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As a bonus, the underground belt structure has a variant which shows a hole when you side-load into the underground belt.

TigBits wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 17, 2018 2:24 am

Now that this behavior is officially intentional I can stop avoiding it, although I have yet to find a legitimate need for it.

• New terrain generation
• Belt-optimizations
• Artillery train
• General update optimizations
• Allow loading games with different mod settings (and automatically download the mods if necessary)
• More mini-tutorials
• Nuclear power
• Blueprint preservation (Export/import blueprints)
• Update optimizations (belts + pipes)
• Research Revolution
• Combat balance
• Liquid wagon + universal barreling
• New 3x2 boiler
• Map interaction improvements, map tags and 'zoom to map'
• High res graphics introduction (This means just some parts of the game will be in high res in this version)
• Circuit network additions, improvements and optimizations
• New terrain
• Scenario pack extension - Wave defense and PvP scenario
• First set of interactive mini tutorials
• Multiplayer production polish (move from "usable if you try hard and overlook imperfections" to "just works")
• Modding support for equipment grids in vehicles.
• Proper tech tree.
• Second part of the circuit network extension (power switch, gate, train station, accumulator and logistic network integration to circuit network)
• Additional train conditions (wait until full, wait until empty, wait until circuit condition)
• Flamethrower turret
• Fire (forests can catch on fire)
• Basic Multiplayer matching server (allow listing running MP games via a central location)
• Better rail building
• Better train managing possibilities.
• Modules in blueprints.
• Centralized mod portal and its integration in the game
• Train graphics and vertical/horizontal discrepancy fix.
• Achievements
• Stack inserter
• Multiplayer enhancements (lag hiding, better pvp/forces support, IPv6 support, DNS names)
• First part of the endgame content. (Build rocket and send it to space).
• Chain signals (trains).
• Combinator and more circuit logic.
• Personal roboport
• Logistic trash fields.
• First part of nature destruction by pollution (only tree related now).
• First part of new ambient music update.
• Optimisation of the game simulation speed.
• New graphics of combat robots
• Buildable floors. (concrete + stone)
• Attempt of steam integration
• Multiplayer for the brave ones
• New player graphics (3 versions depending on armor and colored depending on the player color)
• The first (simple) instance of a tank
• Gates
• VRAM saving optimizations
• Finish the trailer. This is a #1 priority now Together with this we will work on presentation (finish new logo, new forum skin, new screenshots on web, credits page in the game)
• Functional replays. This will be a side-effect of multiplayer efforts.
• Improve Map creation process (shareable map generation string, simpler map generation settings.
• "Factory sound background". Entities in the game will have specific sounds that play when player is near.
• Blueprints.
• Oil/Chemicals industry.
• Biomes and doodads.

microbat wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:03 am

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microbat wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:03 am

Your update said to let us know what you think on the forum so there it is. I think you released an alpha that was an interesting little game but seriously lacked content, gameplay, and direction, which is normal for an alpha. But then you got turned into millionaires because you got lucky going viral with an audience of hysterical children that threw their money at you, and you basically abandoned the game at that point. Since then I've seen nothing but time wasting, graphical tweaks that add nothing to gameplay (that desperately needs something..) and the graphics tweaks barely even look any different anyway. Yet you spend year after year working on it. GUI tweaks too, add nothing and nobody even cared to begin with. I'll give you one thing, you are masters of propaganda. Maybe I am wrong and your intentions were good, but personally I think you are shady and just pretend to be 'developing' the game. I suspect you are claiming some sort of business welfare that stops when the game goes from being "in development" to being in the final release form, so for that reason you will keep putting off the release forever. Everyone who was interested in this game has already heard about it bought it. There is no reason to not just put it to 1.0 and anything extra could be added in patches or updates. But no, the early access shenanigans continues.

Normally I wouldn't care, it is just another building game... But this game had something special, the potential to add some real gameplay in addition to just endlessly building things. You have enormous maps with endless enemies that can attack and the player can defend their base with turrets. This fleshed out would have made this an amazing game. But it got zero development, so you spent all that time creating huge procedural landscape generation and enemy bases, enemy AI, etc. and then did nothing with any of it. To people like me this game is basically a con, pretending to be one thing and then you bait and switch.

I think you will end up like that DayZ dev, the Minecraft dev, and countless others, you get lucky with one game and then never have another success because you are a one hit wonder that got lucky.

Normally I wouldn't be this harsh but the endless Community Announcements that contain all those words yet no actual content, make me think my gut feelings are right.

ske wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:15 pm

I like those new belt sprites, I can already see where we could attach the motor that makes them move!

The result was, that if it all goes well, we could be done in 6-9 months. This is probably not something you wanted to hear.

Actually this is much better than expected. Thanks for sharing your roadmap. I now expect 1.0 to be released on christmas 2019

Gobbel2000 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:55 pm

When you are already remodeling belts maybe it would be nice if the textures of multiple belts next to each other (which is very common in most factories) would connect to one wider belt. The colored arrows should still be on every single belt but especially with the 3D belts this might look really amazing. The only problem I see is that it could be a bit weird when routing a belt away from the wider belt or when using splitters.

EDIT: I added a picture of how it would look on 4 horizontal belts. It is just a bit of copy-pasting but it already gives a good idea. Just imagine a bunch of items flowing along. wide_belt_draft.png

microbat wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:03 am

...and you basically abandoned the game at that point.

...Yet you spend year after year working on it.

microbat wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:03 am

the potential to add some real gameplay in addition to just endlessly building things. You have enormous maps with endless enemies that can attack and the player can defend their base with turrets. This fleshed out would have made this an amazing game.

<NO_NAME> wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:18 pm

ratchetfreak wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:40 pm

Devis wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:18 pm

The new belts looks really good, but this bothers me...
Will entities fall off the ground at the end of a belt, as there are no shown "boundaries" to keep them on place?

Yeah a barrier of some kind would make it immediately obvious that there is a stop there. It would make the belt end with items look more natural as well.

My exact though immediately after I saw the new graphic. I popped into my head even though I have a few hundred hours in the game and I know exactly how belts work.
The limiting bar at the end is a necessity unless you want to confuse the hell out of new players.

Speadge wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:24 pm

since the belts will have an "height" now - can i still walk over them without problems?