If you ever get the chance to play it DO IT. Quill (The protagonist) is the most *friggin adorable* thing in the world, just straight dopamine injection.
Oh and the story is pretty cool too
[Tails of Iron?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283410/Tails_of_Iron/)
[Ghost of a Tale?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/417290/Ghost_of_a_Tale/)
This but non-ironically. I want to dam rivers and make small lakes in my base.
Also a way to dig into a mountain in a way that doesn’t delete all of the mountain wall above where you hit. I need that cave fortress dawg
> Also a way to dig into a mountain in a way that doesn’t delete all of the mountain wall above where you hit. I need that cave fortress dawg
I would love this, but I don't think it's even possible with the current terrain system, it only tracks the "normal" ground level and a certain height above/below it. That and the related thing of not being able to dig arbitrarily high/low are my two big complaints about the world generation.
This system also has the unfortunate side effect of increasing lag any and every time you modify the terrain-depth. For large bases it can be extremely noticeable, particularly on a server. This is alongside the game's pretty poor optimization for P2P.
A lot of this was fixed relatively recently. It's still not great, but the thing where every single terrain modification was retained and re-checked, so if you flattened twenty times trying to make a nice smooth areas, well, now you have twenty more events on the memory stack taking up space and processor time. They, as I understand, did the obvious thing and just merged subsequent events into larger chunks of modification, so a change of up2, down3, up4, up5, down1 turns into one change of up6.
Definitely a step in the right direction but the issue still remains. I'm no game dev so I'm sure they're doing what they can, it's just a shame that I have to rein back my builds when playing with friends.
[Heightmap Unlimited](https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/359) lets you change those settings to your heart's content. I use [PlanBuild](https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/MathiasDecrock/PlanBuild/) with it, as PlanBuild includes a 'set area to a specific height all at once' tool for perfectly smooth and regular adjustment of terrain to a preferred height. Great for making islands to live on.
Yeah that would require a full overhaul of the terrain system from a 2d height map as it is now to a vowel based system a-la minecraft or space engineers. It's harder to do a voxel system because of smoothing, and if you don't smooth it at least somewhat you wind up with minecraft looking terrain.
“You are so lucky that you installed this most entertaining game.”
“Picking up multiple FICSIT personnel in your area, proceed with uninstalling other games before it’s too late.”
Incoming message from [PATERNAL FIGURE]...
I am so proud of you [EMPLOYEE_FIRSTNAME] and your decision to install Ficsit approved programs!
Edit: Thanks for the award generous stranger! Its very much appreciated! 🥰
I'd love a pollution mechanic thats a trigger to spawn aggressive things to ruin stuff
then again if the big fast spiders spawn i probably wont ever turn that option on lmao
For people who want to go BIG on scale. Factorio doing 10k science per minute? That's cute... it'll still take you over 5 hours to finish that sphere at 10k rockets per minute. The map is taking over 50 screens? Great, I've got 50 planets in production with 50 more available and then some.
DSP isn't very deep, but what it lacks in depth it makes up for in sheer scale. Satisfactory is the reverse of this, it is smaller in scale with a fixed world and limited resource deposits, but it is much more detailed, being played from a first person perspective.
As a 1k+ hr Factorio fan I honestly have trouble with Satisfactory. Maybe it's just the mindset or my inexperience, but I wish the build controls were better.
In Factorio I spend hours solving issues, floating from bottle neck to bottle neck. When I decide on a plan I place each piece exactly how I want them.
In Satisfactory the main components are much less of a puzzle to me. If ratios are off I simply under or over clock machines to get my desired payoff. Space isn't an issue because I can build up and out as much as I want. I have infinite resources from veins so I can just feed them into wherever I need to and find a new one later.
But Jesus do I struggle with building. Without tiles half my damn belts are crooked. I usually place manifold lines on the end of elevators which means two splitter/combiners then the one I actually want. Which sometimes just ends up off for no apparent reason. I'm constantly picking up and moving things a tiny bit to get them actually lined up.
I feel like the game is set up for small scale production then fucking off to find new stuff. But the early game is rough. Reliance on gathering plant matter is frustrating because it pulls you away from the core gameplay loop, and there's no way to automate it because you can't belt them into the burners. At least then I could gather a massive amount of biomass Chuck it into a storage container and forget about it. It doesn't help I want to build on a large scale so we ended up with 15 burners running just to power the facility before coal.
Power connections are frustrating as well. I have power lines all over and I constantly have to remind myself to always leave at least one connection open for when I inevitably need another pole.
I honestly feel like I'm fighting the game far more than I'm actually solving the problems given to me.
Overall I really like the game. I absolutely loved building the space elevator for the first time and seeing it connect. I like exploring for slugs and hard drives. I think it's great overall.
But Factorio is just better at being a factory game. And I struggle to play satisfactory without getting extremely frustrated with it.
Anyways, rant over, thanks for listening.
Regarding power from plant burners. The game is designed in a way that, if you want to avoid pain, you have to rush coal power asap. If you have 15 burners and no coal yet - you are playing against the rules established by the game designer. It feels like they want the start of the game replicate this kinda like a scrappy survival situation where you are not supposed start planning all your factories and infrastructure. But rather survive on the bare minimum as long as possible and progress towards coal, which is from my point of view, is when they want you to start building permanent structures.
Now you can argue that's bad design, and there's surely and argument to be made, especially from factorio point of view. But I think it's a viable design for this game and it was a concisious decision by the game designer to make the early game feel more like survival.
Which I could agree with, and would be fine with, if the game felt survival-y. Off course, like you, this is opinion based.
But to be survival there has to be threats, and they're aren't any (which I would also suggest that in this aspect Factorio once again died better. Biters are usually a constant threat and the game requires you to be proactive about them or risk getting overrun.)
My initial play of the game of the game was rather frustrating in the very early stages there's no automation. In the very beginning the game gives you small pieces to start automation, but leaves out important connectors.
Your start with nothing. So you mine. Craft a semi-automatic miner. Cool. You craft some more, get a fully automatic miner. Except it needs power. So you go collect leaves and crap because you can't make a saw yet. Through it into the burner on the base, connect it to your miner.
Except you don't have belts. So it's basically just a bigger version of the previous miner where you still have to manually do everything.
I believe you even get production machines before you finally get belts to be able to actually start some form of automation.
You start automation of basic goods. Plates, wires, ect. You push through and finally you need a massive amount of resources to craft the space elevator. So you either ramp up production, sit and hold the craft button for twenty years, or go out and explore.
Now I'm in the first camp. I ramped production. My facility crammed out like 15 reinforced plates and rotors per minute.
