Friday Facts #440 - 2.1 plan

[keyboardhack]

Posila has fixed a bunch of bugs reports i've reported over the past many years.
Thanks for all the great work and i wish you the best in the future <3

[BlueTemplar]

Congratulations, Wube, and may your summer vacation be great !

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I didn't want to be a party-pooper, but you pissed me off, Earendel.

It's 2026, we're well into the insanity that is Trump 2
(not to mention the other issues dating back to 25+ years, notably those that the Snowden scandal uncovered),
and not only you're linking exclusively to a bunch of USian platforms,
but even the mailing list you gave is a freaking Google form !!

What is wrong with you ?!?

(Note that the above meme was made more tailored towards social media, but that doesn't necessarily excuse the use of other infocoms from rogue states like Russia, China, USA.)

Of course, maybe you're not an EU citizen, or one from a country that is far from these concerns (if any even remain), or maybe even from the USA themselves, but this is an EU website of an EU company, and we EU citizens are sick and tired of the place taken in our life by these platforms, and the growing threat they represent for liberal democracy.

(And Wube, it would be nice if you distanced yourselves more clearly from these too. Your support of Ukraine was appreciated, where is your rejection of (at least some of) these platforms ?)

[FutureSpec]

AWESOME! End of June!? I thought it would be much longer than that.

The only thing I wish for is planet backgrounds in space, which I would argue fits under both "Quality of life" and "Some small features" -- see at a glance which planet you're at (plus it would just look amazing).

I try to run mod-less/vanilla for achievements, so I have resisted using the Visible Planets in Space mod

[Dogman15]

I still think it would be neat if the "ruined rail" graphics in the tutorial could be updated so that they match the new train track graphics. And being able to keep playing the fifth tutorial map would be neat - full tech tree and an automatically-expanding map.

[SnelleSjonnie]

Great, thx for the update!

Wube, you all can be proud. You've made gaming history.

[morse]

No new enemies? How about old enemies? I'm talking about one particular brain-jellyfish that was teased to us long-long ago. It's the last chance for it to come to the game.

[D Flip-Flop]

so no changes to quality?? i thought that was a huge topic for 2.1

[madpinger]

Thanks for contributing to this wonderful game and best of luck on your future efforts Wube. o/

[Panzerknacker]

Very dissapointed to learn that basically no big changes or additions are coming. Still looking forward to the actual patch notes tho.

GL folks at Wube that are leaving or staying.

[SHADOW13]

I was really looking forward for more, bought it over 12 years ago, what a journey
my appetite for Factorio patches never stops growing (especially major patches)

though I understand you probably want to move to other projects and there's so much competition in factorio-like games,
still I do hope one day maybe someone picks it up and decides to release next big patch (or dlc)