Attack Alerts?

[Castor Troy]

Is there a way to turn attack alerts back on? I liked hearing the notification sound when my base was being attacked. Now there is no sound, just a popup showing something was damaged.

[DaveDecay]

If I am not mistaken, you only hear an alarm when something is destroyed, while you only get the visual alert when something is being damaged. Not sure if it is something you can adjust in the settings?!

[bobidog]

This was removed from the game due to popular demand.

[Magnificent Imp]

I believe you can turn them back on using the console alhough I haven't tried it

https://wiki.factorio.com/Alerts

[Khaylain]

Originally posted by bobidog:

This was removed from the game due to popular demand.

Popular demand? I really haven't seen this popular demand.

But yeah, as Magnificent Imp linked to; the wiki has information on how to turn that alert back on. From what I've read that console command shouldn't disable achievements either

[Chindraba]

Originally posted by Khaylain:

Originally posted by bobidog:

This was removed from the game due to popular demand.

Popular demand? I really haven't seen this popular demand.

But yeah, as Magnificent Imp linked to; the wiki has information on how to turn that alert back on. From what I've read that console command shouldn't disable achievements either

It wasn't 'popular demand', it was however probably in anticipation of popular demand. With 5 planets and perhaps a dozen platforms, all the old-style alerts would be almost always on. Something, somewhere, in any given second is likely to have some turret engaged with the enemy (counting asteroids as enemies) or something would be taking damage from an enemy. An alert which is always on is both no longer an alert and very annoying.

[Khaylain]

I'm thinking they could've set up some way to choose whether alerts would be triggered either on a per planet (or space platform) basis, or just have a checkbox on the turret itself for whether it gives alarms

[Maltsi]

attack alert sound was removed back in v0.16 already?, like 5 to 6 years ago. it only plays the sound if something is destroyed.

[königplatzen]

In 1.1, there was a yellow alert, when turrets engage. A red alert if something got damaged and sound + red alert when something got destroyed.
The yellow alert is now off and can be maybe activated via console command
The old siren sound doesn't exist anymore

[Fletch]

It would've been nice if you could use circuit network and wire up a programmable speaker -- doesn't seem that turrets have an output signal for when they are firing though. Oh well..

[Bllasae]

Originally posted by Khaylain:

Originally posted by bobidog:

This was removed from the game due to popular demand.

Popular demand? I really haven't seen this popular demand.

But yeah, as Magnificent Imp linked to; the wiki has information on how to turn that alert back on. From what I've read that console command shouldn't disable achievements either

Yeah it's the most annoying thing ever.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Chindraba:

Originally posted by Khaylain:

Popular demand? I really haven't seen this popular demand.

But yeah, as Magnificent Imp linked to; the wiki has information on how to turn that alert back on. From what I've read that console command shouldn't disable achievements either

It wasn't 'popular demand', it was however probably in anticipation of popular demand. With 5 planets and perhaps a dozen platforms, all the old-style alerts would be almost always on. Something, somewhere, in any given second is likely to have some turret engaged with the enemy (counting asteroids as enemies) or something would be taking damage from an enemy. An alert which is always on is both no longer an alert and very annoying.

Most of the planets wouldn't be bad since only one new planet would be triggering it.


Platforms would be terrible if turrets firing at random asteroids while in orbit triggered it though

[JustSmile]

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Most of the planets wouldn't be bad since only one new planet would be triggering it.


Platforms would be terrible if turrets firing at random asteroids while in orbit triggered it though

It's not about planets, it's about platforms. All the alert did was trigger when a turret starts shooting, and some turret somewhere is always shooting with Space Age. I can only assume filtering alerts by turret target is not feasible and something else prohibited filtering alerts by source surface.

[Chindraba]

I think another factor in the choice to drop the alert, the yellow one, is along the lines of "what you gonna do about it?" Even if it's filtered automatically to the current surface, anytime past early mid-game the situation should already by automated and that a turret is shooting at something, somewhere other than the present location (spot on the map, not the entire surface), ought to be of no value for the engineer. The red alert, where the shooting failed to stop the damage, however, is something which might require attention. Attention to both repair that damage and build or do something to keep it from becoming a repeat.