Played the heck out of this a few years ago until I found the mother of all automation scripts...which took all the fun out of it.
Bitburner, programming-based incremental game
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Re: Bitburner, programming-based incremental game
#12Played the heck out of this a few years ago until I found the mother of all automation scripts...which took all the fun out of it.
oog -- I do programming for work, don't really want to delve deep into it in a game ;-(
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#13Woah! I loved this game on Steam. If anyone likes factory games (Satisfactory or Factorio) and programming this is a must try. Also got a bit of idle game in the mix. Surprisingly immersive too for a mostly text game.
Yep, the game has a fun offline idle mechanic as well as just leaving it running. However you should rarely need idle, if ever.
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#14Played the heck out of this a few years ago until I found the mother of all automation scripts...which took all the fun out of it.
There’s probably some new mechanics in there since years ago which would give some more fun.
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#15Remember playing it for 20ish hours 3 years ago. Is there enough new changes to do another run?
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#16Such a good game, I have 1500 hours. It led me to make a benchmark on how well AI can orchestrate other AIs playing it. pretty funny to watch.
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#17The only game I've ever hit all achievements in! Very fun though I felt an internal pressure to move quickly, similar to the feeling I get when my factorio base starts getting big.
Yep. It’s like Act 3 of Baldurs Gate 3, you feel the pressure from the world around you to go fast even though you could take as long as you want
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#18Woah! I loved this game on Steam. If anyone likes factory games (Satisfactory or Factorio) and programming this is a must try. Also got a bit of idle game in the mix. Surprisingly immersive too for a mostly text game.
I see a lot of praise heaped on Factorio but I was underwhelmed when I played it, the game doesn't really capture what makes industrial engineering interesting for me, it seems more like software engineering wearing the face of traditional mech/chem/ind engineering. The way pollution is handled is also kind of insane (red overlay makes nodes mad now use gun kill...) and reflects more of the creator of the game and not any kind of objective reality for engineering.
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#19Would be a lot better from every possible angle (immersion, depth, replayability) if it was sandbox multiplayer. Otherwise, I'd rather play TIS-100.
Re: Bitburner, programming-based incremental game
#20Woah! I loved this game on Steam. If anyone likes factory games (Satisfactory or Factorio) and programming this is a must try. Also got a bit of idle game in the mix. Surprisingly immersive too for a mostly text game.
I see a lot of praise heaped on Factorio but I was underwhelmed when I played it, the game doesn't really capture what makes industrial engineering interesting for me, it seems more like software engineering wearing the face of traditional mech/chem/ind engineering. The way pollution is handled is also kind of insane (red overlay makes nodes mad now use gun kill...) and reflects more of the creator of the game and no…
May I ask how far you got? It's not a good representation of industrial engineering, for sure, but I do like the actual logistics management and "how do I deal with my technical debt" later in the game. I think most of this only really gets interesting once you use trains everywhere and build everything with bots.