Ooh,

we had tennis instead.

We had tennis.

What about pickleball?

Pickleball.

You know, I've never played, but I'm hearing it's popular.

I've also never played

pickleball.

I mean, maybe we should go play to research.

I thought

that's like a part of your culture.

Pickleball?

Yeah, as like a millennial.

Oh, I thought you meant as an Irish person.

I don't know anything about pickleball in Ireland.

It's...

Oh, I'm like... Yeah.

It's...

Oh, I'm like... Yeah.

Someone said, please explain the glowing train rails from the last video.

So, I... That was meant to be like a visual effect to show that the rails were being painted.

I clearly lost the plot of that as a transitional element.

You got lost in the sauce.

A lot of people thought we were redoing train pathing and we're redoing signals.

It was like a whole thing.

That was just the trains being repainted.

You can now paint the rails with all the different metal colors like cliterium and copper.

Copper looks really good.

Copper looks real good.

It's like a deep red.

Yeah.

More satisfactory lo-fi.

I like that I just immediately latched onto the music one.

We can do more music.

We can never reel that out.

I mean, when we do satisfactory lo-fi stuff, like anything that ends up being a tape for an event like Fixmas or something, that's just the devs having fun.

Like, I think...

Wait, it was Fixmas and what other event?

Oh, the anniversary.

Those tapes were all just like devs having fun, just like writing songs and just throwing them in.

And then the elevators as well.

The elevator music.

The elevator music, yeah.

It was fantastic.

I forgot we did that.

Yeah.

I guess like minor anniversary updates.

update information is you can now change the volume on the speaker and

you can turn it off yeah and you can turn it off that was oh my god that drove me insane

yeah that was a big point last year that's gonna be that's gonna be adjustable now

I remember right when I joined the team, I was like, oh, I should do a fresh save.

And everything you do in the beginning of the game is in the hub.

And just hearing the birthday song nonstop was like, I don't know.

I went way out of my way to be like, we have to fix this.

This is driving me crazy.

yeah it's okay

we figured it out all right i made a very sad tutorial for people on how to turn off the event but that was the main the main gripe with with the event

was just getting blasted by the music

There's a cool idea there, any programmer Q&A sessions.

That could be a separate thing in the future.

Yeah.

Last year, we broke down a number of the sound features being added to Satisfactory, and I brought in Mahilo and Sasha for that.

Maybe not for streams, but we definitely might be making some more videos highlighting features and doing interviews of our programming team.

But yeah, maybe we do a stream.

We'll just have to see if they're interested.

I see a question in chat.

Will 1.2 also drop on console today?

Yes, 1.2 will drop on console.

All of our platforms get the update at the exact same time.

Assuming we don't hold up UZU for too long.

Yeah, exactly.

Keep working.

Keep working.

There's a couple about foundation pieces in which I'll just say anything is possible.

Cool idea.

Yeah, I mean, Mikael and I, we've been fielding new foundations, new shapes, stuff like that.

That's something we talk about a lot, and we know there's a great interest for that, and it's something that's in the back of the mind for another update.

But as of right now, nothing planned and in the works for that.

That was towards Oozoo, I'm not going crazy.

That was towards Oozoo, I'm not going crazy.

Lofi.

That's kind of cool.

Will trains get a revamp like the truck and tractor stuff?

So the vehicles actually got an update to be more similar to how trains are built.

So currently there's not much in plan for a train update.

Because we were trying to get them more aligned with trains.

hmm wait someone's compliment the update 3 release video that was a great video that was a good trailer

that was uh something i looked to for uh our exp patch notes video that we just made uh as you know as inspiration for for what's been done before very good stuff we'll definitely try and make more like that

someone's asking for 2.0 but i'm like dude we're at 12.

hmm wait someone's compliment the update 3 release video that was a great video that was a good trailer

that was uh something i looked to for uh our exp patch notes video that we just made uh as you know as inspiration for for what's been done before very good stuff we'll definitely try and make more like that

someone's asking for 2.0 but i'm like dude we're at 12.

uh is it possible to upgrade from version 1.1 to 1.2 while using a 1.1 world or will the world become corrupted your saves will just automatically update to 1.2 so you should be all good nothing you need to do

farming dissatisfactory

We're doing farming now, boy.

You know, it's not necessarily in the fix-it mantra, but I do love the idea of a, like, renewable, more eco-friendly way to play the game.

You got, like, the pioneer straw hat.

You got the paths for the tractors now.

You got the paths for the tractors.

Yeah, I know.

I mean, we literally have a tractor.

It makes a lot of sense.

Let me see.

Hats for tractors.

Hats for tractors.

Hats for tractors.

And that's, yeah, that's an obvious one, surely.

You need, like, the hat, you need a little bit of the straw or whatever.

Sticking out of the helmet, just clipping right through it.

I

mean, how does the pioneer drink the coffee?

Someone just asked what happens to the existing truck paths.

You cannot rebuild existing truck paths, but they will stay present in the save you have as a legacy path.

But there will be more information on that as well.

When the truck squad comes in in like an hour.

Can we play fetch with the doggos?

If we introduce disc golf,

That would make a lot of sense.

Let's be real.

Can we play fetch with the doggos?

If we introduce disc golf,

That would make a lot of sense.

Let's be real.

People want to be able to pick up the Lizard Doggo.

Do you have any idea how big the Lizard Doggos actually are?

Those things are enormous.

When I go make little shorts or something like that, I often bring the Lizard Doggo into it.

And they're straight up as big as the Pioneer, which is kind of weird to think about.

But I know they are huge.

