Game Message January 7, 2024, 2:32 pm
A new and expanded project feature has been added to the Factorio Strategy, which should please hardcore factory building fans. Interestingly, the creators have refrained from implementing this tool for years, considering it “too hardcore”.
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The beloved strategy game Factorio recently received an interesting feature that the game’s most passionate fans have been asking for for many years and which the creators themselves deemed “too hardcore”.
We are talking about the so-called parameterized projects, that is, a configurable tool that allows the player to define certain parameters in the interface window that allow him to influence the shape of a series of structures. So, for example, you can efficiently and quickly create many desired layouts in the game, while maintaining customization options.
One of the interfaces for the new feature.Wube Software.
Parameterized blueprints do not have a specific item configuration, but instead act as a general formula for which players can specify a set of preset parameters. Whenever a player decides to use a certain saved plan, they will be presented with a window with details to fill out.
A window where we provide detailed parameters for a specific instance of the project.
Importantly, the option also allows you to assign some parameters as dependent on others, meaning that you do not need to implement them separately if some of them have already been defined and related. For example, you can set that the second numeric parameter in a given structure will always double the value of the first, so that only one of the fields needs to be filled in during construction.
A window where we can determine the dependency of parameters on each other.
Let’s go back to the beginning, why did the creators of Factorio decide to include such an advanced tool in the game after so many years? As the game’s lead designer, Michal “kovarex” Kovařík, claims, the reason for changing the decision is that experience has taught developers over the years that “you shouldn’t underestimate gamers” who love building simulators.
That the tool recently added to Factorio is primarily intended for “hardcore” gamers is demonstrated by the fact that kovarex compares it to programming.
Factorio has been compared to programming many times, and that’s about it [narzędzie – dop. red.] this is just another part of this analogy.
2024-01-07 13:32:00
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