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Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age | Factorio (factorio.com)

submitted 1 year ago by flauschke@kbin.flauschke.de to c/factorio@lemmy.ml

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Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age. Mp4 playback not supported on your device. (Click here for static image version) What is Factorio: Space Age?kovarex Factorio: Space Age continues the player's journey after launching rockets into space. Discover new worlds with unique challenges, exploit their novel resources for advanced technological gains, and manage your fleet of interplanetary space platforms. Vanilla Factorio ends by launching the rocket into space, so I always expected it to be quite obvious what we are going to do next. Honestly the space platform related gameplay was actually planned a very long time ago, and we had shown a little bit in FFF-74. ...

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[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I know I should be hyped about space, but I read better train control and don't have the capacity to care about space.

[–] safesyrup@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now this gets me excited. thanks for posting! I was quite skeptical at first considering there were a lot of similarities to space exploration, but the last paragraph really clears that skepticism.

[–] pavlov@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sweet to see a dev recognize modding talent and hire them

[–] jonc211@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sweet!

I recently finished a K2SE run, so hopefully won't have to wait too long now until the expansion.

From seeing the title, I was wondering how similar it would be to SE.

Happy to see they addressed that in the blog post and looking forward to seeing what the new game mechanics are

[–] Wrincewind@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

Really interesting! I'm excited to see what sort of engine changes are required to support this, and what this update / expansion does that Space Exploration couldn't.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Weekly FFFs again, yeah!

[–] pavlov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A more approachable Space Exploration sounds amazing to me. Those graphics look amazing

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

THE BOYS ARE BACK!!!