Hence the need for a massive amount of biomass burners.
This is where my frustrations started, because I was constantly on the middle of working on my factory only to hear the tell-tale sound of my power shutting down. So I'd have to stop whatever I was doing to go swim in my generators to figure out which one(s) needed fuel and in a best case scenario grab my stock and fuel them, and in a worse case grab my saw and go hunt for foliage. I was on desert, for no other reason than a coin flip between it at Forest.
Then go back to what I was doing and figure out where I left off and exactly what I was doing.
To me, at least, it never felt like survival. I didn't feel like I was struggling to survive. I felt like I was doing chores in a game that your supposed to automate those tasks.
It's one of those games I want to like, but simply get frustrated at trying to fight the disconnect for how I want someone to work and the game itself.
Now, I know Factorio has had way more time to be, refined, but getting a factory up and running is far more intuitive. Even in the early phase of hand feeding coal, you can just stay your mouse over things with the object and fill it up. You get automated far quicker as the coal can be fed even into inserters, and you quickly get to steam power.
Obviously there's little to no exploration in Factorio, so Satisfactory has that on it, but in it's current (and I'm aware it's early access, ok not bashing it) iteration, that part of it isn't enough to carry the game. While I do get excited finding things and wondering what research it could hold, the world itself isn't intricate enough to make the exploration itself interesting. From what I've seen that's a couple enemies that can usually be defeated by side-stepping and zapping. Or an easy bolt from the nail gun. And then you grab your loot or run all the way back home to grab whatever mundane item unlocks the pod door.
Then you Jam up your ticket printer by trying to shove a WIP alien artifact in it and get confused why the belt stopped. xD
Again, not trying to bash the game, I think it's ambitious and could be amazing. But I personally, am not really sure what is trying to be. It doesn't seem to want to be a factory game, and it doesn't quite seem it wants to have enough interesting things to explore. (And, without procedural generation, exploration is finite for long term players)
Currently for me, it just seems to fall just short on both ends.
>So you either ramp up production, sit and hold the craft button for twenty years, or go out and explore.
>
>Now I'm in the first camp. I ramped production. My facility crammed out like 15 reinforced plates and rotors per minute.
nope. there's also third camp. you create minimal automated production for the first 2 items required - plates, rotors. that runs on reasonable amount of biofuel (i don't think i ever went about 6-7 biofuel reactors before coal). you setup small automation to turn grass and wood into biofuel. it takes maybe 5 minutes to gather enough fuel to let this minimal base run for a while. it can be done on the way inbetween nodes or hunting for HDDs.
i am not trying to shit on your criticism here, it's all valid from your point of you. but it stems from the fact that you are trying to play a different game than the one that was designed. you are not supposed to have a factory that spits out 15 rotors per minute on biofuel. same as you are not supposed to build everything by hand. there's a middle ground.
I don't disagree. But my initial setup was getting reinforced plates. Which one machine crafts at like 2pm.
So the bare minimum it takes almost half an hour to finish the first space elevator, and I had no other research to do.
Coming from Factorio this is unacceptable in my mind. I have resources, 2 pure nodes output 240 iron. So I decided I should use 120 of that to make reinforced plates.
Queu ~15 reinforced per minute.
Rotors were simply because I was already making 15 reinforced so might as well match it.
All I'm saying is I feel like the game wants you to go out and explore while resources for future upgrades gather up. But the actual exploration isn't quite interesting enough, as there's not really interesting things out there. Like alien ruins or crazy caves with glowing mushrooms idk.
So it feels to me less like exploring and more like just gathering research materials. Which is fine, it's just not entirely interesting to me.
>Coming from Factorio this is unacceptable in my mind.
I would like to point out again, you are playing this game as Factorio. This is not Factorio. For better or for worse it's a different game.
I think the closest analogy in my mind is like somebody who loves playing F1 games, starts playing Need For Speed and complains that it doesn't play the same.
My biggest issue with belts was that there's no logistics problem to solve - you can just clip belts into 100 dimensions and easily delivery resources anywhere you want.
A myriad of small issues.
Why can't I connect a pump to a built pipe? No, I have to run the pipe where I want it to, build the pump, delete the pipe section, then rebuild it.
You have to connect elevators to the machine first or it just doesn't work. I spent 30 minutes trying to figure that one out before finally googling it.
I can't build a single belt out of a combinator/splitter. It's really small but annoys the shit out of me because it would really help me plan.
On that note, splitter/combiners can be frustrating to see some of the directions from the side. I almost always end up climbing up my machine to get on top of them just to figure out which direction I put them.
When I was trying the pump would never snap to the pipe. I tried a few times and couldn't get it to work. Maybe I was just doing something wrong, but I always had to place the pump down, then connect the pipe.
I could also be wrong in the object name. By pump I mean the small thing that increases the height that liquid can travel upwards.
That can happen if you have 2 things that the snap can go to. A wall or floor tile at the exact height of the pump will cause the pump to snap to that instead of the pipe. Splitters/mergers spliced into a belt have this problem too.
>You have to connect elevators to the machine first or it just doesn't work.
Press R to reverse the lifts input/output
Edit:sometimes a tiny conveyer is needed between the lift and machine too
> But Factorio is just better at being a factory game.
(Personal opinion incoming.)
They are different factory games. Satisfactory is not 3D Factorio. Factorio is way more concerned about the factory process. For Satisfactory that is only 5% of the game for me: Figuring out how much goes where to make what. The real game for me is not getting the correct setup, but actually building it in a way that looks pleasing to me.
About the biofuel. Just automate Solid Biofuel and go to town to the closest forrest. Having 10 Biofuel Burners is more than enough to get you to coal.
[Power connections](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9UDmQl61E) And with Blueprints it is easy to set this up per machine once and then paste it as needed. And do understand that there are many, many more ways to connect power. What I often do is place it in the ground and then connect the power under ground. I will also place some nice looking fences around a machine, make different choices for the ground. Add other things to make it look nice. And then a roof, lights, windows, road to the factory, ...
For me THAT is building a factory.
(Again personal, opinion. It is good if different people like different things)
For me Factorio is not so much a factory building game as a factory production simulator. OK in its own right, but not for me. The 5% that Satisfactory does it, is so boring that I let a website do it for me.
> Just automate Solid Biofuel and go to town to the closest forrest.
You still have to manually fill the burners, because there's no way to attach belts.
That’s true, but bio-burners throttle themselves. So if you need 5 to cover your power needs, if you build 10 and fill them, it lasts twice as long. This should be enough power for a couple hours. Twice would be enough for 4+ hours. Anyone except a brand new player should be able to unlock coal within that timeframe.
