Friday Facts #397 - Factoriopedia | Factorio
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Hello, we have gathered here today to talk about a new quality of life feature coming with 2.0.

It’s really nice to see how they continue to cater to player quality of life, lots of great improvements both for new and returning players here.

  • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    9 months ago

    If it weren’t so expensive… I was looking at Factorial and Cyberpunk 2077 for months now, but the price is so much higher than the games I normally play.
    I have read Factorio’s reasoning for the price, but after playing the demo, I don’t see how they are in a different position compared to e.g. Terraria or Don’t Starve.

    • Anti-Antidote@lemmy.zip
      11·
      9 months ago

      My suggestion? Pirate it. Play the full game and see if it’s worth your 30 bucks. If it is (and I believe it will be), then buy it on your platform of choice. If not, nothing lost.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        This. I’ve run a bunch of lan parties where we just copied factorio around all the computers. The developers don’t really do any DRM. Intentionally. The only restriction for a pirated copy, really just a copied copy, is that you can’t play on servers that do username authentication. But for self-hosted servers you can disable that. Like for a lan.

        And for all the people who came to the lan and played, nearly 100% of them bought the game. Because they love the game.

        So if this is the kind of game you love, and you genuinely can’t afford it, pirate it, I think the whole community is behind you. And if you can afford it please buy it

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      I was in your camp for a while and just kept it on my watchlist for forever. Eventually I figured I would probably sink 100+ hours into the game, so the cost per hour of entertainment was quite low. After getting it and playing for more than 100 hours, I can say I’m happy with the purchase and it’s worth it.

    • chaotic_goody@beehaw.org
      7·
      9 months ago

      Neither Terraria nor Don’t Starve are in the automation genre, though! I found Factorio way more enjoyable than those two. Worth what I paid for it many times over. 

    • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      9 months ago

      Factorio is way different from terraria and don’t starve. They’re not even the same genere. Also if you think it’s expensive, (not flaming, genuinely asking) is your computer good enough to run cyberpunk at a reasonable graphic settings and fps? Because that games requires alot

        • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          9 months ago

          Ah didn’t know you played on the steam deck. Don’t have one myself so wouldn’t know. But all in all, Factorio is worth it at this price point. I already played 1000 hours, and there is many more to come! I think it’s my best price/hours game I own

          • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            9 months ago

            That’s what people tell me, and why I played the demo. What irks me a bit is since it is level-based, my cool automation complexes get reset/lost everytime. That’s obviously the point of the game I guess, but… I guess I expected more of a Minecraft modpack kind of gameplay.
            I guess I’ll just wait a few more months to see if I have an epiphany. It’s just so expensive in comparison…

            • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              9 months ago

              OH, ITS NOT LEVEL BASED! only the demo is, where it teaches you the different aspects of the game. Normally you play “sandbox” mode. And there you can build the biggest factory you want with no restrictions at all.

              Everything makes sense now, what you said before. If you thought it was level based

              • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                1·
                9 months ago

                But honestly if the non-level based version is also fun and has 100h+ of content, then I am actually considering getting it xD
                I really like the base game, but deleting it all the time just is so cruel. I assumed the sandbox mode is like Minecraft Creative mode.

                • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Yeah I don’t think the sandbox version works in the demo. But sandbox isn’t Minecraft creative, more like survival Minecraft. Also I think I misremembered, it might be called Freeplay and not sandbox, my bad.

                  But yeah, there is easily +100 hours, in the vanilla game. Not sure if mods works on the steam deck, but mods adds 1000 hours of ekstra gameplay! One of my favorite memories, is playing a death world with a friend. Its normal Freeplay, with biters turned up , so they’re more aggressive. That’s something you should try when you get comfortable with the base game, and if you like playing with biters!

      • Anti-Antidote@lemmy.zip
        22·
        9 months ago

        Pretentiousness? Or developers charging a fair price for over a decade of development work, the quality of which makes Bethesda and Ubisoft seethe with rage?

        • Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org
          1·
          9 months ago

          I have no problem with them standing by that it doesn’t need any sales and is already a reasonable price. But saying it’s out of respect for those that already bought it is just a bs excuse.

      • raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        I appreciate when a company chooses to not manipulate its customers with sales pricing and instead has a fixed price.