Thanks to photo mode, when you zoom out and see yourself next to a splitter, I was really surprised at how small you are compared to the splitters.

Yeah.

Game scale is funky.

There's a couple about general bugs, signals.

I would say we're just always looking at fixing bugs, so there will probably always be improvements coming up, although not committing to anything specific.

That's G2 territory.

Bigger explosives.

Huh.

That's a question for our programmer, Dylan.

Let me tell you about the nuke.

Oh, the

nuke.

The nuke.

I forgot about the nuke.

And we'll continue to forget about the nuke for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, there's a pretty crazy explosion in the content browser of our unreleased builds.

Yeah.

And it's a little too

big.

Sleep in the toilet or the hub to pass time.

Is that just bits in real life or in the game?

I

just want to poop on company time.

Okay.

Where did I put my guide?

I'm leaving.

Okay.

He's gone.

We can do the forbidden.

I just want to make

sure there's nothing I forgot.

I mean, there's like seven points there, and I think we covered one of them.

Make the joke about update 12.

Oh,

you got interviewed leading up to the 1.2 update, and you were a bit deceptive.

No.

Yeah?

No, I'm never.

I

think you were a little deceptive.

do you want to share more about about what that interview was

uh that was talking to mason from satisfactory news like god when was that like six months ago or yesterday i don't know i don't have time anymore but yeah he poked a couple of questions about like oh our game mode's coming and this before no it isn't even before we'd revealed anything because we'd revealed something in it

The merch video you did?

I was dropping hints all the way since our last summer check-in of

last year.

That's another thing I want to talk about.

I was dropping mad hints.

I think I started with the portable toilets.

Yeah, I think I had a porta-potty rental on a second screen.

I think was the first one.

but yeah uh and then i definitely i did the ore randomization in the merch video you did the rain in the fixmus

video

the rain was in the sounds video oh yes at

the end yeah

yeah like the yeah the fluid truck was blatant like we gave that was an obvious yes here's the fluid truck yes here's the soda can

that was just uh that's a crumb you know yeah yeah

it was it was one where uh mikhail was on the uh steam deck and he was showing off like pipes and stuff and you could just barely see like someone was using like the the tea pipe oh yeah i don't even remember that a long time for people to pick up on it yeah

I remember people asking me, like, oh, have you hinted at it?

I'm like, look at the video again.

Zoom in.

But we also had, wait, we had those hints.

Oh, and then it was in the audio video on Sasha's screen.

You could actually see just like rain.

It just plainly says like rain at the top of some of the audio.

Sasha was a context for those that either didn't

Didn't see it, or it's been a while.

Sasha was showing things off in Wyze, which is like an audio software connected to Unreal Engine.

And there was just literally an entire tab dedicated to the rain sounds in the game.

And I don't think anyone really picked up on that.

No.

From what I remember.

I didn't see any coverage on this.

Which was very interesting.

you know excited excited that that that's a good point but you know it all it all comes together everything has a purpose

um i just keep seeing people ask about console and 1.2 yes sim ship pc and console today i will probably say that every 10 minutes for new people who join oh the new audio i mean yeah the new audio changes are awesome

you know excited excited that that that's a good point but you know it all it all comes together everything has a purpose

um i just keep seeing people ask about console and 1.2 yes sim ship pc and console today i will probably say that every 10 minutes for new people who join oh the new audio i mean yeah the new audio changes are awesome

Yes.

All of the occlusion and the dynamic reverb are some very immersive features.

Yeah.

I'm guilty often of playing games without sound and just like playing music or something

mm-hmm

but like it's just the audio is so intentional in our game that it really it's really fun to just like get immersed in your factory

yeah this was also the first update that I worked with Hannah on Ada lines so some of them were kind of coming from me and Hannah was editing so like

the rainbow one and the spawn toilet with obviously the implication of the spawn toilet being we're kind of turning

you know i'm not gonna you can just

figure it out yourself well i'm trying to hint out there but the rainbow one being like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because i was so happy i mean like what else would i do

I did want to at one point do a feature where we just always had a Katerium node appear at the end of a rainbow.

It wasn't

practical.

It wasn't

practical.

Which is most popular in your office, tea or coffee?

Well, I'll say that coffee is actually...

Fill us up, Jason.

You guys want more coffee?

Yeah, yeah, no problem.

I'll get you guys a

cup.

Some of the sauce.

Also, yeah, coffee is by far the winner on this one.

Is this a little bit of ASMR?

Let's get nice and

close.

We have Linus laughing in the background, so I'm hoping that was a good pour.

we

literally just pivoted yes from talking about the

toilet

uh wait how close do you guys want some milk yeah sure yeah no problem oh hell yeah

you've got like a frother oh yeah

there you

go

thank you thank you

but also

I don't want to keep Uzu waiting too long.

I'm so

conscious of how closely I drink this coffee to that mic right now.

This is not a clip I want.

Let me put the

coffee down.

Ew, milk and coffee.

That's so common.

Don't... Ew, milk and

coffee.

It's oat milk.

It's delicious.

No barrel?

No, we do not have an in-house barista.

We have an honor system where if the pot is empty, the next person must fill it.

And consistently that works.

Yes.

We're going to find out it's the same person every day.

And the pot just magically fills it.

It's crazy.

It's really cool.

It cleans itself.

So unbranded, we have a copy string

now.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Bits.

Mikael did not get crushed by a dumbbell.

It was a barbell.

That's much heavier and much more impressive.

Although we haven't checked in the last hour.

We don't know how the situation has escalated.

Who have those sending their finest

once

they find the strongest?

It

takes time.

They can only send one guy.

They might be on vacation.

