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[–] lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Awesome game - they've been doing great and regular updates the whole early access

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[–] Minnels@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

After being a regular cracktorio addict I can't find this game as good as everyone says it is. I played all but the last tier of research with my friends a couple of weeks back.

Building is driving me nuts. Belts are not connecting to where you want them (looking at you stacked splitters). Before you unlock any kind of flying, building in levels just suck. Why does the game even have a landscape when you have to pave it over with foundations... for best effect you do this up in the sky so boulders and stuff is out of the way.

All building are fucking humongous and the heights are not sized with the walls in mind. You have to build 4m wall then a 2m wall at least to put foundations above for another level for the small assemblers... "Small".

After exploring the blueprint editor most of the irritating stuff disappeared as I could just plop down blueprint on blueprint but why is the editor sooooooo small? Want to build anything with the largest assemblers... Well you better try to stuff the rest into the smallest space ever because those large ones takes like 25% of the whole blueprint each!

Research is so bad also. I like the progress steps but the materials needed... Who came up with that? Make stuff that isn't needed anywhere else and once you are done you should just stop that factory or end up wasting a ton of resources. Talking about wasting resources... Inputs keep stacking into at least 100 in each machine so if you have splitter after splitter after splitter etc the last machines in the row will get starved for hours before full production is possible.

In the end i thought that trains would be great for our base. That station is so big i almost fell off my chair when i saw it. My god. Tried to combine one station for unloading 3 different resources into our base. Huge mistake. It kind of worked for two. Then getting the resources from wherever in the world to this station... Nope. Mountains everywhere making it almost impossible to put rails to the mines.

Both me and my friends felt we were done with this disaster of a game. One of my friends brought Factorio because of it and now he is also addicted so if anything i am happy i have played satisfactory, had the experience and have another friend to play the better game with.

Doubt we will return to satisfactory. Sorry for this wall of text rant. I just don't get the popularity when factorio is lightyears ahead with superior gameplay.

Tldr: satisfactory, a game if you want to get upset at bugs and poor design decisions. 5/10

[–] YMS@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When I first learned about Satisfactory, I thought this would just be Factorio with the unnecessary complication of adding 3D. But I got it through a bundle at some point, so I playtested it a bit (not much, just 200 hours) and then decided to put it away until 1.0 is released (as I really want to see the full experience before I'm done with the game). Since then, I tried every single game (I swear!) where you could build kind of a base in 3D freely, and nowhere saw a building experience that came close to Satisfactory. Not all is perfect there, for example I think it really should have terraforming, so not every little rock could block you from building your megafactory, but anyway, I'm counting days for when I can start building in Satisfactory again.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rad! I just got the game recently. Been trying it out, but if 1.0 is right around the corner, I may hold off for a bit.

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I've felt this way since I last played in update 4.... Huh, another update coming soon? Might as well wait! Was planning on trying update 8, buuut we'll see about that I suppose haha

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Alpha. Beta implies feature complete.

[–] YMS@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

Snutt explains that in the video even. They will enter (closed) beta soon.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Mercer sphere WIP. Comply!

[–] BlueTemplar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Factorio was in open alpha/beta for 8 years... xD