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1s hey everyone my name is Jason I'm a
3s community manager at coffee stain
5s Studios and you know what we've had a
6s lot of feedback from people uh you know
9s who have done their time in satisfactory
11s and they just want to mess around or
12s people whose playstyles just don't
14s really jive with you know specifically
16s what we've been trying to offer in the
17s game and they would just want to play in
19s their own way lots of people have been
21s asking for game modes in satisfactory
23s and it is my pleasure to announce to you
26s that in update 8 game modes will be
27s coming to satisfactory under the name of
30s advanced game settings and advanced game
32s settings will just be a suite of
34s different functions that you can use to
35s just modify the gameplay experience
37s basically and just kind of play it
38s however you want however one thing
40s important to note is that these Advanced
42s game settings they are considered a
44s separate gameplay experience of
46s satisfactory and this is not the
48s intended base game experience that we're
50s you know hand crafting for the average
52s user but more information on that a
54s little bit later in the video also
55s before we go on for sanity's sake my god
57s when I was writing the script for all
59s saying Advanced game settings million
61s times we're just going to shorten this
62s we're going to abbreviate Advanced game
64s settings to AGS and I know what you're
67s thinking I know what you're thinking
68s Jace you can't call it AGS that's the
71s armadill godsword from old school
72s RuneScape and there's nowhere near as
74s cool as this
76s but one can dream anyway we're using AGS
79s moving forward it's just easier that way
80s okay the first AGS the first Advanced
83s Jesus now I hate AGS the first Advanced
85s game setting AGS the first Aegis is
89s flight mode and this is quite simple you
91s turn it on and now you can fly so you
93s just basically double tap the space bar
95s when you're in game and you can just fly
97s and um you press space to fly higher C
100s to fly lower and you can hold shift to
102s Sprint while flying as well so you go a
104s bit quicker there is no way to adjust
106s your flying speed apart from sprinting
108s and not sprinting
109s um and some of you I think that if
112s you're like flying high up and trying to
113s get from one side of the map to the
114s other you might feel that the flying's
116s like a little slow possibly but
120s this is as fast as we're going to kind
121s of make it for now you can make noise
123s about that if you want it to be Foster
124s and the team will consider it but
126s basically this is about as quick as we
128s can have it right now whilst also like
130s maintaining the Integrity on the tech
132s side of things where you know if you're
133s flying too fast the world will have
136s issues loading and then people will like
137s complain about you know well things are
139s popping in or not loading quick enough
141s so the flight speed has to be sort of
143s limited so that like there's a
144s consistent experience while playing
146s um if you you know want a faster flying
149s you know I think there are mods out
150s there for that that can sort of you know
152s give that but you know you can always
154s leave your feedback as well and you
155s might be saying but Uncle Jace Uncle
156s Jace hypertubes they go faster than that
159s and stop just we're moving on we're just
161s gonna move on that's a bug too that
164s we're leaving in the game okay it's not
165s a crafted experience anyway moving on
167s moving on and now look the flying is not
168s slow it's quite quick it's like you fly
170s like a hundred kilometers an hour or
171s something like that I believe I was told
172s so it's still very quick and you know
174s what it does other things like allowing
175s you to navigate to random flying over a
177s cliff so it's actually really really
178s handy it's also really nice when when
180s building you know just to fly you don't
182s need to worry about your hover pack
183s connecting to uh power lines or anything
185s like that it's just really handy okay
186s the only thing I can imagine some people
188s saying is like maybe it's a little slow
190s but uh I think it's I think it's fine
192s well try it out when you play the next
194s Advanced game setting is God mode and
196s this is uh feature as old as time
198s basically you're invincible and you
200s can't take damage and you can't die
201s which is pretty nice so you can just
203s take a bunch of spit balls to the face
204s from a spitter and uh and you're good
206s however there's one exception the world
208s Edge the world perimeter can still kill
210s you so you can't fly out as far as you
212s want or if you you know fall into an
214s abyss or something that will still kill
215s you but every other source of uh damage
219s should be like nullified right so you
220s shouldn't get that okay so basically
222s you're Immortal but like it's like fix
224s it brand Immortal you know what I mean
225s the next setting is give items to give
227s item setting this is a really really
228s handy little setting here where it
231s allows the player to give themselves any
233s item in any amount that they want which
235s is pretty sick so if you go into the AGS
237s menu you'll see that there's under I
239s think it's gameplay there's this button
241s here that you can press and then in
