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September 19th, 2023 Livestream

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do I even even need to ask the question I feel like I do because I actually don't know what you're implying here uh oh wait username evidently not sufficient reminder of the question do lizard doggos have click as a buttholes um ask your mom but don't make your mom jokes I do what I want

This question may have been asked previously at least 4 other times, as recently as September 2023 and as early as August 2023.

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a toilet flush DLC for two Euros after 1.0 so you drive a hard bargain I don't see why not

This question may have been asked previously at least 32 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as June 2020.

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uh golf question mark no exclamation mark

This question may have been asked previously at least 15 other times, as recently as September 2023 and as early as November 2021.

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will it be a pause button in the game I don't know hopefully you can you can bring up the console and type pause if you're in single player um but there's no like menu pause button we've talked about it but it's it's it's more work than you think to implement that actually because of the nature of um how we want connectivity to be seamless to the game but uh if we have time we'll do it

This question may have been asked previously at least 3 other times, as recently as June 2023 and as early as December 2021.

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uh will there be some kind of teleportation in the game be it the player or items I feel like you guys have already figured that out with hypertube cannons and like the way you can set up teleportation with the Cannons and like that so do we really need it

This question may have been asked previously at least 10 other times, as recently as September 2022 and as early as April 2021.

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sanctum 3 confirmed it was oh yes don't totally confirm 100.

This question may have been asked previously at least 5 other times, as recently as January 2023 and as early as March 2018.

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how many theoretical hours of question is planned for the final release what do you mean how many questions oh questing uh uh I don't know I don't think too much honestly the store the idea with the story for the game isn't that it's supposed to be like a huge thing it's supposed to be like a it's a thing you can do on the side it's like the story mode and satisfactory is more of a side chick than anything like the your main chick is your your factory building like the fact that so many people can't so many hours of this game without there being a story I think it's the main giveaway here that story mode shouldn't take away too much from that I actually have no idea how many hours though like how much time is spent on doing store related stuff

This question may have been asked previously at least 4 other times, as recently as September 2021 and as early as February 2019.

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trailer for trucks sugar cube probably not because of the nature of vehicles in our game and adding more of that I feel like wouldn't be a good choice of our time right now but who knows put it on the kiwisite and and we'll take a look at it

This question may have been asked previously at least 3 other times, as recently as March 2022 and as early as August 2020.

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happened to the vods from last month or so so we're not a affiliate or partner and uh when you don't have affiliate or partner on Twitch uh the vods only last for seven days so that's why they're not there well that's changed my bots less is three months about all you affiliate or partner because we're neither I fit like it used to be two weeks and now it's one week that changed for a lot it changed for a while then because it's been two weeks for like the last uh unless you um highlight them which we don't always do and highlights stay forever good sub to Turbo um would be nice to have a vlog section on YouTube so the reason why we don't have that is because I believe it I feel like it clutters the subscription box I think it's more important that people notice notice me senpai's that people notice when we do put out videos uh and not like get used to the fact that like there's gonna be a video every week with just a Vlad and nobody watches the VOD Ka so may if we made like a satisfactory Vibes channel that would be a thing and that's I guess that's debatable uh we could do that I guess

This question may have been asked previously at least 3 other times, as recently as May 2023 and as early as July 2021.

September 5th, 2023 Livestream

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are the plans to implement buildings which can be used to basically dump certain liquid waste products into the ground that's a pretty funny question uh that's actually a funny feature I I think it would ruin the game Loop because there is an ass like there's a reason why we don't allow you to sync fluids in the sink like we wanted to package that so this this will accomplish the same thing essentially uh I do like the phrasing of it though

This question may have been asked previously at least 13 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as August 2020.

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um any news on the update for the nuclear recipe using beacons no no news

This question may have been asked previously at least 9 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as January 2023.

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what's the chance of adding CSS office doggos to the game for ailerophobia mode uh I guess if somebody does it at the studio so unsure what the chances are

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as February 2022.

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Auto saving isn't going to be approved auto savings always improved like the saving is constantly like optimized that that goes for all optimization of the game it kind of breaks my heart a little bit when people ask that stuff where it's like are you are you guys ever going to optimize the game I'm like bro we optimize it all the time how do you guys not notice so sad

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uh it's it's getting better all the time do you not remember like what it used to be like anyways yeah dedicated series that's not the wrong way that's dedicated servers dedicated servers are like the the weird brother in your family that's like everyone's like oh this is dedicated servers don't mind him there's nothing we can do

This question may have been asked previously at least 13 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as May 2020.

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foreign yeah there's a really cool we haven't done Community highlights in a while and I really want to highlight a content creator whose name is Yates I think or Yates actually looks this up um there's a YouTuber who's making like a series on on satisfactory where he's only using the loop like the blueprint designer for all his production so like all his buildings are built with the blueprint designer in mind and it's really interesting I think it's Yates let me open my little document because I put it there and they're fun videos too Yates is that it I watched like 20 videos and I can't find in my history or something oh it might be logged in on my first account it's yeah it is yikes with a z that's why I couldn't find it yeah I'll do a proper like shout out when uh when um we get the community highlights and all that rolling again but this this channel has been super super fun to watch gives me a lot of inspiration for what what I would like to do with a blueprint designer because I I like the way we've done the blueprint designer I like the whole like modular thinking for it I just haven't been able to to try it out in my casual playthrough because I haven't played I guess since we introduced it essentially

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as September 2023 and as early as August 2023.

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um could we get some more smaller lights for staircases or maybe illuminated catwalks or lights in the railings uh same thing there please let us know on the QA site what you want to see specifically I think these are good examples so please post that in a QA site so that team can see it

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as August 2021 and as early as June 2021.

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any plans to bring satisfactory to switch okay I often say time to say like we don't have any plans but maybe it'll happen in the future uh satisfaction switch I have a very hard time seeing it happening ever so don't count on it honestly I'm like kind of dreading just like the potential of putting this on Console even I don't know how possible that would even be

This question may have been asked previously at least 48 other times, as recently as May 2023 and as early as March 2019.

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if there are no freely placeable wall conveyor belt holes would it be possible to get a wall with six or nine holes yes it would be possible uh make sure to uplo put it on the QA site so that we can uh so we can know to do that essentially don't have any plans for that at the moment though but we never plan for anything so like anything can happen really

This question may have been asked previously at least 7 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as December 2021.

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have you got any plans for DLCs expansions prep post 1.0 so we don't at the moment we don't know what we're going to do Post 1.0 we only know that we want to hit 1.0 and uh but what we do after that is not clear at the moment yeah that's pretty much it maybe we'll do DLCs it might be cool or maybe we'll let some other Studio make DLCs or something we'll have to figure that out when we get to that bridge essentially

This question may have been asked previously at least 24 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as June 2018.

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how big would you estimate the possibility that there are half wide walls that fit half foundations the possibility the possibilities I guess are endless but we don't we don't have any plans for that at the moment unfortunately so I don't know but please upload down the QSI to make sure that we know that you guys want that stuff

This question may have been asked previously at least 5 other times, as recently as April 2023 and as early as August 2022.

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will there ever be any way to have lizardogo stay sit follow or some sort of dog house habitat kind of for thing for that if somebody at coffee stain wants to make that that is not planned at all and I don't know if if that is ever a necessity but if someone had coffee stain during their like creative time or when they have time to work on whatever they want I want to implement that then it will probably happen but it will only happen if someone accomplish the same feels like doing it because I don't think we're ever gonna like because the lizard I'll go following you and all that stuff that is already creative time like sort of not planned it's just somebody did it for the shits and giggles um so yeah

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as November 2022 and as early as August 2021.

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and it changes to phase 4 of project assembly no comments uh I don't know that's why

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as January 2023 and as early as January 2023.

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when will we be able to daisy chain machines without mods never it is an active design decision we've taken that you aren't allowed to do it deal with it the glasses are falling down by the way I can't do that this is important Chad don't worry about it I'm doing important work over here whoops thought I had uh I'm really glad to tune into the Stream very interesting stuff happening all right all right so the question was if we're ever going to be able to daisy chain machines about using mods the answer to that question is uh no we're not going to add that you're just gonna have to deal with it that looked good I didn't see what happened sure I'm sure that was fine uh uh cool don't fall off no what do you mean foreign what was wrong with it I need to go back I need to see this I'll reset the stream for me good bit thanks I worked hard on it somebody clip it I need to see wait I need to see it I'm trying to find it oh here it is

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that was so bad out a better pen all right anyways foreign all right people can't post that I wonder if I can add so people can post like the twitch thing that was all links yeah stop breaking the rule roomie told you I told you three times at least we're just constantly breaking the rules this is no stopping you man you're such a renegade

This question may have been asked previously at least 7 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as January 2021.

August 29th, 2023 Livestream

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is there an ETA on update 8 um I'll probably talk about that in this week's video I don't have an answer at this very moment uh I hope I'll be a little bit more informed at the end of the week essentially

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as June 2023.

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that would be a character customization um I don't know maybe atmosphere is weird to me to have like character customization in first person games though it's like you never see it though we don't have like a switch to toggle like third person what I guess is for multiplayer so you're saying we're getting through that's that's not at all what I said then Pioneers Oh I guess you get zero and body that's true

This question may have been asked previously at least 26 other times, as recently as January 2023 and as early as February 2019.

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will there ever be flying transports other than drones no uh main reason for that is because of level streaming the way the game is set up is level stream is quite slow still for our game and I know that we have hypertune hyper Duke cannons and blah blah but that's like sort of unintentional behavior um if we add drones we would like the game to be more seamless when you're traveling fast and at the moment we don't want to spend the time doing that so no public transport a flying transport in the plants but you're always free to to um to put your suggestions on the keyway side it may be if like there's a ton of people that really wanted we will reconsidered it but at the moment we don't plan to I not plan to not not reconsider everything if we see it on the kiwis that more we don't plan to do flying vehicles at the moment

This question may have been asked previously at least 8 other times, as recently as April 2023 and as early as November 2020.

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when will you release what happens to the collected Mercer sphere and summer sloops up up 1.0 the final final frontier 1.0 is when you'll get to use those things

This question may have been asked previously at least 17 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as December 2019.

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are we ever going to take advantage of the the full Mark III minor capabilities on pure node uh so I'm gonna be very vague about that we have answered this question multiple times by the way um and there's going to be a solution to that problem um but I cannot say what it will be or when it will come but there will be a solution to that problem

This question may have been asked previously at least 22 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as March 2021.

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How likely is the full release before the calendar year very unlikely I would say in my honest opinion maybe maybe we'll have some gamedev miracle but I highly doubt that

This question may have been asked previously at least 33 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as February 2019.

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well the game support direct storage now if it will support direct storage I don't know if we find that it's suitable for our game then maybe because that's not that's not always I I see this a lot by the way it's it's like really hard to comment on this but like it's uh epic has like and this is the same thing with I think this is mostly Nvidia um but like there are so many different Technologies when it comes to computer rendering and apis and some for some reason some of these Technologies get like a lift in the in the public eye um with like for some people's people for some reason some people find certain aspects of these Technologies and like uh algorithms or techniques very interesting and they get like a little bit of like um um like they get free marketing essentially um some like most techniques they use for for computer Graphics specifically are not suitable for everything there's a ton of ways you can do the same thing in different ways and um it doesn't always solve like there's no one solution solves everything I know a lot of people think that if you just have dlss it will solve a lot of problems with games uh and that's not really true and um for some reason epic have been very good at this and also Nvidia uh to like make it sound super people get super hyped to hear that like games support dlss even though there might not be a significant difference for most people anyways um so like but it's fine to ask like if we're going to support specific technology or whatever it is I'm not on that stuff but it's really hard to say what like this is the case for Unreal Engine fives as well we're like there's a lot of cool stuff in real land in five there's a lot of cool techniques but it's not always suitable for uh all games and and like for instance nanite is is like not not every game is going to take advantage of that um um um so uh uh I don't remember what my point of this was but uh yeah if it makes sense for our game then we'll probably support it um we typically don't just like go and like what's the latest thing let's Implement that um it depends in some cases you can even get worse performance with like the LSS uh but nobody talks about that because it really depends like that's the thing anyways

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as May 2023 and as early as April 2022.

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can players eventually go to space or visit another world we don't plan to we haven't even finished this world

This question may have been asked previously at least 5 other times, as recently as April 2022 and as early as May 2021.

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why is there no conveyor attachment to biomass burners to begin with I have 10 of them in emergency I'm feeding them in this huge pain can't this be automated so there's a whole point in that we don't want them to be automated because we do want you to to progress like all the Power Solutions in the game have caveats and the caveat for biomass generators is that they're manually Fed so we don't want them to be automated uh it would it wouldn't serve the purpose they wouldn't they wouldn't serve their purpose in the game if we did

This question may have been asked previously at least 5 other times, as recently as February 2023 and as early as October 2020.

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will there ever be more power plants more anything more maybe not anything green but other energy sources uh potentially yes but I don't know like can be yes planned no is is the answer I think uh we can have more power plants I think but we don't have anything planned at the moment no plans for new power plants but we can add more of course but I don't know if we are going to

This question may have been asked previously at least 5 other times, as recently as February 2023 and as early as August 2021.

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any plans to for any kind of editable or terrain like astronere no that's one of the earlier decisions we made early on that we didn't want to have terraforming because it would be a different type of game then does not the the game design has to fit that and we didn't want like it for this particular game

This question may have been asked previously at least 23 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as August 2018.

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you think we'll get more decorative items in the future I don't know honestly it would be cool though because I feel like we could always add more decorative stuff um but I think that the answer is always like what is there anything specific you guys want to see uh please let us know on the QA side if you want to see anything specific

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as October 2022 and as early as August 2022.

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thank you do them play on The Hub computer oh that's right we could have played I was actually thinking about that before I was thinking of playing um what's it called the uh package thingy game minigame that we have in the hub let's just like do the entire stream just playing that that would be funny what's your high score I don't remember I haven't played it since uh we launched it I did get three stars on all the levels I think at least I think I can't remember that was from like um uh that was last year's fixmest right if I'm not mistaken it's been a while since I was in the game of the year before was it that long ago maybe it was

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as May 2022 and as early as August 2020.

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Halloween event I would rather do Halloween Revenge can you tell I'm Swedish I'd rather do a Halloween event I did it again Halloween event then like add new fixmest stuff honestly

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August 22nd, 2023 Livestream

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uh don't have anything planned for Gamescom I don't so nobody cops and studios are going to Gamescom I think but I might be wrong actually because it might be there might be some coffee Stingers there I'm not there uh uh obviously I actually don't know maybe we're there maybe we're not um but there's no public like there's no there's no like Meetup or anything like that if if there are there it's probably just a couple of people going if that's the case I don't know but uh no plans no major plans for Gamescom this year I say that in last year we had like a huge reveal I think it was a ghost Sim that was revealed at Gamescom last year maybe I don't know they don't tell me um so yeah

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as August 2022.

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update night when or undergoing the order of the voting now by the way so so update that when uh not funny man up today what's going on uh is there any theme for update nine we're not talking about update yet we're not even done with update God

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as May 2023 and as early as October 2021.

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is there any planned expansions to make more Foundation shapes like Corner wedge half wall and stuff like that I don't know what the current plan is and uh it's not impossible that we do more of that stuff I think if anything we would like to know on our QA site questions outside of factorygame.com uh if there's anything specifically you guys are looking for because when people say just like I want more architecture like that uh it's hard for us to know what that means um or like more like more decorative pieces like if you guys have examples or like you know specific things like you mentioned here like Corner wedges and half muscles and stuff like that uh then please let us know as I it helps us look into that one look into that stuff it helps us a lot

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as December 2022 and as early as October 2022.

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what's the status of dedicated it's probably like beating a dead horse yeah I'm sorry that it feels like that um you know we we plan to not have dedicated servers just because it would feel like we abandoned them and that's exactly how it feels right um but it's probably better to have them than not have them at all like the issue for us with dedicated service is that we we don't we we have we need to spend so much time on just making the game so like supporting dedicated servers is not really viable for us at this time this is like one of the reasons why you know we don't even think about the possibility of making a console version or whatever because maintaining that while we're also developing the game isn't really like if if we would do that then we would never get rid of done with this game um so so I the status of dedicated servers is that we are gonna look into that at some point hopefully after update eight um depending a little bit how people are scheduled because right now everyone it's like all hands on deck for update 8 at the moment but uh we hear you like we definitely we try to find time all the time internally to work on dedicated servers there's a lot of stuff that the people that have working and have been working on dedicated servers if you really feel strongly that they want to improve so um yeah but yeah the plan is for dedic reserves to be fully supportive supported in 1.0 I think that's that's been the plan so far at least um might change but that that is the the goal at least to to uh have better dedicated server support like fix those specific bugs um because like when we fix those dedicated server related bugs then we will be fixing multiplayer in general anyways so it's a it's kind of a win-win

This question may have been asked previously at least 7 other times, as recently as August 2023 and as early as February 2023.

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uh anyway that a centralized logic system is forthcoming I'd love to be able to make elements like training machines signals and lights respond to each other uh don't know don't think so uh please let us know on the QA side it's gonna be a lot of this by the way me saying please because of the QSI but it really is the best place to to uh to go I I guess at least I can let you guys know that that is the place to go to with these kind of things um but letting us know on the QA site is the best way because then the whole team get can learn about like this and not just you know trust my opinion that I'm saying like a lot of people want this specific thing um and anything new like any new features to the game is the best place is to go to the Curious I'd let us know there because it's not just about you know fixing things it's also about like requesting new things um but as far as I know there's nothing planned like that at the moment

This question may have been asked previously at least 6 other times, as recently as January 2023 and as early as September 2020.

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is there going to be a big recipe rebalance before 1.0 there is a recipe rebalance planned I don't know how big it's going to be I know there are a couple of issues at the moment with the recipes one is the fact that we still have beacons in some of the recipes and beacons are going to be removed completely from the game eventually so that's going to change there's also some recipes yeah and that means that some of the nuclear recipes need to change there might be some balancing in regards to Playa retention because uh maybe we're a bit torn on this uh because all I know we see people comment of how like the late game becomes very grindy that's a thing but there's also a lot of people that really like the fact that it's grindy um and we need to come to terms with who should we listen to essentially um so like that's an aspect as well so and there's there's also new recipes coming in 1.0 um so that's exciting but whether we'll do a big recipe rebalance before up today uh before 1.0 or if the rebalance is 1.0 uh to be decided I think but I think the plan is to do it before 1.0 but you'll never know

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as April 2023 and as early as December 2022.

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and the reason devstream you discussed updating the vehicle system for trains will train AI gets smarter with alternate route options so uh we would like to do something like that but um we don't know if we have time at the moment so same thing there like everything goes to update 8 right now uh we would like to do that but we'll see if we get time for it

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as May 2023 and as early as March 2022.

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where's the crab boss crab boss is uh it's like good questions it's on ice at the moment because uh uh it's planned for 1.0 but I don't know if it will make it for 1.0 actually which is a bit annoying because we put it in a trailer would it be super weird if we didn't include it in 1.0 how do you guys feel about that it's on the crab is on Ice the big boss and like our very first trailer um because it turned out to be way more work having it than we thought take it out of the trailer we'll just take down the trailer so so that's the situation right now we haven't made it for like proper decision yet on that but uh that's that's the situation right now we were hoping that the changes we did to that will actually let me switch back this is it's important I'm back at the hard drive or the got it all right back to the game uh on the hard drive has been salvaged and can be repurposed to unlock an alternate recipe salvaging more hard drives will provide additional alternate recipes very interesting let's do that all right cool well that's in the oven let's go back here um plot twist the crowd was just super zoomed in yeah so uh we'll see what we do there essentially

This question may have been asked previously at least 44 other times, as recently as July 2023 and as early as March 2019.

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uh plans for more maps no we are not even finished with this one so uh there are no plans for new maps maybe in the future we'll do like DLC or something like that but um at the moment we have nothing planned we just want to finish the one we have right now

This question may have been asked previously at least 17 other times, as recently as June 2023 and as early as May 2020.

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will there be energy sources like I don't even know what this is photovoltaic or wind power wind power no definitely not I don't even know what the other one is uh solar power nope um no like green energy is planned and the reason for that is because we've tried that when we were prototyping the game and when you have like the interesting thing with power in our game how we feel it is that there's always like something you need to deal with you know so we call we have to deal with water and that whole process and with the fuel it's like producing the fuel with nuclear it's handling the the waste for nuclear so like we don't want power to be free in the game and when you just have like wind power and when it's all by like placement of wind power you it's like you get it for free geothermal generators are sort of our answer to that uh they're a bit weird albeit and they're like there's only a limited amount of them um we probably will rebalance a little bit how they work because not a lot of people using them um and even then they have like this cyclical like they they don't have constant energy so you want to use like power storages and stuff like that anyways wind power and that stuff is isn't interesting to us because we don't feel like it adds any interesting challenges to the game but uh water power like turbines on on like we need to place them on like waterfalls and stuff like that could be interesting because then there's not too many places we can do that um question is how much does it actually add to the game because when you're at the point when you can use water power like what are you gonna it's like it's it's gonna be a similar problem geothermal I think like I don't know how many people are actually going to use it more than it's being English just a cool thing um so that's the that's the that's the reason why we won't add power like that

This question may have been asked previously at least 2 other times, as recently as September 2021 and as early as August 2020.

