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The builders at Wube Software program are lastly displaying off some enemies from upcoming growth Factorio: House Age, and I will go forward and say that they are among the best alien monster designs I’ve seen in years. Radially symmetrical like starfish, the five-legged crawling Pentapods are alternately disgusting and pleasant to look at in motion.
Shifting one thing like Factorio’s already-extant Spidertrons, the pentapods have their very own gruesomely gooey ecology and elegance of motion that makes them very disturbing to look at. There are wrigglers, smaller immature pentapods that squirm alongside the bottom at you with tooth and claws. There are Strafers, mature specimens that preserve at a distance and hearth flying wrigglers at you. Lastly, there are Stompers, big armored mature pentapods that need to do exactly that to you.
The Pentapods will dwell 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 growth that’ll greater than double the dimensions of the bottom recreation whereas rearranging its content material into a much 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 may 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 invaluable biochambers, a type of bioreactor for producing Gleba’s industrial merchandise.
Factorio may also get a free 2.0 replace for all gamers alongside the discharge of the House Age growth. The replace will characteristic 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’ll be able to learn the total Gleba Pentapods weblog put up on the Factorio web site, which additionally lists the place you should buy Factorio.