Settings

Settings are a set of options accessible from the main menu and the in-game menu.

Options
There are six category tabs underneath the options tab in the main menu of the game. When logged into a game session, this is reduced to five categories, removing the online tab, however, Session Settings can be accessed to change session and multiplayer settings.

Options not available in-game
It's possible to achieve higher visual fidelity than "Ultra quality" by modifying the game settings file directly. The following changes will have a drastic negative impact on your framerate, but will eliminate rocks and foliage magically appearing a few meters away from you. For a more detailed explanation of these settings and pictures, see this old but still relevant post: Force good LOD, Draw distance

Two steps to apply these changes (close the game first):
 * 1) Open Notepad, then open this file: %LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Engine.ini
 * 2) Add (or replace if you've already done this) the following to the bottom of the file then save it:

[SystemSettings] r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0 r.TemporalAASamples=32 r.PostProcessAAQuality=5 r.ToneMapper.Sharpen=1 r.ViewDistanceScale=5 r.Shadow.MinResolution=256 r.Shadow.DistanceScale=5 foliage.LODDistanceScale=2 foliage.DitheredLOD=5 r.MaxAnisotropy=16

You've done the change right if your file looks similar to this when you're done: picture of modified Engine.ini