Today, however, we're having a smaller beat.

Because today, I think...

I think the patch should be out now, and if it's not, it's any moment, because last I saw Uzu, which was like half an hour ago, he was in a meeting, and I haven't had time to play Satisfactory all day today, so I'm not actually sure if the patch has hit EXP or not already.

Specifically EXP, there's a patch for EXP coming, not live, so PC, experimental.

Uh, Jason!

Stop pinging my ears, man!

I'm online on Teams.

I shouldn't be.

Let me go busy on Teams chat, sorry.

Before this keeps derailing my thoughts.

Do not disturb.

Uh, the patch should be out any moment now.

If it's not now, it will be very, very soon.

And let's talk about what is in the patch.

Because we have fixes coming out for you today, obviously.

And we have fixes coming out for you in another patch next week.

The stuff next week is what couldn't be done for this week and this week we focused on the highest prio stuff in terms of what we feel we felt was needed for the game to function smoothly and what you guys, this is important, what you guys upvoted and pushed forward the most on the QA site.

Because we are going to talk about the patch today and the fixes in that patch.

We're going to talk about the patch next week.

We're going to talk about feedback we have seen across Reddit and Discord.

What we have heard, what I personally have escalated and brought to the devs on my own end today.

But important chat that truly, really, if you want something to be fixed, either post it on the QA site...

Or, if it's on the QA site, push it already.

Vote it, comment on it, bring more examples of, yep, this happened to me too, yep, if you do this, that happens too as well.

That is the one place where we will all, kind of, at least the people who, like, really hands-on work with the game, they will all always make a loop, check it, work off of that site first and foremost.

And we are trying to, again, like, if we see feedback resonate, especially from the QA site, also on Reddit and Discord, like, echoing all over the place, yeah, we make internal notes of what feels more important for you guys that we fix.

But, first and foremost, that QA site is the de facto place to go.

Pinging me and Jason on Discord, not the devs, just me and Jason, that's fine.

But that's also the worst way to make sure your bug fixes get loudly heard.

If you want us to see them, yeah sure, but ultimately what we do is just also try to like squeeze this by the devs.

Not at all with the same sense of urgency that you might feel for what you pinged us about.

Whereas if it's on the QA site, that's something that the devs approach with their own mindset, their own knowledge of, I've seen this error this amount of times, etc.

So yeah, just a long spiel about the QA site being important.

Anyway, I'll try to respond to chat as we go, but we have a huge agenda for State of Dev today, so let's just hop straight into the fixes.

What is going to be fixed today, or might already be?

What is going to be fixed today, or might already be?

Many of you experienced what you felt was random crashes in the game on the EXP when you played, and we isolated this.

With some help, again, thank you for all of you who noticed patterns in how the game crashed.

Satisfactory took a shit in a dumpster fire whenever you placed a blueprint that contained a hyper tube branch.

So, if that feels familiar to you, you just are up and about, you place your Hyper 2 blueprint, and boom!

The game goes up in smoke, yeah, that's why.

Oops!

Our bad.

I can barely fix mine with my own, so nah man, you're dead last in queue.

So we have fixed that, as well as some other completely random crashes, like up to standard optimization, but for specific 100% repro crashes, yes, placing a hyper tube fix, a hyper tube branch, was crashing your game, that's not happening anymore.

The UI has had an issue with the equipment widget appearing in inventory slots.

If you don't know what the equipment widget is, it's a small cogwheel icon that appears in the top right corner of an icon for equipment.

That appeared in inventory and could be very obtrusive when you try to interact with items in the inventory.

That's gone.

That's been fixed.

The cogwheel should no longer appear in inventory randomly.

The Z key does not work.

That is not a camera.

That's a microphone.

That is a camera.

That is a camera.

The Z key did not work when you key-bound this, or you bound shit to this key on a standard AZERTY layout.

Who can we blame for this chat?

Who can we blame for the Z key not working?

There is a specific...

Country, actually.

But we can blame for the Z key not being plausible for key bindings.

Blame Emmett?

No.

Think bigger.

Unfortunately, he's from the...

I'm supposed to say wrong nationality.

There is no wrong nationality chat.

There isn't.

But in this case... France?

Yes.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Why France?

Can you tell me why it's France?

Focus?

