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> In the previous news about the expansion FFF-367, we declared that the content will be technically a mod taking advantage of the updated engine. What this mea
by seer 3y ago
> In the previous news about the expansion FFF-367, we declared that the content will be technically a mod taking advantage of the updated engine. What this means is that a lot of the improvements will be for all players, regardless of them having the expansion or not.
This is such an amazing way to release a second version of a game! Reminds me of libraries that publish major version updates that don’t add anything just remove deprecated stuff.
Its what real refactoring is all about - changing the platform so that the new problems are trivial to solve. Since factorio is all about refactoring, I’m so happy they took this route!
- bombcar 3y agoCities Skylines has done this with their DLC; each "major" DLC came with changes to the base game that everyone got (usually to support the DLC) and then the DLC itself added more. So if you bought the game and never bought any DLC, you have a much different game now than when you first played.