The upcoming enlargement to the already unimaginable factory-building title Factorio is shaping as much as be one in all my most extremely anticipated releases of this yr. With over 1,000 hours—rookie numbers to some—within the useful resource administration meets base builder, the promise of recent content material to discover is alone sufficient to excite me. However each Friday, developer Wube Software program has been showcasing a brand new characteristic, system, or aspect that shall be current in Factorio: House Age. And at the moment, they revealed our first new risk within the enlargement: terrifying Pentapod creatures.

Within the base recreation for Factorio, the alien planet on which we construct our manufacturing unit is inhabited by a novel creature: biters. These alien creatures are the first risk all through Factorio, absorbing the air pollution your factories spit out which causes them to develop in dimension, well being, and harm. They finally evolve into one other sort as properly referred to as spitters, which permit them to shoot projectile acid at you. Apart from these two cellular creatures, they’re additionally motionless worms which might be motionless however extra resistant to wreck and likewise shoot acid projectiles at you which of them could be tedious.

The brand new creatures featured by Wube in at the moment’s Factorio Friday Information are Pentapod’s, nearly starfish-looking creatures with 5 limbs. The bottom tier of Pentapod is the Wriggler, a creature that isn’t too threatening alone, however when grouped up with many others could be fairly overwhelming. The subsequent step are are Strafers, relatively fragile creatures however with the flexibility to launch Wriggler’s at you as if they’re hominig missile. On impression, the Wriggler won’t solely hit you however start to assault you as properly. They sort of remind me of Brood Lord’s from StarCraft, which I do know is an odd comparability however hey, that is an odd creature.

Lastly, we have now the gargantuan beast highlighted within the featured picture for this text, the Stomper. The large creature is tremendous tanky and difficult, which a short-range spit assault. Nonetheless, its main assault is to stomp on you with its colossal ft, dealing splash harm. Upon defeating a Stomper, its core shell will crack open releasing a bunch of Wriggler’s that may then assault you. , sort of like these movies the place somebody squishes a spider just for a ton of child ones to swarm out. Fairly terrifying stuff throughout.

Maybe most attention-grabbing concerning the reveal is that each one of those creatures appear to be unique to the planet Gleba, one in all 4 new planets coming in Factorio: House Age. Not solely are the creatures themselves distinctive, however the setting results in some attention-grabbing methods for combating them. For instance, air pollution on Gleba works otherwise. The setting of the planet is already in CO2, so direct air pollution itself isn’t what attracts the brand new enemy. As a substitute, a fungi that that you must develop so as to progress and construct new issues on Gleba have an aroma that draws the Pentapods, inflicting them to assault and evolve very similar to the Biters. Additionally, when it comes to the terrain, it’s normally a strong technique to make use of cliffside as a form of wall when defending in opposition to Biters. However the Strafers and Stompers can each scale cliffs, making it a misplaced trigger.

The Pentapods and the distinctive challenges and even alternatives they current in Factorio: House Age could be very fascinating when you think about that that is simply one of many 4 new planets within the enlargement. Who is aware of what different challenges or creatures we are going to face on the opposite three planets. Factorio: House Age seems to be prefer it’s going to have a ton of content material for an enlargement, and I merely can’t wait to discover all the pieces new it has to supply when it releases on October 21, 2024.