Welcome back citizens to the Nero Gaming Newsletter.

Here’s what we have for you today:

• Factory game Desynced programs its way into our hearts 🤖 

• YouTuber ImKibitz brings the goods with his Desynced Let’s Play 🎮️ 

• (We’re basically just talking about Desynced this week) 😍 

Desynced Review: These are the droids you’re looking for

Your Emperor is making no attempt to be objective today—Desynced is our favorite game of the year so far.

It’s a factory game similar to Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program—but with a heavy focus on automation and customization.

Why is it so great? The short answer is you can do WHATEVER YOU WANT.

The game makes use of a LOT of tools and features that allow you to customize your factory. Here are a few:

• Highly customizable droid and building chassis (my favorite part!)

• Reusable blueprints

• Scriptable behaviors for nearly all in game objects

• Multiple information networks for an object to participate in

A quick example to tie it all together: Vacuum Bot

Vacuum bot is a design I stole from inspired by a YouTube video and serves the factory by cleaning up dropped items.

Vacuum bot is equipped with extra storage and a portable radar—which it uses to find items that have been dropped on the ground (typically this happens when I deconstruct a building).

Once the radar finds a dropped item, it says “Hey look, I found a dropped item.” Vacuum bot is programmed with that slot linked to the “Go To” register—basically, telling the bot to go pick it up.

Lastly, Vacuum bot has a special instruction via the “Store” register—when it’s inventory is full or it sees no more dropped items, it dumps everything in a specified building.

When all this comes together, I have a bot that auto detects dropped items, picks them up and stores them where I tell it to.

Vaccum bot is a lot of fun (and very helpful!) but is only the beginning. The possibilities are pretty extraordinary…

• Want to build an automated defense system that deploys bots to the perimeter (and auto repairs the damage)? You can!

• Want to repurpose your old manufacturing plants into massive, self-sorting storage arrays? You can!

• Want to design an a fully mobile, nomad droid base? You can!

The game also does a really good job with not REQUIRING all of the complex systems… but simply making them available for those who want them.

Example: I’ve played roughly 15 hours and have not done anything with the custom scripts feature.

Still, the learning curve is steep and the game is brand new—not a great combo.

The tutorial and the wiki both suck pretty bad—I personally spent a lot of time asking questions in the discord and watching YouTube let’s plays.

It was about 10 hours in that I really felt comfortable. Now that I’ve seen the matrix, I’m struggling to think about anything else! (Apologies to my boss and my family).

Creator Corner: I’m Kibitz

ImKibitz is a YT content creator I first discovered when playing Satisfactory.

Recently, however, it was his Desynced video that encouraged me to give the game a try—and boy am I glad that I did.

Kibitz is a pro—he’s great at keeping viewers engaged, he’s funny and his videos are an easy watch. He mostly focuses on Satisfactory and Cities: Skylines… so go check him out.

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