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there was some map changes in update 6 large balloon type plans added in the swamp and bamboo Force they cannot be destroyed any idea if this will change this is I think we talked about this a little bit on the stream when Hannah was on our level designer uh this is a debate that's ongoing at coffee stain as well as to whether we should allow people to destroy them or not um and we don't have an answer as of yet so I think like as far as I can tell like based on how it how it's going right now don't expect them to be able to be destroyed please voice your your concern about this or if you feel very strong about this on the QA side I think there is a post about that upload that and let us know um as of now I feel like it's it's weighing more towards not being able to be like they're supposed to be like part of the the environment um and you'll have to work around that area Factory which is a bummer for people that already built factories and they like scoot up into them but yeah that's how it is at the moment

This question may have been asked previously at least 3 other times, as recently as April 2023 and as early as October 2022.

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will there be upgrades to machines like Mark II and Mark 3 no because if we do upgrade some machines we feel like we would want them to sort of look different and not just be like it's just a better machine because like that's what overclocking is for it's it's like you can almost see overclock as a Mark II in Mark III

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um so we don't want to go down that route because it means more work for us if we want to add like more buildings and we feel like it doesn't won't really add too much we'll just move the goal posts because it's like why not a Mark III why not Mark four why not Mark five on a mark six keep going um so it's not really something we want to pursue

This question may have been asked previously at least 5 other times, as recently as February 2023 and as early as November 2020.

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possible updates to the map including buildings foundations that are similar to the interactive map but not so extensive oh the map as in like the in-game map uh that's something that we want to do I think but it comes down to like if we have time for it or not it's a cool idea we would love to like you mentioned here like something similar but not ass in depth uh it would be cool if you can see like your factory on the map is somehow and like that kind of stuff so that is something we would like to do but don't know if we'll have time for it essentially

This question may have been asked previously at least 4 other times, as recently as July 2022 and as early as April 2021.

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can we expect 1.0 to be on the update 10 or is it not correlated there's no correlation there there can be 100 updates and then 1.0 so yeah probably not

This question may have been asked previously at least 4 other times, as recently as March 2023 and as early as March 2021.

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uh would it be possible to dismantle crash sites now what do we do that's something that I think we would like to have but no news if we can or not I'll vote that on the keyway side if that's something you really want to say

This question may have been asked previously at least 9 other times, as recently as October 2022 and as early as March 2021.

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our boat's coming past the game to transport items around the match of the map no if you want to see that QA site let us know

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for us to have uh 3K or more hours in the game can the notes be random changed when you make a new game that's something that we would like to do I think but uh it's it comes down at like if with time production wise I think it's a cool way to like refresh the game so we'll see we'll see

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August 15th, 2023 Livestream

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will there ever be a satisfactory too we'll talk we'll we'll think about that once we finish this one if we ever make it through

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July 4th, 2023 Livestream

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um I saw someone on Twitter actually asked us this if we're still planning to go on twitchcon that plan is still to go to twitchcon we are keeping an eye out on the situation being the riots or not the riots the protesting and stuff like that and you know we don't wanna do something if we we're not safe but it seems like it's fine right now um yeah we'll we'll have to just keep keep an eye on that I think yeah I think it's sort of like a bit weird at the moment because I mean like it could very well be that we we decide not decide not to go I guess uh last minute but we really won't know until we can sort of keep an eye on things yeah so so this but right now like as things are we're still looking to going there's a lot of other people that are uh so uh we'll see what happens we'll see what happens but keep an eye out on our socials and stuff like that you know to make sure you're up to date because it sucks if like people travel to meet us uh and then we don't go yeah yeah exactly

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June 27th, 2023 Livestream

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longer have it lifts for trains longer Bell placing a lot of these things are sort of just suggestions for the game uh and I think it's okay to ask these questions but I think the the important thing to understand is that um so we've got the QA site questions.satisfactoryinggame.com you can leave your suggestions there as well as bugs and stuff like that and that like asking for like new features on the stream all we can kind of do is like acknowledge your question right but I can't like say hey yeah yeah I'll I'll go tell the team the community manager will go tell the team now to to make this feature it doesn't work that way like the only way new features will get through is that if your requests get to the team and the best way to get that to the team is um uh through the QA site you can still you can still put them here because there's there's like a another benefit here is that like if a lot of people in chat request the same thing then like then we can go to the team and be like hey a lot of people are requesting this thing right so that that can be useful in that sense but if a lot of people are requesting on the QA side as well the same message it gets across yeah so just uh letting you know so you can just consider the best way to get your ideas to the team um but the QA State definitely is the best way to go I personally don't mind I don't mind if people ask questions here about like features it's just I can't give a satisfying answer and then so I think of you guys and I'm like oh maybe it doesn't feel good to get like a really you know crappy answer which is just like go to the QA site or I guess that sounds cool but I can't do anything with it you know

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uh no to motorcycles or you can go to the QA site and leave it there

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how feasible is it for satisfactory to be multi-threaded uh so it is it is multi-threaded um but I guess what you're asking is like can you multi-thread just the factory right um and that that's the hard part I'm not really sure I I'm not familiar enough with the system to know how feasible it is but I can tell you now that the programmers on the programming team are much more capable than I am uh and if they haven't immediately found a way to make that multi-threaded um I would I would be hard-pressed to think that there's a way to do it or at least not a way that either is very hard to do or comes with its own downsides right that maybe make it not feasible but yeah

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when are multiplayer bugs going to be addressed is that something that's even going to make it into 1.0 so I think the the first thing is the framing of the question doesn't make sense when are multiplayer bugs going to be addressed there are so many different kinds of bugs that can happen some of them are things that we need to fix in the game so and some of them like some connection issues are things that have nothing to do with our game at all and they can be affected by your your just local network settings your firewall things like that I actually have done so much so much support tech support stuff directly with people over email and DMs and so many more I've helped so many people with multiplayer issues and I would say over 50 of the issues are are like they're they're not they're not they're nothing to do with us there's nothing we can do about them like I've had people with um they've hard-coded host files to redirect epic um for whatever reason and now they're not getting any traffic when playing multiplayer right I've obviously had um like router issues people who haven't like added things to firewalls so like it's really hard if you saw like what when are multiplayer bugs gonna be fixed it's like which bugs are we talking about not only that um it can differ again if you're on dedicated server or single player but the the short answer the question is multiplayer bugs in general are going to be fixed um and they are fixed all the time we address them on with almost every update um now sometimes more things might be added uh and maybe we don't fix the the bug that you're having but we do fix them um but yeah there's going to be a lot of time and effort that will go into that stuff um going forward but I think some of it is is a bit of a lost cause um at the moment when we're changing the game a lot because if we're going to be making changes to the game that's just going to break multiplayer even if we fixed it before so it's a matter of prioritization I've made a whole video on this um of how we prioritize bugs because if we go and try and fix every single bug that every single person has it will just break the second we touch the game again and then we have to do all of that again so it's it's really hard to answer the question because there's so many layers to it it's like there are bugs that aren't our responsibility there are bugs that have been fixed before but broke again there will be bugs in multiplayer with new features that we add that we can't fix now because we haven't added the features um but the team works on bugs multiplayer bugs they do that's all we can that's all we can say really and so if that's going to make it into 1.0 it's it's made it already um the game is infinitely more stable in multiplayer now than it would have been if we hadn't done any of the multiplayer bug fixes that we've done this entire time so we're working on it

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will the dev highlights videos continue on YouTube after you have less or is that all we're gonna get I don't know if someone wants to make them they're gonna make them it's not going to be I'm not going to make them I guess um yeah I mean I hope so let let the team know that you want them if you if you enjoy the dev highlight video that we did with uh G2 let the team know that uh you like those videos because you know what now we we're we're we've never been the kind of Studio that's like we want to make videos that perform well we're always just like we want to make the videos that we want to make we consider like what performs well and what doesn't perform well but like historically the dev highlight videos I feel like they didn't get that many views well they got a lot of views they got like tens of thousands of views that's a lot of views but like compared to like the rest right um they didn't get as much but at the same time when I think about it I think that was also when our channel was much smaller um and I I wonder I wonder if that impacted the the like the sense of urgency to like we should make more of these or not I wonder um but also the main main thing that stopped it was covid got in the way and I wanted to do uh the dev highlight video with G2 but he wasn't at the office no one was at the office and I wasn't at the office and I wanted to do it at the office I didn't want to do like um I didn't want to do a Dev highlight over over like teams or something like that you know a video call

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June 20th, 2023 Livestream

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yes Mike's lore plays the sound of Chainsaw that's pretty funny don't forget we forgot to mention this but if you are running into issues the best place to report this kind of stuff is on our QA site questions.satisfactorygame.com uh not only can you post you know rad new bugs that you run into but you can also upvote you know feedback or any issues that other people are running into so for instance if you are having performance issues it's a great place to let us know of your hardware and like what kind of average FPS you're getting you know call give us as much information as possible um so so like get part be part of the discussion so so to help us out to like figure out like what's going on and like give us you know if it's something specific to a factory or you know if if you're getting the same performance if you're running in like a new save file you know that kind of information is really important for us and if you have a safe file that where you feel like you are running the performance issues you know you can also upload that not upload it to the QSI but you can give us a link in the keyword side to where we can get it oh yes

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how many updates until 1.0 release oh that's an interesting question don't tell them that it's four more don't do it don't let them know probably not allowed to tell them yet unmute hey yeah interesting question let's go move on

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procedurally generated satisfactory map uh no it's not gonna happen uh the game was initially supposed to be procedurally generated yeah way way way way way back in the day uh that's how it it first started out and then everyone was like yeah no no we don't want to do that and I think we still don't want to do that we have a video on our YouTube where I sat down with the Stefan our CEO and we walked through like a bunch of early builds for the game and there were also another interesting aspect of the procedural generation thing that I didn't think about was they also had because I wasn't working on the game at this point was that all the nodes would be you'll be able to like mine them anywhere on the map so like when you look down on the ground there would be like different you know Purity off all the materials so like you basically see like oh there's copper here oh wow four percent and and like depending on on like how pure wherever you were looking you got more when you were mining it you could replace down magnet miners everywhere uh let me see if I can find that video if you're interested in that and then obviously the nodes would have the most security but you could also mine different things on the same node interesting yeah you just get different like if you just need some Stone you could just like maybe like just run into the five meters and just like Hammer the ground yeah and dig a little from there so like just a little bit of something so like for instance if you were if you were building something you're like oh I just need one iron Rod or whatever you could just like get it from the ground but it takes a little bit more I mean depending on like running back it would obviously take longer to yeah I feel like I wouldn't want that in our game I've definitely seen it like in other games and the thing is when if you have that feature you need to build other features around it to make that work right but like with with our game and the feature set that we have I think I think what we have now works pretty well I still think that like randomized nodes could be sick it could be cool like just the placement of them yeah yeah yeah like maybe as like an alternate game mode thing but like I think I think that's something that could be really good yep otherwise I really like the fact that we've um uh handcrafted everything personally sorry I'm trying to find that video now it's it's uh this is update I can't remember update six maybe whoops wrong button oh whoops I found it okay here it is the video if you're interested in the first year of development satisfactory

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Mercy Spirit usage soon uh no not soon but the plan is to have all that stuff every all the items as a like working item uh working work in progress their plan for to be part of the 1.0 release and uh I won't talk too much about that other than it's gonna be part of that one point

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map editor yes no I would like to add new areas or create whole new maps you know what that would be sick I would I think most people at the office would love to be able to just be like here here's a map editor have fun uh but there's a few reasons that that's not possible first of all it's hard and takes time uh so and and it's not time that we've put in yet uh so who knows maybe one day but I think another thing that might be a blocker is that we might have to wait for like the full game to be out first because like it could be that if we I feel like the stuff we would need to release in order for there to be a map editor might mean we'd have to leak some stuff I'm not sure that might be problematic I just I imagine that might be the case but who knows I think a lot of people would like it to be a thing but like for it to be a thing is a lot of work so I don't think anyone is jumping at the thought of committing to something like that uh right now when we have so many other things to do to make the game actually finished

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oh my God I'm losing my mind the the God damn it so annoying literally when I press the pin button that's when it moves the whole chat the question was okay good man skill issue little skill issue I need more MMR yeah the question was whether we were going to have Linux support uh in the future and Linux support and like mac support and stuff like that are you know not things that we're focusing on right now maybe in the future uh once we're done with the game you potentially we'll see but uh at the moment we don't have any plans it's the same deal with like console I haven't seen maybe we'll ask about that lately actually have console people just given up on us no obviously I have some questions in DMS okay here and there uh so some people still uh holding strong yep uh we you know like we'll say like oh we've got a patch out and there'll be like one comment it'd be like still waiting for the Xbox version right yeah yeah Apple Vision Pro support uh yeah yeah that is actually coming soon oh wait is that the uh the AR thing the AR thing yeah oh wow holy I am I do not want to implement that no you're lucky because I'm doing it so the last thing I'm doing oh piecing out yeah yeah you can do it in one week pretty easy no

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June 2nd, 2023 Video

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in the programming team we are seven programmers on paper but we also have a Tech artist who is doing a lot of programming and a build engineer and I consider those two parts of the programming team as well for software I

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plus for the game code and then we also use blueprint when interfacing with the UI and the design team blueprints that is light code but it's a visual coding language so you drag lines between boxes basically and it's easy to use for our designers and the UI thing to to get things going so a typical day for me

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so the strangers bugged when I was helping Jace with programming we had a vehicle bug on our test level we have like it's a flat level and we have a little ramp and some other stuff around the level so when you would drive the vehicle off the ramp in a specific way jumping out than a vehicle is disappear when you looked around like on the map and where's the vehicle and on this level we had a portal just the designers were testing some things out and when you looked at the portal and went to it you saw the vehicle like group coming out to the work portal so that was a pretty funny bug uh we did track it down to some wonkiness with the math with the with the suspension physics those were causing the the bounce of the vehicles the bounce is like what the vehicle is colliding with so the physics went wrong and the bonds started to grow like this until it touched the portal and entered it yeah because it was a divide by zero with a force that's what it was and so so one of the forces so the forces caused the vehicle to scale infinitely large yeah uh and then it touched the portal and then came back on the portal with reset physics yes

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May 30th, 2023 Video

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alternate fuel for the chainsaw I see just just never happy it was like cool we got the thing we wanted now where's the next thing we wanted uh I don't know um good question make sure to post it on the QA site if you want to see that with a chainsaw specifically for the chainsaw specific sorry texting my dad one second um yeah same wow so many people wait what is oh that's there was a couple of people that was standing outside the window and looking in like what's going on now I know what's going on anyways um what were we doing again that's so distracted yeah same um

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since there will be a since we'll be able to have decent use for liquid biofuel and we can destroy the gas blowers can we get a building that uses the gas to produce liquid biofuel like LPG so for these kind of things we have the keyway site the Kiwi side is the best place to like request new things um you know so go to the Curious side and upload that stuff if you want to see that specifically you know these kind of things like what people want to see may change a little bit depending on like you know when we post videos and say like hey you're going to be able to destroy gas pillars and then people are like oh but what about um so so for some reason it's good for some things it's good if you wait until the update is out if we're posting things on the QA but if you want to see something like this then go ahead and post it go for it we can't stop you I dare you to do it yeah yeah we can't yeah but we won't do it yeah yeah don't don't give me the ideas

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May 23rd, 2023 Livestream

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uh have you tested ue4 saves on the ue5 build and seen improve uh FPS improvements um we have tested yeah we've tested both safes that were before and then we made an update uh for update God damn it's so confusing when when I read those out loud um I'm not sure what this what the state of performance is actually um I've played I played on my saves and I haven't noticed a significant change um I haven't noticed anything so but these are anecdotal evidence like which are the best kind of evidence um so I don't know I don't know what the state is actually but the the general like feel like the general idea we had was when we're working on this stuff is like you probably won't see too big of a difference or you might even see worse performance in this update because we are switching to like a new engine version but in the future we set it set ourselves up so that we have now possibility to like grow with the new engine and like update it um so like there are a lot of possibilities now that weren't available to us in unrealand and four but are now in five uh so in the future we can get bigger improvements uh hopefully that's a long oh man he's really gopherd that's a long that's a long lizard doggo holy nailed it it's perfect no bad 10 out of 10. it's like we're it's like we're there oh no wait what no

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oh I have to take a picture of this I'll post this on Twitter later sad after all that is a perfect example of what game development is like right there put so much effort and time into that just just sit down hey look how sad this looks guys oh fudge fudge yeah

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so why don't you guys have Subs enabled on this stream could be wait what they should be enabled Subs yeah no it is enable what wait oh when you when it said subscribe subtitles yeah subtitles descriptions why do you guys not have subscriptions the reason is the decision we made a long time ago is that we didn't want um we just didn't really want the money factor to factor into our content creation basically it the longest like twofold right because we also wanted the option to be able to stream on multiple platforms oh there's that as well yep yeah yeah so it's both but to both those things um but um and let's it's like we don't need the extra income from twitch or whatever we also don't need the badge or whatever it kind of sucks that we're losing out on some of the like you know the features where we can't make um Emos right emotes and like the the polls and stuff like that and yeah mods don't stay up for as long um that is that is a bummer but yeah the beam of the multi-stream and like not feeling like we're locked down too you know we feel like we don't need a badge to be able to like do these kind of streams yeah no for sure but then it's just also that like I think the wheels we I think the other thing was that we just didn't really want the the money to influence things too much because at the end of the day what we what we what we're doing is we're selling a game and you guys can buy the game you don't have to give us any more that's that's like all we're doing so and this is just kind of part of that so it felt a little weird there's like some some devs do interesting things I think if I remember correctly correct me if I'm wrong anyone um but the RuneScape devs do amazing so jagex do amazing uh Community streams I believe they have subscriptions but they give that money away and that's like you know that's the thing that could be done but yeah yeah but that's just kind of why we don't really think about it too much anyway we don't really we don't really need it you guys are here anyway and uh the purpose of this is just to hang out inform you guys and entertain you guys so yeah it's okay uh someone also mentioned that like twitch like to avoid twitch getting money I don't know if we necessarily care about like twitch getting like I mean that's oh fine um it's just the The General I wouldn't say ickiness but like the it becomes a factor you know there's no denying it even though you know regardless of what we say or do like it becomes a factor and yeah I I I'm I'm genuinely not this is not an actual fear of mine that I have right but like there's this I there's this thought of like well like if if it ever came down to like uh Hey guys um the uh the twitch earnings are down 10 or something because anything you do about it you're like no I don't see how that would ever happen that's not the kind of vibe at coffee stain so I just want to make that very very clear but like that's just like a situation I just want to stay away from I just don't want that element to impact this like that's like that that's my personal uh reasoning and feelings towards it I just kind of want to no we're just hanging out it's it's just chill yeah there's there's a lot of like I guess reasoning that we do when when whatever choices we make there's never like uh this is definitely the reason why we're doing it we're always kind of like there's a couple of like many ways to do things and I don't know if necessary if they like us having like the subs or whatever enabled maybe that doesn't actually do it have any impact probably fine honestly fine it's probably fine yeah yes so yeah it's it's probably not that big of a deal yeah but if you do want emotes we do have some emotes on uh better TTV yeah if you don't have that plug-in installed um consider getting it for you get on Chrome and Firefox um and basically we've got all these little emotes that will pop up if you have it it's pretty good so and you don't have to pay for it it's you just get it if you get the plugin so and uh and and then you don't need to be confused over why you're seeing people uh sometimes spam just weird words yeah yeah yeah yeah like status Pogo or yeah Status nut or something like that uh yeah it's muted exactly exactly yes that is neat and then also if you're a content creator and you have um better TTV um you can add these we've got them I think they're available so that you can add them to your channel as well um are they available on better TV or are they under press kit or something like that they're no no they're on better TTV and there you can add it to your channel via better TV okay so that your users can use better tdv and actually because you can have two settings on better TV you can make your emotes like only on your Channel or you can make them public yeah and so we just made them to be public so yeah I guess another reason too is partner affiliate also means ad although I think people might get ads anyways or am I wrong about that even if you're not affiliate or partner they can still serve ads on our screen maybe probably maybe I'm not sure that's okay if they do I guess because they need to pay their bills yeah yep

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May 16th, 2023 Livestream

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will there be a story yes there will be a story for 1.0 uh we probably won't unveil it before then because we always felt like it's gonna we want we want the whole package in one go like it feels weird to just like uh Early Access in the story if that makes sense so at 1.0 we plan to do a release with story but it won't be like uh you know don't expect the whole game to change drastically because we're adding story it's more like store the story will be sort of the optional thing um to the factory building aspect of it so it's like it's like the glue we also have I'm I have no idea what the store is going to be like either because we've we've changed around a lot

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how many Easter eggs are not found yet so I whoa pin weird pin just pinned nothing all right anyways um I'm not sure actually how many Easter eggs are not found anymore because we did a video a while ago where we're like this one Easter egg that people didn't find and then like two two days after that they're like oh I found it um so uh I don't know like I haven't checked the week in a while actually if they're if they're keep still updating that for the all the Easter eggs and whatnot but there's also probably a lot of Easter eggs that I don't know about that may or may not have been discovered so I don't know maybe every Easter egg is discovered or maybe there's like one Easter egg that no one's discovered yet I don't know we'll have to see

