Since Factorio has a demo, the rational of "try before you buy" doesn't apply in the same way, which makes pirating the game beforehand a bit morally dubious. Had there been no demo, then pirating it to check it would've been perfectly valid (in my eyes) since one never knows when a game i...

If the spawners are not in the trees and you have enough free space around, you can use a car to do a sort of drive by shooting of the spawners with your shotgun. Just go around in circles and at the point nearest to the spawners fire the shotgun at them. Focus on the spawners as much as possible an...

slpwnd wrote:Factorio will not be a "Steam only game". We take steam as a fantastic distribution platform, but the game must be buyable / downloadable / playable without it.

That's very good to know!

I hope Factorio never becomes a Steam only game: I only ever had troubles with Steam and see no benefit at all for me as a customer from having Steam in a game, only a decrease in product usability and increase in network related failure situations. There are other indie games out there which I woul...