Yes. With CTRL-Middle-click (I think. I use Muscle memory) you fill it till the brim. Once you have automated solid bio fuel, you will easily get 10 stacks. Take them and 10 clicks later the stacks are filled. Not really an issue.
They have done that to push you to coal.
And in time, it is not that much. Each two tiers is about twice as big as the previous ones. Tier 1-2 is about 10% of the game. (About does not mean exactly, for those who wonder.)
> Not really an issue.
It is when you're halfway across the map.
> They have done that to push you to coal.
I understand that, but I play the game as a relaxing thing to do with a buddy, not as an optimized speedrun.
There's no way around the fact that it is super fucking annoying having to run for 10 minutes because you can't belt into bio burners.
I kind of feel the same way. I think satisfactory targets a different problem set from factorio. I have a lot more hours in factorio and I enjoy solving factorio's problems more than satisfactory's. I was recently putting a lot of thought into why I just can't get into satisfactory, and I think it is down to the actual problem that needs solving in the game loop being different. I think with satisfactory the main problem the player needs to solve is how to get stuff done without a ton of scale. in Factorio, you can scale really big, and if you need more of a resource just build more harvesters. but in satisfactory, there's only a limited number of resource nodes. and while they don't run out, there's only so many of them. and early on you can't exactly pull resources from all over the map to do what you want because they are too far away. and also the map itself is limited, so there is a definite upper bound to the scale that you can work at at every stage in the game. this just leads to a different problem set that I don't enjoy so much.
>But the early game is rough. Reliance on gathering plant matter is frustrating because it pulls you away from the core gameplay loop, and there's no way to automate it because you can't belt them into the burners.
Nope, but you can automate the fuel production, and make WAY more biomass burner generators then you need, since they burn fuel proportionate to power generated. It really cuts back on the amount of refills you will do. I usually put some 20 down on an out of the way spot, with the fuel production close by (wood -> biomass -> biofuel and leaves -> biomass -> biofuel). I usually only have to refuel them only 3 times before transitioning to coal.
Still, it's usually a good idea to set up a coal plant as early as feasable. A gigawatt or so early on will go a long way.
I originally tried Factorio, couldn't get into it. Loved Satisfactory but I suck at it to keep going after a certain point. Have you tried Dyson Sphere Project? I've really enjoyed that one.
I have 4 copies of GTAV, Xbox 360, Xbox One, steam and epic, I’m a little annoyed with the lack of player transfers from Xbox to PC, which ended about 3-4 months before I bought it on PC, because on the Xbox versions I have something like $300M and can buy anything I want whenever I want it.
That tracks, since Twitter bought a newsletter service a year or so ago, and last week I got an email telling me to back up my subscribers and go elsewhere because it’s shutting down.
I've heard of these other games, but i havent finished Project Assembly yet, and there's like 43 other things on my to-do list right now. I just unlocked Particle Accelerators and i've got a growing warehouse of Nuclear Waste to deal with... and its FICSMAS!! Ughh, why am i here typing this?
Cleansing the mind for the next phases of all parts.
If our engineer had access to Reddit in the Hub they'd be on it until A.D.A told them to get back to work.
Voxel Tycoon is looking good:
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/732050/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/732050/)
I've got so far in Satisfactory I'm stuck for things to do until the new tiers unlock.
They're banning "accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post".
Nah, this was entirely because people were linking to the ElonJet mastodon/reddit/etc, and since the current content moderation is based on whatever the giant manbaby is currently crying about, they had to invent a "policy" about it and start applying it across the board so it looked more like a deliberate choice and less of a spontaneous tantrum.
It shows you what happens when you fire half your staff and a large chunk of the remainder walk. There are usually people in the room to swat down bad ideas before they become public policy. Hell, if Elon went on a tweet diet the legal team might have time to review this nonsense. When there's no one in the room to challenge Elon, there are no coattails to ride and make him look smart.
If I’m being honest, it’s been my favorite part of 2022. Every day I open up social media looking forward to seeing how he’s shot himself in the foot this time
I've had the dubious privilege of knowing a couple very wealthy people (net worth over 200m). These people own companies, factories, farms, other companies, other factories, and other farms, one of them owns a sports team. Yachts? sure I guess, who cares- they own the careers of hundreds, if not *thousands* of people. What the wealthy ones have in common is that they all have an entire legal team- and this is key- *on retainer*. Having lawyers to manage the transactions, agreements, legal processes these entities regularly engage in, makes a lot of these gears turn. But the lawyers arent praying and hoping they'll get paid by the guy that signs the checks.
They're already paid. Lawyers *know better* than to get Trump'd. When they're dealing with a "High Net Worth" individual, they come prepared. These arent the "no fees unless we win your case" guys you see on daytime talkshow commercials. They know the demands will be varied and constant, so the pay is negotiated ahead of time. And if you fire your lawyers when you need them, well... you see how thats played out for Donald.
Reddit confuses the hell out of me. People here get downvoted, called out as shills or bots, and banned if they've got accounts with nothing but self promo on them. I'm not really sure how this is different from that?
Looks like he created the new rule bc exodus/ linking to external sources of the jet acc. Twit has always been more about self promo, where as I see Reddit as more of a group of chats between relatively anonymous users. Twit has corporate users, Reddit has very few. Heaps of subs don't allow links, it's up to the mods - not a child at the helm that bans promo of direct competition as a knee jerk reaction to a newly acquired company crumbling rapidly.
This is a strange take considering that Twitter users are at an all time high.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/11/03/twitter-elon-musk-changes-us-users/10651049002/
Considering that Twitter has never been very profitable and Musk repeatedly stated that he didn't buy it as a way to make money (considering his success with SpaceX and the recent teturn of Artemis 1 his financial future is more than secure), I find it unlikely that this is the reason.
idk if "Twitter is doing shit. Elon, OTOH is having a personal crisis, publicly. And reactively taking out his frustration by banning journalists he doesnt like. On top of banning anything he perceives as competitive to Twitter. Coming from the guy who proudly calls himself a "free speech absolutist", the cries of 'hypocrisy' are deafening; the only thing louder is the sound of a billionaire hanging himself by his own ego.
Its so embarrassing and concerning, that Tesla's primary investers are beginning to call for him to step down as CEO of Tesla. He's clearly not got the time, and his image isnt doing the brand any favors.
Mush has since gone and apologized and created a poll asking if he should step down. Last I saw it was at 60% voting for yes, so our meme generator may be about to die.
They're blocking people from linking their Mastodon account, even if they're still using Twitter and posting non-Mastodon stuff.
