Satisfactory News

Can you believe it’s been almost half a decade since Satisfactory unleashed its gloriously pleasing factory-building hijinks into early access? And that, five years on, it’s still yet to hit 1.0? Well, you best believe it, as devs Coffee Stain Studios have confirmed that Satisfactory will finally reach the end of the early access conveyer belt sometime in 2024.

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• Fixed crash related to GPU Scene validate
  

• Fixed the shadow on the Reset Fuse lever being offset
  

• Updated all languages with the latest translations
  
• Updated language completion rates
  
• Updated community translators in the credits
  

• A reminder for people who have been having issues with unexpected crashes on startup or weird behaviour with the game, in that case please try to verify your game files.
  
  You can do this on Steam by Right Clicking the game in your Library > Properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity of game files...
  
  And on Epic by clicking on the three dots (“...”) next to the title or at the right side, depending on your selected library view > Manage > Verify Files > Verify
  
  This may or may not redownload a large amount of files which might take a while depending on your internet connection or hard drive speeds so be wary of that.
  
  
• If you are using mods, they might need to be updated or uninstalled after updating so please keep this in mind too.
  
• The first time booting the game will be very slow, but that should not continue to happen after the first boot
  
• Game can hang on quit
  
• Factory Animation tick reductions can be slightly too aggressive
  
• TSR can cause visual issues with conveyor belts, you can try using the following console command to alleviate the issues, but this will reduce AntiAliasing quality
  
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Satisfactory Ficsmas has begun. The temperature is plummeting, the first flakes of snow have fallen past my window, Mariah Carey has unleashed her power on shopping centers across the globe, and a big seasonal event is now underway in one of Steam's best open-world base building games. It's truly the holiday season, and the maker of Goat Simulator and publisher of Valheim and Deep Rock Galactic has returned to its magnum opus once more to spread festive cheer and free gifts across the land.

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• You can now enter occupied vehicles and kick out the driver if the driver is offline
  

• Fixed pressing ESC to close the menu resetting MAM research, requiring you to spend additional time if you accidentally closed the menu
  

• Invert look option now also works on Vehicles and Trains
  

• Updated the description of the Maintain Y-Axis FOV Aspect Ratio option to indicate that it is broken
  
  • Due to underlying system changes, this setting will be temporarily broken and will need some considerable rework from us in order to work again
    

• Potential fix to a crash related to ItemRegrow subsystem
  
• Fixed CTRL Key getting stuck when building
  
• Fixed bug where sampling buildings was not possible in some cases
  
• Potential fix for Blueprint Sampling sometimes not working after loading a save
  
• Fixed bug where Hand Mining would sometimes get stuck as client
  
• Fixed Conveyor belts resetting to default customization when the belt was split
  
• Fixed a bug where it was sometimes impossible to hand mine near Gas Pillars
  
• Potential fix for a crash that would happen when switching between upscalers
  
• Fixed Antialiasing always resetting to TAA
  

• Fixed a bug that led to players loading into sessions while only partially logged into EOS
  

• Updated all languages with the latest translations
  
• Updated language completion rates
  
• Updated community translators in the credits
  

• A reminder for people who have been having issues with unexpected crashes on startup or weird behaviour with the game, in that case please try to verify your game files.
  
  You can do this on Steam by Right Clicking the game in your Library > Properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity of game files...
  
  And on Epic by clicking on the three dots (“...”) next to the title or at the right side, depending on your selected library view > Manage > Verify Files > Verify
  
  This may or may not redownload a large amount of files which might take a while depending on your internet connection or hard drive speeds so be wary of that.
  
  
• If you are using mods, they might need to be updated or uninstalled after updating so please keep this in mind too.
  
• The first time booting the game will be very slow, but that should not continue to happen after the first boot
  
• Game can hang on quit
  
• Factory Animation tick reductions can be slightly too aggressive
  
• TSR can cause visual issues with conveyor belts, you can try using the following console command to alleviate the issues, but this will reduce AntiAliasing quality
  
  • r.TSR.ShadingRejection.Flickering 0
    

Satisfactory is absolutely rocking its early access period so far. Coffee Stain Studios' overwhelmingly positive base builder boasts thousands of stellar Steam reviews, a perfect 10/10, and an ever-expanding fanbase. A new update recently dropped and added all sorts of content, from fresh gameplay features to enhanced performance settings. Update 8 is set to get even better as the developer optimizes it, and Satisfactory is also now on sale for almost half off making this the perfect time to hop in-game if you haven't.

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