Why You'll Want to Start a New Save in Satisfactory 1.0 

even if nothing had changed.. i intend to do a fresh start.

I've started playing Satisfactory about 4 times and it follows the same scenario each time: 1. Play about 150 hours without a long break, unlocking all stages and build a nuclear power plant. 2. "It's time to start manufacturing space elevator parts on an industrial scale" 3. Start collecting huge amounts of resources all over the map and adding them to the logistical network. 4. Get tired and stop playing. 5. Come back to the game after six months. Realize that you don't remember ANYTHING and it's like you've entered someone else's world where someone built everything for you and now you can't figure out how everything works. 6. Start over.

I'm ridiculously excited for 1.0. So many great changes. It'll be great

This video helped me feel better about starting over. I built a massive aluminum factory in my game and need all the quartz I can get, but seeing the changes, I'm pretty sure everything is going to break. I liked the reminder at the end about it being an early access game.

soooo excited for 1.0. I cant believe anyone would keep an old save, I mean we are Satisfactory players, we are used to restarting lol.

Wouldn't a game mode with randomized ore nodes be a better solution to get people to build more varied factories in different locations?

I was gonna do a fresh start no matter what - in fact, I ended up dropping the game for about a month just because I got so busy, and decided not to pick it back up because I was gonna wait for 1.0. I caved in recently, of course, and started a new save for Satisfactory+ because I wanted to try it after ImKibitz posted his video on the mod. But when 1.0 comes out I'll start another new save for just vanilla.

Earlier this year I wanted to get back into this amazing and addictive game after putting it awayfor 2 years. When I was installing it and reviewing guide videos, I heard that they were going to 1.0, which made me stop continuing. I'm glad that I'm holding off returning and excited for this September

The earpy days were quite fun cant wait to get back to that with 1.0

When I first started to get plastic production the first big thing I did was 3 manufactures for computers, with no alternates it took 21 refineries and that made me so avoidant to the whole plastic production line that I just took silicon circuit boards and HSC alts to not have to deal with it. I am really going to miss that pile of quartz nodes.

The most tedious part for me when starting a new save are the recipes, the M.A.M research and tiers. Sure I would happily build a new factory from scratch, but losing all progress in those terms just sounds like repeating the same game again with no excitement. Having to unlock all of that (same) stuff again just steals me hours of building. It would be nice if they allow you to load a save, removing all structures built by the player and keeping the progress so you have all the resources available to rebuild your factories as you like in the first try without going through the hassle of doing the same process of research and collecting again. Maybe would be also nice if you can only preserve those items you can store in the personal box from the hub, anything else would be erased and the world fully restored, so you have the compromise of what items you can keep for the... NG+?

i Reaaaaaly don't want to rebuild my Mega factory again. I would rather make the small adjustments needed to operate again. i started my Mega factory 4 weeks ago, and already did ALOT!.

I still plan to fix my save, as it shouodn't be too much work. I already moved some miners to nodes that will stay in preparation. I will make a new save just for the story, but probably with some AGS to make the story-playthrough faster (like having all alts unlocked from the beginning etc)

How much power you need really depends on how fast you want to produce things. I was able to finish the game with primarily coal power and some normal fuel power, but never had to touch turbo fuel or nuclear power.

IDK if I should start playing a new save, if soon I'll just restart again

i like doing restarts from time to time anyways. but i am also taking a long time to get into actually organizing things, so there is that

I'm too stubborn to let my safes drop and just go with a new one

I knew I would be starting a new save as soon as I saw how many trees are now growing in my factories. Plus I want to experience the whole story.

Everything clean, everything new!

I really hope they added a couple new parts and the Sam ore is an engaging addition. Otherwise it really will be 3 years since the last automation content update. They are holding their cards close and I’m not one to be negatively speculate for this game.

I finally managed to finish the game about a month ago, and am waiting the 1.0 so I can go through it all again.

I will start a new fresh game and it will be like the first cigarette after a long cold, a glass of fine scottish whiskey after work is done, a deep breath when finally arriving in my favourite holiday forest and I will enjoy every single moment of it. Looking forward to it. Just a bit...

I'm most excited for getting access to trains earlier

I already intended to do that a year ago and still intend of doing a fresh save for 1.0, honestly I can't comprehend anybody that wants to continue their save as they're gonna miss the new stuff. I'm unbelievably hyped for 1.0, I have not been playing Satisfactory for like more than half a year now and my addicted ass is NOT liking that

A new start is always nice

did anyone ever use the base recipe for computers? Or the base recipe for screws after that one time you make an early game factory for the starting materials?

I have a save that i have 600 hours in and based on the changes, it "shouldn't" be that hard to fix the production chains that i have made so far. Sonce none of them involve a large amount of steal. Going further or making more logistic lines to get the resource is fine. I plan to have a multiplayer server to enjoy the story with friends and then continue and fix my 600 hour world. To "beat" the game.

Is the conveyor at 0:14 just a single entity or can you build connected sloped conveyors? I thought there is some ugly horizontal connection

As if i needed a persuading to start a new save

That means that I just cant play until the release. And since they still have not said anything about release date thats make me sad.

