May 13th, 2022
Radar Towers in Update 5 vs. Update 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vAUX3YLH-c&t=507
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Snutt
All right.
So next, I want to talk about our radar towers.
So let me place a radar tower here.
There we go.
So the radar towers function a little bit differently now.
So the way that radar towers used to work is that when you place a radar tower, it would sort of like unveil a portion of the map and they still function the same way.
So within a certain radius, it will like get rid of like the fog of war sort of.
But one thing we've added to the radar towers are that if you hover over them, you will now see that radius, but you will also see sort of what's in that radius.
So it will tell you sort of how many slugs are in this radius.
It will tell you how many of the other collectibles there are.
Which, by the way, if you didn't know this, the Summersloop and the Mercersphere, they're both kind of like placeholder items that we have in the game.
They are tied into the story of Satisfactory that's coming in 1.0.
And they're in the game mostly now because we need to place them as placeholders so we know that where they are, how many there are, et cetera, et cetera.
So, you know, there won't be like a huge subset of items just added.
We may tweak these further in the line, so I don't think it's actually worth collecting these at this point.
But one thing that is important for you guys are the hard drives.
So here you can see that there's five hard drives within this area.
You can also get a sense of what kind of fauna are in there, what kind of flora exist here, et cetera, et cetera.
And similar to as before, you can also customize these.
So you can name this the grass fields.
As of recording this, you have to actually go to the radar tower to name it.
I think we have plans to sort of improve on this aspect as well later down the line, where you can actually rename stuff on the map here, but right now this isn't here in this current build.