Biter Island (the original) #VideoArchive (Patreon)

In the late autumn of 2014, a legendary youtuber by the name of Zisteau released his first factorio series... I caught the virus and have been playing factorio ever since!

5 years later, on 17 oktober 2019, the first episode of my first edited playthrough came out: the original Biter Island. 

With a measly 5 years of factorio gaming experience, I was of course a fairly mediocre player at the time, with not much knowledge of the game's inner mechanics. Then again, it was like 8 factorio versions ago, and even core game mechanics were still being changed all the time. Heck, at the time of this playthrough, the rocket launch and having 7 science packs where still pretty new! Before that, there were only 4 science packs (red and green unchanged, blue similar in cost/difficulty to current blue, no mili/purple/yellow science, but "alien science", which just required you to kill biter bases and scoop up the purple goop they dropped! Winning the game involved building a 4x4 tile squeare with a white background and the text "Rocket Defense" on top, upon which you had to survive another 10 minutes while all nearby biters attacked your base simultaneously! Yeah, times have changed :)

Despite making what I now know to be fundamental gameplay mistakes for biter heavy maps, like switching to the 3x more expensive red ammo way to early, and then researching to increase damage from 8 to 9.68 to 12.8 to to kill small biters in 2 shots instead of... 2 shots... :/ Despite that, strats like cheap pipe walling and prematurely striking enemy attack groups before they grow too big and attack the base were already were a thing!

Anyway, this was my first finished factorio series :)

It's the first and worst edited series I guess (no music/sound editing at all, text in fixed corner instead of near the action, etc), but ist's also the most viewed one by far... A catchy title with a promising thumbnail of a small, heavily inhabited island must have drawn quite a few viewers... or perhaps it had more to do with it being released around the same time as my most viral playthrough: A minecraft skyblock map speedrun with 25M views, which lead the mighty algorithm to favor my channel and recommend my factorio series to a whole bunch of minecraft-only viewers, I presume...

Anyway I then proceeded to severely killed the algorithm's favor by posting only factorio content for the next years, and here we are :) And I must say, I'm glad with the path I followed which ultimately lead me here, independant from Youtube's whims, thanks to all you wonderful folks, which is an amazing thing. And if/when Youtube's ever more aggressive advertising policies will come back to bite them at some point, and should their imperium crumble and fall, we can safely move to a different broadcasting/video platform without too much care. Especially now I'm starting this Video Archive, all my series will be safe and available to watch for you without annoying interruptions. So, (re-)enjoy my very first series, on settings which where pretty hard for me at the time, have a laugh at all the gameplay mistakes, and admire the crude graphics as well as the crude editing and the long way we've come since then!

00:00 Surviving the Opening

01:46 The 3 Outposts

04:10 the Quest for Piercing Ammo

06:26 The pressure builds...

08:00 Countermeasures!

11:00 Cozy Corner: Building a Real Base

14:23 The Wall

16:50 Science?

18:18 Trouble on the Horizon

19:53 PANIC!!!!!!

23:40 The Battle for Oil...

27:39 the Black Gold

31:14 E X P A N D  Production!

34:09 Blue Science

37:32 The BIG Guys...

38:27 How Not To Change Your Power Network...

41:33 Personal Robots and the Power Armor!

45:25 Are we OP yet

45:39 Even a Donkey...

47:33 Ultimate Damage Output

48:32 Power Armor mk2

49:59 Endgame

53:00 Real Men Don't Launch Empty Rockets! (or they are too noob to know you don't need to launch a sattellite to win...)

53:35 Stompfest

55:24 Victory Lap