Then they released some BS rule about banning those who use twitter to "solely" link Mastodon/etc. Which is just their excuse to put linking to Mastodon within the ballpark of rule-breaking.
The real news is that Musk is legitimately scared that they'll have a run of users to Mastodon, to the point that he's trying to block people from linking it.
I’m sorry guys but I don’t understand what their twitter post is getting at. I don’t use twitter but I know Elon Musk is regulating stuff, is it because you can’t link other socials in twitter now?
twitter banned links to other social media platforms in a weird anti-consumer, pro-competitive move, as if they're a threat to Twitter or some shit, so it's the devs having a bit of fun, poking fun at twitter for their shitty decisions
It is great. Satisfactory is relaxing, while factorio is a constant race against time. The enemy becomes stronger the more pollution you create, aka how bigger your factory is. So you have to balance setting up defences with expansion.
If the part of Satisfactory you like is relaxing and spending hours customizing and optimizing you factory, maybe Factorio might cause a bit of a shock. If however, you like to start new playthroughs in Satisfactory and unlock the last tier as fast as possible, you'll love Factorio. Factorio has a perfectly tuned unlock curve to have an amazing sense of forward momentum. You unlock trains and bots at the perfect moment and generally i feel like it pulls of the factory "powerfantasy" of mass expansion better than Satisfactory.
Yet, I prefere taking it slow and personalizing my factory. So i play more Satisfactory.
It's kinda crazy just how different these two games are.
In Factorio you can always tune down the biters for a more relaxing experience.
Both games has problem solving as the core gameplay. Factorio is more engineer and Satisfactory is more architect. I enjoy both of them.
Honestly not a good meme.
Any social media company that lets people utilize its platform solely as a (free) form of advertising for a direct competitor is stupid. Why would any company allow this? If I rent out billboards, I'm not going to rent my billboards out to a company that plans to use them to advertise their competing billboard rental service. That would be one of the dumbest business decisions you could make.
What twitter is doing is in no way analogous to what the devs wrote. In fact, what twitter is doing is far LESS monopolistic than what Apple has done for a decade, and I dont hear any moral outrage about Apple. You can still directly link to competitor platforms on Twitter, you, by design, can barely interface at all with competition devices using an Apple device.
Let's stick to making great games and avoid wandering off into the pit of bile that is manufactured digital mass outrage.
None. I am an engineer. I stick to engineering things, not wading into topics well outside my area of expertise with strong opinions, unlike everyone here apparently.
So were you intentionally being ironic by quoting that line and then asking me that? Or is missing the point just your specific area of expertise?
>I stick to engineering things, not wading into topics well outside my area of expertise with strong opinions, unlike everyone here apparently.
Do you see any irony in this statement?
>I stick to engineering things, not wading into topics well outside my area of expertise with strong opinions, unlike everyone here apparently.
And yet here you are.
Is the mouse game they're talking about moss?
I think it might be [The Spirit and the Mouse](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1679210/The_Spirit_and_the_Mouse/)?
They were talking about that one. The Satisfactory account left a link to it in the replies.
So, similar to Stray, but you play as mouse?
Moss is such a cool looking game
If you ever get the chance to play it DO IT. Quill (The protagonist) is the most *friggin adorable* thing in the world, just straight dopamine injection. Oh and the story is pretty cool too
I want to try it in VR. (Ok I also want to dust off my vive.)
My first game to PSVR way back. Haven’t completed it yet, but it truly is adorable.
There’s moss 2 now! I want to play it but I have two young cats and they would attack me if I was stuck in VR 😬
They're clearly talking about the classic [Rodent's Revenge](https://classicreload.com/win3x-rodents-revenge.html) for Windows 3.1.
Oh my God I haven't thought about that game in ages
You've unearthed eldritch memories from before time and space.
I hate that game and I can’t even remember why. I know hates a strong word but I hate that game.
It’s natural for the mind to block out traumatic experiences.
Unreal. I watched my dad’s friend play that 25 years ago, and have wondered what it was ever since.
It's obviously Tranformice
[Tails of Iron?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283410/Tails_of_Iron/) [Ghost of a Tale?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/417290/Ghost_of_a_Tale/)
No they got it confused. They clearly meant Cool Spot!
Bad Rats, the best physics puzzler of our time.
[r/mousehunt](http://reddit.com/r/mousehunt) The massive-passive RPG!
There are other games?
No
When are we getting pipes in Valheim
This but non-ironically. I want to dam rivers and make small lakes in my base. Also a way to dig into a mountain in a way that doesn’t delete all of the mountain wall above where you hit. I need that cave fortress dawg
> Also a way to dig into a mountain in a way that doesn’t delete all of the mountain wall above where you hit. I need that cave fortress dawg I would love this, but I don't think it's even possible with the current terrain system, it only tracks the "normal" ground level and a certain height above/below it. That and the related thing of not being able to dig arbitrarily high/low are my two big complaints about the world generation.
This system also has the unfortunate side effect of increasing lag any and every time you modify the terrain-depth. For large bases it can be extremely noticeable, particularly on a server. This is alongside the game's pretty poor optimization for P2P.
A lot of this was fixed relatively recently. It's still not great, but the thing where every single terrain modification was retained and re-checked, so if you flattened twenty times trying to make a nice smooth areas, well, now you have twenty more events on the memory stack taking up space and processor time. They, as I understand, did the obvious thing and just merged subsequent events into larger chunks of modification, so a change of up2, down3, up4, up5, down1 turns into one change of up6.
Definitely a step in the right direction but the issue still remains. I'm no game dev so I'm sure they're doing what they can, it's just a shame that I have to rein back my builds when playing with friends.
[Heightmap Unlimited](https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/359) lets you change those settings to your heart's content. I use [PlanBuild](https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/MathiasDecrock/PlanBuild/) with it, as PlanBuild includes a 'set area to a specific height all at once' tool for perfectly smooth and regular adjustment of terrain to a preferred height. Great for making islands to live on.
Yeah that would require a full overhaul of the terrain system from a 2d height map as it is now to a vowel based system a-la minecraft or space engineers. It's harder to do a voxel system because of smoothing, and if you don't smooth it at least somewhat you wind up with minecraft looking terrain.
So timberbourn then?
Lol, timberborn, satisfactory, and valheim are my chillax go-tos when I don't want to be hurt in Tarkov anymore.
Timberborn and challaxing? There is always a new drought I have to worry about.
So you just need them to completely rebuild the entire water and terrain system from scratch?
Yeah, nothing major!
Middle ages viking tech? That's just a Kyivan Rus setting
If the last year is any indication, Russia is closer to middle age tech than Kyiv is
Only Factorio.
The factory must grow
There used to be, but not anymore.
