I’ve found over the last few games that I find crafting more and more frustrating in games. It took me a while but I honestly think it’s because Satisfactory did such an amazing job with automation that I find other systems cumbersome and clunky.
For my example today, I’ve always wanted to like No Man’s Sky. Building bases wherever you want to, flying around the galaxy, it seems amazing! But the crafting, dear god the crafting. I have to go over here, get an ore, bring it back, put it in a machine, take the output, put it back in another machine to finally get something out. The entire time (and now I’m at 15 hours so this was not a 20 minutes and I give up scenario) I was thinking "Why can’t I just connect the miner to the machine here?
I went on the forums, maybe there’s something I need to unlock? Nope, in fact the forums I found literally said “This isn’t Satisfactory, stop trying to change our game, the fun is in the crafting.”
So, maybe my fun isn’t the same anymore. Anyone else feel that way?
tried foundry during a free weekend… got frustrated with all the missing qol features and lost interest in buying it
played dyson sphere a bit, but i dislike how fast my own creations are in the way.
and… minecraft … i cannot squeeze joy out of it anymore. the building is so tedious. i need zooping! i need large quantities of slime blocks but i dont get that far before it bores me
Tried Dyson sphere too and agree. Anything I did that I could be proud of quickly was not enough and I had to rebuild. I remember the green engine things, I built those and was proud of it, and then 20 mins later realized I needed a crazy 6x the amount or something. Satisfactory does that too but it’s not nearly as annoying.
i find it easier to expand on existing structures in satisfactory .
you can just copy the whole floor when you double input
could
i dont
i rebuild because it turned out ugly the first time
but i could!