u/Status-Challenge2081 — reddlx

A special Alters Badge

Recently I did a walkthrough of the base game in an educational centre in Moscow. It was very fun because we’ve discussed and made some game choices together. So even though it was my 4th time playing the game, I discovered many new scenes and dialogues not only with alters and Jan, but witnessed some new interactions between them.
Yesterday, one of the viewers (I guess) made a badge for all participants. They are staying anonymous, but through administration I asked permission to post that one here. I think it’s quite cool. So there you go, Reddit.

If you wonder, its description in Russian:
For walking through Jan’s and his alters path.

u/Status-Challenge2081 — 2 days ago

▲ 8 r/TheAlters

[DLC] A devastating feeling

Finished the game for the first time a day ago, but still I feel somehow heavy.

In my personal opinion I view OG Jan as a selfish (on different scales) and obsessive person (I already listed examples in another post) so every alter of him also possesses those traits no matter what. And our dear Scientist shows such behaviour as well - being snarky about productiveness, calling the success of the mission as his only concern, wanting to stay on the planet to solve oasis mystery, form a working theory, yada-yada-yada.

That kinda explains to me the whole thing about iterations but still I find it incredibly inhumane. I totally understand from a storytelling point of view and a metaphor why writers hit us with 20k years of experimenting and 320 tries, but still. It is truly madness as Scientist calls it out! I think if it was not just a second iteration (as we suppose at the start) but fifth or sixth, it will still do the work to surprise us, keep the drama and weight of the choice we make. But after 319 iterations, it is if not impossible but unbelievable that somehow Jan S now suddenly considered to stop his attempts to do… what? I didn’t catch when that energy thing came into play but no matter.

The whole revelation moment was expected which is fine. But the ending itself left an overwhelming aftertaste. I didn’t read other threads about ending ‘til now to avoid spoilers. There are also a few shocked reactions I saw but what did you do with this heavy sensation if you had one?.. I cannot think and cannot stop thinking about it at the same time.
Jan is no more same to me.

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u/Status-Challenge2081 — 29 days ago

▲ 7 r/TheAlters

Smoking instead drinking?

I’ve noticed recently all of the alters started to smoke. That’s something I’ve not seen before. But I’m truly sure all of them were drinking a black can of corporate drink while idling in any module or hallways. Did devs change smth?

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u/Status-Challenge2081 — 2 months ago

▲ 88 r/factorio

A Pointless legendary Nuclear reactor?

I’ve build a large setup for my nuclear power plant with 25,2GW using only legendary machines, reactors, turbines, etc. I’ve noticed that not all of the heat pipes provide heat/go above 500C. After searching for a reason and a solution, I was stunned by info of “heat pipes have a changing throughput value what depends on power of the plant”. So, if a build a standard 2xN formation, all of the central legendary plants generate 400MW and their heat should be absorbed by 16 heat legendary exchangers respectively. But the heat only can go up to 8-10 exchangers (depends on your build formation). So ~~what the hell~~ how it suppose to work if all of the generated heat cannot be transferred further?

u/Status-Challenge2081 — 2 months ago

▲ 3 r/TheAlters

QC screen bug

Recently I tried the game on my PC for the first time and found out some artifacts or visual noise in QC screen. This never happened while I was playing on SteamDeck. I've already tried to reinstall the game in case of file damage or update drivers (AMD Ryzen 7).
It looks like blackened background is somehow red and "veins"/"strings" are invisible from afar while memories look like black dots.

u/Status-Challenge2081 — 2 months ago