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- Satisfactory

Factorio but in 3d.

I want to enjoy Satisfactory. It has it's own charm to it, and I love their interactions with the community.

But doing everything from a first-person view is often frustrating. Being able to have multiple layers of belts is nice, but sometimes its annoying dealing with collisions. And while the terrain is beautiful, I often find it just gets in the way of your factory more, and the option of just laying out tons of platforms is unnatural and just hides the beautiful scenery.

If you really think about it, Satisfactory is a game about destroying a beautiful planet with huge concrete platforms and heavy machinery in pursuit of strip mining all of the world's resources and delivering them to the capitalist overlords via a space elevator.

At least, that's where I think the story mode's gonna go.

Don't give up on Satisfactory though! Managing collisions gets easier as you play more, mostly just leaving a lot of room and using vertical space. The jetpack really opens up the game.

Jetpack really needs to be way earlier in the tech tree, IMO. Maybe even as early as Tier 3.

The last part also has been a key impression from watching a bunch of Let's Plays. Beautiful world, but you are limited in how you integrate with it (which to be fair would be a crazy challenge to do really well, but still).

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