What Satisfactory Needs to Feel Like 1.0 

There’s some theories that it’ll be a pseudo mk6 belt

def this cuz sometimes it feels pointless to make anything but the project assembly stuff

Definitely this, but replace the AWESOME sink/shop with this and make certain parts be unlocked with the tiers.

Personally, I'd like to see "surprise" objectives (i.e. "You have 3 in-game days to send us as many of [part X] as possible, starting right now."). This would encourage building modular factories that can be rapidly reconfigured to make different products depending on what the game calls for. This wouldn't even be complicated. Just give the item a temporary bonus in the AWESOME sink, and let the player figure out the rest.

@@NYKevin100 Giving items temporary bonuses doesn’t fully encourage the player to go out of their way to make use of it because you usually end up sinking every type of item in the game at all times anyway.

@@NYKevin100 i think time limits is a bad idea but some sort of Ficsit missions system could b nice like mayb they want u to produce 250 HMF @ a rate of 5/min or smth

Technically it's "Strange Alien Metal" but I imagine that will be changed.

When I first played the game I thought it was a procedurally or randomly generated map...

Any examples of bad biome blends except blue crater lake?

Haha yeah the foliage changes in Update 8 grew over my train track.

Like much of the environment, water is pretty much not there in any way other than visually. We're outside in the environment and other than visually, it often doesn't feel like it. Much more attention to ambient sounds, as in different foot step sounds, small critter sounds is needed and to have these vary between biomes and the type of terrain we run on would really enhance the feeling of being there. Water is pretty much not even implemented other than having to swim sometimes - water has a current, players need to be careful of this, and it should splash too. Currently we can just walk without a care across the top of a waterfall and while I don't really advocate throwing a player off the edge as a gameplay mechanism, it really should be there to put in a little respect for the environment in the same way that we have to respect not walking off a cliff. Possibly better placement of the player loot box on death is all that's required here to get a balance - as in don't stick it at the bottom of the waterfall on death!

you can farm slugs with Doggos…

Agreed on the vehicles, and I'm curious to see what feedback they take when Update 8 comes out on Early Access. Plenty of little bugs to be ironed out.

At least with the new engine the overall vehicle physics are much more reliable. I can let my vehicles drive knowing that the only thing causing them to fly off the road is a collision, as opposed to before where it could happen at basically any moment.

That'd be great! Round elements would be cool, especially since there are very hacky ways to make curves right now.

Actually the issue is that there are problems when they try to put more items on a conveyor belt. Otherwise the solution would be to make a Mk. 6 belt. With that in mind, it'll be interesting to see what the solution actually is.

They did talk in the past, about adding a second output on the MK3 Miner. But we will see.

I think the easiest outcome would be the ability to snap a splitter right on the miner.

Snapping a splitter onto the miner would work, but I suspect the SAM ore, and derivative materials, would likely be used for a Mk. 6 belt. Hopefully processing for it won't be as annoying as aluminium though...

overclocking belts? how thats supposed to work? wtf

its only temporary, since they arent the final parts, but until those come put, it should providea decent challange

considering we will get a 9&10th tier in the hub, you can be sure we got more stuff to do. We have 2 items in the game that we can only find on the ground

That works be a nice little quality of life thing, I agree!

They've been pretty clear about not making flying vehicles for players so I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Agree on the programmable splitter though, I feel that it's a basically useless item and having it in the game without a good use as compared to the smart splitter feels weird.

The last update on Paradise Island is apparently that the world border is being moved so that players can use it without dying.

@@SatisfactoryNews Aha, awesome I missed that. Thanks for the news SatisfactoryNews! 😊👍

At least Update 8 fixed the issue of vehicles bouncing on foundations! Traffic lights would be cool though, similar to train signals. Vehicles are pretty good at avoiding each other but they are far from perfect.

You still on U7? Because with UE5 and U8, the physics are different then in UE4/U7.

U8 is better, but still a train wreck. Vehicles are more likely than not to end up upside down and far away from the track set ... on foundations they still 'gallop' like drunken horses.

