All right, people, you know it.
You want it. I drove my entire colony insane
because of it. And not just because of the super fast
deadline. It's the anomaly DLC with royalty. We played with the Broken Empire
and their high class technology ideology brought new traditions
and challenges for our people. The biotech DLC, there are xeno types and
robot to further enhance our experiences, but this one will bring the hook as you
and I will have to bring out everything
we've learned out of the rim to survive. I got the guide you need. So sit back, relax, hit
that like button and notification switch and while you're at it, maybe
check to make sure your colonist haven't made an entire herd of muffalo
mad taming one. This is an anomaly. So why the name? Well, anomalies are what you are going to be dealing with once
you play the game with this DLC. Think of them like SCPs,
and that comparison really will become obvious soon enough.
If you want to start learning about anomalies
and make your pawns life miserable. Do the new start the anomaly. Start for a bit of a head start. You start with one anomaly
right from the get go. A ghoul ghouls aren't a xeno type. They are a specially reanimated corpse
that can do nothing but fight. But fight. They do well with the ability
to not need sleep or entertainment. Not to mention a Wolverine level
healing favor. You got the perfect guard. That is what I would say
if not for one very big problem. They need to feed, they eat meat. And I do mean a lot. And if they can't find meat, well, now you have an angry undead monster
who has trouble actually dying. The other anomaly you start with is a mysterious monument
you can send your pawns to look over. This actually starts on any map,
not just the DLC's version of the start, but, hey, thematic stuff. This is your last chance to back out. If you don't research the monolith,
you won't access the DLC's deeper stuff. However, you also won't be dealing
with the intense, nightmarish entities who now take notice of you. Some still, but it's no different from the Raiders
insects or mechanoids that want you dead. So what is an anomaly? Well, it's basically an object
that isn't exactly normal. Even for the rip.
You will know you got one. As after
starting the research on the monolith, you get a handy little button that shows
you the entities you have discovered. The more you discover,
the more research you can in turn learn. Keep in mind, in order to reach the final
research’s and achieve the new end game, you have to research psychic provocation,
which in turn alerts them. So how do you get the research? Same way as any research. Only this time you got a handy new tab
since the old one was getting packed. The good news both research types, normal
and anomalous, can be done at the same time. Granted, not by the same person,
but that goes without saying. This is good
because you will be doing this for a while
as the research time is actually learned. This stuff is pretty long, but there are ways to speed this up
if you don't mind getting dangerous. If you started with the DLC start,
you should already have a holding platform and proximity detector
with your starting supplies. Set these up ASAP
and in a more secure area I recommend deep in mountain and but a double layer
stonewall room with a security door is a good, great compromise,
especially early on from here. Make sure before you start your research
to actually make a somewhat defendable base,
at least proper walls to fall back into. This is because the moment
you start all this research and so on, they will show up
and they tend to show up at night mostly. I do mean it, though. You got invisible stalkers
walking around as an anomaly. Keep the proximity detector in key areas, especially near
any way to get into the base. Otherwise you'll end up
facing room worlds. Take on the star vampire, cool! From there, do what you want. Allow your pawns to research at their leisure as they will not research
forbidden research without approval. They'll just do whatever and waste time. So make sure you choose a research. And even if you don't do anything,
anomalies will show up one way or another. Of course, if you want to speed things
up, research rituals and learn how to agitate them
psychically to come to you. But like throwing a rock at a beehive,
it's a good way to get stung So you made some horror angry, fought it
off, and somehow actually got it alive. What now? Well, you keep it
shackled on a holding platform, and from there, you can do
multiple things with it. You can release it on Raiders,
which, while fun, has the problem
of having to re contain it, can keep it around to get a bonus
for studying darker research. The more you have, the more research
you get can use them for power. Yeah, that's right. You can actually power your base
on anomalies. Well, yes. Hilarious. It's also risky as doing things to agitate
them. Gives them more of a chance of breach. You do have methods
to increase the security, like making inhibitors
to keep them under control, but also plenty of useful ways
to harness their power. and do keep in mind
they aren't completely helpless when pawns get too close, they have a chance
of getting harassed by the monsters. Don't know if they can actually
hurt the pawn, but you never know. Look at. Look at a move. It's creepy. Keep in mind,
you will have to utilize these anomalies if you want access to bioferrite, a material used in the construction
of a lot of things in this steel. Getting it from entities is as simple
as researching the harvesting methods, setting up the harvester on the entities
on the platform, and praying to whatever religious power you choose. It doesn't decide to pour Kool-Aid
man Well, there is a bit of method to the madness entity's
heavy containment level, so weaker ones like Ghouls have a smaller minimum