I feel like I'm on top of the world.

I don't need to focus.

Did you just shitposted France?

Because it is France.

But did you just shitpost or do you actually know why?

Because they're the one with the... Oh!

There you

go.

That's actually very true.

I gave away AZERTY too early.

Yeah, I did.

That's true.

Yes.

France is the country with the AZERTY keyboard.

And what this means, chat, is that effectively the Z key fills the same functionality as the W key.

So the walk forward function in the game would override what was otherwise on the Z key in everywhere because of the layout in France specifically.

So the issue was worldwide, but the root cause was the French keyboard.

So if you bound anything to Z on experimental, that didn't work.

That should now be doable post-patch today as well.

Some patterns...

I saw a good couple of pictures about this on Reddit, actually.

It's very funny.

To anyone who had very nice, neat roads with road marks.

Are they called road marks?

Just, you know, like the white stripes lined up along the road.

If you had those and they had taken a twisty rotational turn in EXP, yeah, oops, that's our bad too.

For some reason, random-ass patterns on foundations, and surfaces in general, rotated as you booted up EXP, and then they stayed rotated forever.

If you went and cleaned up after us, yeah, good on you, it's your build, you want it to look the way you do, so I'm happy it's back to the way it's supposed to be, but the fact that it wasn't in the first place in EXP is because of us.

So, patents should no longer rotate.

By the way, chat, if you are tuning in right now, I see some people tuning in right now.

If you're tuning in right now, I'm just gonna blabber about, keep blabbering about, not repeating what's being fixed in a patch being pushed to Satisfactory 1.2 EXP experimental today.

If it is not very, very soon, it should be within two hours.

If it's not within two hours, it should still be today, but that means Uzi's working overtime, and that's bad.

So it's gonna be within two hours.

So yeah, patch fixes for EXP.

What else do we have?

Zooping for automated gases and roll-up gates can be done as a box.

Wait a second.

This was not on the list earlier today.

I just read that off because I had no idea what this is.

Oh yeah, no, sorry, yes, exactly.

Holograms are not allowed to be zooped into two axes.

But this one was for some reason.

Specifically automated gas and roll-up gates.

So if you found this to be like a nice little quirk quality of life, no, we are not about to allow you to zoop stuff into axes.

That's an error on our part.

So it's gonna go back two straight lines.

Sorry.

Build effects on all beams are broken, so when you... Or have been fixed, they were broken.

When you put a beam down in Experimental, the animation may or may not have played, but you would see the entire beam just kind of being like a little black box before its texture just pops into place.

Very unnaturally, very, I mean, buggily.

So the animation just went poof there somehow, as being fixed as well today.

So the animation just went poof there somehow, as being fixed as well today.

Inventory closes this one is funny chat because this one is actually not fixed.

It's on the list It's the one thing that is in today's patch list But it's not fixed Because I left it here because I want to ask you I'm gonna pay attention to chat now extra No, Andrew, I cannot go watch the VOD.

But if you're on Twitch you can't because Twitch sucks like that chat

If you enter Q into the interdimensional, or dimensional depot search bar, does the depot close?

I'm gonna breathe for 10 seconds.

If you press Q.

Not in this, not in chat chat, in the dimensional depot search

bar.

By the way, just to hard confirm, because I see some people...

But it's already been released?

Oh, well then people are lying to me.

Excellent.

If it's out, it's out.

I haven't played the game today, full disclosure.

So I actually just don't know.

I haven't even opened Steam today.

So, I don't know.

I never press AQ into anything.

You never press Q?

Bro, you're missing out.

That's like half the game right there.

No?

YouTube is saying no as well?

Okay, cool.

If there is even a singular person in chat who sees their Dimensional Depot inventory close as you press Q into the search bar, please post about that in detail on the QA site specifically, because we are trying to track that.

It's come up a couple of times, but not in detail and not reproducible, even though we follow steps provided, because the steps are just too detailed.

So, if it's happening...

Okay, we know that it is, we have heard it, we'll just try to reprove it.

Opening the game right now, thank you.

Be my warriors chat!

Be my warriors chat!

And, and... Second to last, the last one is my personal favorite, that is being fixed.