Yeah.

It is sweet.

It is near summer.

Gav is complaining about the coffee.

Coffee Russian roulette.

It is.

I

want to ask one more question, which is what's next?

1.2 is releasing, so what is next for the team?

Where are we putting our focus over the next few months?

That's a good question to tag team, I think, as a producer.

Yeah, you

can answer.

I think in general, we just launched 1.2, so we want to give folks a chance to try it out and everything.

Also for us, it's summertime.

We want to enjoy the weather.

Wintertime is just all darkness all the time.

I think we're going to enjoy the break.

Come back.

We're going to do a lot of bug fixing.

We look forward to all the bugs that y'all are going to discover.

And then I think we're just going to spend time listening to the community and see...

what are people asking for next and maybe that'll drive like some of the things that like we we work on next but

yeah i mean again just for the timeline like the last free update like 1.2 this one the pre-update you're here for hi um like i put that feature list together after 1.1 like we were very just focused on get 1.1 out

And then we got the feature list for 1.2.

We have like an internal wishlist of what we would want to add.

But yeah, as Caelan said, it's coming up to Swedish summer.

A lot of people take vacations at that time.

It's kind of not the most productive development time.

And we usually kick off nicely again in like August.

As Jason said, we started hinting towards stuff like

If you're watching the videos close enough early or like late in the year.

So there will be more.

We're not going to say what it is yet.

There will be more.

As I say,

we are not going to abandon support for major updates on Satisfactory.

We're going to keep going.

And, you know, it's less about addressing bugs because, you know, I wouldn't call them bugs.

You know, they're happy accidents.

Ooh.

Ooh.

I like that.

You know?

Broken features, maybe?

Features.

Features with style.

Yeah.

Features with

substance.

Yeah.

You know?

Character.

Features of character.

Right?

Right, everybody?

Yeah.

Right?

I'm not sure if the name tag got updated, but uzu is our release manager.

And so today is probably as important as it gets.

Yeah, it's been like the whole year to be honest.

There's been so many things going on I was I was looking into this like right before I or rather in the 15 minutes that you stole from my segment

I was looking into stuff.

And I mean, the last time was the console release in November.

So it actually hasn't been that long.

You know, all in all, counting the vacation and stuff.

But the preparation for...

Fixmas happened right after that, after the console release, which that was technically our first simultaneous release, because we did release that on both platforms at the same time.

But, you know, this is much, much bigger in general.

And it was a ride.

It was a ride.

Are

there any specific challenges with managing a console release process?

Are

there any specific challenges with managing a console release process?

simultaneously with a PC release.

That's still like a fairly new process for us here.

Yeah, I mean, I think the obvious low-hanging one is that the certification process, which again, for anybody watching who has no clue what that is, basically when you want to release something on consoles, you send that to either Microsoft, Sony, or whoever, and you ask them basically, hey, is this good enough to be released here?

And most of the time, they'll say no.

And then you have to figure out why and make all the corrections that are necessary.

And it's pretty tough.

It's pretty tough because submitting to certification is like a box of chocolates.

You never know what you're going to get.

And usually you get like some very unexpected stuff and we tried to prepare very hard actually Fishlabs was also extremely helpful this time around again Honestly, I felt really bad This is this is some good Laurie.

Hopefully they're watching but I felt really bad during the first submission and

because we did a pass with external certification QA to see how bad, like what's the damage, right?

Like where are we at?

And we got a list of like a hundred and something bugs.

And we had like, I think we had,

almost like 110 bucks on on our jira um and they fixed them in like a week and a half uh with like three people

three people yeah i

think alex k was like the the biggest uh person that we were like all whipping super hard

oh man

sorry alex yeah

metaphorically

yeah metaphorically we could have done it

Like for real, but I don't think anybody would allow

it.

I'm not sure labor law allows for that.

In the EU it does.

Yeah, definitely not in

Europe.

But they did an amazing job with the turnaround for that.

Almost everything was like super clutch.

Even honestly, as usual, last week, a lot of the very important stuff got done.

But I'm very happy with how things turned out, I think, overall.

Again, Giuseppe was extremely helpful during all of this, Jens, Alex, Zimmerman as well.

But to be honest, the entire team at Fish Labs has been working very hard.

I think something that has not been mentioned too much, which I'm stealing whatever you have next, because this is a very good thing that I wanted to mention.

The rebindable controls.

Oh, yes.

I

feel like that's super understated in videos and everything because, to be honest, it's very hard to showcase.

How do you put this in a trailer?

I touched on it in the video before last.

That's huge.

I feel like a lot of games on console and period don't necessarily allow you to rebind the controls.

It's really cool that we were able to do that.

Usually you get the presets like type A, B, C or something and you just switch a few keys around.

I guess the collaboration that you guys did with them as well led into

uh, pushing them towards the direction like, okay, you know what we need to, if we're going to do this, let's do it all the way.

And, uh, we actually added a pretty extensive menu.

Of course, I think there's still a few, uh, couple like interactions that are a bit tricky to remind or that are not remindable, but like 90% of the game is remindable now.

And, um, again, hopefully this also enables a lot of people who have like accessibility concerns or issues in general to finally enjoy the game.

Um,

But, yeah, I think it's a big feature.

It required a lot of testing from everyone's side.

And, yeah, hopefully people enjoy it.

Nice.

There's some good hype for that.

There's also one guy asking, when do we get the AI girlfriend?

I don't know what to do

with that.

We got Ada, yeah.

See, someone talking about Taco Bell in chat.

That sounds really good.

Taco Bell?

Yeah.

Never eaten there.

You never had Taco Bell?

