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This mod is an attempt to expand upon RimWorld's endgame. There are many great mods out there that add new functions or improve the game in multiple ways, but there are only a few that give the opportunity to go beyond charge weapons, marine armor, and vitals monitors.
Nanotech research is available after Advanced Fabrication. It allows to do previously impossible feats, such as healing brain scars without the permanent dependancy of luciferium. It won't be that easy, though. In this particular case, the item is difficult and costly to make, requires a competent doctor to administer, works rather slowly, and causes a huge mood drop and major physical weakness while active.
And while nanotech equipement is definately better than the previous tier, the difference isn't so huge that it completely outclasses it.
Expanded Rims is meant to be more "challenging" than "sandboxy". I recommend not using it with mods that add really overpowered stuff. (There shouldn't be any in this one. Hopefully!)
So what's new?
---- Modulable weapons with new stat types ----
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Pesky raiders using good cover against you? Modulate your nanotech assault rifles into the Chaser variation, which takes longer to aim but ignores a large part of the target's cover.
Elephant manhunter pack assaulting your base? Modulate your nanotech LMGs into the Burster variation, which trades armor penetration for firing speed and doubles as a decent melee weapon even if your colonist has no melee skill.
Need to send your animals and melee fighters, but afraid of friendly fire? The Savior assault rifle, while having less accuracy, does significantly reduced damage to friendlies.
Modulation can be done on the spot, by any colonist wielding a nanotech weapon with the appropriate research done, and merely takes a few seconds.
Weapons includes melee weapons, pistol, shotgun, rifle, LMG, assault rifle, sniper rifle, minigun, and reusable rocket launcher. Most have 2 modulations that can be researched.
---- New armors ----
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Lost another colonist to some lame lucky shot to the heart? The lifesaver skinsuit halves damage done to vital organs.
Got some excellent quality leather? Craft some nanotech light armor, which will make good use of it and also improves the user's offense - not just aiming time, but cooldown recovery as well.
Or if you don't mind being slowed down, go for the nanotech heavy armor, which improves the wearer's use of cover.
---- Serums and helldrinks ----
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Learn to sow the new Hellbud plant, which requires great skill but opens some completely new possibilities, such as special serums which permanently boost your animals' capabilities to make them match your new gear, or non-addictive elixirs to heal wounds faster or become even deadlier in combat. The horrible taste will annoy your colonists, though!
Beware: Hellbud is toxic to anyone who sows it too often.
---- And much more research ----
Improved mortars and shells, improved medical facilities, three new turrets, research AI...
While most of the new stuff is for late-game, the mod also adds some lower-tier research. Build caravan devices to boost your caravans, special tools to increase the speed of a specific work, weapon attachments, protective belts, EMP rifles...
---- New mechanoids ----
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Since raiders can get upgraded equipments, so can mechanoids. Expanded Rims adds a new tier of mechanoids, upgraded from the basic white ones. They're using nanotech equipment, and the upgraded Centipede has some very nasty heavy weapons.
---- New storyline ----
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Escaping on a spaceship? Eh... perhaps your colonists actually like this planet and aren't planning to leave.
But after a while, a new and deadly threat appears. They're using equipment from some unknown technology. It is rigged to damage itself beyond repair on death, but could you eventually study it and produce your own, unique variations...?
This new storyline is quite long and challenging, and can be played as an alternate ending.
Expanded Rims also makes a few changes to the existing game:
- Autocannon and uranium turrets had their damage and armor penetration reduced. Even with the new gear, these turrets could still shred anyone in their path. To compensate, their steel cost has been reduced.
- Speaking of turrets, you may have some unpleasant surprises if you rely too much on them!
- Launchers now partially use the shooter's accuracy to determine the final miss radius.
- The impact of equipment quality has changed a bit. Master and legendary items bonuses are reduced. Ranged weapons now gain more varied stats from quality below masterwork, rather than just accuracy.
- EMP damage no longer instantly breaks Shield Belts, although they do more damage to them. This is because several EMP weapons have been added, whereas vanilla pretty much only has EMP grenades.
