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r/SatisfactoryGame•
Kasuha

Devs please make walking safe

To start off, I don't have a beefy computer. My FPS varies greatly and goes into single digit realm every so often. Using lookout and radar towers in such conditions is not even challenging, it's nearly impossible. I don't die (I have a jetpack) but keeping myself on these platforms with no railing where stepping off the ladder immediately throws me over the edge is not fun.

So my proposal is: when the character is walking, it should not step into void or onto a slippery surface. If the player jumps or runs, make it fall. But make the character careful when it just walks.

Please.

Posted Jul 12, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

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Urelure•

I see the reason why this could be useful for very choppy framerates, but i also think that it would hurt the flow of gameplay when the game runs properly. I think dev time is better spent optimizing.

No need to get hostile over PC specs guys. Seriously.

I don’t find it unreasonable to expect a game to be at least playable with minimum specs, that is kind of the idea with listing it in the first place. That being said, this is early access, and there are serious performance issues, so min spec might not work that well atm. We just have to take that for what it is.

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unit_511:evildoggo: 180 hours•

This. All those people telling him to get a better PC. They are probably very early game and have no idea how demanding large factories can be. Or just want to be assholes. Or both.

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FluffyJD•

I have a pretty beastly computer and it still runs hot when I play. If you haven't tried already, I'd suggest turning the graphics settings way down. My fans turn off almost completely when I go to minimum settings.

In addition, you can use the walkway tiles around your foundation tiles to make rails! I use this quite a lot because I'm just a clutz. You can jump on top of the rails on the walkways so they don't stop you from going over the edge on purpose. Just put t-crossings on the edges, turns on the corners and intersections on any gaps.

I would still like to be able to "crouch" to avoid falling off edges like I can in Minecraft, but as long as I have rails, I'm good. There's a few other things you can use for that as well, like conveyors and conveyor poles, but I think the walkways look nicer.

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Keith_Riko•

It wouldn’t be bad to have a feature like crouching in Minecraft where you could hold or toggle a key to prevent walking off the edge of a platform. That said, it sounds like you need to get better hardware to play one dude.

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ScoutDraco2010•

I use the walk ways for safety rails

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Renaissance0321•

Are you serious?

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keitaro21•

Well, your PC is a potato. You can't expect devs to catter to you when you have a machine pushing single digit frame rate. Sorry.

See requirements here : https://satisfactory.gamepedia.com/System_requirements

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KasuhaOP•

It does fit the minimum requirements. I checked, I wouldn't buy the game if it didn't.

There's also plenty of people complaining about framerate, even those who claim to have "beefy" computers, if you didn't notice. But clearly, a player who does not have a top-notch PC is considered a loser by this community. It's nice to feel welcome. Thanks.

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unit_511:evildoggo: 180 hours•

I have a beefy computer, and still bad framerates. Don't listen to all those people telling everyone to get a new PC, you could get the best one on the market, but if you have a huge base it still won't hit 20 fps. It's not your PC, it's the optimisation.

You aren't a loser in this community, it's generally really nice and supportive. But there will always be the elitists that think you are less because you have a worse system. And this game really fucks them up, because even they cannot hit 30 fps.

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dimdumdom•

And it can play the game poorly. That's what happens when you shoot for minimum specs. Either upgrade, wait for optimization, or deal with it.

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unit_511:evildoggo: 180 hours•

Min specs usually mean the minimum required to make the game playable. 10 fps on lowest is hardly playable.

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keitaro21•

Minimum requirements means it can run poorly, just that you can launch the game. So yeah, it's a potato PC relatively to this game.

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Renaissance0321•

Well tbh your request was pretty ridiculous. But welcome! Now go buy a better computer!

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unit_511:evildoggo: 180 hours•

2700X and RTX 2080, still shit frames. Stop being the guy who tells everyone to buy a new PC because the game is not optimised.

So according to you, the devs should ignore top of the line hardware and develop for supercomputers.

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PlanetaryGenocide•

Have you tried not having a garbage PC

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