Very good strategy sim Shapez 2 hits 1.0 release in November, including a "permanent factory" mode

Modding enactment besides connected the way

"Peerlessly satisfying," was however RPS guides exertion and self-described "Anton Ego of mill games" Ollie Toms summarised Shapez 2 backmost astatine aboriginal entree motorboat successful August 2024. Throwing caution to the winds, helium suggested that it had "turned the beatified trinity of mill games (Factorio, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program) into a beatified quartet."

To tinker with specified perfection is surely tempting the wrath of the gods, but nonetheless, developers tobspr Games person been meddling. They've conscionable announced that they anticipation to merchandise the automation strategy sim into 1.0 this November, unneurotic with a caller mode, due modding support, and Steam achievements.

To drawback you up, Shapez 2 is astir manufacturing and feeding shapes to an insatiable cosmic sinkhole. Which is perfectly nightmarish, of course, but arsenic regards the moment-to-moment, Shapez 2 is simply a laidback acquisition that abstracts distant galore of the pressures of genre kingpins similar Factorio.

Building abstraction tin beryllium limited, but buildings don't outgo resources and determination are nary outraged indigenous bug monsters to fuss about. As such, you tin propulsion up accumulation chains and region them without penalty, whether to escaped up existent property oregon dabble with caller approaches. Going by tobspr's caller Steam post, the ethereality of it each has possibly carried the crippled a small excessively acold into "pure" puzzling territory.

"The biggest ailment we get astir shapez 2 close present is the persistency of factories," they write. "Many of you noted that having to teardrop down a mill you conscionable built due to the fact that the signifier is nary longer needed could consciousness bad. It besides means that the crippled tin consciousness much similar a puzzle crippled than a factory/automation crippled astatine times - thing is inherently atrocious astir that successful the archetypal place, but we felt we are besides missing thing for the ones of you that are leaning much into the mill crippled direction."

Hence the planned caller mode (teaser WIP representation above), which is fundamentally designed to guarantee that "the factories you built successful the opening are inactive utile successful the aboriginal stages of the crippled - truthful it's up to you to determine erstwhile you privation to redesign, determination oregon widen it, if astatine all." To enactment that different way, the developers are trying to debar the contented of obsolescence. It's an absorbing wrangle for a sim astir wide production.

The developers whitethorn marque this caller crippled mode the default for caller players, but they'll lone bash that based connected playtesting and the existing mode volition stay disposable arsenic a "classic" option.

As for modding support, they're aiming to integrate mod.io straight into the game, truthful that you tin entree mods from wrong Shapez 2 utilizing a browser. "I cognize that immoderate of you highly similar steam workshop, but the main contented for america is cross-platform compatibility," the devs comment. "If we ever would merchandise shapez 2 connected GOG for example, it would mean that that mentation wouldn't enactment mods for example."

Last but not least, they person immoderate provisional plans for savegame compatibility arsenic and erstwhile each of the supra is introduced. Older "classic" mode saves volition apt not beryllium compatible with 1.0, but determination volition beryllium a abstracted Steam subdivision wherever you tin transportation connected playing those saves, the drawback being that you won't get Steam achievements oregon beryllium capable to usage mods portion playing connected this older branch. Blueprints volition stay compatible betwixt modes.

Again, look retired for each of that successful November. Unless there's a bottleneck successful production, anyway. "We anticipation we tin get everything done successful clip truthful we tin merchandise it successful November, but astatine this constituent we person nary thought if we'll really marque it successful time," the devs hedge. "So delight don't beryllium huffy successful lawsuit we don't."

Will that beryllium reassurance capable for our guides exertion Antoms Egollie, the cutthroat connoisseur of conveyer belts? Playing the analogy out, I truly anticipation that the Shapez 2 developers are secretly rats, and that Ollie's archetypal 5 minutes with the 1.0 mentation volition trigger a flashback to the precise archetypal clip his mum treated him to a nourishing vessel of gears.