Friday Facts #409 - Diminishing beacons | Factorio
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Hello, Today we're going to take a look at a feature some of us have dreamt of changing for years now - the beacon transmission. The main purpose of beacons is to allow massively increasing your production in the late game while being more than just a module or a faster machine. To make use of beacons you need to adjust your building layout for them. Beacons succeed in this role, but...

It’s nice to see the continued balancing and optimization work that they’re doing, and more modding capabilities is always great.

  •  key   ( @key@lemmy.keychat.org ) English
    3•11 months ago

    Not what I was expecting. “Diminishing” made me think that the new effect of the beacons would cover a larger area but diminish as distance to the building increases

  •  Minnels   ( @Minnels@lemm.ee ) 
    2•11 months ago

    I only have like 1500 hours so i didn’t know there was a “perfect” setup for beacons. I always did a new design every time… Happy I never knew as it made it more fun.