Great Potential, but very confusing!

[humbleway]

I found this game very interesting after watching one of my favorite streamers "Neebs Gaming" playing Satisfactory. The introduction is great especially in the beginning tutorial. After you are sent to harvest metal/iron etc. the tutorial kinds of ends and it's hard to find any iron or metal to harvest. I'm also very lost on the keybindings. I understand every developer tries to make their games keybinds unique. But when it becomes overly complicated it makes the game hard to understand. I don't normally mind complicated games. Unfortunately, it becomes unplayable to the point I don't want to go further. Eventually I'll return to the game. As it stands the game needs lots of work in the control specs.

[humbleway]

One more thing to add! There should be an initial tutorial on how to heal if you are going to allow the alien life to attack players in the beginning of the tutorial. I died not knowing how to heal. Still don't understand how.

[sansee]

Listen carefully to ADA and try out different things. Check out the HUB and MAM for things to do, and explore to find other things. It really isn't difficult.

Hint: You self-heal to 3 full boxes, the rest you either need to sniff something, or eat something. And check out what the key 'V' does...

Check out the wiki:
https://satisfactory.gamepedia.com/Satisfactory_Wiki

A good tip: There's no shame in starting over if you need to or missed out what ADA said.

[5n4k3d0cToR]

Originally posted by sansee:

Listen carefully to ADA and try out different things. Check out the HUB and MAM for things to do, and explore to find other things. It really isn't difficult.

Hint: You self-heal to 3 full boxes, the rest you either need to sniff something, or eat something. And check out what the key 'V' does...

Check out the wiki:
https://satisfactory.gamepedia.com/Satisfactory_Wiki

A good tip: There's no shame in starting over if you need to or missed out what ADA said.

Well covered. The control are simple and advice more than sufficient. Watching 'youtube' videos will fill in the rest.

[AquaX]

Controls are simple but if you want to have an understanding on the more complex methods, you’ll need to research and trial and error. If your lost, build everything possible to see what it does. There is no loose in materials when deconstructing so you don’t lose anything.

[the7thguest]

This game has so much intuition in it's controls, if this game is too complicated or too much to handle and figure out just by playing, and I do not mean that offensive, by all means, return it.

[WolfWhiteFire]

Just so you know OP, in the tutorial it shows you how to use the resource scanner (hold v to select a resource, press v at any point to scan for it) and that is how you are supposed to find the initial metals, it sounds like you missed that part, and possibly a fair amount of the tutorial as a result. There is a fair amount the tutorial doesn't mention though, I agree there. I was able to learn it and the game actually felt a lot less complicated than I was expecting, but I have played some overly complicated games in the past so that might skew my perspective a bit.

[Vault Traveler]

Just try out stuff, thats the best part, learning by doing, no one is forcing you.

[Q]

I agree with keybinding FYI Devs we have 105 keys and not all of use WASD and E.
I use ESDF to move

[Vault Traveler]

Originally posted by Q:

I agree with keybinding FYI Devs we have 105 keys and not all of use WASD and E.
I use ESDF to move

Than change it lol

[Markimus Prime]

What's so hard about the keybinds? You only use like 3 buttons for the whole game.

It's the same layout for controls we've been using since 1993, and all of the controls are at your fingertips. How many buttons do you really use regularly? I'm pretty much always using wasd, f, q, and space... Build/Destroy...simple.

Then you've got left, right, and center click.

It really couldn't be simpler. I was actually intimidated by the game until I played it, and realised it's easier than I could have possibly imagined to place things in the 3d space.

Sorry to hear you're frustrated. Maybe you just don't like PC gaming.

Also I notice you played less than an hour. So...you barely even gave it a try. You're missing out on one of the best games I've ever played. I'd suggest working through it.

[Faustus]

I found the tutorial great to get started and even though most of it was clear there were still things I missed and had to go down the trial-and-error route with a bit of Google and YouTube…I must have played for at least 10hrs before realising there was a clone tool!

Even with the best game tutorials not everything will sink in but one of the great things about Satisfactory is that the game doesn’t punish you for making mistakes; you can simply delete the offending construction and start again with no loss of resources.

It really is a great game (if it is the sort of game for you) so definitely stick with it and build the world you want.

[Hexagon]

The only thing I want is top down camera with icons of what is producing what

[Faustus]

Originally posted by Danon:

The only thing I want is top down camera with icons of what is producing what

Not quite what you want but you could either paint the machines or the floor tiles to indicate your manufacturing zones for a visual clue as to what is producing what.

[sansee]

Originally posted by Danon:

The only thing I want is top down camera with icons of what is producing what

There's already a game with that; Factorio.

[humbleway]

Originally posted by Faustus:

I found the tutorial great to get started and even though most of it was clear there were still things I missed and had to go down the trial-and-error route with a bit of Google and YouTube…I must have played for at least 10hrs before realising there was a clone tool!

Even with the best game tutorials not everything will sink in but one of the great things about Satisfactory is that the game doesn’t punish you for making mistakes; you can simply delete the offending construction and start again with no loss of resources.

It really is a great game (if it is the sort of game for you) so definitely stick with it and build the world you want.

I wouldn't normally mind researching the game controls. But I'm already playing 4 other games that are similar, like ark, 7d2d, etc. Some of the keys differ for them. Unfortunately, Satisfactory has a lot of different key binds and controls compared to those games. I'm not ready to play a game that is completely different from all the others. Perhaps when I get tired of the others i'll spend more time trying to figure out Satisfactory. Now is not that time. It''s paid for so i don't have to worry about rebuying. I get other people had an easier time with the controls. And that is fine for them. I for one don't have the time to figure things out.