242s there you can search for and select
243s Whatever item you want enter the
245s quantity and you're good to go there's
246s also this checkbox down the bottom part
248s there which you can check
250s um which switches the numbers of the
252s items to uh Stacks right so instead of
255s you know if you enter three with that
257s checked you get three stacks rather than
258s three items okay so that's that's that
261s setting we're also introducing a no
263s build cost setting as well to the game
264s modes and this one is straightforward
266s buildings require no resources to cost
268s essentially so you can just build
269s anything you want you know build away
271s basically one one thing you can see here
273s is that um the resources listed for the
277s building that you're you're about to
278s build when you're building
279s um you know they're not there because
280s obviously it's free now so that's just
282s sort of some UI feedback there
284s um also when you dismantle buildings you
286s don't get the items for those buildings
288s back when you dismantle them and the
291s reason for that is quite simple when you
293s have no build costs on you build and
295s dismantle a lot and your your resources
297s never recycle and so your inventory just
299s fills up really quick and then you end
301s up with crates everywhere full of items
303s because your inventory overflows so we
305s actually found that it's very very
306s annoying if you get your resources back
308s with no build cost so we're just making
310s it so that you you can't do that and of
312s course if you need more items for
314s whatever reason you can use give items
316s to get that so the next setting is the
317s null unlock cost and this is again what
319s it sounds like no resources or items are
321s required to unlock anything this could
323s be research in the mam it could be
325s research stuff in the uh The Hub it
327s could also be even coupons stuff right
329s so in the awesome shop you know those
331s don't require anything either not only
333s that but the space elevator will no
335s longer require any resources as well if
338s you have this feature on and there's
339s feedback in the menus here which um show
342s that like no resources or items are
344s required in order to do these things
345s including on the space elevator
347s um and also there's like some text here
349s saying you know like no unlock cost
351s active in the UI as well this next one
353s is super handy as well but it's not like
355s super super straightforward so we'll
356s explain it but it's called unlock
357s alternate recipe instantly this is is
360s kind of self-explanatory but has some
362s details so basically what it means is if
364s this is checked that the second that you
366s have all the required requirements for
369s an ALT recipe to be unlocked it becomes
372s unlocked and so what this means is
374s essentially it removes the need for any
376s hard drives at all you never have to go
378s to the Mam and research your hard drives
380s and get you know old recipes unlocked
382s that way you just immediately get them
384s the second you have the requirements now
386s what are these requirements that I'm
387s talking about I'm talking about like you
389s need to have the certain buildings
391s unlocked for that alt recipe as well as
394s the resources unlocked uh for that old
396s recipe so a couple examples can be the
398s wet concrete which requires water and
400s limestone in the refinery to produce
403s concrete basically and so this recipe
405s becomes available when the concrete
407s recipe Refinery and water extractor have
410s all been unlocked another example is
412s still screws this requires still beams
414s to produce screws and so this recipe
416s becomes available once both the screw
418s and steel beam recipe have been unlocked
420s and that's just how that one works we
422s have a no power setting that you can
424s turn on and off and this just basically
426s means that no buildings require power
428s that's just all that means and so what
430s this means for power production
431s buildings if you take the biomass burner
432s for example this only produces power
434s when power is required no power will be
437s required so it won't really do anything
438s I don't think it'll even burn through
440s fuel I'll have to double check that but
442s then as for other production buildings
444s so long as they're getting their inputs
445s like coal and water in a coal generator
447s for example they will just continue to
449s produce power even though no power is
451s used on the grid because you have the
453s setting on and what this also means is
455s that the all that power will be
457s considered Excess power and that Excess
458s power will be sent to power storage if
460s you have any of them in the grid and so
462s you can still charge power storage even
464s with the no power setting on the next
465s Aegis is going to be the ability to set
467s the starting tier now this setting is a
470s bit special unlike the other ones where
471s this one can only be done when creating
474s a new game you can't actually do this
476s one in-game and basically it just gives
478s you the ability to set what tier you
480s want to start at and then you'll get
481s some free items which will be provided
483s that should sort of like match the
485s selected tier that you've selected when
487s you start so you'll start with some
490s reasonable items that that makes sense
