Originally posted by FellaVentura

The fact you're using the term "expansion" and not "DLC" in 2022 warms my heart. There is no other developer in the industry I hold in as high regard as I hold Wube. I trust your work, dedication and more importantly your word, because you've cemented it's value with your actions ever since I heard about you, and that was way over 5 years ago. The latest years have been a letdown for gaming industry in general, amidst half-assed games, workplace harassments, and the sense that games in general became a service for investors to exploit rather than for creators to work on something that players enjoy. You're one of the little fish that's been swimming against this trend, and I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you.

Originally posted by undermark5

I imagine we will get further updates as they progress further into the steps, but I'd guess that the amount of additional information as for what the actual content is will continue to be limited as per their FFF 365 explanation as to why FFF was being put on hold for a while (to prevent people from getting hopes up for features that end up getting scrapped, also to prevent people from trying to features with mods, causing people to get disappointed when the actual functionality ends up being different than the mod author presented it) I don't think we will get weekly FFF until it is in the final phases of beta, where they've kinda already announced everything, and they are just adding the finishing touches before shipping it.

Originally posted by undermark5

They explicitly state "the expansion will not be 'just' a mod" meaning that what they accomplish in the expansion will be impossible if not incredibly difficult/inefficient to implement purely using the modding api.

I was almost certain of this from the initial announcement (edit: i've gone back to look at FFF 365 and they also explicitly state there that some of the new functionality is going to require engine changes), because it was almost certainly going to be something that wasn't just going to be a free addition, and if the additions were capable of being done through the modding api there wouldn't really be that much incentive to buy the expansion vs just adding the "mod version" of it. Though, I have no doubt that there will be some that do try to back port some or all of the expansion as a mod, but in all honesty, I think that many of us here are certainly more than happy to throw another $30+ dollars Wube's way for an expansion regardless of how good any back por...

Originally posted by JuneBuggington

Hell Ill i bet they even treat the janitors well.

Originally posted by bobskizzle

StarCraft, etc did that IIRC

Originally posted by RealAmon

They didn't tell us which of the 7 stages they are in. Sneaky.

Originally posted by nidhoeggr777

A German game-news-site wrote yesterday that factorio is indeed NOT RUNNING on the steam deck. At least as of now.

German sauce: Https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Steam-Deck-Hardware-277668/News/Nicht-kompatibel-mit-allen-Spielen-1387674/

Originally posted by clif08

The most insane thing is that devs revamped entire tutorial system after 1.0 release, allowing it to run the game inside the tutorial window instead of using prerecorded gifs. This commitment, I think, is unprecedented, for a game that was already released, and doesn't have any monetization besides the initial price.

Originally posted by IronCartographer

It's interesting how commonly repeated there is a misconception about belt compression and UPS effects. People saw the problem of handling gap-closure and perceived that as scaling with the number of gaps, rather than also being O(1) for a given belt even with the complexity of handling item removal and insertion.

Were the gaps themselves ever a factor affecting performance (edit: as in O(N) for the number of gaps, not just the length of the belt) in one of the earlier optimization passes of belt simulation?

Originally posted by rich_27

They have a really clever solve for the issue of moving things on belts; as I understand it, they group everything on each section of belt with no splits or merges, keeping track of what is at each end. This means to move the entire belt they only have to take stuff off and put anything on each end, rather than update every item on the belt. Super cool!

Originally posted by orkeilius

Yes but it look like that it only contains prototype, graphics, campaign,...

But not the code of the modules 🤔 I wonder if you the part who can be in a mods is open source

Originally posted by SonicDart

Wait so everything in the game is a 3d model? I always thought everything was 2d?

Originally posted by Dizzy-Opening-8152

The explanation by Dev was nice, and I thought that it is even better to see it 1 time than hear it 10 times.

Edit: added word "even". As it sounded bad.

Originally posted by cathexis08

If you turn the tile grid on you'll see that the rails themselves are at a 90° angle to each other but the railroad ties are not aligned corner-to-corner in order to match the forced perspective of the rest of the game. In short, you're looking at an example of a perpendicular line optical illusion (specifically a Zöllner Illusion I believe).