When does burnout hit you during a playthrough?

[HumanMirthquake]

For me it's around milestone 5/6

[Sozig]

usually I'm too bored to do phase 4

[Maisano]

explore the map take ur vehicles for a ride to lay off the math and burnoutness ;]. Thats what i do .

[The Big Brzezinski]

I've mostly gotten bored and wandered off to other games before this ever happened.

[Dreepa]

Too much repetition in the game. Not enough progression in convenience management (building millions of constructors and assemblers with placing splitters and mergers over and over, fiddly and annoying).

So by the point I need to make huge a*s factories to supply the space elevator, I tap out.

I played through the game once, and now I just enjoy building small buildings connected with trains and trucks.

Game needs some more gameplay changing elements in the core belt management to stay interesting in tier 7/8 if you ask me.

It feels too much like working to connect all that stuff.

[Indigo Synn]

I hit the wall around 6 and 7. To much rebuilding.

[SkiRich]

Everytime I build a new factory someplace, inevitably I burn out from creating that factory from ground zero. But thats when I jump in my explorer and go hunting for slugs, hd's, and animal carcases. When I get back it inspires me to continue.

[goemerick]

Doesn't get any better: Copper Powder (Construction.) This might be a good time to design your buildings and update your tracks

[DivineEvil]

Usually before the last two phases (7+8 I guess?). Everything before this is more than manageable and fun, but with those overly complicated Adaptive Control Units, it simply takes too much effort to improve Everything to match even a minimal production rate, and then it takes painfully long time to make them. Especially power - the mount of space you need to simply power all the processing and production is a magnitude greater than the factories themselves.

[Kackstift]

i plan my entire playthrough.. so never.. i have always things to do

[Malaficus Shaikan]

12 hours in.
I need to start taking breaks.
12 hours constant gaming is bad for me.

[bones3dfc]

I'm coming back today - just commenting here while Satisfactory re-installs.
Satisfactory is my personal favorite of all time.
But to the point of OP - it was kind of a 2-fold for me. At 600-ish hours I was starting to drop framerates and I looked around (in game) and kind of felt like... oh man, I have a lot of "work" ahead of me to build this new, gigantic factory I have in my head.

So... graphics cards became reasonable... I needed a new machine .... I have been out there in a world of 100-hour (or less) games and I am coming back home, to Satisfactory, a game I have literally thought about every single day on at least a subconscious level, since last I played. I'll be starting a new save in a new-to-me Update 6 and I anticipate another 600 hours but who knows.

Games are personal. The Infected is one of my favorites. That's a smaller (I think one but I think he was hiring) developer and it seems therefore a "smaller" game and quicker burn.

I look at it like this. I've never burned out on Minecraft. I just take long and short breaks. Satisfactory is the only game I'd ever compare (as far as personal interest) so I think if it feels like burnout too soon, it's just not going to be the nearest and dearest in your collection of games.

[Ray Garraty]

Took me ~60 hours to unlock everything except for Elevator Phase 4.
I guess I'll need another 60 hours to complete Phase 4 to get a crappy Coffee cup, which is not fun at all

[goemerick]

Not sure what you're all complaining about, The game plays itself. I understand getting started is like work and you have to keep up with draining your pipes, exploring crash sites and dealing with power issues. But I'm sure that is what makes Satisfactory so much fun.

I have invested 300hrs in Factorio to launch spacecraft (complete).
I have invested 1500hrs in Satisfactory, money well spent for a game that isn't finished

[Anaztazioch]

We need stuff that can supply those conveyor belts. They ship 720 res per minute i think, and we have the most demanding recepit for screws 240 i think per min.

Need a huge furnance building or multi stage assembler, like 1st step is joining steel and nails, second is adding rods and third is adding concrete to have those reinforced squares.

[Anaztazioch]

Originally posted by goemerick:

Not sure what you're all complaining about, The game plays itself. I understand getting started is like work and you have to keep up with draining your pipes, exploring crash sites and dealing with power issues. But I'm sure that is what makes Satisfactory so much fun.

I have invested 300hrs in Factorio to launch spacecraft (complete).
I have invested 1500hrs in Satisfactory, money well spent for a game that isn't finished

For me worst part of Satisfactory is the demand for recepits and how much the havoc your production.
Most are trash, while some are way to OP.