History VideoGame / Satisfactory

''[[https://www.satisfactorygame.com/ Satisfactory]]'' is a first-person FactoryBuildingGame released into early access by Creator/CoffeeStainStudios in March 2019 via the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore. Heavily inspired by ''{{VideoGame/Factorio}}'', players take the role of a “Pioneer”, an employee of the [=FicSit=] Corporation dropped onto an alien world to gather resources and manufacture materials for the as-yet mysterious "Project Assembly". To do so, they'll need to mine ore, smelt ingots, and construct and assemble ever more complex machine components, gradually building a massive factory (or a group of multiple factories) to automate the process and sending ever-increasing quantities of items up a SpaceElevator to the waiting [=FicSit=] facilities in orbit.

As of June 8, 2020, the game's Early Access version is also available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, with Experimental following suit shortly after.

** [[ShiftingSandLand Dune Desert]] is arguably the least impressive biome compared to the SceneryPorn everywhere else, being just a giant expanse of sand dunes with a few rocks here and there. But its vast, almost obstruction-free open space is perfect for building big endgame factories in.

* AWinnerIsYou: The reward for spending hundreds of hours exploring resources, bashing tons of hostile alien animals, weaving a massive network of conveyor spaghetti, building a massive factory capable of cranking out thousands of extremely complex parts, building nuclear reactors capable of providing the gigawatts needed to power all that, building even more machines to deal with radioactive pollution, setting up complex production lines, carefully optimizing them, and eventually getting to the point where you can finally make 4000 Assembly Directors, 4000 Magnetic Field Generators, 1000 Nuclear Pastas and 1000 Thermal Propulsion Rockets... is the exclusive FICSIT Employee of the Month golden cup. Zigged-zagged in that this is not the final prize of the game and is inserted to keep players busy while Coffee Stain is still working on the final two tiers and the last few updates before the game is pushed into final release.

** Blank signs with a white (or colored) background can be used as light strips and TronLines. As of Update 8, which upgraded the game to Unreal Engine 5, signs and billboards now also illuminate their surroundings thanks to the Lumen global illumination system. So much so that with Lumen enabled, they make actual light fixtures AwesomeButImpractical in comparison - unlike those, signs don't require any power and are much slimmer and easier to integrate into the surrounding architecture.

** Blank signs with a white (or colored) background can be used as light strips and TronLines, although they don't emit any actual light and are purely decorative.

** It was discovered that [[TubeTravel Hypertubes]] not only increase the player's velocity when they enter the tube, they also preserve the player's existing velocity. This led to the invention of the aptly-named ''Hypertube Cannon'', a device that uses short segments of tube chained together (so exiting the first tube immediately fires you into the second, and so on) to launch the player at whatever speed and angle is desired[[note]]The direction is controlled by where the last tube in the chain is pointing; speed control can be achieved by entering further up or down the chain[[/note]]. Just be prepared for a bit of SaveScumming if your first launch goes wrong (which it almost certainly will), and remember to bring a jetpack or build a landing pad at the other end if you intend to survive the trip.

** A player's factory will inadvertently become this if the player only thinks in the short term and didn't consider long-term factory design before building. Cue factories with NoOshaCompliance and conveyor belts criss-crossing all over the place. This can even occur to players who plan long-term due to new features and recipes being added to the game from time to time.

* VideoGameDelegationPenalty: Machines craft things at a much slower pace than the player character can do by hand. However, you have more important things to do than handcrafting screws and plates, and setting up multiple factories across the gameworld will pay off in the long run.

** Not a joke vehicle, but the Ficsit factory cart certainly fits the bill. It comes in a mini-packed crate that fits in your inventory, and upon being deployed unfolds itself into... a dinky box-car which isn't even as tall as you, and has a frame barely long enough or wide enough to fit your character sitting in a cramped fetal position inside of it. One of its windows is stuck hanging open and flapping about in the wind, and the only thing it has in the way of a horn is a stick-on siren that must be manually attached to - and detached from - the roof of the cart. To its credit, [[WhatAPieceOfJunk it has incredible acceleration, a good top speed, and can stop on a dime, plus has very responsive turning perfect for winding through cramped FICSIT brand factories...]] as long as you're on something perfectly flat, like a foundation or walkway. Once even the slightest amount of unevenness touches the ground it's on, it has the grip of an [=AE86=] on solid ice with worn slick tires. Although to be fair, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it's a factory cart]]''. You're not supposed to drive it anywhere other than on paved factory grounds. That's what the dune buggy is for.

