Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you’re currently playing? Anything like Helldivers 2 or any other multiplayer games?
Mostly I play factory management style games. Top 3 being Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, and Mindustry. Though they’ve been more mental effort than Ive been able to muster recently.
Then I am also playing Last Epoch as a co-op game because it’s been a way to connect with an old friend from school (since we live in different cities it’s hard to connect in person).
So nothing too exciting or new.
Ive been tryn out the exotic industries modpack for factorio and I always forget I’m actually an idiot that has no right to play modded factorio. My spaghetti is infinite and I dont even have basic circuits yet.
I am very hyped for the new dlc that might come out this year though
Just finished Dyson (technically)! I love it so much. If anybody is interested, go in blind and figure out how everything works on your own. It was really fun going back through my old factories and seeing how shitty they were in comparison. I’ve been avoiding Factario for a long time cause I’m worried I’ll get sucked in for good.
Mindustry is one of the very few factory games I have never tried (really put the automation tag on something and I will probably buy it). It always seemed like it leaned much more into the tower defense side over the factory side.
As someone who usually plays factory games with stuff like biters turned off, do you think there is much there still?
It is definitely heavier on the tower defense side. I also usually turn biters off in Factorio, but I found that Mindustry to be well balanced between the logistics and tower defense aspects. You have to build up both constantly, unlike Factorio where you just over build defense and then wait for that to fail before thinking about it again. In Factorio, defense is a nuisance mostly, but Mindustry it’s integral to the gameplay loop. Not sure if that answers it for you. I don’t think I’d recommend it unless you wanted that aspect of the game.