About visuals: you've probably noticed that all the new stuff is basically a recolor placeholder. I would like to replace them with new graphics, but that is really not my domain. :(
Compatibility: this mod should be compatible with pretty much everything, except Combat Extended and a few special cases.
Can be added to existing saves (but not removed, since it adds a new faction).
Feel free to report bugs and mod conflicts.
License: you're free to include these mods in modpacks or make derivative mods based on them, just let me know about it.
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1643536285 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1643536285)
Zip file: https://nales-lsd.s3.amazonaws.com/RimWorld/ExpandedRims/ExpandedRims.zip (https://nales-lsd.s3.amazonaws.com/RimWorld/ExpandedRims/ExpandedRims.zip)
Awesome!!!!
This is the kind of mod I can get on board with. I've always thought rimworld needed a few more endgames than "die" or "leave", although I haven't tried your mod yet so maybe it falls into one of those two categories. If you're looking to outsource some of the artwork I'd be happy to contribute, I suck at coding and balancing and storytelling but I can draw some mean pixel art.
Quote from: cortanakya on February 16, 2019, 12:47:35 AM
This is the kind of mod I can get on board with. I've always thought rimworld needed a few more endgames than "die" or "leave", although I haven't tried your mod yet so maybe it falls into one of those two categories. If you're looking to outsource some of the artwork I'd be happy to contribute, I suck at coding and balancing and storytelling but I can draw some mean pixel art.
Sounds very interesting! It would be a great addition to the mod. There's quite a lot of stuff, mostly equipment, and also some buildings, serums, mechanoids...
I don't have much (read: "any") experience with multi-people modding, though. Perhaps you can have a look at the mod's defs and start from there?
Are there any plans for a CE compatibility patch?
Quote from: Facepunch on February 16, 2019, 06:15:26 PM
Are there any plans for a CE compatibility patch?
I thought about it, but it's difficult. Not only are there tons of new equipment that would need a patch, there are also several new stats, such as cover bonus and cover ignore, that would need to be tailored specifically for CE's new cover system (which seems to be very complex).
That watcher outpost incidence ruined my game
there is about 1000Outposts all around me which most of them will attack me after 7 days and lasts for 15 day
i decided to modify the mod
<baseChance>0.5</baseChance> from <baseChance>5.0</baseChance>
and add
<minRefireDays>30</minRefireDays>
those things (above) prevented more of them
pls try to fix it
this save is ruined (well maybe, but at least i will have to fight to the last man :P ).
other than that, ur mod is totally a blast, Good job man
i will send pic later
Bad timing, I just fixed this issue (which was caused by a mod incompatibility) a few hours ago, it should be fine now.
Actually your save is probably alright, the outposts will disappear on their own.
That watcher outpost incidence ruined my game
there is about 1000Outposts all around me which most of them will attack me after 7 days and lasts for 15 day
i decided to modify the mod
<baseChance>0.5</baseChance> from <baseChance>5.0</baseChance>
and add
<minRefireDays>30</minRefireDays>
those things (above) prevented more of them
pls try to fix it
this save is ruined (well maybe, but at least i will have to fight to the last man :P ).
other than that, ur mod is totally a blast, Good job man
i will send pic later
Is it possible to install just new armor without install any other content?
Quote from: Mosart on March 08, 2019, 12:26:40 PM
Is it possible to install just new armor without install any other content?
No, you can't do that.
The bioattacks seem to go on forever. The tooltip said it was permanent, but the first one lasted for about 20 days and so did the second one. That's kinda long. Would be nice if it was scaled for relaxed players.
I've been stuck on "watcher outposts" for over a year now. I killed all the outposts, and haven't been raided except for a single siege in months. Did I bug something out by destroying all outposts?
Quote from: SuicidalKid on April 05, 2019, 09:52:26 PM
I've been stuck on "watcher outposts" for over a year now. I killed all the outposts, and haven't been raided except for a single siege in months. Did I bug something out by destroying all outposts?
