Comment on Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update as Wube Software are moving on

IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• rindo25@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Factorio 2 where you (an ant)have to survive an ever growing mechanical nightmare that burns your crops, poisons the water supply, and delivers a plague onto your houses.

  source

  • ifmu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That actually sounds like fun.

    source
  • gbuttersnaps@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve actually been working on an ant settlement sim in godot, but it’s closer to dwarf fortress than factorio

    source

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I loved Sim Ant! A modern take on that would be cool to see

      source
  • Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Give Microtopia a look. It’s any colony as a factory sim and it’s really quite good.

    source
  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So we’re just playing as the biters instead?

    source
• Einskjaldi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A first person version maybe but that’s what satisfactory did, but overall I think smaller and less massive would be better.

  source

  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I doubt it. There’s already several first person Factory games. Also, they don’t hit like Factorio does. First person is just so fundamentally limited that, as popular as they are, because they’re prettier, I don’t think it works as well.

    Top down, especially 2d, let’s the scale be so much larger, and makes it easy to plan and interact with. You can easily copy and paste massive factories. Even the best version of this in first person let’s you only copy small sections. The closest 3D one to the scale of Factorio is the space robot one (I can’t recall the name), but it’s a third person somewhat top-down view. There’s a reason why people still say Factorio is the best factory game, despite having so many options inspired by it.

    source

    • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are thinking of Dyson Sphere Program, which does look good and runs well at scale. Until you have a few star systems running dyson spheres, then your run is likely over.

      source

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s the one!

        source
  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am going to check out that Satisfactory. That sounds interesting.

    Idisagree completely with your second point, fuck that I want it bigger.

    source