492s given the tier the next setting is set
494s game phase and this just allows you to
496s set the space elevator project assembly
498s phase manually just sort of whenever you
500s want so you can just advance that as you
502s wish I think you can only Advance it in
503s One Direction I don't think you can
504s regress it back to a previous version
506s but that's a setting that you can play
508s around with now and this is available in
510s game and also I think available when
512s you're creating a new AGS save more
514s information about creating an AGS save
515s later we also have options to unlock all
517s tiers unlock all memory search and
520s unlock all shop uh items I guess you
522s would call them and yeah these are just
523s three different checkbox here and you
524s can just check whichever one you know
526s you want to unlock everything from so if
528s you just want the memory search you can
530s just check that one if you want or you
531s can check all of them and apply and
532s you'll get everything and so the next
534s setting is going to be the keep
535s inventory setting and there are some key
537s informational updates here about this
539s okay so first of all what is the setting
541s this is what happens to your inventory
543s when you die and there's three options
545s you either lose everything which is what
547s how it currently works you lose
549s everything but you keep your equipment
550s which is different and then also that
553s you lose nothing if that's what you want
555s as well now one thing to note here is we
557s are changing the default setting of this
559s to be keep equipment so when you die now
562s you you drop all your items but you
565s bring all your equipment and this is
566s something that I think a lot of people
567s have given some feedback on because it
569s can be really tedious to like craft more
572s um Blade Runners or something like that
574s and then to run and pick up your Blade
576s Runners again
577s um so we're now making the change where
579s you keep the equipment that's that's
581s um equipped on you but everything else
584s gets dropped and so what this kind of
585s means is that if you want the old
586s version of the of the game the more
588s hardcore version where you you drop
590s everything that will actually be an
592s advanced game setting that you need to
594s turn on the last setting that I want to
596s talk about today is disable arachnid
598s creatures uh you know if you're scared
600s of cats and spiders
602s um then with this feature you can now
603s remove all the spiders from the game
605s entirely with some of these features and
607s this one especially you know there's
608s sort of the question of like well
610s shouldn't this be like an accessibility
611s feature and possibly I think you could
614s argue that either either way but
617s basically we sort of think that the the
619s removal of an entire creature type
621s completely from the game is a bit too
623s much of an impact on
625s um the base game essentially and the
628s current combination we feel that the
629s current combination of arachnophobia
631s mode plus uh creature hostility which
633s will both of these things will remain as
635s accessibility options in the normal
637s options menu they're not Advanced game
639s settings and that the combination of
641s those two together should alleviate most
643s if not all accessibility issues uh in
646s the game so we think that that should go
649s far enough but if you want to take it to
651s the next step and just get rid of all
653s the arachnid spider singers whatever
655s from the game completely you can use
657s this option to do that as well uh one
658s other thing to mention real quick is
660s that the menus have changed in general
662s just the menus in general and so the
664s creature hostility and Arachnophobia
666s mode options are in different places in
668s the menu so just keep an eye out for
669s that when you uh when you get updated so
671s I know what you're thinking these sound
674s fun but aren't these a little too op
677s juice velvet man
679s that's what you guys sound like now I
680s need a drink of water holy uh yeah
683s yeah a lot of these are absolutely too
685s op for satisfactory and many of them I
687s think undermine what the you know
689s originally intended experience of
691s satisfactory satisfactory and many of
693s them in my opinion undermine uh what the
696s original you know intended uh experience
699s of satisfactory was supposed to be for
701s example flying alone undermines
704s exploration
705s um and render certain items like jet
707s packs hover packs maybe even zip lines
709s and things like that um basically
711s Obsolete and ladders obsolete
713s um and generally speaking we still do
716s want satisfactory to be challenging as
718s far as planning your factory number
720s crunching organizing and designing your
723s factories where you want to place them
724s these kind of decisions even combat and
726s exploration as far as that goes we still
728s want that to be a little bit challenging
729s as well the feeling of being
731s um a little overwhelmed within
733s satisfactory thinking about all the
735s things you need to do next but then
737s overcoming that sensation is a core more
740s experience to what we're trying to
742s strive for in satisfactory having said
744s that though but what we intend
746s satisfactory to be is not always the way
748s that some people like to play the game
