Satisfactory News

Hi Pioneers!

Let’s start off this week with a new batch of fixes shall we?

As always you can let us know if we’re forgetting some issues or introduced new ones over at our QA Site https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We read your posts every day!

See you all again soon, thanks for your support
BUG FIXES

• Fixed Drone Station Inventory not working for Client
  
• Drone Pathfinding and World Grid improvements. Drones will not fly to the closest cell if trying to pathfind outside of the grid instead of crashing. Building outside of the grid might have some weird behaviour but shouldn’t cause crashes anymore
  
• Removed an ensure that caused many crashes when loading a big save
  
• Fixed crash related to Drone Stations when loading the game
  
• Fixed a bug where Drones would skip a station if saving when it’s docking, causing it to take off and bring the items back again when loading
  
• Drone Status should now show the proper name
  
• Fixed being unable to change intensity in the Street Light UI
  
• Attempt #3 to fix crash related to the UFGReplicationDetailInventoryComponent
  
• Fixed Nobelisk sound delay bug on destructible boulders
  

OPTIMISATION

• Enabled PushModel Replication. This should significantly improve CPU performance for hosts/single player for large saves
  
• Optimized VFX for the Fuel Generator
  

LOCALISATION

• Fixed some typos and spelling inconsistencies
  
• Made some a lot of strings localisable
  
• Fixed some text wrapping issues
  
• Updated all languages with the latest translations
  
• Updated completion rates
  

Hi Pioneers!

It seems that yesterday’s patch made Ziplines much worse for some of you so we’re releasing a small patch to fix that, among a few other things

Keep us updated with any other issues we might be missing at our QA site https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ we read your posts every day!

See you again soon, thank you for playing our game
BUG FIXES

• Drone Port names cannot be blank anymore
  
• Fixed the Zipline issues introduced in the last patch
  
• Fixed the efficiency values being displayed incorrectly
  
• Fix on radioactivity check when dealing with modded items that are not loaded
  
• Attempt #2 to fix a crash related to the UFGReplicationDetailInventoryComponent
  

Hi Pioneers!

Hello again everybody, there’s a lot of fixes and some nice QOL additions for you all in this patch so let’s get to it

If something is still not working like it should please let us know over at our QA site https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ we’ll do our best to fix it ASAP

See you all again soon
BUG FIXES

• Fixed “Floor is too steep” appearing when railway switch controls were placed in between foundations
  
• Fixed overclocking not showing the correct value when pasting settings in some situations
  
• Potential fix for a scenario where the Drones would take a nonsensical path to their destination
  
• Potential fix for a rare crash
  
• Power connection for the power extractor is no longer offset
  
• Fixed clients not being able to see Crash Site rewards
  
• Packaged Nitric Acid now uses a Fluid Tank so packaging and unpackaging match requirements
  
• Fixed scrolling in Train Station UI
  
• Fixed exploit that made it able to obtain multiple upgrades of the Space Elevator at the same time in multiplayer
  
• Fixed a crash related to the Compass
  
• Nuclear Power Plant UI now properly shows waste output
  
• Fixed a crash related to the cargo mesh component
  
• Lights now properly report consumption in UI
  
• Fixed Night Mode not working the first night it was enabled
  
• Fixed a bug where Drones would teleport when dismantling a Drone Station they are about to dock on
  
• Fixed Lights consuming power when they were off
  
• Fixed Aluminum Casing texture in conveyor belts
  
• Fixed Fuel Generators producing power even when lacking sufficient Fuel
  
• Fixed a crash related to the conveyor renderer
  
• Fixed multiple events and messages (Like the M.A.M. completion message) being played at the same time
  
• Reworked correction velocity for the Zipline which should fix players getting launched in the air when using it
  
• Fixed particle effects in the Resource Wells
  
• Fixed bug that allowed to use the Hover Pack with no power by spamming space
  
• Fixed bug where the Hover Pack would automatically activate hover mode in some scenarios where it shouldn’t
  
• Fixed a rare crash related to Drones
  
• Fixed Drone Ports allowing duplicate names
  
• Fixed bug where the M.A.M. wasn’t able to be sampled with the eyedropper
  
• Corrected Personal Storage Container centre. This will cause Personal Storage Containers to be moved slightly. #BlameBen
  
• Improved conveyor belt renderer stability
  

WORLD

• Removed some rewards around Resource Wells
  

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Copy paste now autofills Power Shard slots if available
  
• Zipline now conserves velocity when you start ziplining
  
• Disabled clearance check on fences, now players can build Street Lights and Power Poles in between them
  
• Certain buildings can now be rotated 45 degrees when placing instead of only 90 degrees:
  - Jump Pad
  - U-Jelly Landing Pad
  - Street Light
  - Personal Storage Container
  - Light Control Panel
  - Power Switch
  - M.A.M.
  - AWESOME Shop
  - Craft Bench
  - Equipment Workshop
  
• Changed Min/Max values for the Light intensity
  

LOCALISATION

• Updated all languages with the latest translations
  
• Updated language completion rates
  
• Added English (Canada)
  
• Fixed a bunch of errors and typos, hidden some non-translatable strings
  
• Updated the list of community translators in credits
  

Hi Pioneers!

