Re:What is interesting about Factorio
by pmoriarty on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:39PM
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"the UX has incredible amounts of well-thought out polish"
I agree so much with this. The UX seems so incredibly well thought out.. much more than virtually any game I've ever played.
There are some wrinkles and annoyances here and there, but virtually everything I've had complaints about while playing the vanilla game I found mods for later that solved it.
The only major complaint I still have about the UX of the game is the circuit network and combinators, which are a very clunky attempt at visual programming that don't provide enough feedback to keep from descending in to spaghetti code when doing something of even moderate complexity, and debugging these things is an absolute nightmare.
I agree so much with this. The UX seems so incredibly well thought out.. much more than virtually any game I've ever played.
There are some wrinkles and annoyances here and there, but virtually everything I've had complaints about while playing the vanilla game I found mods for later that solved it.
The only major complaint I still have about the UX of the game is the circuit network and combinators, which are a very clunky attempt at visual programming that don't provide enough feedback to keep from descending in to spaghetti code when doing something of even moderate complexity, and debugging these things is an absolute nightmare.