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Greetings,

I am at the Blue Science Pack stage of the game and have noticed that the enemies are very aggressive; doing severe damage to my defenses and walls. I was just curious, do enemies scale in difficulty as you progress thru the tech tree?

Have a look at https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... le=Enemies - There is a section at the bottom about evolution that should answer most of your questions. Feel free to ask for clarification though!

starholme wrote:Have a look at https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... le=Enemies - There is a section at the bottom about evolution that should answer most of your questions. Feel free to ask for clarification though!

Well that makes sense; my base is red with pollution

So I guess they scale more with growth rather than tech?

Zerro wrote:

starholme wrote:Have a look at https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... le=Enemies - There is a section at the bottom about evolution that should answer most of your questions. Feel free to ask for clarification though!

Well that makes sense; my base is red with pollution

So I guess they scale more with growth rather than tech?

Your tech doesn't matter for scaling. Only the evolution factor which is influenced by time, pollution and killing of spawners.

orzelek wrote:Your tech doesn't matter for scaling. Only the evolution factor which is influenced by time, pollution and killing of spawners.

Yep. For a fun, survival mode challenge, avoid upgrading to laser turrets and see how long/far you can develop using only gun turrets and ammo production.