Satisfactory News

Hi Pioneers!

Here’s a patch with some new optimization improvements and some fixes to some issues like the previously introduced issue with Signs not displaying properly in Multiplayer.

If you’re experiencing issues with this new update please let us know over at our QA Site: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We read all of your posts

Thanks for enjoying our game everyone, See you again soon
BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the Production Indicator lights on buildings wouldn’t flash
  
• Fixed Signs not working properly on Multiplayer or Dedicated Server
  
• Fixed Screen Percentage setting not saving properly
  
• Potential fix for some crashes related to Conveyor Renderer
  

OPTIMISATION

• Updated XeSS to 1.2
  
• Changed so screen percentage presets for XeSS match DLSS and TSR presets
  
• Unlocked Screen Percentage for XeSS
  
• Moved the Screen Percentage setting to be under Upscaling Preset
  
• Fixed an issue where a bug with creature spawners would lead to performance losses
  

KNOWN ISSUES

• 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 > Local 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
  
• There is major performance loss when running out of VRAM
  
• 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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Hi Pioneers!

This is a super small hotfix with a single change, a hotfix for the crash related to signs when joining a Dedicated Server, This does not fix Signs not displaying properly for Clients so keep that in mind, we will fix that as soon as possible sometime early next week.

If you’re experiencing issues with the new update please let us know over at our QA Site: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We really appreciate all of your feedback.

I’ve attached the patch notes from earlier so you can just read it all in one post.

Have a great weekend everybody for real now, See you soon
BUG FIXES

• Fixed crash when joining a Dedicated Server related to signs
  

Patch Notes: Early Access (EXPERIMENTAL) - v0.8.1.1 – Build 247801

Hi Pioneers!

Hello everyone, here’s a small hotfix for Dedicated Servers not working alongside a few other bug fixes, like the pipeline flow indicators not animating and the images on the signs not scaling properly on smaller signs and more.

We are still very interested to hear what is your experience with all the work that we’ve done so if you have any feedback please let us know over at our QA Site: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We read all of your feedback

As always, with every new update if you’re experiencing some major issues launching the game or very unexpected behaviour, please take a look at the “Known Issues” section as this contains some very common workarounds for those issues.

Have a great weekend everybody and see you all again soon
BUG FIXES

• Fixed dedicated server not working on Linux
  
• Fixed Pipeline flow indicator animation not working
  
• Fixed scaling issues on smaller signs
  
• Potentially fixed Crab hatchers respawning improperly
  
• Potential fix for a Crash related to save session
  

KNOWN ISSUES

• 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 > Local 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
  
• There is major performance loss when running out of VRAM
  
• 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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Hi Pioneers!

Hello everyone, here’s a small hotfix for Dedicated Servers not working alongside a few other bug fixes, like the pipeline flow indicators not animating and the images on the signs not scaling properly on smaller signs and more.

We are still very interested to hear what is your experience with all the work that we’ve done so if you have any feedback please let us know over at our QA Site: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We read all of your feedback

As always, with every new update if you’re experiencing some major issues launching the game or very unexpected behaviour, please take a look at the “Known Issues” section as this contains some very common workarounds for those issues.

Have a great weekend everybody and see you all again soon
BUG FIXES

• Fixed dedicated server not working on Linux
  
• Fixed Pipeline flow indicator animation not working
  
• Fixed scaling issues on smaller signs
  
• Potentially fixed Crab hatchers respawning improperly
  
• Potential fix for a Crash related to save session
  

KNOWN ISSUES

• 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 > Local 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
  
• There is major performance loss when running out of VRAM
  
• 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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Hi Pioneers!

Hello everyone, We’re back from vacation and we’re finally ready to introduce some of the changes we’ve been working on, the focus for this patch is mostly performance improvements that we hope have some positive impact for all the players who were struggling with performance after we made the transition to Unreal Engine 5.

One of the bigger additions of this update is the inclusion of Nvidia DLSS as an upscaling method which in our internal testing has resulted in a performance increase.

There were a lot of minor improvements all across the board so we’re very interested to hear what is your experience with all the work that we’ve done so if you have any feedback please let us know over at our QA Site: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We will be monitoring all your posts to keep working on improving the performance and the overall game stability.