No.

Well, they're coming out with a new item recently.

Wait,

who are you shilling for?

You heard the bell.

That's so weird.

It doesn't exist in Sweden.

I mean, there's probably one.

I mean, we have one in Stockholm.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah, you can try the new Crunchwrap Gordita Crunch.

Jason, stop promoting other companies.

I mean, I see the desire to get a sponsor, though.

When you grabbed the Oatly, you were like, does anybody want some milk?

You know, times are getting...

Things are a little rough.

I'm trying to do my part to make sure we can keep the lights on.

I respect the hustle.

Would you like some coffee?

Thank you.

You

can

do that.

I'll take the milk just like that.

You can pour it in my water.

No, please.

No, please.

I remember from last year, during the 1.1 stream,

Here it comes.

You had a bit of an anecdote about the game mode randomization settings.

Well, the anecdote was that I teased that there was a very highly requested feature by me from like day zero that kind of never made it in because of reasons.

And it was finally coming over.

And I don't think anybody actually guessed it correctly from what I saw.

But yeah, it is Game Moms.

And I saw, my God, of course, I tried to memorize the name of the guy on Reddit who beat the hardest settings, and I forgot it.

Oh,

no.

Yeah.

I mean,

it's crazy.

The requirements are like 50,000, 250,000, like crazy numbers.

I put that in thinking, oh, this is too high.

No one's going to do this.

No, we have some crazy people on the subreddit.

yeah but uh when i saw that post i was like this is this is exactly what i wanted to see um because i i really like um like roguelikes and especially the the the main um motivation i guess like what kept me um fueled to keep proposing this over the years was the uh castlevania symphony of the night randomizers um there's a bunch of streamers that i really like i know people also do the link to the past randomizers and stuff yes

But the communities for those games are great.

Actually using the randomizer is amazing.

I really love the Symphony of the Night one.

And with Satisfactory, I think there's so many things.

A lot of the map is unexplored because of min-maxing and stuff.

So I always wanted something that could incentivize people to play in a different way than the usual way.

uh or to just like you know have more fun with like different settings and uh i'm very happy that the one person who made that post on reddit actually was using a flight mode though uh so it wasn't completely horrendous of an experience okay

all right all right i've got like two thoughts on that uh two thoughts in general first one was about game modes which is i remember sending a picture to you i like it was like the marketing team's like a marketing call

which was like an early version of game modes that was in grass fields where you have three nodes and it was like iron uranium iron and sending that screenshot through and be like this is the shit we want this is what we really wanted from this feature

that's awesome yeah exactly

the second thing is just because you're referencing people who are posting externally the truck thing this is for the guy on youtube who says fix fucking trucks on every video

Yeah, Natro got it.

It was Grolem who made the post.

So shout-outs for actually enduring the experience.

I mean, he said that he loved it.

He said, like, I enjoyed every minute of it.

It's a little sadistic.

Masochistic?

Yeah, but I respect it.

I respect it.

Because, yeah, I also intend to play with the randomizers and stuff on my own.

I haven't because things have been insanely busy over here.

But yeah, it was kind of like a self-wishlist feature that I really, really wanted.

When you test this game for, like, nine years, you kind of get, like, so used of the same exact, like, routes for everything, you know?

Like, when I do, like, smoke testing, I've seen grass fields that are specific to Iron Oats, like, a million times by now.

Just a little bit of variety, you know, makes my day.

It's the spice of life.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

And you really can play most of the game in a very contained area.

I mean, that's usually what I do in my playthroughs.

And I think multipliers are a great way to get you across the entire map.

Yeah.

I remember testing the presets.

Like, I did a level of extensive testing just to see how close... Like, because we don't have any...

There's no biases whatsoever.

It is completely random.

Like, you do...

even if you do like a basic resource bridge or whatever like it will still be completely random where on the map those resources appear and just going in like loading grass fields and just testing every single resource just to see how close they are and I like hit Kateria and I'm like oh 10,000 meters away

that's okay

they'll figure it out they know how to walk

Yeah, if anything with game modes, I think there's a lot of funny ideas that I'm not going to spoil, actually, right now, because I still believe they'll happen, right?

Right, Emmett?

We have a platform now to add more game modes.

Right, Emmett?

Right, Emmett?

Have Lucina Basher over there.

We've talked about some cool ideas for them.

Yeah.

So Grolin would have to do another playthrough with the new ideas on top.

Do it for Grolin.

Yeah.

Can we get a hashtag?

Someone asked how much gigabyte is the update?

Do you know?

More than one?

More than one?

Less than...

It's at least one.

At least one gigabyte.

I don't know why you are instigating their dog with advanced build techniques.

What do you mean?

Bugs or

advanced build techniques?

I mean, I like both.

What do you mean?

I don't get it.

Wait, while we're here, if we had one request for any other game mode, what would it be?

I'm asking the chat that.

If you want any other game mode added, what would you want added?

Fucking

Doug.

Can you guys start by asking daisy chaining to be available from the start as not a game mode, just as a feature.

Don't type golf, you're wasting your time.

I already made that joke today, come on.

Can you, like, low gravity mode or something?

Like, is that one?

It would be nice.

Sonic mode?

Just turn into Sonic?

Hyper speed?

satisfactory racing um

i mean technically we already have car tracing with the with the executive ladder

yeah like naughty dog used to always do they did like crash bandicoot one to three then crash team racing and then did it jack and daxter one to three and then crash it or jack x it would be they do it do like the fourth game is the racing game

so we're missing uh satisfactory bash right the party game

oh yeah obviously

Yeah, that's what we

need.