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May 9th, 2023 Livestream

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and we're planning to add a twitch integration where chat could spawn items and things so I love that idea I think the the there is a mod I think that somebody made I don't know if it was publicly made or not but uh there was a mod that somebody made where you could spawn like mobs uh into the game and I personally love that I think it's it's so much fun there's also like the one that Andrew has where like it's it makes you like rotate I think Taco has that as well where like it'll make you force rotate around 360 Degrees randomly and then like it will deconstruct something um that one's so mean but uh I love the like that uh I wish we could do more like that but it's it's always like a you know do we do that or do we do you know whatever cool feature that that we have in store you know it's always like a planning thing um and it's it's always sort of it's difficult to uh to be like yeah but the twitch thing though yeah but the other thing though like yeah yeah yeah justifying you know adding stuff like that yeah I think people are interested but yeah we're just more interested in like other things for the game we have a huge list of things we want to implement so like yeah and we'll probably never get through it all yeah

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is the structural Integrity become a thing or um or you're safe and stuff so I don't think so because mostly because similar reasons before right what you were saying yeah like that's complexity but also like performance wise it feels scary to add like physics to all the foundation pieces and like everything like that uh we're I think we're good like at least for now feels like a huge undertaking if we're gonna add you know physics for that kind of stuff I wonder if we need to do physics or if we just need to calculate it at build time right because if you build but then like it's it's more about how that propagates yeah something how does that trickle down yeah I guess you could do the the way they do it in valheim for instance where like the building just kind of gets destroyed if you build something that doesn't make sense yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly but you know it also feels like a little bit I don't know in satisfactory it feels a bit unfair it to have that constrained a little bit because of the sheer like scale of how you build things so like if you're gonna constantly keep track of like how um structural Integrity is following up on on buildings where like because we we definitely see a lot of cases where people make really construct uh interesting constructions based on you know weird order of operations where you can build things in a certain order and that makes it possible to do certain things like with clipping and whatnot and if we have like you know integrity that's a that could mean that in some cases where like if you set it up a certain way you wouldn't be able to build you know angled pillars or whatever in a certain way and and that would sort of I feel like we would lose out on a lot of cool uh builds just because of that because of that constraint on on the at the time of building sort of speak um and then if we're going to be like yeah but if we're going to keep that and add we could have like edge cases but then like so many edge cases to make it work like maybe everything just checks and structure Integrity when you you pause the game or something like that I don't know it just feels like it's good the way it is I feel like even though it could be interesting to add structure Integrity because it's another yeah it would it would just be a big shame if like you build this big thing that is doing your phase four production and and then you delete one pillar down the bottom and it all falls down I mean no I don't think that's a good idea for our game yeah it could be a fun mod I think if you wanted to challenge yourself you know if like I don't know if like months could ever do that kind of thing but I feel like that like there's definitely a game there but I don't think it's something we could impose on all players yeah for sure yes

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are there plans to add here's a question about the game actually are there plans to add blueprints to steam Cloud I frequently switch between my main desktop and playing handheld steam deck and it's really annoying not having blueprints on one so we did a follow-up on that we talked to uh the folks working on the system like one of the main reasons why blueprints weren't part of like the same save directory as the save files and so they could be Cloud synced Etc was like out of um like scared that because people were moving blueprints a lot more than they're moving save files the risk of accidentally like messing up your save directory or like you're moving save files and stuff like that and like Cloud save kicking in and like readjusting and like all the like potential for human error made it so scary that we were like let's not let's not do it uh for now um the big trade-off though being that you can't Cloud sync your Blueprints and that kind of sucks um I wonder if we can sort of revisit that conversation um and see if there's anything we can do because it would be really nice to have Cloud blueprints being able to be Cloud synced not only for the sake of being closing but also if you're using GeForce now you would actually be able to like get access to your blueprints um so so that's sort of the state of that why that is uh at the moment uh it's because we're scared we're cowards um but it's like it would save data it's so scary you don't want to mess with things yeah it's so scary especially like there's nothing more frustrating than like spending you know hundreds of hours on a safe fall and then it gets corrupted for whatever the reason even if it's like human error if you're messing up or if like it's something we did or or Cloud sync or Steven epic like whatever you get a hard drive that's faulty like whatever the reason is it sucks and like if we can mitigate that in any possible way we'll do it yeah and that's sort of one mitigation strategy we have there with deciding to not put the blueprints in the same full address to save save directory um because it really is a thing where like if you change any files in your saved directory outside of the game and then when you go to steam or epic and Boot It Up they'll be like oh there's something changed here and then that you get that scary pop I were like do you want to use the the local ones or the public ones it's it's I mess it up so many times too like where I'm like is it wait which one is the one I want to click here because I want to get the latest one right but then what if um and then yeah it's so scary yeah so I was I was I was saved my saved calls before I pressed that button just in case I back it up yeah whenever that pops up I always make a copy immediately yeah but yeah it's so why not have the blueprints in a shared folder for all the saves it we can do that it's not it's not that we can't put them into this um put them into a a cloud safe structure that that is doable but the the issue is like the consequence of that that's what we're sort of scared of yeah is when you put it in the same directory and what you said what I just said would like if you're changing it outside of the game you know steam will look at the whole directory and see like oh this changes here and they will change everything so like if yeah it's it's Omega scary to risky I go play something else yeah perhaps a dual safe or Blueprinting save and local save option flag so that you could have an option to eat to do either I mean that could be an option uh well I I mean in theory I actually don't know no not right like because no everything in the directory is affected so like you can you can be in a situation where you change the file and then on Epic or steam it notices like oh the whole like the the structure or like whatever the files don't match anymore and I should pull the entire directory um so I think what they what they were saying is you could have this option so that you could add them to the uh at your own risk at your own risk so you can enable that if you wish I think that's probably doable but like I don't know it's who knows it's something that needs to be considered like very carefully by the team but like um let the team know that you would want it just let them know I think that they're aware of that and maybe one day they'll uh you know if maybe it's something that we can sit and try and Tackle yeah um yeah yeah we've had like some of the some of the worst emails to get are like people who contact us about Cloud save issues and they were like hey am I like 400 hours are gone can you please get it back and I'm like like they're on Steam I know that there's like the remote storage thing that you can go to and sometimes that has like cloud data in there yeah yeah I don't think epic has something like that please correctly if I'm wrong um but we don't have access to those saves they're not served they're not saved on our servers or something that's handled by the platform and even with just regular normal usage um sometimes weird things can go wrong uh and it's it's scary and heartbreaking but yep

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it's also harsh when like they've also like contacted us and clearly specified that like I pressed this button and then all my save files were removed it's like yeah I don't want to be the person to tell you like yeah but yeah yeah there's nothing we can do I'm sorry back up your save files that's the that's the best thing to do I mean I don't know what to tell you especially for this update just don't just saying delete your save files ahead of time the cloudcon do it it'll do it you delete it ahead of time and you open the game and it re-downloads your save files oh boy that's cool yeah hey always back up your saves I've always got like uh fresh saves through it somewhere especially when I'm thinking about like I'm switching between Steam and epic home PC work PC different branches on steam or or epic or whatever um for like development branches always back in my saves an interesting question what about blueprints that are shared between saves even if they aren't in the cloud I I don't I mean that's how that they're always uh shared right like they're safe they're safe separately to save files um and they're not in the cloud that's how it functions um so in this case yeah that that's the problem and changing that and putting them in the cloud creates these other issues that we're concerned about

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May 2nd, 2023 Livestream

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got a big question about essentially uh if there's going to be an option to like build roads the same way we build convey belts and like uh Railways and stuff like that um at this moment we don't have any plans for that but feel free to to upload that on the keyway side if you feel like that's that's something we should do um there are like you right now I I actually if on the topic of roads actually I would actually recommend checking out some of the community made uh content on this because there's a lot of blueprints that are really good that I've used as well that makes it a lot easier to build roads I mean this video is like demonstrating how to use the different blueprints um and some of those blueprints are available on the uh different like Community Driven websites around for instance satisfactory Dash calculator has a couple of those um highly recommend checking it out um if you're if you want to like simplify building roads because there are a ton of blueprints that really make it a lot easier to build and like really streamlined uh uh that aspect of it so to speak

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uh we just want to go to volunteer to translate the game so you go to I think it's the Discord is the the like onboarding part right yeah the current procedure is you go to Discord and you uh DM uh one of the mods or even us and they can help you from there express interest that's pretty much it no actually well there's a ticket thing right we have a ticket thing on Discord now you can create tickets oh yeah that's how you do you go yeah yeah the instructions are on the Discord it's like the tldr here like you go to our Discord uh and then if you check the welcome uh Channel there's information how to get into there

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essentially I think it's welcome yeah at summer the information somewhere yeah first test is to find how to do it it's like uh you gotta pass the test before we give you access to the translation step the first step is to just get into the Discord because a lot of people yeah yeah exactly

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would love videos of Hannah doing design work on maps yeah I think I think Hannah's work is like one of the most uh visually interesting ones to watch because like I remember we did that that stream way back when and people really enjoyed it um I don't know I think yeah I mean more so than like programming and things like that who knows but um it's it's also just really difficult I think that the trickiest thing with that kind of thing is how do we keep things under wraps and not leak anything while doing it right so like even when we did that stream with Hannah a few weeks back um you know like you don't have to crop the scream a bunch and make sure that certain elements weren't going to pop into the screen while he was uh doing that um because even though we weren't showing anything that could leak it's like our asset Library you know might might showcase something that we don't really want to be showcased we don't want to reveal like motorcycles yeah yeah exactly or golf balls yeah yeah we're fishing golf ball yeah more check marks but that's an actual thing though oh yeah yeah yeah that's actually coming yeah that's coming thank you

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will samor and the whips have a purpose in update no that will be later yep yep they still won't do anything up today but there's stuff planned for it um like I I sort of know what those plans are they're interesting

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about new areas actually no no new areas we're set on the ones we have on the map and we won't change that we're going to finish that we barely have time to finish the areas that exist on the map right now from 1.0

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any news on Paradise Island I've seen a lot of people ask about Paradise Island I'm not sure what news you're asking for like is it the same thing as before you saw me deleted on stream sure what what is the latest news though because I think the last thing we said was good uh yeah so so the uh uh it was um right so we said that Paradise Island was going to get cut and removed but now we're gonna actually keep it in but we're not gonna uh um commit to fixing it up or cleaning it up it's just going to be what it is and that we're going to move the kill box so that it you can sort of just hang out there that was the the plan so so we said that that was quite a while ago that we talked about that is there anything else that changed since no I think so no I didn't because I'm not sure what the last because that was the the world map update that we put out on the press kit um and I think what you just said is what says what it says on the press kit like the map what I I don't know I can't talk anymore I'm getting tired yeah what I think what you said is the latest information that I have as well I think that's the that's how it's gonna go and I'm pretty sure what you just said is what you said in the world's video and I don't think uh yeah I think I think I I can't remember it was actually so long since I recorded it even though yeah um but I think I think that's uh that's right

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April 25th, 2023 Livestream

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round slash curved Foundation walls this is something that we've um has been requested so much and like I feel like earlier on it was like um oh yeah that makes sense we'll look into it and then like as we've looked into it as things have gone on I think the interest internally has gone down a little when it comes to like round or curved foundations and I'm not entirely sure why so I can't really provide too much more context on that however if it's something that you want it's something you think the game needs you can always go to the QA site questions.satisfirectorygame.com and let the team know so that they can consider it

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can we grow our own plants so we can make inhalers easier so we've had a lot of people uh request like farming um and uh it's uh that's something that has like historically been something that has had a lot of interest internally at coffee's thing so you know that's that's always a good sign um having interest doesn't mean um it's going to come for sure or when it's going to come but that's a it's a good sign hmm

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all right another question this one we get a lot programmable splitter change to percentage splitting um this is something that you just need to keep requesting on the QA side um this is uh we've heard this feedback before I can't really say much more on it other than we previously have just not wanted to do it but I don't know what the current plans are and I don't know what's going to happen between now and whenever because you know like remember for the longest time right we didn't want to do Blueprints and we had reasons for not doing it and then along the way we changed our minds partially because you guys kept it on our minds right you kept letting us know this would be cool this would be cool um and uh yeah music a bit loud actually you know what guys you know what I think I've been on the wrong mic setting this entire time have I been too quiet all along is this better is this better is this better did it make a difference at all I go way too quiet ah you guys tell me one and a half hours sorry I I should have checked myself my bad that's my bad anyway

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uh anyways Splitters yeah so just uh if you think that's a good idea let keep it on our minds keep letting us know um but I don't know what's gonna happen with that at this stage would I believe you though that's true no I would if you guys were saying hey it's too low it's lower than usual the music's too loud I think I would believe you now you're gonna do that from now on and screw with us oh geez this is why I have trust issues we said you're a muted but muted is not no too low is not muted stop now it's loud sorry well you've been talking for an hour and a half we haven't heard a thing all right all right all 1.3 characters of Vape but okay okay okay all right all right Peppa hacks

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Bean Saddles yeah that's what we need to bring back the bean saddles for those of you who don't know um one of our programs actually I believe it was Stefan who is currently the the CEO of coffee safe Studios I believe it was him he programmed a saddle item that you could uh attach to Big beans and your your yeah it was my dad exactly um you could attach to Big beans and then the Pioneer would like grab onto the beam just like and then you would just run around and you could sort of control the main and it was really really goofy looking uh not entirely not entirely sure why we got rid of it I mean it's kind of fun you know I like it's not better than any other you know like I think vehicles are better traversal options than they are it would just be a fun goofy thing that you could do if you wanted like Dino Riders yeah

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serious question will there ever be more tears to the space of other I don't know maybe there could be maybe that's all I can say I can't really I can't like if there are I can't say there will be I think it makes sense for there to be so maybe um there's also the the other you know so some people want new tears but then it could just be that like more stuff's added to your earlier tiers maybe that's what happens right you still get more content they just don't need to be new tears you have to see I can't really can't really tell you it's one way or another

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any plans for a stats UI in satisfactory for production rate or power use so people have asked for all sorts of like General stat things to like maybe display it in the hub or I don't know maybe it could be like a buildable that like displays things if you hook it up to it who knows um uh and I think it's that's an idea that most people like but it's an idea that I think struggles to get off the ground um and the reason for that is one I know that there's questions of like okay that's a cool idea about how to actually do it and there's a bit of a bit of a wall there of like well let's actually a good way to do that um but anyway that could be overcome the other wall that it runs into is how do we prioritize that over anything else um and and I don't think that this would be a trivial thing to add is the feeling I get so that's the that's the tricky thing with this feature it's not that it's it's a bad suggestion and it's not that like we don't like that idea I'm pretty sure most people do um but yeah it's tough uh of course always let the team know more and more that you want it if that's what you want so uh it can stay at the Forefront of our minds and uh we can keep reconsidering it foreign

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uh plant any plans for underwater stuff like anything at all gameplay uh no plans no plans for underwater stuff um one of the reasons is uh again so like with a lot of game stuff if you offer a specific feature you need to support it and you need to justify its existence right um and right now if we offer any underwater stuff we then need to support underwater stuff which means we need to craft an entire world for underwater stuff and I don't know if you've noticed but we haven't even finished crafting the main world yet so uh saying that we're gonna do more underwater stuff would likely require that kind of work and so we're just kind of not touching it right now yeah so there's no plans for it at this stage as far as I know

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main World side World confirm we're not done with the main world so we're not gonna have a side world I don't want underwater stuff just to be able to dive why if there's nothing underwater just because it's cool to dive but see the thing is if we give you even the dive mechanic right then that that's that suggests that we hear me within this that suggests that we support the act of diving and exploring underwater that's what it communicates to the player right and and then it's like well then we need to support and justify it right I don't know does that that's that's what I think in my brain underwater crates okay there's a good reason there's a good reason or or maybe some other solution for the crates vanilla bean is especially good yeah that's what subnautica is for it's true I have said that before you know it's like I've done the whole uh what is it like a missile is not is is precisely where it is so they're not where it's not or whatever you know a game is only what it is and it's not what it's not um and our game is not an underwater game but there are games that are underwater games now maybe so you can build underwater hmm I mean request it suggest it suggest on the QSI I think there's Arguments for and against you can already build underwater just use foundations to force yourself under I remember an old time um way back when when I was programming on satisfactory uh I remember there being a um this energy thing when you were swimming in the water and if you were in the water for too long your energy ran out I think you just drowned uh foreign

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more cassettes in next patch Maybe

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will we have a snow biome uh the answer has been a very very loud and aggressive no whenever that has asked before exactly asbo Jay is already putting it in the uh the the chat yeah generally uh I don't think that's gonna happen basically it's not gonna happen

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the volcano biome I don't think we're adding any new biomes at this stage I'm pretty sure that biomes have kind of been set I don't think we're adding like the latest biome that we've done is Spire Coast right which you know was technically there before but it was actually reworked into a real a real biome

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why doesn't the coffee spill out of the coffee cup the reason is because it's not coffee I said it it's not it's not coffee it is a viscous um uh material that is between solid and liquid um it is also magnetic it is ferromagnetic is that a word is a ferromagnetic viscous material substance that is held into the into the cup into the mug yes it is a non-Newtonian fluid that is held into the Cup by a large magnet at the bottom that's why

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I mean there's enough coffee in the material to legally call it coffee all right it's like some grains kind of put in there there's gonna be heavy cup yeah foreign fluid ferromagnetic yes a word excellent thank you I mean of course it is

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furry fluid can we get a coffee machine in the hub that'd be cool what if like what if the coffee cup right you could sip it like there's like there's like five sips or something and it gives you a bit of Health maybe movement speed right and then it's empty and every time you go back to the hub you can refill it wouldn't that be fun I think I ought to be sick yeah you got like a temporary like uh you're like oh man I got a big jump coming up and then you it's and then you have you have your Blade Runners on at the same time I think that'd be fun coffee stands for a complete organic geez voice crack going through puberty right now complete organic fuel for everyday energy yeah

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April 21st, 2023 Video

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new stuff so the first thing that isn't going to be coming in update 8 is that we've gotten a lot of feedback from people who who want the blueprint designer to be bigger and we we aren't changing that in update 8. okay so we're going to keep that the same and another

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April 11th, 2023 Livestream

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do you ever intend to expand the map size no hell no where that's no there's no way bigger map a riot well I guess riot you know what just because of that I'm gonna add another hour to the clock see now we're at three hours just keeps going up because you guys

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this book with RC yet no we haven't what what are these things did he say something did he did he mention this did he say did you say something nice about it uh we we I I believe Jace has reached out to him before about this we definitely want to do it so I think the issue is we need to get our thumbs out of your our asses uh me and Jay status so yeah we need to get our thumbs out of your asses wait I ain't if as long as it's consensual

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have finished in the game percentage-wise it's so hard to say um okay let me ask you this though counter a question if um let's say that you have a game and you're like I'm gonna add five features to the game right and you add and then I'm gonna like I have I have a game in mind and I'm gonna make five features for this game right and that's and after that I'm done right and then you add three features but what if the three features are really broken and you need to put more time into it right would you say that you're more than halfway done with the game then like it's hard to say right and then you'll be like okay but then I have to track like all the issues but then how do you track all the issues you know it's kind of hard question to answer uh content wise I think we're pretty far ahead um but there's a lot of stuff related to the content and even then we change things up so like even if we say like we add you know if we add we have a menu in the game right cool okay so the menu is done right no the menu is not done you know we constantly change things around um so so it's really hard to give like a number okay how finished the game we're definitely past the 50 Mark you know does that mean that we're at the 60 mark we might be at the 90 Mark like we might be at this I don't know 50. like it's so hard to say uh it's really hard to say because like the game is is finished when we say it's finished and there's no like and also the William says 80 rule I I've heard the 90 rule where 90 of the work takes 10 like 10 of the work takes 90 of the time um so when you're at the point when like when you're at 90 done with your game you still have half of development for game left um so so it's really hard to say honestly thank you

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March 28th, 2023 Livestream

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change the snooze statues nobody wants that

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March 21st, 2023 Livestream

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can we have zoopable buildings like zooping Constructors or assemblers or refiners no that is a conscious design decision we made not to allow you to Zoop uh buildings like that um I'm trying to think if there is a video on this topic this it's been a while since we talked about this actually why the reasoning was so I don't remember all the the details as to why we decided not to do it that way but there's a video that Jace made when we announced zooping if you find that video that explanation is in there

