Satisfactory Alpha release

Mrs Seabiscuit · 26 Oct 2021 at 20:54

Anyone else find fuel generators hard to master? I was fine before update 4 when it needed less complexifies (waste/by-products) but no matter what i do it goes ok for a while then borks out and i cannot get it going?
Any help/advice/suggestions would be much appreciated. (If you can try not to link me to YT videos as I`m currently unable to hear.)

Thank you

Tombstone · 26 Oct 2021 at 21:03

Mrs Seabiscuit said:
Anyone else find fuel generators hard to master? I was fine before update 4 when it needed less complexifies (waste/by-products) but no matter what i do it goes ok for a while then borks out and i cannot get it going?
Any help/advice/suggestions would be much appreciated. (If you can try not to link me to YT videos as I`m currently unable to hear.)

Thank you

Will be a while before I reach that stage again, I restart my game from scratch when each major update comes out, so have only just re-begun (not a word, but it should be

)

SixTwoSix · 27 Oct 2021 at 07:53

Tombstone said:
Yup, Update 5 is here, send your family away for a while, grab some drink and a bucketload of food and prepare to disappear from the world for the next 1000 hours

On main or experimental?

Tombstone · 27 Oct 2021 at 08:45

SixTwoSix said:
On main or experimental?

Experimental

SixTwoSix · 27 Oct 2021 at 09:12

Tombstone said:
Experimental

Any drawback to playing on Experimental, apart from unexpected bugs ofc?

Tombstone · 27 Oct 2021 at 09:39

SixTwoSix said:
Any drawback to playing on Experimental, apart from unexpected bugs ofc?

I dont think you can use mods on experimental maybe, thats pretty much the only drawback I can think of, I've played on experimental my whole time in Satisfactory, several hundred hours

SixTwoSix · 27 Oct 2021 at 09:46

Tombstone said:
I dont think you can use mods on experimental maybe, thats pretty much the only drawback I can think of, I've played on experimental my whole time in Satisfactory, several hundred hours

Ta - i've never played Experimental but I also don't run any mods.

I'll get it installed later as this new update looks...as the cool kids say 'pog'

Brutal biff · 27 Oct 2021 at 14:28

I'll wait till the update comes on the normal version before I'll play again

A certain mmo is taking all my game time at the moment

Tombstone · 27 Oct 2021 at 14:44

Brutal biff said:
I'll wait till the update comes on the normal version before I'll play again

A certain mmo is taking all my game time at the moment

As is the way with MMOs unfortunately, they are such timesinks that just drain all your gaming into one single pot. Despite being my favourite genre of game its been a godsend to my gaming catalogue that there arent any decent MMOs around these days, has enabled me to play so many more games that otherwise just wouldnt get a look in due to the timesponge that comes with being in an MMO

petridish · 28 Oct 2021 at 10:47

SixTwoSix said:
Ta - i've never played Experimental but I also don't run any mods.

I'll get it installed later as this new update looks...as the cool kids say 'pog'

I guess the only other 'downside' is that it updates fairly often. You can sometimes find yourself downloading updates when you want to get playing if, like me, you have less than ideal internet speeds.

SixTwoSix · 28 Oct 2021 at 13:06

petridish said:
I guess the only other 'downside' is that it updates fairly often. You can sometimes find yourself downloading updates when you want to get playing if, like me, you have less than ideal internet speeds.

I was stuck with 25Mbit for 8 years until June last year then FTTP came to the area and on 900Meg now.

Doesn't add anything to the chat, just a childish flex

Tombstone · 28 Oct 2021 at 13:31

SixTwoSix said:
I was stuck with 25Mbit for 8 years until June last year then FTTP came to the area and on 900Meg now.

Doesn't add anything to the chat, just a childish flex

The speed of rollout of really fast broadband recently has been pretty amazing, only the other night I was sitting and thinking how funny it is that when lockdown began I was on 40mb broadband and now I am on 1gb. 25x speed jump in such a short space of time.

SixTwoSix · 28 Oct 2021 at 13:38

Tombstone said:
The speed of rollout of really fast broadband recently has been pretty amazing, only the other night I was sitting and thinking how funny it is that when lockdown began I was on 40mb broadband and now I am on 1gb. 25x speed jump in such a short space of time.

I can still remember the first time I went from dialup to 512k and oddly, i found that more amazing than getting 900Mb recently.

Kainz · 28 Oct 2021 at 19:45

ZOOP mode is AWESOME

Brutal biff · 29 Oct 2021 at 09:37

Stated a new game last night said my goodbyes to the wife and kids

Tombstone · 29 Oct 2021 at 09:41

Brutal biff said:
Stated a new game last night said my goodbyes to the wife and kids

Ficsit welcomes your service

SixTwoSix · 29 Oct 2021 at 10:15

I almost...very nearly almost installed this last night as wife put our son to bed, I was strong though, pat on the back for me

montymint · 29 Oct 2021 at 10:20

urgh, went to play this last night and my 3080FE has the worst coil whine with this now

GlyphRot · 29 Oct 2021 at 14:48

This game stimulates all the OCD centres in my brain and I can't tell if my enjoyment of it is healthy or not!

Looking forward to the dedicated servers though.

Tombstone · 29 Oct 2021 at 16:39

Some of the QoL changes in update 5 are spot on, theres a few in here that I have been asking for since day one

Satisfactory Alpha release

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