We destroy a planet at "Satisfactory"

Simon Balissat

10.6.2020

Translation: machine translated

The game banishes us to a virgin planet whose flora and fauna we mercilessly exploit. We mine ore and crystal automatically and generate electricity with plants and animals. From 1 p.m., you can join Raphi and me in our virtual environmental sin.

One part survival, one part factory simulator and one part capitalist exploitation: We are a worker from the company "Ficsit" who is sent to the planet "Massage 2AB(b)" and is supposed to make as much profit as possible from the planet. At least that's how I interpret the so far vague story, in which an artificial intelligence in the style of Portal's GladOS gives us orders. The lack of story should be forgiven, as the game is in Early Access and has also been available on Steam for a few days. Previously, Satisfactory was only available in the Epic Store.

Automation leads to profit

In order to progress in the game, we need to convert as many resources as possible into ever wilder equipment, which we in turn need as resources for new projects. We could theoretically do this by hand, but it would take forever. So we simply lignify all the flora and fauna and generate electricity, which in turn drives machines and conveyor belts. Iron ore is delivered, melted into ingots, which are then separated into two conveyor belts to produce iron bars and iron sheets, which are then sent to the next factory for further projects.

This goes on and on until we finally send goods to our client with a space elevator, generate the electricity for our kilometre-long conveyor belts with nuclear power plants and go hunting for the local fauna with machine guns.

The open world is huge, with various biospheres to explore and destroy - it's almost impossible to keep track of everything. The conveyor belts whir around your ears and the power is suddenly cut off. But which power station is now overheating?

You can see how well Raphi and I keep track of things in "Satisfactory" in the livestream from 1 p.m.

Simon Balissat

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