It does, but it's P2P. 8+ players can mean disconnects and weird things, i think. Server ack is coming somewhen along the line.
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Factorio | STEAMPOWERED Industrial Optimization
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It does, but it's P2P. 8+ players can mean disconnects and weird things, i think. Server ack is coming somewhen along the line.
Started my first freeform game after the tutorials. Three hours just evaporated. Went from nothing to starting to work on plastics. It feels like I've done so much, but then I look at the tech tree and a whole universe of possibilities is still there. This game could be everything.
CarbonFire
Member
Two questions, now that I'm deep into my first real run.
How do I craft things that take water as an ingredient, like Concrete?
And maybe I got super lucky with my placement, but am I supposed to be attacked by the local lifeforms at some point? I kinda got bored after setting up my facilities and a couple of massive defense perimeters, only to have nothing ever show up. Finally started roving around using turrets as offensive weapons to lock down and destroy all the nearby biter/spitter hives. Am I just eventually going to get steamrolled when the local wildlife "techs up" or something?
My automation is a convoluted mess of conveyer belts and robot arms, but damn if it isn't satisfying watching it all actually work.
How do I craft things that take water as an ingredient, like Concrete?
And maybe I got super lucky with my placement, but am I supposed to be attacked by the local lifeforms at some point? I kinda got bored after setting up my facilities and a couple of massive defense perimeters, only to have nothing ever show up. Finally started roving around using turrets as offensive weapons to lock down and destroy all the nearby biter/spitter hives. Am I just eventually going to get steamrolled when the local wildlife "techs up" or something?
My automation is a convoluted mess of conveyer belts and robot arms, but damn if it isn't satisfying watching it all actually work.
SleepMachine
Neo Member
Bring a water pipe into an assembly machine, i think.
You'll get attacked when lifeforms come into contact with your polluted area. (Red tinted area on the map)
CarbonFire
Member
Tried that, water pipes didn't seem like they would connect up to the assembly machine. And the only thing that did seem to have a hookup was the chemical plant, which didn't seem to have concrete as a build option.
Huh, maybe I need to pollute more. Or maybe I need to change the settings from the default medium ones on my next playthrough.
Do you have to research concrete? It's been a while but I'm pretty sure anything which requires liquids to build should be built in a chemical plant, and you just pipe it into the input valves on the left of it.
Edit: Scratch that. When I played it last year concrete hadn't been added, but I just loaded up my old save and tested it out, and once you set an assembly machine to build concrete it gets an input valve. Hover your mouse over it and you'll see a blue arrow going into it, this is where you have to pipe your water in (or you can rotate it around until the arrow comes in from the most suitable direction.)
Assembly machine will sprout a in-pipe after you select a recipe with a liquid ingredient. Then you can rotate it with R.
Can creatures "spawn" randomly in you base?
I have almost walled in my entire base but creatures show up periodically in the middle of the base. Ev3n if they come from the outside, why are they bypassing a lot of structures to make it into the base and be killed by a turret?
I have almost walled in my entire base but creatures show up periodically in the middle of the base. Ev3n if they come from the outside, why are they bypassing a lot of structures to make it into the base and be killed by a turret?
CarbonFire
Member
Thanks for the help. That's pretty unintuitive, hope they fix that in future revisions.
And Factorio is up to 75k on Steam, though it's dropped a few spots to the flavors of the week. It's pretty great, hope the hype train keeps rolling.
Pre-steam sales were already pretty good afaik, 250k or so?
More_Badass
Member
Wow, really? SuperHOT, Factorio, Stardew, all selling almost or more than 100k copies in a few days is really impressive
I speel my dreenk
Member
That number probably includes a bunch of early adopters as well though, since if you purchased it from their site before the Steam launch, you still got a Steam key. It's really good though, and I'm glad it's doing so well regardless - that user rating is bananas!
Consider that all previous purchasers of Factorio got a steam key, and since steamspy tracks owners, not sales, a good chunk are probably those.
Makes sense..they cited 100k sales from their website prior to launching on steam. And steamspy has the game sitting at 75k...wonder how many of those are new buyers?
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
Count me as a new buyer. I bought it on a whim after seeing it on the top sellers list and watching the preview trailer.
This game is amazing. It's kept me up an hour past my bedtime two nights in a row and I am exhausted.
This game is amazing. It's kept me up an hour past my bedtime two nights in a row and I am exhausted.
100k is way more than I'd have thought they'd sold with basically zero visibility, even the GAF thread was dead.
It's still in the Steam top 10 sellers list so I'm pretty sure they're making nice bank on it at the moment.
jellies_two
Member
Its a major time black hole. Don't get into this if you have important shit to do.
I've found it critical to learn how to split stuff onto both sides of a belt. Since two types of inserters can only reach two belts, it really helps with layout to have parallel streams of resources, because then two inserters (long and short) can access 4 ingredients over two belts.
I wasted time with the naive approach of mixing ingredients on a single belt, but the problem with that is if stuff backs up, production stops because an inserter can't reach an item.
The other challenge is balancing production. When you are learning stuff you never anticipate just how much production of something is needed and then half or more of your infrastructure lays idle or is even totally starved.
I play on OSX both laptop and desktop and it isn't very cpu or graphics intensive.
I've found it critical to learn how to split stuff onto both sides of a belt. Since two types of inserters can only reach two belts, it really helps with layout to have parallel streams of resources, because then two inserters (long and short) can access 4 ingredients over two belts.
