Switch Release

[lone drift]

How about a thread?
Switch release coming up <t:1666944000:R>!

(no guarantee on the exact timing)

• All of the game's content will be available. The gameplay is not simplified and there are no artificial limits.
• There will be no mod support.
• Multiplayer will be available, including playing cross-platform. Nintendo Switch Online is required for online play, but not required for LAN games.
• Save files are compatible between all platforms. There will be no save transfer feature at launch, but you can transfer your saves using multiplayer.
• Only online download.
• Same price
• Demo will be available
  https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/factorio-on-nintendo-switch
  https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=103434

[fiery mason]

I am very excited

[manic shoal]

Only one more week

[fiery mason]

😎

[pure cloud]

Very excited!

[fiery mason]

yup

[manic shoal]

5 more days!!!

[pure cloud]

[manic shoal]

4 more days!!!

[fiery mason]

wooo

[pure cloud]

You desperately need more Violet Emojis hahaha

[manic shoal]

I do, but that requires me to go edit photos of her, which I don't have very much time to do rn

[pure cloud]

But the people demand more emojis! And by "the people" I mean at least me.

[manic shoal]

Lol

Well if people would like to volunteer to cut her face out of pictures I can definitely arrange for that

[pure cloud]

iOS 16. It does it for you

If you have an iPhone with iOS 16 it'll be straightforward (Just long press on her then crop the result)

Not sure how to on Android.

Or send them to me and I'll cut her out of pictures on my phone and send them back to you

[manic shoal]

Don't have an iPhone and I don't think android does that natively

But I can DM you a few photos

[pure cloud]

Sure

[manic shoal]

3 more days!!!

[lone drift]

It says 2 for me

[manic shoal]

Well, closer to 2.5 days but it releases in the middle of the night for me

[fiery mason]

LETS GOO

[manic shoal]

2 more days!!!

[fiery mason]

OMG

SO CLOSE

[manic shoal]

ONE MORE DAY!!!

[fiery mason]

YES

[pure cloud]

Very Excite!

[pure cloud]

Soooooon.

[fiery mason]

ITS OUT???

How you have it already

[pure cloud]

It's not. I just used the example screenshot in the store page 😛

Soooon

[fiery mason]

Ok

[pure cloud]

Done!

[lone drift]

Is that a sticker??

[pure cloud]

It's a pin!

[lone drift]

neat

[normal star]

Whats the gameplay like? Any videos of someone recording their usage of the controls, selecting stuff, cursor movement, etc?

Im a little skeptical of the seamlessness of input usability and resultant gameplay, and there's atm very little video content of Switch Gameplay in action

But I remain hopeful, it isn't like Wube to release buggy stuff just to push it onto a platform.
stares at every other game studio

[hardy tusk]

There is at least partial keyboard and mouse support on the Switch.
Don't know how to configure movement though.

[normal star]

ah, oh wow, ok that makes sense using left and right hunbstick for movement and cursor movement.

Will be interesting how stuff like selection and copy and pasting is, even QoL stuff like snap-to-axis drag-building/deconning is.
I have a mighty need for gameplay vids.

[manic shoal]

[stoic bramble]

Yay!!

[fiery mason]

Yay

Time to buy

[manic shoal]

Whoever made the "Quick Panel" UI on the switch version deserves a raise

[lone drift]

It's Twinsen :)

[manic shoal]

Well then he deserves a raise!!!!!

[warped heron]

Anyone playing on SWITCH and would be kind enough to answer some questions pls?

How can I

1. access „New Tips“ shown bottom left on screen

2. activate the quickbar

3. create a blueprint book

4. start creating a blueprint, select items/area and save

TIA

[manic shoal]

All of the above are in the quick panel, press and hold L

[lone drift]

I'll recommend you play the tutorials, as those should get you familiar with the controls...

[manic shoal]

@warped heron tips can be found here (in Freeplay)

The "quickbar" is now in the "items" tab of the quick panel and all the blueprint buttons are in the "tools" tab.

[warped heron]

Thank you and yes, I had found the quick panel, but still couldn’t work out how to create a blueprint
Nevermind, hopefully someone will have a YT tutorial especially for Switch soon

[manic shoal]

Well under the Tools is the button to create a blank blueprint item

All the blueprint stuff is disabled until you unlock bots for the first time

[warped heron]

have been playing on PC before and had hoped, I could skip the tutorial on Switch, but it seems I will have to.
TY!

[warped heron]

oh, did not realise. Have been playing on PC and totally forgot abt those beginner steps
TY!