What I think I'm going to do is to copy over my train lines and most favorite buildings but keep anything else new so I get somewhat the full experience. But I'm still debating..

Honestly I always intended to do new save for full release so...yeah

Im just playing satisfactory + .. its insane .. but one question in satisfactory + there are 3 tiers of blueprint designer which is really cool do you think they will add something like this to 1.0 ? did they mention something i didnt watch so many of pre relase videos so i hope i missed it

They knew we where all going to start fresh anyway

I always intended a new start, all thats happened over the last year is I didnt play much, just get the game out already!

I just started last week, should I restart? I only set up 1 automatic miner

thank you so much fo this vidéo

Great update. If your final review out I just need to link it with my stream review and you have done my job.😅

“Hard to make a ton of screws”… Are we playing the same game?

At what cost? Moving few conveyor belts and miners to new nodes, or not. They can just be where they are, just for the memes. Not leaving lube inside tho.

I just want a release date man. I hate sitting in limbo for like 2 months only to find out it releases in 2 more months. I prefer if they just said 2025 and have it be at that

Definitely using same save. Or perhaps using the 3rd party save editor (if it still works) to copy the buildings to new save and restarting progression. "Drain the world" style saves are too tedious to recreate, and much can be adapted to the new nodes with only moderate disruption.

I bought this game with the "early access" tag, assuming it would be a half finished buggy mess like all other. Bloody hell, if they just quit here they'd still have a better game than most finished products, can't believe it's early access tbh

Note: The amount of energy contained in a unit of fuel will not be changed, only thing we're gaining from the fuel gen change is having to build fewer of them for the same amount of power, we will still need the same amount of crude oil, refineries, etc. for the same amount of power

with conveyor automated biomass generators, starting a new save isn't that bad.

I hope they make it so you can recycle plutonium

Oh boy i cant wait to waste 42h again!

No screws for computer? 😮

Satisfactory for Consoles when.

I'm willing to bet that in a year or two there will be an update 1.1 or 1.2 or something else. And we will be told again that we need to start over. The “early access” excuse will no longer work by this time, so we will be told that this is a “very good update.” How Minecraft does it.

I restart several times a month, so that's not a big deal

So they move ores around but progression, vehicles, blueprints, exploration ect are all mediocre at best. At least people wont be able to say its early access as an excuse anymore.

I don't care about a story, I just want the CPU optimizations so I can get more than 20fps on my 100gw game.

I'm fine starting over bc how many games I've played and i always started over and i didn't do lot so yea Iven if i did lots it will be boring starting over but latter il wanna play it again

dont tell me what to do. that is what makes this game fun.. lol

Those changes mean, that I can fully throw away my nearly 2000hrs save game, as it will be absolutely useless afterwards. My system won't have power anymore. Yes it is Early Access, but I can't even stay with the old version to enjoy the game is at the moment. This is will be now the fifth time I fully need to restart and normally I would say I won't regret it. The problem here is, that due to the new start the boring and fully repetitive stuff like grinding all the hard drives and the tree will cost hundreds of hours again, as I'm not a fantastic player with skills that excel. I'm just the below average guy who is happy when he finally get something running the right way. Don't get me wrong, Satisfactory is still one of the best games I know and it is a hell of a game, but at that point there are just two options for me personally. Forget Satisfactory and never look back or cheat so that I won't need to grind all this shit again. On the other side I'm pretty sure that cheating that way will interfere with the story. Yes I know they say otherwise, but I'm sure it isn't the full truth. I played other games, they said the same after adding a story and the result was, either you play it from the beginning step by step or you will ruin the story experience. I needed hours to just calculate some factories and find the right spot and I know, that those factories won't be possible anymore. My turbo fuel power plant? Useless and can't be build that way again.

when 1.0?

“Be thankful your save will be compatible with the full release…[that’s] more than you can expect from most games” I have to hard disagree with this point. That phenomenon has never occurred to me over a dozen or so early access titles. Granted I’m only 100hrs in-and it seems like the changes won’t impact my current set up-I still feel that addressing people with bricked saves requires empathy. Not “be thankful”

Oh, they are still working on this? It was my impression they are getting more and more lazy.

If the map were procedurally generated it would be a lot better.

These are the smallest and fewest changes I’ve seen in a game since FIFA and Madden. If you want to start a new save because of some new recipes and node location changes, then you wanted to start a new save anyway. Because if you were actually waiting for a good reason to start over, a few different node locations and recipes change basically nothing on the grand scale. You still be doing the same thing but now with a story and I bet all I have the story will be short, mediocre and basically insulting considering how long people have waited to get anything but bug fixes the past 24 months

Devs nerf stuff in noncompetitive game. Pocket influencers - BuT iTs a GoOd ThInG.

2:59 - "This makes them waaaay less daunting." It's SUPPOSED TO BE daunting. I don't get why they've went to such ends to make the game easier. I get the redistribution of nodes... as nearly anyone who played more than 100hrs usually started on the plateau of the northern forest. I enjoyed the more complex recipes, and was looking forward to new and vastly more complex ones with 1.0... but I guess that's not happening 🥱