Space Age is a mess compared to 1.1. It was released as a 'finished game' and almost 1,5 years later nothing has really improved. They are presumably working on a big update for half a year now but no progress updates whatsoever.

Vanilla 2.0 is a downgrade compared to 1.1

LizardOfOz wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 5:51 pm I wish the official win condition was far enough away and big enough to warrant building a "proper base".

And I think this is a very valid wish.

It will make the game better and I hope this gets considered for 2.1.

No.

Think I can agree, Space Age needs a lot more work imo. For me personally it was a missbuy. Removal of expensive recipes (higher difficulty) and fluid simulation don't weigh up to the new content for me.

I wonder actually how the sales are doing, somehow I have a feeling it didnt get better with SA ...

they workin on 2.1 now, about time

so prolly less regular patches from now on

/EDIT After more testing it turns out that sometimes, for a unknown reason, the Steam Deck, running in Desktop mode, gets into a state where performance is severely hindered (also other games). Restarting the system restores performance to normal, Factorio runs fine again. This must be a bug in the ...

Cool idea tbh

AssaultRaven wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 12:56 am ... it's that the nature of the challenge immediately prompts me to ask, "wait, why can't I just...?", and the game not having a good enough answer, which is one of the many ways that a video game can feel "gamey" in a negative sense ...

This

Having read a bit through the different proposals I can say that in my opinion the only one that makes sense so far is letting machines use any quality that is at least good enough as ingredient. Downgrading quality just doesnt make any sense why would you want to do that. In reality a better ...

it's been almost a year, maybe FFF this or next week?

i think it's cool if you CANNOT make lamps in the EMP. Assembling machine ftw.

The randomness factor of quality was one of the system's core properties as pointed out by Kovarex, the lead dev. I don't see how this will be removed from the system. I do think tho that big improvements can be made in terms of mainly balance.

TBH the Marathon and DW Marathon presets make no sense in 2.0 or SA because they just axed the expensive recipes without any retuning.

Deathworld Marathon is just a x4 research cost multiplier with easier enemies than Deathworld. Unlike in 1.1 where it was true hell with the expensive recipes on top.

@OP

Lmao, if that upsets you wait till you find out about the removal of the entire 1.1 fluid mechanics.

teh lamp can stay out of magnetic palnt

It's just fun and completely fine if there are randomly things that behave different in the game. Maybe this is one of them, maybe not. The lamp produces fine in assembling machines so make em there!

Yeah agree, they might as well have removed all those extra presets in Space Age.

And yeah, I really miss the expensive recipes, made my own mod for that but it's not the same.

I'm a proponent of per-game shortcut behavior because it just blows imo that you join one random multiplayer game and have all the buttons unlocked on all your saves, crap that you have no idea what it is because you never researched it yourself. When I was a new player I had to figure out how to ...