RimWorld The Man in Black

So a couple days ago I made a post comparing pawns on go-juice to other midgame combat enhancing options, as well your bog standard default pawn. While those tests did show that go-juice was the best option, it was in such an isolated and unrealistic scenario that it'd be hard to judge how much it would actually improve a pawns capabilities in combat. And so, I decided to do some more testing in a fashion that would more easily and effectively compare these different options.

In this test I had 3 melee pawns block a 1 wide gap with insects attacking until all pawns were downed or killed. I then Counted how many insects were taken out, and repeated the test 5 times to get an average result. All pawns used had 10 melee.

Results will be displayed as follows: Tested item: %of insect kills based on normal pawn (Actual number of kills)

Normal steel plate armour, normal steel longsword

Normal pawn: 100% (12.2 kills)
Go-juice: 295% (36 kills)
Yayo: 175% (21.4 kills)
Painstopper: 211% (25.8 kills)

Normal marine armour, normal plasteel longsword

Normal pawn: 100% (24)
Go-juice: 355% (85.2)
Yayo: 215% (51.6)
Painstopper: 203% (48.6)
Bionics: 309% (74.2)

Bionics included: 2 bionic legs, 2 bionic arms, 2 bionic eyes, and a bionic heart

As can be seen from the results above go-juice is the superior option (as my previous test showed), however you can now see that it can improve performance by over 300% compared to a regular pawn. It also shows that the more armour a pawn has, the more effective go-juice becomes as more attacks are just bruises rather than cuts allowing the pain reduction of the drug to have a bigger impact. The same things happens with yayo, but interestingly not the painstopper, probably due to leg damage downing pawns from <15% movement, while both go-juice and yayo increase movement speed to counter this.

Another important thing to note from these results is that go-juice is even more effective than full bionics. Seeing as go-juice is significantly cheaper (1 yayo, 2 neutromaine) than all the bionics used (28 advanced components, 105 plasteel), it is still worth using go-juice even in the late game.

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So I didn't burn myself out and come to hate myself this time because I actually learned from my previous test (yay, learning). I didn't do too many tests, and didn't do too many different kinds of tests (though I did consider testing flak armour, but decided against it... writing this has made me want to test flak armour vs plate armour for melee (no go-juice involved, just armour), dammit).

Anyway so I hope this was helpful in helping people see the glorious power of performance enhancing wonder drugs/super soldier serum. I'd love to have some discussion in the comments, and maybe if you guys have some things that you want to see tested say so and if I like the idea I might do it.

Thanks for reading

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After playing this game for the past few years, I was today years old when i found out sterile tiles increase research speed...

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*Sigh* Just lost just under 1,000 meals to rot thanks to a very poorly timed short circuit in the middle of the night... with a bloody eclipse. That loss hurt. Thankfully over 1,200 meals (+-days of food) survived the tempatures.