528 Mode
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528 Mode is an config-enabled alternate game mode that increases the difficulty of mechanics and recipes significantly. It can be considered the direct antithesis to Baby Mode.
Changes
- Numerous Assembly Machine recipes for electronic equipment or similar require significant amounts of Tantalium Capacitors.
- RBMK Steam channels and non-ReaSim fuel rods have their recipes removed.
- Large Nuclear Reactor parts have their recipes removed.
- Research Reactor has its recipe removed.
- Breeding Reactor has its recipe removed.
Trivia
- The name is derived from when Bob (the developer), was playing Black Mesa and noticed the difficulty was unusually high, especially when other people did not note the same difficulty. He performed an integrity check on the game and discovered it was actually slightly corrupted and the game was bugged as a result. The corruption was in a single file and only had a size difference of 528 bytes from the normal one.