** The SpaceElevator is made from only first tier basic materials and also requires no power, despite the ridiculous leap in technology it represents.

** Not a joke vehicle, but the Ficsit factory cart certainly fits the bill. It comes in a mini-packed crate that fits in your inventory, and upon being deployed unfolds itself into... a dinky box-car which isn't even as tall as you, and has a frame barely long enough or wide enough to fit your character sitting in a cramped fetal position inside of it. One of its windows is stuck hanging open and flapping about in the wind, and the only thing it has in the way of a horn is a stick-on siren that must be manually attached to - and detached from - the roof of the cart. To its credit, [[WhatAPieceOfJunk it has incredible acceleration, a good top speed, and can stop on a dime, plus has very responsive turning perfect for winding through cramped FICSIT brand factories...]] as long as you're on something perfectly flat, like a foundation or walkway. Once even the slightest amount of unevenness touches the ground it's on, it has the grip of an [=AE86=] on solid ice with slick tires. Although to be fair, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it's a factory cart]]''. You're not supposed to drive it anywhere other than on paved factory grounds. That's what the dune buggy is for.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Update 2 made nuclear reactors available as a power source. Reactors produce the most power of all the power generators available, but you’ll be hard pressed to deal with all the (potentially damaging) radioactive waste they produce (25 barrels every 5 minutes).
** As of Update 4, it's now possible to process the Uranium Waste into a form that is safely disposable in the AWESOME Sink (Plutonium Rods), making nuclear power more tenable. That said, you can throw those rods back into the reactor to maximize your power output, though the waste produced by doing that is even more dangerous and cannot be disposed of at all.

** Liquid Biofuel. On paper it is the ultimate form of Biofuel, indeed it has the highest energy per unit and energy per Biomass and in fact equals the energy of Fuel refined from oil. Unfortunately it combines the downsides of both Biomass and liquid fuels. Being a Biomass product you can't automate the collection of its raw material, and being a liquid means it must be packaged - which costs Plastic to make Empty Canisters that are not refunded when the fuel is consumed - to be used in vehicles or Biomass Burners (though it can be used unpackaged in Fuel Generators). To add insult to injury despite its higher energy per unit the smaller stack size means more frequent refueling is necessary compared to Solid Biofuel when used in vehicles or Biomass Burners. Liquid Biofuel also cannot power the Chainsaw or Jetpack or used to make Turbofuel.

** The best use for color cartridges, normally employed in decoration? They are the third best non-radioactive vehicle fuel, and unlike the top two (batteries and packaged turbofuel) it is available from Tier 2 and easy to craft: you'll likely have collected enough petals to fill the vehicle while getting materials for biomass.

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* HolidayMode: The December 2020 update introduce the Ficsmas event, which requires the player to farm for presents to build holiday themed decorations and unlock a new holiday TechTree, and ultimately, unlock a special Christmas tree constructor that spews out presents. Additionally, your power poles will now be decorated with Christmas ornaments and your lizard doggos will all have reindeer antlers and a red shiny nose.

* AscendedMeme: For a long time, pipes were considered a meme among the community, with every update video containing comments requesting pipes and the game's Discord server bot programmed to respond to any mention of the word 'pipe' with an emoji of a pipe with a red X over it. This meme even spread over to the ''VideoGame/Factorio'' developers, who made reference to Satisfactory Pipes in a dev blog about their office file servers. And then Update 3 came along adding pipes out of nowhere.

* ActionGirl: Although the pioneer is pretty much a blank slate, their character model is quite feminine in appearance despite their bulky suit, so it's probably safe to assume that they're female. Having been dropped on a planet crawling with hostile wildlife, fighting for her survival is a daily occurrence.

* AscendedMeme: For a long time, pipes were considered a meme among the community, with every update video containing comments requesting pipes and the game's Discord server bot programmed to respond to any mention of the word 'pipe' with an emoji of a pipe with a red X over it. Then Update 3 came along adding pipes out of nowhere.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The AWESOME Shop, constructed by the planet's only known inhabitant, is covered in screens boasting it's 'the best store on the planet!'

** Crossing over into TooDumbToLive, Nobelisk consists of a large explosive mining charge carried in the right hand and its detonator carried in the left. So what does the Pioneer do with both their hands full after throwing a charge? They whack the detonator with another hunk of high-ex material. ([[FridgeBrilliance Then again, high explosives are supposed to be absolutely safe if not armed and ready]]).