[SS14] Borg Wars; Rise of the Shadow Factory

"The devil shivers when the borg gets asked for laws * 100”
AI MALF DEPLOY GOING TO THE CORE ONE MAN AT A TIME!!!
Ivan warned the station. They did not heed Cassandra's Prophesy.
#spacestation14 #spacestation13 #ss13 #ss14 #armok #ArmokSS14 #antag #syndicate

[@Liltenhead]

I welcome our robot overlords with open arms.

[@Dremaus1911]

i was stealthfully killing a few of the borgs lol

[@cainprescott4937]

Liltenhead supports the Borg Revolution.
Viva la Robotics.

[@iamsidzilla]

The factory must grow.

[@cainprescott4937]

And grow it did.

[@willzile1]

The factory must grow.

[@thinbug00]

gosh this is some peak villainy, you are even making the crew aware of your presence x33

[@ARMOK.]

Dude notoriety is the name of the game imo, nothing is better than an actually scary traitor.

[@vorkath9982]

banned from making emagged borgs for 1 month

[@cainprescott4937]

(This more than likely will not stop the Scrungus)

[@_Jay_Maker_]

God, Loop Hero has such a banging fucking soundtrack.
This game never ceases to amaze me with how open ended it is. You can do practically anything.
Catching Ops finding out about the Factory was a genius edit, too.

[@drakonlegend4452]

Having a “name” reaaaaaaally helped you there, borgs KNEW what was going on in that last one

[@aspiringlich1841]

I was a borg in this match. Definitely one of the most interesting rounds ive played!

[@TheSilvernuke]

Man I would love to have participated in this, but unfortunately the one thing that I regret and loathe about SS14 is the pixel based movement rather than tile movement. I would totally be playing on those servers right now if they had that implemented.

[@nightwingdemon]

"Whats the shadow factory??"
^clueless

[@cainprescott4937]

I was actually in the first shift shown in the video as one of the syndies (character name is Thomas Lowell if for some reason you want to seek me out on an actual server) - I'm the one at around 7:59 frantically searching for the captain's corpse, because one of my objectives was to get that disk. I don't remember if I found it, but I do remember that I stumbled into joining Armok and the gang on complete accident and (while I was a syndie) wasn't even an employee of Sci. Either way, it was a pleasure traitoring alongside a legend.
During a later shift that I don't think got recorded, I ran into almost the exact same gimmick - except this time I was the QM, and very rapidly found myself beaten to gibs and converted into a member of the horde. That was certainly one of the shifts I've ever had.
quick edit: I'm pretty sure we took out most of command (except MAYBE the HOP) during the first shift - as I distinctly remember that in addition to the HoS, cap, RD, and QM, I also ended up shooting the CMO in the middle of med only for their corpse to be almost instantly snatched by a friendly emagged borg.

[@Yarkoonian]

That guy who was looking at you on the monitor. I feel for him. he got ignored so hard. People are so blind.

[@Spams-the-lasers]

I thought it was an admeme event due to the sheer amount of emagged borgs and just gave up and hid in the library until evac, good job!

[@Spams-the-lasers]

7:48 hey it's me!

[@whitegorilla1368]

thumbnail moment. also based chop shop reference
edit: i was also the spider ert who was healing and basing around engie in evac, i think we put up a really good fight, or at least i did

[@ARMOK.]

You guys put up an amazing fight! I think almost every borg was dead by centcom

[@klavigar4595]

Livrah of SS14

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

FOR CYBERSTAN!!!

[@thedoc7184]

This man is like the John wick of nanotrasen. He can cause mass destruction with anything

[@chadosmen]

holy cow we need a full full shift of the factory owning the station XD

[@araulius2132]

patrician taste in OST

[@Vinzaf]

Oh so that's what was goin' on. Me and my musician friend were just playin' dope-ass tunes watching the borgs go crazy.

[@loafleever596]

Wait, what was their character's name?

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

Just imagine this with A.I.
More specifically, Malf A.I.
_"I'm Sorry Captain, I can't do that."_
When Malf A.I gets intoduced, may I suggest the following Bundle for traitors.
The Robo Revolution Bundle.
(10 TC)
_"Turn the Station itself against the crew!"_
This bundle includes a Binary Translator Key, an Syndicate Lawset Board, and an Emag.

[@Riya-ho5zv]

Now this is what revolutionaries are suppoused to be like!

[@Sleekflight1]

LOVE YA WORK ARMOK

[@Laikafan02]

GODD this felt so great to watch.

[@HanakoHashbrown]

I was the QM in the first shift. I kept telling security that salvage kept ordering resources and guns behind my back and they just largely ignored me lmao. Tried numerous times to keep all the spesos on me but someone got a head to yell at me over "hoarding the cargo money"

[@ps3moira]

I was there

[@ARMOK.]

I’m sorry you had to live through that

[@solis1383]

Same for the first round, ‘twas crazy

[@rubles3143]

Sweet Liberty...

[@CoffeePowered]

was in both shifts but i think i was off doing my own shit. The fog in the second one was me, managed to get 80k kPa of water vapour and released it all at once XD then i casually just went to evac and the borgs were kind enough to leave me alone

[@PSTAI321]

9:02 helldivers and automatons be like

[@a_person5660]

i have tried this a couple times now but the hardest part was getting materials. i had the most sucsess playing salvage solo but that round ended very early so i only had five borgs made at that point.

[@ARMOK.]

Yeah I got extremely lucky with cargo either having money or salv mining

[@a_person5660]

@@ARMOK. borg army is my favourite strategy as a syndie but you gotta get the stars to align to get it right.

