Simple example here, signal register set to an enemy, display register set to a friendly building: DSC3c2jeWAy3kY8v51u1UOa1LD36j2HJbu64I59WI2S9odm0gkIqM06mUIH1C7Ywa4fXh5P1hOKiQ2WZByg3pRUoD2BxKha0hFF4J1NLoPD1osAgb1erGxS2vb5P71wg4c13S6iMz07Bhvo0gwBfM2Vi
So it will not respond to further calls without manual relinking.
The good:
10/10 Progression
Progression is done very well, even though it can be confusing sometimes, but thats also what kept the game interesting for a long time even without using behaviors.
10/10 Variety
Variety is great, tons of modules and units to discover, there is always something new to explore, simply because of the volume of little mechanics (and lack of descriptions). Its great to always find a new hidden unit ability, thats definitely something you should expand on.
6/10 Faction Design
Faction design is interesting, with distinct playstyles and abilities on each faction, but suffers from balance problems and some inconsistencies.
7/10 Graphics
The graphics overall look very decent, it just needs some work in some areas like the blight stuff, weapon vfx variety (most of the robot weapons use the same laser beam), power grid visibility, weather effects (it needs an option to turn these off) etc.
9/10 Performance
Performance is really good considering the ammount of stuff going on, and the multithreading is done very well (in other games its usually non-existant), great job that you pulled this off on unreal 5.
6/10 Behavior Editor
This is what really offsets this game from others in the genre. While the editor itself is done really well, the variety of functions is very poor, and integer maths is cringe
The Bad:
3/10 Faction Balance
Faction balance is practically non-existant, humans totally wipe the floor with robots, and aliens wipe the floor with everything else. Aliens have an absurd advantage in health and damage on top of early teleportation, but virtually no drawbacks.
0/10 Enemy AI
Your game has no proper enemy AI at all, all we get is some bugs and all they do is randomly spawn new hives and do an attack move, even factorio had more interesting enemy design. On top of that you are also preventing people from making their own AI enemies by intentionally making communication between units unnecessarily complex and slow (as if the entry barrier for this game wasnt big enough already).
The regulars in discord are constantly masturbating over how great their AIs are, but strangely there are no servers where we could see these awesome AIs in action ever.
In reality, their AIs probably arent even feasible because of all the cancerous subsystems they had to make just to get the most basic things working. I see myself easily wiping them out using no behaviors at all.
1/10 Multiplayer
Its hard to get anyone to play this game, the people who have no coding experience are pretty much clueless about behavior coding, and can only make very basic use of it, and the people who can actually code, are not interested in working with this limited library and / or integer maths.
There isnt a single server on the experimental branch, and only a hand full of inactive servers on the main branch. I did manage to get some friends to try the game, but for them it was just too rough around the edges and they lost interest quickly.
From what little i got to see about multiplayer it seems to be working well though, but again i never really get to the point where i could test it under heavy load.
1/10 Automation philosophy
On one hand, you want people to automate the game, on the other, you are doing everything in your possibility to prevent people from automating their stuff properly.
Nobody enjoys working with castrated coding tools, no matter how much the 5 regulars in discord are trying to make you believe this.
These guys dont care if the ship is sinking, all they care about is to keep the status quo so the work they have put into their monstrous scripts wont be for nothing.
The overwhelming majority of people who play this game will want to make behaviors that are performant and reliable, and most of all they wont want to put hours of extra work into the most basic stuff.
Ultimately, the unit communication sadly is what makes me abandon this game, i am just not interested in playing the clown and jumping through hoops to achieve something that could easily be done by remotely reading a units registers. Apparently the only reason given for this is that it would be "too overpowered" without further specifying why.
Personally i am wondering how you would even determine this when literally nothing in the game is balanced to begin with, and the alien race just overpowers everything else anyways, without using behaviors at all, but if you really think this is the way to move forward with automation then i wish you best of luck.
This could easily have been resolved by adding a map option for unlimited automation or whatever, but the dev wants to force everyone into this cringe system instead, which is really sad.
Maybe you should take a break from developing for a few weeks and just play your own game for a bit and do some base automation and see how annoying it actually is to make anything decent... Or try re-coding your game but this time do it in ASM, that will be just as fun as creating an AI faction in your game...
Surely there is more to say about your game, but i have hit 5000 characters and am going to sleep now.
it turns into an ugly wedge way to early.
Ability to set unit speed (capped at its max speed obv.) would be great for when we want our units to move at the same speed.
Use case: i want to set up a rover as a squad leader and have mechs follow him, but the rover is faster and arrives at the target before the mechs.
(I could catch all these bug effects with existing functions, so my production is fine for now.)
early Alien gameplay you most likely need to convert obsidian to silica sand, but also converting anomaly particles to clusters.
because the conversion happens automatically, with a fixed priority for the obsidian, it requires lots of micromanagement to get both done in the one Weaver we got for the start.
Flow Control:
Here it would be great if:
- Subroutines could jump to labels in the main behavior
- Subroutines could have multiple output pins (maybe by placing an output node and setting a channel on it?)
Player Command Overrides:
Maybe you can make it so we had some events that when placed in a units behavior, override how the unit reacts to player commands or what they do when registers are set, and runs our own code instead.
- Move
- Attack Move
- Store Register
- Goto Register
Having overrides for the above because would be really helpful because they can cause some massive annoyances with our custom behaviors.
- Aiden The Grape
I discussed the subject on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Desynced/comments/1sf0ym6/using_labels_as_functions_in_behaviors/ -
I was using it in the following behavior before realizing this is probably a bug: 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
The console outputs the following when this happens:
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:693][286]Error: Critical error while executing attempt to compare string with number
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: stack traceback:
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: [C]: in function 'table.sort'
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: Main/ui/utilities.lua:47: in function 'GetSortedTableKeys'
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: Main/ui/utilities.lua:52: in function 'SortedPairs'
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: Main/data/instructions.lua:7512: in field 'func'
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: Main/data/components.lua:4049: in function <Main/data/components.lua:4018>
[2026.04.08-15.59.15:694][286]Error: Unexpected error in simulation code can result in an unrecoverable state.
Expected behavior: keep requesting the same number of items.
this does not allow to drop less than all units from garages if multiple slots are present.
moreso it would be great to be able to drop specific units from garage or anything from specific slot.
Alien scout radar range (10) is much lower than its view range (25).
a phase transporter within range on #1-4 requests particles on #1
but even it the transporter has particles it wont deliver them (delivery is set)
BUT when I single request a single particle on any of the magnifiers in range ALL get a single stack
Batteries and capacitors seem to lose their charge when unequipped, meanwhile shields retain their charge. Not sure if this is an oversight or intended, but one would assume batteries to retain their charge when unequipped too, just like shields, at least that would open up some interesting gameplay options.
The blight turret has basically the same stats as a plasma turret when you put it into an M slot. 55 DPS on both weapons kinda sounds like somewhat of an oversight and needs rebalancing.
Engineers have a rather lousy view range compared to other units like twinbots, which is kinda bad for their automation, consider rebalancing this.
I'm not sure about your specific task allocation algorithm, but right now it seems that when I have multiple storage locations for metal ingots, the system only fetches from the nearest storage when there’s a request elsewhere — even if that nearest location is empty. It never looks for farther locations that actually have plenty of metal ingots.Since this is an automation game, this seriously hinders production line efficiency.
When doing an attack move, bots without weapons start following a random unit, this is very annoying and messes up combat behaviors, please add an option to turn this off.
Voir le mod - MERCI