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any updates on an engine switch so this is something that we've talked about before in the past uh I don't mind talking about it again actually because I mean it is it is interesting but uh so the game at the moment runs on under 114 and there is an Unreal Engine five and uh it is technically possible for us to switch using Unreal Engine 5. um but there's there's a lot of reasons why I mean there's a lot of reasons why we don't want to do that but also a bunch of reasons why it would be good to do that um first of all first of all you dog is losing his um first of all we don't necessarily get um nanite and Loom and all that stuff out of the box uh the game is not built for that in mind and um so so that's one thing if we were to move Zone run into five another really big problem with unrealm 5 is that the physics engine that they that we're using currently is deprecating unreal and five so we would need to like implement all the physics in the game from scratch and that is no that is no small thing that's no small feature um the one thing though with doing that though is it is kind of like tempting though because the the the new engine the physics engine that only identify uses I mean is should be better than the one we have right now and it would also fix a bunch of stuff potentially that we wanted to fix in the future anyways and that's specifically related to to Vehicles so the way Vehicles work in the game right now is a little bit weird and we believe that if we were to move to chaos they would actually fix a lot of that stuff but that would also mean that we would need to re-implement all the vehicle physics from scratch and start from not from scratch but ish so yeah yeah the dog is losing his right now I don't know what's going on um full doggo alert dog dog always warning us not to move to Oregon engine five um but there's there's a bunch of other tools too it's not not just the physics there's a bunch of other tools in order to identify that would be really interesting but uh we even we've been sort of dabbling in with thought of moving for a long time and it is a huge project to do that so I yeah we will see what happens essentially whether we do it or not uh we have been investigating and sort of working on that at the sidelines while we're also working on other things and um whether we do a migration or not is still sort of yeah we'll we'll see what happens save for after the release like if we do it it should it's good if we do it before release honestly um because we the the thing that would kind of rule like if if we do the switch to 105 and it and like the game sort of feels different you know it's kind of weird to do that after we release the game already uh uh but at the same time it might also be the case where a lot of the the like are how we work with the game like our our regular you know day-to-day life like working on the stuff like a lot of stuff would probably break and we don't know what will break um so like the whole process of working in the game will also change I think quite drastically um so yeah if you want to join five I guess we're just going to need to make an entirely unsatisfactory but I think like if if we do the switch don't random five I think we would like to do it before 1.0 is is my take on it um but we will see I I think if we do the switch we'll probably announce it in some way and talk about it publicly because I don't think um like I think here me explaining what the because like what the difference is for you like if we do a switch it's not necessarily that everyone would notice honestly um

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so so yeah that it is what it is and and but also if no one knows this then maybe there's no point in explaining it but it what if the game is already on Android and five huh and you guys did just didn't know huh huh you ever thought of that anyways a lot of woof Saints is my daughter distracting it would 115 physics my gall fusible yes that is the one thing that's stopping us from making golf that's why it's never happening when roughly would would have wow she's so vocal today I don't think she's ever been this vocal before uh when roughly would you have a no-go decision to make the switch that's a good question actually um sometime before 1.0 I guess if we do it with enough time for us to fix like all the issues that I would cost because if we do make a switch there's going to be a ton of bugs that like didn't exist in the game before the switch probably uh most likely better Vulcan supportive switch uh that's a maybe possible say breaks as well maybe uh no because the the the safe system that that's in the game that's completely custom made by us so so like that would not change at all actually I mean unless there's the system that changes that depends on like something with the safe system but they wouldn't break the save files they would just break like that thing and that's in the past it's been fairly easy to fix those kind of issues um we might end up in situations with a little bit like awkward like if you guys remember there was a time when one of the foundation pieces was incorrectly uh had an incorrect origin so like we had to rotate it which meant that if you've built with that incorrectly Rose headed piece when we fixed it it would rotate back I know that totals save file was kind of ruined by that because he was in that awkward in between time when he was using the new the old like the the broke quote-unquote incorrect rotation and then we switched it and then we had migration code for it but I think he managed to be like in this perfect spot where he was building between or after one of the migration periods anyways um I I don't think say false Arc to I wouldn't be too worried about that for if we did make an engine change but there's also a lot of assumptions you know making making that kind of change

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um because it is a huge there's a lot of code uh in the game

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how clunky will my save file be if I change the every last Flora on the map uh it probably rendering wise they would be pretty good actually uh it's the it's the save load times that would be affected by that mostly

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March 14th, 2023 Livestream

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is it possible to get more than 15 where did it go uh I'm glad I painted before I lost it in chat uh more than 15 colors watch uh custom quality or is this game limitation so I don't know what the state of this is right now because these used to be game limitation this used to be a thing where we can only use 16 um we can only cache 16 colors in in the the Shader that we used uh to to render the factory um material I believe I don't remember if this was something that was now possible I think technically we can have more than than 15 at the moment because I think that's what the main reason why we added that like the the last custom one because now we can have as many as we want uh due to the change of how like that entire pipeline Works um so I think it's possible but I think at the same time it I think it's a bit of like a ux question too where like if you have too many swatches it might make it confusing I guess but please let us know on the keyword side if you want more callers watch options because I I think part of it is if if it's not a technical like reason why there's only 15 or 16 at the moment um then I think the reason why I've had added more is basically basically because we don't know that that feedback exists uh or there's not enough feedback for it I guess to make it worth the time doing it um so uh yeah that's the main thing there so if you want to see more than 15 please let us know in the Qs site I don't know if it's technically a if it's a technical reason anymore

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uh will you add any achievements at one point we will add achievements to the game at some point we just don't know when probably closer to when a game is finished because we can only add you can't change achievements so for the most part least there's a few exceptions but for the most part when you publish achievements on any storefront it's like you get one shot um so if we make an achievement where it's like make 100 power thingies and that's like really hard right now and then we add like a tool that just makes that you get it instantly then that achievement is kind of like yeah whatever you want to make good Achievements not just achievements for achievements like

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the Samora play a role in up that eight no samur will only play a role in up in in the last like in 1.0 and that that answer will never change

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this isn't a question but this is something I just want to comment on I feel like update is going to be update 1.0 is not updated is his own thing

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March 7th, 2023 Livestream

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do you have any plans to improve replayability randomizing map creating etc for the final release of the game uh right now I don't think there are plans for it now this is going to be kind of weird right because like most people here have played the game for hundreds of hours or many people have played for hundreds of hours maybe even thousands of hours um and so whilst one could imagine that there could be better replayability features in the game we also think that the game actually is fairly replayable uh there's a lot of there's a lot of game time in here and so um I actually challenged the question of whether or not we need more replayability since like or not that we need it or not but it's like how big of a concern is replayability not maybe not really that big since people routinely play hundreds of hours of our game uh and and maybe our attention should be focused Elsewhere on other design problems having said that though uh randomizing nodes and things like that could be really sick I think may may be doable as a game mode who knows um it's definitely something that has been considered it's it's feedback that has been heard and um like my opinions here of like maybe we don't need it is not me mimicking uh things other people have said that's just like my actual just genuine personal opinion um and that there is probably interest in in having that happen in the game so it could happen who knows but I just I just challenged the question a little bit like how big of a problem is replayability really um you can kind of argue that there is a lot of replayability in the same sort of like when you say replayability you think like oh start from scratch again but I feel like you are kind of doing that constantly when you're like refactoring Factory builds if because you kind of need to in a lot of cases or you know you're building sort of the same if you build like one steel factory and like now I got all the basic steel and then you're like but then I want to make Parts out of that stuff then oftentimes you make a new steel factory you know like so you kind of like re replaying the game by itself and if we were to randomize the nodes how much replayability does that offer right so like let's say for example where I would normally get some oil it's now in a different place on the map yeah so I run the oil to where I want it to be because that's the end of the randomization uh that's that's all it made me do is I ran it from one place to another place and then now the game is the same as it was before I guess I guess the the difference is that like you have to solve a different type of logistic problem if like you have say that if you randomize all the nodes and then all the oil notes are on one side of the map and then all the coal is like in a completely different that creates like a bigger Logistics problem than what we've designed for you know yeah so like I guess that adds a little bit of replayability in that sense but also at the same time you know how much actual like replayability does it actually yeah exactly trains I mean that's exactly what I'm yeah I mean because because y'all like in the game as it is right now you'll solve those logistical issues anyway yeah um so if we move the nodes around maybe you would have to solve them an extra time but you would solve it in the same way it would just be it would it would kind of be the same thing I don't know I don't know just my thoughts just my thoughts yeah I am a sucker for randomization though in general me too me too uh and like I mean I I think I think there's probably more a little bit more value if we could randomize the location of the nodes and have them like appear in really funky places you'd be like well okay there's oil notice on top of this mountain uh you know like I mean stuff like that could be kind of fun as like a game mode yeah but yeah I don't know what's possible in the game uh and I don't know what the rest of the team kind of impedance on that yeah it's kind of fun if like you randomize and you get like you start off like here's a great starting area but there's a uranium node that's going to kill you every time I try to pull them through it yeah

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wouldn't it be better for fix it to send additional resources up the space elevator rather than for scrap in the sink so there's an important distinguished meant no it's important to distinguish that Fixit doesn't need the the stuff the parts that you're putting in the sink uh the the stuff you put in the sink those are for research there's like they don't actually use the parts but the parts you do set up in the space elevator that goes into project assembly those are used for something exactly and the other thing is with the stuff that gets put in the sink for research gets ground grounded up right because to get the atoms so it's you can't use it anymore right otherwise you can't get that information obviously I mean we all know that right yeah but then the other thing is like with the space elevator uh there's only so much room up there right and then like if they need to transport stuff like that's like Fuel and fuel costs are honestly ridiculous these days so we can't just put everything up there right it's going to cost fix it way too much money thank you that's the official answer uh foreign

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February 28th, 2023 Livestream

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Mark three pipes no sorry pin Mark three pipes no no planned

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here's okay I think this is this question is always interesting when people ask it is it bad if you mod satisfactory no that's it that's the tweet I we I actually get this question surprisingly often or like people often ask us like what do you think about mods and stuff like that uh I I don't know like where the sentiments that game devs reject mods or like our anti-mod so whatever or like if maybe there isn't one maybe just like made up that people think that way but uh but we're super pro mods we're super pro the the modding community that we have we think they're making doing amazing things and we are trying to support them as much as we can the game doesn't have official mod support but that's something that we really hope we can have it someday some point and I mean we kind of do have mods support in the sense that like we are trying to be you know as helpful and like trying to do as much as we can for people making mods for the game so I can understand it from a game Dead perspective if you're making like a competitive game where mods can where you're cheating essentially that's a huge problem um but like when it comes to like the longevity of the game or even when people are making features that we wanted to to make and like try like it's it's super awesome because I would get can confirm like whether or not we were right on our assumptions that like this was good or not and for those people that want that ability to to do X or Y they can install the mod so I I don't know like we're I don't know where I don't know why people game like I don't know why that the idea that game does don't like mods I don't know where that's coming from I I would per if I made my own game and somebody modded it I would be super stoked about that uh uh so yeah is it is it bad if you mod satisfactory no keep going in fact check out the modding Discord and see if if you know someone can help you out or or if you need help or anything like that mods are making some amazing things

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is there potential for VR support in the future there's never nothing's ever impossible but I don't think we will make it because no one's really interested in doing that internally and I think that's the main reason really like we're not really interested in doing VR support uh from an implementation standpoint yeah that's that's pretty much it but maybe we will like maybe we'll change our minds in the future I don't know like it's hard to say

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is there a road map somewhere we do not have a road map somewhere because we like to be flexible we like the idea that we don't have to tie ourselves down to um you know figuring out years from now like if we were to put a roadmap out we would have had to like you know updates come only come so often so like it's years of work that we would need to commit to uh and we'd rather be flexible and and do things at our own pace and like sort of when we realize things that move around so that's why we don't have a road map

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what do we do when the space elevator is complete you go up to the food cart and grab a burger well if it's Tuesday there's also lizard dog hot dogs

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February 21st, 2023 Livestream

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when the spirecos was redone it was said that the new nodes weren't going to be added right away the only nodes that would be there yeah the original one that moved around uh uh I've avoided building there for that reason don't want to have other nodes under power complex are the new nodes ever going to be added new notes are going to be added but we don't know when um probably oh that's like I actually don't know yeah I don't know when I don't know if they're coming in update eight they might be coming they might not be coming until like 1.0 uh for those of you don't know what I'm talking about um the notes Inspire Coast like there was we had a couple of nodes in the spiracles and then when we remade the spiracles we moved them around we also had the intention which we said I said in a video that we also kind of want to add more nodes to that part of the map because we kind of feel like we would like it so you could go there and have sort of a starter base set up in the spider coast and at the moment there's only like oil nodes in the spider Coast yeah so we in the future we wanted so you can have like a more diverse set of nodes there uh but we won't we wouldn't be out of that in the update seven uh update because we didn't have time to do that and at the moment we don't know when that change will come at the latest it will be in 1.0 um so yes so if you don't want to if you don't want to build there for that reason you might not be able to build there until 1.0 essentially but I guess we'll have to let you guys know yeah when we can but yeah

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but um this question which I think I've answered a couple weeks ago maybe is CSS floating Slash playing with another game or concept um and the answer for the most part I believe is no I think I've I think I've heard of some people have come up with some ideas but that's just like naturally what game developers will do and maybe they've documented some of their ideas but I don't think that like we're gonna I mean yeah right now we're focused on satisfactory we can't really be thinking about another game uh and I think that and this is my personal opinion but I think regardless of what we do whenever we wrap up with satisfactory or move on or whatever whatever that looks like whenever that is um I hope that the process of thinking of a new game happens at that time and not before it because I think there's a lot of people who have a lot of input and a lot of creativity who aren't spending that on uh coming with new games right now and who would be we would be it would be bad for us if we didn't take advantage of everyone's creativity when they could focus on coming up with new ideas rather than get like three people to come up with new ideas while everyone else is busy working on the game I don't think that's like the way we get to the best possible next project and it's it's also not how coffee stand has historically everywhere not that we're the same company necessarily as we were before but like when it comes to like sanctum Goat Simulator that was like part of everyone was coming up with random things and goat simulator happened and then we satisfactory everyone was coming up with random things and satisfactory happened and I think you know I think that process is really really good so I hope we're not coming up with ideas now that we will pre-approve to make after satisfactory I'm assuming we'll have another like game Jammy massive sort of brainstorming process together we'll see what happens yeah

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February 14th, 2023 Livestream

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can we tame or pet other fauna then lizard doggo like a bean or an elite Stinger yeah wouldn't it be sick if you could tame an elite Stinger to follow you around and help fight that would be so cool that would be scary I feel like if I did that I wouldn't know you know I I'd be paranoid thinking like is it actually tamed or like will it change it could just stab you in the back in a second yeah like how am I supposed to know yeah make a whole mob get a spitter a hug a stinger and a lizard doggo the like stable it's like your Pokemon lineup I mean yeah tame a beam yeah exactly for sure that'd be sick though I would like to be able to do that we need to bring back the saddle for the beam out of context I love that comment we need to bring back the saddle yeah the manta oh that'd be cool actually just air traversal there it is there it is

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should we wrap it up it's getting uh what we should yes we should but there's wait there's one thing that I where is it where is it where is it where is it where is it where is it okay someone asked oh did I find it someone asked can we get green tech oh I just found it just as I clicked away here we need Green Tech uh make solar panels yeah maybe you do right now the reason I'm bringing this up is because we're not gonna add it um but here's here's a video where I talk about not only how we're not going to be adding oh I like this but there's five other things that we're not gonna add I made a whole video about it all right and here's the thing guys I've had a goal there's two goals of mine yeah since becoming a community manager and like doing content creation there were just crazy goals that I thought would never ever ever happen but they were just goals that I had one was to get to 10 000 followers on Twitter and I'm very close to that and then the other one is get a video to 1 million views that I made and that video guys for some reason that I don't understand it's not even my best video I'm not even close um is that 928 000 views guys so if you could I don't know watch that make sure you like make sure you comment try keep getting YouTube to pump it a little bit I'm so close to meeting my my goal you guys uh I actually maybe I don't know I I don't know why I don't care about views that much but this is just a thing that I wanted to achieve so um please please help Jace achieve this so he can feel empty afterwards this would be like oh we achieve my goal you will get nothing for it I guess no but you know what neither will I yeah we get to a million and nothing will change I know what I mean like you're gonna get to million be like oh I achieved my goal uh now what yeah exactly I mean I mean like how is a million any any more uh impressive than 928 000 that's that's already insane right so I'm already like really grateful that it's doing well at all uh it's just like an arbitrary number that I had picked a long time ago and it would just be cool to see but I don't it's it's obviously not really that important regardless of that stuff like regardless how many views the video has I think it's one of the more interesting videos we've ever made because it it's kind a bold to be like this is not this is what we're not doing with the game because we are very open about a lot of things like stuff that you know we felt a long time ago we're not gonna do this We're Not Gonna add pipes is this not gonna happen turns out we added pipes but there's there's a few things that we feel like this is not satisfactory and and I don't think a lot of people think about that stuff uh when it comes to game day because I think I think a lot of people just see like just add everything and it'll be the better game it doesn't work that way and I think that video explains pretty well why it doesn't work that well that way as well not just like listing what it is did you say no to blueprints at one point I'm not sure if we ever said like no we never said no we always said uh who knows maybe you'll probably you could probably find a clip somewhere I was saying no but like my understanding for the longest time what we've been really careful to say was that we've had multiple discussions about it we revisit it every now and then and it it is it it had always leaned towards no we don't want it no we don't want it no we don't want it but it was a conversation that kept coming up again and again and again and no one was ever going to say we're not gonna have it because it was always somewhat interesting right it was always viable it was always there was always merits to it and then eventually the team was like actually I think we do one yeah I don't yeah it was no like that's not something that we ever said a harsh no to I think I mean I think I said a harsh note of pipes though I will take that um it just makes it funnier though yeah and then there's even an article on um there's an article right when that was written by who was it yeah Jesus PC Gamer or maybe satisfactory lied to the community yeah search for that you get the article how satisfactory is developers is Rock Paper Shotgun that's yeah yeah yeah trick Their audience and why they loved it and it goes into a lot of the lore about uh surrounding pipes in update three and how how amazing and big that moment was and at the end of it um it says uh it says um so what so the person asked us what if this stunt leads satisfactious players to expect anything and everything from the game in the future we've had people say that uh Varley says Jay says things like flying vehicles drones or whatever always come up and people have been like well in that case we're going to get our drones because we we say we're not going to add them and then Tim says I don't think we're gonna get them are we Mark and then Mark director Mark says maybe I don't know and then I say I said no to drones in the past so it makes sense that we'll add them yeah the next update we asked yeah but we didn't know we didn't know they were adding them at that time we genuinely okay yeah we didn't yeah because the next update was actually 3.5 so update four came like a year later we didn't know we're adding drones at that point good man yeah so like but I I feel like we've been very careful with our wording is like not say definite no on a lot of things we always say like we we probably not but we don't say definitely like no but there's definitely a few things that we definitely know definitely definitely definitely We're Not Gonna but are we there

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um but yeah those things in the video are things like that we we I'm 99.9999 sure we're not gonna add and and I I wanted to make really sure that if I was going to make a video that was gonna be you know like click baity or like Sensational in its title we're not adding these things that I wanted to be really sure that okay if we get if I'm gonna if I'm gonna bait you in like that I want to be really like serious about about like and and honest about what we do like I don't want to like bait you in and then like with you yeah um I don't want to play with you guys like that uh anymore apparently I had no issue doing it in the past but I don't anymore um yeah make a part two of that video literally part two of that video has been added to our list of videos to make so there's something maybe a cooking around a brewing a brewing yeah um yeah

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uh why does gas marks stop working when in truck because all the equipment are unequipped when you enter Vehicles because there's some kind of reason for that there's like some issue is that is that a design uh reason or is it uh is it technical no it's a technical reason as far as I know really yeah it's been like that since forever because when you if you have equipment equipped while you're in vehicles it messes up with like the player controller and stuff like that I'm pretty sure

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make sure to let people know on the QA site but I think this is something that's been it is super known yeah yeah I'm pretty sure it's really known yeah but uh always you could still let people know the QA site let them know maybe the solution to fixing attachments when the hyper tube yeah so that's an actual similar thing with like the vehicles right because they get real like we detach the attachments on you when you're in the hypertube for some reason and that's why they're floating next to you right because they're still they're still on you but they're not equipped so the mesh is still there it's strange

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can you tell us when your plan on uh giving us a day for update 8 no the date for update but a date for when you will give you a date for when we'll announce a date for when we'll announce a date for update 8. uh no but for real though um it is fairly soon that we can start dropping some more information I would say probably nothing in the next couple weeks maybe y'all will get more information we can't I can't say that you will for sure but I'm pretty sure that within the month you can say that we're kind of in pre-production of making sort of the the stuff that we do at least you know for the content that we put out we're sort of in that pre-production stage right now where we're planning what kind of content we're gonna put out and how we're gonna announce things Etc we've sort of mixed it up a little bit between updates you know like with update six for instance we dropped everything from the get-go with update seven I think we did a little bit differently so that's kind of we're in the face right now where we're planning sort of how we drop information and announcements and stuff like that so I mean that's that's a thing I guess yep

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um please make the main game uh mode where the monsters are much more aggressive let us defend them from building walls in different areas um so this Strays pretty close to the whole like base defense element of the game which I don't think we we've been pretty clear on that we don't want to go down but this is also what you're saying is not necessarily that they attack the base and destroy your factory but maybe that they're just there and more annoying you need to deal with them all the time I think that if there's a decent amount of requests for that it could be a possibility but um you're gonna have to put that in the QA site and see if there's much more support we haven't I'm gonna say that I don't think I've heard that be requested too often so probably not a huge chance but yeah

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February 7th, 2023 Livestream