The second to last is that mouse sensitivity, something that would annoy you way more than you might realize if it's behaving unexpectedly,

Which it did, in EXP, because mouse sensitivity reset every time you boot up the game.

That is no longer the case.

Sorry about that.

Mouse Sense is fixed, yes.

Yes.

Highly intrusive, highly annoying.

It's fixed.

Yay.

And we have a small list.

This list is probably going to grow until next week.

And this is again next week on Tuesday.

Next week on Tuesday Chat, we are also looking at fixing the first time crash report consent UI pop up not showing up if the player is a server admin before update.

So, crash report consent UI, this is more server admin stuff, this is more dedicated server stuff.

If the crash report consent UI doesn't pop up, we have eyes on that.

And then also the crash report consent UI shows up every time you gain server access.

Sorry, server admin access, which is also something we are trying to fix.

On controller, the navigation with the left analog stick is broken on the main or pause menu, if you will, after entering vehicle path in the vehicle menu.

This one is kind of annoying because...

The connecting that the left stick is broken in the pass menu to you having played around with vehicle paths in the vehicle menu just before, or even a bit earlier, can be slightly hard to connect, but that's the reason why.

If you're feeling the left stick being funky in the pass menu, that's the reason.

Fixing that as well.

And then the Blueprint Designer.

If you're having fun with this, again, we're the fun police now.

The Blueprint Designer is currently allowing out-of-bounds placement.

So...

You have a week, chat.

You have a week to go crazy with this if you really want to.

But next week, we're coming down on it.

We're coming down on it.

What's my save?

Your save is a hero save.

Thank you.

So that's the immediate stuff we're patching.

I can't believe I actually found this asset.

That's the immediate stuff for patching for today and next week chat and and now I Am about to talk about some spicy things chat some very spicy things because we have had

That's the immediate stuff for patching for today and next week chat and and now I Am about to talk about some spicy things chat some very spicy things because we have had

other loud feedback on sources that is not the qa site so i urge you if you agree with anything that i am about to say find the same feedback on the qa site and if you can't find it post it there from scratch we are making some internal tickets to track these anyway i am making internal escalations with production to track these anyway on my end

But what the devs really need to get their asses moving is this issue is the top of the haystack on the QA side.

That is what they listen to mainly.

We push that agenda.

Chat.

These issues I have heard much more openly about on Discord.

Reddit and while watching a lot of you guys stream I've been talking to some of you on stream and I've been lurking in many many many more streams and if I don't talk it's just because I Whenever I do I really do want to keep conversation going but I'm also halfway across the room somewhere else so Lurking suits me better in that moment chat.

We are going to talk about

some loud piece of feedback that we have heard and we want to confirm is either intended or we have heard and to some degree we have registered, but again, if you want to reinforce it, emphasize it, post it, or reinforce it on the QA site.

So the first is a point from Reddit that was highly discussed and also by proxy on Discord, which is many of you in chat.

Andrew, we're getting there.

We're getting there, Andrew.

Don't worry.

Don't worry.

Many of you may have realized that power towers now do not allow you to be inside the bounds or the hologram when you place it This was convenient.

I agree, but ultimately it was unintended the It leads to some horrendous It can lead some horrendous weird clipping and even issues if you are placing it down as you are inside the actual hologram Not even under it just inside it but yes, even if you are in its bounds that typically you're not actually in any of the hard metal or material of the power tower and

You are just in its bound in the hologram You will still no longer be able to put it down and that's just to stay consistent with the entire rest of the game because again being able to place You know the warning a players in the way when you try to like place anything foundations now power towers any machine anything?

Yeah, power towers are now consistent with that

and

So, maybe it feels like a little shadow nerf that we didn't post about, but it's an intended hotfix.

Or fix, even.

And feedback again back to vehicle growing pains is also just how it's going to be people kind of want the ability to make roads and then have like closed rings or loops within the road so like think like a racket basically a racket or a Is it just called a like a noose I guess like you have one road and then a circle at the very top so vehicles can like Go around here and then eventually finally go back down

Yeah, with the new roads being mono-directional, meaning they only go a certain way, behaving much more like trains, that's not possible to avoid collision cleanly, to make sure that vehicles always stay on their path and also never stop and just freak out like they used to before.

So, may feel slightly more limited in that regard, they are limited in that regard compared to 1.1 and earlier, but so, so, so much more functioning.