Well, anyway, I wanted to ask you guys, why

did we rework vehicle padding?

I mean, to be honest, it was just kind of a shame because the old vehicle system was just kind of a...

It was kind of crap.

It was kind of crap and it's a shame because vehicles are cool, like tractors and trucks.

It's fun to see them move around.

They add a lot of life to the factory.

We just wanted more players to use them, I guess, because a lot of players would just kind of skip over them because they're just annoying to deal with and unreliable.

Yeah.

Did you guys

use vehicles before the change?

I had, like, one vehicle running when I had coal in, like, Tier 3.

I run it.

And then I built a factory over it.

It was just, like, you know, one of the dinosaur fossils under the factory.

There's one poor vehicle.

Ancient civilizations.

Yeah, yeah.

There's, like, one station not connected to anything anymore and one vehicle stuck on it.

That was my vehicles before we were at work.

That's so sad.

But now they can actually join the production line proper.

Yeah.

Now you can actually build some cool stuff with them.

So yeah, I've been using them more.

Awesome.

Awesome.

That's good.

You know, maybe this is the time to announce a community challenge.

A community challenge?

Yeah, a community challenge.

I came up with this on the spot.

So you're not allowed to connect machines to machines anymore.

You can connect machines to truck stations.

So all of your logistics are going to be handled by factory cart only.

And the winner of this gets... What can you offer?

uh i'm sorry how do we know how do we know when you've won i mean i guess you you

finish you finish the game with this with no cheats and uh

so you you use factory carts as all of your belts as all of your belts basically

yeah like you have machine to belt to truck station but then truck station to truck station two belts to machine but no machine to machine that's not allowed

i like it we could call it the captain of industry of a challenge

yes okay

That's evil.

That is...

That's... That's fucked.

I

mean, I've seen some crazy people in the chat today.

Somebody will do it.

Okay.

Someone has already done a karts only run.

Yeah.

See, there's Andrew there.

Of course, Andrew.

Yeah.

Okay.

This might be a challenge for Andrew, but, you know, we can make this a... We can just make this a bounty.

If...

If someone does this with visual proof, and I want sweeps, I want beautiful cinematics of all of your factory cards delivering to all of your different factories, I will get you a voucher for our merch shop.

You have to add some complexity.

Maybe I don't know.

It has to be a selfie.

It has to be uploaded as a TikTok.

It has to be.

I just have to see it.

Whether you post it on the subreddit and you tag me or you send it to my DMs, you could mail like a USB drive here.

And I would likely open that, but maybe not on a work computer.

um yeah i will get you a no not five percent off 100 off for like how much is 1600 microsoft points worth

it's

like

20 bucks i'm gonna guess it's like 16 euros

yeah yeah so it'll be enough it'll be enough to get something yeah i'll have to talk to lenis and see what see what i'm allowed to see what i'm allowed to do we'll figure it out but yeah you can get some merch um

Cool.

Cool, cool, cool.

um something i find interesting with the new vehicle system is that the old one was you know physics based so it had a lot of like funny wonky uh but this one has like faked physics so that is involved more in like the visuals behind things so i'm curious where the like programming functionality of this ends and the visual like aesthetics kind of come in

Well, I can answer from the programming side.

From the programming side, vehicles have a very basic physics implementation, in a sense that vehicles know where we roughly should ride, and they try to stay close to the ground.

So that's basically all the programming implementation does.

But all the inertia-related physics, this is all faked and it doesn't really affect how the paths...

There's still some movement that's derived from the path, but a lot of inertia is based purely on the movement and is basically purely visual.

And I think Gabriele mostly worked on this from the visual side.

Yeah, I mean, basically what we're doing is just reading some data such as like the velocity of the movement, the velocity of the rotational changes.

We're looking at like the suspension, like where it's angled.

And yeah, we're just faking inertia mostly and acceleration and deceleration behaviors.

It's pretty much it, yeah.

Because without this, they would basically just look exactly like trains.

So just following the path exactly.

Is this something that you are just like feeling out?

Like you're just in Pi, in Editor, and you're like tweaking settings to like, oh, like when it takes a turn, I'm like having it kind of tilt this much this way.

Like that feels right versus that's like way too low.

And that's like, you know, like during motorcycle races where they like are basically...

Yeah, there was a lot of trial and error in this because the hardest part of this honestly was trying to figure out what players could possibly be doing with this, so trying every scenario could come up with.

I'm sure there's going to be a bunch that we never tried that are going to be completely broken and stuff.

But for the most part, it was kind of difficult to figure out every possible scenario that the tracks could go through.

Because initially, something that was missing, which is going to be very hard to demonstrate here, but when a track would navigate a path that was slanted this way,

they wouldn't like follow the inclination of the terrain for example and they would just be straight and one wheel was up and the other one was way down.

We

would basically try to adjust the length of suspension on per wheel basis.

This is kind of done on programming side because like I said programming does very basic

simulation of where the wheel should be but it doesn't do like any kind of like realistic simulation it just the only intent is to give Gabriel some data to work in because you know you could for example say okay so if I put the wheel there that means the ground is roughly there and we can do more stuff with it and we can fake out more suspension

And there's still a few funny issues with suspension.

Namely, for example, right now, if you compare it with manual driving versus automated driving, you can see that the tractors look like they're crouching.

Like, the suspension is compressed for no reason.

And this is something that I have seen for a while, and it will be nice to get addressed.

But ultimately, it's not really gameplay impacting, so we did not have time to get this for 1.2.

But in the future, it will be nice, too.

uncrouch them and they can go a little bit further away from the ground.

