Rimworld Nociosphere Explained: Tips & Tactics

Learn all you need to know about Rimworld's Nociosphere, a powerful, floating entity from the Anomaly DLC that you can use to your advantage - but only for a limited time. #rimworld #rimworldanomaly #petecomplete

With the Rimworld Anomaly DLC, we see a psychological horror theme added to Rimworld in what is arguably the most unique of the Rimworld expansions. A strange monolith is found on the map and things can soon devolve as horrifying entities appear and threaten the colony in ways never experienced before. In addition, Rimworld Anomaly also adds ways to contain these entities, dark new psychic rituals and a new ending to Rimworld.

Rimworld is a Sci-Fi colony builder simulation game focused on managing a small group of survivors with the goal of eventually building a space ship to escape the planet. Rimworld is developed and published by Ludeon Studios. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the game went through several Alpha and Beta versions before seeing the release of the Rimworld 1.0 version in October 2018. This playthrough uses Rimworld 1.5, the latest update to the game.

[Siegmernes]

This thing defeated an endgame raid and had like 60% of its health left. I had to throw 20 guys at it and it took Charge Snipers, Rocket launchers, Grenades and a ton of melee units to take it down.

This thing is insane.

[joonasnaski]

That Nokia sphere sure can take some hits

[FleshBoi]

Cool thing is that the spehere itself owes half of its name after nocioreceptors, the nerve endings responsible for sensing pain stimuli.

[hideshisface]

This thing is deadly.
It is one of the best armoured "vanilla" enemies, with 100% sharp and blunt armour - outclassing everything except imperial Cataphracts - and you can't cheese it with blunt attacks.
It constantly teleports around and it has 3 base attacks.
The pain pullse - Area of effect attack that instantly downs affected pawns with pain.
Heatspikes - basically a rapid fire charge rifle attack - fires something around 9 shots, 15 damage each.
And Fleshmelter - basically the same as Diabolus AoE attack, except with far shorter cooldown, giving you very little time to avoid it.
With some luck, this blasted thing can solo entire raids.

Nociosphere is vulnerable to EMP - it is stunned by it, but has 50% resistance, so multiple EMP weapons are advised to keep it stunlocked.
Without EMP - you need massed, heavy firepower to deal with it - if you have to fight it.

[isolatedegg]

Watching the Nociosphere start moving towards your pawns is the scariest thing in the Anomaly DLC

[Sassy_Witch]

The way the colonist just casually rolled the boll was hilarious

[bigburkhart]

The Nokia-sphere? Oh man that thing is gonna be indestructible.

[serge]

The Nociosphere is a friend when you know how to use it right.

[malcolmdarke]

I suspect that it's a "no-see-o-sphere" - nociception is essentially the sense of pain, being how harmful stimuli are encoded by the nervous system. That would make "Nociosphere" literally translate to "pain ball" which, given what you've explained, makes a lot of sense.

[TouhouFan]

>Be me
>A colony of cultist who are also crackheads
>Forgot i had the VOID Faction mod
>A raid from them comes
"Oh shiii..."
>Panic
>Get a wonderful idea
Deploy the sphere
>The ball of pain goes apeshi on the Void soldiers and their monsters
>The fight goes for almost two whole days (In-game)
>The sphere wins
>I get to capture a bunch of those void monsters for myself
>The sphere disappears shortly after
Thanks, Angry Ball...

[truepiggy]

Pretty sure it doesnt go for unconscious people, so you could anesthetize your colony before having a sleepy pawn/sacrafice release it.

[NovusNovem]

I get literally 0 viewers streaming this game to twitch, but its legitimately so enjoyable that i continue playing it lmao

[NeeRock]

I love your Mass effect trilogy videos used to watch it during gameplay

[kandiaru]

А еще можно поставить её за стеной килбокса и добавить автобонг за вентиляцией и получить -40 сознания рейдерам. -40 блин, где вы еще такое видели?)
Только активность нужна повыше, или можно сделать к ней проход и бить перед рейдом чтобы повысить активность

[hyko]

My super augmented, Psychic (Warlord), space marine with Adam-smasher grade augments and a legendary zeushammer (Igor Invader storyteller) :

"Hey asshole ! *BONK* "

Nociosphere who lost 50% health in one strike :

"I NOW UNDERSTAND PAIN, NOW FEEL MY HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE" *dinsintegrate my marine*

[harrogeorge]

This thing is obscenely tanky. Each part has something like 1500 health but it dies after 3000 damage regardless. It also has really high armour that makes it difficult to get the full damage from each attack. Good news is you only have to survive it not kill it. Each rampage has a set duration and if it kills all the enemies before the end of the rampage it starts going towards your base. If the enemies (or your own pawns) outlast it then it returns to its holding spot (or for the final rampage, entirely disappears)

[betergriffin]

infinite mech chip glitch

>nociosphere unstable

>summon mech threat

>???

>profit

[NoU-jckq]

Didn't know there was a range for it on that last bit, thought it just locked onto the nearest valid entity and teleported.

[OVERSEER-]

I wasnt paying attention and thought this was a mod!

Havent got into the anomly dlc yet! This looks awesome

[zydrate]

I like the idea of having to lock up a super weapon because its taken so many lives and is so dangerous it causes pain even being close to it.