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Factorio: Space Age gets final trailer ahead of release

Free update and DLC incoming

Marco Wutz

Wube Software

Factorio is getting a substantial free update as well as the paid Space Age DLC on October 21, 2024, and a final trailer released earlier today provides players with a first taste of what awaits.

The Space Age DLC adds a ton of new content to the game, allowing players to continue their campaigns at the point they’ve previously ended – after building a rocket and making it to space. Players will be able to construct giant space platforms, which are used to transport resources between planets. These will be self-sufficient thanks to their ability to shoot down asteroids that threaten to ram them and use their chunks to produce fuel and ammunition.

Speaking of other planets: Players will be able to visit the worlds of Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba, and Aquilo, all of which provide unique resources, challenges, and technologies.

Other goodies, such as the ability to construct elevated railways to expand your train network over any obstacles and a quality tier system for items, will come to the game for everyone as part of the free update accompanying the DLC.

These elements will already provide enough reason for a new playthrough on their own – the quality tiers alone are a game-changer, allowing you to create legendary machines that work faster and more efficiently than their more common counterparts.

Factorio: Space Age will be out on October 21, 2024, on PC.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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