In the era of mismanagement and cancellations, it’s nice that they’re like “oh we think this is pretty much as complete as we could make it and there’s not much more room in it to grow. Now what do we make next”
Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update as Wube Software are moving on
Submitted 5 weeks ago by commander@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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aburrito@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They spent years making the gears in the conveyor belt slightly more efficient in fps, their development itself is a work of art.
chunes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The sheer amount of effort that went into optimization makes me wonder if they could ever replicate something like that.
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The one thing that’s unclear is if they are going to change the spaceship scheduling, sending, dropping, etc. interface. That could be QoL. Otherwise I’m not sure what else would justify a big patch and a big version bump. We’ll see…
bazus1@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s just codifying the 77 stable beta increments they’ve released since 2.0.
chameleon@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
There's strong indications that there is going to be some minor but technically base-breaking rebalancing. Getting rid of "space casinos" (quality asteroid upcycling) and platform thruster stacking was mentioned as being ready over a year ago, but they didn't want to break existing bases at that time. This is their last good moment for it.
TipRing@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I imagine the LDS shuffle and maybe fluid voiding will be targeted as well.
Vegiforous@piefed.ca 5 weeks ago
They have teased changes to quality, my guess is changes to asteroid processing and quality trains
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
It’s over…? I’m free…?
parlaptie@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Not a long as the modding community keeps going.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Shapez 2 calls for you.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I can’t wait to see what they make next!
yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Aaand, why is that a news? Wube (devs) were much clear on many things, includes 2.1 being final version for lot of time now. We did learn some details, it is focused on QoL and some balance, no new content, but some new modding options at most.
We even had a little teaser of what may come next, devs already preparing self for next game, that will also take freaky lot of time to make, and it may be an mmo genre.
All set in stone, just like price and no-sales.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Satisfactory just went on sale on my steam too. I’m too caught up in other games tho. Like, I’m trying to convince myself to go to sleep and not stay up all night fighting space pirates in NMS but that just sounds like more fun than sleep.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Factorio is amazing. It is so good and so complex.
I am stoked to see what they do next!
rindo25@lemmy.world 5 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.
ifmu@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That actually sounds like fun.
gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I’ve actually been working on an ant settlement sim in godot, but it’s closer to dwarf fortress than factorio
Nurgus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Give Microtopia a look. It’s any colony as a factory sim and it’s really quite good.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
So we’re just playing as the biters instead?
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A first person version maybe but that’s what satisfactory did, but overall I think smaller and less massive would be better.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 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.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 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.