I wasted time with the naive approach of mixing ingredients on a single belt, but the problem with that is if stuff backs up, production stops because an inserter can't reach an item.
The other challenge is balancing production. When you are learning stuff you never anticipate just how much production of something is needed and then half or more of your infrastructure lays idle or is even totally starved.
I play on OSX both laptop and desktop and it isn't very cpu or graphics intensive.
Whoa.
More_Badass
Member
Yeah, but then you can build production lines that build production lines for you
Under the hood, it's a pretty gamey game - unless you get into the fully insane mods, like NARM or Bob's, which lead to things like 28-step crafting chains.
If you're used to the concept, you'll automate your annoyances away pretty fast.
Devs posted a blog:
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-128
Since people were talking about sales and early adopters and whatnot, one of the more interesting points is that the game has sold more on Steam in the past week than it did for all of 2015 on their website.
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-128
Since people were talking about sales and early adopters and whatnot, one of the more interesting points is that the game has sold more on Steam in the past week than it did for all of 2015 on their website.
Why mate? What is scaring you?
I speel my dreenk
Member
Awesome news. It's interesting to see the Steamspy numbers for Factorio versus Devil Daggers (two of the games I've been playing a good bit of), as I would've expected numbers to be reversed given Devil Daggers' seemingly greater recent exposure and far lower price point. Obviously, though, there's a large market for something that seems as daunting yet complex and interesting as Factorio, even compared to something simple and straightforward as Devil Daggers. Not that they're necessarily directly comparable of course, just generally speaking.
Based on archive.org saved pages they had sold 63000 copies to date 2nd of Jan 2015 and 104000 on 3rd of Dec, so at least 40000 people have bought it on Steam. A well deserved number for this addictive game.
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Deleted member 125677
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Will buy! Thanks for the thread Toma 
Steamspy has it at ~85k sold on Steam so far.
But some of those "sold" will be from people who have activated their original site purchase in Steam.
I literally just spent 8 hours on I think mission 3? The one where you come across a broken base. I was doing ok until the part where
. That took a long while. Because I wasn't anticipating that, I'd done lots of little production lines for different things to shore up the base, and then that all needed redoing.
was fun in a very long-winded, roundabout way.
btw, is there a way to get a train to go back and forth along a single track? I got it to go one way to a station, but on the return leg the engine kept saying 'no path' in red text. I wondered if it didn't want to push, so I put an engine on the other end too but that didn't help.
you have to craft a ton of stuff to put in your car
was fun in a very long-winded, roundabout way.
btw, is there a way to get a train to go back and forth along a single track? I got it to go one way to a station, but on the return leg the engine kept saying 'no path' in red text. I wondered if it didn't want to push, so I put an engine on the other end too but that didn't help.
After being completely overwhelmed on my first attempt, I proceeded to watch 3-4 hours of Youtube videos to give myself an idea of build order etc. Did not help one bit when I actually started. I couldn't remember the intricacies of the designs used and ended up having to tear down most of my factory because it wasn't going to work.
Learned a lot though, got to the stage where am producing a range of components. I'm not sure if I want to keep going on this map, I think I wasted far too much time and would be better restarting and try not to repeat the same mistakes.
Another good thing to do early on is feed your coal mines into each other (obviously in multiples of 2). That way they keep each other fueled and you just have to go collect the excess they producem
Learned a lot though, got to the stage where am producing a range of components. I'm not sure if I want to keep going on this map, I think I wasted far too much time and would be better restarting and try not to repeat the same mistakes.
Another good thing to do early on is feed your coal mines into each other (obviously in multiples of 2). That way they keep each other fueled and you just have to go collect the excess they producem
Complex Shadow
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what if i used it on my surface with a pen. then would it work? *he said knowing full well it wouldn't*
also. i wasn't sure about this game so i decided to see if there are any YT vids about it, and although i am not a "huge fan" for nerd³ he did sell me on this game. it looks super complicated but simple at the same time....i don't even know how.
I did the tutorial the went straight to sandbox. Then immediately went to YouTube and watched hours of tutorials lol
It'll work but it will be slow and frustrating due to the lack of shortcuts. The game has a tonne of KB+M shortcuts you won't be able to use and methods like running and building at the same time to space out power poles perfectly will probably be impossible too.
Campaign is training wheels.
Sandbox is main.
Heavily modded sandbox is the realest deal.
I was wondering about that, thanks.
The only problem with that is the mining might outpace the speed of your smelter. I don't know if that is the case.
I was playing it on my Linux Laptop with Integrated Skylake GPU.
I didn't even touch the campaign, just jumped into sandbox.
MrCompletely
Member
Campaign actually does a pretty decent job of showing you the ropes without holding your hand.
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
This game has destroyed any semblance of a good nights sleep for me. It's like Civ. Just one more assembly line to build. One more conveyor belt to place.
So tired...
I played through the campaign before doing the sandbox mode. I'm glad because it was a great introduction, but at the same time some of the equipment they handed you made things frustrating to have to build up to. Screw non-electric furnaces. It takes so long to farm up to the electric ones!
So tired...
I played through the campaign before doing the sandbox mode. I'm glad because it was a great introduction, but at the same time some of the equipment they handed you made things frustrating to have to build up to. Screw non-electric furnaces. It takes so long to farm up to the electric ones!
More_Badass
Member
Thats how I feel too, its the best game in the weird subsets of genres it touches. I mean even programming games, which this fundamentally is.. bonkers.