So many excellent GUI improvements, I fear after playing 1.1 I will not be able to play any factorio with a 0.x version number ever again. One obvious improvement is still missing: Making map view just a zoomed out normal view instead of it being a distinct mode. The only reason for the distinction ...

Nice comeback of the late FFF. As feedback for tips and tricks: As a rule I would say anything having to do with GUI is tips-worthy. Any laws of nature that are different in game than in reality might also be tips-worthy. Anything about the machines and their workings in the game is not tips-worthy....

What a way to leave EA on a high note. At least for us insiders.

Thank you for Factorio. And I'm full of anticipation whatever you plan to do next.

Huge bummer that assembler won't be ready for 1.0 since it's one of the most used assets of the game, but since it's one of the most used assets in the game it's better to have it miss 1.0 than be rushed Whatever they do won't have a chance against the old graphics we learned to love in the last 7 ...

I take bets on when an impossible-to-predict bug is found that came into existance because the bots now throw cliff explosives.

Great visuals with the artillery shells. You did handle the case differently when the shells land on water, right?

New design is cool, however I don't feel good about bottom "lightnings". To me, as an engineer electro-mechanist, they look... dangerous. Like something went wrong with insulation and it now discharges onto surrounding, and about to explode. This is not healthy machine design. I'd rather make some ...

The positive thing about the new design is the Eye Candy, I can live with anything that has flashy discharge arcs. But if Wube decides to redesign them, then the following is the right idea: Improving the speed and efficiency of a machine by transmitting 'signals' to it never made much sense to me. ...

- We don't know what exactly would be the use for the spidertron. The original idea was it would be a late game vehicle, with almost unrestricted movement. That would be it for a simple solution, adding an equipment grid would be the cheap option to add. However, as a late game thing it should be a...

The new UI looks good. Merging the kill stats into the general stats window is a great idea. There's 1 additional thing that I think would be a huge improvement to the power stats: a bar / line for total accumulator charge. It would be really useful to be able to see how your accumulator charge var...

.... 1. Freeplay: procedurally generated map with or without any built structures, presenting a generic objective. 2. Sandbox: a variant for freeplay mode that allows "cheating" to kill enemies, get items, edit the terrain, etc. 3. Scenario: hand-designed map with some already built structures, pre...

I hate 'playing itself' games. Look at transport fever or any other economy sim. If your first route makes profit why expand at all? The bank account fills without extra work. Factorio is not that type of game. Oh it is in a way. A friend of mine stopped playing the game after having automated rese...

One simple idea for a mini-tutorial, not sure it is new or even that it works, but it might get the player to experience the core game play relatively fast: If the player sets the option to play a tutorial/beginners game, give him a generous starter set consisting of say 3 miners, 3 burner inserters...

Is it me or is the effect much more visible and faster in picture 4 than in picture 1? For me the picture 1 version looks a bit too subtle and unnaturally slow.

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Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:59 pm

Any significance to the date "25th September" ?

"Remember, Remember,
the 25th of September,
..."

Does the grey T-shirt have the same size as it had in 2017? Somehow my old one (which is L) seems to have the measurements of what M is now.

In other words, do I need to order M if I ordered L two years ago?

I just want to say your Assesment of World of Warcraft analogy of "LFG" is horrifically wrong. You claim people are likely to have find a solution around the group if they have a new player? That is because WoW Classic is in its Honey Moon Period. In reality look at existing games like Guild Wars 2...

I rather like the way https://mods.factorio.com/mod/replicating-belts did this. ... For instance, if I want a couple of belts to cross a couple of other belts, I could lay down the underneathies, then the connecting belts between. And then repeat this process a bunch of times for each belt I want t...

On some of the stuff brought up in the WoW section, I think that it is important to understand WHY they added the tools they did. If for example, you were the only person in your group of friends who plays, or if you aren't very good in chatting, being able to find a group to play this content migh...

also you are not supposed to read those Game Journalists's sites anymore, we are not in the 90s anymore and they are known to only produce hit pieces and hate clicks. YouTube constantly exposes them for what they are. so yeah, if you sneeze, you got a disease, if you speak, you speak profanity, if ...