Brainlets win again. You got your easy fluids. Now you have NO excuse (2024)

Me neither. I'm smart enough to understand fluids but not enough to understand factorio patchnotes

Fluid flow used to be based off of how many input pipes there are.
Now it's based off how big your storage is. Bigger storage = worse flow.

nothing has changed about why people don't get it

It was never a problem if you built around it.
Which means they removed an interesting late game challenge.

Factorio seems like a fun game to work on because it's 90% math, which is what people studying computer science in college are actually learning. As opposed to entering the workforce and doing boring CRUD apps

the 3 fluid problem was supposed to teach you about oil fracking and controlling pumps via simple tank checks

i remember on /egg/ people were talking about having a system setup where it'd check which fluid was the highest level and then changing around whats getting produced based off that in order to balance out the levels of all 3 but I was too much of a brainlet for that

>was it autism
yes, and it's a good thing
Explains why most people only need 45 science per minute but crazy people can make 45 000

Undergrounds, moron....

GregTech won.

>everything looks the fricking same
no thanks

Newfriends can now thrive with the sh*ttiest vtubber setup imaginable and it will always work.
Trains aren't mandatory for oil anymore.

Probably. The original enemies were humanoid before they added the current bugs. I bet you can find a mod to bring them back.

Build turrets.
Don't start in the desert because there's no trees to absorb pollution.

make three turrets, put some ammo in them, and lay them wherever you want to defend and manually give them some ammo
Eventually enclose them with a layer of walls, by the time biters get close enough to hurt the walls you should have automated ammo production to be able to lay a perimeter of turrets taking ammo from a belt, and if you're not, just plot another three turrets next to those
But you REALLY want to automate ammo production and bump ammo damage early

1. Manage your pollution, don't overbuild. Building 20 iron miners at the start like a speedrunner is a surefire way to get assfricked 20 minutes into the game and possibly softlocked because you can't defend against attack groups of 50-100+ biters.
2. Build a bunch of turrets close together near polluters (miners, boilers, assemblers, furnaces) and surround them with stone furnaces or pipes, later walls
3. Clear out nests that are too far into your pollution cloud. Always check the map with pollution enabled, if you see blinking squares there's a nest there. Turret creep is the only way to clear bigger nests in the early stages of the game. After that it's defender minions -> tank -> exo MK2 with personal lasers -> artillery train for the endgame
4. Prevent enemy expansions by placing turrets in the wild at key locations, choke points between water/cliffs or 2-3 chunks away from other nests.
5. If there's a nest you aren't able to take out deep inside your pollution cloud, you need to go and clear the assembling attack group every minute or two to prevent it from getting too big.

make a submachine gun
make enough ammo
clean the bases close to yours
it's that easy

I build a row of turrets I fill it with ammo
I build another row of turrets closer to the nest I fill those with ammo
I repeat this process while driving around in a car and trying not to get caught by acid
By selecting ammo and holding Z to drop I mouse over along the row of turrets very fast so that each time I mouse over a turret a new mag is deposited.

As you should. They're stressful when you're learning.

Spergs will optimize for one variable and think it's perfectly optimized. Engineering isn't perfection.

Krastorio2 adds new stuff without going completely moronic.
Or just play vanilla deathworld and learn to love nukes.

Krastorio2 is practically vanilla+
Renai transportation for a funny gimmick
Rampart to expand up on biters, but you may want to add some other for of military for them, leading into:
Spiderlings to add a weaker spidertron that you can unlock before being practically done with the game
Omnimatter to shake up the formula by having an universal goop that you turn into the different ores and raw materials for the game
There's also literal randomizers that may or may not make the game hell

if you build any decent sized nuclear setup (8 or more reactors) reactor you WILL experience fluid glitches

It's not that, its the branching problem; fluids don't divide evenly at a junction. Hence the webms.
That's the hype part.
Idfc about pipes teleporting fluids.
I care about less circuit tedium.

They have the SE modder on a leash.
Every time he starts acting up with his sad*stic tendencies, they electrocute the mf
When he tried to implement stone byproducts they made him sleep outside.

For me it was the price raise. It was always overpriced but that did it for me along with the scummy no sale policy. Definitely not buying it now.

This is literally the best update Factorio has ever gotten because fluid throughput control absolutely did not fricking work in the slightest.

>It's amazing how every update justifies my refusal to get the expansion further.
The various mechanic tweaks will be applied to the base game in 2.0, they have nothing to do with purchasing the expansion or not. So unless you never update, you're getting the changes too