I've started playing Satisfactory about 4 times and it follows the same scenario each time: 1. Play about 150 hours without a long break, unlocking all stages and build a nuclear power plant. 2. "It's time to start manufacturing space elevator parts on an industrial scale" 3. Start collecting huge amounts of resources all over the map and adding them to the logistical network. 4. Get tired and stop playing. 5. Come back to the game after six months. Realize that you don't remember ANYTHING and it's like you've entered someone else's world where someone built everything for you and now you can't figure out how everything works. 6. Start over.
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
Sounds about right 😂
@ALMarkAZ19902 ай бұрын
I always love to start over. Because each time I noticed my design of the factories and logistics improves significantly.
@rmstitanica3204Ай бұрын
My next save in 1.0 will involve solving the logistics problem I have in my current and previous saves - having stuff like steel beams, rubber, etc all shipped back to my main base instead of having to go to the factories to acquire them.
@TheRoboito8 күн бұрын
i never start over because i usually end up slowly remembering everything
@Glitch_Online3 ай бұрын
even if nothing had changed.. i intend to do a fresh start.
@almc84452 ай бұрын
This is the correct answer XD
@SnarksneezeАй бұрын
I do fresh starts all the time 😅
@hoteltoyota3 ай бұрын
I'm ridiculously excited for 1.0. So many great changes. It'll be great
@marcbennett92323 ай бұрын
soooo excited for 1.0. I cant believe anyone would keep an old save, I mean we are Satisfactory players, we are used to restarting lol.
@MichaelPohoreski3 ай бұрын
I could go either way. Having to run around snagging hard drives and unlocking everything in the M.A.M. again has me seriously considering if I want to restart. I probably will - just to experience the new story.
@marcbennett92323 ай бұрын
@@MichaelPohoreski well I never bothered to get all the hard drives because I knew 1.0 was coming eventually.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
You could always use Advanced Game Settings to unlock alternate recipes, and anything else you want.
@Waggabagaboo3 ай бұрын
The culture for this game is weird. It’s a little too Reddit for my tastes.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
Loooool I love this community but I totally agree with you 😂
@MegaLokopo3 ай бұрын
Wouldn't a game mode with randomized ore nodes be a better solution to get people to build more varied factories in different locations?
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
That would certainly do it. I am split on my opinion on this. I feel like there would be no harm in doing it, but I also respect the work that the team did to create a map that is balanced in their eyes.
@MegaLokopo3 ай бұрын
@@SatisfactoryNews I imagine the it would still be balanced, it would simply be harder in some ways and easier in others.
@NYKevin1003 ай бұрын
This feels like the sort of thing that ought to be a mod if they don't add it to the base game.
@Im_A_Potato_guy3 ай бұрын
@@NYKevin100 There is one already. It's the "Random Resource Node Location" mod.
@Monkey-fv2km3 ай бұрын
That would work for me I think, but since much of the game is about optimisation it would likely end up with people rerolling maps to try and get the ideal random setup, which would overshadow the main gameplay. I think the better solution will be releasing new maps as DLC down the line.
@frankgrimes73883 ай бұрын
“Hard to make a ton of screws”… Are we playing the same game?
@Monkey-fv2km3 ай бұрын
Maybe 'inconvenient' would be a better term, none of this game is 'hard' in the difficulty sense, just in terms of amount of work needed to achieve a goal.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
I would say they present more challenges than it seems like they should. They take multiple levels of processing, thet take a ton of iron, the machines that make rods make them very slowly compared to other simple items, and you need such a large quantity of screws that you could easily saturate your belts. They are definitely annoying. I have been making great use of the alternate recipe that let's you make screws directly from iron ingots. Saves an entire production step!
@franchellevanheerden3 ай бұрын
i Reaaaaaly don't want to rebuild my Mega factory again. I would rather make the small adjustments needed to operate again. i started my Mega factory 4 weeks ago, and already did ALOT!.
@wyzedfz14953 ай бұрын
The most tedious part for me when starting a new save are the recipes, the M.A.M research and tiers. Sure I would happily build a new factory from scratch, but losing all progress in those terms just sounds like repeating the same game again with no excitement. Having to unlock all of that (same) stuff again just steals me hours of building. It would be nice if they allow you to load a save, removing all structures built by the player and keeping the progress so you have all the resources available to rebuild your factories as you like in the first try without going through the hassle of doing the same process of research and collecting again. Maybe would be also nice if you can only preserve those items you can store in the personal box from the hub, anything else would be erased and the world fully restored, so you have the compromise of what items you can keep for the... NG+?
