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The grandest factory sim ever made is getting an interplanetary combat system this DecemberDyson Sphere Program discovers the art of warfare
Dyson Sphere Program discovers the art of warfare
Image credit:Gamera Games
Image credit:Gamera Games
Dyson Sphere Program is already rather overwhelming - this is, after all, astrategysim about wrapping whole planets in conveyor belts so as to build cages around stars and harvest their juices - and now the absolute madfolk of Youthcat Studio are adding combat features. It’s like watching somebody upend a bucket of termites over the world’s most elaborate model trainset.
The associated Rise of the Dark Fog update is out on 15th December. Youthcat have put together a nifty announcement trailer that makes cunning use of the ability to raze factories from orbit - I’m curious to know if it was actually performed in-game.
Dyson Sphere Program: Rise of the Dark Fog - Release Date Reveal TrailerWatch on YouTube
Dyson Sphere Program: Rise of the Dark Fog - Release Date Reveal Trailer
If you missed the original reveal at TGS this year, the Dark Fog are an NPC faction with their own bases, who expand and become more aggressive in response to your progress, sending fleets of craft to swarm your production lines or batter them from deep space.
To deal with these trouble-makers, you’ll need evenly-plotted networks of turrets and energy shields for individual buildings and later, entire worlds. You can research a Supernova feature that lets you temporarily overclock all of your turrets, for those last ditch comebacks, but it sounds like the more useful option will be Auto-Rebuild, which can be upgraded to send out flights of drones to reconstruct damaged structures en masse, providing you have the materials.
It’s been interesting to follow Rise of the Dark Fog’s development. Amongst other things, there’s the question of performance: the largest, multiple-star factory networks take a proportionately greater toll on your computer, and fitting in an NPC faction with its own units and facilities obviously adds to the load.
I’m not entirely clear on how going on the offensive works, but from the gameplay overview trailer below, it looks like you’ll be able to use the templating features to crash down on planets and insta-build huge fortresses that open fire immediately in all directions.
Dyson Sphere Program - Combat System: Rise of the Dark Fog Coming this December | TGS2023Watch on YouTube
Dyson Sphere Program - Combat System: Rise of the Dark Fog Coming this December | TGS2023
New to DSP? It was one of ourfavourite games of 2021- Nate called the gamea mandatory play for factory game fans. It’s alsoslightly discountedat the time of writing, though it was hardly expensive to begin with.
