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  • Satisfactory: Phase 5 Thoughts

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    I’m coming up on three hundred hours into my current solo Satisfactory save with a couple factory builds yet to complete before I can “save humanity” or whatever.

    Gus seems disdainful of my new over-the-water beltway blueprint, but that’s fine, I don’t care about his opinion.

    But only a couple. I’m surprisingly close to done. Now that I’m most of the way through the “new” phase of the game (from an Early Access player’s perspective) I can consider how well the developers balanced the need to introduce further complications with each new milestone versus the need to not overwhelm the average player.

    (Am I “the average player”? Good question.)

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  • Satisfactory: Truckin’ Along Toward Endgame

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    I made significant progress this week in my solo Satisfactory save.

    Finally, a thematically appropriate use of the asphalt foundation material.

    And I did so with trains and trucks.

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  • Satisfactory: Northern Forest Woes

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    After being sick for most of a week and a half I’m back on the Satisfactory grind, and…

    Vibrant. Beautiful. Absolutely antithetical to building large factories.

    …no. I’m not doing this. I’m not building a factory on the scale of my previous Crystal Oscillators site in the middle of the Northern Forest biome. Maybe if we had the ability to explode parts of the map itself, I’d think about it. As it is? That’s too much terrain going on. I’d have to start building dozens of meters above the median base terrain (whatever value that might be) and… no.

    But I want those raw materials, so I’m going to do something I have actually never done before: Shipping copper and iron ingots via railway.

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  • Sickly Skip Week

    For the first time in… quite some time… I don’t have a weekly Satisfactory progress post to share. Why? Because for one of the very few times in the last six years since I started wearing a facemask every time I leave the house, I ended up with a nasty head cold. It started ruining my quality of life Tuesday afternoon and here it is, Sunday morning, not really gone yet. In all the discomfort and brain fog from the symptoms and the medicines I’ve simply not been able to enjoy pretty much any kind of fully 3D gaming like Warframe or, of course, Satisfactory.

    Hopefully by next weekend I’ll have the start of my Superposition Oscillators factory to show off, at least.

    Stay safe out there, okay?

  • Satisfactory: Yeah That Tracks

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    I did, in fact, run a set of rails all along the entirety of the Northern Forest in my current solo Satisfactory save.

    Not the most efficient way to get from Up Here to Down There, sure, but it was a funny idea so I did it.

    And a bit beyond. Kind of.

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  • Satisfactory: Surprise Railway Project

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    Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You’re gearing up to start a new factory project. In the process of making sure you have enough materials to achieve the desired output, it comes to light that not only is there not enough already produced but in order to meet the supply that your desired output demands, you’re going to have to engage in a large transportation infrastructure build-out to get everything from everywhere to the best possible build site. “If I had a nickel,” as the meme goes.

    This image doesn’t need to make sense to anyone but me. Which is good, because it probably won’t.

    And that’s how I ended up, this weekend, embarking on yet another large rail-network expansion project.

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