Today's background viewing: Satisfactory.
The commentary is regularly comparing it to Factorio.
The obvious difference is obvious: Satisfactory is a first-person view, Factorio is a top-down view.
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The "production chains" are similar. And, similarly abstract.
Copper mine to Copper furnace to Copper sheet press.
Is this how copper is actually made? It doesn't matter.
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The "magical multi-function assembly machines" are shared as well. It is, once again, an abstraction. If you assume you are just building the blueprint, the abstractions 🔥 how does the character carry 400 buildings and 20 locomotives are manageable.
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Satisfactory has a lot of the experience be "exploring the game-world". Climb trees, swim across rivers.
I find the graphics to be slightly nauseating. But they are "good".
What are the levels of quality of graphics?
1. ASCII art.
2. Vector graphics.
3. Basic 3-D.
4. Advanced 3-D.
5. Photo-realistic.
This game would be at level 4.
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Satisfactory, because of the UI, is much more time-consuming. "Run a pipe with water between two points" goes from a 1-minute task to a 10-minute task. 💡 task is the correct word. These games are, largely, about determining and executing on a long series of tasks.