@captain_loeffel3 ай бұрын
You can easily create a new map with everything unlocked. You can use the map editor that is available to do exactly that. Just start a new game, save it, load it into the map editor and unlock everything you like. Than continue with this save file.
@shiznitts3 ай бұрын
Yeah I cant stand when I have to waste resources to unlock Jump Pads, Hyper Tubes, and other various junk, but Its the MAM and the Sink that really hurt my feelings when starting over.
@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue3 ай бұрын
You can(now?)/will be able to choose the tech tier you want to start the game with so you can cut out the initial grind if you want.
@Ecliptor.2 ай бұрын
Collecting hard drives is aids. I will probably cheat them in in 1.0. I already collected them all normally once, back in update 7. I think giving myself the hard drives and having to wait for the 10 minutes while also maybe getting screwed by the recipe pool is more fair than just unlocking everything.
@captain_loeffel2 ай бұрын
@@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue Search for satisfactory calculator interactive map then you will find the Interactive map. When you upload your save file there you can manipulate it there. All progression levels in MAM or the elevator and also all alternative recipes. You can even place objects on the map or delete them. If those objects are containers you can even fill them with containers. This editor exists for several years now. Yes, it is cheating, but it will at least skip some things. I can't say if that will have any consequences to the story. When it comes to alternative recipes you can also just give yourself all HDDs available and then still get them via MAM as @Ecliptor wants to do. With the editor you can even copy complete structures from one save file to another.
@BenderFondue3 ай бұрын
I'm too stubborn to let my safes drop and just go with a new one
@sampsondavidj2 ай бұрын
This video helped me feel better about starting over. I built a massive aluminum factory in my game and need all the quartz I can get, but seeing the changes, I'm pretty sure everything is going to break. I liked the reminder at the end about it being an early access game.
@malohn20683 ай бұрын
I just want a release date man. I hate sitting in limbo for like 2 months only to find out it releases in 2 more months. I prefer if they just said 2025 and have it be at that
@NotHappening-b8t3 ай бұрын
it release in 2025. there. go live ur life. at best u get it thanksgiving time. my money be 2025 januaryish.
@donaldpetersen23823 ай бұрын
August 15th-ish
@sneezyfido3 ай бұрын
Contrary to several other games I really wanted to play, the unit really is Months, not Years. This is my lifeline.
@ghost468572 ай бұрын
Confirmed September 10th
@emilskukojs37833 ай бұрын
The earpy days were quite fun cant wait to get back to that with 1.0
@althieward1429Ай бұрын
As a new player I restarted a few times already, one I use to experiment with and finally a main one. So I look forward to starting a new save and exploring both (if possible) or just to continue with 1.0.
@nathanj2023 ай бұрын
When I first started to get plastic production the first big thing I did was 3 manufactures for computers, with no alternates it took 21 refineries and that made me so avoidant to the whole plastic production line that I just took silicon circuit boards and HSC alts to not have to deal with it. I am really going to miss that pile of quartz nodes.
@mekabirb2 ай бұрын
At what cost? Moving few conveyor belts and miners to new nodes, or not. They can just be where they are, just for the memes. Not leaving lube inside tho.
@Houstonruss3 ай бұрын
So they move ores around but progression, vehicles, blueprints, exploration ect are all mediocre at best. At least people wont be able to say its early access as an excuse anymore.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
I thunk exploration is great, personally. The map is designed incredibly well to be explorable while also being challenging if you dont have the proper equipment. But they really screwed up with the new Explorer physics. It's basically impossible to use now.
@TheSinzy3 ай бұрын
That means that I just cant play until the release. And since they still have not said anything about release date thats make me sad.
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
Until now! Release date was announced today. September 10th.
@MarjamaaK3 ай бұрын
IDK if I should start playing a new save, if soon I'll just restart again
@HyperDashYT3 ай бұрын
I already intended to do that a year ago and still intend of doing a fresh save for 1.0, honestly I can't comprehend anybody that wants to continue their save as they're gonna miss the new stuff. I'm unbelievably hyped for 1.0, I have not been playing Satisfactory for like more than half a year now and my addicted ass is NOT liking that
@MichaelPohoreski3 ай бұрын
Not everyone cares about the lore when the core gameplay loop is about optimizing efficiency.
@Seraphim_11722 ай бұрын
I was gonna do a fresh start no matter what - in fact, I ended up dropping the game for about a month just because I got so busy, and decided not to pick it back up because I was gonna wait for 1.0. I caved in recently, of course, and started a new save for Satisfactory+ because I wanted to try it after ImKibitz posted his video on the mod. But when 1.0 comes out I'll start another new save for just vanilla.
