MichaelHendriks

Shattered Pipe Dream - Factorio Tunnel Vision ep4 (Insane Beeline to Rocket Silo) (early access)

Well, all the recording is done... I won't say if it ended prematurely though...

For now, all is fine :D This episode is on the shorter side, but it's such a coherent episode that it'd be weird to add something unrelated tacked on to the end... If the following episode turns out to be short to, I'll do a double release.

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Michael

Factorio Tunnel Vision - Insane Beeline to Rocket Silo - Ep.03 - The Black Trickle (early access)

Ep. 1: https://youtu.be/hUiyDGn3ntM

Ep. 2: https://youtu.be/AYTX38j-VcA

Good news: I'm not dead yet!

After a turbulent time, I'm back to making content!

(I have paused Patreon for the last months including the current month, so no charges to your account should have been made while I was inactive. If your interests have moved on, kin...

Factorio Tunnel Vision - a straight beeline to Rocket Silo! - ep. 2 (early access)

Hi :)

Here's the second episode! Going well so far, and I kind of have a plan for the rest of the game now, altough it has no backup whatsoever if anything goes wrong...

Oh well. Anyway, I haven't even publicly released the first episode yet, trying to get a head start on the editing. I'll be pretty busy with regular extra work and whatnot in july and august, and it seems unlikely I can make an episode every week during this time. I expect things to return to normal late august/ea...

Factorio Tunnel Vision - A tech beeline STRAIGHT to Rocket Silo - Challenge map

Hi everyone! The first episode is finally ready!

It includes the talking-mike-video at the end (the last 7 min, which you may have already seen)

So far so good, but it's hard to film this challenge in an interesting way... I foresee there will be lots of ingame "manual labor" and other repetitive stuff. I'm really struggling with keeping it interesting. Then again, maybe it just feels that way because Biter Island Deathworld was so friggin' cool!

Anyway, hope you enjoy, and ...

Factorio Tunnel Vision - a straight beeline to Rocket Silo! - Intro and explanation

Hi guys :)

This is a short introduction to my next challenge map. We're going for a straight tech beeline to Rocket Silo, and here I talk about the tech path and the difficulties we'll face due to the techs we'll miss.

It turns out it's quite difficult on how to make this challenge into a good video, I've restarted filming a few times, but I'm still unsure how to do it. This video was my newest attempt at being an introduction to the challenge, but I'm unsure if I want to have 7+ ...

New series introduction! (and delayed return)

Hello everyone :)

I'm finally back and safe now, and started working on a new series today! Our honeymoon trip didn't go exactly smooth though, and we got stuck in Nepal for 2 weeks more than planned!

(When we arrived for our honeymoon in Nepal, covid there was very low, under 100 cases/day countrywide. While we were there however, covid cases started increasing dramatically (8000/day!) with the new Indian variant (Nepal shares a long border with India), and by the time we were ab...

2021 Q2 update

Hi guys,

I've been testing out ideas for the next series, but I've also developed minor carpal-tunnel-ish comlaints in my mouse-controlling arm, so I've been trying to take it easy. I have good hopes I'll recover completely because I'm going to spend 40ish days without PC access, trekking / honeymooning through the mountains, together with my future wife! 

I blocked the next Patronage (similar to last december), so one month will be skipped; the next cycle is one june 1. I sh...

Factorio 1.1 WR Speedrun in 1:04:21 [DOUBLE WR!] Default Settings / Any% - New Glitch Discovered!

Groundbreaking stuff!

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Grand Finale!

Hi guys!

Only a short time to sneak peek this one, as I will plan it as premiere approx. 20 hours after this post (once planned for public release, youtube changes the video from unlisted to private, disallowing viewing even with the direct link)

Enjoy!

PS for those interested, part 2 (which will be the last part) of the 90 minute opening strategy on crappy deathworld maps is up as well as an unlisted video here: 2021-03-09 13:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post

And Now For Something Completely Different!

Hi guys!

I recently watched Anti vs Nefrums Worst DeathWorld race, and got inspired to design a solid opening strategy for this map using my recent research and experience gained by my similar Horrible Seed DeathWorld livestream.

Work on the 50-minute Biter Island Finale is progressing steadily as well, I expect to upload it this weekend or early next week!

Enjoy :)

Patreon preview - first part of the grand finale (no music)

Hi :)

Now that the biter problem seems solved, I don't want the series to drag on and on, so I'm probably going to edit the whole rest in a single grand finale, it will be 45-60 minutes in total. This will take me an extra week to do so, but I didn't want to leave this week without anything. The video above is the first part of the finale (without background music) and deals with getting military and blue science up, while trying out a few more funny editing tricks.

Enjoy the prev...

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Part 9 (early access)

@ the moment of posting, processing in SD is done. If you catch this post immediately and want to watch in HD, wait some 30ish more minutes.

Enjoy!

Michael

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Part 8 (early access)

Fancy Flamethrowers Flowing Fiery Furore Fighting For Freedom For Fngeneers!

I hope I didn't overdo it. I think i overdid it. Anyway, enjoy!