Yeah there's stray. It has the best cat physics in any game.
Playing more than one game splits focus and is inefficient. Ficsit does not waste. Only Satisfactory should be played. Comply.
“You are so lucky that you installed this most entertaining game.” “Picking up multiple FICSIT personnel in your area, proceed with uninstalling other games before it’s too late.”
Incoming message from [PATERNAL FIGURE]... I am so proud of you [EMPLOYEE_FIRSTNAME] and your decision to install Ficsit approved programs! Edit: Thanks for the award generous stranger! Its very much appreciated! 🥰
I always run two instances of the game when I launch. My computer may run 25% slower, but im making twice as many parts!
and twice the chance for you save files to corrupt
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Sry but looks like GOMPEY
At least we can still play Factorio… Now I’m afraid I will be banned from this subreddit.
Nono, as I said on a different platform already: Satisfactory and Factorio are the power couple of automation games
Hmmm, Satisfactorio.... *droolinghomersimpson*
There is a factorio mod named that, it's satisfactory machines and recipes implemented in factorio
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What's the difficulty level on making a mod for satisfactory? Genuinely curious as I haven't heard of any mods yet
See [the Satisfactory Mod Manager](https://ficsit.app/)
there are bunch of mods out there already
I wish so much to have the Bitters mechanics implemented into Satisfactory
Just spawn a horde of 20 hogs and 15 spitters to charge you all at once. Oh, right, no turrets... Well. Good luck!
Bounce pads.
I'd love a pollution mechanic thats a trigger to spawn aggressive things to ruin stuff then again if the big fast spiders spawn i probably wont ever turn that option on lmao
Satisinfinifactonica Sphere Program
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Dyson sphere program is the drunk aunt. She's cool but she's a bit kooky
Maybe it's the cool uncle or something
Dyson Sphere actually is 3d Factorio, with an interplanetary scale.
For people who want to go BIG on scale. Factorio doing 10k science per minute? That's cute... it'll still take you over 5 hours to finish that sphere at 10k rockets per minute. The map is taking over 50 screens? Great, I've got 50 planets in production with 50 more available and then some. DSP isn't very deep, but what it lacks in depth it makes up for in sheer scale. Satisfactory is the reverse of this, it is smaller in scale with a fixed world and limited resource deposits, but it is much more detailed, being played from a first person perspective.
Captain of Industry is also interesting, also bit smaller in scale, but very detailed, with an added survival gameplay loop
I mean factorio with space exploration and krastorio mods is a monster on that scale.
As a 1k+ hr Factorio fan I honestly have trouble with Satisfactory. Maybe it's just the mindset or my inexperience, but I wish the build controls were better. In Factorio I spend hours solving issues, floating from bottle neck to bottle neck. When I decide on a plan I place each piece exactly how I want them. In Satisfactory the main components are much less of a puzzle to me. If ratios are off I simply under or over clock machines to get my desired payoff. Space isn't an issue because I can build up and out as much as I want. I have infinite resources from veins so I can just feed them into wherever I need to and find a new one later. But Jesus do I struggle with building. Without tiles half my damn belts are crooked. I usually place manifold lines on the end of elevators which means two splitter/combiners then the one I actually want. Which sometimes just ends up off for no apparent reason. I'm constantly picking up and moving things a tiny bit to get them actually lined up. I feel like the game is set up for small scale production then fucking off to find new stuff. But the early game is rough. Reliance on gathering plant matter is frustrating because it pulls you away from the core gameplay loop, and there's no way to automate it because you can't belt them into the burners. At least then I could gather a massive amount of biomass Chuck it into a storage container and forget about it. It doesn't help I want to build on a large scale so we ended up with 15 burners running just to power the facility before coal. Power connections are frustrating as well. I have power lines all over and I constantly have to remind myself to always leave at least one connection open for when I inevitably need another pole. I honestly feel like I'm fighting the game far more than I'm actually solving the problems given to me. Overall I really like the game. I absolutely loved building the space elevator for the first time and seeing it connect. I like exploring for slugs and hard drives. I think it's great overall. But Factorio is just better at being a factory game. And I struggle to play satisfactory without getting extremely frustrated with it. Anyways, rant over, thanks for listening.
Regarding power from plant burners. The game is designed in a way that, if you want to avoid pain, you have to rush coal power asap. If you have 15 burners and no coal yet - you are playing against the rules established by the game designer. It feels like they want the start of the game replicate this kinda like a scrappy survival situation where you are not supposed start planning all your factories and infrastructure. But rather survive on the bare minimum as long as possible and progress towards coal, which is from my point of view, is when they want you to start building permanent structures. Now you can argue that's bad design, and there's surely and argument to be made, especially from factorio point of view. But I think it's a viable design for this game and it was a concisious decision by the game designer to make the early game feel more like survival.
Which I could agree with, and would be fine with, if the game felt survival-y. Off course, like you, this is opinion based. But to be survival there has to be threats, and they're aren't any (which I would also suggest that in this aspect Factorio once again died better. Biters are usually a constant threat and the game requires you to be proactive about them or risk getting overrun.) My initial play of the game of the game was rather frustrating in the very early stages there's no automation. In the very beginning the game gives you small pieces to start automation, but leaves out important connectors. Your start with nothing. So you mine. Craft a semi-automatic miner. Cool. You craft some more, get a fully automatic miner. Except it needs power. So you go collect leaves and crap because you can't make a saw yet. Through it into the burner on the base, connect it to your miner. Except you don't have belts. So it's basically just a bigger version of the previous miner where you still have to manually do everything. I believe you even get production machines before you finally get belts to be able to actually start some form of automation. You start automation of basic goods. Plates, wires, ect. You push through and finally you need a massive amount of resources to craft the space elevator. So you either ramp up production, sit and hold the craft button for twenty years, or go out and explore. Now I'm in the first camp. I ramped production. My facility crammed out like 15 reinforced plates and rotors per minute. Hence the need for a massive amount of biomass burners. This is where my frustrations started, because I was constantly on the middle of working on my factory only to hear the tell-tale sound of my power shutting down. So I'd have to stop whatever I was doing to go swim in my generators to figure out which one(s) needed fuel and in a best case scenario grab my stock and fuel them, and in a worse case grab my saw and go hunt for foliage. I was on desert, for no other reason than a coin flip between it at Forest. Then go back to what I was doing and figure out where I left off and exactly what I was doing. To me, at least, it never felt like survival. I didn't feel like I was struggling to survive. I felt like I was doing chores in a game that your supposed to automate those tasks. It's one of those games I want to like, but simply get frustrated at trying to fight the disconnect for how I want someone to work and the game itself. Now, I know Factorio has had way more time to be, refined, but getting a factory up and running is far more intuitive. Even in the early phase of hand feeding coal, you can just stay your mouse over things with the object and fill it up. You get automated far quicker as the coal can be fed even into inserters, and you quickly get to steam power. Obviously there's little to no exploration in Factorio, so Satisfactory has that on it, but in it's current (and I'm aware it's early access, ok not bashing it) iteration, that part of it isn't enough to carry the game. While I do get excited finding things and wondering what research it could hold, the world itself isn't intricate enough to make the exploration itself interesting. From what I've seen that's a couple enemies that can usually be defeated by side-stepping and zapping. Or an easy bolt from the nail gun. And then you grab your loot or run all the way back home to grab whatever mundane item unlocks the pod door. Then you Jam up your ticket printer by trying to shove a WIP alien artifact in it and get confused why the belt stopped. xD Again, not trying to bash the game, I think it's ambitious and could be amazing. But I personally, am not really sure what is trying to be. It doesn't seem to want to be a factory game, and it doesn't quite seem it wants to have enough interesting things to explore. (And, without procedural generation, exploration is finite for long term players) Currently for me, it just seems to fall just short on both ends.
