Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age | Factorio
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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. ...
  • PeterPoopshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    Oh man, there’s already a space exploration mod for factorio. If the plan is to do that but better, they really have their work cut out for them. I really hope they plan to and succeed in making it “space exploration but better” otherwise the modding situation is going to get really awkward…

    • funnystuff97@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Seeing as the post is written by the person who made Space Exploration, it seems they’re targeting entirely different niches here. Where Space Exploration is about challenge and increasing numbers of interdependencies, Space Age seems to be just the natural progression of vanilla Factorio, as in, just keep expanding. Having never played Space Exploration nor made it past Purple Science, I’m interested to see how this expansion will develop.

    • Brokkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      They address that at then end of the post. After all, the same developer is working on both projects.

      Basic point is thwt they are targeting different audiences, but there will also be engine improvements. I’m hope that means SE just gets better because of these changes.

    • Igloojoe@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The announcement goes to mention that he was one of the creators for space exploration. But this expansion here is supposed to be for more for the casual player.

      • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        But this expansion here is supposed to be for more for the casual player.

        Yes but to be honest the term “casual player” doesn’t exactly apply to Factorio.