as opposed to the gold. So check the levels
and don't go below the threshold or else. from here, it's
just the same as usual in Rimworld rising up, dealing with problems
and continuing the research because of the nature of some research tabs, require
knowing about certain entities in your log, you are going to be dealing
with a lot of different threats. My suggestion for a survival FULL DEFENSE
make as many allies as you can and work
on upping your security and weaponry. Of course, if you are like my writer,
plenty of mods that are overpowered could be a good time
to break out the Grimm world. 40 k mods when they update to 1.500. Oh Noobert likes this too,
but what is the end goal? Well, follow the quests that shows up
after you activate the monolith and follow through in leveling its power
up from there. Well, who knows what dark knowledge you will obtain similar
to the end of biotech and discovering a great and powerful machine following this
path will have your pawns go into shadows and prepare either destroying themselves
or everything around them through the knowledge or,
you know, die trying since the Eldritch
Horrors are coming for you. So Colts here, let's be honest,
we've made a lot of jokes about cults since ideology,
but now the game is snapping back with their own threat. Depraved groups who follow a malignant
machine mind will come to your base to cause some trouble from the standard
packing of groceries in the form of your colonists to straight up
going ooga chaka in a ritual circle to summon beast of blood or,
you know, just plain simple madness wave. Everyone goes insane. I don't need to tell you that if you see cultists on your lawn,
kill them before they cause trouble. But hey, if you feel like it and you're
more than likely will playing this, yeah, you too could do your own rituals. Similar to ideology. Rituals. You set up a ritual spot
from the new anomaly tab. Select a ritual you know you can do
and well, have fun and make sure you have the proper offerings and make sure
the ritual has a good chance of success. Don't want bad things
to happen to your opponents. No. No. So what rituals do you have access to? Well, aside from provoking ones to trigger
entity attacks for fun and profit, you got stuff like making people
super happy at the cost of slower work, more work at the cost of pleasure,
raising the dead, summoning animals along with summoning a storm of blood
that drives people insane unless they have no psychic sensitivity,
of course. And of course, my personal favorite,
just whisking some random person around the world to your ritual spot
because that's hilarious. Free prisoners. Course, given all the stuff you will be dealing with,
you are going to need to be well. Obviously, the basic weapons in rimworld
are going to help make sure to keep upgrading as time goes on. However, in the new research tab,
there are a few things to look out for. Obviously, containment is a must better chance of keeping control
these scps while keeping your pawns safe. You can't research it without it anyways. From there, try to get biofrite harvesters up as soon as you can,
as the material is needed for the future. Stuff like shaping the stuff into
a clean floor that actually strengthens the room. Security against the weapons
you can make are actually pretty good. The Hellcat rifle is a slightly downgraded
assault rifle, but it does come with the ability to fire
some flames twice before refueling. So could be a good side
grade for any pawn. As for the incinerator. Yeah, it's a heavy flamer though. What's cool is that it
fires in an arc going over allies, meaning you can actually use it
in the group situation, though the secondary fire
might be a debatable choice. And of course, there is now buildable
insanity weapons like actual craftable insanity and shock lances,
which do have a reduced range and you have to have line of sight
still can be a major game changer, especially the animal pulser which makes
every animal on the map go berserk. That's always fun to do. The mutation weapons are just evil, either
using the lance to turn the victim into a horrible monster who or just using the bio mutation pulsar to turn
every animal on the map into a monster. Yeah, I know what I'm stockpiling bling for when I need to tell salesmen like,
Get off my lawn. Then there is the dead. Life. Packs and shelves
both allow the ability to target corpses with a strange nanite dust
that, well, pulls a thriller. Certainly useful
if you have a good stockpile of corpses on standby
and a lot of enemies at the door. I recommend
a few ied’s of these at your kill box. Just add to the fun
and tell people not to haul from there. Okay. Come down. Do you read the sirups? yeah. Got plenty to choose from. The good news,
they are temporary and totally safe. Bad news. They don't exactly keep pawns happy,
though. I do feel if you have enough resources
to continue to make and use them, use the mind numbing serum to prevent
a person's mental break or inspiration. Then stack
all the other serums that break mood. So long as you don't run out of mind numb,
you should be good, right? The turret and flare pack are extremely good gear items
the turret Pack can fire out a single shot turret great for emergencies
and you need some support and the flares stun psychically sensitive creatures
head to reveal invisible ones. Certainly good with finding the predators. Not to mention
that turret pack is really accurate. Finally, the ghouls. Yes, the ghouls are in fact a tool. Ghouls in Arabic mythology are monsters
who live off the flesh of the dead. In tabletop games,
they are a form of undead that those who played first edition
certainly know how dangerous they are. Here they are, undead juggernauts
who don't wield any weapons. That's not going to be a problem when they have the durability
