In its newest Friday Info weblog put up, Factorio developer Wube Software program highlighted a significant new characteristic coming to the Area Age growth: High quality. In Factorio: Area Age, each Merchandise, Entity, and Gear will now have 5 doable qualities. The qualities use acquainted names: Regular, Unusual, Uncommon, Epic, and Legendary. Every successive high quality after Regular will increase the bonus you get from the upper tier high quality. Unusual will grant a 30% bonus, Uncommon a 60% bonus, Epic a 90% bonus, and Legendary a 150% bonus.

The supposed aim of including High quality to Factorio is to stability Horizontal versus Vertical progress within the core gameplay. Within the present model, gamers have the problem of constructing extra mining outposts and manufacturing amenities—which is the Horizontal progress. However, additionally, have to contemplate bettering the effectivity of present amenities with higher machines, smelters, modules, and extra, which is the Vertical progress. The newly added High quality to all Gadgets, Entities, and Gear will add one other balancing act to each aspects of gameplay.

Alongside the bonus, higher-quality Entities will even have extra well being and distinctive bonuses primarily based on their sort. For instance, higher-quality electrical poles could have a bigger provide space and wire attain. Inserters will transfer sooner with greater qualities. Turrets and weapons could have an elevated vary, and ammo will deal extra injury. For power manufacturing like photo voltaic panels, greater high quality panels will produce extra power.

Not all qualities are created equally

Wube Software program rapidly determined that merely including a ton of higher-tier recipes to greater qualities was not including a lot to the gameplay of Factorio: Area Age. So, as an alternative, they determined to create a brand new sort of module: High quality modules. The brand new high quality modules have a particular impact which will increase the likelihood of getting greater high quality outcomes when crafting in a machine.

Initially, a primary high quality module 1 provides a 1% probability to extend the standard of things crafted from the machine it’s put in. However when you insert extra modules and enhance the standard of the machine and the modules, the prospect will increase additional.

With the brand new deal with High quality, loads of ineffective frequent objects may very well be made within the means of making an attempt to get the qualities you need. So a brand new machine can also be coming: the Recycler. With this new machine, you possibly can break down the objects you not need and get one thing again. By default, you’ll get 25% of your unique components again. Due to this fact, in typical Factorio trend, you possibly can create a loop of making an attempt to create higher-quality objects whereas routinely breaking down and reusing the components from lesser-quality outputs.

Actually, I feel it is a nice new characteristic. The one fear I might consider, it seems Wube Software program did too, therefore the addition of the Recycler. That is solely the second weblog put up about Factorio: Area Age and I’m already excited for the growth. This characteristic alone already provides a ton of content material to Factorio which is an efficient transfer.

Factorio: Area Age doesn’t but have a launch date, however Wube Software program is aiming for a 2024 launch.