Another patch so soon? We have some more key fixes and we don’t want to make any of you wait so here it goes! :)

Remember to let us know about any issues you might be experiencing in our QA site https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ you can also give feedback on the new content and the game overall, we read your posts every day.

See you all again soon, hope you all have great weekends and thanks for playing our game

NEW CONTENT

• Added icon to Water in Compass and Map
  
• Changed the number of decimals in overclocking from 1 to 4
  

BUG FIXES

• Light Control Panel now has the proper icon in the AWESOME Shop
  
• Fixed crash that happened when trying to Reset settings in certain conditions
  
• Fixed wrong ingredients being shown for Flood Lights in the AWESOME Shop
  
• Fixed Mk.2 Pipelines being converted into Mk.1 when dismantling junctions
  
• Fixed crash when tabbing out during loading while on Fullscreen
  
• Fixed rare crash which could happen when using the Zipline
  
• Fixed an extremely rare crash which could happen when trying to drop from a Zipline by crouching
  
• Removed the Radio Control Unit from the M.A.M. research tree as it is no longer relevant there
  
• Fixed FOV not being applied when loading a game
  
• Fixed Miners not showing production rate for Clients
  
• Properly removed prototype scalability feature
  
• Fixed Trains moving very slowly when the player approached them from a far away distance
  

BALANCING

• Increased Zipline speed and decreased speed reduction when zipping upwards
  

LOCALISATION

• Updated all languages with the latest translations
  
• Updated completion rates
  

Hi Pioneers!

Hello again everybody, thank you all for your comments, we’re extremely happy to see that you’re enjoying the update
Thank you for all your reports in our QA site as well https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ we’ll continue monitoring it to make sure there aren’t any huge issues preventing you all from enjoying the game.

With that said we have fixed a lot of stuff already so let’s get right into it!

There was a small hotfix deployed yesterday for a crash a lot of people were experiencing when loading their saves, patch notes were as follows:

Patch Notes: Early Access (EXPERIMENTAL) - v0.4.0.1 – Build 146943

BUG FIXES

• Fixed one of our current top crashes
  

Now, for today’s patch notes:

NEW CONTENT

• M.A.M. completion pop up in HUD
  
• 144 FPS lock option
  

BUG FIXES

• Fixed Freight Carts still having collision when empty
  
• Fixed loading/unloading Freight Carts while standing on or near it crushing players
  
• Fixed some Resource Wells not allowing Extractors/Pressurisers to be placed
  
• Fixed some options being missing from the options menu
  
• Fixed FPS settings not saving
  
• Fixed Motion Blur value not being applied correctly
  
• Fixed Auto Save not working
  
• Fixed Graphical Options not saving
  
• Fixed a Crash that would happen on saves where Water Pumps had been wrongly upgraded to Geothermal Generators due to a previous bug
  
• Changed max width of tooltips so longer recipes don’t go out of bounds
  
• Changed the size of some things in the Build Menu info so the cost slots can be regular size
  
• Fixed the colours when hovering over the M.A.M. text
  
• Fixed the button of the craft bench glowing
  
• Fixed characters appearing as giants when holding the Snowball Pile
  
• Fixed M.A.M. completion global sound not playing
  
• Updated the size of the Alternate Recipe buttons in the M.A.M.
  
• Fixed the last tier of the Space Elevator being unlockable without completing the requirements for it
  
• Fixed a visual bug in the Hadron Collider UI
  
• Fixed being unable to add things to cart in the “You may also like” section of the AWESOME Shop
  
• Potentially fixed a crash in the dot damage component
  
• Fixed a crash when opening the Map
  
• Fixed a mistake with the output of an alternate recipe for Supercomputer
  
• Potential fix for a conveyor renderer crash
  
• Fix for a crash related to invalid player pawn
  
• Hotfix on lighting #praiseben
  

LOCALISATION

• Fixed Power Grid typo
  
• Miscellaneous fixes and debug changes
  
• Updated all languages with the latest translations