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damn it my question disappeared oh my name's Smith my question to speak will we be able to sleep I don't think so I think I think we're gonna address the thing where people are like complaining about the the night stuff by just having a game mode where you don't need it or something like that I thought I thought I thought night mode has gotten much better I feel like it has I don't see as many people complain about it but I definitely see some mention maybe they just go tired of coming yeah what do you guys think is night mode still too dark or hard to plan or one if it's too much two if it's okay wait can I do a poll no because we're not affiliate oh one day twitch Senpai will notice us one if what I say one if if it's too dark too if it's not too dark and any other number if you're illiterate that's too bad chat it's a lot of people insomnia mode yeah we never sleep but there's still some ones in there yeah maybe maybe we can make it a thing who knows make it a make it a game mode or something an option just for those people who don't like the night time wait when that mode has gotten better but it would be nice to get lights are earlier interesting

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but pretty please can we cut down a bit on the Unspeakable machine name for recipes in the end game but what does that mean wait oh uh refinery is it Refinery yeah uh we we know about that um this was an issue that this was worse before yeah and we try to address it should be better now and uh but we are Mark actually asks me from time to time like hey do people still and like a refiner still super annoying like uh we are aware of that so um uh and QA site QA for sure team let the team know see like they need to hear you guys on the QA site yeah you can't use that word wait will twitch banners yeah it's uh oh I didn't know I haven't I haven't read that late if the terms of service yeah I actually have just started spamming a bunch of refiners from my Turbo fuel bit building oh no you said it I am uh oh sorry oh uh and uh I I feel I feel the pain yeah uh uh is your dad texting you right now if you want to talk to your dad I can totally I understand yeah I think I need to just take my dad okay yeah yeah kind of missing if they weren't so tall wait you don't like tall buildings that's fine

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is it turbo fuel specifically where you have to use so many refineries uh I do have to build quite quite a few in my setup personally but gotcha uh dude

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January 31st, 2023 Livestream

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get a bit of swim system I don't think we have anything like that planned

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January 24th, 2023 Livestream

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uh will we be able to mirror uh for example Refinery so we can finally get symmetrical mirroring setups this is something that you should definitely put in the QA site I haven't seen super big support for that internally at this stage but if you guys show more support who knows maybe maybe um I think it's I think it's a feature that if if you watch The Bugs video you'll you'll know that looking for good bang for our buck is really important and I think if we have an entire feature where you can mirror your buildings what we get for that is like a slightly more aesthetic build in some cases and nothing else but that's a lot of work and so it doesn't sound like a good bang for our buck in my opinion um and so I think that's a hard sell when there's other more critical things that are needed for sure but you can always suggest it if it's really really requested then maybe we can do it because if you guys really want something that factors into our decision making even if it makes a little less sense but if you guys are happier then maybe we'll do it

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any updates on the new tutorial uh no no updates on no words on the tutorial last thing if we do that yeah it is like the most important part of the game is like the first uh uh like your first time user experience so like that's the thing you really want to be sure that the game is like finished and ready so you know like but but I doubt we'd put much time into it right now when there's new things that we plan on adding so we might want to do that yeah lost when we've got everything else in so that we know that we can explain everything well I think the tutorial at the moment is pretty decent pretty good so I don't think we're in too much of a rush but of course we should absolutely absolutely revisit it to make sure we get it as good as it can possibly be it's super important for new players because it's definitely um I was gonna say how did I forget what I was going to say the moment when I started speaking because because I don't feel like we've seen ambulance um I think the thing we also kind of want to check out as well with the new because we added new analytics system or no not analytics but metric system in the game because we want to kind of figure out like where people drop off as well so like maybe we we need a little bit data on like knowing specifically like where people get stuck in the game if they get stuck so like if we start working on a tutorial system before we know have that data fully established then we might be focusing on like the wrong parts of the game where we think like oh this is something that people don't understand but it might be something else that people will get stuck on so we also kind of want to gather a little bit more data on that thank you I know that like uh pipes and coal power was always a uh you should drop off point in the past hmfs oh boy God I'm still well oh my God I still have flashbacks when I try to go to sleep you get stuck at that point then you're already screwed like you you've gone too far

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January 17th, 2023 Livestream

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automated farming

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um I think so the team has expressed interest in farming it makes sense I think it would be a really fun element to add onto the game and I think it would be pretty relevant to what's already there so who knows might be might be a thing

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um flannel Pioneer skin is a must that's such a good idea that is such a good idea

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QE Department hiring I want to change jobs what's QE do you mean QA I'm not sure if we are or not you can go to our website coffeesthingstudios.com jobs check out what jobs are available within coffee stain at our studio coffee Stone Studios but also at the other coffee stain Studios like coffee stay north or whatever you can you can also send in open applications if you want yes Community manager position available soon true

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January 10th, 2023 Livestream

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uh has anything been discussed about elevators for personal or vehicle that's something that we uh I don't know if we want to make that I I've never heard anyone excited about making elevators for personal uh for people or vehicles uh it is something that has been requested many times over the years so it's still a possibility but I don't know I don't know if that's something that I'll ever get prioritized over other things I'm gonna say it's not looking good I'm gonna say it's not I'm not saying it's impossible I'm just saying it's not looking good

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uh it's a mod workshop on you guys Minds by any chance we have some thoughts about what to do with mods moving forward um but I don't really I don't really know the specifics on that yet because nothing has really been decided anyway so I don't really want to spitball what we do know not that I know know it in great detail anyway but yeah

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December 20th, 2022 Livestream

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uh other plans to reduce more cause and effect to the game so I um I feel like there should be consequences for abusing this pretty little planet yeah right so uh there was like I know in the very beginning of satisfactory there was the intention that um you know like if you build like a lot of stuff it will affect the environment and that might screw with things maybe create like bigger monsters or whatever and then we ended up scrapping that very early I think just to sort of simplify the game I think that the interest for that is probably one where most people are probably like yeah that would be cool but I think it's also something where we I think it's gotten to a point where it's also something that's just not as important as other things like it's one it's it's a cool feature but there's a lot of features that would just be cool but what is the game what do we think the game absolutely needs to get to 1.0 and I'm not sure if we think that environment stuff um matters uh for a 1.0 release uh yeah that's kind of where I think it lies right now

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have you guys ever pondered about taming and breeding the mobs yeah I think a lot of people like the idea of like like of like farming and then like could even be breeding with like animals who knows um but I don't really know where that fits in our plans for what we need for 1.0 or not

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could there be some uh creative or cheats most likely so with in Update 7 we've added the ability to support game modes and with that came uh like passive mode or the retaliation mode where uh creatures won't attack you unless you attack them first or the default mode where they're you know aggressive creatures are aggressive um and that's the groundwork for Creative for uh game modes in the future and I think a creative mode is a very obvious one and I'm 99 sure that that's something that's going to come but it's it's something that we don't we we haven't wanted to work on um through the majority of development because we don't we don't necessarily want to encourage everyone to easily go into creative mode I know some people go get mods anyway and they can get something like that and that's fine if you go and jump through those Hoops to do that but we don't want to just give people a button to turn on creative mode if they're frustrated with the normal mode because we want you to be frustrated with the normal mode if it's frustrating so that you can tell us so that we can make it less frustrating you know what I mean so if we give creative mode too early we may miss out on a lot of feedback and I know that maybe comes at the cost of maybe the fun for some people so like who knows maybe it's a good decision maybe it's not but that's just the justification yeah but uh creative mode is is an obvious uh an obvious game mode I think that should be added personally

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is there a possibility to get first-person cameras and vehicles for me the third person always kills the immersion uh possibly I think there's a chance the thing is Vehicles will probably get reworked um at least under the hood I don't know if their functionality in game will change but they're likely going to get some work done to them and I think generally what we do is we try and if we're going to rework something then we just we save all the work for it until we dive into it so I since we have plans to rework vehicles I doubt we're going to do anything even with the camera if we do it at all um but I doubt we'd do anything with the camera until we dedicate time to the vehicles as a whole

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will there be a way to make use of post 780 parts per minute for MK3 miners so that's something that we will address at some point yeah we will address that at some point that's my understanding yeah um any plans over 1200 Min per minute belt or Miner uh probably not so as I was saying before we get Precision issues as the number of uh units in the through port throughput or like that are being generated or sunk or or even fluids right when these numbers as these numbers increase we actually like mathematically and not just mathematically but like they're just technical issues and like limitations that start to uh cause issues and so I think that if anything if anything uh there might end up being a point in time where we scale down everything just so that we we don't have to deal with that technical limitation so much anymore and you guys can have more Precision but like in a relative sense right so it will still essentially be the same game it's just like list numbers um and then so if I take your question then like is there going to be a 1200 per minute belt or is there going to be a foster belt uh uh maybe if we can get around these technical issues that could possibly be floating Point Precision issues yeah so it is floating Point Precision issues that's one part of it but it's also like the other issue is also like um the way now I don't know this I'm trying to think of this if I can get this correct but it's also a matter of like when you're how many how many items gets processed per frame right now if if we if if there's like if you're you've got items zipping through and in one frame they're supposed to be like six items that go into a building because maybe I don't know you have a low frame rate or there's a spike in at this one moment or if if the uh the the belt is so obscenely quick that that happens accounting for all of these different like movements within the factory uh in the factory tick can be really tough uh I think I think you can only actually do the way it is you can only do like one at a time or something like that and then I think we have to then simulate frames to make up for it if there's like a one long frame I don't know all this like weird so it's it's not just the floating Point position issue which I think is there as well but it's also like how do you handle if there's a lag Spike or if there's just low FPS and there's a lot of uh um items that get you know produced or sunk into a building how do we handle that on conveyor belts or split or merged how do we handle that like completely accurately right because you guys you guys will know if there's like a one percent sway you will notice it in your factory won't you you will like your power will go out or you know buildings will be like backed up like you will know it it so it really needs to be really really really precise like 100 of the time otherwise you will feel it in your factory and that's that's a very hard issue to solve especially on like computers where frame rates can be variable and all that kind of stuff so Update 7 was a huge Improvement on your lag and lag spikes that's good to hear the math yeah it's a it's a combination of like math and just like like algorithmic logic kind of you know it's like how how do we handle it how do we handle it what do we do there should have been 10 items that went into this building what do we do how do we calculate that

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December 13th, 2022 Livestream

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well Paradise Island stay I don't know there was a chance there's a chance that it would stay I don't know what the decision was on that I don't know if there is a decision I'm gonna write this down I want to figure it out I'm gonna know will Paradise Island stay or no I'm gonna follow it up give us the option to destroy the island with explosive that's probably not gonna happen why is Paradise Island half out of the player Zone I don't know Lumen it's just always been like that it's just just has I I don't know and so for those who don't know uh the thought of getting rid of Paradise Island is because I think it's because like we don't know if we have time in the planning for it to dress it properly and and rework it or whatever I believe that was the plan and so we're like thinking of just cutting it if we can't actually make it proper but I don't know a lot of people might be attached to Paradise Island and want it to be there and if that's the case like what do we do in that case all right some people might have built there

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what initial official mod support uh there's no there's no like plans or release dates for that yet uh there's been more discussion about uh the month support internally too um but yeah there's no there's no I can't really answer that question at this stage

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is they're going to eventually be a reason to automate this planet like an end goal in mind yes there is going to be an end goal uh so there's the plan is that there's going to be a story I recently learned a little bit more about how the story is going to play out too which is interesting but I can't say anything um and yeah that's gonna be there's gonna be like an end goal and the game is a game that you can you can finish the game

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I played this game a while ago but never installed it as I'm waiting on control support how is it doing uh there's probably been I think there's been no progress in control of support and I'm still not entirely sure on what the official stance is going to be on controller support uh I think if we could click our fingers and have control support we would want it um for the longest time we did have control support in the very beginning and I think to some degree there is some control of support but there's not a lot of thought that's gone into it um but we didn't want to do it because we thought the game is changing a lot a lot of things are being added we don't really want to keep revisiting control support every single time we do something because we want to focus on getting the design of the game done and getting the features of the game that that are needed in um but then now at the stage I'm not really sure where we stand like I I don't know if the planner right now is well when all that's done we'll get the control support in or not uh I think if we can have control support of course we would want it there's so many good reasons uh you know some people just like control support but also for accessibility reasons controllers can be really good for people too and so it would be great if we can do that but it all comes down to uh you know the planning and prioritizing features and I'm not sure what what the you know the plans or the intention of the team is uh on the on the front do people play it on Steam decks okay I'm not sure does people who hit plays satisfaction steam deck does anyone play Satisfaction on Steam deck you do I do okay that's pretty good

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December 6th, 2022 Livestream

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Q&A: Is there more work going to be done on Vehicles? https://youtube.com/embed/fVCw51TOHeA?autoplay=1&start=7260&end=7273

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November 29th, 2022 Livestream

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any tier 9 or 10 plans before 1.0 um you'll have to wait and see that's that's something that I know the answer to that I can't say who knows maybe we're done with tier eight maybe we have other ideas maybe who knows

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any new vehicles uh there's no new vehicles planned as far as I know

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Pioneers ever be allowed to safely ride a drone from port to port I don't think that's in the plans I think it's the plans

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priority merges people ask for like smart emerges and stuff yeah maybe one day can you waste that I guess

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but adding the ability to build a cover on belts that you could build onto finished factories belt uh belts help performance um people have asked this since since like day one actually um and I think I think it might it like maybe in some cases but uh I actually think that yeah I'm not sure it's something that we've not wanted to do and part of me wants to say and I don't know if this is correct or not but part of me wants to say that like the rendering of the items on the belts is not really necessarily the bottleneck I think because we've done some really clever stuff with the way that we instance the items on belts so we actually draw them in very very few draw calls and stuff and so like if I if I remember that correctly um and that like a lot of the bottlenecks come elsewhere from like other buildings or from calculating things in the background like the game uh the game itself is actually as far as again as far as I know as of now it is CPU bound so it's it's uh it's it's more like all the calculations that happen for like what's going on in your factory is what holds things back more often than not um yeah

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be adding PVP or whenever adding PVP oh boy oh boy I would never want to work on a PVP game never scared Jason yeah I don't want Simon to hurt me I say the wrong thing he's gonna come to my window at night while I'm sleeping and he's gonna be like we didn't release that information yet Jace I'm like sorry Simon sorry

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is it possible that we might get more new building pieces I assume so I actually don't know what the decision is on that but probably

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November 22nd, 2022 Livestream

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the passenger drone for aerial Pioneer Transportation only be implemented for crossing large section of the map in late game uh I mean this is something that a lot of people have wanted in some shape and for reasons we've not done it so I'm not sure exactly what those reasons are super late game to hop around the world maybe it's a good idea maybe like fast travel as opposed to flying across the map yeah but then we have the streaming issues yeah yeah exactly yeah but that's why like if it was fast travel then they'd have to be like a loading screen and yeah that's true yeah that's true that's that's more doable yeah I don't know but QA site most of these things guys uh it's cool to Theory crafted with you guys but just know that you have to go to the QA site if it's not there it doesn't exist I mean it's true yeah

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coffee or vending machine that uses tickets well those are expensive coffees holy yeah yeah I sunk like nuclear waste for this coffee plutonium I don't know if I want that coffee a knock or two Traders I guess that's true

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November 1st, 2022 Livestream

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adding fluid trucks no you have to package them if you want to use tricks for that stuff

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hypertube gear glitch no no one is working on that because it's not high prior there's a bunch of a lot more like there's a lot of bigger fish to fry than fixing you know that there's a an inventory issue on hyper tubes as weird as it looks

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we ever get that fancy water you showed up yes eventually that's like the last thing on a lot of uh a lot of the tiles that we posted in the the updated map changes like the last thing we need to do there is to change the water to be that new like the new water system that we've implemented um that's sort of the only thing that's left

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October 25th, 2022 Livestream

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theme deck compatibility uh probably not until 1.0 is when we look into that and even if we do look into that it's not for certain because we don't know at this moment if we can support controller support and if you can't support controlled sport then steam compatibility you will not get approved

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experimental branch on DeForest now look I don't know if that's possible I've seen some people claim that you can do it if you have if you own the game on Epic which interesting um but yeah I don't know

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whether we are satisfactory oh sorry I read that wrong I read it as in Swedish so it's like cheese I'm like what do you mean cheese why would we add cheeses that is actually uh vinyl so maybe maybe for 1.0 maybe it'd be like a special edition kind of thingy we might do something like that I don't know that's that's something we definitely thought about doing but I don't know if we'll actually we'll do it but that would be cool I think um because part of the reason why we haven't put out the soundtrack yet is actually twofold but one of the major reasons is because we haven't finished the soundtrack so like there's still more music coming to the game um so yeah when we release the game and we finalize it then maybe we'll be finally able to put out the the soundtrack for it would be dope would be dope biggest teaser months new music coming I feel like we've said that since the launch of the game though I had a wrap that's definitely a thing

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October 18th, 2022 Livestream

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will never be a lizard cattle no I don't think so

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Rockets are the planets no no I can't even finish this one

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you guys wanted to release DLC I actually don't know if you want to sounds like a lot of work

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October 4th, 2022 Livestream

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the rebound Scout for update seven um good question actually that's a good question no I don't think so uh maybe I don't know it this goes this goes back this goes back into like a little bit of like we're we're sort of trying to figure out when we can release it and what we can do in that time and you know if we feel like it's it doesn't make sense to to uh to release it at a certain point in time then you know maybe we'll be able to do more if we delay it or whatever and it's also something we're trying to figure out like or maybe it's more important for us to get this next update out so that we can work on the next thing so that's also something that we're trying to figure out so it's our I like we haven't fully decided yet you know actually what goes into this update and the rebalancing is one of those things where maybe now but also maybe later down the line uh so it's it's I don't think it will be a huge rebalance in update seven but I might be wrong because development is a fleeting thing so maybe we'll have time for it or maybe we won't but I doubt it at the moment uh let's say yes

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September 27th, 2022 Livestream

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volume slider for trains aren't they under uh uh something we've added volume sliders for the Boombox though by the way so the Boombox will have a volume slider I think in the next patch the trains aren't there it's trains are still exception is it on the keyword side I think it is because I think I've seen that trains volume uh surprisingly difficult to find it actually

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September 13th, 2022 Livestream

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the epic version compatible to play with steam yes for sure

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like to be able to limit mac storage yeah we've heard that um i'll put that on the keyword site

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September 6th, 2022 Livestream

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foundation yeah same thing requested on the q a side if you want to see half foundations

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let's see the lego thing what did happen to the lego thing when is there uh maybe it didn't happen because i haven't heard of it quick recap uh lego nerdist made a really cool satisfactory lego piece uh with the constructor and the way that it works when you put it out i'm going to post it on chat here real quick so when you post when you make like on the lego ideas website uh you can have people vote on it and then um if it reaches like 10 000 votes then it's put in the lap of like the reviewers for lego to look at it and be like you know what maybe we will make a lego piece out of this and it did reach 10 000 votes and i don't know when the review period is it's still yeah yeah it's it's i don't know when the review period is because you only have like two or three review periods a year or something like that or maybe just maybe it's just one if you started may i don't know i don't know what the state of this is um i don't know if they actually like say like no it will never be a lego thing or whatever maybe they'll make a youtube video with like top 10 lego pieces we'll never make number one satisfactory lego off said it's cough stain we're never doing it maybe lego would do that i don't know so yeah i don't know the state of that actually there was another lego piece which was the train uh by the way you can still vote for that one highly recommend you do because it's really cool um hit the old support button on the train one it's really cool i think they haven't i think they also made this um so there's like a video or something with this actually working or maybe these are pictures actually very cool um so that also exists so please how about that that's really cool i would also love to see that one but yeah don't know the state of things in the world of lego satisfactory lego will it be a thing we will never know yeah you can't you can always buy the pieces uh is there because i assume there's like a way to download like the like which pieces do you need for this or something and you can download the model or something you can figure out where do they go or something but what do i know i'm just a stupid community manager

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yeah yeah exactly like there's it's also like a really complex lego piece so uh yeah i don't know would be cool but yeah lego in satisfactory when lego no no no no that if lego won't put says if lego won't put out a satisfactory lego piece we're not putting a lego in our game what are you talking about uh they scratch our back we scratched their back you know that's not that's in productive packer it's not lego what are you talking about all right anyways i think uh we're probably gonna need to wrap up soon actually

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because short stream today essentially tldr short stream is what i'm trying i hope like a release of satisfactory fix it wind farm that would be mean that would be so mean can't even play this in the game but we have it at lego

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August 30th, 2022 Livestream

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will 1.0 story spend any time experimental before release i don't think so i don't maybe but i doubt it

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stands for passive mode another thing that's in the backlog is having we would like to have it so you can have different modes in the game so and i don't know exactly what that would entail i think one of the natural ones are like having maybe passive mode maybe having like uh or peaceful mode having um uh creative mode uh you know stuff like that maybe there's like a hardcore do do like no health regen like enemies are something i don't know we'll see what happens with that but there are some ideas for like some some some different game modes in the future

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will the game end if we complete the story or can we play afterwards pretty sure this is my guess but pretty sure you're gonna be able to play the game afterwards i think story is gonna be it's not gonna be like take the stage so to speak i think when we add story to the game it's going to be like a like a side thing it's not going to be the game isn't going to be like the pacing of the game is going to be controlled by the story i think the story more so is going to be like a like a yes a side side chick the store is going to be a side chick for the game okay like you because like i think the ambition is you're gonna be able to play the game without playing the story at all and you're still gonna sort of get the experience that you're getting today yeah you can ignore the story i'm pretty sure that's that's what we're still so here's here's why i'm like hesitating on that is because we've been changing internally a lot about like how how the story works and like how it plays into the game we've been going through so many iterations of like what the story is and how the story plays into the game so you know it's still pending pending to change but i think i think that's still our stance that like you can completely ignore the story if you want to

