Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Factorio dev blogs are such a treat to read. I love they way they explain their decisions and the problems they encountered. This dlc is going to be so cool

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  • stackPeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dev blogs in general are really cool. Didn’t knew that Factorio even have dev blogs!

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fun Friday Facts.

      They’ve been releasing awesome devblogs for years every Friday. It’s actually awesome

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fachorio having better wolrd gen than starfield, it’s 10 years old lol

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  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t dozens of games that old and older have better world gen?

    Like Dwarf Fortress, which is old enough to drink in the US.

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    • finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The history is the real selling point for me, idk any other game that builds a rich world of history fully randomly like they do. Can’t wait for the adventure mode release on steam

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Starfields world gen is realistic. Empty plants with empty caves dotted with mining facilities… Yeah… That’s actually probably what space is going to look like lol. It’s not something youd want in a video game though.

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    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is a particular thing that really irks me with starfield.

      I enjoy it. I’ve spent 200+ hours in it.

      But the planets/moons arent indicative of the range of things we might expect. Mountains, valleys, or planets with active tectonics, or oceans. etc. That little bit of added features on a few planets would he enough.

      Take Earth for example. I feel like I should at least be able to visit landmarks like the grand canyon, Mount everest, or the Mariana trench (given what happened to Earth’s atmosphere).

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• orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve done Factorio from vanilla, vanilla plus qol mods, to angels and bobs mods. Something is so satisfying once you get a train network set up, bots doing their thing (think it’s improved but used to be a performance killer with too many) and watching everything just work. I think I was at 400 hours before I even bothered launching a rocket which is where they say you beat the game. Anyone looking for YouTubers check out KatherineOfSky, think she still does them for factorio and is quite nice to watch and learn from. I actually haven’t played in a few years now but have 600ish hours (maybe left it on a few nights running by accident but mostly true hours), great game to figure out logistics, timings and such. Also personally usually played without the biters since I just wanted to build (glad they took out the requirement to kill biters for science) but watching other people build up defenses seems interesting but too stressful for my play.

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    KoS is so wholesome, love watching her videos!

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• MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just wish we could dig in Factorio, maybe on different planets…

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  • ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With the addition of overhead trains, that might be possible in the future.

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• BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  800+ hours in this game

  Im still deciding if I want to do another playthrough before 2.0 though. Maybe I’ll actually play SE through past the first rocket launches and that should give at least another 800 hours.

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