Satisfactory finally has controller support. Maximum comfy inbound

Oh hey, nice, I was waiting for a thread.
They broke Hard Drives again.
>Start exploring after setting up Coal
>Get my first Hard Drive
>Pop it
>You can find Wet Concrete before having the crafting machine (Refinery) to make it

>>712474093
I do like that you can dismantle crash sites now. It's a great way to get a lot of early resources.
Hell, it's good enough to almost make biofuel skippable (not quite, cause you need it to start the Coal plants).

>>712474527
For me the main perk of dismantling crash sites is so when I see them in the distance I know I haven't gotten to them yet.

>>712474093
Can you still back out of the menu to reprocess it for a new recipe or did they fix that?

>>712476172
>reprocess it for a new recipe
Of course. You get 1 reroll per Hard Drive.
You can also just not claim a Hard Drive before or after reroll and let both Recipes sit there unclaimed to permanently (until claimed) remove them from the pool of possible results.
It's a speedrunning trick early on to get Cast Screws more reliably (taking 2 out of the pool is better than 1 from claiming a recipe you want).
This one's a great example of letting it sit there for a while cause I won't need Fused Wire for a LONG time and Biocoal is literally useless.
I could reroll it for a shot at Cast Screws, but keeping it as-is benefits me more long-term.

>>712476937
Interesting. I played up to oil several years ago and to the end of the game last year, and now that 1.1 is out I'm considering getting back in. Glad to know the jank levels are still on par.

>>712477250
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>>712472586 (OP)
>broke all my mods
>update added basically nothing
Cool guess I'll have to wait another 6 months to play again then.

I'm never replaying this game because of this alternate recipe bullshit.

>>712474527
>it's good enough to almost make biofuel skippable (not quite, cause you need it to start the Coal plants).
Realistically you're hitting coal within 2 maybe 3 hours of a new save anyway so its not a big deal.

>>712478503
You can just enable a setting in the options to have all the alt recipes unlocked from the start....

>>712472586 (OP)
I'll finish my 1.0 save first. Eventually.

> what if we have factorio
> but in le 3d!!!!!

Slop for casuals, not interested.

>>712478570
>Realistically you're hitting coal within 2 maybe 3 hours of a new save anyway so its not a big deal
I just really hate manual power generation.

>>712478874
By that logic factorio is just
>Minecraft factory mods but 2D!
Or
>It's just sim city with bugs instead of people!
Turns out if your brain is smooth enough you can apply this argument to anything

Don't respond to bait.

>>712479660
ur mum

>>712479548
Retard, he didn't say
>it's just X but Y
the actual argument was
>it's just X but more (((accessible)))
Why would anyone want to play the goy cattle version of a game if the real thing is right there?

>>712480138
ecks dee

>>712480138
Smooooooooth

I swear if this next Hard Drive doesn't have Cast Screws...

>>712481806
Fucking damnit.

Genuinely what's the appeal of this game over Factorio? The logistics and building challenges are basically zero. Making a pretty looking factory?

>>712483635
Just Factorio with less stress and verticality
It's more comfy essentially

>>712472586 (OP)
did they add a reason to have guns besides to effortlessly slaughter the local fauna

>>712483794
Nope.

>>712483635
Yes.
You can make arbitrarily large megastructures and walk around in them.
Factorio exchanges your presence inside your buildings for greater challenge and depth.

I really, really enjoyed this game but I hit a fucking wall when I got to oil power. That shit was so daunting that I just sort of stopped playing. Up to that point it was quite fun and addicting though. Maybe I'll start a new game after I beat Planet Crafter.

I remember finishing picrel and thinking it was impressive. Oh, the naivety.

>>712485970
jesus fucking christ man you have to TRY to make a base this messy. this has to be a deliberate, calculated effort

>>712487465
Oil is easy though?

>>712488131
After spending ~60 hours getting to and figuring out coal, and seeing how much more time it was going to require, I lost a lot of steam.

>>712488064
Mine is definitely worse than that. I just put things wherever it will fit and for function.

