he can be really chill but you always have to stay on guard because he CAN beat the ever living hell out of you and your colony.

[@TaikaJamppa]

Of my 1,600 hours of Rimworld, I’ve played most with Cassandra, and I’d say, she is quite tame compared to Randy. I usually start with a few mechs and mechanitors (”few” being quite tough army of them, also all ultratech), so I do get an easy and quick start. However, I have launched the ship only once, and ended the game in other victorious endings never. Exactly, I have started over way too often. 😂

[@radiokaizo]

Two Raids can neutralize each other if they spawn the same day and give you a lot of loot.

[@jookyll1143]

Nice! You should deserve more subs.

[@Subject_Keter]

I swear i tried thr game, liked the idea but couldnt rangle the controls but cassadra just look me in the eyes and was like "This is the story of your failure not victory, lets skip to the end?" Like bruh, the first shouldnt be counting with a shotgun in hand.

[@abludungeonmaster5817]

Its worth evaluating the average time and Standard deviation between events. Bad-bad. good-good and bad-good. Randy should be different than Cassandra. Randy's highly variable experience is more manageable than Cass showing up every 4-6 days, even if he occasional sends a back to back raid every couple of years.

[@MARProduction24434]

I was a beginner and want to try to make the best community with minimal threats and chose Cassandra. Well, I got hit with 3 raid in 1 day (human, mech, human)

[@bramvanherck8567]

cassandra might be ever so slightly more likely to send you bad events but you are guaranteed recovery time if casandra doesn't end you in an instant you can heal up and rebuild. Randy can hit you with no downtime so that slightly less bad events gets offset massively by the possibility of getting hit by back to back disasters. i'd say cassandra has less of a chance of ending you than randy especially because difficulty ramps up as you get richer so long periods of downtime wont offset 3 back to back raids plus a disease.

[@DSlyde]

Two promising videos and then he disappears for two years. A shame.

[@oceanbytez847]

Missed one metric. How large/small these events are relative to event scaling factors. According to story teller descriptions Phoebe's singular rare events should be larger relative to your factors. Randy is probably unlimited on upper and lower limits which is why you might see 20 manhunter squirels 1 day in, or 5 man hunter squirels after your second year.

[@susiduo3438]

Phoebe is sooo underestimated. She hits harder, much harder, than Cassandra and usually out of the blue. Phoebe on the highest difficulty is hard mode. Randy can give you some issues for sure but I consider him the easiest of them.

[@t_gabiuel6058]

Randy can be sleepy for the first entire year and then send you 5 raids in less than 1 week without time to recover. Not mencioning the early deseases that can be game ending. I still think Cassandra is generally the most dangeous but Randy is the most interesting.

[@friendlyfire3412]

So I was expecting randy the most arshole guy but... Hes maybe good. Cassandra somehow more bad guy.

[@-ElysianEcho-]

I feel like Cassandra gave me a very scheduled back and forth for the first few years, and then swapped over into murder mode and send me so many dangers with very little time between that i eventually just couldn’t keep up with healing time Randy has been giving me larger threats when they happen, though that might just be because i have been doing better on building up, but i like that raids aren’t a regularly scheduled tuesday activity but something that shows up as a surprise In conclusion, as a fairly new player, i feel like Cassandra killed me on purpose, Randy kills on accident trying to see what will happen

[@failedleopard3685]

Me, the absolute masochist who plays with Igor Invader because I get bored: Heh, I'm in danger!

[@assaulthetz]

Cassandra gives you challenge. Randy does or doesn't care for you, he is here to entertain himself, not you. Pheobe..... pheobe is.. My fear. I though I was prepared, but I was not.

[@dasuberpanda]

Randy will eventually just fk you over with no break between raids, so I think thats actually enough to put him in most dangerous bc they are pretty close otherwise bc this is what really ends runs

[@styxriverr5237]

Praise Randy for he sends Milk! oh and like 20 raiders plenty of food and drink truly a benevolent storyteller.

[@X-SoundWave-X]

i have like 70 hours and allways chose Cassandra, i have been masochist without knowing.

[@ELEMENETAL]

Randy can do anything, he once gave me 4 Ambrosia sprouts, then only a weak raid, aka free meat!

[@seamusrichardson6011]

I’m pretty sure Geneva suggestion is a step up from rim world, it’s a Geneva checklist kinda game

[@roosephsteel]

What about igor then :D

[@scientistx5717]

Chillax no doubt

[@Wezryx]

Can you make a version of this video for some of the Vanilla expanded storytellers?

[@nicobay4512]

I come just like that , and find a exellent video with super funny edit .keep going !

[@yanlucasdf]

Only thing I dislike about phoebe is that shes to calm, less raids means less recruits to be indoctrinated in my darkness praising pain is virtue dogs are sacred cults, this slow down my colony growth

[@JackdotC]

I'd argue that 2 years isn't enough for a full test, but doing more would take a long time, so i understand. As a long-time player, Randy is more dangerous initially, but doesn't tend to scale as well into the late game. If you can survive the first year ir 2 with Randy the game will get easier. Cassandra on the other hand gets harder thr longer you play. I think its to do with the soft pawn limit, Cas wants about 8-10 whilst Randy wants about 11-13. Normally i end up with about 15 pawns, so Cassandra scales more and sends more events designed to kill people than Randy. If you want steady difficulty until late game go Cass, if you want a hard start but a more chill late game go Randy

[@andrewgreeb916]

Randy's event cool down can still kick your teeth in late game

[@ghostiulian1]

This is offset if you are way too good at the game and make a really good base. Cass and Phoebe will try and kill you hard with ridiculously overpowered raids while Randy is just like "whatever". Sure, those other two will make up with good things if you're doing too badly, but do too well and suddenly they want to make Ruby Ridge look like a kids show.