I've had this same thing happen. When I first got this mod things beyond 'Outposts' seemed to fire and I got attacked by the raiding party at the end of the month, then started getting plagues and messages from the guy, etc. However the last 3 games I've played I've become 'stuck' on 'Outposts'. I've tried destroying them and ignoring them. Regardless of what I do the continuation of the events doesn't seem to trigger. It just stays at 'Watcher Outposts' forever. I continue to get raided by tribals, pirates, mechs and watchers normally but the continuation of the Watcher Storyline simply doesn't happen.
I've dug through the defs folder and looked around in the devconsole but there doesn't seem to be anything in either location that I can tweak to get things to progress. I'm playing around with different load orders to see if that has any affect but seeing as how I don't know exactly how everything triggers and how any other mods might change things... I'm just stabbing in the dark.
sidenote. This most recent game I started as Tribals and purposefully avoided researching Fabrication. It made no difference, the Watchers showed up anyway (and I was woefully unprepared, 13 Watchers (5 of whom had LMG') was GG).
I need to say, you did a awesome job.
The modular weapons are a great idea, together with the damping shield belts.
I suffer now my 1. bioattack and even got a toxic rain jumped in. Luckly my could call my allies for bulk good caravan for some meat&vegetables.
But you should give the tools and attachments a quality. Because when you setup a clothing policy to use good or better equipment, the pawn's won't use them auto. anymore and you need to force them to use them.
Stinger Sniper Rifle "...but its high rate of fire..." ehhh sorry only because you add them a burst mode instead of a single bullet you speak from high rate of fire. The modular sniper is better in accuracy, rate of fire and armor piercing.
You should adjust it or give it a modular ammo selection like AP,Burn,Explo. or change the rate of fire like the rifle-mode from the modular.
Didn't compared other weapons yet.
I notice Pawn's and prisoner get affected by the bioattack, but not animals and guests.
Maybe i should look for some yellow Minion's who can harvest for me ! :-)
Or invite more guests, with Hospitality mod they even work a bit for me.
I notice the Demolisher can be hacked with What the Hack?! but afterward it is unable to go to a platform and thus forever stay on the ground powerless. Nothing you can do about it except shut it down.
Harbinger and Reaper works fine though.
I found that bioattack don't affect pawns in crypto caskets. So since I like oversized colonies and run wirh children pack, I built a bunch of crypto caskets and as soon as the attack hit, sent all straight pawns in relationships into crypto sleep, so that they repopulate once the attack is over. This way I didn't sustain as many losses, especially in the second bioattack.
EDIT: I fixed this problem by changing the mod to load near the top of the load order and restarted the game
Any time I try to build any type of added building, the construction will complete, consume the resources, and then building completed disappears. Here's an error log, I've tried using a colonist and a robot...
Message logging is now once again on.
Verse.Log:Message(String, Boolean)
Verse.Log:ResetMessageCount()
Verse.Log:Clear()
Verse.EditWindow_Log:DoWindowContents(Rect)
Verse.<WindowOnGUI>c__AnonStorey0:<>m__0(Int32)
UnityEngine.GUI:CallWindowDelegate(WindowFunction, Int32, Int32, GUISkin, Int32, Single, Single, GUIStyle)
Exception in JobDriver tick for pawn OmniBot 17 driver=_JobDriver_ConstructFinishFrame (toilIndex=1) driver.job=(FinishFrame (Job_1483512) A=Thing_Frame_RWE_ImprovedMultiAnalyzer552010) lastJobGiver=AIRobot.X2_JobGiver_Work
System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
at System.Activator.CheckType (System.Type) <0x00095>
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type,bool) <0x00027>
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type) <0x0001e>
at Verse.ThingMaker.MakeThing (Verse.ThingDef,Verse.ThingDef) <0x0035e>
at (wrapper dynamic-method) RimWorld.Frame.CompleteConstruction_Patch1 (object,Verse.Pawn) <0x00325>
at RimWorld.JobDriver_ConstructFinishFrame/<MakeNewToils>c__Iterator0/<MakeNewToils>c__AnonStorey1.<>m__1 () <0x00396>
at (wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.AI.JobDriver.DriverTick_Patch1 (object) <0x004c8>
Verse.Log:Error(String, Boolean)
Verse.AI.JobUtility:TryStartErrorRecoverJob(Pawn, String, Exception, JobDriver)
Verse.AI.JobDriver:DriverTick_Patch1(Object)
Verse.AI.Pawn_JobTracker:JobTrackerTick()
Verse.Pawn:Tick_Patch2(Object)
AIRobot.X2_AIRobot:Tick()
Verse.TickList:Tick()
Verse.TickManager:DoSingleTick()
Verse.TickManager:TickManagerUpdate()
Verse.Game:UpdatePlay()
Verse.Root_Play:Update()
I just released a large patch that fixes a lot of stuff (including the frozen storyline) and adds much more.
