Anyone else play Satisfactory?

Oh man. That game is fricking crack. I've put hundreds of hours in since like version 6 or 7 since someone posted a thread on here a few years back. It's the perfect game for me. It can be as low stress or high stress as you want it to be. It's funny because I run a factory in real life, and Satisfactory is my way to unwind from running the real factory. I don't have to worry about suppliers, employees calling out, broken machines, or production deadlines. I only have to worry about pleasing ADA.

The dev team is great and the community is very helpful.

One of the most helpful tools is this production tool.. Before I knew about that, I was using notebooks and calculators trying to keep track of things and plan out factories.

I'm on my third or fourth play-through. I've gone from what we call spaghetti factory layouts to whole industrial cities linked with trains and drones.

I play on passive mode because I don't like having the creatures to worry about. I just want to build, balance, and optimize.

It's always a race for me to get to coal power, and from there I slow down. The next big hurdle is always aluminum. You can beat the game without nuclear power as you can get more than enough power using large rocket fuel factories. I've done nuclear twice for the challenge, and it was "satisfying" once I had a perfectly optimized 10 tower uranium nuclear plant and nuclear disposal factory. I have yet to tackle plutonium power or ficsonium power. Maybe one of these days I'll get enough initiative to devote the hours to that, but in the meantime I like making aesthetically pleasing and balanced factories.

Great Game...I pick it up every 2-3 months or so. Have finished it 3-4 times. Plan everything to be way bigger than you expect.

I've been thinking about buying it, but I just end up loading up Factorio and forgetting about it.

I build huge mega factories in it.

Satisfactory seems good, but I see the videos and it just looks kind of messy often. I haven't really seen anything that makes me think it has more to offer. Am I wrong?

I’m working out the kinks of my oil refineries now. For some reason I can’t get my fuel to produce what the math says it should be.

Haven’t played factorio but I have seen factorio players say they really like the 3d layer that satisfactory has.

I’m forcing myself to build my factories vertically now. I think I’ve only explored less than half of the map.

Yeah, it's on my wishlist, but I already have enough forever games. Heck, I can see My Time at Sandrock taking hundreds of hours. There is layer after layer of this game.

Satisfactory looks like a game I will sink more hours than I did Oxygen Not Included (#Dontask).

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The blueprinting in satisfactory is gonna piss you the heck off.

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Oh, that's too bad because blueprints are a huge deal for me. I created a "Base in a book" blueprint system in Factorio where large blocks have specific goals and buildings in them. Trains drop off resources on one end, others pick up on the other end. I use calculators to get the max input and outputs, etc. Totally nerd it up.

I just got an email from steam that Satisfactory is on sale until Oct 1. I think I'll stick to factorio, thanks for the heads up. I still haven't tried out the new DLC anyway.

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It's not a terrible game, maybe it gets better, but where i'm at i can only make tiny blueprints, makes scaling much more difficult(which isn't what makes factorio fun IMHO)

Does run great on ps5.

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Yeah that's the stuff I like most. I was afraid of that and was a reason I had never pulled the trigger. The 3d is cool, but at the of the day I'm all about making good factories and designing the overall system. In Factorio I use the research speed to determine the level of my factory. And it's all about scaling and blueprints. I just put down a blueprint and the drones build it from the factory parts that are already being made automatically etc. I love that.

Does factorio have lizard dogs?