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While a plethora of new features are in store for Pioneers, a console edition is also in the works.
Coffee Stain Studios has finally launched Satisfactory 1.0 on Tuesday (9 September) after five years in early access. Despite being in early access for what many players felt like forever, the factory-building simulator has been quite the hit with over six million copies sold.
In this final release, the game’s narrative has been expanded, offering new mysteries for players to uncover.
Players must exploit the planet’s natural resources and alien artefacts to build complex factories and transport materials off-world, ultimately completing Project Assembly’s hidden objectives.
Console edition incoming
Coffee Stain Studios has also announced an incoming Console Edition for Satisfactory. While no specific date has been set, this expansion aims "to bring conveyor-belt goodness to even more budding Pioneers," according to the press release.
Phase 5 and the end-game is here
With Tier 9 comes Phase 5, the final phase of Project Assembly. Phase 5 grants access to Tier 9, featuring 5 new end game Milestones with new buildings, resources, production lines, and crazy sci-fi features that push FICSIT technology to the limit.
Reaching this tier also allows you to complete every mission and reach the end of the game.
New buildings and items
This final phase of the game allows players to create their most ambitious factory builds yet. Here are the newest machines you can build in the game.
Converter
Can be used to convert one raw resource into another using Strange Alien Matter (S.A.M.) to do so. So your Limestone can now be converted into Iron or Copper, etc.
Quantum Encoder
The most advanced production building, is designed to manufacture highly complex components like Superposition Oscillators and Neural-Quantum Processors at the quantum level.
Conveyour belts/Lifes MK.6
fastest in the game, moving up to 1200 items per minute, a big jump from the 780 items per minute on the Mk.5.
Blueprint Designer Mk. 2 & Mk.3
Satisfactory 1.0 allows you to unlock the Blueprint Designer Mk.2 (5x5 or 40m3) in Tier 6 and the Blueprint Designer Mk.3 (6x6 or 48m3) in Tier 9.
Portals
You can now instantly travel from factory to factory using portals, but at a cost: Singularity Cells and massive amounts of power.
New resource: Fisconium
a Tier 9 nuclear resource, powers nuclear power plants. It doesn’t generate waste, instead, uses Plutonium waste.
For the full patch notes on the changes and additions, you can go here.
Character customisation and new building aesthetics
Players can personalise their uniforms, helmets, and build guns, and even decorate their factories with new materials like Chrome, Copper, and Carbon Steel.
There’s also new building features you can experiment with such as windows, fences, and paint finishes, further enhancing their creative freedom in designing factory layouts.
Satisfactory is now available in its full release on PC via Steam and Epic Games.
