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Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age. Mp4 playback not supported on your device. (Click here for static image version) 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooh, very interesting. Was honestly expecting something completely different so they weren't stepping on modder's toes.

Be interesting to see how it being a "space exploration lite" works out, especially with them able to make changes to the game itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In retrospect, when they hired space ex modder, people that speculated it was because they were going to go to space were right.

There is going to probably be different kind of alien life on each planet judging by artwork and the blog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if they're going to do an EA cycle for the expansion at all.