I dislike the idea of the game leading me down the "garden path" then force me to scrap a whole section and rebuild it in a different way. If I imagine being a new player and facing the oil refinery with a single input and output I would probably build a straight pipe on both sides and als...

Not sure if it helps with the marketing in any way but here is how I first learned about the game: https://index.hu/tech/godmode/2016/05/20/factorio-jatek-teszt-early-access/ This is from a popular Hungarian news portal that happens to have game-related articles from time to time. The article is wri...

I agree with this. Elevator music is optional, since I play with music disabled.

By default the Lua console is mapped to the number 0. This might have something to do with the fact that on the Hungarian keyboard the "0" key is to the left of 1, rather than to the right of 9. The result of this is that whenever I want to type a zero (e.g. in a circuit condition) it brin...

Now I understand why the biter situation in the campaign was so "hard". I even had a faint feeling that somehow it is related to the research progress so I was proven right. However I think there should be something to indicate that the game is deliberately doing this to you and you are su...

What is "Nauvis"? (it appears in the mouseover of the alert icons) I just finished the tutorial, but by that point I thought I was going to get overrun with the biters. They seemed to grow exponentially and my bullet production just couldn't keep up with them. My turrets already started dy...

Just dumping my thoughts trying to think as a new player: "New technologies available for research" pops up right after starting. This is not relevant info at this point. When Compilatron moves out of the screen and it has something to say, an arrow should point at it. All too often he mov...

If you are going to call the first two science packs "Automation" and "Logistics", consider how this affects the new player experience together with the Automation and Logistics research. Automation 1/2 only requires Automation science packs, which makes sense, but then there is ...

I really hate the word "mine" being used in any meaning other than turning minerals on the map into mineral items. When I saw the tooltip "Can be used to mine any kind of path" I couldn't figure out what it means. I saw some youtube videos using that feature but even then it didn...

I'm sad that resarch queue doesn't get added. There is joy of looking at the result of new research... on my first game ever. But after restarting the game a dozen of times, I already know what tech does what, and I don't even use many of them but still research them just for the sake of completenes...