I can't wait to see what the Factorio autists come up with once they're done pillaging OpenTTD's intersection libraries. It's not gonna be a 1-to-1 conversion since OpenTTD has tunnels, but either way adding a whole new dimension to the game is going to be huge. Imagine that, sending trains right over your manufacturing area.
Chances are it will be extremely resource-intensive (the stuff in Factorio, not your CPU).
We now know they've overhauled Nauvis world generation with systems developed for the other planets, so I'm not worried about this anymore. Cliffs are now part of a more sophisticated elevation/river layer rather than just annoying rings around lakes, so it might even be worth scouting them out a bit for defensive locations rather than just building at 0,0 and never building a car for anything but nest runs.
You can create a safe crossing using gates in vanilla, nobody ever does that for some reason.
The factory must grow even if I have to sacrifice myself to my trains to ensure it.
Space Exploration doesn't like to explain itself. The circuitry you need to do cargo rockets feels esoteric as hell and there's problems with knowing how much of what you need to send to such and such planet. Not only that, but while you're trying to figure it all out there's meteors, solar flares, biter meteors and worst of all, there's a bottleneck calling for player intervention on another planet. It doesn't just look intimidating, it is intimidating, and needlessly convoluted at times. And for how much it expects you to rely on bots (despite refusing to give them early), the fact that robot attrition is pretty much mandatory is gay as hell.
One of the reason I dislike SE is those solar flares, I get that it happens in real life and it's just reflecting that. The problem is that it now introduces an arbitrary time limit to building your factory when there doesn't need to be one. It is the antithesis of Factorio's game-play loop where you can take all the time in the world to build your factory the way you want to. With SE, you gotta have the Umbrella researched and a power grid capable of powering it when it's in use and the smallest SF can be up to 1GW consistently for the fixed time (IIRC it's about 90 to 120 secs maybe more). I do enjoy the deep logistical challenge that different planets bring but in the end you are better off building everything you can on Navius instead of space or other planets. Outside of the special resource / Game forcing you to build there, there is no point to exploring them or building on them they're just there to make your save file bigger (I haven't beaten it yet but my save for it is 163mb). Not as convoluted as Pyanodons but get some friends to suffer along with you instead of alone.
steam lets you do manual version selection, so if you really want to you can keep playing old versions forever.
i dont think a factorio 2 was ever a thing, never heard wube mention anything like that
yes, they're talking about the expansion/dlc they're working on, not about a sequel
A dlc the same size as base game and at the same price qualifies as a sequel.
then i think i dont understand your question
Even Yuri's Revenge was cheaper than Red Alert 2. And that's one of the best expansion packs ever.
This may controversial but I think this was fine.
main bus is generally not really viable for any of the big overhaul mods because there's just too much shit to deal with.