They just got some crazy suspension on these on these vehicles.

They look so cute like we're like yeah it's

kind of like a it's kind of like a spider almost.

It's creeping up on you.

It's creeping up on you.

I just got a text saying that someone has already completed the challenge and sent you a DM on Discord Jason.

Well

on experimental.

Someone completed the challenge?

With the new

system.

Not with this system.

No, no, no way.

It's more

impressive,

honestly.

If it was on experimental, I'll think about it.

Someone asked, why does Jason, the largest host, simply not eat the other five?

What are you...

i had lunch man i'm not hungry dang i might have just got s'mores prop tart free merch without him even without them just even knowing what's that noise rain yeah it's raining outside it's cozy you sure you guys don't want some coffee

i had lunch man i'm not hungry dang i might have just got s'mores prop tart free merch without him even without them just even knowing what's that noise rain yeah it's raining outside it's cozy you sure you guys don't want some coffee

I mean, you got your Fanta, which, you know, it's a new recipe, but the same old flavor.

Is it a new recipe?

Where did

you see

that?

It's been a while, but I'm surprised that Uzo didn't explain this on his segment, because he used to really like the Fanta, but since we started adding 50% aspartame to it, it's kind of fell off on the tier list for him.

That's so sad.

It is pretty sad, and it's kind of funny, because for me, for example, I like the new 50% flavor more.

I love aspartame.

Same.

I think it's yummy.

It's so good.

Yeah.

I just take some pills with it every day.

Yeah.

It's so nice.

Keeps you going.

Yeah.

Have you seen Fanta in the US?

It's life changing.

It's crazy looking though.

It's like neon orange.

I mean, you can go to like Hemiquel and get some and import it from the US.

And it is, like I said, it is life changing.

It's so nice.

Unfortunately, it's only nice until you look at the calories and then it's not as nice.

But if you just don't look at calories, it's really, really

nice.

That's a good rule of thumb, I think.

If you don't look at the calories, things taste a lot better.

I am curious, when you guys are debugging, are you typically just using the gym level, or do you take it into the game map fairly often?

I mean, for me, I try to use the test map as often as possible because it's just faster to load and just performs better.

The actual world in engine is way heavier than on the build that you guys are playing.

so if we can avoid using that I mean it's just faster but sometimes you have to like we had to use that a lot for vehicles to just see how well they would behave on terrain and stuff like that but yeah when possible the test map is my go-to

Yeah, same for me.

Ultimately, what Gabriel said, test level is much more lightweight.

For example, the time between, you can get from editor, from hitting start to editor to pi in around a minute on test map.

For main level it takes quite a bit longer, over two minutes probably, maybe even three minutes.

And there's some performance overhead related to moving around the map.

Because Unreal has a system called one file per actor, which basically lets people work on the world without conflicts, which is super nice for development.

But the problem is it's not very good for runtime, so when you load the world in the editor, Unreal has to gather all these small files, collect them together, make something that it can use in runtime, and basically present it to you.

When we make a build, that is done on our machines once, and then you guys enjoy the packaged build, and then you don't need to worry about this.

But when you launch the editor, because people can touch these files all the time,

Like there's no any kind of cash or any kind of like fast

way to get them.

Unreal really has to do it from scratch every single time, which takes a lot of time.

And the main level also has a lot, and I mean a lot of materials, a lot of textures, which takes some time to load, because again, this is a bit slower in the editor.

And we've been doing a lot of work for optimization of editor performance lately, and it's been getting better, I would say, compared to how it was when we first upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.

uh during update 8 and now it's much much better but um it's still not as lightweight as the test map

Yeah.

And for context, the test map is basically just like a very small like section.

It's like a flat plane with like some random assets and it's like kind of just a gym for devs to test things out and make sure they're working.

Yeah.

Funnily enough, we actually have this map in the shipment built as a debug in 8.

So you can find it.

It's there, but there's nothing there.

It's literally just a plane with a few nodes and a few trees.

I think it even showed up in one video, right?

The test map?

Yeah, because I think we had like, oh, select the starting biome.

And then there was like the other button, like the warning sign or

something.

Yeah, I think Ben got mad at me for that.

Yeah.

Some people thought that might have been like a new map or something, but no, that's just so people can open the test map.

It's just an entry.

We don't really use it because in the editor, you just open the editor with a test map.

But if you're in a build, it's convenient to be able to just go on a test map.

But usually you don't need to because again, in the build, it's very fast to just go to regular level.

I usually build most of our cinematic shots in the test map first, and then I parent it all to a null in the sequencer, and then I just drag it to wherever I need to in the persistent level.

Smart.

Yeah.

Well,

I'm not sure I have

more questions for you regarding, specifically regarding vehicle paths.

I guess, like, were there any challenges?

I mean, you touched on, obviously, like, the terrain, like, kind of causing the vehicles to crouch, but, like, things that got resolved, maybe any, like, blaring things?

Yeah, we had a lot of very funny bugs with the system.

Yeah.

Because there's a few cases where the old system... Basically, because we're out of early access and we have put a lot of effort into trying to not break people's safes, we have to handle the legacy safes very well.

And one of the big things that we had to do for vehicle rework is to answer the question, okay, what happens to the legacy paths?

And as people might have seen, the legacy paths mostly work, but...

We look a little bit funky and we might float because ultimately we're not subject to some of the restrictions that the new system can have.

And ultimately it's a very interesting problem that we had to solve because the new system basically requires you to have a lot of data about how the vehicle moves around the path.

and it uses that data to do a lot of interesting things.

For example, it uses that data to calculate how the path should look, it uses the data to calculate the climb angle to adjust to fuel consumption, and a lot of other things.

