Honestly there's no reason not to add them all at the same time. Pretty much everything is opt in so you can explore it at your leisure. The only difficulty you might have is knowing what things come from what DLC although the info tab should clue you in on that.
I disagree. I tried them all at once, and it became a bit of a headache. I preferred getting them one by one and learning all the new features. I guess it depends on the person.
I share this sentiment. A friend of mine tried to learn Rimworld with every DLC installed and had a terrible time. Once he moved back to the base game only, stuff started making sense. I also just prefer learning new features slowly instead of being overwhelmed by all the new stuff at once.
I can’t imagine having that many hours and that sort of history of playtime and not having the dlc on day 1 of their release, let alone wondering if you should buy them at all.
They are on the best sale they are going to have until the next steam sale. You can deactivate them at will like a mod.
Just buy it and play the game. There’s no risk or downside here.
It's been almost six years. In that time I've graduated university, failed gradschool, got a grown-up job, bought a house and had two kids. Sometimes I'll go one year without playing, but then something will happen and it'll get its hooks in me again so I'll lose nights of sleep getting dopamine hits and until now the base game has been fine for that.
Royalty adds psionics, altogether it is the smallest (and in many opinions the weakest) dlc as psyonics isn't actively required to do anything and requires a fairly intensive quest chain to level in.
Ideology allows for you to ~~max out moral~~ give your pawns mood buffs to align with your weird roleplay rules. "Oh its not that this is a melee only run, my guys just get a mood buff from melee weapons. Also they enjoy cannibalism."
Biotech adds a ton of stuff, cloning, children, vampires, your own mechanoids, ect. Considered to be one of the biggest dlcs available.
The new one that's coming out soon is horror themed and has invisible monsters as well as cosmic horror. Also flamethrowers
Yeah that bit about royalty isn't accurate. My main pawn is maxed out with his psychic level and I've barely done any of the quests from the dlc. I just keep getting simple quests that reward me with a neuralink or whatever it's called. He's been maxed out for a while and is extremely useful. With his berserk ability he can turn huge groups of enemies into in fighting morons. I think people underestimate that DLC.
If the price is ok, then why not. Sales do appear if you want to be selective.
Rimworld in base game, it's good as is. The DLCs add up to even more details of how you can roleplay (Ideology) or do combat differently (Royalty), and so forth. My advice add DLCs when you are comfortable with the mechanics and management of colony, on a selective basis (what do you want for this colony, etc.).
I got them as they were dropped, so I it was incremental. The trick is to know your preferred style of play. Then you tune each DLC to your idea of colony management - even if you have all DLCs.
Buy them all at once but do not try to use everything all at once. It gets overwhelming and you really don't have to. Basically the only thing that is forced on you is children and learning new enemy types. Having an ideology is also forced on you, but you can pick "fluid" with one low impact meme and it will play very close to vanilla while giving you the opportunity to really engage with it midway through your playthrough if you so choose. From there you can start picking them one by one. Like "ok, I want to control mechs, let me get the transponder" or "ok, now I want to start building up the perfect xenotype, let me do the research and get the buildings ". If you start feeling overwhelmed, just cut something. You don't need to engage with anything really and there's no "sunk cost" besides time.
i recommend one at a time. theres a lot of stuff in there and its nice to take your time and get familiar with them all.
by all means, buy them all at once, and you cna activate/deactivate them a will from the modlist.
It's been almost six years. In that time I've graduated university, failed gradschool, got a grown-up job, bought a house and had two kids. Sometimes I'll go one year without playing, but then something will happen and it'll get its hooks in me again so I'll lose nights of sleep getting dopamine hits and until now the base game has been fine for that.
I understand. :) Well my advice for your question (I have around 1.700 hours), is to just go all in. Yes, it's expensive if you treat it like a normal game, but that's it - Rimworld isn't normal at all and I strongly believe you'll enjoy every minute of it with all DLC (including 4th coming in)
Honestly there's no reason not to add them all at the same time. Pretty much everything is opt in so you can explore it at your leisure. The only difficulty you might have is knowing what things come from what DLC although the info tab should clue you in on that.
I disagree. I tried them all at once, and it became a bit of a headache. I preferred getting them one by one and learning all the new features. I guess it depends on the person.