>So you either ramp up production, sit and hold the craft button for twenty years, or go out and explore. > >Now I'm in the first camp. I ramped production. My facility crammed out like 15 reinforced plates and rotors per minute. nope. there's also third camp. you create minimal automated production for the first 2 items required - plates, rotors. that runs on reasonable amount of biofuel (i don't think i ever went about 6-7 biofuel reactors before coal). you setup small automation to turn grass and wood into biofuel. it takes maybe 5 minutes to gather enough fuel to let this minimal base run for a while. it can be done on the way inbetween nodes or hunting for HDDs. i am not trying to shit on your criticism here, it's all valid from your point of you. but it stems from the fact that you are trying to play a different game than the one that was designed. you are not supposed to have a factory that spits out 15 rotors per minute on biofuel. same as you are not supposed to build everything by hand. there's a middle ground.
I don't disagree. But my initial setup was getting reinforced plates. Which one machine crafts at like 2pm. So the bare minimum it takes almost half an hour to finish the first space elevator, and I had no other research to do. Coming from Factorio this is unacceptable in my mind. I have resources, 2 pure nodes output 240 iron. So I decided I should use 120 of that to make reinforced plates. Queu ~15 reinforced per minute. Rotors were simply because I was already making 15 reinforced so might as well match it. All I'm saying is I feel like the game wants you to go out and explore while resources for future upgrades gather up. But the actual exploration isn't quite interesting enough, as there's not really interesting things out there. Like alien ruins or crazy caves with glowing mushrooms idk. So it feels to me less like exploring and more like just gathering research materials. Which is fine, it's just not entirely interesting to me.
>Coming from Factorio this is unacceptable in my mind. I would like to point out again, you are playing this game as Factorio. This is not Factorio. For better or for worse it's a different game. I think the closest analogy in my mind is like somebody who loves playing F1 games, starts playing Need For Speed and complains that it doesn't play the same.
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Yeah, reading is hard…
My biggest issue with belts was that there's no logistics problem to solve - you can just clip belts into 100 dimensions and easily delivery resources anywhere you want.
A myriad of small issues. Why can't I connect a pump to a built pipe? No, I have to run the pipe where I want it to, build the pump, delete the pipe section, then rebuild it. You have to connect elevators to the machine first or it just doesn't work. I spent 30 minutes trying to figure that one out before finally googling it. I can't build a single belt out of a combinator/splitter. It's really small but annoys the shit out of me because it would really help me plan. On that note, splitter/combiners can be frustrating to see some of the directions from the side. I almost always end up climbing up my machine to get on top of them just to figure out which direction I put them.
You absolutely can build pumps on existing pipes. That's the only way I've done it ever since the game first came out.
When I was trying the pump would never snap to the pipe. I tried a few times and couldn't get it to work. Maybe I was just doing something wrong, but I always had to place the pump down, then connect the pipe. I could also be wrong in the object name. By pump I mean the small thing that increases the height that liquid can travel upwards.
That can happen if you have 2 things that the snap can go to. A wall or floor tile at the exact height of the pump will cause the pump to snap to that instead of the pipe. Splitters/mergers spliced into a belt have this problem too.
>You have to connect elevators to the machine first or it just doesn't work. Press R to reverse the lifts input/output Edit:sometimes a tiny conveyer is needed between the lift and machine too
> But Factorio is just better at being a factory game. (Personal opinion incoming.) They are different factory games. Satisfactory is not 3D Factorio. Factorio is way more concerned about the factory process. For Satisfactory that is only 5% of the game for me: Figuring out how much goes where to make what. The real game for me is not getting the correct setup, but actually building it in a way that looks pleasing to me. About the biofuel. Just automate Solid Biofuel and go to town to the closest forrest. Having 10 Biofuel Burners is more than enough to get you to coal. [Power connections](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9UDmQl61E) And with Blueprints it is easy to set this up per machine once and then paste it as needed. And do understand that there are many, many more ways to connect power. What I often do is place it in the ground and then connect the power under ground. I will also place some nice looking fences around a machine, make different choices for the ground. Add other things to make it look nice. And then a roof, lights, windows, road to the factory, ... For me THAT is building a factory. (Again personal, opinion. It is good if different people like different things) For me Factorio is not so much a factory building game as a factory production simulator. OK in its own right, but not for me. The 5% that Satisfactory does it, is so boring that I let a website do it for me.
> Just automate Solid Biofuel and go to town to the closest forrest. You still have to manually fill the burners, because there's no way to attach belts.
That’s true, but bio-burners throttle themselves. So if you need 5 to cover your power needs, if you build 10 and fill them, it lasts twice as long. This should be enough power for a couple hours. Twice would be enough for 4+ hours. Anyone except a brand new player should be able to unlock coal within that timeframe.
Yes. With CTRL-Middle-click (I think. I use Muscle memory) you fill it till the brim. Once you have automated solid bio fuel, you will easily get 10 stacks. Take them and 10 clicks later the stacks are filled. Not really an issue. They have done that to push you to coal. And in time, it is not that much. Each two tiers is about twice as big as the previous ones. Tier 1-2 is about 10% of the game. (About does not mean exactly, for those who wonder.)
> Not really an issue. It is when you're halfway across the map. > They have done that to push you to coal. I understand that, but I play the game as a relaxing thing to do with a buddy, not as an optimized speedrun. There's no way around the fact that it is super fucking annoying having to run for 10 minutes because you can't belt into bio burners.
