[0.15.2] Headless download corrupted

[Zaydan]

A friend and I had been playing on a dedicated server through 0.14, updated to 0.15.1 on release and had played for a day without issue.

Upon seeing 0.15.2 released, we planned to update the server however, he (server host) told me the download would not work/was corrupted. (using 7Zip)

Trying to fault find, I also downloaded headless 0.15.2 and was greeted by a corruption error from winrar. ( https://puu.sh/vxEfs/c742a4cab2.png ) The folder is also incomplete when opened.

For the time being we have just decided to stick with 0.15.1 however, having faced some of the crashing issues that .2 has fixed, we were keen to update.

Having used two completely separate computers and decompression programs, we can't seem to find an issue on our end, considering we have updated the server in the past without issue.

( https://www.factorio.com/download-headless/experimental )

[daniel34]

I just checked myself and had no problems, both WinRAR and 7-zip could successfully extract the archive without any error. I think your download didn't complete since in your screenshot the unpacked size is 107 MB, my WinRAR says it's 127 MB. Try downloading it again.

The filesize of the downloaded factorio_headless_x64_0.15.2.tar.xz should be 17.9 MB (18.847.420 bytes).

[Zaydan]

Thanks for the reply. We ended up finding a workaround.

We found a friend who doesn't own the game to download and extract the file and they managed to open it without issue.They then uploaded the extracted files for us. The server is now running as per normal.

Unsure how both of us on two separate computers and two different archive programs could have the same issue. Must just be a hell of a coincidence as we found no one reporting the issue on Reddit etc.
We both tried downloading it multiple times but it had the same error each time. conversely, we had re-downloaded [0.15.1] from the same page and it worked fine, so I guess we'll never know and must be our end at fault.

Thanks anyway!