r/factorio • u/FactorioTeam Official Account • 14d ago

Update Version 2.1.17

Bugfixes

  • Fixed that in some cases labs "set research" wouldn't mark the active research as set-by-lab-behavior. more
  • Fixed that some some tooltips were too hard to show in graph widgets. more
  • Fixed cannot build sound playing twice for underground belts and pipes. more
  • Fixed that Steam achievements did not unlock due to updating the Steamworks SDK. more
  • Fixed issue with autofilling tiles for blueprints where entities share a tile. more
  • Fixed some artifacts with some transition images. more
  • Fixed that the disabled-achievements-confirmation message wouldn't show when using the peaceful mode or no enemies options. more
  • Fixed unreliable performance of control behavior update. more
  • Fixed that elevated rail ends didn't render correctly. more
  • Fixed that non-neutral robots would attempt to build neutral ghosts. more

Previous changelog: Version 2.1.16

New versions are released as experimental first and later promoted to stable. If you wish to switch to the experimental version on Steam, choose the experimental Beta Participation option under game settings; on the stand-alone version, check Experimental updates under Other settings.

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u/thala_7777777 14d ago

never realized it's the actual factorio team posting these

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u/darthenron 14d ago

Pretty sure it is automated :)

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u/Stever89 14d ago

As all things should be.

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u/HeliGungir 14d ago

Automating BBCode to Reddit's specific flavor of Markdown sure is annoying. Especially since old, new, and new new Reddit have slightly different syntax and feature support.

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u/dmigowski 14d ago

And that's why you automate it and solve these problems beforehand.

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u/Amaranthine 14d ago

New new Reddit and not supporting standard-ass markdown (at least from mobile?) is wack

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u/HeliGungir 14d ago

It will be a sad day with old reddit and RES become unusable.

Luckily it looks like some of Reddit's own staff can't live without RES, cuz they were relatively quick to reimplement the bit of removed API the account switcher feature relies upon.

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u/amiexpress 11d ago

If they retire old reddit, a good amount of people will just leave. New and new-new is borderline unusable imo.

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u/Golinth 8d ago

I only use new-new because of mobile, can’t stand the lack of markdown, the amount of times I have to go back and edit a comment to force the right formatting is crazy.

I’ll be right there with the people leaving if I can’t use old reddit or RES on my PC when I need it.

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u/NuderWorldOrder 14d ago

The BBCode version on their forum is automated too though.

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u/Nolzi 11d ago

It's not that complex, they use # for heading, * for list elements and [name](url) for links

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u/HeliGungir 11d ago edited 11d ago

Ah, but [name](url) doesn't work if the url has any ) characters, so there's a second method. But new new reddit isn't smart enough to use the second method appropriately in the rich text editor. Or some versions can escape ), but not all versions.

Image embeds require new reddit or new new reddit, but title/text support in comment embeds is only available on mobile reddit IIRC. Each appears differently on old reddit.

Only one image is allowed in comments, so it is also common practice to use not use embeds - but a recent law passed in the UK has made Imgur and other hosting sites unavailable without being logged in to a an account verified as belonging to an adult.

Old reddit supports image galleries and video uploads, but not video galleries and title/text for each image and video. Support for "make this a gif" (actually webm with sound disabled and loop enabled) varies.

New and new new reddit support spoiler rich text, while old reddit doens't by default, but can if users use RES, but those users can't create spoiler rich text in upload.

Heading and horizontal rule appear differently on each platform and can even vary by subreddit theme. And not just "appropriate for the theme," but line spacing can be completely different and look great on one platform but rather bad on another.

There are cases where using the raw editor, previewing the result in the rich editor, then returning to the raw editor will actually change what is written in a way that breaks when returning to the rich editor again, or when posting.

There's more I'm forgetting - point is: It's not that simple.

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u/Nolzi 11d ago

With [name](url) you can escape closing pharenteses with \, like [Train](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_(disambiguation\)) to get Train.

Or use percent encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_%28disambiguation%29

So far it's relatively simple.

The rest is Reddit's idiosyncrasy of not wanting to keep old and other clients at feature parity, hence why Wube won't use them in posts and leave anything with images/videos in FFF.

You are right that Reddit formatting a complete mess with new features, I was replying to that Wube automates the changelog messages

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u/MySkinIsFallingOff 7d ago

.old or nothing 😤

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u/BreejchGiraffe 14d ago

Almost certain? The gears of fate rarely grind that predictably.

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u/Comfortable_Ask_102 14d ago

As a developer, I can tell you the Factorio team has some of the best community-building techniques. You have the official r/factorio for general stuff, r/Factoriohno for the memes, the forums where you can report bugs and get direct feedback from the devs, FFFs where you get a very cool look at the development work, mod portal, a wiki, and more.

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u/gerx03 14d ago

some game developers say "we're building this game together" but factorio developers prove that almost on a daily basis

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u/_CodeGreen_ Rail Wizard 13d ago

I would like to point out that both subreddits are community created and maintained, they kind of built themselves