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Well... I guess I can say that I've finished Factorio now. I mean, I launched the first rocket and got the big "you won" type message. That said, I can still keep playing from there, if I want. The only research I have left (aside from the infinite improvements research you can apply to weapons and bot speed and such) is the atomic bomb, which as of now is maybe around a third of the way researched and which I don't really feel like waiting on. I think it would pretty much just be overkill at this point, anyway.
As I was playing, there were two "the game has totally changed now" type moments.
The first was when I got construction and logistics robots, because after that, I hardly ever needed to physically leave my main base, as I could just use construction robots to build everything and logistics robots to keep them supplied, especially once I realized I could use robots to place additional roboports farther out from the main base. It was pretty cool just building entire railway stops (complete with walls and turrets and radar and such) out in the relative middle of nowhere near iron, copper, stone, uranium, or oil resources, and then just watching the robots fly out to build it. More importantly, having robots and roboports severely reduced the need for so many belts everywhere (or any at all, really, though I didn't bother to redesign most of what I'd already placed in the early game just to remove the belts and such, aside from replacing all the red belts with blue belts later on... which, again, the robots did that, not me personally). Later, I could just plop down an assembler, put a requester chest and inserter next to it, and be done with it, rather than having to snake a bunch of belts all over the place to supply it.
The second was when I researched the artillery, which pretty much made the biters and spitters mostly a non-issue. I mean, sure, they got super pissed when I started shelling their nests from miles away, but I had so many laser turrets defending shit that it didn't matter.
Honestly, if I did keep playing, I'd probably just keep launching rockets to get the white space science packs, so that I could keep upgrading the range on the artillery.
But... for the most part, I guess I'm pretty much finished with Factorio. *shrug*
The music is pretty nice, if mostly on the ambient side. That is, I didn't really notice the music all the much while I was playing the game, but I do recognize all of those as I listened to bits of them in that playlist there.
Oh, and the spidertron vehicle is fucking scary.
As I was playing, there were two "the game has totally changed now" type moments.
The first was when I got construction and logistics robots, because after that, I hardly ever needed to physically leave my main base, as I could just use construction robots to build everything and logistics robots to keep them supplied, especially once I realized I could use robots to place additional roboports farther out from the main base. It was pretty cool just building entire railway stops (complete with walls and turrets and radar and such) out in the relative middle of nowhere near iron, copper, stone, uranium, or oil resources, and then just watching the robots fly out to build it. More importantly, having robots and roboports severely reduced the need for so many belts everywhere (or any at all, really, though I didn't bother to redesign most of what I'd already placed in the early game just to remove the belts and such, aside from replacing all the red belts with blue belts later on... which, again, the robots did that, not me personally). Later, I could just plop down an assembler, put a requester chest and inserter next to it, and be done with it, rather than having to snake a bunch of belts all over the place to supply it.
The second was when I researched the artillery, which pretty much made the biters and spitters mostly a non-issue. I mean, sure, they got super pissed when I started shelling their nests from miles away, but I had so many laser turrets defending shit that it didn't matter.
Honestly, if I did keep playing, I'd probably just keep launching rockets to get the white space science packs, so that I could keep upgrading the range on the artillery.
But... for the most part, I guess I'm pretty much finished with Factorio. *shrug*
The music is pretty nice, if mostly on the ambient side. That is, I didn't really notice the music all the much while I was playing the game, but I do recognize all of those as I listened to bits of them in that playlist there.
Oh, and the spidertron vehicle is fucking scary.
