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It would be a really nice addition. It is a good quality of life addition that won't take anything away from the game.

The end result is the game would randomly mute your game even when you're still interacting with it. I'd be perfectly fine if there was a simple hotkey (or better: API interface "player.mute=true") to mute all sound playback. That would also be useful when continuing to play while talking...

The idea sounds fine but the problems start showing up when you try this logic on anything except Windows. Linux and all the random desktop manages *love* to send false-flags to processes telling them they're focused/not minimized even if they still are and the other way around: telling a window it...

I agree, but I feel like CTRL+S is too close to other commonly pressed keys so it will probably be turned on and off by accident very frequently, so I would change that up in my opinion.

TL;DR A option in settings where you can disable all Factorio audio when you are tabbed out of the game. (Or disable all audio except Alerts) What ? You guys should add a checkbox that can either enable or disable Factorio audio when you alt+TAB or when Factorio is not selected so that way you can'...