Actually, is this by design. Because it needs to freeze to save, during this time, it save everything in the world; where are items placed, what is the status of the machines etc. Side node: the duration also depends on the size of the game. A game that just started saves faster then a game where you are at 'end game' items.

Good point! The game has a history of being mod-friendly so I would hope that continues.

I'd imagine they mean something like Steam Workshop support with that. Furthermore, the Workshop could probably also be used to share blueprints, similarly to how Garry's Mod's workshop has both mods and dupes.

​@@SatisfactoryNewswith how good the modding community is, I'd expect some proper tools for the backend and to take the existing modding network into the main menu.

Yeah I think most people are willing to ride out the wait, but there are definitely people getting impatient. I get it, but I want a good final product above all else.

I see what you mean but the Problem is, that not every player (casuals etc) are willing to calculate and optimize for 20h just to make their fuel plant. A Solution could be the Story where it could requiere a lot of resources to finish a Story part wich requires a lot od Optimization and time.

@@nilswalcher8338 u still have to spend like 70 hours to get to the last tier already why not just make it only for enthusiasts instead of trying to make it appael for everyone and then no one will like it a casual cant get to end game in this update anyway just add more things for enthusiasts

@@ALexalex-ss4sb but 70h of Doing all Sort of Things. But I understand your point

@@nilswalcher8338 i have never seen a casual spend more than 15 hours in a game no matter how good is it they dont even finish games like gow or tlou

@@nilswalcher8338 as i said already casuals wont even play for that long, i have never seen a casual spend more than 15 hours in any game no matter how good is it not even in games like GOW or TLOU just make satisfactory for its main public its already more for enthusiast bc u cant get very far with a few hours

That would be awesome.

Better support for that would be greatly appreciated. There's a lot of creativity when it comes to making non-square blocks but standard elements such as just foundations split diagonally, even if just one 45 degree type, would make the creativity a lot more accessible to everyone.

No its not. Satisfactory has always been a game that requires some PC performance. Or Unreal Engine overall. Now with UE5, you don´t have to wonder. This game is optimized pretty well already. Im 99% certain you´re having a lowend PC.

I was able to play experimental with medium - high settings (Lumen on) on a 1050 and R5 3800 on 30+ FPs. And THATS lowend already.

An overall performance boost would be ideal, but I don't think it's unplayable (unless you really have a massive factory). I mean just look at ImKibitz's videos, he reached the Uobject limit in one of his recent videos, and his game is still smooth enough to play with comfort. If you're saying it's unplayable, I assume your specs are close to the minimum specs for the game, in which case you should not expect amazing performance. I have an RTX 3070 and get ~80 FPS on the medium preset with global illumination on, at 1440p. Not the most impressive compared to other games, but it's not unreasonable. Really hoping performance issues get a lot of attention leading up to 1.0, however.

​@@Leliana.OrLilly.OrJana I should have mentioned my hardware specs in my original remark: I use a i5-10600KF, 32 Gb DDR4 RAM, 12 Gb RX6700 XT graphics card and the game is installed on a 1 Tb Kingston A2000 nvme drive. I play at 1920x1080 resolution at Medium settings, Lumen off. So far I have 1200 hours in the game. My save games are 28.3 Mb. The game stutters, has random 1-3 sec freezes and framedrops below 10 fps, notably with Update 8 in Experimental. I have never had this kind of poor performance in any other game. I love the game but the performance, I think, is not up to standard and should be improved.

I'm playing on ultra 1440p getting 90-144 fps but there are occasional quick fps swings to below freesync range and little freezes which are most prevalent when riding a hypertube. This is with 5800x3d, 6950xt, 128gb ddr4-3600, nvme. Running with TSR offloads more work to the cpu bumping utilization up another 10%+ which doesn't seem to help the situation and would have an even greater impact on the cpu running at 1080p.

You haven't heard about the flushable toilet DLC?!