Roundabout?

Might be a better word for it, yeah.

And with the vehicle system, fluid or fluid truck stations or just normal truck stations should have names or be renamable so that we can very easily track them on the radar or map.

Hard agree.

Yes, they should be.

Yes, they should be.

Feedback taken.

Push that on the QA site if you want it to be a higher prio.

Chat, how many of you are acutely aware of colors and how they work?

And more specifically, how many of you are acutely aware... Chat, how many of you are acutely aware of where the colors...

Colors.

White and the color orange.

Where they are on this spectrum.

This little circular color graph.

You're aware of teal?

Colors aren't real?

That rhymes.

Sick.

Exactly.

Rocor Enjoyer.

Nice.

Colors do be colors.

Which spectrum?

I shouldn't say spectrum.

It's more about contrast.

It is more about contrast.

They'd be wiggling.

I've lost.

Maybe I'm using the wrong word.

Anyway, it turns out...

It turns out white and orange makes for horrible contrast when you place white on top of orange and you place orange on top of white.

Labels in the game for items have white digits on orange backgrounds.

And we also, in machines, have orange digits on white background.

Which is not the easiest to read sometimes.

Now, we know that our player base, the vast majority of our player base, they're, like you guys, around the age of 70 to 80.

So, including me, our eyes are collectively melting out of our skulls with the passage of time.

So it would be nice if we could be slightly kinder to our reticles as we go forward.

But we are seeing...

We are seeing the feedback that alternate colors or dark mode or something, I'm joking, I'm joking chat, I'm joking, okay?

Don't take that much offense.

That, you know, dark modes or just color choices of like dark blue or something to make it a bit more palatable to read should be easily fixed.

Technically yes, I mean just finding the contrast is an easy fix and the UI is all there, it's just changing colors around.

What is blocking this from happening immediately is localization, because all the small things with changing colors, being able to have a color slider of your own to customize or just even the words dark mode of the option, all of that has to go through localization and now also certification for consoles whenever we push updates for consoles.

So, it's something we are hearing, it's something we are taking into account.

Do not expect this to be able to be hard pushed to 1.2 live, because that's too soon.

But...

Down the line we absolutely could look into going through all the localization and all the other slight shenanigans that make this harder than just a toggle dark mode and color rating.

But we are hearing that people are struggling with accessibility and want to be able to more comfortably read numbers.

in this game, or even text.

W7 now with consoles and people are playing with, hopefully, a distance between them and their TV, making shit even harder to see because it's that far away.

So.

Color is bound to localization?

No, not the color, color itself is not bound to localization.

How could it be?

It is the, if you, even as simple as adding the dark mode option,

Or a color wheel for you in accessibility for you to be able to like you scroll yourself Just the option describing dark mode like the words dark mode the checkbox or Contrast wheel or whatever and then the wheel those words even those two or four words require like actual a full loop of localization paths to be done, which is why it's so like

to throw in there.

And localization passes are not something you can just do whenever you feel like it.

They have to kind of be, like, with or without consoles in mind, they have to be a package deal with something else.

sepia so dark mode satisfactory go hard i mean we have a lot of gray and black as like background anyway in this game right and theme anyway so it should be fine uh so we are hearing a lot about contrast and the disability there as well i'm still not done chat i have two more items to go

sepia so dark mode satisfactory go hard i mean we have a lot of gray and black as like background anyway in this game right and theme anyway so it should be fine uh so we are hearing a lot about contrast and the disability there as well i'm still not done chat i have two more items to go

I'm saving the best for last, so let's go with the not best for now.

And we are hearing, and this is a quick one, onboarding animations for the hub specifically, they are still broken and they have been broken since 1.1, broken in the way that at least the hub itself, when you actually upgrade the hub from, in tier 0, if you play onboarding and you have tier 0 to go through.

You see the hub expanding with every tier you progress through, or most of them.

And these new parts, they're missing animations.

They're just a black box, exactly.

They are black boxes and they just pop into existence whenever the hell.

So, or they stay black boxes, maybe.

We've heard that once or twice and I've never seen it myself, but you know, spooky game.

So, that's being revived.

If that bothers you a lot, QA site, we are seeing, reminding ourselves of that.