I share this sentiment. A friend of mine tried to learn Rimworld with every DLC installed and had a terrible time. Once he moved back to the base game only, stuff started making sense. I also just prefer learning new features slowly instead of being overwhelmed by all the new stuff at once.
I can’t imagine having that many hours and that sort of history of playtime and not having the dlc on day 1 of their release, let alone wondering if you should buy them at all. They are on the best sale they are going to have until the next steam sale. You can deactivate them at will like a mod. Just buy it and play the game. There’s no risk or downside here.
It's been almost six years. In that time I've graduated university, failed gradschool, got a grown-up job, bought a house and had two kids. Sometimes I'll go one year without playing, but then something will happen and it'll get its hooks in me again so I'll lose nights of sleep getting dopamine hits and until now the base game has been fine for that.
Royalty adds psionics, altogether it is the smallest (and in many opinions the weakest) dlc as psyonics isn't actively required to do anything and requires a fairly intensive quest chain to level in. Ideology allows for you to ~~max out moral~~ give your pawns mood buffs to align with your weird roleplay rules. "Oh its not that this is a melee only run, my guys just get a mood buff from melee weapons. Also they enjoy cannibalism." Biotech adds a ton of stuff, cloning, children, vampires, your own mechanoids, ect. Considered to be one of the biggest dlcs available. The new one that's coming out soon is horror themed and has invisible monsters as well as cosmic horror. Also flamethrowers
Royalty doesn't need a quest chain at all, tribal people can just kiss the tree to get them.
And the Vanilla Ideology Expanded makes it even easier to use with different interests and more abilities.
Yeah that bit about royalty isn't accurate. My main pawn is maxed out with his psychic level and I've barely done any of the quests from the dlc. I just keep getting simple quests that reward me with a neuralink or whatever it's called. He's been maxed out for a while and is extremely useful. With his berserk ability he can turn huge groups of enemies into in fighting morons. I think people underestimate that DLC.
I didn't mean physically weakest, pawns with high psionics can wreck. Just that compared to the other dlcs it is a bit lacking
One at a time.
If the price is ok, then why not. Sales do appear if you want to be selective. Rimworld in base game, it's good as is. The DLCs add up to even more details of how you can roleplay (Ideology) or do combat differently (Royalty), and so forth. My advice add DLCs when you are comfortable with the mechanics and management of colony, on a selective basis (what do you want for this colony, etc.). I got them as they were dropped, so I it was incremental. The trick is to know your preferred style of play. Then you tune each DLC to your idea of colony management - even if you have all DLCs.
I didn't get Royalty and Ideology because I don't think they matter too much and are expensive atm.
ngl just buy them all at once. i dont see a reason why you shouldnt, theyre on sale too
Buy'em all
Buy them all at once but do not try to use everything all at once. It gets overwhelming and you really don't have to. Basically the only thing that is forced on you is children and learning new enemy types. Having an ideology is also forced on you, but you can pick "fluid" with one low impact meme and it will play very close to vanilla while giving you the opportunity to really engage with it midway through your playthrough if you so choose. From there you can start picking them one by one. Like "ok, I want to control mechs, let me get the transponder" or "ok, now I want to start building up the perfect xenotype, let me do the research and get the buildings ". If you start feeling overwhelmed, just cut something. You don't need to engage with anything really and there's no "sunk cost" besides time.
i recommend one at a time. theres a lot of stuff in there and its nice to take your time and get familiar with them all. by all means, buy them all at once, and you cna activate/deactivate them a will from the modlist.
I am astounded by your restraint in buying dlcs if you really play since 1.0
It's been almost six years. In that time I've graduated university, failed gradschool, got a grown-up job, bought a house and had two kids. Sometimes I'll go one year without playing, but then something will happen and it'll get its hooks in me again so I'll lose nights of sleep getting dopamine hits and until now the base game has been fine for that.
I understand. :) Well my advice for your question (I have around 1.700 hours), is to just go all in. Yes, it's expensive if you treat it like a normal game, but that's it - Rimworld isn't normal at all and I strongly believe you'll enjoy every minute of it with all DLC (including 4th coming in)
As a pre-DLC player I recommend all at once. The dlc blends in with vanilla very quickly and the sooner you see it that way the better.
Definitely one at a time. Go in order.
All at once