and healing factor of a pillar. Matt. So how do we make one? Well,
a couple of ways. Starting with one. And the newest start is, well, a start. But for those who are doing that,
the research ghoul infusion is where you want to do that. Obviously, against all Geneva Convention surgery, you turn
whoever you want into a ghoul. Even in a universe, it's
considered a kind of option to use the brainwashing ritual to mind,
wipe them or just lobotomized them. Seriously,
any evil act but kind of worth it because ghouls are tough
and can get even tougher if you learn the research
to make ghoul enhancements. Think of them as bionics for your ghouls
since hey, they can't wear armor. Why not implant
a literal spike weapon for them? Or perhaps a heart
that lets them shoot acid? and they don't require
knowing how to make bionics to make them. That's a bonus. Seriously. Awesome. And the fun won't stop
if you get a ghoul resurrection serum. They do what they think they do. Bring the ghouls back from death. Granted, unlike the original,
it does take hours to kick it. But hey,
no one cares for ghouls and buried. So keep it in cold storage
till you need to bring them back. What people do care about
is ghouls going nuts. Make sure you keep a good supply of raw meat and corpses
as ghouls can only eat them. Do I recommend using them? Actually, yes. They make for good guard units. Just let them walk around in
when a raid happens. Body block for your range, guys,
so they don't feel pain. Quickly
heal up and later can be brought back. No problem. Unless you are in a situation
where raw meat is hard to come by. It's also not hard to keep them happy. Plus, I know in a few short weeks
we will get mods to let ghouls work or at the very least use guns hehehe
So what is left to talk about? Well, I want to talk about
some of the weird things you can experience in this DLC
and some of the ways to handle it. First up, the flesh pit. Always a chance for great and dangerous pits
to suddenly form on your map from here. You need to prepare an expedition
in order to bring down the caverns. Yeah. This is not going to be easy. It's like moving to another map,
but completely underground. The good news
You have access to more resources like stone and metal and heck,
even a few other goodies left behind. The bad news There is a lot of dangerous flesh
monsters hiding amongst the fleshy walls. My recommendation bring fire. Well, lots of it. They don't like fire. Not a lot of organisms do, to be honest. Second, have an escape plan ready. The moment you find the dread melt,
which holds the whole thing together, you better run to the entrance and get out
of there before the whole pit collapses. The good news? It's half a day. But if you are being chased,
every second counts. The other way to meet the flesh
that hates is to get a distress signal. A simple quest. Someone calls you begging for help
before it cuts out. If you heed the call, be warned. Bring lots of firepower
as the base has been overrun. How much you clear out is up to you. But know that plenty of loot
could be left behind. Since the flesh digests organics,
not inorganic. Or you can burn it to the ground. But be warned you might be unlucky enough
to deal with the heart. And that requires a bit of work
involving staying on the base. Making a camp
and researching those you killed so that you can find a permanent solution
to the heart's destruction. So, you know, the Random Moment or event,
they do show up at times and vary on their use. But early on, if you get a strange wander
or walking onto the map, maybe hold on recruiting them. See, now there is the creep join events. No, seriously,
that's what the dev mode says it is. What is this? A chance for a strange and back story
to this individual wanting to join? This is the risk. Sometimes you get a really good person
who early on will make the difference. Even has a chance for them to come
with some unique but strange ability. The other chance will ever see
John Carpenter's The Thing. Yeah, that's right. If you let someone
mysterious into your base, you might be letting in a monster
one who slowly assimilates your colony. There are ways to notice metal flesh
sometimes left on the ground. Yeah, At this point, locked down, analyze the flesh, and maybe lock up
some suspicious pawns Keep in mind, if the entity known as metal Horrors
figures out you are to it will again. Have you seen the thing?
It will burst out and fight back. So do you take the risk or work on
keeping people you know you can trust? Just like the gold cube, the golden cube. A nice device
that certainly won't cause any problems. Heck, you might get it in along with a useful item
since someone is offloading it. I'm sure pawns
getting more and more attached to it. Isn't a problem. Not like they will go insane
if they stray too far from it and eventually think everyone around them
wants it. Yep. The precious is a wonderful item
that causes no problems. Trust me. Just like that strange corpse,
you might also obtain one way or another. Sure, it looks like one of your colonists
but hey, if you study it, you might figure out how to stop death via
a ritual that never cause problems. Right? Yeah. I could go on. This DLC is clearly
taking a lot of inspiration from things like the Void faction
and the rim of badass stuff clearly feels like
the universe is a dangerous place. That makes me wonder
what else is in the universe of rimworld hopefully something less horrifying. Personally, I just know one thing. If it bleeds, it can die. If it doesn't, then we use more guns. And if that don't work,
I don't know. Antique grain warheads. More useful than all things. Other than that, I'd like to thank all the patrons that make videos
like this possible and Ludeon for providing us all a copy of the game
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