Factorio is always a cpu bottleneck. Most modern gpus would have tons of pixel shader headroom to handle this. You would get basically the same fps.
And all our players on laptops and older hardware would struggle with choppy gameplay, or not even be able to load at all depending on the VRAM requirement increases.
wait, 0.18 is out?
Oh yea
Sorry, but looks like simply reskined of https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Orbital%20Ion%20Cannon or https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=17910, even similar CnC effects
Probably some code stuff were improved, can be more balanced than anything from before, better scripted... effect looks very similar
It shares no code or logic from LOIC, and they work in fundamentally different ways.
Link to mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/MIRV
It used to be a little clunky to call down the nukes, so now it uses the artillery remote logic (which didn't exist 2 years ago when I first made the mod).
You can toggle the auto-target in the mod settings, along with whether to make pollution when it explodes or not (looks nice on the map too).
Internally now it uses a 'script trigger effect' which I added, which lets mods know when specific triggers happen, such as an artillery turret shooting at a nest.
Read moreYou will at least need to wait until the seablock mod pack is updated to 0.18
So does Steam Family Sharing work now with the new mini accounts?
Hmm, we will consider it as further improvements (low priority)
Could someone with a large base give an idea of the scale of the performance improvements that were made?
Looks like a nice set fixes and optimizations.
Its about 2x
I love that they implemented my suggestion of: "Continue"
You were right all along
Up until I looked at the source code, I was always confused about the differences between "Start campaign", "New game" and "Scenarios". New game seems like the same thing as "Scenarios"->"Freeplay", but are there any differences? We then later added a few more bonus scenarios, but they are hidden in the scenarios menu, with no explanation about what each is, what to expect or if it works in multiplayer. I believe it's very important to communicate to new players information about the game's content. It's also important to show that freeplay is the intended way to play. So all this prompted me to rework the main menu a bit.
I started with the structure. The structure always seemed odd to me, compared to what I'm used to from other games. Important options like "Load game" are lost among options that are never used (like "Replay game").
So I came up with a new structure. It looks like this:
Our e-shop is now open again after taking a break over the holidays and new year.
We have also restocked our new Factorio sew-on patches, so if you didn't manage to pick one up over the last weeks, now is your chance to order one.
After deciding to cancel the Introduction/NPE (Tutorial/Demo) we took some time to assess what we learnt. Here are just a few of the points that we took away from the experience:
In addition to those, self-motivated discovery of new mechanics (FFF-327) is a more important part of Factorio than actually u...
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Hello,
The office here in Prague is still 'closed' until next week, so not much is happening (so our team can rightfully rest). Things will get cracking again on Monday, and our first task is to get 0.18 done!
For that reason, the FFF today is a little on the short side.
2019 was quite a 'typical' year for us. We released 0.17 early in the year, did some bug-fixing for about 6 months, and then we went back to development work. Saying that, we hit some major milestones this year:
You can see some correlations between this timeline and the commit frequency graph below.
Please note, the number of commits does not reflect the value and quality of an individual :).
It seems like we are somewhat 'in-sync' with each other, which I suppose has good and bad effects.
This year...
Read moreSo I also need to disable half the mods on the server? Does the world breaks if a mod is missing?
It depends on the mod, some small QoL mod won't really matter, but if you're factory is 95% Johns_Janky_Junk then disabling the mod will remove all the entities the mod adds, and break it.
Try disabling half your mods, see if the problem persists. If not, then you know one of the mods you disabled was causing it. So then disable half of those mods... etc.
Basically its one of the mods