Well...
We got poison capsules to use against the aliens... why couldn't the aliens have poison (or any Damage Over Time effect) to use on us?
Especially if it's an AoE splash effect that comes to rest on the ground, then it would be very effective against buildings but not that effective against a ...

No more artifacts? I'm cool with this, but I feel the aliens should have some use or reason for being other than being a nuisance.
Maybe we can harvest their remains and burn it in a furnace to make power? Or cook their still warm corpses in a vat to make oil?

We always need more oil.

For the purple tier, combine the alien artifacts with some items that define the blue tech level to make the purple science. That would, at least, straighten out the last tier progression a bit.

But what items would that be?

You're right that it's absolutely possible to squeeze out a suit of modular armor a bit earlier using this method, but frankly why would you?

First because it's pure green science to get a working setup (energy shield ), you only need blue science if you want personal roboports or exoskeletons ...

This is also the reason why both the tank and modular armor are utterly pointless once you got blue tech set up. You'll already have the red circuits pumping out, so plopping down assemblers for blue circuits is really simple, so (when it comes to your protection) there's literally NO reason ...

(even if I do think it's a bit weird that a constructable piece in the gameworld _has_ to be placed via a tool instead of directly like everything else. It's very inconsistent)

Not really, if you think of the curved piece as 4 straight pieces. It's similar to how you can't drop a single piece ...

The jump in tech green to blue is a bit long, for sure, compared to red -> green or blue -> purple
reg -> green is fairly short, and due to necessity since tech lvl red contains so few techs and are done with quickly, forcing the player to evolve the factory. Honestly, I feel this setup is good ...

You could create a blueprint with just one curved rail piece in it. That way, you can still place single curved rails at arbitrary places like before.
clever indeed - and so simple :P

And as a bonus, I think they'll rotate logically as well. As in, you rotate once to the left, they'll actually ...

I would like the ability to manually place down curved rail (without using the rail planner) returned to the game.

The planner is a godsend when it comes to building long stretches of rail, or trying to navigate tracks through tricky terrain. It's also great for designing many elements of a train ...

I would like the ability to manually place down curved rail (without using the rail planner) returned to the game.

The planner is a godsend when it comes to building long stretches of rail, or trying to navigate tracks through tricky terrain. It's also great for designing many elements of a train ...

I had to restart over 7 times before I got an area with both iron and copper at the start. I finally ended up with a large iron and copper field, 2 medium coal, but no stone or oil.
I settled for that since oil isn't needed for a while anyway, and stone can now be obtained from rock formations.

I ...

Drury wrote:

FadMad8 wrote:

or Factorio II, who knows.

So now that 0.13 is considered feature complete, when are we getting a roadmap post for Factorio 2?

The game is 0.13, not 1.0 though.

I think before that a 0.14 can be squeezed in, maybe a 0.15

So... version 1.0 in 2-3 years, then?

....And yeah, Factorio is destined to be a classic, I didn't even expect this. I thought it was just a niche nerd thing, apparently Steam thinks otherwise.

I'd say it's already a classic, even before it's out of early access (as weird as that might seem).
There's just too much successful ...

The research screen needs some alterations.


I suggest the research window not be fullscreen, and instead adjustable size, or size dependent on resolution.
It is like this on purpose, lot of other research trees are much bigger so we need as much space for the tree as possible.
I understand what ...

The research screen needs some alterations.

On a 1440p display, the relevant information is all shot up into the top left corner, and the tree takes up just a tiny part in the center of the screen. The rest is unused grey.
Also, the research button itself sometimes wanders off the screen to the ...

The research screen needs some alterations.

On a 1440p display, the relevant information is all shot up into the top left corner, and the tree takes up just a tiny part in the center of the screen. The rest is unused grey.
Also, the research button itself sometimes wanders off the screen to the ...

Glad to hear that work on an improved UI is on the way. On WQHD resolution the icons are so tiny it kinda strains the eyes to look at them, and they scale really poorly if you try to enlarge the whole UI in the options.

Looking forward to playing through the whole game once again on monday

Oh well.

I wasn't really expecting a release this weekend. It seems to be a cardinal rule that whenever the devs say that there's a possibility for a new Factorio release, it most certainly is NOT going to happen. It's a good thing Factorio is in such a great state as it is, with loads of content ...

I like this new version of the loader. It makes more "sense" in the way that it uses already existing game mechanics in a new way, rather than a completely new one.
It just needs some fancy graphics now to make it really stand out from the other inserters, and sell the concept that it can deploy ...

I hope you guys can find some good additions to the team.

On the subject of icons, I went back to play factorio again after a long break and got to get a feel for the new tech icons. I'd seen them before in an FFF but it's still a bit of a different thing to see & use them in-game than on a summary ...