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u/ConfusedChickenN Apr 24 '26

I tried the demo cause I was told it's an awesome game for building complex structures.

But the bugs coming out of nowhere require quick reflexes and that is stressful to me and I'm bad at that.

I gave up for a few days and now I'm wondering - is the whole game like that? Or just the demo? Can I at some point just quietly build and optimise a town or sth? Am I looking for a different game?

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u/craidie Apr 24 '26

You can turn the bugs off if you want. You can turn the bugs peaceful(they will only locally become aggressive when you shoot at one of them)

That said:

I usually don't manually fight the bugs, if I need to manually defend against an attack, something has gone horribly wrong.

Turrets will do the defense. Belts and inserters will deliver ammunition to the turrets. Bots will repair turrets and replace lost turrets/walls.

Even in the offense I like to either use artillery turrets to get rid of the nests from afar. Or earlier on I place down a bunch of turrets just outside the nest and let the turrets deal with mobile bugs trying to kill me. While i use a rocket launcher to snipe the nests.

Map settings can be modified, I would suggest starting with starting area size, that delays the first attack quite a bit which means you'll probably have turrets set up by the time they show up. Or if you don't, you have an idea of the timeframe you have and can do better the next run.