Behemoth Fury impressions

[Kava]

I like Behemoth Fury a lot, but I think the Elder Voidspawn needs to be scarier and come after you hard with some breathing room in between hunts. Right now it's boring and not much of a hindrance. The idea of it is definitely cool, it just needs a better implementation.

The economic malluses are weak and never affected me or slowed me down in the slightest, even in the final stages. I'm not sure what the gameplay purpose of that was meant to be. I did have a wide empire, though, so I don't know if it's just meant to punish tall builds.

Although everyone united against me and I even had the Khan throwing fleets at me, the Fallen Empires did nothing so it was easy to win. I think they should try to stop you so it's harder to win the game early on.

Choosing each upgrade during Growing Pains was awesome. I would've liked unique visuals applied to the Behemoth and its spawn depending on the upgrades, though. I also think the egg spawn should get some of the bonuses. I didn't see the point of the eggs since you can build those things anyway, but it would make sense if they hatched slightly better versions of ships/behemoths with upgrades reflecting your choices.

Fight/Flight/Digest is a cool mechanic. However, I pretty much just stayed in Digest the whole time. Personally, I would rework this so you can fill your stomach during Fight/Flight and metabolize it rapidly during Digest, so there's not really a penalty to your progress as long as you enter Digest at some point after eating. I assume the spirit of these stances is to choose Fight when eating hapless empires, Digest afterward, and Flight whenever the Elder Voidspawn is hot on your heels.

Overall, I'm enjoying Biogenesis despite the bugs and will probably play a lot more with the Behemoth Fury crisis path.

 

[FiddleSticks96]

(slightly chaotic response posted from my phone).

What did you do to keep your economy floating? By the end of it, my economy had collapsed. I was running massive deficits in everything. I only kept my economy barely floating for most of it with the market. Even as a cloning hive, I couldn't outpace the loss of pops to the mindlink, though I suspect this was because I had 20 mindlink districts on my capital.

The xenophile fallen empires woke up and tried to stop me, but by then it was too late. I ate them.

The Elder Void Spawn was a non-threat. Not because it wasn't super powerful (I even died the first time I fought it at the end of the situation because of all the maluses from deficits and using the jump drive to catch it when it was running away from me), but because it stopped moving entirely early on. I don't know why it stopped chasing me, but it just sat there until I got close to it again after completing the situation.

My biggest issue was the ending, or rather, the lack thereof. You get a minor military bonus and that's it. Not even a victory screen. It's like it was never finished.

 

[Obblera]

It is enjoyable, but (1) the ending is lame. If you remain, the aftermath is weak, the thing doesn't roam properly and isn't even a menace. (2) Also elder spawn is super bugged. It gets mysteriously stuck.

 

[Kava]

What did you do to keep your economy floating? By the end of it, my economy had collapsed. I was running massive deficits in everything. I only kept my economy barely floating for most of it with the market. Even as a cloning hive, I couldn't outpace the loss of pops to the mindlink, though I suspect this was because I had 20 mindlink districts on my capital.

I don't know, I just had dozens of automated farms and consumer goods factories. My farms would have Bioreactors to provide energy and gas (for my exotic metabolism pops), and I took Master Crafters so my Artificers were providing trade value (I mainly took it so my Biotic Dominion heir could add a lot of armor to my ships in the council slot).
By putting an Automation facility and Bioreactor in the farm district, it would automate half the worforce and supply itself with the energy upkeep. So I would just resettle in 1,000 pops to kickstart a planet and leave it with a cloning vat and medical facility to eventually fill the other half of the workforce.
I was larping with Detox and Mastery of Nature and just adding more and more farms and factories to my empire and settling them with Mutagenic Habitability. I ate any habitats I encountered while my troops conquered planets.
My empire consisted entirely of normal cold/wet/dry worlds.

 

[FiddleSticks96]

I don't know, I just had dozens of automated farms and consumer goods factories. My farms would have Bioreactors to provide energy and gas (for my exotic metabolism pops), and I took Master Crafters so my Artificers were providing trade value (I mainly took it so my Biotic Dominion heir could add a lot of armor to my ships in the council slot).
By putting an Automation facility and Bioreactor in the farm district, it would automate half the worforce and supply itself with the energy upkeep. So I would just resettle in 1,000 pops to kickstart a planet and leave it with a cloning vat and medical facility to eventually fill the other half of the workforce.
I was larping with Detox and Mastery of Nature and just adding more and more farms and factories to my empire and settling them with Mutagenic Habitability. I ate any habitats I encountered while my troops conquered planets.
My empire consisted entirely of normal cold/wet/dry worlds.

I completely forgot about the automation building. I will give that a try next time, along with less mindlink districts. It was very chaotic but also a fun time trying to keep my economy from collapsing while I was fighting the whole galaxy, but I wouldn't want to do it again anytime soon, especially because it was in a multiplayer game withy friend who went CosmoGenesis so he could, in his words, "escape this cursed galaxy."

 

[Kava]

I completely forgot about the automation building. I will give that a try next time, a long with less mindlink districts. It was very chaotic but also a fun time trying to keep my economy from collapsing while I was fighting the whole galaxy, but I wouldn't want to do it again anytime soon, especially because it was in a multiplayer game withy friend who went CosmoGenesis so he could, in his words, "escape this cursed galaxy."

I would want to escape a galaxy full of behemoths eating everyone, too.