Actually, Gleba is working pretty great. Why? How? Fuck, I don’t know. I think the gods of engineering smiled down on me. Or had pity.
It’s Aquilo I am concerned about. That base is in a constant state of failing but not actually breaking down. Like a sinking ship that doesn’t have the courtesy to finally submerge.
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Also there is the shattered planet. Bragging rights are the most important rights after all.
Got a small number of hours in it, 3,200 as I forgot how much the base game was, as I bought it years ago, let's assume £30. It gives me about 100 or so hours per £ spent which is insane value for money in the modern gaming sense.
It's absolutely worth it in my opinion. They have reworked multiple major systems in the game for QOL improvements (but most of those changes do not require the DLC). The progression has been reworked to fit in with the completely overhauled late game that revolves around traveling to different planets and managing logistics between them. So you're not just getting bonus content.
I'm just dipping my toes into the new content but I think they did a phenomenal job of expanding on the base game without just adding another layer of complexity. I won't go into detail in case you hate spoilers, but when I got to my first planet it was a similar feeling to the first time I played Factorio. It brought back that feeling of winging it and having to work out the best way to solve problems, which I hadn't felt since my first couple playthroughs of the base game.
don't know why nobody stated this but space age is basically five times larger than the base game. they've announced that even though the game is coming to switch, space age is not since it has much higher requirements.
I guess I'm the only person that just can't get into the gameplay loop of building things to make things that allow you to build more things to make things...etc.
If the concept is appealing to you it could also mean that Factorio itself doesn't suit you. For example I find the concept appealing and I did put a fair bit of time into Factorio, but in the end it just didn't click. But I loved playing through Satisfactory and I'm currently playing through Techtonica which I'm also enjoying. Maybe one day I'll learn to love Factorio but in the mean time there are other factory builders that I'm enjoying.
I play for the alien carnage. My factory grows so more xenos may die. If it didn't have the aliens, I would probably get bored, too. Right around the time you need the 3rd tier research packs, it gets slow as shit with nothing else going on.
Reminds me of an ancient Fark post that had a partially nekkid girl tied to a chair near a TV with Futurama on it. Caption said "Cool, Futurama is on!"
I didn't realise the new stuff was mods and I've just been playing regular factorio for the last week. I should have been in space two science packs ago!
What? I had to uninstall Factorio to install Space Age on my machine (Linux) - I'm pretty sure I see new stuff in the tree, although I'm still building from scratch in the rare time I get to play.
I sure hope I don't have to install mods! I'm trying to keep this play clean.