I’ve played the crap out of this game and never even got close to launching the rocket.
Which science did you get stuck at?
The 3rd science pack is probably the hardest leap forward. But purple/yellow science are difficult too (just not “as hard” as blue IMO).
I can’t recall but I know it was somewhere around when you started messing with oil. Honestly the problem was space for sure. You build this massive complex factory but then you have to start making adjustments to try and fit new parts in and it just got so complex that in order to proceed I was gonna have to gut entire sections and restart, just lost interest.
Still an amazing game and I loved every minute of it. I did the same thing with rimworld. I have dozens of hours and I’ve never once launched the rocket lol.
You build this massive complex factory but then you have to start making adjustments to try and fit new parts in and it just got so complex that in order to proceed I was gonna have to gut entire sections and restart, just lost interest.
Ah. You haven’t learned the most important rule of Factorio.
Don’t “erase” your old factory. Its far more efficient to instead “abandon” it. Space is infinite in Factorio.
“But the biters will attack and destroy the factory” ?? Well, guess what? You don’t care. Automated cleanup. Just abandon it and move somewhere else.
And when you “abandon” a factory, its not a big deal to “undo” your decision, walk back, fix the few broken parts to grab the 400 belts you need for the new factory, and then “re-abandon” the factory. Deciding which parts are abandoned / not-abandoned is a state of flux. You can always reuse / repair the old factory as you spin up your new one. Just do whatever is easiest.
Bonus points: try to abandon your factory after the research of Construction Bots. At this point, you can CTRL-C your good designs into blueprints, and then CTRL-V the “good parts” of your factory over to the new base with very little effort.
Same here. Love the game so much, but I end up taking a big break and coming back and not knowing how to play, so I just start new. Rinse repeat. Seems there’s a year to build and launch a rocket before this expansion drops, so maybe I should fire it up again and give it another try.
But then there is the (hopefully) good news! From now on, we are stopping the embargo on the expansion content, and we will be publishing Friday Facts every week about all the different aspects of the expansion until release!
Goddamnit, so we have to listen to you gush about the expansion for a whole YEAR, without being able to play it?! How is that good news?
Cant wait to play it. Original already has unlimited replayability
For some reason I’ve never played this game. Should I?
Yes.
And don’t wait for it to go on sale. It’s worth every penny and will never go on sale.
Yes.
But there’s also a demo that lets you play the first few hours and it’ll quickly let you know whether it’s for you or not
Cool, I’ll try the demo!
Yes absolutely
I bought factorio like two years ago and haven’t brought myself to start playing it because I know what will happen.
I just can’t spare to put off everything on my to-do list for the next 2-6 months while I fall completely into the rabbit hole.
I learned my lesson with Kerbal Space Program.
Now I want Satis-Space-factory
Satis-Dyson-Factory
Nice, haven’t played Factorio for a while, but I could probably get back into it with the expansion.
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…
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.
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.
But this expansion here is supposed to be for more for the casual player.
Yes but to be honest the term “casual player” is used very broadly in the context of Factorio.