shapez 2 - Factory

优化真的是一言难尽，建造模式随建随拆还不很明显，产业模式每个新图形都需要上一个图形参与加工，所有生产线都得保留，普通产业模式后期存个档要卡半分钟，困难产业模式需要的产线更多更复杂，从红块产线开始就有卡顿迹象了，并非是我不做产线优化，实在是产业模式的加工厂效率太低只能堆数量

It's quite complicated - I love and hate this game at the same time. When coming from shapez 1, this game allows fully skip it together with inconvenient design choices like high level goals, asymmetric buildings that cannot be mirrored and non-free factory copying. Here, those problems were not just fixed, they came with bunch of QoL and graphical changes that made game easier to play and understand. Loop also changed a bit, milestones were split in separate steps, each completed milestone also unlocks handful of additional jobs, in reward for each you get points to unlock new buildings and upgrades. Also now there's space layer for building extractors, platforms and connecting them, and platform layer where you do the same thing as in first game (cut, rotate, combine etc.), but with smaller space (limited by size of platform) and higher shapes volume to process, thankfully game gives you proper tools. Here are some notable improvements: [list] [*] Can copy & paste selected sections for free. [*] Can mirror selected sections. [*] Can save sections and platforms in blueprint library to reuse later, also can share them as text. [*] Conveyors can be branched as you want, similarly to compact splitters/mergers. [*] Detailed info box telling you about effectivity of your factory and if there's window of improvement for it. It also tells you how much exactly machines are needed per belt to keep them unclogged and saturated. [/list] Game never rushes you, gives time to learn, find ways to optimize current flows with newly unlocked upgrades. I personally had alot of fun with rethinking flow from one platform per shape to one function per shape, allowing easier to adapt to milestone requirements. What I probably didn't like about this game the most that it's never felt like a proper challenge. Even with low throughput working on milestone shape then switching to job ones takes right amount of time for milestone capacity to complete. If you played shapez 1 you might remember "watermelon slice" level that instead of delivering bunch of shapes required to provide high throughput for certain amount of time, I really liked that, it made me think of how to improve flow further as copying flow didn't help much. While first game has single moment like this (throughput doesn't come up again until you complete the game), this one doesn't have any. It's just always about solving, not effectivity or working around limitations. Another thing that completing jobs you literally can remove their factories without any drawback, future shapes rarely would match it, keeping refining factories is good idea though. Also you have to keep milestone shape factories to keep passive upgrade points income. By default map is formed as spiral, which comes with big gaps in-between. I think it's here to make you use trains as otherwise nothing much happens there as most work goes close to extractors rather blank spaces. Spiral formation can be tweaked and even disabled, but that can be done before creating save file. Platform capacity upgrade is seems the most useless one, you get high limit in the beginning and can increase it with operator levels, which isn't hard as well. Overall I'd say give game a try if you like "chill factorio"-like games, yet there's not much for it to offer.