[@ramiel7666]

Makes sense. One more thing, Randy can spawn a raid, and then some mad beasts or mechanoids right near them, causing those to fight and weaken each other.....Cassandra will never do that......

[@themenacingpenguin.7152]

Randy has given me a drought of people to put in my -mountain side organ harvesting prison- I mean hands on medical school, with Cassandra I got a few before my best builder gone catatonic and nobody went to build the kill box or rebuild the spike corridor and I got fucked over. I have like unused 20 bedrolls in tiny 2x3 cells where the walls won't be smoothed over for years because I over extended, I only have one person to give the mister crabs treatment to and send off the map. Maybe I should put a pause on the giant exterior wall around the map.

[@JustSudo]

The conclusion isn't right. While it was mentioned, that Randy may spawn major threats nearby, the fact was generally overlooked. But it is HUGE. Several bad events in a row may kill even a good player, while just spawning bad events within a timer isn't even remotely that dangerous.

[@tidalgrunt]

Whats that chiptune at the start and where can I find the full version? It sounds like do your balls hang low, but I can't find a chiptune version anywhere.

[@bunth786]

I do prefer the mods ones, like Yegor from vanilla extended, or the Void. There is a Kijin mod with a really cool storyteller but takes too long to happen

[@leaitihr9885]

Cassandra is basically designed so every time you kinda get up from some shit she throws something you can barely beat. And so on....Randy....he jus don ker

[@jeffflynn4524]

i love rimworld, im just awful at raids, i can handle everything else except human raids

[@bringmemybow]

Thanks for this.

[@anshorimuhajir9462]

I am suggesting more playthrough for each story teller, like play each of them 5 times. Maybe the result will be different.

[@TH3_N]

do you know how long that would take?

[@NandoGarcia-q5h]

how much construction skill should a pawn have to compensate reduced manipulation or movement speed?

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

maybe I shunt of made my 2nd colony on Cassandra...

[@Wezryx]

Randy has a fifty percent chance of doing absolutely nothing and the other fifty percent of the time Back-to-back raids. mechanoid clusters or 2 and let's just throw in an infestation.

[@VollstandigErleuchtung]

Im playing with a medieval modpack so i can't access cassandra which is pretty sad, i think she's fine to play with, randy just feels to risky because of raid spam, could easily end a playthrough early game which sounds annoying, I'm still new to rimworld, just about 80 hours in and i haven't touched randy or phoebe yet. I'm playing with Maynard medieval i think, vanilla expanded

[@ghostbluster8900]

You play the game however you like but i feel like you should play more vanilla rimworld or just quality of life mods. Having less stuff to deal with in the beginning will help you be ome better to then reinstall mods

[@VollstandigErleuchtung]

@@ghostbluster8900 yeah i already did playthrough vanilla/vanilla-esk a few times, just never got to the end. The medieval idea didn't work out well though, had a 100 something mods, but it just felt like it lacked content, since biotech, and most of core was removed. Still was great, just wish there's more content when going for medieval playthroughs

[@gethk.gelior4214]

It IS Cass, but it COULD be Randy

[@kuno3336]

My gut instinct is Cassandra

[@t0uchme343]

Low pop Randy is king.

[@PineappleDealer37]

I like to play with a modded storyteller.

[@jeostelar4474]

I just dont get randy man he would sometimes be a jerk that gives me the plague,heat waves in the middle of the dessert and raids back to back in day one or he would send me tamed animals and colonist early game

[@Krokein]

Bro I have 1590 hours on rimworld I know how it felt hitting 1k hours Bro only we can understand the pain this game put us through. Lol

[@Krokein]

With my experience I say this is correct except randy can be 100x times worst just because of random chance

[@Leechlordfestus]

You should try collecting your recent algorithm blessing and try making videos again

[@TheDaaabou]

So much blurr!

[@MaliciousMoxy]

didn't watch don't care I have 2.000 hours in game Phoebe is the hardest. Casandra is strong. Randy is easy mode. I mostly play with randy cause i want a fun easier experience.

[@alewolfo8491]

Average randy playthrough: Zzzzt...

[@stephaniepollmann6279]

First also pls pin me

[@astolbro7183]

The biggest problem with this video is the overly data based approach youve removed the human factor in all of these Id argue Cassandra is the easiest because she plays no mind games Phobe will send a flurry of soft balls for letting you forget about shoring up your defenses because your 3 colonists with assault rifles can easily take a few tribals then out of nowhere pheobe slaps a huge mechanoid cluster on top of you and they wipe your colony Randy does similar but you always have randy in the back of your mind when you chose him so you tend to prepare a little more Cassandra will send you constant reminders to upgrade your defense as much as you can by time she starts sending mechanoid giga clusters at you theres a maginot line protecting you from them The production of this video is great data is clearly laid out and its entertaining but the data provided is mostly useless because it just reiterates what the game literally spells out for you while ignoring the one part the game doesnt warn you of