@@SatisfactoryNews lol mods, another great thing about Satisfactory are the mods that you can use.

The devs have been pretty adamant about not adding renewable power like solar and wind. And the reason makes sense. Currently, your potential power is limited by the nodes on the map, and that limited nature forces the player to go from coal, to fuel, to nuclear, as they realize they don't have enough nodes to supply their power. But if solar generators existed, nothing would stop you from covering the entire desert with them and getting effectively infinite power. There would need to be solar "nodes" which would defeat the purpose of having a solar generator. I have not seen anyone suggest rechargable batteries before but that's actually a really cool idea!

@@SatisfactoryNews the solar plants would need a balance for sure. i personally just wanted a neat little self contained and endless power source i could use for remote micro factories....oooo, an rtg using plutonium or uranium. nearly infinite fuel duration but very poor output. perfect for a miner plus a few smelters i just want to run on their own power grid. but the rechargeable battery option is a really neat idea i want to see explored for potential (hell, a truck with it?) also, i want trains that take fuel.

also, maybe a weaker coal plant that only needs coal but is a mere 50mw of output.

They have been kind of against farming, but we'll see. I certainly wouldn't mind if at least the production of things like inhalers could be automated.

I think having automated search and kill drones would be a great addition. A way to keep the annoying local animals (near our bases) in check and a way to bring in alien DNA in the same way that other resources are brought in.

I like it ! @@nickryan3417

I don't disagree. However, since multiplayer is in the game I think we can all expect that 1.0 should have functional multiplayer. If it's not bug-free then it doesn't feel like a completed feature. Single player should come first, so I don't mind that multiplayer is rough in Early Access.

I would consider character customization nice for sure, but I don't think it's "essential" to a full release. Everything else surrounding multiplayer performance trumps that IMO.

Yeah, it doesn't *need* a story, but since there are sprinkles of story elements it either needs a full story or those elements need to be removed. Because right now it's just kind of confusing that there are all these WIP elements.

A game having story doesn't have to mean it has to be forced upon the player. It could be something like Factorio's final goal of the game, launching a rocket to escape the planet. Many players continue playing the game after that and you could just evade the tech, do whatever you want and nothing would change.

They have said the story will be very light. I imagine it'll be used for a tutorial in the early game and to help people get over things like pipes and oil, which is where alot of people quit and then just something at the end to make it feel like a definite end. I also would not be surprised if they add a game mode to turn the story off for multiple playthoughs.

@@fromscratchgaming Yea, no cutscenes probably, and you can already skip most of the starting stuff like building the hub tiers, so it most definetly is gonna be optional.

From what we know so far, the story will be in the background. Other than the intro sequence, I can't image there being any cutscenes. I think the devs know that the story should not impact normal factory building, but it might give more depth to the exploration aspect of the game, as well as a lore reason for progressing through the tiers.

I think it's more the concept of lore, rather than story. We already have a bit of railroaded "story" in the space elevator requirements, which could be fleshed out a bit but without making too much of a story. In Satisfactory we're just pioneers, one of many, that get thrown onto a planet in order to pillage resources and send them up for rewards. That could easily be continued, unlocking new and varied items/effects, possibly procedurally generated and would give a bit of reason for things, just not a goal.

Yeah I think we generally agree cutscene would be weird (outside of the intro). I doubt they will use any, as it would feel weird.

No, it has been in early access since 2019 and has been receiving updates since then. But it is not a finished game yet. Although it does feel like one.

given the "quality" of recent 3A developers, it definitely does feel much more complete than the competition

huh?

@@Rambrus0 wha?

Oh? Like what? I'd be curious to know what I got wrong. Especially considering I edit the weekly update videos for them, so that would be pretty embarrassing for me.

It's almost like I say exactly that in the video 🙃 Clearly people enjoy the game without a story to guide them, but there is also a known intention to add a story. They're working on it. Therefore 1.0 needs a story, because it'd be weird if it came later than that. It's less that players asked for it and more that CSS has planting in our heads that there will be a story.

so many people