Did someone ping me?

@Mego "Some of the changes are intentional, such as using underground belts to compress belts, no longer works."

factorio.com/blog/post/fff-221

yeah. They keep on making the game harder. Nearly everything in .16 is a nerf (except for the science recipe)

@Mego are you on a Windows machine?

Okay, I just wanted to check; otherwise I'd have to get my game to you in a non-Steam fashion

@NathanMerrill Really? What do you think is a nerf?

@DJMcMayhem the fully-compressed belt mechanics, cliffs, biter settings can't be lowered to get acheivements anymore, less total ore on the map, less scaling of ore, no uranium in the starting area

I don't think the game is worse, they just keep on making those achievements harder

(FWIW: I don't think that the larger patches buff compensates for the other ore nerfs, especially since you can't easily compress an ore belt anymore

@NathanMerrill To be fair, artificially making particular achievements easier does seem to me slightly like cheating.

I'll be playing it for the next hour or so before I gtg

@DJMcMayhem made it to lvl 2 of the tower in talos, need 2 more red pentominos