Hello,
It is a busy time fixing bugs and cleaning up after the Space Age release.
During the last weeks, our dear Petr - Music composer of the Factorio: Space Age (FFF-406) has been working on selecting, remixing and mastering the very best tracks of the entire expansion in order to prepare an album with the best possible quality to represent the soundtrack of the DLC.
The selected tracks have been remixed to enhance and intensify its dynamics to give them a proper album format experience. All the recording sessions with the musicians and the electronic compositions are paying off here. Many sections of tracks that were originally composed but cut from the final game tracks have been released in this album.
The album length is 02:04:27, and includes the ambience of the new 4 planets and the space area.
You will find the released album on Steam. We hope you enjoy it.
We are all quite busy fixing bugs these weeks, so work on features and quality of life improvements that we could typically exposit about in FFF is on the back burner.
We do have a nice graph of automated crash reports since the release:
For a bit of a release retrospective, given how 2.0 and Space Age was the biggest launch we've ever done, things went way smoother than we anticipated. This could be due to many factors:
That is not to say there were zero bugs and crashes, but generally it seems like most players could load the game and get right to having fun and not encounter any show stoppers. Still, with over 300 open bugs sitting in our forum, we have our work cut out for us...
At this time we have been pushing releases as Stable quite quickly after release, but as we start fixing lower priority bugs, the chances of a bigger issue sneaking through increase. That is why we would like to slowly transition to having experimental releases stay experimental for longer.
For this we need more people to opt-in to the experimental releases, which can be done in 2 ways:
By joining the experimental releases, it will give us a better ability to test the game before wider distribution. You will also be first in line when it comes to encountering new bugs, which we would very much appreciate being reported on our forum.
As always, experiment on your thoughts in the usual places.
