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Brake Squeal

NBy Nexusuxen

Makes trains squeal/screech as they brake, dynamically changing based on speed. Auditory stimulation for the discerning engineer. (A brief demo is included in the mod portal)

Description

Makes trains audibly squeal/screech as they brake, to soothe your ears and engineering brain. The sound effect dynamically changes in volume and pitch based on the speed of a train. Notably, this does not take into account modded trains with lower or higher max speeds; non-vanilla trains may produce sound slightly differently.

Demo video of the prolonged braking of an artillery train: A video of an artillery train in Factorio decelerating, to demonstrate the braking sound effect

A huge thank you to darkstorm2150 for their continuation of the mod, and GHXX's contributions in improvements and crash fixes; this updated version probably wouldn't be as stable if I hadn't been able to reuse some of their code.

Performance note: This mod can cause noticeable, albeit minor, UPS issues in megabases. One test with ~350 trains at 10kSPM resulted in avg time usage of ~0.05-0.1ms, and occasional max time usage of ~1-2ms.

Beyond any reported bugs/issues, this mod is complete. However, I may update it in the future. Possible future changes:

  • Additional effects while braking (e.g visible sparks)
  • Further tweaks and improvements to sound effects

This is my first mod! If you have feedback, please let me know in the Discussions, through the provided email, or on Discord/Telegram (nexusuxen), preferably in the Factorio official discord. Especially report bugs/crashes/performance issues; I'm quite new to Lua and despite my best efforts it's certain I've missed *something*! My attention is fickle, but I will read your comments... eventually.

Known issues:

  • Potential multiplayer desyncs upon joining a server. Please let me know if this issue persists.

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