I do own the game but sadly I could just never get into it, I have probably thousands of hours in the factorio but the building just isn’t satisfying ironically enough in satisfactory for me.
Especially in the early game, it takes so much fucking longer to get to Coal Power than it should I am sick and tired of being ripped out of my flow of building the factory by needing to stop and go collect some goddamn leaves manually. Even when i finally get stable power, the unlocks are just tedious annoying uninteresting and everything is constantly trying to pull me out of just focusing on building.
The building itself can get frustrating because uneven terrain and issues with SNAP placement can mean things don’t quite line up perfectly and you have to keep trying again. That’s easily moved past tho it didn’t bother me too much in Dyson Sphere program so I can work past it.
There’s a lot of little things I can complain about but for whatever reason the overall gameplay just did not click with me like it did in other Factory games
Satisfactory doesnt tickle the pattern recognition part of my brain the way Factorio does. In Factorio I can make a beautiful, perfectly symmetrical Nuc plant with integrated reprocessing, and a perfectly opimized red circuit build just ripping along with full speed modules and beacons. I can really visualize the perfect layout far better than in Satisfactory. In the latter, I found exploring the worl more interesting than building the factory.
I feel all of this so hard lol. I have 3000+ hours in Factorio and still clocked over 1000 across my four Satisfactory saves. The early game and mid is soooo frustrating that it takes me ages to grind through, but the movement, aesthetics, and being able to crawl around my builds like a hamster keep me coming back.
1.0 has some sweet-looking improvements that’ll help all this (Dimensional Depots), but they’re gated behind such late-game tech that I fear I’ll either burn out before I get to them or have nothing left to do with them once they’re unlocked.
Space Age will probably be out before I get there though, so there might be some mods available to help with that by the time I need them
I do own the game but sadly I could just never get into it, I have probably thousands of hours in the factorio but the building just isn’t satisfying ironically enough in satisfactory for me.
Especially in the early game, it takes so much fucking longer to get to Coal Power than it should I am sick and tired of being ripped out of my flow of building the factory by needing to stop and go collect some goddamn leaves manually. Even when i finally get stable power, the unlocks are just tedious annoying uninteresting and everything is constantly trying to pull me out of just focusing on building.
The building itself can get frustrating because uneven terrain and issues with SNAP placement can mean things don’t quite line up perfectly and you have to keep trying again. That’s easily moved past tho it didn’t bother me too much in Dyson Sphere program so I can work past it.
There’s a lot of little things I can complain about but for whatever reason the overall gameplay just did not click with me like it did in other Factory games
Satisfactory doesnt tickle the pattern recognition part of my brain the way Factorio does. In Factorio I can make a beautiful, perfectly symmetrical Nuc plant with integrated reprocessing, and a perfectly opimized red circuit build just ripping along with full speed modules and beacons. I can really visualize the perfect layout far better than in Satisfactory. In the latter, I found exploring the worl more interesting than building the factory.
I feel all of this so hard lol. I have 3000+ hours in Factorio and still clocked over 1000 across my four Satisfactory saves. The early game and mid is soooo frustrating that it takes me ages to grind through, but the movement, aesthetics, and being able to crawl around my builds like a hamster keep me coming back.
1.0 has some sweet-looking improvements that’ll help all this (Dimensional Depots), but they’re gated behind such late-game tech that I fear I’ll either burn out before I get to them or have nothing left to do with them once they’re unlocked.
Space Age will probably be out before I get there though, so there might be some mods available to help with that by the time I need them
To their credit there is a sandbox mode. You can just say fuck upgrades amd start at whatever tier you want and just build