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Factorio - a factory building game - now with Space Age expansion

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https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-395

Changes to how trains work. They'll now also tell you if they don't have a path or have nothing to do with an icon over the locomotive instead of a text prompt.
 

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I'm a bit upset that there's so many good improvements in 2.0, no way will I get motivated to finish my space exploration game now.
 

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I still think they should have adapted LTN into vanilla, all these changes to the train systems look way more complicated than LTN and at the same time poorer.
 

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LTN creates congestion with its depot stations all trains can use. You can now allocate trains on each output station to identically-named input stations and it's going to work without additional mods.
 

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https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-398
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-399

Fulgora, an alien trash heap that you can recycle into a variety of useful materials. But because it's a lightning-swept death world you'll want to build some of the new lightning conductors and their upgraded versions so that you harness the lightning to turn into electricity. Also a new electromagnetic plant that can make a variety of materials both old and new.
 
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Byproduct trash that will clog your factory if you let one of them get out of balance?
Random environmental damage that you need to protect in a silly circle otherwise it'll randomly over the span of a year explode?

It's Earendel made content alright, but I'm going to hold my judgements until I actually play around with it/more is revealed despite the mental trauma of SE "recycling" (landfill into a box simulator).
 

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It's Earendel made content alright, but I'm going to hold my judgements until I actually play around with it/more is revealed despite the mental trauma of SE "recycling" (landfill into a box simulator).
Byproducts can be interesting, but I agree that SE relies too much on sand/stone that you just turn into landfill and put in a box because it's not worth taking proper care of.
 

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https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-402

kovarex said:
It might be useful sometimes, to send circuit signals over long distances. I personally never used it for anything, but when we were playtesting a while ago, Boskid insisted that we include circuit wires into our rail blueprints, because you never know when it might be useful.

I felt uneasy about it, because it goes against the coding principle of "write it when you need it", as it adds a bloat for something which might not even be useful later. But I understand, that if it actually becomes needed, it would be way harder to fix later.

To avoid this dilemma, we added a long requested feature of wireless circuit transmission using Radars.

There are a lot of ways to do it, but we wanted to keep it simple. So we decided that there is just a single radar channel for each surface (still separated between red and green). This means, you don't have to configure anything, you just connect the wire and you are ready to go. If the radar loses power the circuit connection is severed.
WIRELESS

SIGNALS
 

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Sounds interesting, looking forward to the DLC.


Sent from my iPhone using wireless signals
 

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Next up on the incline menu, being able to push boarded locomotives/wagons flintstone style when out of fuel, remote control train driving and being able to plan/blueprint rail routes via the minimap.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-403

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Jesus that map rail building is going to be so good

Also can't wait for the "beat factorio railworld without making a locomotive " achievement
 

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Jesus that map rail building is going to be so good
In a sense, yes obviously. But in another sense, you should be using blueprints for your large scale train construction and the most annoying and time consuming part is waiting for the bots to put everything down. Because the planner won't put down any electricity or rail signals, and rail without that isn't fully constructed anyway.
 

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The new blog post one is about the new soundtrack, the 4 new planets and space will get 1 hour of new music each.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-406

The Vulcanis music sounds quite majestic.

The Fulgora one roughly what you would expect from an electro-mechanical sciencey theme.

The not revealed yet mysterious planet one they released as a cocktease reminds me of Sim City 4 at first, after the 3 minute mark I think the track seems to be an ice/snow world theme with raging blizzards (freezing would be a nice mechanic).
 

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Nauvis: earth
Vulcanis: fire
Fulgora: air
4th planet: water ?

An ice/snow world could work for water.
But an all water planet where you build buoyant platforms and a boats network would be amazing.
 

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Nauvis: earth
Vulcanis: fire
Fulgora: air
4th planet: water ?

An ice/snow world could work for water.
But an all water planet where you build buoyant platforms and a boats network would be amazing.
There are 4 new planets, so they have to still reveal 2.

Large toxic or radioactive world would be my bet for another one, something where it rains acid or other useful stuff. As a bonus they could do large green crystals as a homage to tiberium :obviously:
 

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Aquilo is obviously the cold-frozen-water planet and Gleba is the funny mushroom-swamp planet.
As for which the mystery music belongs to is a complete cointoss, it bears the marks of both cheerful freezy atmosphere but also works pleasantly well for a lush full of life swampshite boghole.

Personally don't care too much for the orchestral setpieces, but I heavily enjoyed Fulgoras "electro-magnetism" gimmick.
 

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One of the few games I bought and they have to make me regret it with their faggy propaganda.
I got this one really early on. I think it was $15 when I got it. I considered getting it on the Switch as well, then noticed the price. It's never been on sale, and the price has only gone up. It's a good game, but fuck that developer. Same thing with RimWorld, got it early on pretty cheap on Steam. Then it got popular, and now an individual DLC costs more than I paid for the original game. Would have picked up the game on GoG as well, but those prices are nuts for it.
 

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One of the few games I bought and they have to make me regret it with their faggy propaganda.
I got this one really early on. I think it was $15 when I got it. I considered getting it on the Switch as well, then noticed the price. It's never been on sale, and the price has only gone up. It's a good game, but fuck that developer. Same thing with RimWorld, got it early on pretty cheap on Steam. Then it got popular, and now an individual DLC costs more than I paid for the original game. Would have picked up the game on GoG as well, but those prices are nuts for it.
They put the true price tag, without x9.99 decimal bullshit, not playing the stupid discounts game, yet people are still mad. Discounts are so ubiquitous with games that they are not discounts anymore, they are just a marketing strategy, not benefiting the consumer in the end.
 

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