Steve Troughton-SmithPicking Factorio back up for the first time in years, in preparation for the upcoming expansion. I'd never seen the vignettes on the title screen before — what a delightful little feature!
I finally started a new playthrough of Factorio, with Space Age enabled — I think my first fresh start in maybe 6 years. I love the progressive disclosure; they don't even tell you there are other planets until you're dozens of hours into building on your first
From this point on, I have absolutely no clue how to play the game. It's all uncharted. New items, new UIs, new mechanics. I'm a little overwhelmed…
Somehow I pulled it back. Really cool that the different planets in Factorio do give you that 'challenge mode' or 'survival island' kinda feel.
…is what I thought I was about to post. Until I realized that my spaceship no longer existed, and had silently been eaten while I wasn't paying attention.
I guess now I have to slowly build and launch another from scratch 🤡
It took 20 hours of gameplay on this one barren rock to build a spaceship capable of taking me home. Multi-planet Factorio is no joke, holy shit. Really did feel like a survival island. The next time I go planet-hopping, I'll be more prepared.
The one thing you can do is remote-control your drones on other planets, so I was forced into setting up all the automation steps on the starter world so I could actually build every little thing remotely. I like how this expansion redid the tech tree
I have put 72 hours into this Factorio playthrough, and only visited one of the four additional planets. I have no idea how long a full playthrough will take me, but it's a looong game now
Michael Hanson@stroughtonsmith Just... don't go to Gleba next.