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August 23rd, 2022 Livestream

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what's for dinner you know what's for dinner chat tell them what's for dinner there's only one answer let's do sudoku oh there is a no there's like sudoku i never i never learned how to do this doko thingy oh actually i wish we should seen that burgers that's right there's only one answer two that's for burgers i actually had burgers every tuesday pretty much during vacation after i got uh not while i was sick because i couldn't eat while i was sick but uh when i got back i got i got me some burgers yes

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how do you feel about vertical splitters i personally don't understand the point to be honest um i feel if anything it's it's it will be too difficult to like manage it if that was because then suddenly you need like a if you want to like uh snap and stuff you you would need to be able to snap vertically which just makes it like the game is complicated enough as it is i i don't know but i know i know people i know some people want that but i feel like i feel like you can you can sort of solve that

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why not a gog version why not a ichio version why not a what other stores are they i don't know it's too much work is the answer uh maintaining another storefront why not a new grounds version yeah that's a good question that is a good question make it all in flash you

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train lights when this is this is the real question okay yeah when honest hey get get to it developers what are you doing what's going on with development can't even have uh train honks back wait does train honks not work pretty sure the train honks work pretty sure not 100 sure but pretty sure

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picking up a laser dog i'm putting in inventory that's legal illegal

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third person view probably not selfie cam would be kind of funny though just like you could switch to like a setting where you yeah that would be pretty sweet

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July 12th, 2022 Livestream

Q&A: Why can't I flip a light and aim it up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaM_9cpCtdI

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explore a meeting no no the fish machine the fish minigun that's what i want

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we get to the food cart in 1.0

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planes confirmed no planes probably won't happen

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can't believe there's no goatsim easter egg in satisfactory there is i it's i find it so fascinating when people say that like there's no goats in this easter egg in satisfactory how can you miss it it's right there for the longest time it wasn't even on the wiki you've started off a live stream look exactly like we want a better one no you only get one that's it you get one shitty one where some place that's very obvious okay it's yeah it's very clear

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July 5th, 2022 Livestream

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why do ada voice sound uh voice sounds like a seattle right light rail announcement because uh ada is a vocaloid so it's not a real person uh probably probably probably why i guess uh seattle light rail uses a vocaloid for their announcements i guess

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Q&A: Any chance to copy & paste whole Buildings? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa23ydDZPzs

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are you ever planning to do hosts dedicated servers at golf state no no plans for that there are a lot of service providers uh some better than others so please do your research uh there's definitely there's definitely a couple of uh pretty scummy suburbs writers uh out there so please do yours please do your research on which server writer you use because sometimes we legit feel like they're scamming people but um yeah we probably will never host our own build your own not so hard we're making a game yeah like we haven't there's enough time spent on just making the game build a data center you won't exactly we won't

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a harvester vehicle could be cool here it is up on the huey side if you want to see that but no plants

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we need to play from the start with 1.00 no it will probably it will work the same way as like any other update really I mean some things might break but your safe possible is probably still load but you might need to fix some things in them

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how do you balance the nodes i have no idea actually mark has like a huge spreadsheet of of like uh everything in the game um and yeah i don't know how he works his magic but it seems to make sense so far you

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June 28th, 2022 Livestream

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Mac version might happen in the future but uh probably not until we're more finished with the game it goes back to the thing I was talking about before with dedicated servers like we don't all like if we're gonna support another platform which we are when we added leveling support technically um it takes up much more time for us to to uh handle um issues and stuff like that so we don't want to do that until we're way more finished with the game but maybe then we'll see let's see if there'll be Mac and Link support Maybe

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plan the dedicated server will fully support multi-threading technically dedicated already support multi-threading it's the fact that like the game can't be more threaded than the game is you know like you can't you can't just add more threads uh to a game and expect it to run faster like sometimes it can actually get worse the more thread it gets so we have we have made the game as threaded as it can be there are i think there's some bug on like linux dedicated servers where it doesn't actually use any more thread than it already like allocated so it's only running on one thread which is with that is a bug but i think we solve that um but if you're noticing that like oh it's using a bunch of threads it's not using every thread then you know you're running as many threads as you can right now essentially

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yes will experimental update six say work when updates has come yet yes it will

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Q&A: Will there ever be a real Arachnophobia Mode instead of cats & scary sounds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfnXF_UMJU

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Q&A: Any chance for mass-select like delete, but for "paste" ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YYzfEhbFGs

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any plans to make vehicles carry more than one player no probably not

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there's new additions to the ost and update six right uh yes i wanna say yes but i'm not sure there probably will be later down the line for like when we're back from vacation there might be more osd updates actually i'm not sure i feel like we have some songs that we haven't put in the game yet but i i don't know i heard some funky music that i hadn't heard before my other me i am pretty sure there is new music um in update 6. um but you know the music is based on like where you are in the planet so might be like if you're not hearing anything new it might be that you need to go somewhere else

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can we hang belts from the ceiling would be cool but not at the moment

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Q&A: When are we getting Tier 9? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1RL3rb1J88

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June 7th, 2022 Livestream

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what recipes you're looking for rebalance if any oh there's a lot i don't i don't think we have time enough to go through it on the stream uh i also don't know because mark decided that but i know there's a bunch of recipes uh we later down the line probably want to do like a rebalancing pass don't worry about it now okay chill but at some point we're probably gonna need to rebalance a bunch of later stuff

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may i ask if any work ongoing on mods or dedicated services that backlog so i don't hate to break it to you we have we have we don't work on mods at all we modding is completely commun uh community driven um so we have no say in that whatsoever um i think i think we want to have official mod support eventually but it will still be community that will have to maintain that i have to maintain it will maintain that um but i i'm pretty sure they they are working that really like they you know they can't do this full time i i think most of them don't work full-time and this is this is like we didn't think we were going to have one support at all for satisfactory until we had an official one so the fact that modding has come so far has already is insane to us uh as to like the latest on like dedicated server mod support you're gonna have to join the modding community discord to get news on that um so yes

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May 24th, 2022 Livestream

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any weapons no only new ammo types

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May 17th, 2022 Livestream

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fixing quarter pipes we can concrete yeah same thing they're up within the keyway site uh i think we just ran out of time to be able to add that for all the foundation types

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May 10th, 2022 Livestream

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will building on the map always oh yeah that's another good question i saw it before as well um there's like a couple of places on the map where there's like holes um do you know how much we're gonna be able to like fix those spots for this update or is that like further down the line i mean some some of them are there by design and some of them are not there by design ideally yeah but like like there's a lot of people that for example built like underneath the cliffs in this mountain uh yeah if you're still there somehow after everything that's gonna get up um that was not never intended to be a space where you can build so uh those those those kinds of holes will be filled up because those are bugs but there's like in there in grass fields like there's a big sort of like hole like through the train and that one's there to say i'm sure people will find a way to still manage to get underneath the map i mean you can still do i think you can always do the thing where if you place a hyper tube entrance and you get that tube to like clip into the environment yeah you can always get through it that way yeah you dirty cheaters i can't believe it uh all right all right

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what is your favorite biome so far boy i mean my favorite biome is always the latest one because like i i i can see myself improving every time with like how how i build things or just like sometimes i have this thing where i i don't necessarily like something for what it is but for what it could be if that makes sense uh when i see like the potential in a place or or like oh like all these things that i sort of still have in my mind layered on top of it that changes things too but like i mean i really like how this spider coast turned out i'm really proud of it um i'm i mean northern forest's the same thing like i don't know like it's it's all cool it's yep we talked a little bit about this before too like when we were comparing the different clips here and between the the uh rocky desert and the uh spider coaster you just tilt the camera to the left here not tilt wait it's roll whatever no it's not roll whatever um how like the cliffs the way we're doing clips now looks different compared to how we used to do them and they're like ah do we go back and look at the uh change all the clips again but then once we do that we're going to change it again pan is not the term i'm looking for chat by the way i see a lot of people say there's a lot of a lot of terms that people always use like pan and stuff like that where it's actually not correct i can't remember the actual term whatever um no it's not swivel there's there's a fancy diagram for like filming um

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i cannot remember everyone just uses pan like just pan left i was like all right that's pen exactly the movement is part of it too uh so yeah we just never never stop working on the game i guess no yeah that's the that's the risk too right like you're never really done uh you just have to decide you're done at some point and then that's that's your limit because you could always always make something prettier like there's a lot of work i'm doing on the sparrow coast that i'm i know that i can i can improve it and i can make it better but kind of like we talked about earlier like that that 20 improvement would take me the same time as working on this entire area like again right it's just not worth the amount of time and effort for the the small amount of gain even though i know it's possible it's not uh there's other sacrifices too like doing not for sparkles means that suddenly sparkles is gonna be so beyond quality-wise the rest of the map that the rest of the map is gonna kind of suck in comparison right that's something that you also have to keep in mind like we don't have time to upgrade every single area to the same exact level we just have to kind of keep it uh the moment you like improve something above and beyond the rest you kind of start needing to improve the rest as well so you shoot yourself in the foot again it's like like eternal improvement cycles right uh because you want to sort of equalize the level of quality across the entire map and like i i'm absolutely already pushing that and shooting myself in the foot with that with this kind of stuff because like also because like i've learned so much ever since i started working that like you know everything i do like i want it i want it to be better and i want things to be nicer but not i shouldn't always do that right you have to keep things consistent too yeah stop getting better hannah yeah yeah yeah it's like oh no before i uh go mad with power you know or we just work on the game forever i guess that's a big problem

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May 3rd, 2022 Livestream

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i'd have to buy another copy you won't be you won't have to buy another copy for the game uh if you've bought the game now you've bought the game

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can we get an empty hand slot so we don't have to unequip something every time uh let let us pl there's there is a qa i think there's a keyword post on that on the qr site upload that uh and let the developers and me know if you want that or not i'm assuming you're for it since you're asking for it here so i guess that's a that's a plus one

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April 19th, 2022 Livestream

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what about a shared notepad in game where people can share simple notes um yeah i think that would be pretty cool um i like i've always felt like some sort of collaborative tool would be useful in the game um i like it when people use signs for that uh sort of when like they have like checklists and stuff like that i think that's pretty cool it's not really what they're asking but i think i think my dad texted you on facebook dude did he yeah oh i must have bad connection because uh it didn't pop up yeah his dad texted me and i told my dad to text you interesting what a weird uh can't your dad just come into the room and be like not

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good question um do you have any future plans of deeper or galactic dlc wise so another game that we don't make uh we don't make the baroque galactic that is published by a publishing arm who is also not us so we have uh we actually have nothing to do with deep rock

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April 12th, 2022 Livestream

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tier eight recipe to fully automate power shard production without the need for power slugs uh it's already requested on qa site i'd like to hear your opinion on whether it's a line with direction cs team uh i don't know if that's aligned with our thing or not i mean it sounds like a pretty cool idea um

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i'm sure that the folks who think about this stuff has probably seen that or thought of that before but yeah unfortunately i don't really have an answer for you one way or another but it's um you know make some noise on the qa side if you all think it's a good idea yes the q is that we haven't talked enough about the keyword site today we've talked at all many times about final fantasy but we only mentioned the qsi maybe in the the the tools segment where the qa stuff but that's oh god yeah but the keyway side you guys that's that's that's where you want to go with these suggestions and and let us know uh because telling you what it is guys i just whatever i didn't actually talk about five fans at that time i just mentioned it okay um but yeah the qa site is really great for for us to uh to gather feedback from um for for so so that not just me and jayce hear about it but also like the rest of the development team that actually make decisions about you

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eu merch status update great question i have no idea i'm gonna do another i'll do another check in and i'll uh hopefully give you guys an update next week sorry i actually have no idea what's been happening there yeah we've been sleeping with other

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March 29th, 2022 Livestream

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will we ever be able to equip all the equipment at once i don't think we'll be able to equip all equipment at once because it kind of breaks sorry i was asking yeah so no i don't know if we'll ever make it so that you can equip everything at once because it was sort of goes against some of the design principles that we have for the equipment system but we do want to make some changes to the equivalent system we're not quite happy with it how it works right now uh the fact that you can't equip the hover pack and the hazmat suit at the same time is a it's a pretty big oversight on our part and we will sort of we we are looking into solutions as it has to like fix that if that means that we'll add a new body slot or that we completely revamp the equipment system and make it different i can't say for sure because we haven't made any decisions yet so we will see we'll see

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will be a two-way switch for hyper tubes a two-way switch as in like a splitter kind of situation or we can like pick which direction to go uh if so then probably not because we would need to change how the hypertube system works uh

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i mean it's possible let us know on the q a side if you want that if you really want that

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and then reverse function and belts like we did with lifts i would like that too the reason why i don't i think the reason why we didn't add it was because it was like a sort of a late tier addition to the lifts um we it was like not part of the update five release even it was like during experimental we added it um and sometimes we add things to like kind of try them out as well like sometimes some features don't like stick with some people um so i think i think that is a pretty good addition to the belts in general though so please upload there okay with cooler side let give it a little vote on the q website to make sure that uh we see it would be dandy

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March 8th, 2022 Livestream

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how to talk about a upcoming easter do a themed events um i don't think there's gonna be an easter event guys i think um because when we do these events they're sort of like they're never really planned like there's there's not really a producer going hey we need to make a seasonal event for this thing it's more like them asking like do you guys want to do a seasonal event and if people are too busy with like other things that we're working on um then it's kind of hard to like justify us doing anything um so uh and that's the same the same goes for like a halloween event you know like it it's a lot of development time that that goes into making just fix it fix mess um so maybe we're like kind of setting us up poorly when like oh we have one season when we wanted more but you know it's it's it really is like a out of interest from people at coffee stain whether we do the events or not um so yeah but since easter is coming up very soon and we have actually not talked about it at all i'm doubting that doubting that that will happen honestly unless we just like last second decide but i don't know

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March 1st, 2022 Livestream

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any plans for extreme weather that affects productivity it affects productivity never i don't that's that's part of like the video we put out a couple of weeks ago on a youtube channel like something that we don't want to ever add to the game is like any kind of maintenance aspect of the game um you know we already have fog exactly like uh remember how much worse the fog was by the way you guys in the past you guys have it good right now with the fog okay i'm just saying um what was i talking about yeah so so weather effects is something that we always wanted to add to the game i think is really cool and i think we always felt that it was really cool we've had ideas in the past where like oh what if you know the more factories you put out in the the map it like rains acid rain or something like that and you have to maintain your factories but it's like a cool idea and concept but i don't think we like that and that's kind of like abandoned that idea um so uh we've been uh kind of like kind of putting our foot down and saying like no we're not gonna add that kind of stuff but weather effects could be cool in general for the game by itself just having like rain and stuff like that i think that would be really nice it's a nice little detail and it's something that we always wanted but it's it always gets like pushed because there's always like something more you know crucial to the game or whatever like it's it's kind of hard sometimes when you're working on games like this where you want to add so much polish to it but like it's hard to like define like where is the polish you know because the weather system is a huge task you know working on and making so um so uh it's like it's a tricky balance there as to like what we would need to do minimum for it to be worth the hassle of doing it especially when we have so many else cool things everyone implements

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February 22nd, 2022 Livestream

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increase object limit when so uh never we can actually say that for sure because the object limit isn't something that we've set this is not something that we can control either because it's something that is part of the engine um and you know the engine isn't really intended to be used the way we use it um it's it has to do with how the memory is managed uh in the engine and like you can sort of up that limit using config files and that's been possible ever since day one but uh the problem is that like there's no there's like you're kind of like losing out on safeguards when you do that so like a lot of weird things can happen memory wise if you start you know changing that number uh because that is a theoretical limit um so like there's been people reporting that like they've had their save files corrupted or you know like weird stuff happening factory logic not working the way they should um so it is always recommended that we don't change that we are however working on improving the game so we don't have to use as many game objects now a game object isn't the same as like an object that you place in the world it has a memory object specifically so like if you place a constructor for instance it used to be that a constructor was like maybe 16 different game objects and now it's like down to eight and i think there's plans to improve that as well and like maybe not specific for the constructor but like for a lot of different things we are constantly working on improving the memory footprint of the game and uh i believe recently we've been working a lot on like the environment to like kind of get down the memory footprint on that and like how we manage loading the environment and stuff like that um so um but we can't really change the the like the u object limit the unreal object limit uh that's set by the engine

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February 15th, 2022 Livestream

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yeah you should give a new date for update six chase a new date yeah somebody says fourth of may among other things okay but we're about to get the grand scoop right now from chase live on stream uh all right here it is guys we have decided that we're gonna go with a sunday release april 3rd april third sunday release that way we've got the entire week to like take care of any bugs yeah we're gonna work weekend that weekend but it'll be worth it yeah but then we've got five more days straight to fix any issues that might pop up yeah and that's a good one because that one isn't on the uh the wiki yet too close april 1st look we would never joke about this we need to we need to just make adjustments where you know where it's needed you know so

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February 8th, 2022 Livestream

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what did you guys think about valheim it's uh it's pretty good i it's pretty great it's not i don't play those kind of games very often so like me personally it's not i played it a few times but it's good a lot of people love it it seems i have played in a long time i played it when it launched and it was fun i played it a lot though when it launched i no sorry i played it a lot before humble brag i played it a lot before it launched because because before it was cool yeah before we because we were play testing and like you know doing that kind of stuff and i played a lot back like i played a lot before back then because it was a fun game like it's fun building um but uh and then it launched and i played with a bunch of people and then i just like but i've played this so much already but i haven't played it since uh i haven't checked out the expansion and stuff so might be cool

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did you consider docker support for dedicated service yes docker support is is common um we we have we had to shift uh like work load a little bit um so we were unable to work on dedicated servers uh for a little bit but we are like as soon as we can sort of get those resources back if you will it always sounds shitty when you talk about people as resources but i mean that's how it is sometimes like not that the resources i mean that that's how you talk about it anyway once those people can work on dedicated service again then docker images is like the thing we're gonna be working towards so we haven't uh skipped it we're just like we have delayed it in in regular fashion

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January 25th, 2022 Livestream

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official coffee when um that's not something we've actually tried to do i there's a lot of youtubers that do like their own coffee brand yeah i don't know what's up with that yeah we'll see we'll chuck it on the pile me and jace have a bigger one though

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that we really want to do and every time we bring it up they're always like oh yeah maybe not but we're gonna do it anyway yeah we need to get that ball right yeah for sure every time we say that and then we tell people they don't take it seriously but we're like no actually we're serious but that's every meeting who could do mmm oh dad's got a juicy one coming here no no no no no no

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January 18th, 2022 Livestream

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why is mac supported four and not six or eight i'm not asking for more but four seems low especially considering the 128 event so i mean i i mean you know it could be whatever but we have to sort of then balance the game so that it works for that many people right so we we if we officially support eight then in all of our design and everything that we do and the technical side of things everything we do must then maintain that so like i i i'm yeah so like i think when we go with four then that's just kind of the line that we drew so that when it comes to balancing when it comes to technical stuff we know what we're aiming for yes

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December 14th, 2021 Livestream

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where's the mug the mug is like um we ran into some complications with uh due to kovid um and um yeah unfortunately like most of our merch situation got a big setback because of that um so i think that's that's the tl dr i don't know the specifics about it but that's that's a bummer thing about it so yes

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kfc console release when kfc console has been discontinued right or am i thinking of something else i think they dropped that joke kfc console unfortunately am i wrong no it hasn't even been released yet wait is it going to be released kfc console is only 24 fps oh 240 fps oh geez wait i'm confused has it released or won't release like what is the state of this this is a real question okay i'm just gonna ignore chat now i need to know this uh it's not released okay good to know good to know is it gonna be released nobody knows

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Q&A: Rideable Spiders? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32-KotmyiI

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can we get a mobile satisfactory oh god all right micro transactions just confirmed you guys it uh sorry it's just rolling in here uh-huh uh-huh all right this just in micro transactions are coming so we can make the mobile port of the game

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are taking an intern to the coffee stain no not that i know of sometimes we do but usually when we're taking interns it's like if we want to hire someone or like an internship should lead to a job i think is the approach so we're kind of cautious about like hiring interns not even interns to make your coffee no that's that's a waste for everyone really

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December 7th, 2021 Livestream

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fixmas is my favorite time of the year there's been discussions about more events like this and so would be more likely post launch we have talked about other events um we said last year that we were going to look into more events look how well that went uh we will always have fixmes at least i don't think like i think the problem mainly is that we we're quite ambitious uh the people that work at coffee stain are really ambitious we always want to do a lot of things but it always ends up that i think a lot of that ambition goes into the major updates that we've made so far and i don't know like we've always wanted to do more events we have support for more events in the like the the seasonal system that we use to like trigger this kind of stuff that is support for many more events uh stuff like that so there's always the possibility for more events and i think it's going to be like if we get around to doing something then we'll do it but right now there's no talk of anything else but i guess that's because we're so still kind of wrapping up fixmas because we haven't finished fixmas even so it's not impossible but you never know

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be good to add anger and thirst that's not something that we are interested in adding

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November 30th, 2021 Livestream

