I’m obsessed with Satisfactory at the moment. Just every minute of every day building these beautiful factories

When a creator releases something into the public, they no longer control how it’s used, they can influence, sure, but not control. It’s the wider community’s decision now

Update 8 is on Experimental now, and they’ve added Lumen for Unreal Engine 5, it makes everything look so much more beautiful

This was such an OG game. I spent so many hours on this shit

I’m not sure but the iPhone bubble colour debate seems so US centric. In the UK, I’ve never heard of anyone bringing it up

I shop in Lidl, and it’s full of brands that are decent in their own right but design packaging clearly meant to evoke the big name brands. Most of them taste better than the big brands too

Yeah, a few YouTubers have scanned through the files and the various bits of text and audio from the game to try and guess what the story line will be, and if any of their predictions are correct, then it’ll be super interesting

This particular structure is a simple copper facility producing Wire, Cable and Copper Sheet, but I love how it’s framed by the trees here

It’s not fundamentally different from Update 5, but it’s on Update 8 now and there’s lots of changes, lots of quality of life changes, entirely revamped areas, new technology behind it (Upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.1), and lots more updates to tech trees and milestones. You won’t be getting a new game by jumping into Update 8, but you’ll get a much more streamlined and enjoyable experience.

One of the main improvements is Blueprints, you can now build modular factories in the blueprint designer and easily build much larger factories without so much of the ‘busywork’ of setting everything up.

Yeah it’s great - I think they’re ramping up to the full 1.0 release soon, so that might be a good point for you to jump back in - they’ll be adding a story too, with a bunch of other things that they’ve been keeping quiet about.