Alien Artifacts

[Traubensaft]

So as I'm writing this I'm currently standing on top of a mercer sphere in Satisfactory. At first you think "oh thats kinda creepy it makes my computer say weird things in my ear like 'harvest'" but after standing on it for a good 15 minutes its pretty hilarious the things it says, for example; "Hello, it's me, CONTROL FIGURE(yes it actually does say "control figure). I've fallen ill and the doctors say that the only thing that can remedy it is Alien Artifacts" and
"News from earth; widespread chaos and mayhem, world president urges every citizen to do their part and HARVEST ALIEN ARTIFACTS" as well as "picking up multiple Ficsit personnel in the area. Proceed with HARVEST before it's too late!" and at the end of all that it just starts repeating "Harvest, bit--" and "COMPLY". I just thought the things the alien artifacts say were funny so I figured I'd share it with you. Be sure to leave one mercer sphere around instead of harvesting it so that you can drop by and hear weird and random things from an alien artifact(which by the way, people always talk about how broken the physics are in this game, but they completely gloss over the SENTIENT ARTIFACTS THAT TALK IN YOUR HEAD).

[Evilsod]

It's not "in your head". It's Ficsit messages to push you to collect them.

Mostly though, what part of 'Early Access' and 'WIP' are you missing? Why would anyone go around talking about these artifacts?

[Grandaddypurple]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

It's not "in your head". It's Ficsit messages to push you to collect them.

Mostly though, what part of 'Early Access' and 'WIP' are you missing? Why would anyone go around talking about these artifacts?

I've always considered it was an alien entity awkwardly trying to imitate FICSIT. The distorted voice kinda conviced me it wasn't FICSIT.
Though it's just speculation
And going around talking about WIP content of an EA game sounds absolutely fine to me

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

I've always considered it was an alien entity awkwardly trying to imitate FICSIT. The distorted voice kinda conviced me it wasn't FICSIT.
Though it's just speculation
And going around talking about WIP content of an EA game sounds absolutely fine to me

Eh, perhaps, though why would they want to be collected and analysed? Until we get some more development to go along with it, there's just too much to speculate. I still put it down to Ficsit trying to encourage you to collect them. If direct manipulation fails (i.e. the 'insert paternal figure here' messages), subtle manipulation instead.

And that's really not what I was talking about, because obviously we're going to talk about WIP content in an EA game. Though I suppose that statement is unclear.
I mean in the OPs context of "Why would we complain about janky Truck physics when there are these weird alien artifacts in the game?!" because that statement is ridiculous.

[Maitroyer]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

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I mean in the OPs context of "Why would we complain about janky Truck physics when there are these weird alien artifacts in the game?!" because that statement is ridiculous.

Dude, he was joking. Chill.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Maitroyer:

Dude, he was joking. Chill.

Oh, I didn't realise you and the OP personally knew each other's minds.

[Traubensaft]

well... what a fun conversation this is

[Traubensaft]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

Originally posted by Maitroyer:

Dude, he was joking. Chill.

Oh, I didn't realise you and the OP personally knew each other's minds.

I was, in fact, joking. In response to the claims that the alien artifacts are WIP, yes they are, I'm just speaking my mind here, saying that I thought it was funny that everybody talked about broken physics (which are very common in sandbox games if you hadn't noticed) and just kinda didn't speak about the alien artifacts that manipulate the computer or manipulate your mind to make you want to pick it up. I'd say telekinetic artifacts are kinda a big thing, even in comparison to Isaac Newton crying himself to sleep.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

It's not "in your head". It's Ficsit messages to push you to collect them.

Mostly though, what part of 'Early Access' and 'WIP' are you missing? Why would anyone go around talking about these artifacts?

I also think it is a Alien Lifeform trying to force me to pick it up with false Messages, so it can..... spread to wherever i go or send Material to...

Since this Thing can´t move itself its maybe looking for a Host.

[Anatolius]

I find it really dumb why they would still place WIP-items around the map .. even enable messages 'advising' to harvest them.
Just why?

[Remnar]

I actually been thinking on the "why" part of having these items places in early. I think it's far easier to place such items during the hand crafting of the levels than it would be later on. If you think about it, having to place such items at key places, caves, etc would be very difficult on a finished map.

[Shahadem]

I can only surmise the devs know they wanted them in the game but haven't yet figured out why they wanted them in the game.

[Grandaddypurple]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

I can only surmise the devs know they wanted them in the game but haven't yet figured out why they wanted them in the game.

That's not true, the story is alm written and ready to be implemented, they just won't do it before 1.0 for obvious reasons (the rest of the game isn't finished)

[Traubensaft]

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

Originally posted by Shahadem:

I can only surmise the devs know they wanted them in the game but haven't yet figured out why they wanted them in the game.

That's not true, the story is alm written and ready to be implemented, they just won't do it before 1.0 for obvious reasons (the rest of the game isn't finished)

wait a moment... are they adding a full story that will be a major part of a game (and provide a reason for why you're on an alien planet alone building a factory) or will it just be a story specifically FOR the alien artifacts (like who made them, what they do, etc.)

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

Originally posted by Shahadem:

I can only surmise the devs know they wanted them in the game but haven't yet figured out why they wanted them in the game.

That's not true, the story is alm written and ready to be implemented, they just won't do it before 1.0 for obvious reasons (the rest of the game isn't finished)

Them saying that they are adding the story in 1.0 and them having completed the story already are not one in the same. That the story isn't present in the game IN ANY FORM suggests that the story is in fact not yet written because and isn't written because they haven't finished ironing out what they want the story to be.

it should also be pointed out that the alien artifacts were added to the game VERY early into development.

[Grandaddypurple]

Originally posted by jkal78p:

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

That's not true, the story is alm written and ready to be implemented, they just won't do it before 1.0 for obvious reasons (the rest of the game isn't finished)

wait a moment... are they adding a full story that will be a major part of a game (and provide a reason for why you're on an alien planet alone building a factory) or will it just be a story specifically FOR the alien artifacts (like who made them, what they do, etc.)

Full story like with lore and stuff

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Them saying that they are adding the story in 1.0 and them having completed the story already are not one in the same. That the story isn't present in the game IN ANY FORM suggests that the story is in fact not yet written because and isn't written because they haven't finished ironing out what they want the story to be.

it should also be pointed out that the alien artifacts were added to the game VERY early into development.

They said both
3 months ago:
https://youtu.be/H0Q4kZ7otEk
And last week :
https://youtu.be/Zc2lKKROexI
And I was actually referring to another clip between the two that I can't find right now but you get the idea
Also the fact that alien artifacts were added very early into the game doesn't support the idea they don't know what they'll do with the story; it's not uncommon for game developers to launch a game in EA with a clear idea of the story to more or less futureproof your game (if you can't finish it or it turns out to be garbage, at least you'll have a story)