Today, Coffee Stain rolled out their first main early entry replace for Satisfactory, their 3D Factorio-like space-industrial sandbox. While shockingly good even in its first launch, it nonetheless felt just like the game had some gaps to fill. Today’s replace provides new vertical conveyor belts, an exploration car with springy suspension, demolition fees and firearms which go an extended technique to filling out these blanks. Below, a straight-to-the-point developer replace video, made considerably extra amusing by hair-dye interfering with their chroma key results, or the full patch notes here.
Being a game about constructing big automated buildings, essentially the most mundane characteristic of this replace is the one individuals most needed – vertical conveyor belts. No longer do it’s a must to assemble huge exterior ramp assemblies. Now, with no extra analysis required, you may simply tear out these space-filling monsters and assemble a easy conveyor carry of their place. Also of straightforward practicality (though much less technical) is the Mk1 Rifle, a brand new Sulfur analysis challenge. Low-ish fireplace price, nevertheless it’s a dependable chunky gun to assist dissuade alien fauna from consuming your face.
Also within the Sulfur analysis line is Nobelisk demolition fees. You can throw or place them, then detonate remotely. While usable as a weapon, their principal software is clearing rocks or different obstructions. On the Quartz analysis line is the Explorer buggy, a super-agile scout automobile, though fully unarmoured. Once you’ve travelled out a methods, you may construct radar towers – the upper the higher – to robotically fill in a big chunk of map round the place you place them. Less drudgery, extra truly doing stuff, which is precisely what a game like this wants.
Under the hood, they’ve completed numerous tweaking. More optimisation work has been completed, useful resource nodes in a number of areas have been reworked, and extra foliage might be destroyed by chainsaw or car. Some crafting recipes have been modified, and extra alternate ones added in. The useful resource necessities of some tasks have modified. There’s too many small adjustments to checklist, so see the full patch notes here. All of this, they usually’ve someway managed to trim the game’s obtain dimension by two and a half gigabytes.
Satisfactory, now up to date however nonetheless within the first phases of early entry, is here on the Epic Games Store for £27/€30/$30. Before he vanished into the ether, Alec Meer poked around a pre-release version of Satisfactory, and had a rollicking good time with it. Worth a learn.
