What? No changelog?

I don't think this makes sense I think that the abrupt cutting off of the sound is jarring: this is why I play the factorio music (available on steam or in that youtube video) in the background while playing the game rather than just unmuting the in game music. Would it also not make sense to tie t...

I do not like the idea of giving a history lesson in the launch trailer. It is going to be the first thing people see about Factorio. It might not make a good impression and could be confusing. I see most other release trailers celebrate the final product instead of the journey. At the point of rele...

What about also unifying it all somehow with the forum and wiki as well?

Or some method to link our forum & wiki accounts to our factorio account.

Somehow, as a player, I would still prefer the fluid mixing prevention. I don't know why. Also, you don't have to add visible module slots to all entities. But you could instead make graphics of modules being attached to them some form or another. There are no slots expecting modules. They are simpl...

FactorioBot wrote: ↑

Thu May 21, 2020 1:34 pm

Changes

• Disallowed saving over autosave files or making saves that begin with '_autosave'.

Oh come on. I sometimes use autosaves to save something temporarily without any intent to keep it for longer. What about an option in the pause menu that performs an autosave immediately?

FactorioBot wrote: ↑

Tue May 12, 2020 1:42 pm

• Fixed version 0.18.23

What?

The next obvious step after footprints are vehicle tracks. I'm not sure how to go about such a thing. Maybe you could make each of the 4 wheels of the car leave behind a circular 'patch' of darkened ground each tick, which when combined creates visually connected tracks. For tanks, treat the chainwh...

The sound of the artillery gives the impression of something falling on the ground after each shot but I can't see anything. Is that the sound of some internal reloading procedure of the cannon, or are you going to add a particle for that?

doktorstick wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:07 pm

What would it look like if the electricity beams occasionally arced to the entities that are receiving the bonus?

Adding to this, what if they are the thing that connects the beacons? For example, make the tip of beacons that are close enough have their own set of electricity beams between them.

What if we need to... you know... test if things are multiplayer safe?

posila wrote:People see a 2D game and expect to be able to play it on essentially anything.

I wish this was the case. I saw my fair share of 2D games that don't even justify being on a game engine and yet the computer fans go loud when I start them.

Reminds me of this: YouTube: The NES's Loading Seam.

Optimization on this level is not necessary today, but it was back then.

My thought when I first heard those new bot sounds:

Today isn't april fools day is it?

Uhh... what's the point of this menu stage? Why couldn't you make the scenario selection screen have a load save button or the load save screen have a new game button instead? (Latter one is what Minecraft does.) Or you could just move these two buttons to occupy the place of the "Singleplayer&...

Just when I finish making my real life spaghetti this happens.

I'm only prepared on Fridays.

If we are talking about the main menu, you should make either it's background or foreground more lively at least. It doesn't give a good impression. Either have it load a factory as a background (similar to what open ttd does), a video, or exchange the movable window (which is movable for no reason)...

Not a bunch of graphs again!

Is it just me, or was the water always somewhat animated in the game?

It's probably just me.

Albert wrote:But apart from biters and the factory, nothing else moves in this Factorio planet.

Yeah it's just me and what might have been some lighter optical illusion. Apart from fish of course.

Klonan wrote:we will not be doing any more 0.17 releases

Okay then...

Guess we don't get the better fluid physics.