But for legacy paths, this data is not available, because back in the time, old vehicle paths, if you guys have seen them, they used to be just... visually, they would look to you like nodes that point in one direction,

But in the backend, we would basically, in runtime, make a spline.

A spline is like a curved line that connects all of them.

And when you're far away from vehicles, basically, vehicles are honestly very interesting from an optimization perspective as well.

We have two modes.

One mode is called the real mode, and one mode is called the simulated mode.

And the simulated mode basically is when you're far away from them, and they just follow that spline.

And if you look at vehicles right now, it's very similar.

They also follow the path spline without doing fancy things that Gabriel does, for example.

But the old vehicles, they try to be really smart about it.

So the real mode will try to do real vehicle physics and not just...

follow the spline.

So, you know, when it worked, it would look amazing.

The vehicles would really do a vehicle.

There's no faking.

It's real vehicle physics.

But on the other hand, it was really difficult to write after pilot code for them and also predict how we're going to move.

Because ultimately, vehicle physics is unfortunately not reliable and not...

deterministic or stable.

So, for example, I think if a lot of people remember how old vehicles were, there's a common case where you try to, for example, build a bridge and make a path that turns on the bridge, and you would try to drive as slowly as possible to make sure that if a vehicle doesn't fall over, it looks like it works, and then you let it drive, and it flies into it and falls over.

And then eventually with ghosting it goes back, but...

Basically some of the vehicle issues with physics were kind of very difficult to solve and as a player you really had no choice but to go for basically extremely, extremely overblown paths that are really far from corners, really far, far from each other to make sure that vehicles do not fumble the path following.

And the new system basically lets you do such paths more consistently and handles them well.

So, for example, a lot of people have been making highways, a lot of vehicles next to each other, or making some very steep angles where vehicles can, for example, climb or go down.

And it's very nice because ultimately this is something that the old system was really, really difficult to...

implement with.

But I kind of lost the tangent, sorry.

I wanted to know the

differences.

Super interesting.

Gab,

what about you?

I just wanted to mention something that kind of just comes with the new system, accidentally-ish, which is the fact that you can now reasonably build temporary paths for your vehicles.

Because I feel like earlier, the amount of effort it took to record something kind of forced you to build the highway for real and make it look nice.

well now you can just build like kind of some random path and then just replace it later and you don't need to re record anything and it just it will just work again and that's like one of my favorite like new features like you don't have to commit into spending like a few hours building a highway you can just build a random path and replace it later when you want to

yeah i agree i think i think that's a nice it's a

nice

quality of life update

Yeah.

It's also kind of interesting because this forced us to do some very interesting calculation and physics and math to support this case.

Because if you look at trains, for example, while right now, if your path is valid, it looks like vehicles work like trains.

but while you build it you realize that we have much more restrictions right because for example you cannot build them floating in the air and there's no railway buildable that you can build the paths they don't provide physical support for vehicles they project to the ground and they're one of the very few buildings in the game that do this probably the only building in the game that does it

um and as such we for example have to be you have to be able to build them over the ground terrain you have to be able to build them in caves which was a really big challenge uh basically there's a lot of very challenging terrain and we kind of had to find the balance between uh letting the people build in a terrain that looks like it shouldn't be allowed to be built in and um keeping the restrictions somewhat consistent to make sure that the vehicles don't look too silly

it's basically it was an interesting challenge to seek balance between these two and i think right now where the paths are fairly strict but not strict to an extent where you cannot build in some areas yeah which was the case during the early work on the vehicles

Yeah, it was a lot of back and forth into me or somebody else just sending Nikita pictures of, hey, look, you can't do this.

And then we had to do so much work to allow very small niche scenarios.

Initially, you weren't even able to go across dunes in the dune desert because the tip was too sharp.

Yeah, we also have a lot of very funny vehicle shapes.

For example, if you look at the truck, truck has the most silly shape ever because it has wheels in the front like this.

And it has a lot like a very big chunk of trunk body sticking on the back, which means that, for example, if you try to climb a 45 degree ramp like this, the truck would lose contact in the middle wheels because it's going to basically get like hit the ground with the back because the back is sticking out so much.

And we basically had to do a special case, a lot of these things to let people build a path.

Although it doesn't really make sense because the truck as a vehicle doesn't make sense by design.

God, it's just so much trial and error, especially with a map as big as Satisfactory.

It's also really funny because, you know, Gabriel would send me a case like this, yeah?

I'll fix the case, and then I find out that two of our cases broke as a result of this

fix.

It's like, oh, you cannot build a vehicle like this.

Okay, you can build it now.

Oh, but now you cannot build it like this.

Okay, fixed.

Oh, but now you cannot build it at all.

Oh, it's so

messy.

Yeah, making the vehicles work with terrain was probably one of the biggest challenges we have had to face.

But I'm really happy with the result.

Yeah.

And obviously, you know, if you guys encounter any funky things in-game, go ahead and make a ticket on our questions in questions.satisfactory.com, I believe.

And we can investigate internally.

But yeah, it is 4.30.

Yes.

Oh, Doug asked a great question.

What is one thing you guys have done that nobody really noticed, which is talking to sound and VFX?

I guess I found a way to make some rain splashes land on the water, because Unreal is weird and wacky.

So I had to figure that out.

And that's different than just the rain splashes landing on the ground?

Yep.

Because the ground is interpreted as like a landscape?

Yeah, and it has like a distance field and stuff that I could look for and spawn on.

So we get some nice flashes where we expect them.

That's

cool.

I think that the surface type for the audio is also quite unique, right?