@TheRealSlobo2 ай бұрын
As if i needed a persuading to start a new save
@Shaded3 ай бұрын
What I think I'm going to do is to copy over my train lines and most favorite buildings but keep anything else new so I get somewhat the full experience. But I'm still debating..
@michaelreasoner40233 ай бұрын
I have a save that i have 600 hours in and based on the changes, it "shouldn't" be that hard to fix the production chains that i have made so far. Sonce none of them involve a large amount of steal. Going further or making more logistic lines to get the resource is fine. I plan to have a multiplayer server to enjoy the story with friends and then continue and fix my 600 hour world. To "beat" the game.
@Daralyndk2 ай бұрын
Honestly I always intended to do new save for full release so...yeah
@Burnlit13372 ай бұрын
Earlier this year I wanted to get back into this amazing and addictive game after putting it awayfor 2 years. When I was installing it and reviewing guide videos, I heard that they were going to 1.0, which made me stop continuing. I'm glad that I'm holding off returning and excited for this September
@tmfmxoАй бұрын
I plan to keep my save not primarily for the production lines but for the infrastructure around them. I just "grok'd" with efficiently building concrete structures and train lines, I'm happy with what I have right now and I want to expand on it on 1.0 rather than start over. Adapting to some nodes that have moved and some recipe changes should not be too much of an issue.
@plasticcreations78363 ай бұрын
I knew I would be starting a new save as soon as I saw how many trees are now growing in my factories. Plus I want to experience the whole story.
@AndrewKeifer2 ай бұрын
How much power you need really depends on how fast you want to produce things. I was able to finish the game with primarily coal power and some normal fuel power, but never had to touch turbo fuel or nuclear power.
@VTrucker777Ай бұрын
If possible pls just make everything random, same node kocation but randomize Just a suggestion
@SatisfactoryNewsАй бұрын
Pretty popular suggestion. Would be surprised if they added it but it's not impossible considering how many people want it. I personally think it's a bad idea for a handcrafted map but I think a lot of people don't mind either way.
@nostrum64102 ай бұрын
I restart several times a month, so that's not a big deal
@noxidus49252 ай бұрын
I hope they make it so you can recycle plutonium
@Ecliptor.2 ай бұрын
did anyone ever use the base recipe for computers? Or the base recipe for screws after that one time you make an early game factory for the starting materials?
@electroman19963 ай бұрын
I still plan to fix my save, as it shouodn't be too much work. I already moved some miners to nodes that will stay in preparation. I will make a new save just for the story, but probably with some AGS to make the story-playthrough faster (like having all alts unlocked from the beginning etc)
@Waggabagaboo3 ай бұрын
I really hope they added a couple new parts and the Sam ore is an engaging addition. Otherwise it really will be 3 years since the last automation content update. They are holding their cards close and I’m not one to be negatively speculate for this game.
@Creator_of_Silversword_Lootbox3 ай бұрын
I will start a new fresh game and it will be like the first cigarette after a long cold, a glass of fine scottish whiskey after work is done, a deep breath when finally arriving in my favourite holiday forest and I will enjoy every single moment of it. Looking forward to it. Just a bit...
@jackobite43463 ай бұрын
I always intended a new start, all thats happened over the last year is I didnt play much, just get the game out already!
@jelen007112 ай бұрын
Im just playing satisfactory + .. its insane .. but one question in satisfactory + there are 3 tiers of blueprint designer which is really cool do you think they will add something like this to 1.0 ? did they mention something i didnt watch so many of pre relase videos so i hope i missed it
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
They have consistently said that they won't do bigger blueprints for 1.0 and they believe that they've provided the perfect size. However, there could be a few changes, such as adjust the clipping on Refineries so that they can fit. BUT, they are not ruling out that there could be changes later, after 1.0.
@jelen007112 ай бұрын
@@SatisfactoryNews :( its so cool to be able to make bigger blueprints it helps so much if u can do perfectly balanced production line in one blueprint ahh
@ManomiiFox2 ай бұрын
with conveyor automated biomass generators, starting a new save isn't that bad.
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
It's going to be a game changer for the early game!
@James22102 ай бұрын
I just started last week, should I restart? I only set up 1 automatic miner
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
Maybe work through a couple tiers just to get a feel for the game, and the game mechanics, but don't try to "beat" the game yet.
@Gukworks2 ай бұрын
No screws for computer? 😮
@gordon8613 ай бұрын
I finally managed to finish the game about a month ago, and am waiting the 1.0 so I can go through it all again.
@julholschАй бұрын
I will start a new save but also will keep my old save and fix it.
@SatisfactoryNewsАй бұрын
Good plan! Best of both worlds.
@TindalosSpaceLab2 ай бұрын
I'm willing to bet that in a year or two there will be an update 1.1 or 1.2 or something else. And we will be told again that we need to start over. The “early access” excuse will no longer work by this time, so we will be told that this is a “very good update.” How Minecraft does it.
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
I kind of doubt that. Something tells me that any additional content will not affect the game progression that much. I think they really want to nail it with 1.0.
@MadOliveGaming3 ай бұрын
I bought this game with the "early access" tag, assuming it would be a half finished buggy mess like all other. Bloody hell, if they just quit here they'd still have a better game than most finished products, can't believe it's early access tbh
@printedprops8730Ай бұрын
It was already impressive when i started playing in 2016
@astreanightfang26223 ай бұрын
i like doing restarts from time to time anyways. but i am also taking a long time to get into actually organizing things, so there is that
@franzjeitler73233 ай бұрын
Note: The amount of energy contained in a unit of fuel will not be changed, only thing we're gaining from the fuel gen change is having to build fewer of them for the same amount of power, we will still need the same amount of crude oil, refineries, etc. for the same amount of power
@coffeegeck3 ай бұрын
Satisfactory for Consoles when.
@wreryn662522 күн бұрын
Soon ^tm
@zachansen82933 ай бұрын
I don't care about a story, I just want the CPU optimizations so I can get more than 20fps on my 100gw game.
@Gukworks2 ай бұрын
Everything clean, everything new!
@user-zp4ge3yp2o3 ай бұрын
I'm most excited for getting access to trains earlier
@jaeger04043 ай бұрын
Is the conveyor at 0:14 just a single entity or can you build connected sloped conveyors? I thought there is some ugly horizontal connection
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
Haha I conveniently recorded this so that the ugly part is right behind me! I wish you could make a perfect sloped conveyor!
@Ecliptor.2 ай бұрын
You can make straight connections on a slope, it just requires a bit of shenanigans with splitters, but it's quite quick and the entire belt becomes straight once you do it. There's a quick youtube tutorial around.
@mikegielniak49813 ай бұрын
They knew we where all going to start fresh anyway
@Skibidifreaky353 ай бұрын
Oh boy i cant wait to waste 42h again!
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
If you had fun, is the time really wasted? :)
@Skibidifreaky353 ай бұрын
@@SatisfactoryNews true actually
@ericmaher47563 ай бұрын
A new start is always nice
@colinhendry61162 ай бұрын
“Be thankful your save will be compatible with the full release…[that’s] more than you can expect from most games” I have to hard disagree with this point. That phenomenon has never occurred to me over a dozen or so early access titles. Granted I’m only 100hrs in-and it seems like the changes won’t impact my current set up-I still feel that addressing people with bricked saves requires empathy. Not “be thankful”
@captain_loeffel3 ай бұрын
Those changes mean, that I can fully throw away my nearly 2000hrs save game, as it will be absolutely useless afterwards. My system won't have power anymore. Yes it is Early Access, but I can't even stay with the old version to enjoy the game is at the moment. This is will be now the fifth time I fully need to restart and normally I would say I won't regret it. The problem here is, that due to the new start the boring and fully repetitive stuff like grinding all the hard drives and the tree will cost hundreds of hours again, as I'm not a fantastic player with skills that excel. I'm just the below average guy who is happy when he finally get something running the right way. Don't get me wrong, Satisfactory is still one of the best games I know and it is a hell of a game, but at that point there are just two options for me personally. Forget Satisfactory and never look back or cheat so that I won't need to grind all this shit again. On the other side I'm pretty sure that cheating that way will interfere with the story. Yes I know they say otherwise, but I'm sure it isn't the full truth. I played other games, they said the same after adding a story and the result was, either you play it from the beginning step by step or you will ruin the story experience. I needed hours to just calculate some factories and find the right spot and I know, that those factories won't be possible anymore. My turbo fuel power plant? Useless and can't be build that way again.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
I feel your pain, that really is the hard part about this game being so addictive and also having so many updates. I think I've only done 2 playthroughs, but even that was hard giving up hundreds of hours of work. Technically, you could try to salvage your current save, and fix all of the stuff that needs fixing, but that would definitely take a while.