[manic shoal]

[manic shoal]

Switch controls are slower but quite intuitive. Controlling the cursor with the touch screen really helps.

[fiery mason]

Switch controls work well for me

Also I just use the right stick instead of touchscreen

[manic shoal]

I tend to go back and forth

[fiery mason]

Your base looks well organized and you have waaaay more iron production than me

[vital turret]

I just migrated my PC base to the switch and it's running real great

It took a bit of time to catch up and playing the world via LAN was definitely laggy

But once I saved it and fire it in single player the game ran smooth

[fiery mason]

Awesome

I am getting good performance too

[manic shoal]

I have several hundred hours of experience on PC I'm taking advantage of. You don't want to see my first base ever lmao

[lone drift]

Oh yes I do :P

[vital turret]

I'm getting more comfortable with the controls and that's a dangerous thing

Tbh i bought the switch version kinda to support the devs and hoping to not like the controls and stick to PC but... It is still soon engaging and the controls become so intuitive

Damn you Wube!

[manic shoal]

@tough jungle

[tough jungle]

Yo

[manic shoal]

What do you need help with

[tough jungle]

I keep demolishing my things when I try to shove stuff in assembees, can't figure out the key under for stack inserting

Also I can't figure out how to make or use blueprints

[manic shoal]

Default for depositing a stack in a machine is zL + A

[tough jungle]

That's what I thought

I keep holding y

[manic shoal]

And blueprints don't appear until you research bots for the first time

[tough jungle]

On h

What was the patch about today

[manic shoal]

The patch updated the game from 1.1.69 to 1.1.70

[vital turret]

For real? Nice! So we're up to date with the PC version?

[manic shoal]

For now, yes

[vital turret]

I'll tell you what's missing, a show grid button

[manic shoal]

That's a debug option. You need to go into the controls and set a bind for "show debug GUI".

[vital turret]

Fantástico!

[lone drift]

Aaaand it's out of date again :P

[manic shoal]

RIP

[fiery mason]

😐

So far my Ups is still 60

[tough jungle]

Why is there a has mods option in the server section

Oh I can't select yes

Nvm

[vital turret]

It's a tease probably

Why would they let it there?

[fiery mason]

Yeah idk

[tough jungle]

How do I share blueprints I make to other maps

[lone drift]

Bind something to "toggle blueprint library" and place the blueprint in there, under "personal blueprints"

Alternatively you can open the library via the quick panel

[vital turret]

I've gotten better at turret creeping, i wish there was a way to keep running while the quick panel is open tho

[fiery mason]

I never use quick panel I probably should start

[manic shoal]

There's plenty of info useful info screens that are only available in the quick panel

[hardy tusk]

After selecting "Add tag" and "Confirm", how do I actually place the tag?

[vital turret]

Move the cursor with the Right stick to where you actually want to place it

[hardy tusk]

I would expect to then press A to place it, but this doesn't work.

[vital turret]

It does work tho

Hit confirm, move the cursor with the right stick, press A

[hardy tusk]

Might be something wrong with my controls or something.
I am spamming the A button.

[vital turret]

Yeah that seems odd, right there should have dropped the tag, have you modified the controls?

[hardy tusk]

Yeah, I've modified the right column of controls with keyboard and mouse bindings.
I haven't modified the left column of controls.
Interestingly, I can place tags with the mouse.
I also tried the touchscreen which works. Just no luck with the A button.

[vital turret]

I wonder if the right buttons overwrite the left ones

[vital turret]

First game i feel the terrible drift my switch has...bummer

[manic shoal]

Oh no

[vital turret]

I did the recalibrate thingy and although in the test it's fix when I go back to the game happens again, poor engie just starts running

[manic shoal]

I haven't noticed at all, tho my switch's drift is relatively minor

[vital turret]

Maybe the games i played didn't get affected much by drift

Or maybe has been the last 32 days in a row doing Mario kart 64 championship at the office

[manic shoal]

Factorio is the game I've noticed the drift the least

[vital turret]

I tried playing with a mouse and the control, can't figure out what's the point, do I need the kb too?

Also has anyone has developed some sort claw like posture por your hands to do some weird buttons combinations?

[fiery mason]

I hope my switch doesn’t have drift

I don’t think it does

I got it in august I believe

[hardy tusk]

I did end up removing all the keyboard/mouse controls in the right column and I can now place tags on the map with the A button.
I was also unable to select train stops on the map (with the A button). Removing the keyboard/mouse controls in the right column also resolved this.

