September 14th, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Will obstacles make Vehicles run out of Fuel?
This question has 6 related videos, and a related topic
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Topics
- Features > Transportation > Vehicles > Autopilot
- Features > Crafting > Fuel
- Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 5
- Satisfactory Updates > Teasers & Trailers > Update 5 Teasers
Transcript
okay so automatic vehicles only use the amount of fuel that was calculated for the route, right so some people have asked okay so if vehicles only now take the amount of fuel that they need for their route but they bump into things and they get stuck or they fall off a cliff doesn't that mean they're going to run out of fuel because they spend more time on the route now so they're going to run out of fuel and they're going to get stuck and they're not going to make it so no that's that's not how it will work the vehicles when while being automated, they will only they will only use the amount of fuel that they're that they were calculated to use even if they do get stuck even if they bump into things even if they you know ultimately drive a longer path than what they were before they will still only use what was calculated right, and it's it's possible for you to interrupt that if you jump into a vehicle, that was being automated you start driving yourself itself then you're gonna start burning some extra fuel and then maybe the vehicle won't have enough fuel to get back to the truck station but, for the most part it is like a just you just check the numbers and it should just work whilst being automated okay so you don't have to worry about that stuff too much it just works just works which means it probably doesn't questions