dlc news?

[Joãozinho]

anyone has new news?

[Chindraba]

None since Sept., where it was estimated to be not less than a year away.

[Shadowreaper]

Doubt we'll be getting any news until later this year

[chairman_mentos]

Why even make dlc, they are already crazy rich

[Hedning]

引用自 chairman_mentos：

Why even make dlc, they are already crazy rich

Very few rich people are satisfied with their wealth. A dlc is going to sell regardless of how much effort they put in. Too easy money to skip.

I'm way more worried about the quality and fun factor of the dlc than that it will be released at all.

[Galileus]

引用自 Hedning：

Very few rich people are satisfied with their wealth. A dlc is going to sell regardless of how much effort they put in. Too easy money to skip.

I'm way more worried about the quality and fun factor of the dlc than that it will be released at all.

Why are we having these insane takes again? Why the bad faith at all?

Because it is rather... suspicious... to first say they could just push out any old crap and it would sell, and then say you are worried because they did not do that?

Oh, they would sell even if it was a quick fire cash-grab! They never did that! WORRIESOME!

[Joãozinho]

thanks

[Hedning]

引用自 Somewhat Frontal Admiral：

it is rather... suspicious... to first say they could just push out any old crap and it would sell, and then say you are worried because they did not do that?

Oh, they would sell even if it was a quick fire cash-grab! They never did that! WORRIESOME!

Do you even know how time works? I am worried about a thing they may do in the future, not something they didn't do in the past.

[GreenBeanN1]

I have no news but I think it will be releaed somewhere around September 2024.

By then I have the ultimate modded 1.1 vanilla based experience. I am in my second playthrough now and working on a couple of new ideas and probably a couple of new ideas that come up. It should be done December 2023. Directly after that I start a new game which will be done in September 2024.

Sounds like a roadmap to me.

[Vyndicu]

引用自 Sophie_das_leis：

thanks

Some image teasing the new DLC contents in the first half.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-372

So far this is the only minor tease of gameplay that I am aware of and news that it would take at least another year if not more to release the expansion.

引用自 Kovarex：

That's nice, but what about the expansion?! kovarex
It wouldn't be fair to not address the elephant in the room, which is the progress on the expansion. We have been working hard on it and have a lot of progress, but still haven't shared any specifics for the strategic reasons mentioned previously.

In the FFF-367 we specified that we are in Step 4, and now we can say, that we are somewhere deep in Step 5. First, I had a playthrough from start to finish, where we had to assemble and fix systems on the go. It was very rough and long, partially because I had to repeatedly update the factory as we implemented changes.

But the result was the game being playable from start to finish. Having a "skeleton" of the playthrough was critical for managing the team, as people could more efficiently split their effort into more independent sections of the game.

The second playthrough was a week-long office LAN-party in July 2022, where 12 people spent 5 full days racing to finish the game before the end of the week. Some of us took family vacations because of this, so we tried to get the most out of it. You can imagine how intense it was, and how destroyed we were at the end. But it was a great experience, and playing one playthough in one continuous session, gave us an accurate feeling of the overall pacing. The key takeaway was that the game was too long, and some parts were too boring or repetitive.

Since then, we mainly focused on fixing the problems identified. Also, a lot of the things we used in the playthrough technically work, but its look and feel is very simplified as it is a prototype. Imagine an inserter prototype which moves things from A to B, but it is a grey square and doesn't swing its arm. This is the state of a lot things at the moment.

The reason why we still don't share specific details is, that we have to sadly inform you, that it still won't be ready sooner than in a year from now. Once the estimates get reasonably close, we will start dropping some FFFs.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370


Now you are all up to speed on the expansion news.

[shadain597]

The second playthrough was a week-long office LAN-party in July 2022, where 12 people spent 5 full days racing to finish the game before the end of the week. Some of us took family vacations because of this, so we tried to get the most out of it. You can imagine how intense it was, and how destroyed we were at the end. But it was a great experience, and playing one playthough in one continuous session, gave us an accurate feeling of the overall pacing. The key takeaway was that the game was too long, and some parts were too boring or repetitive.

This is why I doubt that it'll take them into late 2024 (or longer) to release it. They already had a playable prototype and decided that it actually needed to be trimmed down/streamlined. I'm sure that process takes time, and they still need to put in art assets, optimize, and squash a lot of bugs, but I really doubt that it will take basically 2 years to get it to a marketable state. Honestly, I bet they're pushing to roll it out before the end of the year, but don't want to publicly commit to such a deadline at this time.

[Serathis]

They have been working on the game for free. That is not a sustainable revenue model. I have no idea how many sales they get, the game has been out for a while.

[Hedning]

引用自 Serathis：

They have been working on the game for free.

They have never worked for free. Where's your evidence of any unpaid workday? More likely they have done the opposite; given themselves paid vacations. Nothing wrong with that of course, but don't pretend they have been working for free.

[GAMING_Alligator]

引用自 Serathis：

They have been working on the game for free

That's really not how businesses work.

[brian_va]

引用自 Serathis：

They have been working on the game for free. That is not a sustainable revenue model. I have no idea how many sales they get, the game has been out for a while.

they've sold a few; https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-372

new sales fund new development, i would doubt they are dipping significantly into savings to finish the dlc.

[Blake]

It will be out this Thursday