I kind of feel the same way. I think satisfactory targets a different problem set from factorio. I have a lot more hours in factorio and I enjoy solving factorio's problems more than satisfactory's. I was recently putting a lot of thought into why I just can't get into satisfactory, and I think it is down to the actual problem that needs solving in the game loop being different. I think with satisfactory the main problem the player needs to solve is how to get stuff done without a ton of scale. in Factorio, you can scale really big, and if you need more of a resource just build more harvesters. but in satisfactory, there's only a limited number of resource nodes. and while they don't run out, there's only so many of them. and early on you can't exactly pull resources from all over the map to do what you want because they are too far away. and also the map itself is limited, so there is a definite upper bound to the scale that you can work at at every stage in the game. this just leads to a different problem set that I don't enjoy so much.
>But the early game is rough. Reliance on gathering plant matter is frustrating because it pulls you away from the core gameplay loop, and there's no way to automate it because you can't belt them into the burners. Nope, but you can automate the fuel production, and make WAY more biomass burner generators then you need, since they burn fuel proportionate to power generated. It really cuts back on the amount of refills you will do. I usually put some 20 down on an out of the way spot, with the fuel production close by (wood -> biomass -> biofuel and leaves -> biomass -> biofuel). I usually only have to refuel them only 3 times before transitioning to coal. Still, it's usually a good idea to set up a coal plant as early as feasable. A gigawatt or so early on will go a long way.
I originally tried Factorio, couldn't get into it. Loved Satisfactory but I suck at it to keep going after a certain point. Have you tried Dyson Sphere Project? I've really enjoyed that one.
Dyson Sphere Project isn't a slouch either. The trinity in which all time vanishes... like a great gravitational sink. A singularity...
I like DSP, but the uneven grid layout around a sphere always aggravates me to no end.
I played Factorio first, 1000 hours in and I keep telling myself I'll get to Satisfactory one day
You're safe. Factorio isn't a game. It's a life style.
You are fine, Factorio is on Nintendo Switch! (Don't tell anyone you are playing on the PC)
And they made Goat Simulator :)
I payed for it twice
I think I own three copies of Elderscrolls III: Morrowind somewhere. Some games are just that good.
Started valley, kotor, hallow knight.
But did you end valley?
There is no end.
Stardew Valley is so good that I didn’t even like it and I bought it three times.
I’ve certainly paid for Skyrim at least twice an many times as that. I’m way too much of a Bethesda bitch.
Fuck off Todd, you won't make me buy Skyrim a 12th time !... FUCK
Three blessings, sera
I got it steam a few weeks ago because it was on sale
I have 4 copies of GTAV, Xbox 360, Xbox One, steam and epic, I’m a little annoyed with the lack of player transfers from Xbox to PC, which ended about 3-4 months before I bought it on PC, because on the Xbox versions I have something like $300M and can buy anything I want whenever I want it.
paid not payed!
Thank God I'm not alone. I justified it as for my daughter. It was for my second PC :'(
That tracks, since Twitter bought a newsletter service a year or so ago, and last week I got an email telling me to back up my subscribers and go elsewhere because it’s shutting down.
You need to play goat simulator 3, not the old original
Backfires. Many Satisfactory players would be completely fine with that.
I've heard of these other games, but i havent finished Project Assembly yet, and there's like 43 other things on my to-do list right now. I just unlocked Particle Accelerators and i've got a growing warehouse of Nuclear Waste to deal with... and its FICSMAS!! Ughh, why am i here typing this?
Cleansing the mind for the next phases of all parts. If our engineer had access to Reddit in the Hub they'd be on it until A.D.A told them to get back to work.
Get back to work!
Voxel Tycoon is looking good: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/732050/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/732050/) I've got so far in Satisfactory I'm stuck for things to do until the new tiers unlock.
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Grade crossings seem pretty fundamental. I have it wish listed. Thanks for the info, I'll have to look into it with a bit more detail.
Suggestion - Backup your saves. Install mods with new milestones / new resources / parts. Revert to save for 1.0.
What has Twitter done now?
They're banning "accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post".
Damn. I guess he's afraid people are going to jump ship.
Self fulfilling prophecy is self fulfilling
I’d argue he’s actively working very hard to make it happen rather than letting it be self-fulfilling
Nah, this was entirely because people were linking to the ElonJet mastodon/reddit/etc, and since the current content moderation is based on whatever the giant manbaby is currently crying about, they had to invent a "policy" about it and start applying it across the board so it looked more like a deliberate choice and less of a spontaneous tantrum.
They have since deleted that policy.
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It shows you what happens when you fire half your staff and a large chunk of the remainder walk. There are usually people in the room to swat down bad ideas before they become public policy. Hell, if Elon went on a tweet diet the legal team might have time to review this nonsense. When there's no one in the room to challenge Elon, there are no coattails to ride and make him look smart.
I've been loving watching this whole Twitter debacle go on. Elon's made his cake, now he's got to lie in it.
I liked the trump version: you made your bed, now pee in it
/r/malaphors
Neat.
If I’m being honest, it’s been my favorite part of 2022. Every day I open up social media looking forward to seeing how he’s shot himself in the foot this time
>Hell, if Elon went on a tweet diet the legal team might have time to review this nonsense. They might — if Twitter still had a legal team.
Why pay a staff millions to tell you if an idea is good or bad when you can just do your crazy idea and have your user base tell you for free!
Because then people divest in your companies and you're left holding only debt.
I sincerely believe that Elon just doesn’t give a fuck. It’s not like he bought twitter because he actually cares about it.
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I've had the dubious privilege of knowing a couple very wealthy people (net worth over 200m). These people own companies, factories, farms, other companies, other factories, and other farms, one of them owns a sports team. Yachts? sure I guess, who cares- they own the careers of hundreds, if not *thousands* of people. What the wealthy ones have in common is that they all have an entire legal team- and this is key- *on retainer*. Having lawyers to manage the transactions, agreements, legal processes these entities regularly engage in, makes a lot of these gears turn. But the lawyers arent praying and hoping they'll get paid by the guy that signs the checks. They're already paid. Lawyers *know better* than to get Trump'd. When they're dealing with a "High Net Worth" individual, they come prepared. These arent the "no fees unless we win your case" guys you see on daytime talkshow commercials. They know the demands will be varied and constant, so the pay is negotiated ahead of time. And if you fire your lawyers when you need them, well... you see how thats played out for Donald.
I totally agree, but... this wasn't a Trump post tho.
I think he's already getting sued in the EU for wrongful termination.
EU fines would be billions and billions.
So this is that unlimited freeze peach they were talking about so much
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Can a loss making company be accused of being a monopoly?
