About This Content Winter Is Here... Go deeper into the underground caverns, challenging the frozen depths as you search for new materials to advance your technology in the first expansion pack for Fortresscraft Evolved. Within the interior of this rugged and unforgiving environment you will find new ores and crystals needed to design advanced weapons, suit upgrades and energy production machines. Energy is the key to survival and ultimate victory...mastering these elements will prove essential to escaping the planet.But who said survival would be easy? Thawing the cold caverns into a livable environment has awoken a long slumbering alien menace, the Cryoplasm spores. Now hungry to feed off the new source of heat and energy they collectively creep their way toward your base, devouring any machinery in their path. Only a new grade of flame weaponry can hold off their attack, but can you develop the technology and resources in time?The Frozen Factory will add 100s of hours of expanded single and multiplayer gameplay to the FortressCraft universe and includes these new features:Go deeper into your environment than ever before, building machines to survive -300m.Create an advanced mining operation to utilize new subterranean ores and crystals.All new Cryoplasm Spore menace enhances the Tower-Defense style combat.Over 50 new machines and upgrades to research and develop.Enhance your suit to sustain severe cold, including an all-new Mark 3 Drill Gun.New ores, crystals and rocks to mine and craft dozens of new recipes from.2 new skins for your avatar, ARTHER and Spiderbot, exclusive to Frozen Factory players.Build the biggest machine yet in FortressCraft - the lava-seeking MagmaBore, nearly 80,000 cubic meters in size! a09c17d780 Title: FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory ExpansionGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:ProjectorGamesRelease Date: 11 Jul, 2016 FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion Free Download [Patch] The question with a DLC is always whether it's more of the same or not. On balance I'd say about this DLC is about half the same thing as the base game and half a much different challenge than before.FortressCraft base game is about automation if you don't want to go insane from griding but you can get by with just one line of this, one line of that. It's a very managable affair. More lines, more processing, more everything gets you to your goal faster but you don't really need it to avoid dying of boredom.Frozen Factory on the other hand requires resource gathering on such a massive scale that you need several mines for the same resource and a lot of transportation capacity.The really big change from the base game is the new threat. In the base game you get mobs attacking you from all sides, trying to kill your CPH (central base thingy). Now the thing about the CPH is that for about 90% of the game you're not going to care about it, it's important in the beginning (since it's an energy generator that bootstraps your energy economy) and in the very end (since the CPH dying means you need to start from scratch on achieving the final base game goal). If the CPH dies however and you're not doing something that absolutely requires it the most you notice about it is that torches go out (mildly annoying).With cryoplasm, the new enemy, however all that changes. Cryoplasm isn't mob based but is more like those hiveminds from the base game, it engulfs your base and makes it stop working. And unlike hivemind resin cryoplasm is really hard to stop. The stuff eats through walls and makes machines stop working (and even more annoyingly blocks lift shafts). Unlike mobs you really need to fight cryoplasm all the time, if your defenses run out of energy say hello to a mess of "ice" that needs to be cleaned up. Much more than in the base game where having a plan is advisable in Frozen Factory having a plan is crucial to achieving your goals.All that said, is this DLC worth it? Do you like the base game? Cause Frozen Factory is much the same as the base game, not perfect, sometimes a bit awkward but if you can see through full of fun and challenge.. This is a nice game! The developer did a good job and with all the periodically updates the game has a nice complexity and liberty to create anything as everything. If you enjoy games as Factorio or Space Engineering you must try this game too.Play safe! :). Yes, yes and yes. This is the big expansion I have been waiting for. It brings many interesting new machines to the game, aswell as requiring you to rethink some strategies.. Very disappointing. Should have listened to the review saying: "The content is just stretched by making the costs of items bigger than necessary."And i dont have any idea why the dev is doing this. To brag about how much playtime he added?Not that impressive if most of the time is waiting for enough resources.Some numbers (SPOILER):- For better Trencher (the huge multiblock multimachine ore extractor) drillheads you need to extract gas from the frozen caverns.- The machines you need for this task cost more than a thousand chromed and magnetic machine blocks.- Because you need almost equal amounts of these blocks, lets say we want 2.000 blocks- each block costs 5 T4 bars and an imbued machine block, so we need 10.000 T4 bars- depending on what smelting method you use a bar costs 16 or 32 units of ore, so worst case scenario you will need 320.000 units of T4 ore- the trechnerdrillhead MKI has an efficiency of 5% for T4 ores, so you need to find T4 ore veins with 6.400.000 units in them to just start extracting gases from the airbtw the "High Tech Solution", (the multiblock multimachine blastfurnace and casting basin system) is the one with the higher ore consumption, the dev thinks this is great idea, and sadly he seems to be not alone http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/254200\/discussions\/0\/360672383118313768\/. The long awaited Frozen Factory expansion adds everything you need to finish tier 4 equipment and adds an entirely new aspect of gameplay. While Tower Defense elements existed already the new enemy is a different beast.An aspect many people will be questioning is, "Is this expansion really worth more than the base game?"In my opinion, yes. The large amount of content the expansion adds is fantastic. This is coupled with the fact that I really believe that the base game is priced too cheap for what it brings. As I'm writing this review I've played the base game for over 200 hours on a $12 game. Very few, if any, games have brought me this many hours of enjoyment for so little money.. It's like Minecraft! Except instead of mining ore, you build a drill the size of your Minecraft castle to mine ore into your massive automated production lines. Then you call down orbital strikes on massive overminds to stop them from sending wave after wave of bugs at your base. Finally, pump lava from 1km underground to spray it on evil cold fungus trying to take over your base. WHICH IS JUST LIKE MINECRAFT AS FAR AS I KNOW!. We must go deeper... and bring a coat. Winters been here a long while.. I'm amazed at the sheer amount of playability this game has every time i play it.When i initially bought FortressCraft i wasn't expecting a 500+ hour game, Frozen Factory adds so much additional content both Early AND Late game. It's the kind of game that you can't clearly describe in a single review, Theres so much to it and so much satisfaction to be had.Can not recommend this enough after watching the hundreds of hours pumped into this by the 1 full time Dev and the huge amount of support it has recieved from the community.Don't be indecisive, Go for it, It's ossum.
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FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion Free Download [Patch]
Updated: Mar 24, 2020