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well the atoms disappear when fixmas ends uh so the i think so it's gonna be similar to last year right pretty much the same same deal i believe the recipes disappear but the items stay around so if you manufacture stuff the manufactured items will still stick around but you can't like make new you can't produce these items like anymore so you need to stock up on these items yeah they'll last you till next winter i mean some people did do that yeah and it still lasted so

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November 23rd, 2021 Livestream

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how do you make the video camera movements in your trailer uh it depends which ones you're talking about but we can do some cinematic camera stuff uh uh and record the um the uh like animations for the camera we use this unreal engine sequencer so we can do a lot of advanced stuff in a real engine that you guys don't have access to unfortunately because you need to use the engine you can't it doesn't work that way um but we're hoping oh did you get it nice yeah putting it in the chat but we're hoping in the future we can improve uh photo mode so you guys can do more stuff like that i know there's a mod for um like cinematic movements and stuff like that you can kind of create a little sequence um i hope we can do something like that in the future hopefully so yeah what do we do now jace

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some fixmas we don't have any news and fixmas really we are trying to do it but we will probably announce it more than we when we know what we're doing with it yep um but you know we have we have people that have gotten together to prepare stuff for fixmas so we'll see to what extent we can do things yeah we'll let you know as soon as we know yes paintball went

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November 16th, 2021 Livestream

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is there a height build limits the skybox yeah there's a big old kill sphere until the game breaks yeah

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do you hate answering the same questions every week we don't answer the same questions every week we answer some questions that are the same every week but um there's still like a lot of other questions that we answer and i think that we individually choose that are like questions that you know uh we haven't really answered before um and and that they're sometimes nice to answer too so like we we pick questions that aren't always asked but we also answer questions that are because even though like y'all who hang out here every week might have heard every question there are still a lot of people out there who just like haven't this is their first stream here or something or they they missed a bunch and they missed the answers yeah and it's like it's it's like it's it's not like ignoring them doesn't make any sense so answering the same questions like when we do answer the same questions it's it's not it's not annoying we're just helping people man so it's like it's fine yeah it it's it's so true because like there are cases where you know someone comes in and they've never followed us or anything like that i ask a question and then people are like oh that that question is so like whatever like we heard that question so many times but like they don't know that like everyone's coming in and they haven't got a clue about that so like it and there really is any way any there really isn't any way to like you know make sure that you know if anyone comes in they should be able to know that this is the answer to this question right so um it's just part of it you know asking like responding to the same question and i see i see it too and like our discord and stuff like when people ask the same thing over and over again like i appreciate that people like don't shut people down when they see like the same question over and over again just like that's just the nature of how it is uh you know so yeah

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November 9th, 2021 Livestream

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will there be an option to set a grid map wide so you can pave the world and have them meet up properly it's not impossible that that's added at some point um i think we've talked about this for a long time doing that uh but we we haven't figured out like a good way to do it um so it's possible that it might happen soon or not um we'll see we'll see

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mod's still broken i think mods are still broken yes uh we have we we don't really like keep track of that too much it's kind of like the modern community kind of doing their thing we're trying to help them out as much as we can but um it's like their responsibility to fix it um so yeah still work but not for long so hopefully soon trademark hopefully before update 5 hits early access fingers crossed

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when is the ea release um we don't we're gonna i guess i should have said that before too as well we are in we're gonna like announce or say when that happens pretty soon i think we don't know exactly um like we're still waiting on like a few things to come together before we we feel confident in saying like here's the date um but we're hoping it will be we can say that date soon um so yeah but uh hopefully soon maybe this week we'll we'll announce the date maybe maybe next week we'll see like soonish um usually historically it's always been like around a month of experimental testing um so we just gotta we have to feel confident that we feel that we're gonna have a stable enough version of it by whatever date we say you know so um that's the most important thing so we're not gonna release it if we don't feel confident that we'll meet it right and at the same time you we know we feel confident at the same time you guys will

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October 26th, 2021 Update 5 Launch Stream and Patch Notes Video

Q&A: Dedicated Servers? https://youtube.com/embed/Rumqu_lyapg?autoplay=1&start=1873&end=2084

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October 19th, 2021 Livestream

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i miss it jason i know you can't say but do a cartwheel if you can confirm sweet signs in update 5. the problem here is i can't cartwheel of course so like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter like whatever i do it wouldn't be considered a cartwheel anyway even if i was trying as hard as i could to confirm it if it was true was it was it confirmed or or like confirmed it the other way either way right oh okay so i could try cartwheels i can confirm one way or the other if science is coming in update 5. uh yeah by falling by falling or something yeah um somersault is acceptable oh yeah somersault still counts harder if you fall flat though right is it harder because like a somersault is like a flip isn't it like a is it like a backflip or something no that's a backflip somersault is just like jumping and turning your body or something i don't know just i don't know the specifics of somersaulting because i'm no summer saltist but uh i'm pretty sure somersaulting is just like if you just roll like you do some kind of role or talk and it's like a it's like a combination of like words right oh is that like a roll oh you like roll on the ground yeah forward roll on the floor or any roll because you can do a forward somersault in the air you can do a forward somersault on ground like were you rolling

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i'm i think because i think it's just a generic term for like rolling in somewhere it's very solid yeah just do it just do it all right yeah yeah do a kickflip but you can actually do it yeah i did a kickflip yesterday i did two kick flips yesterday oh that's a great place man no that actually is a flex either okay clicks are hard they are really hard yeah they're it's really difficult like people that i know have been skating for a long time still can't do kick flips yeah they're they're they're hard yeah what the hell are we talking about we just stole that should we yeah this whole stream is just one big stall for update five that's that's all it is that's all i've ever been

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yeah somebody asked if there's gonna be like a story in the patchwork video as last time i guess you guys are gonna have to uh wait and see next week

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oh state of golf 1 392 only eight more to go is that true let's see here game and switch yeah okay oh eight more to go oh wow look at that let me see if i can bring it up on uh

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October 12th, 2021 Livestream

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see if there are any issues dear jason sir we have xmas items back so i can finish my build off please i mean maybe we'll have to see uh i would say that there's a pretty good chance uh because you know like um update five will be coming out end of this month and hopefully we'll be out on early access in november and maybe that means we might have time in november to make some christmas stuff november and december to release it but we'll have to sort of see hopefully the heavy lifting will have been done by the time update 5 comes out on experimental and will free up some people to do some fun christmas stuff i think that sort of lines up well assuming things are fine things work out well you never know though could be a dumpster fire could be the worst update ever known yeah the jury's still out on that one

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well truck lights finally work in update five truck lights work in update four okay they just like they're weird okay uh so uh yeah hopefully they worked when i've tested it but i mean never counts when i tested

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October 5th, 2021 Livestream

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we'll be able to paint vehicles at some point maybe i mean we used to be able to do that once upon a time maybe that'll be a thing at some point in the future yeah a long time ago i don't know i don't know if we ever did on a released version of the game actually i'm not sure when that changed but uh yeah you could paint vehicles speaking of like release stuff

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Q&A: Radar Tower change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr49ERiu1v8

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server hosting on linux so yeah uh we we don't have like we haven't officially said that we're gonna like support linux but we have been considering like we're when we're looking into server dedicated servers we have had that at the back of our mind so like it's not like linux is going to be like uh like we have to think about that sort of beforehand but we are focusing on windows first uh to get that rolling that's the priority but yeah the person who's working on the dedicated servers has been working a lot with uh linux as well and like we've actually even tested you know we like we have some level of them you know that we can test on yeah the servers uh and yeah he's had he's had linux ones running and people have connected to it so that's a thing

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will engine upgrade be part of update five for ea yes uh engine upgrade won't come to ea until update five comes to ea so they will come at the same time engine upgrade is like kind of the appetizer for update 5 if you will um for experimental people but those two will come at the same time we didn't have enough time to like move over like put engine upgrade on the experimental branch test it work on that fix the issues and then move it over to ea like it's a huge process and then start working on update firefox method like we're going to do it in one one sweep instead

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i thought cooperstain studios released valheim no uh coffee saying publishing released valentine it it is it is confusing though i won't like publicly shame anyone for coming for confusing like the different companies within coffee stain a coffee saying group uh but we're working on satisfactory so we're not doing anything related to yeah to uh vol volhem volhem i think yes yeah yeah iron gator the ones developing that game yes iron gate yes

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oh no i'm never gonna be able to see that look at that name again without thinking about that now i can't wait i just didn't wanna play some wallham

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i think that's uh japanese practice time i'm pretty sure that's uchu space yes so uh is it gonna be that you can go to space uh no you cannot go to space we're not gonna we're not gonna add the ability to go to space didn't need the english to answer bam gotcha

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September 28th, 2021 Livestream

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where did the name zouk come from the name came from uh was it mark was just like zoop he just said that when he went to build using it yeah he just and then we were like we'll call it zooping it was from when we made update 4 and we added like this sort of functionality for ladders and when mark were building ladders he would say like zoop and then he stuck with that name and then that's that's what we're going with

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when delete can control toggle in case you missed click yeah a lot of people have um requested that so that's just so that like um

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you know if uh when you're when you're mass dismantling you can deselect things yeah you know yeah so a lot of people requested that i think that's something that will end up happening at some point yeah i was going to do it at some point and then i was put on other things and never then i never got back to it so i'm pretty sure once we have like time for it we're gonna do that

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um will you add a harder mode at some point with more expensive recipes i think we've talked about that maybe when we do add game modes in the future yeah i think a more hardcore mode whatever that might mean maybe means expensive recipes maybe there are other things that we could do with it i think that makes sense yeah because like i hear her i've heard both like people wanting to like half recipes for some reason like they're producing half as much yeah which is bonkers to me but you do you fam just underclock 50 yeah yeah

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when new music i i i don't know what the we have added music since update four i think it's like new tracks coming in i don't know if there's gonna be more but maybe so uh we'll see i don't think there's any music coming up like five though no i don't i don't think so i don't heard anything about number

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September 21st, 2021 Livestream

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uh will there be new tears tier 9 to 10 and update five maybe there will be maybe who knows who knows well i know i bet who else knows it's no no i didn't because i didn't hear what you said uh will there be uh tiers nine and ten update five maybe interesting

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jason smith hot tub stream man we should do one we should actually do a hot tub stream next time i don't know man it feels like that train has sailed

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i don't know man i got some ideas what the was that expression my brain the train yeah train has failed that took me a while to realize oh my brain was just like what the you just say oh yes wind powered trains ah yes oh dude ah man i just spoiled update six oh god oh my god sailing god why did you tell them that sailing was coming ah geez dude ah yeah we we sort of pivoted slightly we kind of feel that sailing is necessary for us it's necessary for a game too yeah a necessary addition to the game is sailing we heard you you're on the golf thing so how about we meet halfway and do sailing instead yeah we thought that was a good uh a good compromise yep can we fish though no fishing only sailing oh no no aquatic stuff only sailing no boats yeah no boat only sail that's pretty good yeah no golf only sale ocean golf oh sure that sounds like an educational game like ocean goal yeah like join in turpa and his ocean golf adventure or something like that learn all about like aquatic stuff while playing golf or something i don't know kids will watch anything

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September 14th, 2021 Livestream

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is satisfactory called factory game in the project code for unreal yes um i heard i've heard yes exactly it is uh correct i've heard that it is quite hard to change it and a lot of tools i use show the true name of application called color factor game yeah so we called it factory game and you're right it is hard to change which is why we haven't changed it i don't know if or when we ever will um the longer we we go into this the harder it gets changing the name um but like this is a this is a somewhat common problem for unreal engine games specifically i know that like arc is still called shooter game which is like the name of the template project in unreal engine when you like when you boot up unreal engine you can pick like if you want like a clean template like if you want a clean project with nothing in it or if you want like a template project with like some base functionality in it and uh one of them is called shooter game which is like a first person shooter like it's it's it's unreal tournaments like in a small like yeah segmented like thing yeah i think i think i don't talk was sangdom called furious i can't remember now that you mention it that because i know i know that it was called like i know that the the the code classes and stuff were sg yeah and i don't know if it was sanctum game or shooter game that's a good question and i get the feeling that when they started making the project they probably didn't know the game was called sanctum that's my assumption stargate you're right it is stargate game very good coffee stain got the license thing for that make a game for it yeah and i'm pretty sure like factory game is also based on that template uh with the first person shooter thing maybe i feel like most first-person games in a real engine usually based on that but i don't know yeah but we call it factory game because we didn't want to call it shooter game because it's confusing and it's not a shooter game yeah it's a factory game it is yeah uh sure glad yeah i'm sure glad we couldn't didn't call it factorio 3d game when we started that project well that would have been weird yeah whoops

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some people asking about recipes and stuff uh you know if we have recipe changes in the works we'll we'll do a video on them um yeah we'll release that information before update 5 comes out

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the collision signalling updates uh to trains expecting update vive that is something that you know maybe will maybe we are focusing our attention on other things you'll have to wait and see

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will there be any fixes for multiplayer's sync issues life forces trees being cut i'm not sure exactly what multiplayer fixes will be done but we always do work on them and with every major update there's always a whole host of like bug fixes uh from all areas of the game right so uh i don't know exactly if the the bugs that you're experiencing uh or that you're talking about here those specifically have been fixed but there's no doubt in my mind that a lot of bugs will have been fixed um so yeah hopefully hopefully it does take care of the ones that you're running into yeah it has to be a party pooper but i don't think we're going to be able to have time to fix that particular issue um because that's a huge system overall i guess okay but we we we sort of maybe we'll make like a some kind of like half solution or something i don't know but that's a huge uh problem this exists in there for a long time we kind of need to redo the whole like foliage system so that's not something we have time to do for this update he thinks it's but for the record um it's mostly just a visual issue sort of like on the server and everything still works the way it's supposed to so like if you run into that issue um like you can still pick up stuff sometimes if if it's correct unless something is really weird which also can be the case but like for the most part i think a lot of people are used to it by now too like where you just run around like hope to pick up foliage sometimes sometimes you get it sometimes you don't

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will the bottom left island peninsula be included in the map is it not included yeah is it not no not on the map on the map no on that the uh the update map there's there's nothing on it oh okay as in like there's no changes to that area yeah no changes yeah yeah that's probably what they're talking about yeah yeah is that the uh that's where that like kills fear is right or the kill yeah pretty sure you die if you try to go there in real life too if you go there you die if you die and satisfactory you die in real life

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September 7th, 2021 Livestream

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foundations with holes vip or dream uh go to the qa side and upload that and maybe if it gets enough votes maybe it will be vip but if if not then it's gonna be a dream i guess or something

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August 31st, 2021 Livestream

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yeah paul's still looking like a reasonable timeline yeah yeah i think we're it looks like we're still gonna release the game in in fall so any any time starting from tomorrow and three months from now yeah yeah december counts as fall right i'm pretty sure with global warming all that just actually trust me man trust me okay yeah yeah

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what am i getting a story mode that's happening at one point oh so that's still a bit 1.0 snitch i have no freaking clue we've written to 2022 on our steam page but uh i don't know how all the all the plans kind of point towards 2022 but uh you never know yeah you never know

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um did you ever say if dlss was coming we have said that um we would require to upgrade the engine at some point to be able to do that uh and and maybe we'll do that so it's possible that dlss can come to the game at some point um i'd say it's likely if if if that works that is like it's they say that it's plug and play with that uh like the functionality of that we'll see okay we'll see it just works right yep

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do you plan some malfunctions of machines that require debug and repair um start working no we don't have any plans for that the point of the game really is that it's supposed to be chill and like you're not supposed to like that's why we don't want tower defense or like any you know enemies attacking your factories we want it to be chill and like if you go away for a long time and come back we don't want your factory to be in shambles exactly like the focus of the game is that it's a chill factorial builder and the that's the main point of the game is that you're building factories really

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we'll join any community students do you mean will we join community streams we've joined them in the past i was there all day even oh hanging out in the chat you mean yeah yeah yeah we do that we're there all the time lately i've been mostly been lurking because i've been so busy or at least yeah i'm speaking for my sake at least but i i almost every day i have a a satisfactory stream running in the background i see ya

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but are you guys ever moving back into the new headquarters uh i mean we are going to like sort of once the regulations in sweden's like decrease no like get like get lifted that is that is technically in the plans yeah

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uh housing type items for the pioneers i don't know um it would definitely be pretty good like i think internal like decorations and stuff like that could be cool i think like sofas and beds could be fun just play sims or just play sims good point pretty sure that game exists you know what terrible idea yeah yeah kidding it's much better game though oh no wait uh uh uh i'm fired oh god oh god oh god oh runescape in runescape you can uh you can you can make a boxing ring a boxing ring this is specifically you can and so

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August 24th, 2021 Livestream

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will trains collide with land or just other trains i think

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if i had to guess i think trains are going to behave sort of similar to how they did with land before um but they will collide with other trains i uh first i'm guessing um i think the thing we want to get in is collision without the trains and like signaling so that you have you know you need to manage your your training lines in a different way i don't think we care too much about like clipping with the environment like it's a similar thing with like conveyor belts like that if we need to fix the clipping issues with the trails uh the trains in in the terrain with the trains train lines then why aren't we fixing it for the conveyor belts you know so and the conveyor belts are like kind of an active choice that we don't want to like overdo or limit like what you can do with the game so like if clipping annoys you then you won't clip you know you won't build your factory's clipping and if you don't mind clipping um and also you get like a little bit more freedom then clipping is is enabled sort of or available to you um so i think that's sort of the approach that we're going to take with trains as well no i can't say for sure because we haven't reached that point where we've made a decision on that because we need to work on it first but so yeah that's that's i think that's my take on that as right now there will be train signals yes at some point there will be train signals

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August 17th, 2021 Livestream

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uh from dev to dev how do the calculations work so that all factories keep running if they're not actively loaded are you calculating every item constantly no it's like the the factories have their own tick like thread uh if i'm not incorrect um yeah they have their own like factory thread that runs at its own speed and stuff so that kind of stuff isn't they're they're not like tied to the map that's loaded so all the stuff that's being built is like built on a different level to the rest of the map yeah like all the logic of all the factory buildings are always running i mean um yeah at the same time and that's how the calculations are done and then sometimes you see their visual representation when you walk closer yep you can check off another mansplaining there actually i think you explained it that more correctly than i did because i i said that that they're actually on a different level but they're not on a different level it's just a different different thread yeah i mean yeah they are like that they are okay i mean they are on a different they're on the like the the the the persistent levels i mean it's that's that is true

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is there official name for the confusing creature the balloon on legs creature yes there is it's called the whale penguin space wait i can't ever bean tick tim yeah tim the whale space tick bean

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penguin whale thing giraffe tick bean tim whale giraffe oh it actually oh it's referred to in the awesome show as the confusing creature i didn't know that oh really yeah this is something that wait we have we have an actual name for it then mr bean yeah space giraffe tick whale penguin thing whatever yeah it's official there's a reference to this there's probably 17 references if marv wrote this um we just armed at the same time well we have so much in common we have so much in common we have nothing to say we have nothing to talk about there's so much in common emotes discord about says steve that's hilarious who who i need to see who who added that uh emoji where's the emote on this chord yeah yeah i need to see who added that was that you just do you remember no i think so yeah let's have steve that's pretty funny you're out of that i'm checking emoji it was reckless he just drops that and like leaves that's so funny though

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August 10th, 2021 Livestream

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is update five bigger than update four that's a really hard question answer you know we get asked that question each time and it's hard to sort of answer if it's gonna be bigger or not uh i also don't know if it matters or if it's bigger or not do ever does every update have to be bigger than the one before you know does it have to be

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August 3rd, 2021 Livestream

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will the game be adapted for 21.9 monitors i don't know uh if you want that though make sure that you uh either upvote existing suggestions or make the suggestion yourself if it's not there on our qa site questions on satisfactorygame.com there you are there you are

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July 20th, 2021 Livestream

Q&A: When are you adding Battle Royale event? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jxvn-F_WY

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July 13th, 2021 Livestream

Q&A: Will the Quantum Computer or Superposition Oscillator come in Update 5? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKol_rSeM0

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when we have fences for ramps i don't know i don't know hopefully soon

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uh when do we get a map updating for us so i can actually play the game without having uh without keep having in mind my instructors might disappear and stuff uh well so the reality is you're playing an early access game so you know that's that's probably that's likely gonna happen you know sometime soon when we do do the map update um but that's probably not gonna be the last time we do a map update right so this is kind of like you know uh something you're gonna have to just kind of deal with with the fact that we're in early access however um hopefully the plan is hopefully in the next few weeks uh i will be able to release some information about the world update um and with it i would like to try and just give some sort of like map with some like hotspots of regions that have been modified so that people can sort of uh plan ahead right but the thing is you know the game is designed so that you can build wherever you want so it's it's just likely that there are people out there that have just built in the hot spots of where we've made massive um modifications we've had it before where people have factories that end up being inside a mountain or underground and that's likely just going to happen again but hopefully with with um you know releasing that information when i do um with a map and some hotspots we can mitigate that kind of damage to give people some time to try and move their factories to a different location um but that's that's always going to be a pain like even moving like like what if your factory is in a hot spot right you're gonna have to move the whole thing it's gonna be a pain no matter what but it is it is kind of the nature of early access and we don't want to you know we're striving for a good 1.0 game and we don't want to be like well you know the world would look better if we made it like this but we you know it may scrub some factories so we're not going to do it you know we don't want to do that we do have to put the game first at the end of the day and that doesn't mean some people are going to get kind of screwed over by it to be honest when uh the world does change you know just some safe spots we can move yeah yeah yeah we'll do that sometime soon before like well before the update so that you'll have a lot of time to move things if you want to move things but no doubt they're gonna be no doubt the world is gonna change on top of your factories some of y'all uh a lot of work is gonna be taking place in the northern forest we have talked about that but yeah i i would like to i'll talk to hannah in the future and when we when we do release a video we'll try and release something that um will be as helpful as possible to uh ensure that people can safely move their factories

