Friday Facts #187 - Space science & 0.15 graphics

[Zool]

At the beginning of this year, I discovered this FFF series but knew nothing about Factorio, but I found it quite interesting and continued reading. After a few dozen entries I wanted to try the game myself and played through the demo missions. After that, I had a better understanding of what the game actually was about and was even more excited to continue reading, so I read a few FFF every once in a while for the last couple of months. Of course I had very few idea of everything addressed in the blogs, but still they all were quite interesting to read. Also it was quite fun to see time progress, and I must say: I am very impressed that you managed to write a FFF each and every week. We'll done!
So thanks for your efforts, you definitely taught me a lot, even though I don't even own Factorio. I'm sure I'll get to one day and laugh about all the things I know from reading FFFs. Keep them going, I'll look forward to them each and every week!

I found this game like 3 years ago by watching various lets plays on my ipad while being in hospital - and it ended up being the main rason to get out of hospital as fast as possible ^^ And I didn't regret it for sure ... now I have easily over 1000 hours played in here, and still enjoy it - its definately one of the best values I ever got from a video game - BUY IT =D

[Tricorius]

Wow.. that disciplin not to buy the game...

Yeah, I hear you. I bought the game after playing the demo for 5 minutes.


PS: I LOVE the new night vision. It is perfectly usable and non intrusive. Thank you devs for listening to the feedback!

New night vision is so nice that it could enable itself slightly earlier

Agreed. I actually leave it in my armor now. It's *that* good. (And I'm lazy.)

[Cellidor]

Regarding icon changes and updates, I've always wondered when there'll be a change for the icon for the "discharge defense". It looks very strange and out of place seeing this flat 2-D picture of a lighting bolt when everything else has some kind of fancy 3-D or depth-filled picture. At least, that's what I've always thought.