- Fixed Watcher storyline being sometimes stuck due to not triggering the outpost raid
- New tier of insectoids. Face the swarming and uber-fast swiftscarabs, the turret-proof Jamopede, and the dreaded "one-hit beheader" Ultraspider!
- New threat involving animals. Think multi-colored animals would be fun? Not in this case.
- Added Jammer belts, worn by some foes, causing turrets to ignore them and vice-versa
- Added a new tier of pirates, and saboteur foes, who always use Jammer belts and specialize in disabling or destroying turrets
- Two new turrets : Shock Turret does heavy damage to mechanoids, Toxin Turret launches toxin grenades that weaken any organic around them
- Increased maximum health of all nanotech turrets, and tweaked most turrets
- Increased work amounts for nanotech and redmatter armors
- Adjusted a few values on weapon attachments and armors
- Weapon attachments and tools now wear down far slower
- Tweaked both skinsuits
- Hellbud drugs and nanotech components moved to exotic traders, weapon attachments no longer sold by traders
- Fixed duration for healing and mending helldrinks (they last longer)
- Reduced research cost of nanotech and redmatter weapons (baseline and modulations). Adjusted a few other research costs
- Changed the Demolisher's EMP blast rifle: instead of firing widely (and stunning their own mechanoid allies), they will accurately shut down your turrets from range
- Added a new nanotech research project: meal dispenser. Requires much more power and ingredients than nutrient paste, but at least it's actually edible!
Hi,
The links to the zip files are not updated, was enjoying the mods but also facing all the previous problems, and my Rimworld was not attached to steam and hence cannot get update from there.
Appreciate if you can update the link to zip file.
Thank you.
I've updated the zip file with the latest version.
Hi Nales,
I tried to download the zip file again, but its still the old version which is only 1.279 MB.
Sorry to trouble you but can you check again? And do I need to start with a new save for my game to proceed?
Thank you.
It works when I download it. The file size is 1.41 MB. Maybe you have a cache issue or something?
It should unlock your existing game.
Hi Nales,
It worked! Thanks for your prompt response.
Hi, I want to ask some questions.
How can I get "Red matter" in addition to raid?
What are the conditions for triggering "The Watcher"?
Once you start "The Watcher", every raid enemy will use Red Matter equipment?
This is my second time playing this mod, I just tried to understand him. Sorry for these stupid questions, I believe there are instructions in the game, but I always skip the English narrative
And if I want to translate MOD, how can I submit it?
Quote from: bruce8866 on October 26, 2019, 03:39:08 PM
Hi, I want to ask some questions.
How can I get "Red matter" in addition to raid?
What are the conditions for triggering "The Watcher"?
Once you start "The Watcher", every raid enemy will use Red Matter equipment?
This is my second time playing this mod, I just tried to understand him. Sorry for these stupid questions, I believe there are instructions in the game, but I always skip the English narrative
And if I want to translate MOD, how can I submit it?
1. You can only get redmatter via raid or after you achieved very end-game quest (experience from my playthrough).
2. Researching nanotech to trigger "The Watcher".
3. Only Watcher raid will come with Redmatter equipment.
As for the translation, need to wait for the response from author.
The storyline for this mod seems to stall quite a bit. Is there a way to nudge it forward, maybe via a map event or a world event in dev mode? I played multiple colonies with this mod. I've only got to the end of the story twice. A few times I got past the first bioattack, but the second one never came. Most of my runs got through the watcher outposts part, but never got to the bioattack point.
Is there a way to craft red-matter charge rifle?