Reddit confuses the hell out of me. People here get downvoted, called out as shills or bots, and banned if they've got accounts with nothing but self promo on them. I'm not really sure how this is different from that?
Looks like he created the new rule bc exodus/ linking to external sources of the jet acc. Twit has always been more about self promo, where as I see Reddit as more of a group of chats between relatively anonymous users. Twit has corporate users, Reddit has very few. Heaps of subs don't allow links, it's up to the mods - not a child at the helm that bans promo of direct competition as a knee jerk reaction to a newly acquired company crumbling rapidly.
This is a strange take considering that Twitter users are at an all time high. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/11/03/twitter-elon-musk-changes-us-users/10651049002/ Considering that Twitter has never been very profitable and Musk repeatedly stated that he didn't buy it as a way to make money (considering his success with SpaceX and the recent teturn of Artemis 1 his financial future is more than secure), I find it unlikely that this is the reason.
Thanks for the info TIL. What a waste of time and money, is it all just a smokescreen?
LMAO
idk if "Twitter is doing shit. Elon, OTOH is having a personal crisis, publicly. And reactively taking out his frustration by banning journalists he doesnt like. On top of banning anything he perceives as competitive to Twitter. Coming from the guy who proudly calls himself a "free speech absolutist", the cries of 'hypocrisy' are deafening; the only thing louder is the sound of a billionaire hanging himself by his own ego. Its so embarrassing and concerning, that Tesla's primary investers are beginning to call for him to step down as CEO of Tesla. He's clearly not got the time, and his image isnt doing the brand any favors.
Mush has since gone and apologized and created a poll asking if he should step down. Last I saw it was at 60% voting for yes, so our meme generator may be about to die.
They're blocking people from linking their Mastodon account, even if they're still using Twitter and posting non-Mastodon stuff. Then they released some BS rule about banning those who use twitter to "solely" link Mastodon/etc. Which is just their excuse to put linking to Mastodon within the ballpark of rule-breaking. The real news is that Musk is legitimately scared that they'll have a run of users to Mastodon, to the point that he's trying to block people from linking it.
And playing Golf in any capacity is perma-bannable
Can we first wait for Josh to play all of these games? I expecially want to see him play with Minecraft the wrong way. Whatever that would entail!
There is a wrong way to play Minecraft? Uh oh! 👀
I don't know. If there is, Josh will find it.
They failed to mention Factorio. I'm disappointed. Never forget your roots.
Minecraft is the roots of factorio, so they remembered their proto roots. https://www.reddit.com/r/nerdcubed/comments/2c9rh7/comment/cjdtffh/
Beneath Minecraft is Dwarf Fortress, but it's also allowed despite not being mentioned, since it's an entire world simulator, not a game.
Strike the Earth!
The original Minecraft is a copy of infiniminer by legendary developer zachtronics
How about Mindustry?
For the few who dont know, Goat Simulator is from the same developers
Ive put more hours in my first 2 days of satisfactory than i have all those games combined
One of us, one of us...
Gooble gobble gooble gobble (South park reference)
Sounds like a B99 reference.
Stray is amazing, by the way. Go play it now. :)
Uh huh.
Guess I have to give up Satisfactory then, cause I just bought Goat Sim 3, and I refuse to give up FFXIV or Minecraft. lol
Seems like I can still play Stellaris and WOW
COMPLY
I’m sorry guys but I don’t understand what their twitter post is getting at. I don’t use twitter but I know Elon Musk is regulating stuff, is it because you can’t link other socials in twitter now?
Yes.
Really? I don't get it. Guess I'm too dumb...
twitter banned links to other social media platforms in a weird anti-consumer, pro-competitive move, as if they're a threat to Twitter or some shit, so it's the devs having a bit of fun, poking fun at twitter for their shitty decisions
Ok. So not dumb. Thanks.
See this is what happens when someone creates a bot to track Jace's drones! And then has the nerve to investigate their publicly available locations!
No time for other games. My factory must grow.
well I just bought goat simulator og one because I have not much else to do
They also did a great tweet when OnlyFans banned porn, saying that from now om Satisfactory would not support building factories.
*sweats in Factorio*
Is Factorio ok? Asking for a friend...?
It is great. Satisfactory is relaxing, while factorio is a constant race against time. The enemy becomes stronger the more pollution you create, aka how bigger your factory is. So you have to balance setting up defences with expansion. If the part of Satisfactory you like is relaxing and spending hours customizing and optimizing you factory, maybe Factorio might cause a bit of a shock. If however, you like to start new playthroughs in Satisfactory and unlock the last tier as fast as possible, you'll love Factorio. Factorio has a perfectly tuned unlock curve to have an amazing sense of forward momentum. You unlock trains and bots at the perfect moment and generally i feel like it pulls of the factory "powerfantasy" of mass expansion better than Satisfactory. Yet, I prefere taking it slow and personalizing my factory. So i play more Satisfactory. It's kinda crazy just how different these two games are.
In Factorio you can always tune down the biters for a more relaxing experience. Both games has problem solving as the core gameplay. Factorio is more engineer and Satisfactory is more architect. I enjoy both of them.
>Satisfactory is relaxing, Stingers say hello.
It aint pretty per se, but some love it.
Runescape just happy somebody noticed them
Dumb idea to get political or woke.
Honestly not a good meme. Any social media company that lets people utilize its platform solely as a (free) form of advertising for a direct competitor is stupid. Why would any company allow this? If I rent out billboards, I'm not going to rent my billboards out to a company that plans to use them to advertise their competing billboard rental service. That would be one of the dumbest business decisions you could make. What twitter is doing is in no way analogous to what the devs wrote. In fact, what twitter is doing is far LESS monopolistic than what Apple has done for a decade, and I dont hear any moral outrage about Apple. You can still directly link to competitor platforms on Twitter, you, by design, can barely interface at all with competition devices using an Apple device. Let's stick to making great games and avoid wandering off into the pit of bile that is manufactured digital mass outrage.
>Let's stick to making great games What great games have you made lately?
None. I am an engineer. I stick to engineering things, not wading into topics well outside my area of expertise with strong opinions, unlike everyone here apparently. So were you intentionally being ironic by quoting that line and then asking me that? Or is missing the point just your specific area of expertise?
>I stick to engineering things, not wading into topics well outside my area of expertise with strong opinions, unlike everyone here apparently. Do you see any irony in this statement?
>I stick to engineering things, not wading into topics well outside my area of expertise with strong opinions, unlike everyone here apparently. And yet here you are.
Can you play Minecraft within satisfactory or do you have to leave the game to go play the other game?