>>712487465
Yeah the game goes off the rails at some point and you need to start making absurdly large buildings, or spreading everything around the map which is even more of a headache.

Doin a new playthrough now and lifts and stuff will go a long way to making these babel abominations walkable.

>>712488064
That shithole is at least compact. I play co-op with a guy that will build sprawling messes that are impossible to audit and barely function, so the second we need overage to split off a conveyor belt or to tweak the ratios the entire area is unusable.

>>712488681
I really like how that build looks

>>712488558
Man, you made Steam a lot more complex than it needed to be.
If you want Water to go up, all you need to do is feed the pipes into water silos stacked on top of each other, which have natural head lift just long enough to reach the next one up.
Or if you want more kinetic aesthetics, you can "cheat" headlift by pumping one pipe up somewhere concealed and then stringing the upper end of the pipe back down to where all your other pipes are, connect them, and it just werks.

>>712488849
Protip: use metal beams and frame out a 5x5 (or 4x4 if you have mk1 blueprints) sky scraper with only metal beams. Maybe even have 2 or 3 sky scrapers built next to each other so you can join them with walkways. Then use the blueprints to build rooms. You can fiddle with it to maximize the space. Then you just point n click to fill the rooms up, connect belts and go. Repeat till game is over.

>>712488131
This.

>>712472586 (OP)
this looks overwhelming

>>712488131
Here's my oil setup purely for power. Converts all the polymer into fabric for more sink worth and generates 5,000 MW. You could probably make it even more efficient with the Heavy oil recipes, but it works well enough for now.

if they ever make a sequel it really needs terraforming and something to keep people from just building giant floating platforms

Dogshit game. Play Factorio or Dyson Sphere Project.

Maybe I'm crazy but an absolutely clusterfucked factory is better than a clean organized one

>>712489729
There's beauty in both.

>>712489729
I always try starting to organize stuff then it slowly grows more and more disorganized until I get disgusted with myself and tear everything down or move locations.

>>712489729
Cope.
Skill issue.
Git gud, scrub.
jk. I don't care how other factories look as long as they aren't floating platforms

>>712489729
Platforms were a mistake.

>>712489667
>Play Factorio
Sorry but I'm not cutting off my penis.

>>712490527
This game would be unplayable later down the line if you had no platforms to build on

>>712490809
What? Satisfactory is the one that forces you to play as female and has actual trannies on the development team. Factorio does not.

>>712491004
>Factorio does not.
Oh you naive troon

I kinda lose interest toward the end when it goes from mostly realistic production chains to made up scifi bullshit.

>>712493238
What does it matter if you're crafting yooznugs or iron ingots?

>Style over substance, no challenge development chains and infinite resources
Why do troons pretend this game is good?

>>712476937
on my new world i started, the first 3 hard drives had cast screws, iron wire, and stitched reinforced plate. I felt like I was being punked with how good the rolls were

>>712493645
when the chain consists of realistic items i can intuitively follow it without having to stop and look shit up

>>712494116
Can you provide an example of a crafting chain that is intuitive and you don't need to look up? And can you provide an example of one that isn't intuitive that requires a guide?

>>712494340
>i want to make a computer, i'm probably gonna need silicon, plastic, and copper/gold

>i want to make a quantum retroencabulator, i probably need uhhhh... tachyons or something

>>712494710
Im pretty sure he asked for an example from the game.

>>712479484
Same, I'm honestly annoyed they havent just rolled Refined Power mod straight into the base game.
Cheap but very crappy wind turbines for the early game and expensive but decent solar panels in the mid-game help smooth over a lot of boring "cut down half a forest and manually feed the leaves in".

At least they had the decency to add conveyor inputs to biomass burners in an update a few months ago, but that shit shouldve been added 5 years ago.

>>712480138
because of
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supremacy.
Factorio factories suck ass cuz you cant run shit above/below so eventually everything becomes a jumbled mess that takes up way too much space.

They have map generator yet?

>>712495384
>Just runs belts over machines without worrying
There's no logistical challenge when you can just put anything anywhere.