Hello, In the last FFF-386 we covered the natural landscape of Vulcanus which mostly showed the visuals, but as you are probably aware we always put gameplay first. Now it's time to find out what kind of greater good you can do to the planet...
I wonder if we will be able to use the lava to produce steam for power. They’ve shown some new machines, but to actually produce the electricity is something that would also be interesting to see. If you first come to the planet entirely unprepared, will you be able to build your way back up to another rocket, or will you have to die to respawn on Nauvis?
To prevent locking your progress if Nauvis gets cut off or completely overrun, we need to include a way to craft pretty much all of the rocket parts on any planet.
They did write this, so I would imagine you can lose your hole base on Navius, and build up again from nothing
I wonder if a challenge mode where you start on a different planet instead of Nauvis would be feasible. At the very least, I expect that a mod will do it eventually.
Yeah especially because they said there will be a “last” planet. Would make for some fun playthroughs, if you couldn’t go back to your previous planets!
A dev mentioned in the reddit fff thread that the sulfuric acid is turned into 500deg steam instead of directly into water, so that could probably be used with a turbine for power. Whether its worth it factoring in the materials used to turn acid to steam is a different story
But otherwise, it may of course be that they still decide that the temperature of the planet is 500°C as well, and then the steam would be useless for generating power.
I wonder if we will be able to use the lava to produce steam for power. They’ve shown some new machines, but to actually produce the electricity is something that would also be interesting to see. If you first come to the planet entirely unprepared, will you be able to build your way back up to another rocket, or will you have to die to respawn on Nauvis?
They did write this, so I would imagine you can lose your hole base on Navius, and build up again from nothing
I wonder if a challenge mode where you start on a different planet instead of Nauvis would be feasible. At the very least, I expect that a mod will do it eventually.
I predict that research done on Nauvis will be a requirement for getting off of other planets. But then again, maybe not.
Yeah especially because they said there will be a “last” planet. Would make for some fun playthroughs, if you couldn’t go back to your previous planets!
A dev mentioned in the reddit fff thread that the sulfuric acid is turned into 500deg steam instead of directly into water, so that could probably be used with a turbine for power. Whether its worth it factoring in the materials used to turn acid to steam is a different story
Link would be nice :)
But otherwise, it may of course be that they still decide that the temperature of the planet is 500°C as well, and then the steam would be useless for generating power.
Good point, I completely forgot the power comes from a difference in temperature. Not sure what the link is anymore sadly