shapez 2 - Factory

纯粹的自动化游戏，新鲜感过了之后，就会发现这游戏没啥正反馈。 解决了谜题，优化了生产线，奖励你的是更难的谜题，更复杂的设施，然后你需要做的就是继续优化生产线，解决更难的谜题，无穷无尽。 这个不能说是缺点，但是很容易会腻。如果放下一段时间再打开就会“卧槽，这是啥玩意啊。” [spoiler]有没有一种可能，其实旋涡就是一个巨型的垃圾桶。[/spoiler]

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i played shapez 1 and it was okay - but shapez 2 is far better. you underestimate how much the controls in this game improve it - the anchor system for conveyors, everything having nice keybinds. my main thing is the blueprint system. you have it pretty much from the start - but even without blueprints you can copy+paste literally everything with no hassle. resources are not an issue for building, which i like compared to satisfactory+factorio, which make it more of a chore. this is PURE factory building with no nonsense

I really enjoyed Shapez 2. There's a good amount of content, and the progression feels satisfying all the way through a normal playthrough. Building and optimizing factories is as addictive as ever. My only major issue is what happens after you finish the game and want to move on to the next difficulty. Having to unlock every technology from scratch again feels more tedious than challenging. At that point, I've already proven that I understand the mechanics—I don't need to repeat the same early-game progression. I would much rather see all technologies unlocked from the start on higher difficulties, with the challenge coming from different constraints instead, such as limited resources, stricter production requirements, or other gameplay modifiers. Overall, I definitely recommend the game. It has plenty of content and is a lot of fun, but I hope the higher difficulty progression gets another look.

I think Shapez 2 outlines clearly why other games in its genre succeed: friction. Shapez 2 eliminates all friction preventing the player from building up their factory infinitely, and in doing so eliminates most motivation for the optimization and resource management that underlies the genre's challenge. When everything is free, there's no point in looking to save costs. Without any costs to optimize against, there's nothing worth doing.

I was playing classic on hard until I unlocked the pin pusher machine. The first main shape they want you to make after pin pusher is unlocked is not explained at all and I think the pin pusher itself goes against the whole factory concept. Basically a pin is small object produced out of thin air and placed underneath the shape. But of course the game wants you to deliver shapes with the pin on top so you end up having to build about eight machines just to isolate the pin and use it like an ordinary shape. I strongly believe that this process goes against the core idea of a factory. The machines should be making things more efficient instead of handicapping the player with a purposefully bad output. Also the pins being an output resource that is created out of thin air while everything else is mined just doesn't sit right with me. Other than pins the game feels a bit tedious and I think it is mostly due to the size of the map and the amount of resource nodes available. There are just to many options given to the player but essentially it boils down to "Do I want to build a bunch of machines just to cut, rotate, and paint this starting shape layer?" or "Do I want to have the starting shape layer delivered in the color and shape I need by a train that takes five real life minutes just to arrive?" My theory is that if the resource nodes were more scarce but also the map was smaller, then I would be eager to mine any and everything. But given too many choices it actually becomes a bother picking a mining point out of thousands of options.

Solid factory game. The real juice is making blueprints to reuse and designing a MAM. If you build factories manually it gets super tedious very quickly.