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Satisfactory: PCGamer's review [90/100]

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Satisfactory is the new titan in building and crafting games.

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Picked this game up on Steam thinking I could always refund it if I did not exceed 2 hours of playtime.

Those 2 hours went by quickly lol.

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- For me, the first thousand seemed to fly by.
  
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I played Satisfactory for a while. Got a little past oil extraction and power generation. I think I was doing it wrong, though. I only made one actual factory, like with a floor and such, and it was one of those little templates you can design and make several of. Most of the stuff I built was just scattered about the map with miners and constructors and smelters just laying about everywhere and conveyer belts connecting them. It felt disorganized and, well, unsatisfying. The transport tube (the futurama style one) was fun, but most of the rest of it just felt like work. That and the fact that there was no provided reason to do any of it caused me to just lose interest after a while. I think the Christmas gift construction tree, where the last item required like 10,000 gifts collected was kind of discouraging too.

What keeps you motivated to improve, rebuild, and progress in the game? And what am I missing?

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- For me it has the same potential as Factorio (which I love) but without the environmental threats keeping me on my toes, it just gets kinda.... dull.
  
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Starting my new save in Dune Desert this time around because I never really see that much of this side of the map.

Top tier game and dev team.

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As a long time player since update 6? Or so....

I took time off work because I knew I wouldn't be able to get anything done at work, because I'd be thinking about my factory all day long.

I have all day today, tomorrow, and all weekend to get the initial hype out of my system before I go back to work.

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This game made me late for work. Twice.

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Been playing all day, had to force myself to bed. I like how the game reminds you, like "hey bud you've been on for 6 hours now, while we frown upon resting, we frown upon fatigue more"

What an amazing game. First playthrough and I'm getting Tom Cruise Oblivion vibes mixed with subnautica

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Looking more forward to Dyson Sphere Program's release but installed this and it's a lot of fun.

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The save the world plot is new.

I appreciated the capitalist / industrialist commentary that this is what Ficsit does: Drop a few pioneers onto a planet and turn it into a giant self-consuming manufacturing plant, like a bacterium infecting a cell, that feeds some remote market with hyper-processed goods.

Oh well. I expect it still to be amazing.

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Can confirm Satisfactory_ has eaten 3000+ hours of my life.

I'm curious if the hypertube physics is still the same, since lobbing myself between sites, or into the sky to do surveys or climb tall hills smacks of Portal and_ The Matrix._

I hope it all still works.

The new Bacon Agaric looks nice.

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I picked it up yesterday and I'm already destroying my sleep schedule as expected. This plus the Factorio DLC may cost me my job.

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- Shapez2 went into EA a couple weeks ago too, I've been waiting for Factorio DLC anxiously but this Satisfactory release took me by surprise. It's such a good year for factory sims 🕺
  
  I had put down Satisfactory earlier this year when starting T8 but I think the full release has rejuvenated my interest, I'm hype to finish the game now 🙌
  
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  Factory gamers are eating right now
  
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  Those three really are the holy trinity of factory games IMO and it's quite insane that we're getting all of them in what's essentially a quarter of a year.
  
  Also the perfect order with the most relaxing one releasing first and the biggest and challenging one last.
  
  After that we totally need one of those cross-game tech-tree randomizers for these games. That'd be quite a challenge.
  
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- If you still have your job, you can start on Factorio mods.
  
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  I'm terrified that I may not survive making the game more addictive. Bobs mod could end me.
  
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Should be 100/100. I put in around 500 hours back during Covid and ready to take another plunge now. Fantastic game.

Between this game and Icarus I am ready for winter mode.

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- Only 500? Noob.
  
  .... I'm kidding. Wanna play on my self hosted dedicated server?
  
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- My only problem with the game is the earlygame power gen. Its just so annoying to deal with the biomass burners.
  
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  Have you played 1.0 yet? You can automate a lot of the biomass process now that the main biomass burners (I.e. Not the ones attached to the hub) have conveyer belt inputs.
  
  I basically set up two industrial storage bins at the beginning of a biomass production line, one for wood and one for leaves. Each bin feeds into a constructor that turns the associated raw resource into biomass. Then feed those biomass constructors into another constructor that makes solid biofuel. Finally hook that up to the generators and all you have to do is spend a few minutes every hour or so collecting leaves and wood to dump in the storage bins.
  
  It's still enough work that automating coal is a huge priority, but it's not as tedious as it used to be at all.
  
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  Hate the biomass as well. At least they seem to burn longer now than when I last player. I’m still stuck on them on my current playthrough
  
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  They at least have belt inputs now. MASSIVE quality of life improvement.
  
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I thought this game has been out for a long time now.

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- In EA until yesterday
  
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  Ahh ok, ty.
  
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