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The builders at Wube Software program are lastly exhibiting off some enemies from upcoming enlargement Factorio: House Age, and I will go forward and say that they are probably the greatest alien monster designs I’ve seen in years. Radially symmetrical like starfish, the five-legged crawling Pentapods are alternately disgusting and pleasant to observe in motion.
Transferring one thing like Factorio’s already-extant Spidertrons, the pentapods have their very own gruesomely gooey ecology and magnificence of motion that makes them very disturbing to observe. There are wrigglers, smaller immature pentapods that squirm alongside the bottom at you with enamel and claws. There are Strafers, mature specimens that preserve at a distance and fireplace flying wrigglers at you. Lastly, there are Stompers, large armored mature pentapods that wish to do exactly that to you.
The Pentapods will reside on Gleba, the gooey morass planet matter first revealed a pair months in the past. In a video launched alongside the weblog put up on them, a decently well-armed engineer exhausts a small armory of bullets and rockets taking a swarm of them down.
Gleba is simply one of many 5 new planets that make up House Age, an enlargement that’ll greater than double the scale of the bottom recreation whereas rearranging its content material into an even bigger, extra spectacular multiplanetary factory-building expertise.
Wube says that the Pentapods will hunt you down not due to your air pollution—like the bottom recreation’s Biters—however as a result of the natural crops you will have to develop and harvest on Gleba are their favourite meals supply. The spores and smells of your manufacturing facility are what’s going to appeal to them. You may additionally want to gather Pentapod eggs to make useful biochambers, a sort of bioreactor for producing Gleba’s industrial merchandise.
Factorio will even get a free 2.0 replace for all gamers alongside the discharge of the House Age enlargement. The replace will function smarter employee robots, new rails, a distant view, a brand new fluid system, and a raft of different upgrades and enhancements to the already fairly dang upgraded-and-improved Factorio.
You possibly can learn the total Gleba Pentapods weblog put up on the Factorio web site, which additionally lists the place you should purchase Factorio.