As always, with every new update if you’re experiencing some major issues launching the game or very unexpected behaviour, please take a look at the “Known Issues” section as this contains some very common workarounds for those issues.

Hope this patch helps and thank you all for your continued support
PERFORMANCE

• Added Nvidia DLSS as a selectable Upscaling method
  
• Added Intel XeSS as a selectable Upscaling method
  
• Added Upscaling method settings
  
  • You can select between TSR, DLSS or XeSS under this drop down when your hardware supports it
    
• Fixed Lumen for buildable lights. Fixed apply customization data to also apply extra data.
  • You will need to reload your save if Lumen was not enabled in order for this to work
• Added Lumen boost to materials
  
• Enabled Skip draw when shader isn't done compiling, this should help reduce rendering hitches
  
• Disabled overlap caching to reduce consistent chaos performance loss.
  
• General Chaos memory optimizations
  
• Optimized physic scene handling for foliage, should reduce hitches.
  
• Optimized logic to determine if an entity is near a factory.
  
• Refactored sign system for optimal performance.
  • Improved consistency with backgrounds between signs sizes.

BUG FIX

• Fixed a Train pathing issue related to duplicates in the pathfinding results. This would make it so trains would sometimes take the wrong turn at the first switch out of a station.
  

KNOWN ISSUES

• 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 > Local 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
  
• There is major performance loss when running out of VRAM
  
• 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
    

Hi Pioneers!

Hello everyone, Today we have a patch for you all which will most likely be our last patch until most of the studio comes back from vacation around August, When we return from vacation we will resume stabilizing the Experimental branch to get it to a level where we are happy to release this to everyone in our Early Access branch.

We know there are some issues that are not addressed in this patch, performance issues across the board being a good example, which we know a lot of you have reported in our QA site, we have not forgotten about this nor about any of the other issues or bugs you have reported on the site and once we’re all back in full force we will go back to regularly patching.

In order for us to be able to really fix what is truly important for you all, please let us know any feedback you might have over at our QA site: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We will be happy to read any posts from you all when we’re back from vacation.

As always, with every new update if you’re experiencing some major issues launching the game or very unexpected behaviour, please take a look at the “Known Issues” section as this contains some very common workarounds for those issues.

See you again soon everyone, Thank you all for enjoying our game and we hope you’re having fun with the Experimental release of Update 8
BUG FIXES

• Fixed Wall Outlets not snapping to Beams and Pillars
  
• Fixed Wall Outlets not allowing 45 degree rotation
  
• Fixed Blueprints saved over old Update 7 Blueprints having weird issues and crashing when the Blueprint contained Pipelines
  
• Fixed crash when opening an empty Crash Site
  
• Fixed being able to exit Locomotives while having the Train Menu UI open
  
• Fixed the MAM UI closing after any research was completed
  

UI

• Removed the legacy option for “Enable Gamepad Input” from the “Controls” submenu and removed leftover keybinds
  
  • To elaborate further on this change, This option did NOT mean that we had gamepad support, this has never been the case, it was some legacy leftover inputs from default UE4, we intentionally left those in as at the time, some players were using them alongside the custom controller configs on Steam to create controller layouts for the game.
    
    In UE5, this option does nothing as a result of the Input System overhaul, there also were some leftover keybindings, I.E. Right Thumbstick look, which was not properly set up and would cause issues, so this would actually get in the way of anyone who is trying to properly set up a controller config via Steam or any other third party application.
    
    Now these leftover inputs have been removed, so now you should be able to properly set up a custom controller configuration without any issues.
    
    Existing custom controller configs will most likely need to be updated when moving from Update 7 to Update 8, but this was already the case, now it will just be smoother when trying to update these configs as there will be no leftover inputs that get in the way.
    

LOCALISATION

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

KNOWN ISSUES

• A reminder for people who have been having issues with unexpected crashes on startup or weird behavior 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 > Local 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
  
• There is major performance loss when running out of VRAM
  
• Lights don’t behave correctly in Lumen compared to Signs
  
• 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