Michael

PS: my 2nd livestream ever, tomorrow: https://youtu.be/ZwGRl-bp1W4

Planned stream this saturday! (9:00 UTC / GMT (= 10:00 Central Europe Time, 12:00 Moscow time, 04:00 New York time))

My most difficult challenge map ever!  I will be playing a "Horrible Map Seed"-challenge map on DeathWorld  settings, and I'm given only 12 hours to complete the map. This will be the most difficult challenge I've ever attempted by far,  and it might not even be possible at all (I did an opening test run and  got stomped severely)  There is a bounty: Whatever the outcome, $100 will go to the Honnold  Foundation.

I hope to see you all this saturday! All the ...

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Part 7 (early access)

Hi guys!

Find out if I survived above ;) By the way, any ideas for a new series? It's kinda urgent lol...

Unfortunately this video was (wrongly) copyright-claimed upon upload by YouTube's content-ID system. The claim has been disputed, but it can take up to a month for the other party to even respond. As a consequence, ads including midrolls are already switched on for this video. Sorry for the inconvenience :/

All the best,

Michael

BiterIslandDeathworld ep6 final cut (early access)

Hi guys!

At the moment of writing, the video is still uploading, I'm going to sleep now but it should be ready in an hour or 2 (once it has a thumbnail, I guess)... If it's in low quality, check back later, it can take youtube a while to process 1080p

Enjoy!

Michael

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Part 5 (early access)

And here's the finished episode!

Sneak peek - BiterIslandDeathworld ep5 - after editing round 1(PRE-TEXTOVER) - NOT A FINISHED NEW EPISODE YET!

Hi everyone :)

I'm a little behind due to almost a week of time-consuming non-computer events, I will get the episode finished by wednesday or thursday (so the early-access-period will be shorter than usual)

So, I thought I'd share this: This is what the video looks like after about 12 hours of work: the first editing round (material selection) is done, but there are no text-overs or music yet, only the bare gameplay with no distractions. 

If you'd rather watch the 'nor...

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Part 4 (early access)

Watch from 0:30 on to skip the opening ad

Entering the Medium Biter era...

Biter Island "I'm Not Dead Yet!" - part 3 (early access)

Trump's Last Effort: Make One Final Great Wall Again

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Part 2/X (early access)

Part 2 is done...

Still not dead yet!

Factorio Biter Island - DeathWorld (Challenge Map) - Early Access

Here it is! The revamp of my original challenge map Biter Island, this time on steroids!

Note: to celebrate (almost) a year on Patreon, I've opened with a brief display of everyone who has supported me in one way or another at any point during the past year (except if you said before you didn't want your name displayed). I plan to publicly release the video this friday. It's quite a long list of names, but should you have any objections in being displayed in this list, let me know and I...

Biter Island DeathWorld - Trailer (or is it...)

Factorio "There is no Spoon" on 100% Default Settings guide FINALE

The Most Mammoth 'side project' ever is done! Here is the double-length detailed finale of the guide!

The next series I want to do in my old style again, I really like the calm / no talking / game ambient style myself too. I'm not yet sure exactly what it's gonna be.

- I've looked into krastorio+space exploration, but it feels like I'll get in way over my head there. The endgame seems quite complex and I read about lategame / multi-planet causing FPS/UPS-issues (which will be ampl...

Factorio "There is no Spoon" on 100% Default Settings GUIDE: Blue Tech Era 2/2 (early access)

It took a while, but now I'm back with a vengeance!

Upcoming videos include the finish of this guide, a video of the wave defense scenario, perhaps an in-dept tips & tricks video, and the start of a new factorio series...

Enjoy!

Michael

Short update december/january plans

Hello everyone :)

I'm having an extremely busy month and haven't been getting around to do much editing (I need big blocks of uninterrupted time for that).

So, since I haven't done much work on videos, I decided that December will be "free" (Patreon will skip charging for 1 month, but everyone will keep their usual supporter status. If you insist on supporting anyway, a paypal link can be found in the description of my recent videos)

On a more positive note, I'll be 'stuck' ...

Factorio "There is no Spoon" on 100% Default Settings GUIDE: Blue Tech Era 1/2

There is no spoon GUIDE - green science era (pt2)

There is no spoon GUIDE - green science era (pt1)

Hi all,

Here is the first part of the green science era! The second part is almost ready as well, but the total playtime is going to exceed 40 minutes (green science is the era with the most techs and stuff to do), so I decided to cut it in two parts.

I'm going back to publishing videos on fridays, this part will be publicly releases friday 16th

Part 2 will be released friday 23th, but will be uploaded for early access in the next few days.

I cut the background music a...

Factorio "There is no Spoon" on 100% Default Settings: The Ultimate Comprehensive Guide!

Hi all :)

Here is the first brand new shiny revamped totally logical first episode of this series!

It looks to become a 4-part series of about 30 minutes each, and now that all the pre-work is done and I Have not only A Dream but also I Have A Plan, I estimate the next 3 episodes should be about 2 weeks apart. Due to an advertisement for the game shapez.io (which is actually pretty fun), I can't set early access for this video as an important update for shapez.io is released this ...