For the space ship building game 'Reassembly'
Reassembly is a 2D space ship building game. Construct ships and structures using lego-type blocks, then explore and compete in a procedurally generated galaxy against AI and player designed ships. Basically a sandbox game. The gameplay is simple, but deep, and offers many different styles of play.
Kaboom! Easiest how-to ever, save your R and unlock Nukes. The end. But seriously, what do you do when everyone just makes a nuke fleet? You want your’s to be better, so here are some tips for optimizing an already good faction. When you start-out, your biggest problem is that everything is fucking expensive. It … Read more…
These Guys Are Shit! Yes, they will fall apart with the quickness. Your ships will melt like butter verse even the weakest opposition. Avoid danger like the plague, because you are now the punching bag of the galactic ecoshere. Forget domination, how do you even survive with these things? When you start out avoid conflict. … Read more…
Adaptable Earthlings. The starting faction is arguably the best. They have a huge array of weapons, good armor, good thrusters and are all-around well-balanced. It’s going to be too much to try and outline all the things you can do with them, so I’m just going to focus on a few tips to help newer … Read more…
Hive Mind, or Melee Monster? The default ships for the Bees are pretty sucky. The first time you encounter them in Reassembly, you’ll kill some little fly-like things and smash all their buildings. They have like one decent sized ship that’s terrible. Well forget that. I’m not gonna talk about buildings because there’s a separate … Read more…
Harvesting with Faction 2 Everyone in the galaxy picks on the farmers. They sit there with their slow-ass cargo ships just waiting to be plundered, essentially an easy source of resources for the rest of the galaxy to build on. They fall apart almost as easily as the faction 3 Reds and their weapons seem … Read more…
Please don’t take this too seriously. This is just a fun write-up while I think about making better tournament ships. Having fun is key. :) Quotes and ideology adapted from translations of Shinmen (Miyamoto) Musashi’s, The Book of Five Rings (1667) The true Way is to fight with your opponent and win, and this should … Read more…
Why Are They SO Slow! … This is pretty much what everyone says about this faction. So how can you use them effectively? The blue Crystalline faction is the one at the center of the galaxy. They have a lot of health, some missiles, and a lot of pink turret fire power. They are also … Read more…
Ohh, Yeah, Just Like That…. Right. If you’ve done the tutorial, you know how to spawn ships with the factory, and you know how to tell a child ship what to spawn. I’m going to continue that with a few more points. Control You can also tell a station what to spawn. Same deal. Hit … Read more…
Getting Creative with Faction 12 The Bees (faction 12) are one of my favorites. They not only have my favorite weapon, but they can also be used to create your own environments – without any modding at all. This: Can Become: Or This: To make all this happen all you need to do is … Read more…
Mathy Stuff. I set up a file with Google Sheets that adds up the combined values for weapons. You can use the file Here to use as you please, as well as download. There are tabs for all of the normally playable factions: You can enter quantities for your weapons: And they’ll all add up … Read more…