Factorio New Pathfinding System

[swiftybit]

I always get amazed by how Factorio's developers code such an amazingly optimized algorithms

[imofage]

It'd be cool if they applied this to Remote operated Spidertron pathfinding.

[lucasbrunner]

My first thought when seeing this was, “damn that’s sexy”
I must be a programmer

[matheusedwin]

The thing about the new pathfinding is that it start by creating nodes *from the attacker* to the point of strike. Each nodes are point of destination where the bitters will go to reach the attacker.

[wyguysecondary]

breaking news: spidertron has to navigate around a ballsack

[bowiemtl]

When I first read this I was kind of mindblown, love this kind of problem solving the game does

[nexusg]

That explains why they're always next to water.

[Wanshciwhfifownsbcufoapwng]

The biter nest going 12 km to destroy the one big electric pole powering my base

[willowthewispy]

Uh what does it mean? can we click to walk our character?

[yeet]

They update the path finding yet when I use AAI the chaingunners still get stuck in the DAMN ROCKS

[magicstixr]

Is this a bad time to point out it was the Brits who invented the word "soccer?"

[jefflokanata]

I play factorio, but I don't understand this. hahaha what is this?