| 1129 | 🙂 | General | Getting started on the Alien Technology research tree once you're able to enter the blight seems a little difficult with certain game settings. The items used to unlock the other research trees (blight gas, infected circuit boards, and transformers) can be farmed, gathered, or crafted, but it seems you can only obtain alien artifacts from alien soldiers found in the blight. The tooltip that pops up when hovering over the alien artifact icon claims that you can produce it from obsidian and blight crystal chunks, but that ability seems to be locked behind collecting 20 of them first. I've only found 2 so far, from 1 soldier each in 2 different patches of blight. After scouting with radar for the better part of an hour, I haven't found any other patches. This feels like a progression stopper, since some tech I'm excited about is locked behind anomaly particle production, which I'm willing to bet is in the Alien Technology tree. It's probably my own fault for setting Blight Corruption to low before starting the map.
I would recommend that the map generation be updated to ensure more patches of blight exist even on the lowest settings, or that some alternative acquisition method be supplied for alien artifacts. The recipe for them is fine, but it should be able to be produced by some building that you have access to before getting further into the research tree. Even the Human Factory can be obtained by that point. | | 2023-08-22 05:34:39 |