Does anyone suspect update 9 is really 1.0?

[OmegaFreak01]

If you go through the streams they won't mention anything about update 9. In the past the joke was always whens update 7 coming out when 6 hasn't even been released and while they wouldn't tell you much you wouldn't get a blank statement. Maybe they would mention it's more about performance improvements and keep the real feature a secret until experimental release.

Maybe it's just me but I think we are all under the assumption that update 10 is 1.0 but maybe it's actually update 9.

Doesn't the game seem mostly feature complete now? Maybe I'm over looking into things but I suspect there's a big secret coming soon and if it's not story mode then what could it be?

2024 edit: Everyone I totally called it and nailed it. Next update is 1.0.

[Wolfgang]

Maybe they don't do the joke because it has been chewed through enough at this point and/or most still being busy with sorting out Update 8.

Also keep in mind that you can have something like Version 0.10. Version numbers aren't decimals.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

there should be a counter for 1.0 questions

[N3tRunn3r]

too early for a 1.0 release..

[OmegaFreak01]

Originally posted by N3tRunn3r:

too early for a 1.0 release..

What else do you think the game is missing? Feels to me it's just the Sam ore and stuff like that's story related.

[tulle040657]

The only thing that makes sense is that update 10 will be 1.0

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by OmegaFreak01:

What else do you think the game is missing? Feels to me it's just the Sam ore and stuff like that's story related.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/526870/discussions/0/3084376689318796832/

[oplek]

"What else do you think the game is missing? Feels to me it's just the Sam ore and stuff like that's story related."

You might want to ask Cofee Stain that.

One, the space elevator UI, as I've been staring at it for years now, says "Unavailable in Early Access".

Two, The latest round of technology has us producing doodads that serve no purpose, and that's not even getting into any WIP stuff.

So it's almost like they have more planned.

So what I think the game is missing is whatever it is they have planned to create a completed 1.0 game.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

First of they will keep adding +1 to updates as long they feel.the need...

So, we could have final release with next update or we could have many other updates... Like update 11, 12 and so on... And only after final 1.0 release... It's just up to them and they are tight lip on what's coming.

IMHO, there are part of the game that are developed and shown... Like world, game play, engine etc... So that they can test them...

Other parts aren't that critical for prior global test. And are also part of story or real final game.

I suspect that updates will cover less and less new things as more and more are kept secret for final release... And last updates will be more.aboit refinements than new content.

And surely will be huge

[joebobku]

My guess is Update 9 will release.. it will be a release with the story line. They'll use that to hash out any bugs for the full release. I have a feeling all of the content they are going to provide is mostly in the game. The story line release will probably come with the Sam Ore usage which will likely just upgrade belts and miners. Maybe one more tier of research and equipment you have to build.

There's at least one more before full release IMO.

[Blake]

Maybe everyone has gotten bored of playing the update guessing game and moved to Factorio instead.

[JakeURb8ty]

Hope we get a little more wildlife variation before that now that the sandbox and mechanics have been nailed down. In game design each major change added changes the balance of lots of systems. Until recently they were adding a lot of things we requested. My guess is the full game in earnest design of world progression and story has only recently started -once the full tool set and canvas of the world was more finalized. Im guessing its going to be something akin to Subnatica.

[powmark]

I just hope this this awesome concept becomes like BG3 - a reason never to buy pre-release again maybe, but an awesome game in the end. I enjoyed what's there already enough to be hopeful, but i'm not opening it again until I see a full release it's just too frustrating now.

[tdb]

Originally posted by oplek:

Two, The latest round of technology has us producing doodads that serve no purpose, and that's not even getting into any WIP stuff.

Huh, which ones? I'm not aware of any craftable items with no purpose. I haven't completed phase 4 though so there's a chance it unlocks something that isn't listed in the wiki.

Originally posted by Ashwiyaa:

They seriously need to keep the space elevator open to give purpose; they say they desperately need certain items back home, but there's no way to send them. They also need to stop with plate worlds and give us a whole planet. No Man's Sky gives you many whole planets, why can't these other games give us even one? I fell off the other day and fell through space until I got tired of waiting to see what might happen. I hate plate games!

Do you realize how ridiculously large planets are? Gravity in the game is slightly larger than Earth's, so we can assume the planet is of comparable size. That gives it an area of about 500 million square kilometres. The game's playable area is about 50 square kilometres, meaning that the entire planet would be ten million times as large. It would require an entirely different approach to creating the terrain, since handcrafting such a large area is not feasible. It would need to be procedurally generated, and that usually gives a much less interesting result.

The fastest vehicle in the game which doesn't require pre-built infrastructure is the explorer, traveling at 90 km/h. To circumnavigate the planet at that speed would take 450 hours, or about two and a half weeks of continuous driving. Even with hypertube cannons travel times would be very long. It's not feasible to travel over a very large area, so factories would only use a tiny fraction of the planet. The planet's curvature over a distance of 100 kilometres (20x the size of the existing game world) produces a parallax error of less than 0.1%, so for all practical purposes the surface might as well be flat.

If someone did build a factory utilizing a significant fraction of the planet, the next problem is computer resources. Even in the existing game world it's possible to build factories which cause performance to degrade and saving to take a long time. Building a factory even 100 times as large would be simply infeasible.

No Man's Sky has artificially small planets. I looked up numbers from the wiki and did some math to determine that planets in that game range from 8 km to 67 km in diameter. But the entire point of that game is to explore planets, so it makes sense that planets are of an explorable size. Satisfactory, on the other hand, is a factory building game, so it doesn't need planet-scale features.

Perhaps check out Dyson Sphere Program, which is a factory game specifically designed to be played in astronomical scale.

[info]

I suspect the story and any features intended for final will come along in 9, at least by nearing the end of 9 so when it rolls to 1.0 that will pretty much be the release game ready. They will probably hold back a few surprises but most should go out to the testers (us) before the last nail in the coffin is hammered tight.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

If only they would bring the animals back in Update 9.

That would be awesome!