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Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age.
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What is Factorio: Space Age?kovarex
Factorio: Space Age continues the player's journey after launching rockets into space. Discover new worlds with unique challenges, exploit their novel resources for advanced technological gains, and manage your fleet of interplanetary space platforms.
Vanilla Factorio ends by launching the rocket into space, so I always expected it to be quite obvious what we are going to do next.
Honestly the space platform related gameplay was actually planned a very long time ago, and we had shown a little bit in FFF-74.
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While painful, it makes sense to push cliff explosives into later game. Cliffs are completely irrelevant in the current game, as you get the tech to blow them up so soon that they don’t manage to affect your base layout.
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While painful, it makes sense to push cliff explosives into later game. Cliffs are completely irrelevant in the current game, as you get the tech to blow them up so soon that they don’t manage to affect your base layout.
Cliffs are generally pretty irrelevant even without the ability to blow them up. Just going around or using an Underground belt works.
They shape your factory though and that is probably the reason for their existence.
Not really, you ought to build a rail and it can be a pain in the ass to go around cliffs some times.
Me, who plays with cliffs turned off: Oh yea, that’ll totally suck.