Factorio’s whopping House Age growth has been within the works for a very good few years now, and we lastly know after we’ll get our palms on it. House Age will arrive this October alongside a significant 2.0 replace for the moreish factory-automating hit, with the growth costing as a lot as the bottom recreation. It seems like there’ll be a lot to indicate for that worth, thoughts.
House Age bought a correct reveal final summer time, with builders Wube revealing its addition of 5 new planets – full with new assets and expertise to take care of – and the brand new skill to construct area platforms after the tip of the unique recreation’s ranges. These area platforms will want defending from asteroids, both by capturing them down or catching them to refine into helpful assets, with the operational platforms working to ship cargo between planets.
The brand new planets will embrace the volcanic Vulcanus, the place Tungsten permits for brand new metallurgic tech and lava can be utilized to smelt iron and copper. Fulgora, in the meantime, is a desolate planet racked by lightning storms that may be harnessed for electrical energy, particularly when used along with the brand new materials of Holmium, whereas the stays of a misplaced civilisation may be dug up and become new gadgets. There’s additionally a swampy planet, Gleba, stuffed with fruit and biochemicals, whereas the devs tease a fifth planet that “guarantees a few of the most original gameplay” amongst its darkish and chilly panorama removed from the solar.
Different additions within the growth embrace elevated prepare tracks to cross over terrain or just raise rails above one another for extra transportation, new enemies and methods to defend towards them, and high quality tiers for gadgets, entities and gear that grant numerous bonuses as you advance them throughout 5 ranges from Regular high quality as much as Legendary – whether or not that’s higher vary, sooner crafting or one thing else.
In different phrases, it seems like there’ll be lots, with Wube beforehand evaluating the scale of House Age to the unique recreation, with out taking greater than 80 hours for veteran gamers to complete. With that in thoughts, the growth’s $35 price ticket – according to the bottom recreation – appears truthful sufficient to me.
Even when that worth is a bit a lot for you when House Age arrives, you’ll have the ability to obtain Factorio’s 2.0 replace at no cost when it arrives alongside the growth. The overhaul will add numerous new options, from a brand new fluid system and distant view to enhancements to coach controls, combinators and employee robotic AI.
Each House Age and replace 2.0 will drop on October twenty first, not far off the discharge estimate Wube gave final yr. The devs say the time between from time to time will probably be spent sprucing for the launch, with sufficient time earlier than Christmas to comply with up with any essential bug fixes.
