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RimWorld 2 Is Coming (Probably)
Ludeon just swapped RimWorld onto its own Waylith Engine and shipped no DLC alongside it. After nearly 2,000 hours, I read that as a sign: RimWorld 2 is coming, and your ship will be your home.
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I have a regret to report. When Odyssey launched, I had a hunch that it might be the last RimWorld DLC. I told no one, and I wrote nothing down. Now Ludeon has announced update 1.7, and I am left to make my case after the fact, like a man insisting he called the coin toss after it landed.
So let me establish standing before I start predicting. I have a little under 2,000 hours in RimWorld. I started around the Royalty DLC and played off and on until Odyssey, which ate roughly 1,000 hours on its own. I play on Losing Is Fun with No Pause, a mod that removes the pause button and makes an already cruel game crueler. My mod list otherwise runs to P-Music, a mod that silences the clunk when you change game speed, and Harmony, the library No Pause needs to run. I am as vanilla as a man with No Pause installed can be.
also in this issue
- Harsh, But Not Fair: On Silksong
Hollow Knight was harsh but fair. Silksong is just harsh. An interim report from halfway through a 100% run, on runbacks, trap benches, and a game that forgot the ordinary player.
- Read the Book First. Read the Manga First. I Don't Make the Rules.
A case for reading the source material before the adaptation — and why 'I couldn't find it' stopped being a real excuse a long time ago.
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto