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| 1s | hi everyone my name is snoot at least |
| 4s | that's what it says on my driver's |
| 5s | license and I am the community manager |
| 7s | for coffee stain Studios and in this |
| 9s | video we're going to be answering a |
| 11s | couple of questions that you guys had so |
| 13s | I posted on Twitter Facebook Steam and |
| 15s | Reddit if you guys had any questions |
| 17s | that we would bring up in in this video |
| 18s | today we haven't done like a q a thing |
| 21s | on the YouTube site for a long time we |
| 24s | do answer questions every week on our |
| 26s | twitch stream so we have a weekly Dev |
| 28s | stream and there's a segment in that |
| 30s | stream where I usually answer questions |
| 31s | so I decided to post this and ask if you |
| 33s | guys had any questions and |
| 36s | geez you had a lot of questions |
| 39s | a lot of questions uh we're not going to |
| 42s | be able to get around to all the |
| 43s | questions unfortunately in this video |
| 44s | because I think that would make this |
| 46s | video Never Ending but yeah I'm gonna |
| 48s | try and answer as many questions as I |
| 50s | can so before I dive into the Q a |
| 52s | section let's talk quickly about |
| 53s | actually a couple of questions you guys |
| 54s | had on update 8 specifically so let's |
| 57s | address the state of dab real quick |
| 58s | first before we head into the Q a |
| 60s | segment so I think the first question to |
| 62s | answer is when is update coming out so |
| 65s | right now we are working on the |
| 68s | hopefully final push on our experimental |
| 71s | Branch with up to date before we feel |
| 72s | like we get ready to like sort of |
| 74s | finalize it and release it on the Early |
| 76s | Access Branch if you watched the video I |
| 78s | put out a couple of weeks ago where I |
| 79s | talked about like why we're doing it |
| 81s | this way and sort of what we're working |
| 82s | on right now that video is still sort of |
| 85s | like valid but we have progressed a bit |
| 87s | further now of course we're still |
| 88s | working on it but we don't have like a |
| 90s | good estimate as to like when we will be |
| 92s | ready to release this patch and |
| 94s | experimental we believe it will be |
| 95s | sometime in October but we can't really |
| 98s | say too much more so than that because |
| 100s | right now what we've done is upgraded |
| 103s | the engine to 5.2 which we have done and |
| 105s | we resolved most of those issues we're |
| 107s | also working towards implementing a |
| 109s | refactor of our online subsystem that's |
| 112s | also supposed to go in and up to date |
| 114s | and we kind of need to do that now as |
| 116s | well because this is the best time to do |
| 117s | it and there's still a bunch of work |
| 119s | left on that side so we are progressing |
| 121s | quite well but still a bunch of work |
| 123s | left and there's still a bunch of |
| 124s | testing left that we need to do |
| 125s | internally before we can release it on |
| 127s | the experimental branch and then once |
| 129s | it's out on the experimental Branch |
| 130s | sometime in October it'll probably take |
| 131s | like a couple of weeks before it's ready |
| 134s | to to be able to shift our way to the |
| 136s | Early Access branch and we'll talk more |
| 139s | like as the time comes I think and give |
| 141s | you more news as to like what's going on |
| 143s | but that's the state of things right now |
| 144s | all right I got a couple questions here |
| 146s | that we're just gonna like these are |
| 147s | classic questions that I'm constantly |
| 150s | getting and I've answered these a bunch |
| 152s | of times before in the past but let's |
| 153s | just do a real quick Speed Run of these |
| 155s | before we dive into like the the other |
| 157s | questions that I have here |
| 158s | when is 1.0 coming out we don't know for |
| 161s | sure there's still a bunch of work left |
| 163s | but we are closing in on 1.0 this is |
| 165s | sort of the effort I've been doing the |
| 167s | last couple of updates is trying to like |
| 168s | wrap up the game for 1.0 and this is the |
| 170s | goal we're not going to stick around in |
| 172s | Early Access for forever we do want to |
| 174s | finish the game to be ready in some form |
| 176s | of like 1.0 State |
| 178s | um but as to like exactly when that will |
| 180s | be we don't know for sure I think we'll |
| 181s | have a better understanding of that once |
| 183s | update 8 is out of the way uh I think uh |
| 186s | update took a bit longer than we |
| 187s | expected to do so it's it's always hard |
| 190s | to like give you an estimate as to like |
| 191s | when 1.0 will be ready but we are |
| 194s | working towards it |
| 195s | um so hopefully not too long in the |
| 197s | future when can I use Mercer spheres and |
| 199s | summer sloops so immersive spheres and |
| 201s | summersloops are part of the story |
| 203s | element that we're developing for the |
| 205s | game and the story element of the game |
| 206s | is going to come in 1.0 uh also good to |
| 209s | point out that the story mode for |
| 211s | satisfactory is not going to be some |
| 212s | Grand campaign or anything like that |
| 214s | like don't expect like a Call of Duty |
| 216s | can't wait to go shoot a man |
| 218s | um it's gonna be like an optional thing |
| 220s | like the main part of photo satisfactory |
| 222s | is the main gameplay that you have right |
| 223s | now what we're going to add with a story |
| 225s | is like a little bit of a couple of |
| 227s | story elements sprinkling with the |
| 229s | existing gameplay and also sort of like |
| 231s | a goal that you're working towards with |
| 233s | the game uh but this is going to be like |
| 235s | sort of optional so you know if you just |
| 238s | enjoy playing satisfactory just for the |
| 239s | sake of building factories then you can |
| 241s | totally skip the story if you want to or |
| 243s | if you're interested in that you can do |
| 244s | it but that's just that's sort of how it |
| 246s | is any idea when Sam or is going to be |
| 249s | used samur is going to be used in this |
| 250s | in the one pro release along with the |
| 252s | story elements when is the story coming |
| 254s | to the game in 1.0 console release when |
| 257s | we currently don't have any plans for |
| 260s | for console release I think this is |
| 261s | something that we'll sort of dive into |
| 263s | maybe if we can do console even uh when |
| 266s | we're done with the game so close it to |
| 267s | 1.0 so we'll see if we do constant |
| 270s | release right now we don't have plans |
| 271s | for that but we'll see in the future are |
| 273s | you going to add base defense no are you |
| 276s | going to add Factory maintenance no |
| 279s | survival elements no green energy no |
| 283s | terraforming new golf |
| 290s | no so the answer to those questions are |
| 292s | that we're not going to add these things |
| 293s | to the satisfactory it's not that type |
| 295s | of game that we're making if you want a |
| 297s | more like in-depth explanation about why |
| 299s | we're not adding these things then check |
| 301s | out the video uh in one of the corners |
| 304s | I'm not sure which corner it is actually |
| 305s | uh right now uh where Jace talks about |
| 308s | these things as to why they're not |
| 310s | coming and then give you more of an |
| 311s | in-depth explanation as to why we're not |
| 313s | adding these things to satisfactory all |
| 315s | right Speed Run done new best PB all |
| 317s | right let's let's go into some of the |
| 318s | questions you guys have on on the |
| 320s | socials and let's dive into it is it |
| 323s | possible to add a way to enable Advanced |
| 324s | game modes on games already going and |
| 327s | disable them so yes you can actually |
| 329s | enable this on save so you already have |
| 331s | you do this when you load save files so |
| 333s | when you load a save file there's a |
| 334s | little check mark underneath the load |
| 335s | button that you can click to enable and |
| 337s | then when you load the safe out you'll |
| 339s | have sort of advanced game modes |
| 341s | settings be like enable on that save |
| 343s | file and then when you say that safe |
| 345s | Folly will be enabled you can't go back |
| 346s | and the reason why we decided not to set |
| 348s | this up is because we sort have want you |
| 352s | to still experience the game in the way |
| 353s | that we've designed it but we still want |
| 355s | players to have the option to enable |
| 357s | like being able to build without cost |
| 359s | and be able to fly and all that stuff |
| 360s | but if it felt like if it was just like |
| 362s | in the menu where you just like give |
| 364s | yourself items if you felt like it |
| 365s | without any repercussions really then we |
| 369s | felt like it sort of ruins sort of the |
| 371s | game design balance that we have and it |
| 373s | might make it so that people sort of |
| 375s | take the easy way out a lot of cases |
| 377s | instead of like playing the game we |
| 378s | designed it for there's a saying in game |
| 380s | design where if you can optimize away |
| 382s | the fun out of a game then players will |
| 385s | always do that so we need to add a |
| 386s | little bit of friction so that people |
| 387s | wouldn't just like enable these things |
| 389s | all the time and just like get get that |
| 392s | out of it |
| 393s | um and I think this is a fair solution |
| 394s | to that problem sort of so like if you |
| 397s | want to be able to do that stuff you can |
| 398s | totally but USA file will be sort of |
| 401s | marked as a creative save file |
| 403s | essentially how would you feel about |
| 404s | adding VR to the game we I'm gonna be |
| 407s | honest we don't really have any interest |
| 408s | in adding VR to the game there's no one |
| 410s | at the company that are like super into |
| 412s | VR and just by that fact alone makes it |
| 416s | it's hard to like |
| 418s | push for that so to speak if someone |
| 420s | were interested at the company to like |
| 422s | Implement VR then maybe would look more |
| 424s | into it but I don't think it's really |
| 425s | interesting for us to look at so the |
| 427s | answer is unfortunately no but maybe |
| 429s | we'll change our minds in the future or |
| 430s | something I don't know but this the |
| 432s | state of things are right now would you |
| 434s | add a snow biome to the game |
| 436s | no we uh no no |
| 440s | uh it's taken us so long and we're not |
| 443s | even done with the map the the like |
| 446s | edition of a new biome at this point is |
| 448s | is too much work too much work so you |
| 450s | probably won't do it maybe as like a DLC |
| 452s | or something in the future who knows |
| 454s | that's this is I don't know what I'm |
| 456s | saying we're gonna do that but at the |
| 457s | moment no no sign no no no is there a |
| 461s | chance that clipping stuff for example |
| 463s | placing a foundation partly rotated |
| 464s | overlapping another Foundation won't |
| 466s | make textures flicker in the future |
| 468s | unfortunately if this isn't something |
| 470s | that we can actually remove because this |
| 471s | is like an inherent issue with how |
| 474s | rendering sort of works uh with computer |
| 477s | in regards to computer Graphics when |
| 479s | you're drawing stuff on the screen the |
| 482s | the way you sort of decide like what's |
| 485s | in front of what on the screen we use a |
| 488s | there's a buffer in in the Shader that's |
| 490s | called a death buffer which writes like |
| 492s | H pixel gives that like a value and |
| 494s | sometimes you can end up a situation |
| 495s | where like between frames the values are |
| 497s | so close to each other that like it |
| 499s | doesn't know from frame to frame like |
| 502s | what it should have been displaying in |
| 503s | front of wood that flickering is is |
| 505s | essentially that going on where like |
| 506s | things are not like things are really |
| 508s | close to each other and like in in |
| 511s | certain situations it doesn't know like |
| 513s | which one should it render on top of |
| 514s | each which one because the values are so |
| 515s | close and there's no good solution to |
| 518s | get rid of that we have added a couple |
| 520s | of like |
| 521s | workarounds where we offset things |
| 523s | slightly to get around from that but we |
| 526s | can't get rid of that issue uh fully |
| 528s | unfortunately but we can add more of |
| 530s | these kind of like nitpicky situations |
| 533s | but it depends on the material and stuff |
| 535s | like that so uh unfortunately we can't |
| 538s | fully get rid of it but hopefully we can |
| 539s | make it a little bit better in the |
| 541s | future what should I do to stop my |
| 543s | fellow multiplayer friends trying to |
| 545s | build like let's game it out uh get new |
| 547s | friends uh I don't know it's either you |
| 550s | have to like Embrace that or you have to |
| 552s | be like really restrictive and be like |
| 553s | stop doing that uh I don't know I don't |
| 556s | have a good answer to this question |
| 557s | actually this is like just embrace it I |
| 559s | guess if you're playing multiplayer then |
| 560s | you're playing multiplayer if you don't |
| 561s | want people to screw around then maybe |
| 563s | play single player that's how I feel at |
| 565s | least because like whenever I play |
| 566s | multiplayer I get a little bit |
| 567s | frustrated when people are just like |
| 569s | putting down here together and I'm |
| 571s | like I just want it this way uh so if |
| 573s | when I do play multiplayer I tend to |
| 574s | just like run away and do my own thing |
| 576s | and then hook up to like a main base or |
| 578s | something that's that's what I do at |
| 579s | least is it possible to have more than |
| 580s | four players is in multiplayer mode |
| 582s | officially no but technically yes so the |
| 586s | game officially supports up to four |
| 588s | players because that's sort of how we've |
| 590s | optimized the game for in terms of like |
| 592s | networking and stuff like that but there |
| 594s | is a way okay and it's not super tricky |
| 596s | so if you Google like how to access more |
| 599s | players in satisfactory like how to have |
| 601s | more than four places satisfactory |
| 602s | there's a config file in the install |
| 605s | structure where we just like hard set a |
| 607s | value like how many people can join the |
| 609s | session you can set that to whatever you |
| 611s | want and that way you can have as many |
| 614s | people on the save as you want |
| 615s | essentially but you do so on your own |
| 617s | risk because we don't officially support |
| 619s | more than four but you can totally do it |
| 621s | if you want to a train X starts at a at |
| 623s | 4 pm and reaches B at 5 PM while another |
| 626s | train y starts from B at 4 pm and |
| 629s | reaches a at 5 30 pm at what time will |
| 632s | the two trains cross |
| 635s | all right so let's assume that the |
| 638s | distance between A and B here a b |
| 641s | um will denote that distance as D so |
| 643s | train X starts from a and go to B uh |
| 646s | between 4 pm and 5 PM which means that |
| 648s | it takes one hour for the train to |
| 649s | travel from A to B uh and we can denote |
| 652s | the speed of that train being that it |
| 655s | travels D kilometers per hour for trainx |
| 659s | uh train y |
| 662s | start from B and goes to a and it's and |
| 665s | it takes and it goes from 4 pm to 5 30 |
| 667s | PM which means that it takes one and a |
| 669s | half hours for train B to travel and for |
| 672s | us to calculate the the speed of that |
| 673s | train this is assuming that the trains |
| 675s | are traveling at the constant speed by |
| 676s | the way so to to calculate the speed of |
| 678s | train y we need to do uh distance |
| 681s | divided by the time it takes which is |
| 684s | one and a half hours which is the same |
| 685s | as saying three divided by two |
| 688s | uh which you can also write as uh two |
| 691s | divided by 3 times D kilometers per hour |
| 695s | so now that we have the speed the trains |
| 696s | are traveling in we need to calculate |
| 698s | the time it takes for trains to travel |
| 699s | to a certain distance so let's let's |
| 701s | call uh T time okay so in order to |
| 704s | calculate like how far a train travels |
| 706s | in time we can do the first train try |
| 708s | next and that's quite simple because |
| 710s | it's it's just traveling uh in a ratio |
| 712s | is 101. so it's it's traveling and it's |
| 715s | distance times t |
| 716s | kilometers that's how far that that's |
| 719s | how far the train X will travel in in |
| 721s | time uh the other train |
| 724s | um it's it's similar things so it's the |
| 726s | new value here two divided by three D |
| 728s | times T is how many kilometers train y |
| 731s | will travel at a certain time so one |
| 733s | property of this problem too is that |
| 735s | when the two trains cross they will both |
| 737s | have traveled |
| 738s | um the sum of the total distance and we |
| 741s | can write that as equation that is uh DT |
| 744s | plus two divided by three DT equals D so |
| 749s | now though now that we have the equation |
| 751s | uh we can solve for T just figure out |
| 754s | when they mean so DT plus two divided by |
| 756s | three DT equals D you can simplify this |
| 759s | as writing it as five over three DT |
| 763s | equals D to get rid of the five divided |
| 765s | by three D we divide by that on both |
| 769s | sides which gives us T equals D divided |
| 773s | by five divided by three |
| 776s | D |
| 778s | um when you have the same numerator and |
| 782s | denominator you can get rid of that |
| 783s | which gives us d e t equals one divided |
| 788s | by five divided by three |
| 791s | um and this is the same as saying T |
| 794s | equals three divided by five |
| 798s | so now we have t and uh 3 divided by |
| 801s | five is 0.6 |
| 806s | equals 0.6 so this is how many hours it |
| 809s | takes it takes 0.6 hours for the two |
| 810s | trains to meet and 0.6 if you want to |
| 813s | get this in minutes you do 0.6 times 60 |
| 814s | which is 36. |
| 818s | 36 minutes |
| 822s | so the two trains will meet uh they |
| 825s | started at 4 pm so the trains will meet |
| 828s | at 4 36. |
| 831s | P.M |
| 835s | why do the mining nodes not align with |
| 837s | the Whirl grid so the reason why they |
| 839s | don't is because when we started working |
| 841s | this game we didn't anticipate having a |
| 844s | world grid this is something that we |
| 845s | added after the fact and we don't want |
| 847s | to move the nodes at this point because |
| 848s | it can really mess up uh a lot for |
| 851s | people's saves so I don't know if we'll |
| 854s | have a solution for this problem where |
| 855s | like the nodes don't align with world |
| 857s | grid coordinates and stuff like that but |
| 859s | that's sort of why they don't lie right |
| 861s | now is because that wasn't the thing |
| 863s | when we added the nodes will there ever |
| 865s | be round shaped foundations or angled |
| 867s | walls so at the moment we don't really |
| 869s | have plans for this and that's not to |
| 870s | say that we can do that if we have time |
| 872s | for that but |
| 874s | um there's a lot of stuff that we were |
| 875s | working on so we're always like |
| 876s | constantly prioritizing like what to |
| 878s | work on next and it's possible we have |
| 880s | time to add this for 1.0 maybe if you |
| 882s | guys really really really want this then |
| 884s | please voice that opinion on our QA site |
| 886s | questions.satisfactorygang.com because |
| 888s | we do sort of when we're deciding on |
| 891s | what to do we sort of evaluate based on |
| 892s | what is on what's been output on the |
| 894s | keyword side and what we're hearing |
| 895s | community so um yeah if there's like a |
| 898s | it's an outroar that we need that then |
| 900s | we'll consider it but at the moment we |
| 902s | don't have plans for it so we'll see |
| 903s | what happens in the future since there |
| 905s | are a handful of buildings that are not |
| 906s | symmetrical will we ever be able to flip |
| 908s | buildings like in Captain of industry we |
| 910s | don't currently have plans for that and |
| 912s | I don't really have a good reason as to |
| 914s | why we just don't have plans to do that |
| 916s | because it entails a lot of work that we |
| 918s | don't feel really adds too much to the |
| 920s | game at the moment so and it's it's not |
| 924s | just a thing that we can just like whip |
| 926s | out and have it working there's actually |
| 928s | a lot of work involved in making sure |
| 930s | that works fine so uh kudos to them for |
| 933s | doing it but um at the moment we don't |
| 935s | plan to do it what is a bug that you |
| 937s | have had during development that seemed |
| 938s | easy to fix at first but was pretty |
| 940s | difficult to fix and why there are a ton |
| 943s | of those actually uh surprisingly one |
| 946s | book that I worked on for instance that |
| 948s | I thought was easy to fix but wasn't was |
| 950s | to change it so that when you have the |
| 951s | object scanner and you scan for like |
| 953s | berries and you pick up a berry that it |
| 955s | wouldn't scan the same Berry again that |
| 958s | was a hassle and I never actually |
| 959s | managed to fix it but I believe we did |
| 962s | fix it at some point so it might be in |
| 964s | the game or maybe it's not I don't know |
| 965s | but I asked the other programmers and I |
| 966s | had a couple of uh honorable mentions |
| 968s | here so one that comes to mind is the |
| 970s | the typo that was coal in the uh in the |
| 974s | scanner where the the C and the coal |
| 977s | wasn't capitalized uh that was |
| 979s | apparently a pain in the ass to fix |
| 981s | because it wasn't like handled properly |
| 983s | for that translation uh system that we |
| 986s | have in the game so that was apparently |
| 987s | a real head scratcher and another model |
| 989s | we'll mention is the Hub part keeping |
| 991s | coming back and duplicating like |
| 993s | that really thought that would be easy |
| 994s | to fix but it was not so and I don't |
| 997s | think we've actually fixed that yet so |
| 999s | uh there you go now that Unreal Engine |
| 1001s | 5.3 is out will you update the engine |
| 1003s | version again it's funny because like I |
| 1006s | think a day or two before we released |
| 1008s | the video where I mentioned that we are |
| 1010s | going to update to like Unreal Engine |
| 1011s | 5.2 5.3 came out |
| 1014s | um |
| 1016s | good timing typically we don't really |
| 1018s | want to update to to a new engine |
| 1019s | version with like the first patch comes |
| 1021s | out for for a new engine version but I |
| 1024s | believe the next one is Adam anyways but |
| 1025s | we'll have to see I don't think at the |
| 1028s | moment we think it's urgent enough to do |
| 1031s | it but we'll see if it's worth it or not |
| 1032s | uh I think like theoretically it's |
| 1034s | always good to update the engine version |
| 1036s | have the latest version because they are |
| 1038s | doing a good job at like updating the |
| 1039s | engine but at the moment there's like |
| 1041s | nothing that really warns us to like do |
| 1043s | the next step and do 5.3 before we |
| 1045s | release this patch so at the moment |
| 1046s | we're not planning for it but it's too |
| 1048s | early to say honestly maybe we'll do it |
| 1050s | maybe we won't |
| 1051s | um but there are no like real big |
| 1053s | features in Unreal Engine so 5.3 that we |
| 1056s | really want to utilize like for instance |
| 1057s | and landscape and stuff like that like |
| 1060s | that's not something that we feel like |
| 1061s | we need at the moment |
| 1063s | um same goes with like putting a net |
| 1065s | item foliage that's also it's not |
| 1067s | something that we feel we need at the |
| 1068s | moment it's not gonna automatically make |
| 1069s | the game Run better or look better just |
| 1071s | from uh from the box so it needs to warn |
| 1075s | sort of the work that goes into to |
| 1076s | update in the engine and we'll see if we |
| 1078s | do that or not essentially the only |
| 1079s | thing I could say is that update 8 will |
| 1081s | be 5.2 that's the engine version we'll |
| 1083s | be rolling it updated with has the |
| 1084s | upgrade to Unreal Engine 5 increase the |
| 1087s | plan scope of the game or has it |
| 1088s | remained the same this one is quite |
| 1090s | tricky to answer I think because |
| 1093s | um I don't think it has increased the |
| 1095s | plan's scope of the game it's definitely |
| 1096s | give us an opportunity to do more Tech |
| 1099s | art stuff that we weren't able to do |
| 1101s | before so in that sense it's increased |
| 1103s | the scope a little bit and it's also |
| 1105s | limited a little bit because I don't |
| 1107s | know if you guys realize this but rain |
| 1109s | has been disabled in update because the |
| 1111s | implementation we had for rain doesn't |
| 1113s | work in the new engine version so we |
| 1115s | need to like completely from scratch |
| 1116s | make a new raid system I I haven't seen |
| 1119s | too many people notice this uh to be |
| 1121s | honest so I don't think it's too bad |
| 1123s | that we're taking our time with that and |
| 1124s | and we'll see what happens with that but |
| 1126s | um I don't know if there's no like |
| 1128s | feature for the game that we can't do |
| 1130s | because we're not in unreal item five or |
| 1132s | four you know I don't know I think we're |
| 1133s | setting us up better for the future when |
| 1135s | it comes comes to the attack of the |
| 1137s | engine to be able to optimize the game |
| 1138s | and that stuff I think that's better but |
| 1140s | I also like scope of the game I think is |
| 1142s | pretty much the same if you would have |
| 1143s | known how challenging upgrading to |
| 1145s | Unreal and M5 would be would you still |
| 1147s | have done it uh oh boy I think you're |
| 1149s | gonna get a different answer depending |
| 1150s | on who you ask at the studio honestly uh |
| 1153s | I think um there's been a lot of good |
| 1156s | gains from Unreal Engine 5 but also some |
| 1159s | downsides with it both from like what |
| 1162s | the game can do but also what we can do |
| 1164s | with the game so to speak |
| 1166s | um I think overall it's been my own |
| 1168s | personal belief is I think it's a good |
| 1170s | thing to update because up epic are so |
| 1173s | good at like maintaining the work that |
| 1177s | they do it's been good for us |
| 1178s | historically to like keep the engine |
| 1179s | updated and keep being in like sort of |
| 1181s | the latest version of the engine |
| 1183s | um just because we get so many good |
| 1184s | tools and so many good like |
| 1186s | opportunities to improve the game so I |
| 1188s | think in the long run it will be worth |
| 1189s | it but there's been a lot of friction |
| 1190s | and and like like I said I think you'll |
| 1192s | get a different answer from different |
| 1194s | people in the studio who you ask I think |
| 1195s | if you wait like a little bit more maybe |
| 1197s | more people would be more prone to say |
| 1198s | it was worth the effort but we're still |
| 1201s | knee deep in it so it's it's uh you know |
| 1203s | that's sort of how it is what inspired |
| 1205s | you to make this game so I don't I |
| 1207s | wasn't there from the beginning so I |
| 1208s | can't really say fully but we were |
| 1210s | definitely inspired by factorio and we |
| 1212s | were curious like what would factorial |
| 1213s | be if we made it sort of as like a 3D |
| 1216s | type game where like what what |
| 1217s | challenges would that third access add |
| 1219s | to the game and like what could we do |
| 1221s | differently with this game like and I |
| 1222s | think |
| 1223s | um |
| 1224s | we've gone a long way since then and I |
| 1226s | don't think really the two games are |
| 1227s | comparable I think if I think there are |
| 1229s | different aspects of Factoria they're |
| 1230s | really good that wouldn't have worked so |
| 1232s | well in satisfactory and vice versa but |
| 1233s | factorio was like one of the main |
| 1235s | Inspirations definitely for for making |
| 1237s | this game are there any plans to include |
| 1239s | larger blueprint designers we are quite |
| 1241s | happy with the size of the blueprint |
| 1244s | designer that as it is right now it sort |
| 1246s | of serves the purpose that we were after |
| 1247s | which was not to just make the factory |
| 1250s | being faster to build which they are a |
| 1252s | fashion to build if you set up the |
| 1253s | blueprint designer correctly but we also |
| 1255s | wanted to add like an element of like |
| 1256s | you know a little bit of a puzzle where |
| 1258s | people had to figure out like how to |
| 1260s | adapt their blueprints to make sense in |
| 1262s | the designer so they can also use them |
| 1264s | in their factories so it wouldn't just |
| 1265s | be like a you know copy and paste of |
| 1267s | factors you already built because we |
| 1269s | feel like that would have taken out a |
| 1270s | big portion of the game |
| 1272s | um I still like the size of the |
| 1273s | blueprint designer right now we're not |
| 1276s | against changing it but I think right |
| 1278s | now we're quite happy with it and given |
| 1281s | the feedback we've gotten so far it |
| 1283s | seems like it's actually a pretty decent |
| 1285s | size but we'll see what we do in the |
| 1287s | future if we change our minds or |
| 1288s | whatever like that's happened before so |
| 1291s | uh I guess we'll see what happens what's |
| 1293s | the situation with the Mark III Miner |
| 1295s | Okay so |
| 1297s | the Mark III Miner at the moment if you |
| 1299s | overclock it it can technically uh give |
| 1302s | you more or that you can transport on |
| 1304s | the belts at the moment and a lot of |
| 1306s | people have been asking like what are |
| 1307s | you going to do about that are you going |
| 1308s | to add like another output to The Miner |
| 1310s | or are they going to be faster belt |
| 1312s | speeds or something like that okay so we |
| 1314s | have a solution to this problem |
| 1316s | but I'm not going to tell you what it is |
| 1318s | just yet there is a solution to this |
| 1321s | problem so don't worry about it |
| 1323s | um but uh yeah you guys are gonna have |
| 1325s | to to wait until uh 1.0 to find out how |
| 1329s | are you going to change the uranium fuel |
| 1330s | unit alternate recipe so it doesn't use |
| 1332s | beacons in a way that won't break |
| 1334s | existing nuclear setups so uh if you |
| 1338s | guys don't know we have beacons in the |
| 1339s | game we've had beacons for a long time |
| 1340s | and an update uh six seven oh they all |
| 1345s | blend together uh whatever we decided to |
| 1347s | remove them from the game |
| 1348s | um and replace them with the new marker |
| 1350s | system that we have for the map but |
| 1352s | there was the whole thing where you |
| 1353s | needed beacons for one of the alt |
| 1355s | recipes so we decided to keep the uh |
| 1359s | item in the game but whenever you place |
| 1361s | it it will convert to new marker system |
| 1363s | and we kept them in the game because we |
| 1365s | felt like it would ruin too many Factory |
| 1366s | layouts at the moment and to be honest |
| 1369s | the the answer to that question is it |
| 1372s | will break nuclear setups uh |
| 1374s | unfortunately once we fully get rid of |
| 1377s | beacons in the game but it won't break |
| 1380s | fully I think there will be some Lee way |
| 1383s | for you guys to adjust your recipes |
| 1384s | somewhat easily |
| 1387s | um but don't really have any news as to |
| 1390s | like what exact changes are coming |
| 1392s | actually this is a really good segue |
| 1393s | into the next question which is uh will |
| 1395s | you remember balance any of the recipes |
| 1397s | in the game for 1.0 and the answer is to |
| 1399s | that is yes I can't give you like exact |
| 1402s | news as to what the exchange changes |
| 1404s | will be because we actually don't fully |
| 1405s | know what those changes will be |
| 1408s | um we haven't decided all of that and |
| 1409s | then we have we also haven't tested the |
| 1411s | balances internally yet uh but there's |
| 1413s | gonna be some sort of rebounds for the |
| 1416s | game at some point so just so you guys |
| 1418s | are aware of that the balancing changes |
| 1421s | won't like break your save files in the |
| 1423s | sense that like you won't you will still |
| 1424s | be able to load your save files but your |
| 1426s | Factor layouts like will have issues and |
| 1428s | stuff like that which which you will |
| 1429s | have to fix I believe most of the |
| 1432s | rebalancing stuff is for the later tiers |
| 1434s | so like I think |
| 1436s | I can't give a exact number but like up |
| 1440s | until like the more later tiers ever |
| 1442s | things will probably much stay the same |
| 1444s | but yeah a little later tiers things |
| 1446s | will change a little bit uh balancing |
| 1448s | wise will there ever be Mark 3 or mark |
| 1450s | IV fluid pipes no because we're sort of |
| 1454s | at the limit with Mark's Mark II |
| 1456s | actually even with Mark II it doesn't |
| 1458s | fully fully fully work there's a couple |
| 1461s | of like edge cases where sometimes you |
| 1464s | can get a little bit less than 600 like |
| 1466s | you you can't always expect to get a |
| 1469s | full like 600 |
| 1470s | um |
| 1471s | and out of the pipes and this is based |
| 1474s | on like all a bunch of factors like |
| 1476s | frame rate and stuff like that and we we |
| 1477s | hope to fix that stuff for my two pipes |
| 1480s | so that they will be fully 600. I don't |
| 1484s | think you need to worry too much about |
| 1485s | this unless you're optimizing like |
| 1486s | perfectly 100 using utilizing pipes but |
| 1490s | in the future this shouldn't be an issue |
| 1492s | and but the the addition of a Mark 3 and |
| 1495s | 4 is right out that's not happening are |
| 1498s | you planning to add a logic system and |
| 1500s | if so when we don't have plans to add a |
| 1503s | logic system to the game we actually |
| 1504s | played around a little bit with this |
| 1506s | idea and we decided that not we decided |
| 1510s | not to do it because we feel like |
| 1512s | satisfactory is satisfactory is already |
| 1513s | a pretty complicated game and it's quite |
| 1515s | complex and we we always wanted to set a |
| 1518s | factory to sort of be sort of easy to |
| 1520s | grasp and like get into and then like |
| 1522s | sort of hard to manage and like once to |
| 1525s | master and like once you get into the |
| 1526s | later tiers and stuff like that and we |
| 1528s | felt that like having |
| 1530s | a logic system would add |
| 1533s | too much to like the already existing |
| 1535s | game because they are existing game is |
| 1536s | already quite complex if we're thinking |
| 1538s | of okay but what if it's optional then |
| 1540s | it's like then we're putting a lot of |
| 1541s | effort into adding a system a quite big |
| 1543s | system that wouldn't even necessarily be |
| 1545s | be compulsory for the game and that |
| 1548s | makes it not really worth implementing |
| 1549s | for for us at this time so that's why |
| 1551s | we're not probably going to do a logic |
| 1553s | system anytime soon there are mods that |
| 1556s | have implemented really cool logic |
| 1559s | systems to the game do that do require |
| 1561s | you being able to program uh I I believe |
| 1564s | but there are some really cool mods that |
| 1567s | that sort of fill this park uh this void |
| 1569s | and I recommend checking those out if |
| 1571s | you're interested in that stuff when do |
| 1573s | you think you'll release the original |
| 1574s | soundtrack so I can actually I don't I |
| 1577s | don't know if we've said this actually |
| 1578s | but |
| 1579s | um we plan to release the original |
| 1581s | soundtrack with the 1.0 release we |
| 1583s | always wanted to release the soundtrack |
| 1585s | and there's been a couple of reasons why |
| 1587s | we haven't done that one of the main |
| 1589s | reasons was because of Licensing uh |
| 1592s | stuff that needed to be sorted out but |
| 1594s | we have sorted that out I believe and |
| 1595s | the other thing is that if we we add |
| 1597s | more music which I think we are going to |
| 1598s | add I think we're talking about more |
| 1599s | music to the game uh then we would want |
| 1602s | that to be included in the soundtrack of |
| 1603s | course and we can always add music to |
| 1606s | soundtracks after the fact and like |
| 1608s | append them to it but it felt more |
| 1611s | reasonable I feel like for us to to just |
| 1613s | like wait until 1.0 and then release the |
| 1616s | soundtrack along with that release |
| 1618s | um so that's the plan at the moment will |
| 1620s | we get more lights to illuminate our |
| 1622s | factories we don't currently have planes |
| 1625s | to add more lights but we might change |
| 1626s | our minds uh it depends uh we are a bit |
| 1630s | hesitant to add more lights to the game |
| 1632s | because lights are a pretty big factor |
| 1635s | as to why you're getting significant |
| 1637s | frame rate drops |
| 1638s | uh it's been a really tricky problem to |
| 1641s | solve adding lights to the game and we |
| 1643s | put a lot of effort into making sure |
| 1644s | that the game is as optimized as it can |
| 1646s | get with the lights that we have at the |
| 1648s | moment and the idea of adding more |
| 1650s | lights and making it easier to build |
| 1652s | them and stuff like that is kind of |
| 1653s | scary but it's not impossible I guess |
| 1655s | and maybe we'll do that but at the |
| 1657s | moment we don't really have any plans |
| 1659s | but we like I said we might change our |
| 1661s | mind we might change our mind on a lot |
| 1662s | of this stuff I'm curious what you mean |
| 1664s | when you say you don't officially |
| 1665s | support Lumen if it's in the game does |
| 1667s | that mean that you support it so this is |
| 1670s | a really good point and this is actually |
| 1671s | something that we've discussed a lot |
| 1672s | back and forth when we added Lumen to |
| 1674s | the game for those who don't know we |
| 1676s | have support for the like one of the new |
| 1678s | techniques for Global elimination that |
| 1680s | Unreal Engine supports which is Lumen |
| 1682s | um we decided to add that in the game |
| 1684s | but the thing is that you sort of need |
| 1685s | to tailor the lighting system towards |
| 1687s | Lumen if you have that in your games and |
| 1690s | we haven't really done that we haven't |
| 1692s | really tailored the game for Lumen and |
| 1693s | mine which which means you get like a |
| 1695s | lot of dark areas and like the exposure |
| 1697s | is kind of weird in certain situations |
| 1699s | and it's a lot of work tuning the |
| 1702s | lighting towards that but we felt that |
| 1704s | like it's such a cool feature and it |
| 1706s | doesn't really like break anything by |
| 1708s | having it |
| 1710s | um so we felt that like if people want |
| 1712s | to enable Lumen they can and like if it |
| 1715s | if it works for them then cool and it |
| 1716s | doesn't work then they can switch it off |
| 1719s | but we decided to go with the whole |
| 1720s | thing where we say it's not officially |
| 1722s | supported because we don't officially |
| 1724s | support it like if people are running |
| 1725s | into issues then we can't really help |
| 1727s | them out |
| 1728s | um and if like they're having issues |
| 1730s | with like graphic card not being able to |
| 1731s | support Lumen we also can't really do |
| 1733s | anything about that uh and also the |
| 1736s | phrasing the wording here with saying is |
| 1738s | like not officially supported so that |
| 1740s | people know that like okay the game is |
| 1742s | in design with lumen in mind |
| 1745s | um so that's the main reason why we went |
| 1747s | with that but that's it is true like the |
| 1749s | fact that it is in the game is kind of |
| 1750s | like signifying that it is supportive |
| 1752s | but we still want to be able to |
| 1755s | communicate sort of Our intention with |
| 1757s | Lumen and that is that uh the game is in |
| 1760s | tuned with living in mind and we don't |
| 1761s | know if we'll ever to the game with |
| 1764s | lumen in mind all right that's it for |
| 1766s | this video it took a whole it took a |
| 1768s | long time to record this so hopefully |
| 1770s | hopefully it makes sense uh hopefully so |
| 1774s | thank you so much for watching this |
| 1775s | video I hope it was informational and |
| 1779s | I hope you have a good weekend all right |
| 1781s | see everyone bye |
| 1782s | [Music] |