ignore my last comment this seems to be vanilla behavour, from the wiki: "Like other condition causers, it can start immediately active or remain dormant for a few days. Waking up a mech cluster will not cause the auto mortar to immediately start firing. "

i think i found an issue. i had a dormant mech cluster with a tox mortar. i attacked them so the cluster woke up. mechs and turrets are now active, but the mortar still says active in 12 days. i believe the regular auto mortar would start shooting now. this appears to be a bug

I personally think it could do with a minimum range like the other 2x2 turrets. This gives it a counterplay if you send in a melee pawn with a shield to get close. Not fought it extensively so cant speak for others.

Maybe can add a 3x3 heavy needler turret without the minimum range and higher point cost.

1.0.5
- Auto Needler Turret range 38.9 -> 39.9
- Auto Needler turret cooldown 4.25 -> 4
- Auto Needler combat power 190 -> 220

might increase raid points and revert some of the changes but keep some

Published the changes before I read the comments lol
down to revert or make different changes if this feels like too much
1.0.4
- Auto Needler Turret range 45.9 -> 38.9
- Auto Needler Turret cooldown 4s -> 4.25s
- Auto Needler Turret accuracy mult 0.96 -> 0.95 (this is roughly a 20% accuracy nerf at max range but less impactful the closer it is)

@Smxrez - Agreed, please don't nerf it too hard. I found it really interesting. Could you consider giving it a higher raid point value, so it's less likely to spawn for early colonies?

@Smxrez - Please don't nerf it too hard. I actually enjoy the threat it poses.

@Space Moth was debating nerfing it and I probably will today in that case

I like the concept but found that the Auto Needler was very difficult to deal with an early colony given its range, accuracy, rate and the lack of minimum range.

I noticed that all boss mechs are age 100 to the day.

Thank you for making this mod. I hope that you make a lot more of these in the future!

The auto needler is completely terrifying, I love it.

@Smxrez - I think Firesgone was just overreacting a bit to Steam's poor handling of links.

That was because I accidentally included brackets around the link in the description orignally
For some reason steam didnt like that.
But I have since removed those so im not sure why your still getting a malicious link warning as it seems to be working fine for me.

The link to the one you suggest pairing with yours in the description, the link you have is blocked by steam!

@Firesgone what

MALICIOUS LINK DO NOT USE THE MOD

but we want clusters that spread now

@cooldude808 Mechanoid+ mod does something like that
im hoping it gets updated to 1.6
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2595622530

Cooldude808 - That would actually be very interesting, and seriously change the way in which one handles clusters.

can you make the mech clusters slowly expand when left alone, just like infestations

Awesome!

@Lini I fixed that a little bit ago yeah idk why steam got mad at that lol

The link to Lost Factory is including the parenthesis in the link itself, leading Steam to think it's malicious. Cool mod, and I agree that mech clusters could use some more variety

@Huehuecóyotl oops ty

Just a quick quick, the link to Lost Factory Mechanoids in the description doesn't work properly because of the (parentheses)

1.0.2
- Fixed accidentally including patches from my other mod

@J shit your right LOL
I just copy one of my existing mods folder whenever I make something new cuz its easier to have a template

@Smxrez:

I think you’ve accidentally included patches from another mod of yours.

considering the mechanoids chief enemy are the insects, it kinda makes sense that they don't normally use tox weapons

It really was weird the mechs never used tox weapons, considering they're the perfect tool for killing us fleshies. Sadly I've already destroyed the mechmind in my current game, but this shall definitely have a place in my next playthrough.

Such an awesome mod, please keep updating it, it’s so unique and cool.

perfect mod for people who hate themself, thanks

also i agree, mechs should use anything tox related

@Amethyst the otter you see the vision

"hey, this cluster is just two slug turrets and a militor"
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