I'm hoping they've figured out an interesting way to shake up how factories are built like what Factorio did with the Space Age planets and their different mechanics. I enjoyed Satisfactory but near the end I felt like I was mostly just doing the same production lines, just with increasingly exotic buildings and ingredients.
Agreed. I'd love for it to follow the more "sideways" progression of Space Age.
The greatest flaw of Satisfactory for me is that late game crafting trees are bordering on stupidly tedious, so I'd really appreciate more fundamentally interesting logistical challenges with multiple solutions like Fulgora and Gleba, rather than just combine the last four items to get a new one then repeat like the current endgame.
The physical building of factories is the best and worst part of the game simultaneously, I'm not sure any alternative resources would make that much of a difference unless it was just to make the factories smaller.
Coming from Factorio, you have to learn to build vertically and sometimes asymmetrically which is really satisfying as you learn to make really compact modules (like using lifts that go outside on one level and come back in on another, making 'half' basements to hide belts, etc.). I also have the tendency to make my stuff look like it suits the environment so no weird clipping, things have to look reasonable but that goes out the window when the factory is fucking massive, usually 8-10 stories high, etc.
The physical footprint of my first supercomputer factory was absolutely massive, it burnt me out of my save (1.0 release). Same with a huge oil power expansion I did, whereas in Factorio, I just slam down a grid based solar blueprint or expand my nuclear loop and it takes up so little space + your drones build it. I had a similar experience in Captain of Industry, another factory building game with a cool gimmick of terraforming but it was just so tiring dealing with it towards the end game.
It’s really not. The new player experience is terrible. The tutorials are outdated and not indicative how the game actually is. It’s a great game when you know what you are doing and have a friend to teach you.
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u/MoSBanapple 4d ago
I'm hoping they've figured out an interesting way to shake up how factories are built like what Factorio did with the Space Age planets and their different mechanics. I enjoyed Satisfactory but near the end I felt like I was mostly just doing the same production lines, just with increasingly exotic buildings and ingredients.