⚠️ SearchlightAssault ⚠️


Adds a game map and searchlights which sweep for foes at great range, alerting you while directing adjacent turrets to snipe spotted foes. Designed to dovetail with the early-mid game, searchlights provide: - Circuit network interfaces for search & detection I/O - Incentive to automate lamp & combinator production in the early game - New tactics to assault biter bases without leap-frogging turrets!

Content
3 days ago
1.1 - 2.0
12.4K
Combat

i Settings Request

a month ago

I'd love to have a setting toggle to disable/enable the "wub wub wub" sound when the searchlight is active. It's great on scenario maps, but it gets annoying on normal maps.

a month ago

Sure, I can probably knock that out by the weekend, just need to find a little free time after work

a month ago

The new setting has to be set during startup, you can find it labeled as "Volume for Scanning effect"

Also I noticed your own mod, Factorio After Dark, very cool! I might grab that for when expansion drops

a month ago

Thanks! I've still got some extra roadmap stuff I want to add. Also as the author of this mod, maybe weigh in on your thought - popup "miss" text when shots miss - yea or nay? I was thinking it might make the mod more easily understandable for some...but could be annoying.

a month ago

I like the idea! It can be frustrating for someone to play on a friend's save or grab some modpack and not immediately notice why they're seeing such little damage. Even something as simple as a floating "miss" can help spur someone to look into what the problem is and quickly notice the correlation between darkness and damage loss.

If I were doing it, I'd have the flying text appear over the enemy, so it's out of the way of whatever the player's probably doing, and rate-limit it so it only happens at most once a second (there's not a lot of information for the player to gain or lose from seeing 'miss' appear more often)

And of course, make it a setting, players love settings for mods.

a month ago

Sounds good, thanks for the feedback. :D

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