@MegaLokopo3 ай бұрын
The only thing you'd need to do is delete all of the ore extractors that have moved, and set up new ones in the new spots and use conveyors or pipes or whatever you want to move them back to the original spot. Unless they put a mountain where your factory is, it will take less time than you think to get most of it back up and running especially if you do it slowly over time as you progress.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
There are a lot of new recipes as well, so you would also have to adjust many production lines, which could get tedious.
@captain_loeffel3 ай бұрын
@@SatisfactoryNews Unfortunately rebuilding my actual factory setting is near to impossible. When 1.0 hits I will hear the sound of the power going out for all my production lines. My main power production is a power plant running turbo fuel with a total output of over 36GW. With 1.0 the pure nodes for coal and sulfur will be gone and the sulfur ones will be only impure when I understand it correctly. To bring sulfur from other nodes to the factory would mean to bring the sulfur across half of the map minimum to get it running again. But I would need to build up everything without any power. Build up auxiliary power for just my power production. Until I would be able to get everything up and running again, all my factories need to be cleared of all animals once again, even the most dangerous ones. My ammunition production is still down since the weapon rework. My main weapon would be snowballs. To be true, to get this running someone with my aim and skill will need another 1000hrs minimum just to get this running again and I fear the turbo fuel production needs to be rebuild too because of the changed recipes. Not to talk about the other fully specialized factories, that are for sure faster torn down and completely build from scratch, that need to be rebuild because of the new recipes. I'm still rebuilding my aluminium production after the changes there. No, this game file is as dead as the others I had before.
@Monkey-fv2km3 ай бұрын
Yeah that sucks, any change to anything, no matter how positive, will negatively effect someone. Maybe this means walking away, but i've walked away from plenty of games with less than 2000 hours and felt I've had my moneys worth. There is always the opportunity to give it a fresh go in the future some time, maybe if there is more new content or game changing mods.
@mercatox65022 ай бұрын
thank you so much fo this vidéo
@bluenovember3 ай бұрын
Definitely using same save. Or perhaps using the 3rd party save editor (if it still works) to copy the buildings to new save and restarting progression. "Drain the world" style saves are too tedious to recreate, and much can be adapted to the new nodes with only moderate disruption.
@owowhatsthis....30253 ай бұрын
Great update. If your final review out I just need to link it with my stream review and you have done my job.😅
@NotHappening-b8t3 ай бұрын
dont tell me what to do. that is what makes this game fun.. lol
@Rambrus0Ай бұрын
Simple. Dont start playing until 1.0, otherwise you just throw hours out the window right now. I want to play so bad but i dont want to have my progress invalidated
@The_Legendary_Nature_Dragon3 ай бұрын
I'm fine starting over bc how many games I've played and i always started over and i didn't do lot so yea Iven if i did lots it will be boring starting over but latter il wanna play it again
@mymumbakescakes3 ай бұрын
when 1.0?
@Voeluspa453 ай бұрын
Oh, they are still working on this? It was my impression they are getting more and more lazy.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
Nah, updates are just taking longer and are less impressive-looking because they've been working on things in the background that lead to 1.0. One of those things being the narrative/story which has been worked on in the background for a long time but hasn't been implemented in the game yet. And stuff like performance stability and bug fixes aren't sexy, but they take a long time to get right.
@Firetiger932 ай бұрын
If the map were procedurally generated it would be a lot better.
@SatisfactoryNews2 ай бұрын
Disagree, but I understand the desire especially for replayability.
@Firetiger932 ай бұрын
@@SatisfactoryNews Not even for replayablility, mostly because the way it is now you can just watch some videos and be a master. Everything is always the same so there will always be a best way to do things. With procedural you have to actually understand how things work and design accordingly.
@Tanth19823 ай бұрын
Devs nerf stuff in noncompetitive game. Pocket influencers - BuT iTs a GoOd ThInG.
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
Balance is important. If everything is overpowered, then you have no challenges, and then the game doesn't push you. If you want to play a game with no challenge and no stakes, I'm sure there are plenty out there.
@driverjamescopeland3 ай бұрын
2:59 - "This makes them waaaay less daunting." It's SUPPOSED TO BE daunting. I don't get why they've went to such ends to make the game easier. I get the redistribution of nodes... as nearly anyone who played more than 100hrs usually started on the plateau of the northern forest. I enjoyed the more complex recipes, and was looking forward to new and vastly more complex ones with 1.0... but I guess that's not happening 🥱
@SatisfactoryNews3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I really didn't mind having a 4th ingredient for supercomputers. Even having it just be rods instead of screws would have been totally fine. If I had to guess, I would say they figured that the final space elevator parts and other late game parts are all complicated enough, and they wanted to create more of a "medium-hard" category of parts.