750s some people might just want to build
751s stuff and some just might have
753s accessibility needs and this has been
755s clear this has been clearly demonstrated
757s through feature requests on the QA site
759s and not only that but also when we just
760s look at the Modern Community how
762s thriving that is people just want to
763s have different experiences with
765s satisfactory if that's what they want to
766s do and so that's kind of why we want to
768s offer some of these features out of the
769s box however in doing this we actually
771s ran into a lot of roadblocks internally
773s a lot of back and forth about this
777s um trying to figure out well like you
779s know how much is too much is this
780s undermining our entire game but we also
782s want to provide these features you know
783s what do we do like if the settings are
785s there and they're too easy to access the
787s temptation to shortcut the game the
789s second you get challenged is maybe too
792s great and might ruin certain people's
794s satisfaction with the game long term
795s gamers are at the end of the day often
798s very quick to opt optimize the way
800s they're fun if they can exploit
801s something or use use cheats or something
803s like that or additional options but
805s we're also giving these features so we
807s don't want them to be too hard to access
808s you know for the people who uh you know
811s want to play the game in a different way
812s people who are optimizing their fun to
815s to have as much fun as they can have
816s specifically them right and not only
818s that one other thing we wanted is that
820s we wanted the ability for people who had
822s existing saves who have done their time
824s in the game hundreds of hours on their
826s save file who want to you know mess
828s around with Advanced game settings we
830s wanted them to be able to opt into that
831s as well and yeah it has been quite a
833s process to try and balance all of these
835s needs and concerns as we were doing this
838s but we think we've I think we've come to
839s something that works pretty well but
841s would obviously love your feedback on
843s this so how do you access the features
845s then currently you can enable Advanced
846s game settings when you start a new save
848s or when you load an existing save so
850s when creating a new save you'll see an
852s advanced game settings button down the
854s bottom and you can click on that
855s there'll be like some warning and stuff
856s like that and then there'll be some
857s settings you can you can change the
859s other way that you can get into AGS mode
861s is by loading an existing save there'll
864s be a check mark if it's a save that is
866s not in AGS mode there's a check mark
868s that you can click on to enable Advanced
870s game settings and then when you load
872s that save that save will then be in
874s advanced game settings so but one thing
876s to note here is that this is kind of a
878s one-way Street once AGS is enabled on a
880s save it cannot be disabled for that save
882s anymore there will be a warning before
884s you do this a box that explains clearly
886s that this is a one-way Street you know
887s if you opt into this there's no going
889s back on the save having said that though
891s if you wish to preserve your old non-ags
894s save and Branch out you can still do
896s that because if you open up uh you know
898s if you load a save file using AGS you
901s can then save that as a different save
902s and now you've got a separate AGS save
904s keeping your old one intact you can also
907s back up your saves and we feel that you
908s know this work route is like maybe a
910s little cumbersome here and there but we
911s think it's pretty good you have control
912s over your saves you can you can have a
915s fun save with all the settings if you
917s want and a vanilla save as well if
919s that's what you want so the control is
921s still in your hands you can choose
922s whatever you want to do we previously
923s had had this set up to be much simpler
925s where you could just do this mid game
927s whenever you want you could just go into
929s advanced game settings make some changes
932s you know and and whatever but we really
934s wanted to make the process of enabling
936s AGS to be as clear and as conscious of
940s an action for players with multiple
942s steps and this is in order to
943s intentionally create friction to
945s dissuade people who are feeling
946s challenged by the game uh into using AGS
949s uh just just to get over it in the
951s moment right but it also clearly
953s communicates what is the base game and
955s what isn't the base game right so that's
957s another really important uh reason for
959s us doing it this way but at the same
960s time these steps are still really really
962s easy to do so if you just want to have
963s the ajs features you can have them
965s they're very easy takes like 30 seconds
967s so if you want it it'll still work but
969s we think that it was a little unfair to
971s dangle these settings in front of you
973s mid game for everyone
976s um you know uh we think it's a little
977s unfair for the player in that case
978s because people might end up doing
980s something that I really want to do and
981s use features that they didn't actually
982s want to use but the advanced game
984s settings will still be in the main menu
986s uh if you have an AGS enabled save right
990s if you're playing on an AGS enabled save