[vital turret]

Maaan, the car controls are horrendous

[manic shoal]

Car controls are super wonky on PC too. I actually think the car controls are a little better on Switch

[jovial mica]

negative 17 more days until release!

[vital turret]

Welp, i might have to open my joy con and attempt to fix the drift, it's getting unplayable, the fix seems easy enough I'll let you if I fixed it or had to buy a new one lol

[manic shoal]

You can buy kits to replace the entire stick assembly on sites like ifixit

Cheaper than buying a whole new joycon

[fiery mason]

Anyone make mega base on switch

[fiery mason]

Just use wd-40 way easier

[vital turret]

That's probably a temporary fix afaik

Apparently the real fix is placing a piece of cardboard on the stick holding plate

After many presses on the stick this plate bends and the stick starts malfunctioning

[fiery mason]

All solutions will be temporary

[manic shoal]

I'm trying to get there but haven't had any time to play lately.

[zinc steppe]

Anyone know what the latest patch did? Can't find any notes anywhere.

[manic shoal]

Probably updated to the latest PC Hot fix.

[zinc steppe]

Ahh

[lone drift]

#announcements has all the patch notes. May have to go back a version or two though :P

Also: no About/changelog in the main menu on Switch?

[zinc steppe]

There's an About, but nothing about patch notes

ONly Credits, Licenses, EULA, and Confirm.

Aside from
Release:
Version:
Created By:
Website:

[normal star]

How seamlessly are Switch players able to post screenshots of their factories/builds/issues into discord?

[zinc steppe]

I’ve posted mine on Twitter, then saved them from there.

The QR code method to save it to your phone directly seems wonky and never worked for me.

[fiery mason]

It’s not that hard but it can be annoying to do it a lot

[fiery mason]

Always worked for me

Just scan both QR codes then save the picture by holding down on it

[fiery mason]

Easily enough

[manic shoal]

QR code method works best if you turn off mobile data on your phone before you scan the QR codes

[vital turret]

I can't remember how it is on PC but while driving a tank and throwing grenades or capsules you can't really aim the tank rocket launcher, you gotta clear your cursor to regain control of it

[warped heron]

Maybe this helps someone:
press in the right joystick and the cursor will turn into a +
With this it is now easier to copy entities and place ghosts or select stuff from inventory or choose an entity on map for pipette aso

[fiery mason]

Does anyone even play without using the cursor?

I believe everyone uses that as it’s kinda a pain in the butt to use the default like auto selection thing

[zinc steppe]

Got this running on my Switch right now. Performance seems pretty good so far

[fiery mason]

🙂

[vital turret]

I wish the selection thingy would let you scroll further than that immediate surrounding

[fiery mason]

Yeah that kind of is one of the biggest reasons it isn’t very practical

That would make it much better

[zinc steppe]

You mean for the preview map?

[fiery mason]

No

Maybe I misunderstood them

[vital turret]

Nah, in normal view if you're not using the cursor the selection defaults to the closest thing, but i wish you can like move the stick and select other things past the inmediate things you're surrounded by without needing to use the cursor

So like a cursor but with snapping

[zinc steppe]

Ahh gotcha

[fiery mason]

Ok I did understand correctly

[vital turret]

Ok now, all of the sudden I can't see my lan switch hosted game from my computer, if i host it public i can see it but it cannot connect

[vital turret]

Nvm it was just the firewall lol

[vital turret]

I'm getting a std::bad_alloc error while trying to join with the switch to my big base hosted on my PC

But i can load that same base hosted on the switch itself

[pure cloud]

I’d report this on the forums directly as the developers are more active there. Maybe there is some additional overhead for multiplayer that causes it to just be too much

[vital turret]

I've googled the error and it all points out to a file that's too large for the switch to handle

Also I spent the afternoon setting up a headless server to better sync my PC and switch games, but only to realize swtich can't joint dedicated servers from the public list or lan, so i had to join via IP, if anyone's looking for advice on this lmk

Another wall i hit today was being unable to import a string for a map, there's simply no way to paste it into the text box.

[lone drift]

The switch does not have a clipboard, so I'm somewhat surprised the text box exists at all, lol

[manic shoal]

Your PC save might be too large for the Switch to load.

[pearl cradle]

New member here but just wanted to say I've been really enjoying the Switch release. It's been really fun to play during the various flights and delays over the last month. However, I've been playing only peaceful mode since I didn't want the added stress when I was traveling.

[vital turret]

ayyo welcome to the club, make yourself comfortable and enjoy the game as you wish, the only thing that matters is that you're having fun