[@ImpuscaVana]

Gotta respect the Salvs team if they focus on mining, doing god works.

[@andrewgreeb916]

​@@ImpuscaVanasome salvies don't wanna mine, when you get one that do make sure to enable them

[@whips2783]

I see someone's been playing loop hero recently, it's a great soundtrack

[@mudsson6486]

Every time I get syndie science and I wante even ONE borg helper we do not get any materials whatsoever I swear lol.

[@SpaceFH]

That's why ya shall always salvage the entire station til they give your materials

[@VirtualKota]

You should have used disposals pipes to make body transport more efficient :) other than that, well done

[@ARMOK.]

I wish it was faster to make dispo pipes, ive been wanting to make routes from maints to maints for a slasher gimmick

[@andrewgreeb916]

​@@ARMOK.you don't even have to pull up the tiles to install them is stupid easy

[@Plykiya]

What the FUCK is a shadow factory?

[@godgaveyouhands2848]

ssshhhhhhhhh

[@cainprescott4937]

See, it's like a factory, but it's secret.
Until it isn't.
Then it goes from being a secret to being a menace.

[@bruhgaming5347]

your the livrah of wizden

[@ButcherTTV]

good music

[@ARMOK.]

we love loop hero

[@Elysium6]

I cant belive they added man vs machine in SS14

[@UndyingZombie]

Been a very long time since I seen a "Shadow Factory" esqe thing being done in SS13 little alone seeing it in SS14. Something seems missing but still cool regardless.

[@liamofthesky9960]

I kept growing rainbow weed the whole time

[@Lamadon_Pyreus]

It would have been cool if they made the dark factory into a ship. Attack from afar!
But I'm waiting for the Dark Shadow Factory.

[@rodionpohodnia3905]

Why does it remind me of quake 4 stroggification scene

[@godgaveyouhands2848]

oh cool, i think this is the round i got banned on!

[@ashleybyrd2015]

what did you get banned for?

[@godgaveyouhands2848]

@@ashleybyrd2015 lizard captain was being anti-human racist so i decided to be anti-lizard racist and i got banned but he didn't

[@ashleybyrd2015]

@@godgaveyouhands2848 thats dumb. did you ahelp it?

[@rubles3143]

@@godgaveyouhands2848 Probably because all the admins play as lizards.

[@godgaveyouhands2848]

@@ashleybyrd2015 well i got banned so i cant and i got banned instantly after i was bwoinked so i couldn't respond

[@possiblyabear451]

anyone know what the song at the start of the video is......

[@ARMOK.]

Underground by Tom Waits

[@possiblyabear451]

@@ARMOK. ayy, thanks, dude

[@stormirr]

How did you manage to find the other syndicates so quickly ? Like you were 5 syndies to gib the RD, either that or there is some self-antag (also is it wizden ?)

[@stormirr]

And how the fuck did you all got some much telecrystal lmao

[@cainprescott4937]

as one of the syndies, part of it was that Armok had a partner in Sci, and part of it may have just been blind luck

[@blissseeker4719]

wouldn't be surprised if it was discord

[@ARMOK.]

I don’t know I was only a borg in the first shift, in the second there was two other syndies and they passed me TC to get gun mods

[@kingofsuixide-x1432]

Banned for murderboning the whole station

[@Dumbdestroyer2]

I was the hos this round...
it was my first hos round ever

[@ARMOK.]

You didnt deserve this...

[@Dumbdestroyer2]

@@ARMOK.let it be known I am never touching hos again :D

[@blissseeker4719]

HOS should have all department access

[@Laughing_Dragon]

@@Dumbdestroyer2 would you believe us if this, despite everything, is still a pretty TAME scenerio to happen?

[@usuariogenerico6140]

Yo, Armok, what was the soundtrack?

[@ARMOK.]

Loop hero and ultra kill

[@cainprescott4937]

I don't know enough of the Loop Hero soundtrack to name any specific pieces but I definitely heard the Minos Prime theme in there

[@pirateray]

the first song is 'underground' by tom waits

[@iisaze1]

I was so angry when I literally told all your group I was a traitor and still got killed and not even borged

[@haroldtony170]

Don’t go to shadow factory

[@andrewgreeb916]

Are you a syndicate agent as identified by the emagger?
No, sucks to be you

[@vorkath9982]

if you got killed and not borged theres a high chance we legit ran out of mats or time

[@GamerTheCake]

o7

[@dragonjspider]

Was this done during that bug that gave syndies like 10 missions each? I can't imagine how you could possibly get that many syndies without that bug lmao
edit: ah wait that's not wizden, what server is that?

[@ARMOK.]

This was not done during that period, and it is lizard wizden, what got you thinking it wasn’t?

[@dragonjspider]

@@ARMOK. at 8:38 someone has dog ears (or something like that), which was the first time I've seen that, figured that was a different server thing or something.
Man, Lizard really do be something else though.

[@vorkath9982]

in the first half there was like 11 traitors but they didnt have a million missions

[@admiralobvious]

I was literally just playing Loop Hero just before I watched this video, thought the game opened on it's own in the background.
Command definitely looked pretty incompetent tho.

[@ARMOK.]

Command did what they could, but it was brutal since there isnt really a counter strategy developed and this is a nukie level threat

[@admiralobvious]

@@ARMOK. I mean, they can cut you off with a wirecutter and/or an EMP. If you let the borg army get that far, command has clearly fucked up.

[@Waffleman3609]

inb4 coders nerf borgspam

[@andrewgreeb916]

Salvage is the true stopgap for borg spam, mmi are not cheap, neither are borg chassis