992s the the settings will be right there in
993s the main menu and some of the settings
995s will only be available when starting
997s creating a new save file and enabling
1000s AGS on that for example the the set
1002s starting tier another thing to note is
1005s that when you're browsing through your
1007s your save files uh and when you're you
1009s know you know you're going to load a
1010s game uh you'll notice that there's some
1011s icons here we'll have a little pencil on
1013s it and on the session and that means
1015s that within that session there are some
1017s there's at least one save that has AGS
1020s enabled and you can see here that um on
1023s there's a list of saves here under this
1025s one session some of them have advanced
1027s game settings enabled and some of them
1028s don't and this is because I branched my
1030s saves using the method I said before I
1031s would load in with AGS enabled and then
1034s save the game and that would be a
1036s separate save you might be wondering
1037s what happens in multiplayer with these
1039s settings and so for multiplayer games
1040s the host or the admin uh the admin on
1043s dedicated servers can enable AGS in the
1045s exact same way as single player you can
1048s start a new game with Aegis enabled or
1050s you can convert an existing same save
1052s into an AGS enabled save however clients
1055s will not have access to any AGS enabling
1058s settings
1059s at all on a save that does not have AGS
1062s enabled but if a save file is in AGS
1065s mode clients will have access to all of
1068s the AGS settings so there is an obvious
1070s potentially problematic situation here
1073s where perhaps the admins might want
1075s control over AGS settings but they don't
1078s want the clients to have control over
1080s AGS settings currently as the
1082s implementation is today there is no
1084s solution for this everyone who's in the
1086s game has access to all the AGS settings
1088s so this is something that you will need
1090s to keep in mind if you are a host and
1093s you play with friends or if you run a
1094s dedicated server if you're going to run
1096s AGS settings you need to bear in mind
1098s that you know your your friends or the
1100s people in your server can can change
1102s these settings and we also have a little
1104s icon on each of the settings which sort
1106s of show which ones which settings affect
1109s everyone on the server and which
1111s settings only affect the individual dual
1112s player because some settings only affect
1114s your your game but some settings affect
1116s everyone else's as well and and so like
1118s the obvious like you know solution for
1120s this is some sort of like permissions or
1121s role system or something like that and
1123s that's something that we've you know
1124s been eyeing for for some time and I
1127s don't know what the solution for this
1128s will end up being but right now we just
1130s don't have it and it is something that
1131s we want to implement a solution for in
1133s the future but right now there's just no
1134s no concrete plans on that okay so
1138s that is just how it is right now so the
1140s last thing I want to talk about real
1141s quick is going to be feedback and that
1143s is because we want to continue getting
1144s feedback from you guys for satisfactory
1146s that game is still in Early Access and
1147s we really really want your suggestions
1149s and Bug reports and all that kind of
1150s stuff now this these game modes these
1153s Advanced game settings
1154s um this is a pretty major addition to
1156s satisfactory and it's one that we have
1158s intended on adding for a very long time
1160s we've talked about this for years
1161s literally
1163s um but we have held off and the main
1164s reason for that is because we wanted
1166s feedback about the base game and we
1168s still want that if you ever feel that
1169s the base game is too hard or things are
1171s unbalanced or you know something like
1173s that please please please let us know on
1175s the QA side
1176s question.satisfactorygame.com please let
1178s us know because our goal is still to
1180s tune the base game to be to make that
1183s right to make that feel good okay these
1185s extra settings is you know the ajs the
1187s advanced game settings generally
1188s speaking are not being implemented to
1191s substitute for poor balancing or
1193s anything like that okay so we still want
1195s the base game to be tight so we still
1197s need that feedback back as well if you
1200s find yourself needing to go to Advanced
1201s game settings to have any fun at all
1203s that's a great moment to let us know
1205s that you feel that way and why you feel
1207s that way because maybe it means that we
1209s need to do some work to the base game
1210s and we would also just love feedback on
1212s what you think of the implementation so
1214s far and also if you have any game
1216s settings that you think should be added
1217s to the AGS menu we're all ears for that
1220s kind of stuff and yeah that's pretty
1221s much it pretty big video lots to talk
1223s about I hope you're interested in this I
1225s think it's pretty exciting I think a lot
1227s of people are going to really enjoy
1228s these new settings and so if you're
1230s pumped for it
1232s um you know leave a like leave a like
1233s consider subscribing and have a lovely
1235s weekend bye everyone
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