Yeah.

I'm not sure how, yeah, I'm not sure what people notice or not with sound.

Usually people don't notice sound unless it works.

Professionals, everybody.

Fucking hell.

I'm waiting for that.

Sorry.

Mic drop.

Mic

drop, yeah.

Yeah, people don't notice sounds, I guess, unless they're good.

So it's a bit like, yeah, exactly, or missing.

But yeah, maybe like, yeah, if...

depending on the surface you're staying on, the rain will sound different.

So you can hear it clearly when you're standing, it's raining and you're standing in the water, it will sound watery, but it's also like if there's more grass or more dirt or concrete or metal, it will also change.

And so maybe that's something that people won't notice right away, but hopefully they can feel it and stuff.

Um, yeah.

And also the droplets is always around your local player.

It's not like out in the world.

So we recycle the droplets based on like cube around the player.

So when you go forward, the droplet behind you is gonna spawn in front of you.

So it keeps recycling.

And that's how we optimize that thing.

What about materials in the world getting wet?

So like foundations.

How does that work?

So they don't actually get wet.

We don't do any material work for that.

It's a post-processing effect.

So we made a change in the engine to inject the wetness before the lighting is done.

So basically how a deferred renderer works is you render the depth of the whole scene.

From there you figure out what's relevant for the view.

based on that you do all the colors, how the light should react to that, and after that you would normally do the lighting.

But we take the height information we get from the factory and from the world, and from there we can calculate which pixels should be wet, which should be dry, and we inject that in between the lighting.

But that's how we approach that.

So in layman's terms, it's magic.

Smokes and mirrors.

Smokes

and

mirrors.

Like always.

And it goes well together with everything, like the post processing and the effects and the sound.

It's just coming together nicely.

Can the thunder be dangerous?

That's a good question for your ears.

Maybe for

your eyes and ears, yeah.

It's really impactful.

And there's no rain in the desert.

Did you just make an

America reference?

No, I'm

just saying words.

Did you go through the desert on a horse with no name?

No.

It

felt good to get out of the rain.

Yeah.

I can't remember my name or whatever the lyrics are.

I can't remember no name or whatever.

What was the development process like, in terms of length, going back and forth?

Sasha, were you coming in at the end, or were you jumping in for sound on early iterations of the weather?

from each of your perspective?

How was

it?

For me, it was all throughout the process.

Obviously, at the end, there's always things that come together, so it can get a bit hectic, like, ah, now we're figuring out.

Back and forth.

Yeah, exactly.

There's always more iterations, like right at the tail end and stuff, but that's kind of normal.

But for this, I was like, I knew it was going to be rain in the game, so every time there was a rainy day, I was recording rain, pretty much.

That was it.

And thinking about the system and stuff.

But yeah.

So all throughout.

Yeah, I feel like as soon as I was done with some sort of version of the rain, we just talked.

And you just kept going instantly.

It was really a lot of back and forth because first the region or the service system was made by you and Michel.

And that was kind of a core to feel the rain.

But then me and Fille were mainly working on the effects.

And then Gabriele, he was early on the stream, he did the effects on the trees for the wind.

So he redid all the foliage again.

Good job, Gab.

Second time to get like the wind into all the foliage, grass, trees, everything.

And some of the special trees in the grass fields got extra treatment because they have like vines hanging from it that were not nicely animated before, but now they were.

Thank you for fixing sign and billboards rendering in 1.2.

Is that you, Ben?

Oh, Jesus.

I caused that

problem, and I fixed that problem.

That's classic.

Basically, what we tried to do was reduce memory overhead for consoles, because the Xbox S

was struggling as it always does uh so i basically scale down signs when you don't look at them and they would scale up once you look at them but i didn't cap how many could become relevant at the same time so it was certainly pumping a gigabyte into the video cart and then it got sad

Do you have an attenuation radius or something?

Actually I use the renderer so I ask how long has it been since we looked at the sign and if it's been long then we mark them as relevant and otherwise we put them in a pool of relevant signs and now we allow 5 or 10 per frame to be updated so we don't choke the GPU.

Well...

It sounds like they're making it so that when you close your eyes, the universe disappears.

Basically.

It's like things only exist if I open my eyes or look at them.

That's a philosophy, isn't it?

There's an actual school of thought.

Someone wants Vili to take off his shirt.

That's crazy.

People are saying, like, are you a Viking?

Are you a Viking?

Blah, blah, blah.

I

am.

Do

you have an axe?

Someone wanted to have Thunderstorm on at all times.

Thunderstorm's on at all times.

In theory, you could

make a preset for that, yeah.

Noted.

Noted.

Right now we have several presets that basically just, it's kind of like the weather channel.

You know, that just increases the chances of certain weather events and how extreme they are.

We'll start the same time on GeForce Now.

Probably.

I think this was from the main branch, so that should work that way.

No, Andrew, you're not going to have all signs at all the time.

I saw another question about Permaday.

With the game modes, initially we talked about world settings too.

Currently the only world settings we have is the weather.

But that's stuff that's somewhere in the backlog for maybe one day, TM.

But we'll see whenever that comes.

We also saw the request for no Manta mode, because some people hate the Manta.

But let's see what we do with that.

I think people just don't like that the Manta clips through their factories.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can also mute it in the settings.

You can build around it.

You can mute the Manta?

Really?

Yeah.

Well, I think, no, it's in the creature slider.

I think you'll mute it on the creature's

pageant.

Unless suddenly Stinger jumps in behind because you can't hear him.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Like, great.

Oi, oi, oi.

I can add that, though, the slider.

We can just mute the Manta.