worth playing in Early Access?

[snickii]

Bought it a year ago and never played because normally I wait for Release.
Is this good playable in Early Access?

yeah I could test it by myself but if I play some hours and then I have a annoying bug..

[Fenix]

Well if you don’t like minor bugs, then you might wanna wait… it might hit release is the next year or 5… hard to say.

The bugs that are in the game minor. I think… except multiplayer… if you wanna play with others… stay away.

[Phoenix Cat]

No, it's a great game right now. Will get alot of hours of enjoyment out of it. I've had no issues. Got over 200+ hours in game.

[L3wt]

Well they changed engines I think and most of the distant animations of the factories seem pretty janky now compared to how smooth they were before but aside from that it's pretty darn good.

Although I cannot seem to start the game anymore under Win 11.

[El Presidente]

It is light years better than other Early Access games. It is gorgeous. It is already way better than your average released game! Play it. You will probably decide it is one of the best games you ever played!

[Stress Tensor]

Yes, I have around 2000 hours in the game going back to Update 5, including lots of time in Update 8. I personally have never experienced any serious bugs that ruin the experience for me. And over all that time, I can count the number of crashes that I have had on one hand.

Unless you want to wait for the "story" (to be released in 1.0), I would go ahead and start playing now. You probably will want to re-do your factories once you get experience in the game anyway, so may as well get that experience now.

[Jonathan]

I have 100 hours in one play through (three years ago) and I can still visit that map with no bugs. I have 50 recent hours in multiplayer with my three boys and there are some bugs but still very enjoyable. One of the greatest games I've ever played.

[Wolfgang]

Only bugs I have seen so far are visual and they are very minor (ghost items on belt). For an Early Access title this game is very solid already.

[Nohiro]

Except if they decide to change the layout of the maps and then your hundreds of hours are gone in a blip. that's why I stopped and 'il lwait the final release. it's clearly not finished, just in term of graphics there is so many broken things that it's not visually pleasing when you're let say... 40 meters up ?

[Phoenix Cat]

Originally posted by Nohiro:

Except if they decide to change the layout of the maps and then your hundreds of hours are gone in a blip. that's why I stopped and 'il lwait the final release. it's clearly not finished, just in term of graphics there is so many broken things that it's not visually pleasing when you're let say... 40 meters up ?

I have to disagree, I can see at least 100 meters on my game and looks fine. Ghosting on belts, not a big issue. I'm not even running it on ultra settings. And was you map wiped when they switched engines? Because I haven't had any problems. Been playing since update 8. The old was probably not compatible with the new.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by brnphoenix75:

Originally posted by Nohiro:

Except if they decide to change the layout of the maps and then your hundreds of hours are gone in a blip. that's why I stopped and 'il lwait the final release. it's clearly not finished, just in term of graphics there is so many broken things that it's not visually pleasing when you're let say... 40 meters up ?

I have to disagree, I can see at least 100 meters on my game and looks fine. Ghosting on belts, not a big issue. I'm not even running it on ultra settings. And was you map wiped when they switched engines? Because I haven't had any problems. Been playing since update 8. The old was probably not compatible with the new.

Playing since Update 5, nothing got erased. Foliage just respawned but nothing a chainsaw can not fix.

[Phoenix Cat]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by brnphoenix75:

I have to disagree, I can see at least 100 meters on my game and looks fine. Ghosting on belts, not a big issue. I'm not even running it on ultra settings. And was you map wiped when they switched engines? Because I haven't had any problems. Been playing since update 8. The old was probably not compatible with the new.

Playing since Update 5, nothing got erased. Foliage just respawned but nothing a chainsaw can not fix.

Ok now that makes more sense.

[Fenix]

You know what bug, got me to give up on multiplayer, was the blueprint designer not working correctly.
I make blueprint, save it… I place it it’s missing a couple belts… I clear the designer, and the very belts missing are sitting there….
Then I try to load the blueprint and the game thinks it’s larger than the designer, and won’t load….
This doesn’t happen in single player

[Jack-o-Lantern]

Originally posted by !sn1ckii! 🌞:

Bought it a year ago and never played because normally I wait for Release.
Is this good playable in Early Access?

yeah I could test it by myself but if I play some hours and then I have a annoying bug..

I'm at nearly 800 hours and haven't found any blocking bug.

Usually are minor glitch or graphical issues. Very polished even if you compare to released games.

Only thing that lack a bit is multiplayer that is playable but not yet on par.

[jamiechi]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Only bugs I have seen so far are visual and they are very minor (ghost items on belt). For an Early Access title this game is very solid already.

I agree.

I don't like the way they did the Blueprints though. Factorio did Blueprints much better.

[RISKINVERSE]

give it a spin and see what you think. It is totally playable right now.