#autonauts

[geeoharee]

followed you cause you play autonauts and there’s like two people that do that on this hell site. Not including me. Autonauts Georg, who plays 200 hours of Autonauts each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

open Autonauts, check messages, receive message

Yeah I have this pattern of 'get really into a single video game and then leave it alone for months', I am back with twee little robots at the minute!

[bobthedragon2]

in gaming news I am finally almost 100% on autonauts but unfortunately the final achievement is the one I am dreading the most :,Y

[tobiasdrake]

"Autonauts is available on Xbox Games with Gold"

The hell is Autonauts? Sounds indie. Talk to me.

"Resource grinding and crafting game about building up from nothing."

Okay, those games are pretty cool. I've kinda been itching for a new one recently.

"The central gameplay loop is about programming robots to do all your work for you."

...that sounds weird, if I'm being honest. I don't know about this. And the art style isn't really grabbing me. But I suppose I can give it a look.

"The tutorial says you can have a max of 500 bots."

Yeah, that's not going to be a problem. I tend to like to do things by hand. I'll probably only automate a few things. I'm really just here for the crafting loop.

*Five hours later*

No, YOU go to bed. I need to program this bot to collect resources from the gathering bot and take them to the crafting bot, so it can craft tools for the gathering bots to collect and keep the supply chain going. The material crafting bots need those supplies to make materials for the building bots.

I have bots making food, bots making storage to store materials made by bots, bots making BOTS! I AM THE BOT KING OF THE UNIVERSE!!! Ahaha! AhaHAhaha!

[mysteamgrids]

Autonauts

[izzytimestream]

AUTONAUTS STREAM! Chat Named Robots!!! 7pm EST Monday!!!

TWITCH LINK

autonauts is a game about makin robots and having them labor for the sake of automation. join the stream to be a robot!!!

[closetededgy]

Time for my review of autonauts, a game I recently purchased which has turned out to be an almost perfect combination of games I’ve been wanting to combine recently, I say almost because there are some things it do with to make it truly perfect. That brings said the combination is as follows, stonehearths cheery nature and graphics as well as an open and inviting world. Factorios lean towards efficiency, production chains, research, and elegance (basically Always trying to make elegant solutions when you know how you could do the same thing inelegantly but effectively). And another game I recently started playing which is duskers for the micromanaging robotics that it brings to the table. All of this combined makes a very cheerful and slightly sinister (please watch Aavaks current series on it find out how sinister). There’s no real story or lore that I can tell, it’s just automate things, but it’s done in such a way that you can never keep things quite clean so there’s always something more you can automate, something more you could clean, the progression never makes you wait, you always have something to do something to craft something to automate. There’s always better ways to do something you’ve already done and somehow there is no external pressure to keep moving, yet there was never a time I just didn’t do anything unlike in factorio Where I’m always waiting for research and resources before I can do anything, or duskers where I’ll be sitting on one station looking at the last room I need access to for half an hour. Then there’s performance, I wouldn’t call my computer a potato or a toaster but it isn’t anything you could accurately call a gaming computer and this game runs wonderful not only can I keep the settings on fantastic while having 80 bots constantly working, but there doesn’t seem to be much or any slowdown in the thought process of the bots unlike stonehearth where regardless of my settings even if I set the speed to 1x a 12 hearthling colony will begin to become ultra confused and idle way too often. and remember the only things you can do that the bots can’t, is design programs. The Only thing

Now as I mentioned it could use a couple things:

Mod support: every game is better with mods this would be no exception, whether it’s changing progression to fit your balance or completely altering how you play the game, mods will always be an extra source of content for the player base by the player base.

A method of writing a bots commands out rather than having to record you doing the commands, it would be so much more enjoyable for a lot of people to use a separate building to write out a bots commands exactly how you want then save it to a data storage.

A more top down view in which you can hide things like items on the ground and make things a little more 2d to easier organise things but this ones kinda whatever which is why it’s last.

How many hours have I put into the game: 20

How many do I think I’ll have in the game by the end of the month: easily 150 I think.

All in all it’s a wonderful game

[bobthedragon2]

I still love Autonauts and so far this is still my best build for throwing out old robots

[geeoharee]

I'm hooked on Autonauts this week. Have you ever wanted to exclaim "What have you made an infinite pile of THIS TIME?!" at a lot of quirky little robots, like you're in that Mickey Mouse cartoon with the brooms? Of course you have.

(It was buckets. I haven't decided what to do about this yet so now I just have a giant spire of buckets. Might just declare it art and leave it in front of the kitchen building.)

edit: the one problem I have is that the lovely unobtrusive background music, just the thing you want for a colony builder, has got a couple of notes in it that make me think it's going to turn into 'Pencil Rain' by They Might Be Giants and now I've had to listen to that song about a dozen times in the last two days. Aargh, I wish this brain feature was optional