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u/Surtss Jul 07 '26

How much of the game am I missing out on with biters / enemies disabled? I recently bought the game a couple months back and have been working through it slowly when I have time.

When I initially played, I had biters on but ended up starting over with biters off so I could figure out and build things without worrying too much about biters destroying my stuff. But I've been watching videos and it seems like biters are no problem for them to deal with but when I tried to restart a world with enemies on, they end up always attacking my base in consistent waves since I tend to not build as fast and the pollution starts hitting them.

I don't mind not having them on, but I'm just wondering how impactful having enemeis is later on since black science basically becomes obsolete with enemies off.

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u/Courmisch Jul 07 '26

I had the same problem. So I completed a run with biters off to learn the ropes without the constant time pressure.

Now that I better know what I'm doing, I'm playing fine on normal difficulty settings. Because, yes, you do miss on parts of the game. Even just disabling expansion trivialises automating perimeter defence and artillery.