The trees look like they are underwater. It is really disturbing to look at. That is not remotely how trees move in the wind. I love the idea of animated trees, but this needs some art direction.

Why not make sprite animations for trees?

For the first time since I started playing (and it was in 0.14 times) I will have a WWF (weekend without Factorio) as I can't continue with my game due to loading crash.
Please stop releasing on Fridays as this is a known terrible practice. Even if you do fix it you'd probably like to do ...

Hello. I have always preferred to use the map gen settings json format to generate maps. It is unclear whether this has been updated in 0.17 to support all of the features available in the GUI. Specifically, how will we control all of the options that are in the "Terrain" tab in the GUI screenshot ...

I think enough people have clearly stated how nice the research queue feature is and how removing it is a terrible decision for everyone other than new players. What I would like to know is, what playtesting process did you you follow to reach this decision? From the way the article is written, it ...

That was fast! Thank you.

Command line
bin\x64\factorio.exe --map-gen-settings config/map-gen-settings.json --map-settings config/map-settings.json --create saves/Test.zip

map-gen-settings.json

{
"_comment": "Sizes can be specified as none, very-low, low, normal, high, very-high",

"terrain_segmentation": "low ...

Generating a map from the command line using a map-gen-settings.json file is ignoring the seed specified in the file. Generating a map over and over with the same file produces a different map each time.

This was working the last time I generated maps, which was some time around 0.15.10.

I can ...

That's working as expected. Your save file has so much going on that it's running almost at 100% of 60 UPS. In multiplayer the server ends up running faster than you can and your game falls behind. The game goes into catch-up mode to keep up with the server and drops FPS to do so resulting in 60 ...

Having played in a large MP game recently on 0.15.16, I can verify that many people (myself included) are having FPS issues in large MP games. Early in the game, we were over 100 people and were not experiencing the issue. Later in the game, we were down to around 60 people but had a lot more of the ...

For the weapon information area, perhaps a toggle between seeing all of weapons and ammo and seeing only the currently equipped would be enough to make everyone happy. Each person can choose if they want full or compact mode. I definitely prefer to see them all, as well as see the current battery ...

Thanks for the clarification on showing the weapon and ammo. That is better than nothing, but still not as easy to take in at a glance while fighting as the current UI. If I want to know how much smg, shotgun, and flamethrower ammo I have left, I can see all of that easily. If I want to know which ...

I like most of what you are proposing here except for one thing I am bit unclear on.

Are you proposing that the weapon/ammo area goes away completely? What is the replacement for it? I understand that we don't need it most of the time, but the times when we do need it (when we are fighting things ...

In 0.15.9, I encountered this issue just now after some construction bots took damage in a fight. I am not near a robot network, so these are just in my inventory deploying via personal roboports.

Once the fight was over, I noticed 3 damaged bots just floating in place while 3 other bots were ...

Thanks for looking into this. Setting the max texture size to 16384 does resolve the issue for me, and the game seems to run more smoothly on DirectX than it does on OpenGL. Since I am not seeing any noticeable quality or performance issues with this texture size limit, I think I would rather stick ...

The game is also unplayable for me after updating my drivers today. Running 2 Titan X Pascal in SLI. The game was fine earlier today before updating my drivers.

Switching to OpenGL as suggested works around the issue for me also. However, now the game goes black for a second every time I switch ...

For the nightvision, have you tried lowering the contrast and color saturation in unlit areas without applying a tint? If everything was just near-gray and low contrast without the annoying green effect, I think it would look much better while still rewarding base lights by not applying the effect ...

It seems that the in-game map generation settings have more options than are included in the map-gen-settings.example.json file used for headless map generation.

I was able to figure out (by guessing) that "seed" lets me set the map seed, but I have no idea about how to set the "Enable Replay ...