Brill as environment-despoiling industrialist sim Satisfactory is, it felt prefer it was lacking one thing. With at this time’s addition of big automated freight trains to the early entry sandbox, I realise what Coffee Stain hadn’t but cribbed from Factorio. Today’s replace additionally provides some lush new biomes to discover, and a strategy to utterly screw all of it up. Nuclear energy vegetation produce tons of energy (nice for trains), however churn out lethal nuclear waste (much less nice), which wants disposing of (by practice?). Below, a dev video that includes all of the above and a few oddly horny pizza.
There’s a shocking quantity of intricacy to how trains work. They’re costly and require a whole lot of energy to run, however they’ll vastly broaden the vary of your operation. Train tracks double as energy conduits, which means that as long as you’ve obtained an extra of energy again house, you may set up new outposts utilizing only a practice station because the hub. You may automate all components of your practice schedule, and construct stations with particular preparations of loading/unloading platforms in order to select up solely sure crates. It’s an enormous ol’ first particular person practice set with beautiful surroundings now.
Of course, constructing trains, tracks, stations and powering all of it is dear, so your entire back-end of your operation now has extra choices. Bauxite, aluminium and uranium are the three new supplies launched right here, the previous two can be utilized to assemble new goodies, and the latter could be processed into nuclear gas rods. Once used you’ll must dump the poisonous barrels (which might trigger participant harm) – I’d suggest discovering a pleasant deep valley and filling it up. I’m positive nothing may ever go fallacious with this plan. (Psst, Coffee Stain, add Godzilla within the subsequent patch please).
There’s a couple of extra bits to this replace. There’s new tiers of mining rigs and conveyor belts to get stuff out of the bottom and processed into sources quicker, and three scenic new areas to discover with dense pure sources. Bamboo fields and swamps are lush and comparatively simple to navigate, whereas pink jungle is dense and maze-like. As all the time, the answer is deforestation. Just assume like a Captain Planet villain and also you’ll be nearly wealthy. You monster.
Satisfactory remains to be in early entry, and exclusive to the Epic Games Store, the place it prices £27/30/$30. You can see the full update patch notes here.
