I'm surprised. I was under the impression that Factorio was CPU-bound. The Switch isn't exactly a powerhouse. For comparison, Civilization VI on the Switch was underwhelming. Playable, but taking a turn late game often meant over a minute on the CPU taking their turns.
Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
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#12Somewhat related but I got a steam deck and decided against getting this game because from some discussions I read it’s too hard to play without a mouse and keyboard. Anybody has tried though?
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#13Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!
RIP in peace lake_vincent
How many people must we lose before the government does something??
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#14I'm surprised. I was under the impression that Factorio was CPU-bound. The Switch isn't exactly a powerhouse. For comparison, Civilization VI on the Switch was underwhelming. Playable, but taking a turn late game often meant over a minute on the CPU taking their turns.
I've played Factorio at 1080p with integrated graphics on a dual-core Skylake chip. I think the Nvidia Tegra will be able to handle this just fine.
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#15I'm surprised. I was under the impression that Factorio was CPU-bound. The Switch isn't exactly a powerhouse. For comparison, Civilization VI on the Switch was underwhelming. Playable, but taking a turn late game often meant over a minute on the CPU taking their turns.
Very large bases will eventually hit CPU bounds, but a base achieving the normal gameplay objective ("launch a rocket") should be easily simulated at 60hz.
Indeed, the linked blog post addresses performance expectations.
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#16Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!
Same, and I have a Steam Deck arriving today…
Also, never play Dyson Sphere Project. It ruined me worse than Factorio. Jokes aside, it’s a fantastically beautiful and well done game.
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#17Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!
This is tragic news. In the future they will point to this as the pivotal moment that lead to the downfall of my career, relationships, financial security, etc.
Is there a 12 step program for infrastructure maintenance survival horror games?
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#18Somewhat related but I got a steam deck and decided against getting this game because from some discussions I read it’s too hard to play without a mouse and keyboard. Anybody has tried though?
From the developer's notes, it looks like they took some time to design the UX to better support controllers with this port.
From what I read elsewhere, steam deck support was much more limited - meaning the experience should be very different on Switch vs. steam deck.
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#19I'm surprised. I was under the impression that Factorio was CPU-bound. The Switch isn't exactly a powerhouse. For comparison, Civilization VI on the Switch was underwhelming. Playable, but taking a turn late game often meant over a minute on the CPU taking their turns.
The Factorio developer spent the last seven or eight years optimizing their game. The Civilization VI developers did not.
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#20I have a 10 year old i5 and it struggles with my 10,000 SPM mega base. So I don’t think a switch is a device for building mega bases (Factorio points this out themselves).