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July 6th, 2021 Livestream

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i feel like this is probably the decision before so i apologize repeat question but is there a possibility of altering the terrain in certain circumstances for example is there a way to make tunnels no so you can't really deform the terrain that's not really a thing that's possible now and i don't really see if that's going to be a thing in the future

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uh what does the object limit uh refer to exactly one constructor because one object so this is the the confusing thing with the object limit it refers to you object which is not like a physical object or a game object an unreal engine it's an unreal an engine object which is like way programming languages try to like obfuscate how memory works is by referring to massive object you may have heard the term like object oriented languages where they try to like simplify it but how you how you can think of of code um and it's it's essentially a memory object and no one constructor does not equal one object one constructor is could be many objects i don't know the exact number um and they also vary from object to object like maybe you know maybe a beacon is like three objects or maybe two objects or one i don't know exactly and then another constructor could be many objects so uh it's really hard to like to to to to know but something that we sort of tell folks is that like the the number of people that actually hit this object limit is so so few yes like you shouldn't have to worry about it there's unless you're really building some super crazy stuff you really really should not worry about it um and so like you shouldn't have to like don't don't let the object limit impact the way that you play the game unless or do if you want to but you shouldn't need to like you should see a better play as you normally want to yeah and you know we do things on our end to reduce the uh the overhead or the impact that uh objects have on the objective as well yeah so and also the amount of people that hit that object limit that are playing the game vanilla is even smaller uh most people that hit it are using mods to like build way faster and stuff like that and build like humongous things like place i'm thinking i'm talking like placing down like you know half a million foundation blocks and stuff like that um

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June 29th, 2021 Livestream

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equipment hotkey when uh i'll put that on the qr side if you want that i don't know exactly what that entails but it sounds good oh you mean on the hot bar maybe that's uh that would be sweet it would be really nice yeah so you could just press like one two three or four or five or whatever that would be really nice yeah

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um directx 12 support we tried to uh and uh didn't go so well um but it's not impossible we'll try again maybe in the future

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uh any thoughts about attaching splitters directly to machines such miners i mean i like the idea i don't know why we don't have that uh but yeah i'm not sure so say that again what was it i missed the any thoughts of attaching splitters directly to machine slash miners yes i was actually part of a lot of discussion in that regard in the early days this is the early days because i believe we changed our minds a little bit but one of the main reasons was because it wasn't clear enough what happened uh when you just attached a splitter to a machine it became like odd to like figure out what was going on there's also like a technical reason um where we need the the the belt sort of and if we wanted to do the thing where you can attach splitters to to factories we would need to like add like additional logic to the splitters and mergers and it made it like pretty ugly um so we just decided not to pursue that it's not impossible that we change our minds in the future and and make it so that you can attach them straight on because i believe there's an exception to conveyor lifts because they are technically a belt you can attach splitters directly on them i believe correct me if i'm wrong um but that's not but that's because it is a conveyor belt and it already has because the problem with with the also with this threading in the game is that when we update the threads in the game they're updated separately so belts are upgraded updated separately and then splitters and then factory buildings which would mean that the order of execution would be like a special case when a factory building could output directly to a splitter so we would like mess up that update order or something i'm not quite sure exactly how what was the issue there but that was one of the reasons too but it's not like an impossible thing to fix at some point but i don't think we are going to spend time on that because it's a lot of it's a lot of time for like maybe a little too little payout sort of so yeah you

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June 15th, 2021 Livestream

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somebody asked if we've checked out unreal engine five we have checked that unreal engine five uh yeah it's it's cool we can't really say whether or not we're gonna be able to use it for satisfactory uh because the uh unreal engine five is not production already and it's still in like early access um and even though like nanite and lumen are very cool technology they also have limitations to them uh that makes it kind of hard to like at this point at least being able to say like yeah that's something that we definitely want to use in the future and uh who knows like once once they're actually done with unreal engine 5 maybe we will be done with satisfactory i don't know i don't know what the production plan is for unreal engine 5 currently um but yeah a lot of people have asked us about this of like yo yo nanite looks so cool you should use that in satisfactory and it's not that simple like just upgrading to that engine version might just cause so many issues for us that it's not worth it and it's it's like a discussion we have every single time when there's a new unreal engine version even the minor ones whether or not it's worth upgrading because it it creates a lot of issues um so it really has to like outweigh the benefits wait did i say that right the the benefits really have to outweigh the all the work and the issues that it causes because like we put so much work into the current systems and the way that we implemented stuff so it's like it's not maybe sometimes worth throwing that away just because there's a new cool guy in town or whatever um let's upgrade to unreal five forehead so we have checked it out though we are checking it out and we're all very interested in it but we can't see whether or not we're gonna be able to use it before satisfactory yet so stop asking about that nominating

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June 8th, 2021 Livestream

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one dollar toilet paper dlc coming soon coming soon guys it's it's one toilet wait i always get this wrong it's one dollar toilet flush dlc right uh yeah toilet flush toilet flush not paper exactly you already have paper you have the coupons you can wipe on those yeah exactly

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what's your favorite mod i haven't used mods in a long time so i actually haven't checked out uh it's been a while since since i played with mods honestly because i i've been making a lot of trailer stuff and i can't use the mod manager for that because it breaks our dev build potentially so i'm but uh maybe we should i'm just gonna try out some more i gotta check it out

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June 1st, 2021 Livestream

Q&A: Petting Doggo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw9sZkeAqnk

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May 25th, 2021 Livestream

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how many dollars are there total in the world so here's how that system works i don't think if we've hannah has actually explained this to me it's actually no i think there's on the map there's like a bunch of spawn points and on each spawn point we designate like how many can spawn at the same time so like a spawn point can have like something between you know one and five or whatever or any number really but we we've probably not spawned more than like maybe three or four or something like that and once a spawn point has like spawn lizard doggos it won't spawn any new ones until you like get close to that spawn point again so there is a theoretical number of like min max amount of lizard doggos that can exist at the same time because if you like run to a spawn point and grab a little doggo and run back with it that spawn like that spawn point one spawn new ones i believe um so there's a there's the first person to reach the theoretical maximum of lizard doggos in one pen i'll buy you a coffee cup hell yeah on me yeah so so help us find out what that maximum number is and then find the doggers yeah challenge accepted i like it we'll buy you the more coffee mug yeah wait oh okay bye you owe me a pizza juice do i owe you a pizza now do you still love me i don't know i i've lost track like 16 times all right you still have me then i know you or me whatever pretty sure whatever yeah 90 doggos in one pen there's a lot of doggos that's a lot of doggos maybe hannah can figure it out i'm pretty sure she can maybe hannah has better things to do no does she maybe she does i fix the trees am i right i fix the floating rocks nobody cares about that the amount of dog was on the map yeah that's that's what we need to figure out right now it's the drake meme yeah let's spend a week on this

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May 18th, 2021 Livestream

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any ideas how many tears would be at the end of the development uh i don't personally know i don't think we've decided fully maybe mark has but he doesn't there's like uh yeah there's a a tentative answer i think yeah it may change there's no point in thinking that that's actually set or not uh but the the number of tiers isn't like the limit of like how much more content we're gonna add to the game because if at some point we're gonna need to like at some point we're like we're gonna want to add more content but we're still like we're not gonna add more t here so we're gonna like spread it out more in the current tiers um so don't y'all shouldn't feel that like oh just because we won't add more tears just won't mean that there won't be more content to the game that's definitely not the case or buildings or you know stuff like that yeah that was like a sort of a thing that we had to address a lot before update 4 came out is uh like more tiers it's like it's not like you need more tiers to add more content yeah or you need to have more tiers to have more complexity or you need to have more tiers to have more you know gamepl are a progression thing that uh yeah but you know you can still have it more tiers just mean more space parts or space elevator parts and i don't know how much you guys love making those yeah it's my favorite part of the game 1 000 jet propulsion engine thingamajigs yeah modular yeah i saw i i saw the tier like you know after tier 7 and 8 like the the ones that you put in there uh i saw those and i just sort of knocked out and was like forget about that somebody posted on a reddit like before update three i believe where they showcase like here's what it looked like when you unlocked tier vii before uh and it was like five super computers like it it was something super lame compared to like yeah 5 000 space poopies or whatever space poopies yeah it's hardcore

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will you add more gases i think so uh from memory when we added the one gas yeah it feels weird not adding more gases to be honest yeah i'm pretty sure we also sort of said we would add more yeah but what what gases are we gonna add chase we genuinely don't know what what gas would you like us to add chat methane there you go easy forecast yeah there you go fart gas is already in the game you just run around and run into this place just got to bottle it that's all he's got a bottle he's going to bottle the fart castle it's like a [ __ ] like fairy from zelda just run up to the gas so when you die like it opens up the bottom and it just wakes you up oh [ __ ] gosh it's still like an ass smells like ass get me out of here oh i can't believe i died but i'm alive though it's like that stuff that they used to wake people up who get pot like pass out you know yeah uh my camera was cold but yeah that i mean that sounds like powerful talking about yeah oh [ __ ] i can't remember good times

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May 11th, 2021 Livestream

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did you know about the multiplayer bug so i can't join a game or find it we we aware of it uh we're trying to solve it we don't we don't really know why it's happening uh but we are gonna push some kind of fix for that on ea soon this week hopefully um that might fix it for some people but it might not for everyone still trying to figure out what the hell is going on

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May 4th, 2021 Livestream

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make refineries smaller we're not going to change any sizes of the buildings i don't think we're ever going to do that honestly if you uh if you feel like a building is too small or too big we're probably not going to reduce sizes although famous last words i guess but i don't think we've ever done that so far so i guess that's interesting

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and then he has new wall types doors windows foundations etc uh we are gonna do that too i don't know exactly what we planned but we are gonna revamp uh some of the uh decorations in the game

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every thoughts about having npcs and probably some raider yeah and our thoughts is that we probably don't want it we want it to feel very like you're alone on that planet and it's very like isolated so uh there's gonna be like no i actually don't know

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April 27th, 2021 Livestream

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uh can chainsaw use liquid in the future potentially we the reason why chainsaw only uses like solid biofuel up until now is because the that has that has made sense when you unlock or like rather when we intended to unlock the chainsaw and then further down the line it made sense like maybe to have other fuel and we haven't had that in the game because we haven't solved we haven't had support to like change fuels uh for the equipment and that's something that we're probably gonna do in the future i don't know exactly when that will happen um but that's why we haven't had in the game i'm pretty sure we're gonna have it at some point like turbo fuel and chainsaw or you know liquid biofuel which like what else do you use that for um so yeah

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uh are the blade runners gonna fit our feet properly soon uh i don't yeah what the well they fit your feet right in first person but they don't fit in third person that's the problem when you're in hypertubes and stuff like that i think we're gonna solve that eventually it's just like it's just a such a non-issue really like it's not game breaking anyway uh that's why we've kept it so far kept it it sounds like we're we're gonna keep it that's why we haven't fixed it yet you know

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any chance we'll get individual respawn points for multiplayer i'm not sure what that means individual respawn points you mean you don't spawn in the hub why would you want that

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April 20th, 2021 Livestream

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any changes of the coloring system yes there's going to be some changes in the color system i don't know exactly what those changes are going to be that's something that is uh most likely going to change or one thing that i am i think is going to change maybe it will check my answer is like declining more and more um i think there's some issues with the coloring system that we've been putting off um such as not being to like paint vehicles and stuff like that so i think there's gonna be somewhat of an overhaul of the coloring system and the fact that we're like using srgb uh or not wait are we using linear rgb in the game or not i can't remember whatever the the color values in game aren't linear i think or they are linear wait which one is the common one hsl yeah yeah but that's not the thing i'm talking about right now because you can even if you if you if you're like in a uh if you're like on the internet you're like look up a color and you see like oh that's a nice color and you try to match it uh in the game it will still not be correct and that's because the in-game color picker is is using srgb which isn't a linear color space but most applications use color like linear color space even if you have the same hex it will not like match uh that's just because we picked one of them so we're probably gonna change that as well because i think a lot of people are confused by that uh i think a lot of people don't even realize it um and yeah we do we do use hl hsl in the color picker but that's not what i'm talking about right now um but that's something we probably will also change at some point this is like ui that probably is is like in the backlog of things uh we just haven't been prioritized well enough so we'll probably happen in alignment with the coloring system

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it's part of that is there a road map publicly no there's not and we talked we talked a bunch of times why we don't have that the tl dr is because we we want to be as reflect uh we want to like react as quickly as possible to community feedback uh we change our minds all the time even when we're developing things so we don't want to lock ourselves into a path and be like ah this is bad um this is also kind of why we're not like telling you guys you know everything we're working on because we need to manage expectations a bit in that regard because if we tell you guys like oh we're gonna we're gonna implement a big robot that's gonna blow the whole game up and make your computer become uh alive like and we start working on that and we're like we can't do that then it's going to be a bummer for everyone

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so so we can't do that uh maybe i shouldn't have talked about that specific thing because that's something we are working on leaked yep exactly um first dlc confirmed [ __ ] the whole like terminator future is is because of satisfactory you hate to see it that we're we're uh what's the name of that company cyber truck cybertron what's the name of the company in terminator skynet that whoops it wasn't even close oh wait is skying at the computer what's the name of the company cyber no cyberdyne is perfect dark wait or am i mixing those two up cyberdyne tech or do they have the same name maybe wait perfect dark cyber cyber dine wait this is the real okay hold on you guys we need to actually we need to look into the cyberdyne systems is that the name in the uh okay my question here is what what is the name of the company that you fight against in perfect dark is that cyberdyne or is cyberdyne terminator or are they do they have the same name cyber datadine oh that's true oh that's what i'm thinking of oh so hype for the perfect art reveal by the way i can't wait for that i'm gonna have to get an xbox i guess um sorry what were we talking about cyberdyne and skynet are from terminated cool there was it was data dying i was thinking of very similar

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will we get mark ii power storage in the future i don't know i don't think so

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when you add in story 1.0 don't know when that will happen

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April 6th, 2021 Livestream

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so wind power mark when no

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um what is the what is the reasoning why we don't want to add wind wind power or solar power or stuff like that uh i think both of those have the problem where that you can effectively even if you make a system around it that kind of checks for uh certain restrictions that you can just build them everywhere of course they would still effectively be limitless in in this game i think uh and we don't really want that for power like you could just build a giant solar panel field and not have to worry about the power at all which kind of defeats the point of the power system where it's supposed to be a pain in your butt every now and then and you're supposed to want to fix it and make it all run smoothly and i feel that that those kind of power supplies would take away from it because they don't have enough limitations that we can effectively uh contain the balancing off gotcha remember we we also brought up like water turbines yeah i think those will be more in the realm of what the the geysers now do yeah and right now the guys have the issue where some people actually brought this up where they feel kind of what kind of they're super weak for when you get them the amount of power that you get from them uh so we might change it as well but for the yeah water turbines i would be more interested in them because you would have to place them potentially on fast flowing rivers or waterfalls which are a limited resource so to say in the world which is more interesting in my opinion because it kind of gets you around like you can't just pop them down anywhere you actually have to find a waterfall we get up a cliff to get to the waterfall place them there connecting to your factory i think it's a more interesting way to approach power with a bit of a challenge like that than just to give a building that just produces it out of thin air gotcha free power when do we get free power

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um and yes april 13th is still the uh the date for when we expect uh update four to hit early access next week this time oh my god actually six right that is the time i think it's six hour time yeah i always forget but it's six it's always the same time ever every time and i always forget anyways 5 p.m gmt

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March 30th, 2021 Livestream

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what's the feature you wanna add to this so i personally really wanna improve the build modes uh i there are there are a lot i think we talked about this last week as well there are a few um there are a few things that really annoy me when you're building and i think there are somewhat easy to fix and they will improve building immensely so i would love to to improve some of those things first and foremost and maybe like a global grid situation but also like how you place you know um mergers and splitters i think that's one of the like places mergers and splitters uh not the fact that they don't clip on foundations when you're dragging them i'm already placed um conveyor belts and stuff like that i think that's really annoying uh stuff like you know the what are they called the the pipe connector thingies i can't remember what they're called that they rotate too i think they rotate too freely i want them to be able to clip snap it a bit better the snapping system we have for the guidelines thing when the green lines show up when you hold control that's a prototype that's not done at all um that's a prototype i made and then we're like alright i just put in the game whatever it works pipe junction thank you uh i want i want better clipping and like snapping with that so if you're if you're one of those people that like builds very methodically it just makes it so much easier to build because i think the addition of the the hover pack makes things so much better in the game i think the hover pack is like one of the best items in the game right now um so improving the the build modes would make the game a ton better imo god i love the hover pack i know it's so good right

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March 23rd, 2021 Livestream

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will this be the last update before 1.0 no the we still have update 5 slated at some point i don't know how many updates we'll do after that um or even how many updates come in between that because we've kind of we went down the path of like doing like a smaller update uh which we call the fluid update uh in between three and four um and we kind of like that approach too um maybe we'll just like change and just rename all the updates to just number updates but we'll see we'll see

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um multiple foundation placing instead of one by one uh maybe in the future we haven't uh looked into that yet or maybe mark hasn't just hadn't made a decision yet but we haven't implemented anything yet

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um any mods you want to add to vanilla at some stage i'm sure there are mods that i'm sure there are things that we already thought about that there's a mod for currently um and um look guys like we worked in this game for a long time and uh we've had the opportunity to think about this game a lot so drones for instance was something that we've like thought about before we we released this game okay uh and it's been our like backlog since then um and and and obviously when when there's a mod for something that we've like thought about but not like released that's a good sign that like this is probably good feature to implement um so uh so yeah that be like it do lights is another thing lights was actually implemented in the game uh before it was it was out if you remember the stream me and jace did where we played the old version of the game that had lights that version had lights so it's been in the game since then and and at that point lights weren't that good for the game they didn't run that well um and that's why we didn't release the game with lights uh but now we're at the point where we feel confident with our solution for lights there's still i think a little bit tweaking left to do with the lights but we as far as i know i it looks pretty good and they work pretty well um also saw the street lights and the alpha screenshots yeah and i think i think people also data mined like the uh the lights out of the game uh so you know this was coming okay and we knew it was coming and it's it's here now so good times were had by all

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object limit any chance to display how much is left somehow uh not really the the common misconception about the object limit is that people think that it's like the number of objects that are placed in the world but this is a memory thing so you know placing a foundation has a smaller object you object imprint in memory than placing a constructor has um and it's not simple to explain it because memory in programming is is very complex uh it's not just like a lot of people often like describe it as like it's a it's an array of of of um ones and zeros that's memory no that's not exactly how it works uh because they're there's like memory caches and and setups for how they're loaded and stuff like that but uh the system that handles all that has a limit in unreal engine and uh there's not much we can do about it uh we can optimize for it but there's always going to be a limit um and you can even load a save file that crashes due to the object limit you can you can sometimes load that save file and sometimes you can based on what's going on in the game at that point um so kind of hard to it's it's hard to explain we're optimizing for it um and maybe in the future it will be a bit better but there's all there'll always be like a limit to it

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March 16th, 2021 Livestream

Mod highlight part 2 Q&A: We broke mods with Update 4, how does the community make them work again? https://youtube.com/embed/Gdz6SUv9Om4?autoplay=1&start=10364&end=10560

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March 9th, 2021 Livestream

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do you uh guys have plans for any other save breaking systems in the future i mean it's it's hard to sort of say if we have plans to i mean i i don't know if we plan to but if we need to then we will yeah um we try to avoid two but yeah i mean like i i asked mark this like many months ago and from memory he was like we don't have any more any plans to do it but like maybe it'll happen yeah you know we are on the quest to get to uh 1.0 after all you know but you want to finish the game so

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uh how much uh like what percentage of the update do we know about um what do you reckon i'm thinking like maybe like 70 or something yeah they're still like maybe not because there's like a lot of things i think 70 is a pretty good number though because the stuff that we haven't shown yet isn't like there's some pretty amazing things that we have yeah they're pretty major but they won't like you know i guess i'm like still thinking about pipes because like pipes was a small thing that affected a lot of stuff yeah where these are like you know more things that may affect your save file like or your factories a lot but also maybe not you know what i mean but then they add they add a lot of like yeah they add a lot of stuff but then there's also like a lot of smaller things that are coming that don't work like a video or something you know what i mean yeah there's there's there's like oh i don't know if i i can say it but there's one thing that i discovered when i was uh play test and i was like my god why hasn't this been in the game until now and i'm so happy yeah and it's a very tiny thing but it makes such a huge difference

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date for update 4 is march 16th so next week tuesday it's exactly a week from now and it should come out at 5 00 pm gmt is the goal plan

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