After 8 Years in Development, Factory Building Game Launches With Version 1.0. Satisfactory Release Brings Many New Features
Today Satisfactory will receive the 1.0 update, thus finally leaving early access after more than five years.
Satisfactory, a popular game that combines first-person simulation elements with strategic mechanics in the style of Factorio, will conclude its over five-year Early Access period in a few hours. In total, it took them 8 long years to develop the game, as the developers had been working on the project for three years before its Early Access release. Today we will find out if version 1.0 will meet the players' expectations.
- The game (available on Steam and Epic Games Store) costs $39.99.
- Release 1.0 will debut at 5:00 a.m. PT (the devs will organize a special stream for this occasion).
- The price of the Early Access version was raised a few weeks ago and won't change with the release of version 1.0.
It's worth noting that the early access period for Satisfactory ends with nearly 97% positive reviews on Steam and a peak of 34,238 players (which occurred in November 2021 - via SteamDB).
What's new in version 1.0?
Update 1.0 will bring many new features and improvements.
- A fifth and final phase of the game will be added. As part of this, players will gain access to an additional, ninth level of technology, focusing on quantum technology.
- Achieving the requirements to complete the fourth phase will become much easier. Earlier, the devs had established unreasonably high barriers to prevent players from completing this stage during early access, as the fifth phase (serving as the endgame) wasn't yet ready.
- With the release of version 1.0, Achievements will finally be added to the game.
- The system for using alternative crafting recipes will be improved to facilitate switching between hard drives containing them. If none of the recipes appeal to us, we will be able to reshuffle the disk once, obtaining new ones. However, this will mean the loss of those first ones, without the possibility of recovering them.
- The game will finally receive a plot. It won't take the form of a traditional campaign with cutscenes, but as technology develops, subsequent parts of the story are to be unlocked. However, you will have to activate them on your own, as the devs are aware that many players only want to build and not concern themselves with the story.
Version 1.0 will also offer other new features, which players will discover themselves at the time of the full version release.
